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Re: Okay, maybe not a real MOC, but close enough
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 6 Sep 2005 02:56:54 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Richie Dulin wrote:
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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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These are valid concerns. Thanks for this very thoughtful commentary.
I’m still getting one though - maybe the Blacktron 2 logo. How bad could drunken
sailors really be?
Allister
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Message is in Reply To:
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| (...) -snip- 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 (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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