theres no way i'm the ONLY person whose first thought upon seeing this thread and clicking on it, was: somebody's getting a tattoo that has to do with opiates! i wonder what it'll be!
for that brief one second between the click and page load, i had fleeting thoughts of "maybe theyre getting a tattoo of a rig at the crook of their arm!" and "or maybe theyre getting a tattoo of the veins map!"
yeah, i realized after having those thoughts that the thread title did NOT mean what i first thought it did, but thats all i could think about reading it through yesterday, and now, seeing it again when i look thru OD, i'm imagining weird heroin-culture tattoos.
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on a slightly more relevant note, i got the tattoo on my forearm (my only tattoo at this point.. i keep spending my money that i think to start saving for another one i've been meaning to get for bout 10 years on dope, idiot that i am) during a brief time period when i had stopped taking opiates or benzos, and was only smoking weed, drinking and doing hallucinogens. no way was i goin in tripping, and everybodys heard that alcohol thins your blood... so i went in stoned as fuck, smoked a joint after about an hour and a half (what we initially thought of as the halfway point...), and then went home and smoked a joint another 2 1/2 hours after THAT. i cant imagine the weed helped or hurt, i was smoking a lotta weed during that time in my life, so i think it was just commonplace for me to smoke pretty much from the time i got off work to the time i went to bed.
anyway, i always tell people getting a tattoo kinda feels like youre scraping yourself with a piece of glass, or something sharp. it doesnt really HURT, but its not really comfortable either.
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i also wanna add that in balance to the poster with the christian tattoos, my tattoo is of a tarot card. take THAT christianity!!! bitches!!