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[Graeme1988]

My 100th forum post Cheers to you Scottish lad.

Yasss!!

I don't always understand what you're talking about but I like following your posts because of your sense o' humor.

Ah know, the accent's a right b@$*@%¿ it times, like. Even ah huv difficult understanding it.

But I'm glad ye appreciate ma sense o' humour. It's rare to find folk who aren't easily offended by darker, ironic, humour these days, especially in the shitehole town where ah live. But, that's another topic n' rant, which I'll elaborate on soon. When I continue that post ah started about how 2016 went for me.

 

[Graeme1988]

Well, here's how ma weekend went... Or Saturday, at least.

Had to get up early as me, my mum, oldest sister and her boyfriend had travel up to Glasgow. My sister wus driving us there. Traffic wus hellish, and ah hud to keep ma gob shut at my mum bemoaning how her life wus just endless bad luck. Because ah nearly perked up n' telt she wus talkin' shite.

Though, aye, to be fair, she has had a hard life - left school with nowt to show for it, like ah did. A trilogy of abusive marriages, which produced me and ma 2 older half-sisters. Raising them on her own - nearly said single-handedly there. But she hud use of both of her arms... Sod it, I'm no changing that joke.

Doing a better job with 2 oldest sisters than the only son (me). Well, y'know, ye cannae raise a boy using feminist logic if ye want him to be a man. Sorry, but it can't be done.

So ma mum's life is endless bad luck... C'mon! Ah think she might be playing the victim a bit much there, like. Ah mean, technically, I've got it harder being the spastic, bi-racial c*nt in the wheelchair, no? And who's always told he knows more than the wummin who raised. Which is only 50% percent true. But only because ah seek out the answers to my questions else where.

Still, it doesnae excuse ma mum giving me this gesture whenever I ask her for advice... :idontknow: Whit da f**k's that for answer, eh? A failure in parenting tae say the least. Anyway, here's a review for the show we went to see, and cried with laughter at throughout.

Still Game Live 2 is a big, bold and ambitious return to the stage from Jack and Victor - Daily Record

And here's the incident that happened during the matinee performance we attend. Obviously in the foyer of the arena venue, since the performance didnae stop so that this fight could be handled by security staff.

Police called in after fight breaks out in the crowd at Still Game Live 2 - Daily Record

Typical f**kin' Glasgow. One pint too manyand the c*nts start battering each other. :bigsmile:

 

[Graeme1988]

Got my arms shaved for that tattoo I'm having done this Thursday. Ah thought, better to shave both arms, eh? It'd look stupid if ah walked intae the tattoo parlour - yin shaved arm and the other hairy.

Nervous as f**k about it, like. Since I've just been telt story to put me off getting it. But ma pain threshold's pretty high.

My sister telt me to wear a cool t-shirt but - and I don't what your definition of "cool"? - contrary to what ye might think, I'm not cool in the least. Seriously... Am no! mg:

 

[MollyBeGood]

It is great that you are still posting here!

LOL at the one shaved arm

I bet your more excited than nervous. I know for me I can get the two emotions mixed up and it can be confusing as they both seem the same to me a lot of the times.

 

[Graeme1988]

It is great that you are still posting here!

Well, ah try to still make time for posting here, if I'm not too busy, either, doing something that I've been avoiding, or trying to figure out how to work the recording software on my laptop by myself.

And, 9 times outta 10, I'm always trying to figure summit out. Which can be mair than a wee stressful, no huvin an actual person tae keep ye right. Always huvin to rely upon yersel'. Too feart to ask for help, in case ye end up lookin' or feelin' stupid. mg:

Plus, naebuddy else understands me, as far as my struggles with anxiety n' depression go.

LOL at the one shaved arm

I bet your more excited than nervous. I know for me I can get the two emotions mixed up and it can be confusing as they both seem the same to me a lot of the times.

Aye, yer probably right. It's more likely to be excitement than nervous. I guess for me it's hard to distinguish them, also. Since I grew up with my mum constantly worrying about me, more than she should - and still does.

Don't get more, like, I'm excited about this tattoo, since I've had it planned for over a year. I'd mentioned getting one, in passing while still laid up in my hospital bed, as a wee well done to myself for getting my orthopedic surgery.

Not so thrilled about the possible react of ma mum, since she's been surprisingly calm about it so far. And, normally, she's the first to voice disapproval of me doing something like this. As for my older sister - the middle child, she'll be like...

"Oh... my God! Yer joking, right? What, he actually did it? Whit possesed him tae dae that?! Like, why?! Fur f**k sake! Does mum know, what did she huv tae say?"​

I'm paraphrasing, like, but that was almost exactly what she said to my oldest sister over the phone, after she took a photo of my newly bald head.

 

[Graeme1988]

Right, so, there's still an argument as to whether or not I'll likely get that slightly raised mole removed from my inner left forearm, and ah dinnae feel like forcing the issue. Since it'll just another row.

I'm also reconsidering the placement of a song lyric tattoo that ah want done at some point. Plus I've just thought of another lyric tattoo that ah want on the inner bicep - which arm? I'm undecided about at the moment.

And, would it be a good or bad idea getting a tattoo to cover up some noticeable but not deep self harm scars? :question:

 

[Graeme1988]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AQafwx3h7A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXs3pKG11Wg

 

[Graeme1988]

Ten of the best quotes from Scottish comedians - The Scotsman

 

[Graeme1988]

Cannae beat bit o' Billy Connolly tae put ye in a better mood. :bigsmile:​

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ovunw_vQl0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WgXPBDrd8s

 

[Graeme1988]

Why does the burden of responsibility always fall on me? :sad:

I'm the person who got to make sure promises are kept.
Remind those around if there's something important that they mustn't forget to do. Because their memories are going to shit. As is mine, but who cares, I'm a man, we're just supposed to through life complaining about as little as possible.

And I've got to making up for the perpetual f**kin' laziness and procrastination, which seems to an exclusively female trait within my family. More so with my mum, who complains about how she's out of shape and can't seem to lose weight. Yet, spends much of her day lying on the living room couch, watching the telly. And I'm obligated to motivate her everyday? Imagine that if ye dare...

Makes me kinda glad that quite similar to my dad and one of my uncles, in that, neither me or them find any joy in just sitting about all day. Getting sick of having to care for my mum's well-being, when she's unwilling to put in the effort. Not much I can do, if she refuses to let me help or help herself. :idontknow:

Just keeping living in denial, til her health issues worsen to the point of being beyond fixing.
At least, that how she'd prefer it. And I refuse to blame for that, since I'm always telling her where improvements need to be made.

But does she listen to me? Does she f**k! Me n' the oldest sibling are pushed aside whenever we try to help, in favour o' our mum's favourite - the middle child. :thumbdown:

Yet, for some reason, I'm the yin who ma mum couldnae live without.

 

[Graeme1988]

Has yer mum okay about you gettin tats then?? Or are ye doin it despite her rules? :question:

Well, it turns oot that ah wus wrong to assume that my mum's silence and indifference on the matter was a sign that she wus'nae bothered aboot me getting the tattoo done.

My oldest sister just mentioned it to her, cuz I getting it done tomorrow. And she's f**kin' raging. :veryangry:

"Oh, if ye were meant tae huv tattoos, you'd huv been born wae them. Same with piercings anaw. Bloody waste o' money, if ye ask me"​

^ This is, verbatim, what my oldest sister wus telt upon getting her first tattoo years ago.

Ma oldest sister's quite surprised that I'm no nervous. If only she knew what's gan oan in ma heid, at thought of getting this first tat.

 

[Graeme1988]

Why me, eh? Never allowed to do the things that make me happy. Yet the rest of my family are free to do as they please. I'm to do as I'm told. And always being nice n' so polite aw tha f**kin' time.

And I've got to put with a level eccentricity, which should, by all accounts, huv ye sectioned under the mental health act. Though, years of that can prove useful in that ye kinda understand why divorce, murder and suicide occur.

But somehow it's me who's the joke, because of how I carry myself n' that. Being all sensible, stoic n' monotonous voiced to the point where folk often mistake me for being rude or sarcastic.

I'd love, just once, to tell my family to f**k off whenever one of them goes: "Say hiya, then. Whit, ye no talkin', eh?"

Sorry, ah don't mean to sound self-pitying. It just difficult huvin tae constantly fight to get things your way, when people refuse to accept that yer not someone who bows to pressure or emotional manipulation, like I once used to.

 

[Graeme1988]

Anyway, once I get ma first tattoo done the morra, I'll get back to the story of how my orthopedic surgery went. :thumbup:

Wish me luck, cuz my mum's probably going give me helluva grief for it. Since she doesnae when I assert or do summit for myself. As will the rest of my family, no doubt. h:

 

[Graeme1988]

Well, ah've gone n' done it. Inner right forearm. The fella doing it said it wus a brave choice for a first tattoo. :bigsmile:
£60 pounds, as an early birthday present from my oldest sister.

Once the healing process is done, I take a photo of it.

Though, the funniest bit wus introducing me to the fella. sSnce my sister's known the guy for years. She goes this...

"This is Graeme, ma wee brother". Tag - this gray-bearded fella with a bandana - does a double-take.
"Yer wee brother? The size o' him!"

I thought was gonnae pass oot, inititally when the prep was going on. But it wus fine. Nipped a wee bit doing the outline. But by the time, my oldest sister returned, I was sitting there watching some shading being done, since it wus a last minute suggestion.

Has yer mum okay about you gettin tats then?? Or are ye doin it despite her rules? :question:

Oh Christ, from what ma sister wus telling me, after she left, cuz it too an hour. Well, our mum's was in bit, worrying. She nearly fainted when ah walk intae the hoose and took ma jacket off.

"Oh Gawd almighty! First it wus bloody piercing... Now it's tattoos"​

She wus'nae too happy when I sarcastic said I've become addicted. And she wus nearly raging mad whem my sister told her that I've already got ma next one more or less "booked".

 

[Graeme1988]

But aye, we just yapped about music, mostly. He asked about me playing the guitar. And he told me about the bands he went and saw in his younger days. About the time when his mate wanted him to be a singer in this punk band. As well as failed attempts to take up an instrument due to not being that musically inclined, in terms of knowing how to read music.

And we agreed that the 80s was arguably the best decade when it came to great music being made. Because it didnae all sound the same, lke it does now. And, like me, he doesnae get out to many concerts, because the atmosphere at gigs is shite these days.

 

[Graeme1988]

Time to re-watch this documentary. Not for research purposes, just makes masel' more aware of the perceptions folk huv o' tattoos. Since this film help me weight up the good n' the bad o' getting tattooed in terms of reasons for having them. Didnae pay much attention to how tattoos are perceived. :bigsmile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LYPHg7W8FA

 

[Graeme1988]

Ah know, I said I'd post a photo when it wus healed up, but my oldest sister insisted upon taken a few photos on her phone. Huv a swatch o' this beauty...

That shading was a last minute addition, at Tag's suggestion. Done after the rest of it wus done.
Hurt like a b@$*@%¿ - but it wus the only really painful bit for me, really.

Still in a state o' shock, lke... Ah f**kin' sat n' watched it being done. Well, ah hud tae - given the placement o' it. Duh! h: This from a guy who just aboot fainted at having to give blood during my pre-surgery medical exam.

 

[Hot_Tamale]

This might sound like a stupid question, but what is it a picture of?
Now I'm curious to know what the rest of you looks like, your face and everything lol...its a cool tattoo, very well done.

 

[Graeme1988]

This might sound like a stupid question, but what is it a picture of?

Naw, that's no a stupid question. It's an Aries star sign - the goat/ram's head. But done in the style of a tribal tattoo.

Now I'm curious to know what the rest of you looks like, your face and everything lol...

Well, there's a few photos of my ugly mug in a photo album, which I uploaded to my profile here, a few years ago. Before I decided to for the bald head n' beard look. But, if ye must know, I'm a tall, chubby, hairy, permanently tanned, bi-racial Scottish fella.

...its a cool tattoo, very well done.

Thanks, it just took about an over hour. :thumbup: Though it took a wee moment to get the placement correct so it was straight. Other that that, nowhere near as painful as my family were saying it would be, or trying scare me into believing. I was actually more worried about how my mum would react, since where I live and grew up is quite an uptight, rural, wee town.

But then, when ye indure the amount of physical pain I have in the last year, getting a tattoo is nothing. :bigsmile:

 

[PugofCrydee]

Yea the pain endured from tattooing can vary from person to person, but there are definitely places which are more painful than others. My arm and shoulder wasn't painful, but my kidney areas were excruciatingly painful.

I have no tatts on my feet but I have heard from many ppl that it's high on the pain Richter scale, along with the stomach and rib areas.

Anyways, cool tatt