Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Dannyalcatraz]

I used to do stuff like that back in the mid-1980s. I still do, but I used to, too.

Plus all kinds of similar humor forms, like 1 word additions/substitutions; name the porno knockoff of a famous IP; listing products sold by bands that are total sellouts; fake first names of bands before they “made it”.

I have a file full of nothing but clever names for restaurants, bars and other businesses, and another of band/album names I’ll never get a chance to use.

(My love of wordplay has crept into all aspects of my life.)

 

[trappedslider]

I used to do stuff like that back in the mid-1980s. I still do, but I used to, too.

Plus all kinds of similar humor forms, like 1 word additions/substitutions; name the porno knockoff of a famous IP; listing products sold by bands that are total sellouts.

I have a file full of nothing but clever names for restaurants, bars and other businesses, and another of band/album names I’ll never get a chance to use.

(My love of wordplay has crept into all aspects of my life.)

same and since i've lost my mom, i have no one who can truly keep up, my SiL tries but it's not the same.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

same and since i've lost my mom, i have no one who can truly keep up, my SiL tries but it's not the same.

I’ve lost people I’ve played off, but not to mortality, just to time & tides. I’ve still got my parents, who created this particular monster. I take what I can get online.

 

[Ryujin]

I was listening to a documentary about JCM’s career, and apparently, Jack was originally supposed to be a black dude- they were an interracial couple. Record execs thought that would be trouble, so any references to their race were scrapped.

I seem to remember him saying that in an interview, at some point.

 

[Meech17]

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Look I get it, old man and clouds and all that, but I just do not get the trend of having an arm full of line doodles tattooed on.

Tattoos? Great. Some of the most amazing art I've seen is in Tattoo form. Full sleeve, full back piece, whatever, great.

Line doodles? I do not get it.

I think it's a time, and a cost thing.

My younger sister is a tattoo artist, and she actually just did my first tattoo on me this spring, and sure enough it's a line doodle type piece on my arm of a cartoonified version of my dog sporting a pair of 3D glasses.

Between set-up, and the actually tattooing, and then clean-up it took probably an hour, and had I not been her brother, she said she probably would have charged in the ballpark of $100-$150.

A full sleeve is something that will take multiple, several hour long sessions, and cost you likely thousands of dollars. You've got to find an artist that you really like and trust, workshop the idea for your masterpiece, and then sit through a few grueling sessions to get it done, accepting that you're going to have to spend a week or two in-between sessions for healing with a work-in-progress tattoo being shown to the world. That doesn't even account for scheduling. Perhaps it takes you longer to heal than expected and you have to push it out, maybe your artist, or you are taking some time for travel, or doctor's appointments, and need to push it out, maybe you missed your artist's big window of open time and now they're super booked up.. I've heard of big pieces sometimes taking years to complete.

With the small doodles if can be a spur of the moment situation. Travelling, you find a cool shop, pop in, and trade a hundo for a memento of the experience etched onto your body. Over time you can collect these and end up with a "build-your-own" sleeve of patchwork flash pieces. From different places, different artists, maybe in different styles. If you end up not happy with it, they're easier to cover or modify than large pieces.

It's like playing an TTRPG campaign made out of stitching together a bunch of modules, vs running one of the big hard cover books.

With that said.. I'm already planning out my next line doodle tattoo to keep my pup company on my fore-arm.

 

[Ryujin]

I think it's a time, and a cost thing.

My younger sister is a tattoo artist, and she actually just did my first tattoo on me this spring, and sure enough it's a line doodle type piece on my arm of a cartoonified version of my dog sporting a pair of 3D glasses.

Between set-up, and the actually tattooing, and then clean-up it took probably an hour, and had I not been her brother, she said she probably would have charged in the ballpark of $100-$150.

A full sleeve is something that will take multiple, several hour long sessions, and cost you likely thousands of dollars. You've got to find an artist that you really like and trust, workshop the idea for your masterpiece, and then sit through a few grueling sessions to get it done, accepting that you're going to have to spend a week or two in-between sessions for healing with a work-in-progress tattoo being shown to the world. That doesn't even account for scheduling. Perhaps it takes you longer to heal than expected and you have to push it out, maybe your artist, or you are taking some time for travel, or doctor's appointments, and need to push it out, maybe you missed your artist's big window of open time and now they're super booked up.. I've heard of big pieces sometimes taking years to complete.

With the small doodles if can be a spur of the moment situation. Travelling, you find a cool shop, pop in, and trade a hundo for a memento of the experience etched onto your body. Over time you can collect these and end up with a "build-your-own" sleeve of patchwork flash pieces. From different places, different artists, maybe in different styles. If you end up not happy with it, they're easier to cover or modify than large pieces.

It's like playing an TTRPG campaign made out of stitching together a bunch of modules, vs running one of the big hard cover books.

With that said.. I'm already planning out my next line doodle tattoo to keep my pup company on my fore-arm.

I was involved in a photoshoot (I've posted a couple of the pictures here, on occasion) that featured a couple of alt models. One of them would take tattoo vacations. As in go to Australia for a few weeks to get tattoos. She had full sleeves and was tattooed over maybe 2/3 of her body. The amount of pain that would entail made me shudder to think about.

 

[Meech17]

I was involved in a photoshoot (I've posted a couple of the pictures here, on occasion) that featured a couple of alt models. One of them would take tattoo vacations. As in go to Australia for a few weeks to get tattoos. She had full sleeves and was tattooed over maybe 2/3 of her body. The amount of pain that would entail made me shudder to think about.

Mine is just on the outside of my forearm, and it both hurt more, and less than I expected.

The small, fine needle she used for line work hurt the most, whereas the large needle(Which is actually a bundle of several needles, apparently) she used to color in the glasses hurt the least. Overall the actually tattooing didn't hurt too bad, and she said the spot I picked is probably one of the least painful ones. Thick skin and muscle underneath make for easy going, whereas if you get it somewhere like the inside of your wrist where the skin is more tender, or somewhere like your ribs where you're going over bones it tends to hurt more.

But the fact that mine was done so quickly also helped. The longer it went on the more tender my skin got. It started to feel similar to a sun burn. So I can imagine if you're getting a large piece and spending several hours having it done, it could really get tough. Especially sitting there trying to stay still while doing it.

 

[Mannahnin]

One of my friends/former partners has lots of small pieces, acquired over time and sometimes as souvenirs while traveling. They're not line doodles, and they fit into themes. One limb has pokemon. Another has food-themed pieces. Another has spooky/ghost-themed pieces.

 

[Meech17]

One of my friends/former partners has lots of small pieces, acquired over time and sometimes as souvenirs while traveling. They're not line doodles, and they fit into themes. One limb has pokemon. Another has food-themed pieces. Another has spooky/ghost-themed pieces.

Yeah, that seems to be pretty common.. It's almost like pages in a scrap book.

My sister's partner has a lot of tattoos, and he's collected a lot of pulp-culture style pieces, and keeps them all on the same arm, but then get's other, more traditional pieces elsewhere.

 

[Cruentus]

You know the one I remember the most is Diane, who was with Jack. They were always a cute couple. Wonder what happened to them?

No idea what happened to them, we lost touch. But I did hear that Billie and Patti had a 10lb baby boy. Billy even wrote a letter to Patti’s parents to try to explain. That boy must be like 45 at this point.