o sung wu,

The Southport Magistrates Court sees plenty of bikies with their face and neck tatts.

It is de rigueur for them to top it off with designer casual ensemble (Asian knock-offs) and those dark sunglasses with the over-large logos that the thirty-something ducks, pretentious 'wanna-bes', used to wear years ago.

Hi (again) FOXY...

I believe I know the design to which you refer, and it's a small, quite tasteful little butterfly, of about an inch, to an inch and a half long, and proportionally wide ? And I reckon it looks quite nice on a lady.

Speaking of coffee shops, a place where I was a regular sometime back, there was this 'stick thin' but pretty young twenty something young girl working there. She had her complete left arm and forearm tattooed with a huge scroll like affair with many colours displayed thereon. She made no attempt to cover or conceal it. I wondered what will she do when she's a mother or grandmother ?

It was not my place nor business to pass a comment, but she has completely spoilt her femininity with this hideous tattoo, mind you it's only my opinion FOXY ? To me though, it looked absolutely grotesque, and completely detracted from any of her normal attractive features, she may've otherwise possessed !

As one's attention was spontaneously and involuntarily drawn to her left arm and forearm ! You couldn't be otherwise drawn. Any other of her more appealing features, were totally overshadowed by this awful portrayal of this massive, almost impenetrable and bewildering tattoo ?

Dear O Sung Wu,

I totally agree with your take on this subject.
One has to be careful about what one decides to
do when young. My son wanted my tattoo to be on my
lower back. Because at that time I used to wear
evening dresses that plunged down the back.
But I told him - "No way." On my ankle is about as
adventureous as I was prepared to go. And most of the
time the tattoo is covered up with my harem pants and
long jeans as well as full-length high-heeled boots.

Tattoos are an interesting subject. And Googling their
history is very revealing. Especially their connection
with criminals and crime. I also did not realise just
how old they were in time.

Google it for yourself. It makes for quite absorbing
reading.

The things one can learn on this Forum.
Great stuff!

Dear O Sung Wu,

The following two websites are quite interesting:

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tattooing

2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_tattoo

See you on another discussion.

Hi again ONTHEBEACH...

When it comes right down to it, most of these bikie hoodlums are just wannabe's as you quite rightly opined ! Individually most of 'em are simply nothing, collectively they can and are quite representative of a more dangerous group with some true malevolence. It's their communal category that renders them quite hazardous in which to handle. A former colleague of mine was made OIC of the 1%'s Task Force. The last I heard he was being tired up in mountains of litigation, with defining - 'powers' of police ?

As an example; powers of entry, powers of seizure, powers of search; etc., etc., etc. All of which have been adequately defined in statute for years, yet these people have the money and resources to brief high priced legal counsel to forever and a day, tie-up all these police in Court, on petty legal argument (on matters already determined), as I've stated herein, already adequately defined by statute !

My question still is, and will always be :- where exactly do these people get all the money and the resources they need, in order to brief these top legal counsels, to continually argue points of law, all the while they can go their own sweet way and do exactly as they please ?

My thrust in this type of investigation, if I were the appointed case officer, would always be to - follow the money, always follow the money, with these bikie, ne'er do wells ! Cripple their resources, you've crippled them and their cause.

A bit off topic, but what do others think of older men wearing a diamond earring.

Personally every time I see some old guy with a flashy earring, or worse two earrings, I see a sad wannabe.