You mean you aren't going to have a garbage can tattooed above your ass with the words "Cum Dumpster" on it. Oh come on.
You mean you aren't going to have a garbage can tattooed above your ass with the words "Cum Dumpster" on it. Oh come on.
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A friend of my dads was in the navy during WWII and he got some tattoos on his arms. When he got older the ink started to fade and one of them just looked like a big birthmark. He would always go the dumbest thing he ever did was get those tattoos. I heard all of this when I was little and decided right there and then I wasn't going to ever get a tattoo and never have and never will.
Actually I see a cute girl with a tattoo and frankly, it doesn't make her look better. I never got the tattoo thing.
When I worked at American Express in the summer we would wear short sleeve dress shirts. One of the guys kind of had a wild past and had a lot of tats on his arms. He was a good guy and a good employee but one day some head honcho was walking through where we worked and saw his tattoos. He threw a fit and wanted them covered up. So the poor guy had to wear long-sleeved shirts in the summer when it was over 100 degrees outside. I felt sorry for him. Sometimes your life changes and those tattoos you got at age 19 no longer apply. Sometimes that ink later can keep you from getting a job or close the door on a new lifestyle. I mean unless you have them removed they are permanent.
I think a thriving business will be tattoo removal. LOL!
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I was the first in my family EVER (I think) to get a tattoo. It wasn't something my family did, so off course I had to get one But I wasn't activly looking for a motive when I found what I later had done. I just saw it and knew I HAD to get this on my body somewhere :-)
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I saw a hispanic guy and he was wearing a tank top and you could see he had portraits of his kids tattooed along his shoulders and arms. They were so well done they almost looked like black and white photos. This guy was fairly young and then I thought about him being an old man with faded ink splotches all over. The problem with putting ink in living tissue is it's going to move over the years. We are going to have some really messed up looking old people in the future. LOL!
But who cares when you're old. One has bigger things to worry about then. You just have to see it for what it is, something that maybe meant something when you were younger.
I know plenty of old people who care how they look. Especially, women.
My 96 year old aunt was at Nordstroms and complained they didn't make shoes for middle aged ladies anymore. I'm like shit. How old does she think old is?
Some people seem to have a desire to paint their flesh with images and or words to which have no intrinsic meaning or value whatsoever.
SOME people, for some odd reason have elected to also use their body as a parchment for the scripture of their lives.
I do not hate tattoos. I hate most people that get tattoos, because really, it's a badge of conformity; they are nothing but sheep.
Quoted from somewhere. A dollar for every bogan Southern Cross tattoo I see. Yeah nah mate.
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Some people have the desire to turn their skin into a doodle pad.
"Don't get any tattoos. Today everyone has them. If you want to be a rebel today, it means not getting any tattoos." --Ozzy Osbourne--
Yeah, I have been for about 9 months, cause got a better position at the bookstore while this guy was at home with the newborn. But he is coming back in the beginning of january, so I'm going back to the shoestore then. I have been working with shoes for 6 years now.
They look like good shoes. I have scandinavian feet (high instep and a high arch) because I'm of Norwegian and Danish ancestry. A lot of the shoes made in asia don't fit my feet right.
Some of Ecco shoes are made in Asia (not all), but everything is controlled from Denmark. They have their own factories, they make their own leather. Actually Eccos leather is sold to many other companies. Louis Vuitton buys their leather from Ecco.
But Ecco also has factories in Europe.
My heart always sinks a little when I first glimpse "the tatt" fooling around with someone new.
And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin. - Moby-Dick
katina (11-19-2012)
You can get good quality out of China if you own the factory and hire your own employees. There's a mountaineering company here in the states that had to move some manufacturing to China because they just couldn't find enough people who knew how to sew to the quality level demanded. Since some of their stuff is used on Everest level expeditions, bad sewing could cost someone their life so it's important. So they bought a factory and hired their own employees.
The problem I have is too many companies contract to have shoes made in China by other manufactures and the Chinese have a low instep and flat feet. In many cases the Chinese build the shoes to fit their feet and they don't fit mine. That's what the problem is.
That's what my new job is going to be. I'm going to be working for a holding company and I will be going to China a lot to check on operations.
But Ecco really cares about every detail of the shoe. And the strange thing is that Asians, especially Chinese are CRAZY about Ecco shoes. I am not joking, we get busloads of them. Literally a bus full of chinese tourists parks outside of the shop and they come in and go nuts. I have also heard from my old boss, who used to travel to Japan, that Ecco is really big there too.
Frankly Nike stuff fits me horrible. So I am more of an Adidas person. Even in cowboy boots I have to buy a certain brand. Justins don't fit worth a damn. Noconas fit me perfect and Tony Lama's are ok. You get the right pair of cowboy boots and break them in, they are more comfy than anything. I probably have more shoes than most women do. LOL! You should see my closet. Just my ski boots alone is a bit obscene.
The Chinese have a middle class now. It's the people who started their own businesses and they have some disposable income and they like quality. Yeah we have busloads of chinese tourists come through here. Most of them seem to be from Hong Kong which China left to be a common wealth. Lot's of money there and I speak cantonese so I can talk with those people. It used to be Japanese tourists and now it's Chinese tourists. The Bank of Japan fucked the Japanses over like the Federal Reserve has fucked us over. They create real estate bubbles with low interest rates and once it pops, it can take forever to recover.
You can't compete with the Chinese on volume or price but you can always beat them on quality.
Adidas are amazing. Nike sucks. I bought some aerobics shoes from nike once, costed like 300 dollars, they had no more support then Converse have. They sucked!!! Reebok is so unstable, just too soft. Adidas is the thing!
I have seen everything when it comes to feet. I don't want to get hallux valgus. That is why arch support is so important, it makes your toes stay in a different angle. Also I have talked with so many people who have heel spurs, they say it hurts like hell. I don't want to get that either. So without any support of the arche, you put all the weight on your heel and (I don't know what it's called, trampdyna in swedish, find it if you can ), but with support, you divide your weight on a much bigger surface.
The support is extremely important from all aspects.
A Massachusetts schoolmaster, Ishmael chose to give up the comfort and security of his classroom and fulfill his romantic desire to go to sea. Leaving Manhatto, he traveled to the seaport town of New Bedford to seek out work on a whaler.
Ishmael’s first night in New Bedford was spent in the crusty Spouter Inn near the water_ front. There he found the only bed available which, by necessity, he consented to share with an unknown harpooner. His roommate turned out to be a bizarre fellow indeed, a hardened South-sea islander whose body was covered with tattoos. But after Ishmael’s initial fear had subsided, he found this “strange bedfellow,” Queequeg, to be quite friendly. The huge man offered to share his small fortune and an embalmed human head with Ishmael. “At first I knew not what to make of this,” Ishmael said, “but soon an inkling of the truth occurred to me. I remembered a story of a white man – a whaleman too – who, falling among cannibals, had been tattooed by them. I concluded that this harpooner, in the course of his distant voy_ ages, must have met with a similar adventure. And what is it, thought 1, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.”
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Because they have a whole separate culture that goes back thousands of years. Everything about them is strange if you are used to the European way of doing things. Trust me when my family moved to Hong Kong I thought I was living on Mars. You just have to toss the book of everything you learned growing up out the window and start over. I have a gear shift in my head. When I deal with the Chinese I shift it and go into Chinese mode. It's one big reason I landed this new job. I understand the Chinese. Most people don't. LOL!
Rule number one is never make them lose face. In their culture one of the worst things you can do is insult someone in public or make them look bad. So there is a lot of kind of fake politeness and BS going on. You shovel lots of bullshit in Chinese culture and the real trick is find the reality in it. Lot's of manuvering and playing the game. It can be fun.
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I have two of these, just cause they are so great.
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Also in in their minds, being Chinese is superior to all other cultures but being from the part of China the family is from is superior to the rest of China. So it's family first and home first over all else. This western political correctness of one world is BS to them. But they may play in agreement if they think they can get something out of it. Just remember they think they are better than you and in their culture relationships are everything. You are either in the circle or out of it. They are kind of like Italians on the family before all thing. The key to doing business with the Chinese is to be so well liked they adopt you into the family because without that, you are an outsider. It's all about pecking order and once you are inside there is a whole other pecking order.
But that is crazy, cause WE are the ones who look down on THEM But I actually got along with one chinese, he was a guide and translator to the group of tourists. He actually lived here, maybe thats why I could talk to him. We spoke about foot binding and fake boobs It was fun
Oh yeah the foot binding. The rich Chinese bound their childrens feet thinking they were above having to walk. When the communists took over and stole all the wealth, those people had a rough time. I have one photo I took in 1982 of an old Chinese lady with bound feet hobbling with a cane. Obviously her parents were rich before chairman Mao took over.
These sound like northern Chinese you are dealing with. Not may favorite people. The southern Chinese have better manners.
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No, they don't fight with each other, they are just yelling at us. All of them. At the same time. One time one my colleague was helping one of them, while another one just yeller at her with a shoe and poking at her with a finger. She just took his finger and twisted it as hard as she could. Hahahahaha God that lady was fantastic
They are farting and spitting. Also we fing them wandering around in our storage. They also come in behind the cash desk. There are NO boundaries there.
Mmmmm...Chinese food.
Yeah, I was like curious about that. So he was starting to explain, didn't make much sense. So I kinda helped him out and said that women today also do crazy things out of vanity, like implanting silicone in breasts. And he agreed and called me very smart But I didn't wanna put him more in a corner by pointing out that footbinding was done on small children with no anesthetics.
Note to the Swede, as usual, get back on topic....
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One thing that is sad in China is the communists totally wiped out a lot of the Chinese culture much like the Spanish wiped out the native cultures in the Americas. A lot of artifacts were saved moving them to Taiwan and the best museums are in Taiwan. Modern China never quite got over Mao's re-education faze. What's interesting Taiwan money now owns large assets in mainland China. I think they just bribed the younger officials in Bejing. The old communist guard is dying off.
I wouldn't be surprised to see North and South Korea unify and Taiwan and China relations get better.
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