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iXavier · Nov 3, 2003, 06:52 PM

Hey all,

I was curious if you, or someone you know, has an Apple tattoo? I wonder if anyone actually has them, but I thought of this while driving down the highway this afternoon. The Mac OS X logo, the rainbow Apple, the new one, heck any of them.

x.

Immortal K-Mart Employee · Nov 3, 2003, 06:53 PM

Oh god I sure hope nobody does. That is as creepy as Trekers who get a communicator tattooed on their chest.

Dlatu1983 · Nov 3, 2003, 07:19 PM

On the MacOSX.com board, one of the female moderators has an apple tattoo on her waist/hip

davidflas · Nov 3, 2003, 07:28 PM

Originally posted by Dlatu1983:
On the MacOSX.com board, one of the female moderators has an apple tattoo on her waist/hip

Actually, its on her butt and she's known on this board as Mulattabianca, she just hasn't been around in a while.

Here's a link:http://digilander.libero.it/Mulattab...ac/tattoo.html

mrfrost · Nov 3, 2003, 07:45 PM

I have one. I'm getting the Finder icon on the other leg next year if all goes well.

::maroma:: · Nov 3, 2003, 07:58 PM

Originally posted by davidflas:
Actually, its on her butt and she's known on this board as Mulattabianca, she just hasn't been around in a while.

Here's a link:http://digilander.libero.it/Mulattab...ac/tattoo.html

andreas_g4 · Nov 3, 2003, 08:05 PM

Classic poll, not?

Sealobo · Nov 3, 2003, 08:28 PM

Originally posted by ::maroma:::

That's a flat ugly butt... no curve at all.

waxcrash · Nov 3, 2003, 11:03 PM

Originally posted by sealobo:
That's a flat ugly butt... no curve at all.

You like more cushion for the push'n?

itistoday · Nov 3, 2003, 11:13 PM

Originally posted by sealobo:
That's a flat ugly butt... no curve at all.

Ah... but whence dost thou find a dame that hast an apple on her bum?

Nay, not in a million.

ironknee · Nov 3, 2003, 11:15 PM

Originally posted by ::maroma:::

best of both worlds, babe and an apple fan

Brien · Nov 3, 2003, 11:36 PM

tintub · Nov 3, 2003, 11:40 PM

Originally posted by mrfrost:
I have one. I'm getting the Finder icon on the other leg next year if all goes well.

can I recommend a bit of sunlight? It wouldn't kill you

SupahCoolX · Nov 4, 2003, 12:13 AM

I wonder if she's reading this debate over the merits of her butt.

tooki · Nov 4, 2003, 02:37 AM

There was a thread about this long ago with more links.

There is a web page (I assume Google can find it) with tons of Apple tattoos; there's also a Wired.com article about them.

Also, the November issue of MacAddict has a pic of one.

tooki

wataru · Nov 4, 2003, 02:48 AM

A really nerdy friend of mine got an h-bar tattoo. He's such a dork it isn't funny.

Xeo · Nov 4, 2003, 03:34 AM

Originally posted by wataru:
A really nerdy friend of mine got an h-bar tattoo. He's such a dork it isn't funny.

h-bar? Wassat?

mrfrost · Nov 4, 2003, 04:57 AM

Originally posted by tintub:
can I recommend a bit of sunlight? It wouldn't kill you

What is with you people? That's the exact same thing someone said in the previous tattoo thread!

Anyway, I'm more of a winter guy.

Cipher13 · Nov 4, 2003, 05:45 AM

Apple tatoo? Sad...

mrfrost · Nov 4, 2003, 05:47 AM

Originally posted by Cipher13:
Apple tatoo? Sad...

And why is it sadder than any other tattoo?

willed · Nov 4, 2003, 06:05 AM

Originally posted by mrfrost:
And why is it sadder than any other tattoo?

I was thinking of getting the Windows XP logo permanently engraved on my butt.

Meneldil · Nov 4, 2003, 06:24 AM

Originally posted by Xeo:
h-bar? Wassat?

Planck's constant over 2Pi.

Stolen from some website, cause I couldn't think of how to explain it well:

The constant h-bar, defined as h divided by 2*pi, has come to be a more useful constant than h itself. It is also easier to remember, since its numerical value is very nearly 1x10^-34 J-sec. Thus the angular momentum of a Bohr orbit is quantized to be an integral number of units of h-bar.

It has a lot of other related uses too, but that's the first one I thought of thanks to quantum mechanics, stupid class of pain.

The Placid Casual · Nov 4, 2003, 07:04 AM

I'm getting a tattoo done on the weekend, not Apple related though...

*more than a touch nervous about it as I hate needles...*

gadster · Nov 4, 2003, 07:23 AM

Pity the poor folks who got an Amiga tat!

Luca Rescigno · Nov 4, 2003, 08:01 AM

Practically, H-bar is the smallest unit of energy that can exist. I think, either that or it's very closely related to that. So you can't have two waves with less than one h-bar of energy difference between them. It also relates to the minimum distance between two objects and the minimum unit of time that can pass, etc. Pretty interesting if you're into quantum physics.

Oh, and here's what the symbol looks like:

Anyway, for those of you who know of Red Vs. Blue, here's why you shouldn't get a tattoo:

1. Tattoos are permanent.
2. You are a god damn idiot.

"Take your current age. Now subtract ten years from it. Were you smart back then? Of course you weren't. You were a god damn idiot. Fact of the matter is, you're just as big an idiot today, it's just going to take you ten more years to realize it. Now think if you had drawn a picture on your body ten years ago. Would you be happy about it today? Chances are you wouldn't be."

Good point, no?

willed · Nov 4, 2003, 08:07 AM

Originally posted by The Placid Casual:
I'm getting a tattoo done on the weekend, not Apple related though...

*more than a touch nervous about it as I hate needles...*

So what's it going to be of then?

The Placid Casual · Nov 4, 2003, 08:51 AM

Originally posted by willed:
So what's it going to be of then?

It is going to be of the 'Eye Of Horus'...

Although, I have not figured out a specific design yet! My girlfriend is sorting the actual artwork out before the weekend...

*scared*

Cipher13 · Nov 4, 2003, 08:57 AM

Originally posted by The Placid Casual:
It is going to be of the 'Eye Of Horus'...

Although, I have not figured out a specific design yet! My girlfriend is sorting the actual artwork out before the weekend...

*scared*

Crap.

I'm getting an Eye of Horus too.

I have a rule... I don't get a tatoo until I've wanted it for at least 3 years.

If I don't change my mind by then, I figure, I won't anytime soon.

I'm getting near 5 years for that one now, so I'll get it soon.

I have a few others planned as well, but they're not readily recognisable images like the Eye of Horus, so it'd be hard to explain.

sanity assassin · Nov 4, 2003, 09:03 AM

Originally posted by gadster:
Pity the poor folks who got an Amiga tat!

lol , that would be an embarrassment now. Years ago I nearly got a Sisters of Mercy logo done, chickened out at the last moment, thank fcuk.

sanity assassin · Nov 4, 2003, 09:08 AM

Originally posted by The Placid Casual:
It is going to be of the 'Eye Of Horus'...

Like this?

Hope it goes ok for you.

mrfrost · Nov 4, 2003, 09:27 AM

Originally posted by Cipher13:
Crap.

I'm getting an Eye of Horus too.

I have a rule... I don't get a tatoo until I've wanted it for at least 3 years.

Eye of Horus tattoo? Sad...

Just kidding. I use the same rule you do for my tattoos only I keep the idea for 5 years and then decide. My next tattoo has been designed for over 3 years now and I'm still very satisfied with the result. Seeing as it is bigger than anything I got before (Full upper arm continuing over the shoulder and covering half of my back) I think I'll wait a few more years.

The Placid Casual · Nov 4, 2003, 09:43 AM

I use the same ethos. I have wanted this tattoo for a good 4 years now, but never got around to it...

Although, it is made a bit weird by the fact that my g/f also has a (very cool) Eye of Horus tattoo on her shoulder... and if I have mine done we will look like a real 'couple'!

I can hear the matching tattoo jokes already!

I would change the design, but the symbol means a lot to both of us...

Sarc · 10:26 AM

if I ever get a tattoo, i would have it on my foot's sole. since I have no interest in anyone seeing it, a tattoo by me, for me.

and it would probably be this on one foot:

I would have it in black though

and on the other foot could be either a chilean flag:

or a black apple logo

Tulkas · Nov 4, 2003, 10:12 AM

Originally posted by The Placid Casual:
I use the same ethos. I have wanted this tattoo for a good 4 years now, but never got around to it...

Although, it is made a bit weird by the fact that my g/f also has a (very cool) Eye of Horus tattoo on her shoulder... and if I have mine done we will look like a real 'couple'!

I can hear the matching tattoo jokes already!

I would change the design, but the symbol means a lot to both of us...

Yeah, and when you break up you can both get them pain-fully erased!

And yes, I;m just playing on the pain factor

willed · Nov 4, 2003, 12:26 PM

Originally posted by mrfrost:
My next tattoo has been designed for over 3 years now....

Do you mean your NeXT tattoo?

[runs for cover]

wdlove · Nov 4, 2003, 12:34 PM

I don't have a tatto. No interest in getting a tatto either.

TheJoshu · Nov 4, 2003, 01:24 PM

OK, so, the very first edition of the New York Times Circuits section (or at least one of the first) six years ago or so had a huge picture above the fold in the main article of a guy peeling a (temporary) Apple tattoo off his upper arm. The article was about loving Macs, or no longer loving them, or something to that effect. Anybody remember this?

Mulattabianca · Nov 4, 2003, 10:43 PM

Yep, I still have that tattoo. No, I'm not going to change the shadows to look like on 10.3. I like as it is.

Actually I've been thinking to do another. Switch on button. Or maybe the X on my toe. Or maybe freebsd logo... I'll probably end up with freebsd pumper sticker on the car, and the switch on button (that will not be online then) ... and maybe the X too.

wataru · Nov 4, 2003, 10:52 PM

I think Cipher should get the "clinically insane" stars tattooed on his forehead.

kmkkid · Nov 4, 2003, 10:59 PM

I got this logo tattooed within a barbed-wire legband. Still looks cool even if I dont like the band in ten years.

Chris

Macfreak7 · Nov 4, 2003, 11:14 PM

I have one. It was an accident. Will post a pic later.

Kenneth · Nov 4, 2003, 11:21 PM

I almost forgot Mulattabianca from here and AI.

Jim_MDP · Nov 4, 2003, 11:33 PM

Originally posted by Mulattabianca:
Yep, I still have that tattoo. No, I'm not going to change the shadows to look like on 10.3. I like as it is.

How about Hexley above the left cheek?

http://www.hexley.com/

I made him my av on another board, still waiting for the Aussies to recognize what he is.

The Placid Casual · Nov 10, 2003, 03:37 AM

Well, finally had it done on saturday!

Eye of Horus on my right upper arm (nearly shoulder) in a deep, purple colour... Solid, same colour outline. it looks really crisp, and sharp, I'm totally stoked about it!

It has gone a bit scabby at the moment, but when it has healed I'll be sure to post a pic...

As for actually having it done, it didn't hurt all that much... well, not as much as I thought it would. The outline was the worst, but I only felt it at the start and end of the lines, the shading was easy. In fact,I may get another next month!

Ankh, on the bottom of my back... Hmmm.

Peace,

Marc

- - e r i k - - · Nov 10, 2003, 04:02 AM

Originally posted by Sarc:

Sidenote: Isn't the chilean flag just the designer version of the US flag?

riverfreak · Nov 10, 2003, 12:16 PM

Originally posted by Luca Rescigno:

Anyway, for those of you who know of Red Vs. Blue, here's why you shouldn't get a tattoo:

1. Tattoos are permanent.
2. You are a god damn idiot.

"Take your current age. Now subtract ten years from it. Were you smart back then? Of course you weren't. You were a god damn idiot. Fact of the matter is, you're just as big an idiot today, it's just going to take you ten more years to realize it. Now think if you had drawn a picture on your body ten years ago. Would you be happy about it today? Chances are you wouldn't be."

Good point, no?

No regrets. No compromise. You should try to start living your life with a little less fear. Children are far more permanent than tattoos and people go head long into that with nary a thought.

chris v · Nov 10, 2003, 12:34 PM

Okay, so point me to the web pages showing everybody with Windows logos tattooed on their @sses. There's got to be one, right?

I'm with WD on this one-- I'm gonna be the last guy left alive on Earth without a tattoo or hole poked through any part of his body, and then I'll be the unique one, and all you folks trying to be unique with your tattoos and piercings will all be just the same.

CV

Sarc · Nov 10, 2003, 01:04 PM

Originally posted by - - e r i k - -:
Sidenote: Isn't the chilean flag just the designer version of the US flag?

The current flag dates from February 12, 1818.
I could be wrong, but the US flag of the time was quite different from the current one.

Now, the Texas flag does look like a ripoff the chilean flag.

Mac Guru · Nov 10, 2003, 05:16 PM

I've got one on my right arm.

It is the logo for the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps of which I was a marching member. So it has deep sentimental meaning.

I don't think I'd ever get one just for the getting's sake.

the Red Chevron but mine is in Black.

Mac Guru

Jim_MDP · Nov 10, 2003, 07:10 PM

Originally posted by Mac Guru:
I've got one on my right arm.

It is the logo for the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps of which I was a marching member. So it has deep sentimental meaning.

Mac Guru

Yeah� but how did you look in the red spandex top?