I guess nobody wants me to post pictures then.

Wouldn't have anyway, though



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Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.

(N. Chomsky 1957)

Ah, thanks for clearing that up.

Feel free to, ViVi.



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Now for the kitten's daily moment of self pity.

This sort of thing would only happen to me...



I had to get a stitch in my poor little toe this afternoon. Because of the cat.

I was setting up my tattoo machine to get a bit of practice in before my first human victim, and my grandmother's cat, who has been told off repeatedly for jumping on the table, did just that- only he's got no co-ordination, missed the tabletop and scrabbled wildly at the tabletop and in the process, pulling the power converter from the tabletop to land with a crash on my bare foot.

Unfortunately, it landed on my little toe edge-first, which caused a rather deep cut, which has sort of split to the point where bone is visible.

Which I didn't notice at first, being distracted by the swearwords mysteriously appearing in the air, and the knackered state of my tattoo machines power supply-

I didn't notice til I yelled about having to clean blood up off the floor.

(Hang on, blood? Oh, just perfect)

The really annoying thing is after getting my one little stitch to hold the cut together nicely, do I get some dramatic bandages or a nice wheelchair that I can sit in and gaze wistfully out the window into the distance (a setting sun perhaps, or a grey and moody sky, sighing dramatically when people ask how I am? Do I get to hobble pathetically with a walking stick to make the tea and force a bright but brittle melancholic smile when people call, and say "Oh no, don't worry yourself on my account, I'm fine."?

No.

I get a band-aid. And a stifled laugh.

I ask you.

Oh, no! Poor Kitten! But as compensation, it looks like you've found your first volunteer tattoo test subject!

Ouch! That sounds painful, Kitten.

MuseSusan, do you suppose the tattoo would show up very well under all that fur? (I assume you were talking about the cat)



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Metaphors be with you!

Splat: "W/b Lenny, btw".

Hmmm, I've been posting on here sporadically for the last couple of days at least. Yet I get welcomed back now specifically...

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...oh, I see. You only recognised me when I admit to not listening to what other people say. Makes sense, I suppose.



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Well, because it is submersed in a marine environment, I've always called it the Going-Under-The-Water-Safely-Device.

na, I just wasn't concentrating. But hey, I'm good at it...



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Puck-- Well, Kitten would have to shave the cat first. But after the fur grows back in, well, lots of people like to have tattoos in obscure places…and it seems clear that the cat was volunteering!

<pity for kitten>

Wait...How exactly does one practice tatooing? Do you just find a spare bit of skin and have a go, or are there "willing" test subjects?



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It was the curious incident of the dog in the night time.

You wouldn't catch me volunteering! Even if you had practiced! Temporary tattoos are good enough for me--no needles!

Tattoos dont hurt people.
I hurt people.

I believe pork off-cuts, with the skin still attached, are quite good for tattoo practise.

Sounds like someone's been watching Mythbusters.

Why go to the effort of cutting it off the pork? Maybe you could start a trend in swine fashion...

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'Who looks after the animals?'

Actually, I have been practising on pork. And specially made tattoo practise skin which is a sort of self healing rubber.

If you let a tattooist draw on your chest and then you reciprocated, would we say that it was sort of a tit-for-tat process?

(groan)

*submits* Yes, robert, it would.



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It was the curious incident of the dog in the night time.

Your'e submitting to Robert's tattoing on your chest?


Should that apostrophe be in there?

Yes, that apostrophe is correct, and no, I don't want to know whether Lady T is submitting to Robert's suggestion.