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Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek?
An anonymous reader writes "I've been thinking of getting a sleeve of math and science tattoos for quite a while now. With the money saved up, the only question remaining is, what equations/ideas should I get? I know for certain that I'm going to include some of Maxwell's equations, and definitely Ohm's Law. So, if you were going to put a tribute to the great math and science minds on your body forever, which ones would you choose?"
I don't get it. Why would you want to do this? Is it to be able to cheat at physics exam?
If doing this prevented a person from ever reproducing would it qualify?
Well, compared to loved-ones name, tramp mark, tribal nonsense and game character tatoos, this is kind of sane and possibly everlasting.
Still tasteless, mark of sub-average intellect and generally lame, but it is the one least likely to be source of regret.
-- Technology for the sake of technology is as pathetic as eschewing technology because it's technology.
Like an idea, or symbol, or picture a lot? Get a fucking t-shirt of it. This has the advantage of getting the cheap laugh at the party, but you can also walk home with your dignity relatively intact. It takes a remarkably low level of self-respect to devalue yourself by attaching the whole of your existence to a few cheap symbols.
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Remember how this "science" stuff is viewed with derision by the American Taliban.
If the arch-conservatives come back into power, they may make you cut off your arm so you don't spread "science" to our childrens!
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I'll have use the anti-pedantic defense....
Bile? I was just making an observation in somewhat colorful terms. And it annoys me when people justify fads.
When I show up in a suit, you don't see any ink. My eyebrow piercing is long gone, and nobody seems to even notice my earrings anymore. By choice, I don't have anything more extreme that is visible to anybody unless I want it to be.
So, you are ashamed of some of your tattoos.
Check and mate.
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The "no visible tattoo" policy is the antithesis of the 1st Amendment.
Stop giving corporations more power than the government has.
Thousands of years ago people lived to the ripe old age of 30, while some societies enjoyed public debate and indoor plumbing other societies were scarring themselves and turning their skin blue.
I would say more than 40% of Gen-X'ers already look very dated and more than a little creepy. You know what's worse than seeing a kid with a lot of body modification? Seeing some crusty 45 year old with face-shrapnel and faded, stretched tatts.
Some stuff isn't too bad, but it's still like looking at someone who voluntarily grafted bell bottoms to their legs...
Anyone who would mark their body for life needs to have their head examined. The subject matter really doesn't matter. All tattoo's look like hell especially over time.
One of the worst things you can do for a tattoo is ask what other people think you should get.
The worst thing you can do for a tattoo is get one in the first place.
Tattoo's are suppose to be for life.
Tattoo's WHAT are supposed to be for life? Thank you for embedding my stereotype of people with tattoos being stupid. The only two who make me realise that not everybody with tattoos is stupid is my dad and my daughter; my dad has a big dragon on his wrist and my daughter has musical notation all over her. Neither of them are stupid, so I can't help but wonder why the hell they have tattoos?
The only reason anybody wants tattoos is because everybody else has them, and that's the dumbest reason to do anyhing.
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