Tramp stamp (From The Northern Echo)

Tramp stamp

6:01pm Wednesday 7th January 2009 in Reader Blogs By Lynn Briggs

I read an interesting article in the Daily Mail online, where the woman who wrote the thing, called a tattoo a "tramp stamp". That's so funny and very clever if I do say so myself. I've also heard this expression quite recently on an American TV show.

I've noticed many humans of the female persuasion here in delightful Darlo seem to have a tramp stamp. Oh, and I don't mean a teeny tiny tasteful little flower or a cute little fairy, I mean a huge tattoo of something or other proudly displayed on their forearm or splashed across their lower back.

Of course, if one has a lower back tattoo, one finds the need to wear a crop top in the middle of winter so everyone on earth can see it. Shades of Amy Winehouse, who looks like a drunken sailor with her body "art". She also has her loser husband's name on her chest. Such class!

I went to a pub here once where the barmaid had no teeth and had tats all up and down her arms. She had a cigarette hanging out of her face and totally reminded me of Popeye. What's my point? Dunno, but I never went back to that pub because she scared me.

Angelina Jolie has several "works of art", and one looks like a list of things she maybe has to remember or maybe groceries she needs to buy? (Oh pardon me, I just found out it's all her children's birthdates and the latitude and longitude of where they were born.) Whatever makes your boat float I guess.

My cousin who lives in the thriving industrial metropolis of Warren, Pennsylvania (population 10,000) recently showed me her tattoo which goes the whole way across the lower back. She told me it was her "50th birthday present to herself" and that it " really hurt a lot". Ouch. Think I would have bought myself a nice bottle of Grey Goose instead.

Bottom line here is I guess I like/don't mind a tattoo on a guy, but not on women and I guess I'm just too tired anymore to want to prove a point...good or bad. I'll stick to my eight earring holes in my ears and call it a day.