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Re: Okay, maybe not a real MOC, but close enough
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Tue, 6 Sep 2005 01:53:53 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, C. L. GunningCook wrote:
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Well okay... I guess it’s not a real MOC, (I wasnt sure what news group to
use.)
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Spotlighted. But I can’t really thank you for sharing this one, Janey. I think
this sort of thing (especially that you publicised it soo much(1)) is bad
press for the AFOL community at large.
Tattoos are an adult activity, and carry some significant health risks and
various social stigmas as well.
By posting (or was that ‘boasting’) about your tattoos here – on a family
friendly forum - you have, perhaps unwittingly, encouraged young people to get
tattooed. In many areas, tattooing is illegal on non-adults. Tattoo parlours are
dens of iniquity, where wide eyed youth, intent on getting a tattoo of a simple
brick or their favourite Bionicle could come face to face (or face to other
parts of the body) with drug dealers, motorcycle gang members, and even drunken
sailors.
You are a cool builder, Janey. Your micro work rocks. You have a strong fan
following, which may well follow your example and be tattooed. But will they go
to a parlour which uses sterile needles and follows good health practices? Or
will they go to some undesirable part of town, unaccompanied, and bare their
shoulder (or worse) to some tattooed ‘artist’? If they do, do you take
responsibility for encouraging them to this ‘choice’?
You posted your tat post healing. Why not show the young and impressionable what
it’s like whilst it is healing? It’s not all fun and bright colours. Why not
tell them the risks? Search the net for some pics of tats gone wrong, and post
them too.
As your post clearly showed, tattoos are addictive. Imagine if some kid starts
with a simple Bionicle tat, but his interests move on to technic, so he adds a
1x8 technic brick and a gear or two, and then he gets into mindstorms, so adds
an RCX, and then moves on to trains (adds a Santa Fe Super Chief) and then to
historic 1960’s sets and so on. A body disfigured for what? Will you comfort him
when girls reject him? Will you give him a job when employers reject him?
And you justify your post by saying “At least it’s Lego related”?
Cheers
Richie Dulin
(1) = What happens on JLUG can stay on JLUG - but Lugnet, et al. is a different
story.
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Message has 8 Replies:
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| WTH! Richie, get the heck out of here. YOUR bad press for the community at large with your constant (*(^&$$*&^%^(*)_*, )(& )*)(&^&*^&$ and I'll show you some bad press for the community at large with some _)*)(&^(&%$&%# of my own! Go beeeyotch about (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Okay, maybe not a real MOC, but close enough
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| In > Spotlighted. But I can’t really thank you for sharing this one, Janey. I (...) Richie, i think this is a matter of opinion and this lugnet being one of the freindliest places on the internet; your negativity, i find; is unwelcome. If people (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | Re: Okay, maybe not a real MOC, but close enough
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| In lugnet.general, Richie Dulin wrote: (snipped a bunch of crap... cause I was laughing so hard I couldn't control the mouse) Thanks Richie, as always you put a perfectly twisted perspective on the entire event. My tat will never be the same. Janey (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) My tatoo artist has a master's degree in art and a hospital-grade autoclave. No iniquity, no danger. And she won't tatoo anybody who's drunk, either. (...) Chicks dig tatoos, man. (...) Always get tattooed in a place you can cover! (...) (19 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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