Inks for Irks Joe roganthon

@mbersiam I don’t know about cool but you’re one of us

@mbersiam Is fresh ink allowed?

@mbersiam @PyroVanquisher yep, for now.

@sammydog01 Am I the only one who actually got a new tat from that entire thread? I’m glad I did but I wasn’t the only one asking.

@mbersiam I think @remo28 got a tattoo at the last minute. But not a flask. GO TEAM FLASK! Because saying you’re a meth dealer is less embarrasing than admitting it’s a corporate logo.

@Jasongb
Happy 77th birthday to your dad!
/giphy happy birthday

@sammydog01 I think it’s either right above your knee, or on your lower back “love handle” area (but it doesn’t look like you actually have love handles)

@mbersiam Yes it’s one of those two.

@jlnelson8814 you’ll have to check with @chadp and @thumperchick.

@jlnelson8814 you’ve still got this afternoon, hurry! I don’t think I’ve seen many tattoo parlors open in the mornings, so I assume it’s got to be afternoon.

@ChadP @jlnelson8814 @RiotDemon @Thumperchick i believe the original post said anytime they sell an irk if you verify you still have it you get one. mehrathon or not

@ChadP @gr8mick1 @jlnelson8814 @Thumperchick they are talking about for new people. It isn’t open all the time for new people so if anyone else is wanting to get a tattoo to get free IRKs, they need to verify it is still open.

@remo28 if explaining your tattoos is a requirement there are a lot of artists who have heard some shit. I’d like to hear the NO REGERTS guy’s explanation. And Post Malone.

@djslack @remo28 They asked. I lied.

@remo28 @sammydog01 my artist asked but more in a conversation starting way than a test I needed to pass before she would proceed way. I told her that it was about science, experimentation, failure, imperfection, and also a symbol related to a community I’m part of. So I guess I did explain, but it didn’t feel like I was being tested.

I did omit that it was for a lifetime supply of mystery boxes. That part just seemed weird to explain.

I bet they hear some meaningful stories that way. And also maybe their share of “I lost a bet” as well.

@remo28 wait? Is it open again for enrollment?

@OnionSoup @remo28 It was. Today is probably the last day but you would have to check with the bosses.

So I already had the pirate fish. I just added meh to it with some speech bubbles. The wife of the tattoo artist was more interested in the meaning of the pirate fish (flying spaghetti monster reference) that I never said what the meh was about. It’s got the fake skin stuff covering it now. It will look cleaner once that comes off.

@thumperchick I already bought an irk this morning. So I don’t expect anything to change. I just wanted to make sure I shared the pic before the cut off closes. Since I saw the irk for sale I figured I’d try just in case something happened and I didn’t end up getting the tattoo tonight.

@remo28 @Thumperchick Cute!

@omegamonkey It would probably be a digital newspaper. I don’t know many people that get an actual paper anymore.

@omegamonkey @remo28 I did that the first couple of times but it was unwieldy.

@omegamonkey @remo28 we still get a physical newspaper

@j2 @omegamonkey @remo28 I have the ink all over my kitchen table to prove it.

@j2 @remo28 I’ve thought about at least getting a subscription for the weekend paper, but never pulled the trigger. I like reading on paper. When I do pick up a physical book to read, I’m like “Ahhh, my eyes, they feel better.”

@j2 @omegamonkey @remo28 My eyes feel better when I can make the print bigger.

@Stumpy91 Get a tat of Irk, the Mediocre Flask, or “meh”, post a picture with proof of the date during Mehrathons, and you’re granted an IRK.

@shahnm @Stumpy91 It’s not open all the time- please make sure to check before you get a tattoo.

I still feel like I should have gotten some kind of stupid badge for being the first one. Lol

@raptorgorawr are my eyes going bad or are your shoes mint green? (btw I love them. I have a pair of white ones but didn’t get the shell toes, despite meaning to)

@mbersiam Yup, they are Star Wars The Child (baby yoda) green.
https://www.adidas.com/us/star-wars-mandalorian-superstar-the-child-shoes/GZ2751.html

@f00l Points off for the crack being sideways. Other than that NICE TAT!

@sammydog01

Legally blind, and legally insane. It’s a constant burden. Esp while driving.

@f00l I knew a guy who had a tattoo he gave himself as a teen, using fountain-pen ink and a needle. Alcohol was probably involved too.

@Kyeh

My grandfather got his the original way

He was in the Navy he was in the South Pacific.

Anchors and US Navy insignia

That was pre WWI. Spanish American war

He ran away from home and lied about his age in order to get into the Navy I think it was 10 I know he wasn’t old enough to graduate from elementary school

I guess they weren’t too worried about background checks

@f00l TEN?!? Good gawd Did he have cool stories about it?

@Kyeh

He did have cool stories but he was quite old when I was just young

And he lived at some distance so I didn’t get to hear a lot of it and I was so young I didn’t really appreciate it

I wish I had not been stuck in my kid brain and it had the wisdom to appreciate how rare and wonderful those firsthand stories are

Instead I think I just thought of them as something from the past

@f00l I know what you mean.

@f00l @Kyeh i knew a guy that did that too. He actually tattooed himself in front of me with that thing

@f00l @mbersiam Yeesh. How did it look? My friend’s one looked pretty stupid.
I did pierce my own ears as a teen; that’s something I wouldn’t do again.

@chadp @thumperchick

It’s probably a good time for me to mention or even rant about epistemology and metaphysics and origins of language and the meaning of meaning and what is reality anyway and really is a crutch and a crutch is a form of reality

And all that great stuff. and throw in a little math and a little existentialism and a little ontological heuristics and what have you

I don’t have the energy to be properly long winded tonight

Ah well

/image all that is solid melts into air

/youtube Eurythmics would I lie to you

Happy April fools

From a @f00l

@ChadP @Thumperchick

I think my blind insane tattoo artist used inferior ink.

I heard some muttering about “free ballpoint pens at the bank“

Sigh

@ChadP @f00l @Thumperchick Or the magic marker is wearing off? Looks like it is warranty time with the tattoo person.

@Pony They said before the next mehrathon which was today.

@Pony

@thumperchick and @chadp are the people with the “say”, I think.
They haven’t spoken about whether the “get a tat, get an IRK” closes today for the time being, or is still available for a while. .
They did offer “thru today”.

The tat supposedly has to be some design officially from meh.

@sammydog01 I somehow totally missed that. Shit.

@ChadP @f00l @Thumperchick All I can do is hope they’ll let me slide. I have emphysema, diabetes and right now I am on meds that screw with my immune system as well. Hell, I was just in the hospital with a collapsed lung in February. I can’t be in close quarters with other humanoids until I’m fully vaccinated. Can I catch a break? Pretty please?

@ChadP @Pony @Thumperchick

It’s possible that even if they don’t extend “open tat/IRK enrollment” now, they might re-open it in the future.

@ChadP @f00l @Pony @Thumperchick I second the cause for letting you have an extension!

@ChadP @er1c @f00l @Thumperchick Aw, thanks.

@er1c @f00l @Pony
The ink for irks thing started on their birthday as sort of a joke. And when people actually got tattoos they made it a thing with a deadline. And a handful of people got tattoos.

Then for their next birthday (last July) they reopened it with a deadline. A few more people got tattoos.

Then you started begging month after month to get a tattoo and they finally said go ahead. With a deadline.

And your reponse was I can’t do it now.

So maybe wait until you can actually get a tattoo and then ask? Or wait until their birthday in July and see what happens?

@er1c @f00l @sammydog01 I was there when they first opened it on their 4th birthday. I couldn’t do it then because we were moving and I was broke. The next time it was open, none of the tattoo shops were open where I lived because of the pandemic. This time, I said I could do it once I was vaccinated, and I missed that there was a set deadline already. I could have gotten a tat in a couple of weeks. So what the fuck ever. I don’t need you lecturing me.

@er1c @f00l @Pony @sammydog01 on the off chance this ever gets reopened and anyone remembers can someone tag me please? Thanks… Missed it was open this time. Until too late.

Also, is it ok to get the tattoo on my butt? Obviously won’t show my butt crack on proof photos… But will meh accept butt cheek photos? I just think it would be funny to be able to say I get stuff sent to me in exchange for posting pictures of my butt online.

@OnionSoup

You don’t have to tell anybody where the tattoo is on your body if it’s not obvious where it is

; )

@f00l oh, I will… I most certainly will!

@f00l @OnionSoup Guess where mine is. (You may not want to study the photo too carefully.)

@f00l @OnionSoup @sammydog01 So of course now everyone goes back to study your photo carefully…

@Kyeh @OnionSoup @sammydog01

I’m planning to run the @sammydog01 tattoo photos thru as super image processor n order to extract the inherent and implied 3D info.

And all the other implied info.

: )

/giphy 3D

@f00l @Kyeh @sammydog01 need a.CSI style computer we.can say “enhance and expand” to.

@sammydog01 Why on earth are you dumping on @Pony? She has made clear all along what is going on with her and her constraints. Waiting to be vaccinated and then waiting the two weeks after the second shot before doing anything risky makes a heck of a lot of sense. Risking getting covid over a tattoo does not. Dumping on her because of that makes even less sense.

@Kidsandliz

Nothing @sammydog said justifies your comment.
I suspect @sammydog was simply expressing a common perception that the intensity of the begging was a bit off-putting.

I hope they do give pony a shot a the “ink for irks”, since she wants that.

@f00l And there is nothing @pony said that would justify @sammydog01’s comment, nor for that matter yours either.

@f00l @Kidsandliz @sammydog01 Can we just stop, please. I don’t need to see anymore arguing about how annoying I am. Okay? Kidsandliz, I appreciate you standing up for me, you’re a star. But lets all please just drop it?

@Thumperchick Thanks!

@Thumperchick i saw the email this morning. Thank you!!!

@Thumperchick Thank you!