Army Rumour Service

Just the bloodgroup under my left arm like the rest of my unit...

Klopf!

Shite!!

Fakkinell!! I'm not surprised gravity is taking over if you are both now in your 80s!! Respect!

Had a few tattoo,s when I was young and daft, a couple of thai buddhist ones done by monks up in mukdaharn, , a few months later while on R&R in Bangkok was billeted with some yanks from Korat, all week this gobby master/sgt from New York kept rabbiting on about gettinga thai tattoo to cover his back but he couldnt find any one to do it. Was that an invitation for a stitchup or what on our last night we took him out for a few sherbets and his tattoo, must admit he bore the pain very well , so we had a few more drinks and took him back to the billet, next morning at dark oclock as we were leavingwe woke him to praise his wonderful tattoo, Would love to have been there when he got back to Korat to find not a religous thai motif on his back but the Cutty Sark in full Sail and Rule Brittania written neatly underneath, we had the photo,s for years but mrs N number 2 burnt them with the rest of my stuff before the divorce

Got to admit there are a lot of good tats out there and some rate true artist accolades.. There's a guy who has been paid by some 'collector' to turn over his skin when he dies, suitable for framing, cause the tat artist's work is supposedly so unique...

There are a number of ' wimmen' in the Tat rags who have a good portion of their bod covered in ink, some of it quite impressive, but I got to think they'll be seen as quite odd round the retirement village when they hit 80 or so..[ then again.. randy old basterds in many of them might find it a late age turnon ]..

then there's always the cautionary tales of tats gone wrong/bad.. recall a 'famous' case of a young girl who was taken with a Chinese ' design' at a restaurant and had it replicated across one shoulder.

When dining out at another such establishment she was the cause of much mirth on the part of the Oriental staff.. turns out the device spelled out " One Sweet Dish " in the local lingo..
warning to all..

Be interesting to see how many of the Arrse Maidens pipe up on this one!