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— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) January 30, 2016
#DonaldTrump: Seth Bailey shows off his new @realDonaldTrump tattoo in Seabrook! pic.twitter.com/s7l5nzNU0U
— Kimberley Haas (@KimberleyHaas) January 30, 2016
Seabrook, NH is a tourist town right over the Massachusetts border, and since tattoo parlors were illegal here until (fairly) recently, it has long been a haven for Massholes seeking skin art (while they were stocking up on low-tax booze and smokes). Second-biggest industry after tourist milking is probably the ever-precarious, ever-contentious Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant… insert your own Homer Simpson jokes here, and don’t spare the chin pube snark.
Apart from the livestreaming of the final J. Ann Selzer Iowa poll before the caucus (6:30pm EST), what else is on the agenda for the evening?
chopper
that’s just…ugh. that’s just terrible.
scuffletuffle
Subject matter notwithstanding, that’s got to be the crappiest tattoo I’ve seen in a long time.
Keith G
And I was wondering why he had a tatt of John Forsythe
Howard Beale IV
I’ve never understood the fascination for tattoos.
Ultraviolet Thunder
@Howard Beale IV:
Permanent reminder of a passing whim? Mine are.
Baud
Some people deserve Trump’s America.
MomSense
Nope.
M. Bouffant
Looks like idiot Seth there is a fan of Der Drumpfenfuhrer because he’ll be needing combover concepts very soon.
Librarian
Well, at least he got it in a place where it can easily be hidden.
gogol's wife
The hair is completely wrong. But weirdest is the dark shadings around the chin.
But I have to say, various BJ commenters who have linked to “sophisticated Trump” with the posh English accent and now “tough Cockney Trump” have caused me a strange addiction. I can’t stop watching those videos.
Cacti
Things you should never get tattoos of:
1. A politician’s name
2. A man or woman’s name unless they are one of the following: Parent, biological or adoptive child
3. Anything up on a wall
NotMax
Livestreaming of a poll as if it’s a pilgrimage to the oracle of Delphi?
We used to be better than this.
As for tattoos, never liked ’em, never shall. The very term “skin art” makes my skin crawl.
And get off my lawn.
Corner Stone
@Howard Beale IV: I’ve said it before here but I have yet to meet a single woman under 40 who does not have at least one. And more often than not, if there’s one…
Baud
I regret my Lincoln Chafee tattoo.
NotMax
@Baud
Could have been worse. Could have been one of Christie.
;)
Cacti
@NotMax:
Not enough empty skin for a Christie tat.
Davis X. Machina
Any Latin quotation.
Barney
The good news for Seth is that it’s drawn so badly that he’ll be able to pass it off as a heavy from a fifties B movie, when Trump has become a universal punchline.
debbie
@Corner Stone:
I must say I’m surprised how many people at work (hundreds, all younger than me) have tattoos. I don’t mind them, but I can’t imagine the pain.
K488
Trump Stamp?
Aleta
@Baud: That’s why I went with Honest Abe swapping horses in the middle of a stream.
bystander
@Baud:
Any chance some pointy ears and whiskers would make him look kittenish?
I predict that Seth will make mainstream news as soon as a young woman is found who has a Li’l Bernie devil tattoo on her ankle. What better way to prove they’re both alike and both sides do it at the same time. The Unified Field Theory of Lamestream Political Analysis.
NotMax
Started watching Occupied on Netflix.
Implausible base premise but if one can get past that, well put together. So far two episodes in and there’s more than enough there to keep on viewing.
Mike in NC
Tough to find anyone under age 65 who’d want a Cruz tattoo.
NotMax
Sigh. Link code fail in #23. Fixed
Started watching Occupied on Netflix.
Implausible base premise but if one can get past that, well put together. So far two episodes in and there’s more than enough there to keep on viewing.
MomSense
@Baud:
At least it wasn’t Jim Webb.
The Lodger
@NotMax: @Cacti: Reminds me of a paraphrase of a famous high-school putdown:
“It looks like Chris Christie, only smaller.”
Baud
@NotMax: Ive found that following politics has improved my ability to suspend belief when watching TV shows.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Davis X. Machina: Yikes.
That reminds me of terrible Kanji tattoos.
:-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Ultraviolet Thunder
Even worse than a regrettable tattoo: the bigger, denser, awkwardly designed cover-up tattoo that will ultimately go over it.
Heliopause
@Howard Beale IV:
Can’t help you. I don’t understand jewelry or even most personal grooming choices much less tattoos. To put everyone’s mind at ease, I do shower on a daily basis.
SFAW
@Mike in NC:
Yet another way he makes one’s skin crawl.
Applejinx
@NotMax: Even the Hindenburg didn’t have that much skin.
I’m happy to say that the Counterpart steam greenlight thing is going okay: too early to say whether it’s going to work, but I’m already thinking about what I’ll follow it with if it doesn’t. I will have lost roughly two months to it, which ain’t that bad for game development. It’s mostly about whether people (on PC, Mac or Linux) would want to play this particular game, otherwise I’d be trying to do a Patreon or something and I’ve already worked out that’s useless.
All I really want is to be able to do some kind of useful work. I felt like that when I was on Disability, too. Though I am still as autistic as a blown fuse it does still matter a huge amount to me that I manage to be of some benefit to society, and it turns out I can code in my peculiar way. I do need to break myself of the ‘wanting to just give stuff back’ because when it’s just given it’s not valued…
Roger Moore
@Davis X. Machina:
I would extend that to say you shouldn’t get words in any language your tattoo artist can’t speak and spell. Sadly, this often includes English.
Baud
@Mike in NC:
Cruz supporters don’t get tattoos. They get stigmata.
SFAW
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
What, no “Macho Business Donkey Wrestler”?
I am disappointed.
SFAW
@Roger Moore:
Whut?
Brachiator
@Cacti:
I recall that actor Sean Connery had two tattoos. One said “Mum and Dad.” The other said “Scotland Forever.”
different-church-lady
@scuffletuffle: Yes, but it’s still early in the day.
trollhattan
I take it the live free or die state has no law against professional misconduct by tattoo-making persons. The good news is that thing can easily be modified into a bowling ball.
RSA
@gogol’s wife:
In the sense that it looks better than Trump’s hair ever has in real life.
Ruckus
@Heliopause:
You mean like getting in an elevator with a couple, late 60s and being overwhelmed almost to the point of gagging by their choices of perfume and cologne and this is with my sense of smell almost completely gone. I wondered if they didn’t shower and just splashed on a quart or two a day.
Ultraviolet Thunder
@Roger Moore:
Funny story: My MIL owns a divey bar near Detroit. It sits in a strip between a Chinese takeout and a tattoo parlor. There was a big scandal with TV reporters present a while back. A tattoo customer returned to complain of a misspelling all down his right arm. Apparently he didn’t know that the correct spelling of his street name was ‘villain’ and not ‘villein’.
Redshift
@Ruckus: Likewise, Axe Body Spray marketing has convinced way too many teenage boys that it is a substitute for showering.
A Ghost To Most
@Applejinx:
Is game coding your thing, or are there other software dev areas you could explore?
I say this as a long time developer with a mildly autistic son in college.
NotMax
There’s a feral rooster outside my window that has no idea how lucky it is that I’m a pacifist.
Redshift
I have nothing against tattoos, but I’ve never been able to think of anything I’d want to put on my skin permanently (which perhaps is an amount of thinking that separates me from most people who get them.)
If anyone ever invents workable programmable tattoos, though, I’m there.
pat
I could never even convince myself to put holes in my earlobes. Now the kidz these days have holes all over the place. Ouch.
sparrow
@Corner Stone: Seriously?! . I’m 32, and of the friends my age about 1/3 do have tattoos, but it’s definitely not a majority.
BillinGlendaleCA
@sparrow: Hmm, you’re the kid’s(my step-daughter) age, she does have a tat.
Corner Stone
@Redshift:
You mean like advertising space in a sports arena? Quaker State for 3 minutes, Amazon Prime for a few minutes, KFC…
Corner Stone
@sparrow: Yes, seriously. I have done a thorough and rigorously strict, multi-year scientific investigation.
BillinGlendaleCA
LOD had a guy on his show about a year ago that was working on a cream that would remove tats.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Corner Stone: Some of us have standards about our ink.
Anoniminous
@NotMax:
In my community feral roosters are commonly known as “dinner.”
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter donated $1 million to Donald Trump’s fundraiser. G. Willow Wilson, writer of the wonderful Ms. Marvel comic, has some thoughts about that.
Corner Stone
@efgoldman: Is she single?
schrodinger's cat
@Corner Stone: What you said about tattoos seems to be true about creative and artistic types.
Faux News
@scuffletuffle: Agreed. Terrible Tat skills.
schrodinger's cat
@NotMax: I have never understood the attraction either.
Corner Stone
@schrodinger’s cat: I am sure they are all beautiful, creative and artistic in their own ways. They still all have tats.
SiubhanDuinne
@pat:
I’m with you. My lifelong needle phobia has helped support the manufacturers of clip-on earrings, and has ensured that I will never become addicted to any injectable drug.
ETA: Let alone tattoos, obviously.
Corner Stone
Man, that idiot ass driver of the Audi Q7 commercial needs to have her fucking license pulled. It’s at night and that is one flat freakin’ road. You can’t see the other car’s headlights coming at you for 500 yards?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
That looks familiar, but not like Trump. The lead singer of one of those nineties bands that got too much airplay. Either the “anyone could see the road that somethinged on was somethinged with something” or “Hey now, you’re a rockstar, something something”
Ultraviolet Thunder
@SiubhanDuinne:
I faint when I have blood drawn (even typing that makes me a little woozy) but I’ve had 2 tattoos and two piercings without distress. Maybe it’s the white coat and stethoscope that triggers my brain to shut down.
stinger
No tats; but I just got polled by PPP — really seemed like they were pushing Bernie. After the initial “who ya gonna caucus for?” questions, they asked exclusively economic questions. I kept shouting jovially, “Bern! That you, Bern?” but of course it was just a machine.
Have any other Iowa Juicers gotten this poll?
PIGL
So hipster regalia can disguise an inner vicious dumbass? Whocouldanode?
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Des Moines Register Poll (Ann Selzer) — Final Iowa Poll
Clinton………….….45%
Sanders…………..42%
O’Malley……….…….3%
Trump…………….….28%
RafaelCruz…………23%
Rubio…………….…..15%
Major Major Major Major
I have an interrobang on my left tricep
Prescott Cactus
No tatts.
Did 4 months at the Seabrook nuke in the early 80’s. Only memorable thing was that the taverns would only allow a patron to have one drink at a time. No two fisted drinking. You could back someone up & get a wooden nickle or trinket, but until they finished their drink they could not get another.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: So 10% on the D side are undecided / won’t say at this late date? That sounds high.
It’ll be interesting to see how it turns out…
Cheers,
Scott.
SiubhanDuinne
I’ve scrolled past that photo up top a few times now, and every time — just running quickly past — it looks like young parents holding up an ugly baby swaddled in a flesh-toned hoodie onesie.
Ohio Mom
@pat: I goggled images of tonsillectomies the other day (my kid just had one) and there was a photo of someone with two rings in his/her uvula (the punching bag hanging down at the end of your mouth). I am hoping beyond hope it is a photo shop. Because I can’t even.
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
Add a virgule and an octothorpe and I’ll be impressed.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ultraviolet Thunder:
I am finally able to have blood drawn without passing out, although I’m not saying I like it.
I always hate the vaccination threads and flu season and all, because the articles and tv reports invariably show close-ups of needles and syringes. And with that, I have to go lie down for a while, just the thought…..
Betsy
@K488: ftw!
SiubhanDuinne
@Ohio Mom:
Okay, thanks. In one comment, you’ve managed to trigger both my needle phobia and my gag reflex.
Pleasant Saturday night, I don’t think.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: So Selzer’s 2008 poll had Obama 32, Clinton 25, Edwards 24, Richardson 6. So that was 13 percent undecided. I guess that’s par for the course
Robert Sneddon
@Ohio Mom: Two words. Cervical piercing.
Corner Stone
@efgoldman: Exactly. She doesn’t count in my rigorously scientific research.
quakerinabasement
Forget tattoo removal. My money’s in Brawndo.
The Raven
’twas the night before sign-up…and the system has crashed.
Estimated restoration time now 2am Sunday. Washington Health Plan Finder’s customer service line reportedly will be open from 10am Sunday until midnight.
tybee
@K488:
perfect. thanks.
Ohio Mom
@SiubhanDuinne: sorry.
Ohio Mom
@Robert Sneddon: What is the matter with these people?
redshirt
How soon we forget Romney 2012 face tattoo guy.
And yeah, unless you are a:
1. World War 2 Naval vet with an anchor tattoo
2. A bike gang member or
3. A criminal
Don’t get a tattoo. If you feel the need, get that henna stuff first.
Woodrowfan
I got a fake but realistic-looking tattoo once on a business trip. Didn’t tell my wife and she didn’t see it until I started to undress. She was very calm, but revealed when I started laughing and told her it was temporary.,
One of these days I’ll get one. Maybe one of Clio.
James E Powell
So, people outside of Iowa, are we truly stoked for the caucuses?