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tattoos

tattoos, yay or neigh. i've thought about this for a very long time and hey tattoos look cool,

you get this great piece of art work that makes you totally unique ( easy for the coroner to identify you)
and its a symbol about how dedicated you are to your chosen whatever
and how you have a high pain threshold
and just damn, they look all sexy, cause ur a young sexy thing and hey your a rebel!
and your flaunting the system aren't you, by doing soemthing craaaaazzzzzy, you little rascal.

ok maybe i'm exagerating a little bit. and yes tattoos are cool and i think they do look good. till they start to fade.
and also while your young.

i have seen very few older gen who have tattoos which look good. Now don't get me wrong i am a fan but i think some people do it for the shock value and because its cool, some times thats just not enough.

i don't want to be at my daughters wedding ( with a big hat) and have everyone checking out my ink instead of looking at the bride. my point is that sometimes its not appropriate to have tattoos and to be honest they can look tacky.(winnie the pooh anyone)

if your going to have a tattoo surely it should be something you design. something that you feel you have a connection with rather than disposeable art, which you like at the time but in 20 years ( yes its still there) it isn't so cool to have S club 7 tattooed over your chest (true story man). so you need to find something that will wear well.

and if your a super huge death metal goth, and get a tattoo of cradle of filth's "jesus is a cunt" tattooed on your neck, then in 15 years time ( or hell less!) you mellow out a bit, your not 'with the kids' any more and hey maybe you've even 'found' god ( yes he was behind the sofa all along) then your sweet little slogan aint gonna wash with ur bible club. whoops. ( not a true story... i don't think)

if ur gonna get inked
1. make it personal ( ideally design it yourself)
2. have it somewhere inconspicuous so you can show it if you want but hide it too. ( wrists are not a good place, poeople have lost out on jobs for less)
3.BE SURE!!! don't go on a whim, you will regret it. something your think looks cool now may just look sad later in life
4. check out that the parlour has all its health and safety regs up 2 date etc.
5. don't get boyfriend/ girlfriends/ bestist best friends in the whole worlds name, life is too flexible and if it doesn't work out then your a tad fucked aren't so when u finaly meet your new sweetie who makes you feel all gooey and they find that you have BIG DAVE tattooed over your breasts, its goona put a dampener on things. if you must then go for your kids names, even parents you can fall out with. they world may change but you can always could on yourself as being a constant.

cold

i have the sniffles i dislike it.

am all bunged up and ironicaly the parmacist gave me a cold. bah!

furious

o had the strangest thing at work the other day, it had mostly been a good day i was very chipper ( lots of yes what can i do for you my love etc, i talk like this when i am in a good sharing mood)

then about half an hour before the end of my shift, i had to deal with a customer, who wanted to use a discount card, now the one she had given was one that had been discontinued so i told her that the powers that be had send word out that we had to take the card and keep it but we'd give her the discount this last time and that she had to contact head office. - this has been done because our system had changed so the old discount cards don't work any more but anyway.

she snatched the card form my hand and said " you can't take it if i don't give it to you."


for some reason, seeing as i'd been in a good mood all day and not stressed and irritable.
i became furious. i literally couldn't speak because of this and i started shaking.
i then stuttered and stood there, al the while thinking she's a customer you can't shout at her. so i managed out a very mild " you don't have to be so RUDE!"
then blah blah blah she denied it etc i took my leave and then this womans daughter who was standing there the whole time , said sorry she didn't mean to be rude, which made me feel slightly better as it wasn't all in my head

but i got scared at how quickly i went from fine to speechless fury!
and that my dear is just strange.

so am i missing the point....

in the metro today i was reading an article about cherie blair and her 'battle cry for woman's global rights'.

"Differences of culture or religion cannot be used as a justification for denying equal rights to women anywhere in the world, Cherie Blair said.

Mrs Blair denounced the unequal treatment of women on religious grounds in some societies as a "distortion" of the true message of faiths such as Islam, which she said shared with all the major world religions an "insistence on the dignity of all God's people".

She was critical of human rights advocates in the West who suggest that women's emancipation cannot be exported to the Middle East or parts of Asia and Africa because of cultural and religious sensitivities.

Women's rights are a "universal ethic that cuts across all cultures and all religions ... and imperative for our shared humanity", she said.

In a high profile speech given under her professional name of Cherie Booth QC at Chatham House in London, the leading human rights lawyer acknowledged that Britain and other Western nations had more to do to deliver equal pay and career opportunities to women.

But she highlighted new laws in Egypt which give men and women different rights on divorce, as well as Orthodox Jewish practices under which a woman cannot divorce without her husband's consent.

In some parts of the world, domestic violence was still not regarded as a crime, widows were ostracised and women were treated effectively as their husbands' property, she said. In many areas "proclaimed adherence to a specific religion or system of belief or culture is intimately tied to women's continuing discrimination and abuse," said Mrs Blair.

And she bluntly rejected any suggestion that such practices could be justified by reference to religion.

"We can be certain that the overwhelming majority of people in our country, along with legal experts and campaigners, would be appalled if they thought that such mistreatment was taking place within their family or local community," she said.

"But what is striking is that there remain those who try to justify or excuse such discrimination and denial of human rights elsewhere by reference to different cultural or religious standards. We simply can't go along with this view.""

and i agree with her on this.and think what she is talking about is a very positive thins, what i don't understand however is that the picture the metro put right next to the article was this..

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11/cheriePA_450x566.jpg

this does not give the article a very positive image, and degrades what cherie blair is saying. becaseu i don't care who cherie blair is, the fact she is saying this stuff is fantastic and she should be commended for that rather than being ridiculed.

i also disliked the manner in which the article was written, i felt the words, attack ( used in the title on the website), critical ( of human rights advocates, and also the 'staunchly catholic Mrs Blair' projected negative connotations.

but hey maybe i am missing the point of the article and lets all just take the piss of cherie and put our neck in the sand about womens rights 'cause its not happenin' to us now is it?

i should be working my ass off but....

i need the lovely technicians to do my project and they are all huddling in a corer together laughing in the technically not open work shop, his makes me sad as i hope they will help me later buti need help nw... never mind.