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Oh no, the kids names will not be in this, that is later, I want to get their names included in a later piece. I really would like to get something truly original designed around a time theme with the names of my kids mixed in, but I will have to see how that works out. I actually like the scythe, it has a worn, used look that gives the image more depth to me. You have a good point about the wings, I am torn on them actually. If the idea is the "angel of death" then the wings sort of fit in but if not then maybe it is better to eliminate them, the lady doing it says she can easily do it either way. Ali is pretty artsy, maybe she will offer her opinion, I would like to see what she thinks on it. If any of you guys see anything else that is cool on a reaper/time theme please let me know.

Amp Energy Drink's iPhone App Gets Anger Flowing - WSJ.com So how about it? Good idea, bad idea?

The problem is she is selling out principles for what? To get elected again from a moderate area? Why should we keep caving into the pressures of the socialist agenda? I truly believe that most of the Republican downfall in the elections were not because the masses liked the socialist direction the Democrats represent but instead to move away from a party that has lost it's vision. If you really believe you want less Government control over the lives of Americans, there is no way you can vote for something like this.

Good advise eddo, I am taking the time to really consider everything. Not knowing what a foreign word means would be funny as hell if the tat artist wanted to screw with you, could you imagine that? I like the reaper because it is a symbol of all things ending, the reaper is not evil or good, he is just part of the process where we all find an end one day. I had an houglass painted on my bike with the words "No matter how hard you try, you can't beat time". I use this saying on many forums as my sig and it is the motivation behind my screen name where time gets the last laugh on all of us. ?We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.? ~ Chuck Palahniuk"

She is playing around with some time/clocks/hourglass ideas for me including the names of my children too. I will be much more selective of anything with their names included so that will most likely be a second or third tat. This will be my first so I want it to be pretty awsome, but the tat is not my only consideration......placement is a source of a lot of thinking too. My arms are pretty big so I have room to do this on my upper arm/shoulder but my chest and my back, one shoulder blade, are also being discussed, I think I am leaning to my upper arm though. PS- Hey Joe, your a cop so you have most likely been through some of the same training I have, what would you rate the pain of getting a tattoo to be? I can usually block out most of the pain I get from DT like wrist locks and such and even the trainers course for ERD's was not too bad till I had to ride the belt, but the pepper mace certification, now that had me on my knees, they made me hold my eyes open while they sprayed the mace directly into them, I was a big baby on that one, lol.

Well after all these years of saying art belongs on walls and such I am starting to think I would like to get a tattoo. When I was younger my biggest problem with tattoos was how crappy they looked on people when they got old, all blurry and distorted. Now that I am 44 I am thinking I should not live long enough for it to look that bad, lol. Anyway my hog buddies have been giveing me trash for never getting any ink so I am finally going to give it a shot but being me, I can't just get anything so I am asking for you guys to give me some ideas. I have been drawn to a lot of tribal patterns, but when considering an actual subject or object I keep comming back to the idea of the reaper. The girl I am going to use has been doing this stuff for over 20 years and several of my friends have been done by her and I like the way their work looks. So I showed her this picture: [attach=full]2583[/attach] And she says she can use this as a pattern but she has some ideas to insert a little color here and there and some small shanges for more detail. Ideas? Comments?

I am offering my opinion, I thought you were asking for each of us to offer our opinions on this idea and how people will react? In my opinion this is an unhealthy idea on a mental level because we are humans, not computers where you set the varible and it will always be exactly the same. People change, hell I have not met a woman yet who was the same every day on all things, just because two people may agree to this in the beginning, that is not a gurantee they will find this acceptable forever and the one who changes their mind first will be facing the other with "Well you agreed before we started this, why are you changing your mind now?". Your entitled to your idea of love, again I am offering my view of love from my life. No insult but you have mentioned having many problems in that department so maybe you have never known the kind of deep love I feel? There are certainly different "levels" (whatever you want to call it) of love and the love I feel for Tami for example is something where I could never share myself with anyone else, and I certainly do not want her sharing herself with anyone else...... To me sex is like a secret, the more people you share it with, the more worthless it becomes. Let me just say that I hope my significant other sees me as something more than a dog in heat. Again, you were asking for our opinions and in my opinion based on my understanding of the kind of deep and exclusive love I have for Tami there is no possible way I could consider recreational sex with strangers as part of our relationship. The best things in life are not easy. Or maybe people are mistaking lust for love? Maybe basing a relationship on sex instead of love has it's long term problems? Well, certainly everything can be reduced to possible harm but my point is why go out of your way to do something that has so many possibilities of failure? You know, play the odds a little? My point about breaking condoms and other diseases condoms cannot prevent is why take a chance of bringing home a disease to someone you love? Is a moment of "free sex" with a stranger really worth taking a disease home to your loved ones? I know, I am not EM but I had to comment: I think your selling yourself too short Ali. Me and you have had a lot of issues but I refuse to believe you cannot find someone who can be loyal to you. Maybe you need to look in different places? Give "not looking" a chance, when I met Tami I had no intention of ever being in a serious relationship again and sex between us did not happen for a very long time. Anything worth having is worth the wait. Anything you get for free is worth the price.

I was meaning on a mental level Ali. Insecurity blossoms easily and without logic many times. Even though two people may say they are okay with this kind of thing, ther must be thoughts, there must be doubts, I just can't see a relationship based on the ability to sleep around as being healthy if there is love involved. Sure, if all you see as marriage is a non-committed partnership then maybe I can see people being able to let their partner sleep around without it bothering them but love.....No, I can't. Either I am the only one for my mate or I'm not, if my mate feels the need to sleep around, then she cannot love me, not really. I do not agree, the person must be feeling a lack of something to go looking for it, why look for a thing you already have? This is why I do not think this kind of relationship is possible where real love is involved because if you truly love someone why would you want them sleeping around with other people? As I said before, there are many ways to get a disease that a condom cannot help you with and what if the condom breaks? They do break sometimes. There would always be the risk of taking disease home to your partner if you slept around with other people......The risks are just too large to take in my opinion. PS- Oh, if the condom breaks, and a child is created.....then what? This all sounds a lot like Russian Roulette to me, keep pulling the trigger until something bad happens......not for me.

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So you have a little extra cheese on the taco? I love that movie, lol.

This is so funny, many, many years ago there was a lot of commercials about the 'stick up' air freshener, the motto was "This is a good place for a stick up". So one day I was discussing things with "the man in the boat" (I am sure you all know what I mean) and I said very loudly "this is a good place for a stick up" playing around, well needless to say this was not received as the joke I intended, lol.

Exactly, if your needing more than what you have, then your not in a committed relationship. Of course both people would be curious and after some time had passed wondering would lead to worry. Imagine right after the "event" one partner seems detached or not as interested in sex as they were before (even if it is just in the person's mind) and suddenly there is a lot of resentment growing......I just can't see it as possible if there is real love to exist in the realationship. I hear that, I agree that time away from each other can be very rewarding, but time away from one relationship just to sleep around is something that I can't see as healthy. Besides, there are a lot of ways to catch disease that a condom does not help with. You can say that again, I want the woman in my life to be the same for me too, a realtionship is more than the sex, if you have real feelings for each other, sex is the expression of those feelings. When your having sex with whoever you can find, your simply not in love. Why would anyone who is in love want to sleep around? Maybe they are not really in love?

Ali, just curious, this sounds very familure, is this the same girl you talked about before at the Jungle about a year ago? She was having issues with him kicking her out then too right? They spent some time apart and she got back together with him after that? Correct me if I am wrong...........

Thanks em, he was a good person, tough to see the good ones go when the bad ones linger, maybe that should tell us something? We did have a good time and I am very thankful for having known him for most of my life as my friend. I have always said one good reiend is worth thouseands of fake friends, and he was certainly the definition of that concept for me. This all reminded me of what is important in life.

First you say your not going to respond........then you respond anyway, just incredible, lol. I tell you what, I had to giggle on that one, lol. As far as your dramatic comments about being a terrible person, what was that for? Either you were trying to start crap or you were not, all that other stuff is irrelivant and is just an attempt to direct attention away from that fact that you were being an instigator........ I will try very hard to try and let the past drop, I would appreciate your help by doing the same, I already said please, what more do you want?

With all this talk about performance I just want to add that it also matters what your going to be doing with the computer. If all you need is an email machine then anything is fine, get the cheapest thing you can find and be happy. The performance issues only come in when doing either lots of things at the same time or one of a few really big things. My friend was editing and creating movies from his video camera and wanted a new computer thinking it would process the movies faster.....he was wrong. Sure the new machine had much faster parts but those faster parts were being slowed down by the anchor called Vista, once we stripped Vista off his computer he was able to get the greater performance he was looking for.....he is very happy now.

You either love each other and in a committed relationship or not, there really is no grey area in something like this in my opinion.

So let's say I do for the sake of arguement........why are you doing it? Two wrongs make a right? You think it is okay to justify your own bad behaviors by claiming I behaved badly at some other time and place in the past so your justified to act poorly now? You know part of my trip was about me trying to let go of some of the crap even from places like this, I determined that I will not say anything negative (unless joking) about anyone unless they start with me first letting the old crap go so please just do the same and leave me alone if you can't say something nice. Please. Well eddo, you can pretend all you want but I know it is the deep blue of my eyes you find the most attractive.....no I know you can never openly admit it, but my blue eyes have trapped more than just your attention

There always has to be someone who can't resist draggin in the dirty laundry, lol. Yes, eddo said something that was nice, but to be completely accurate, he was not speaking "about" me but instead was offering me well wishes.......so he still has never said anything nice 'about' me.....so there, lol It's all good, I just wish I could share something like this without people having to go there.

In almost every state this is all that really matters to the courts. Unless he can show the home has been in his family for several generations of something like that, he will lose the house, the best car, and even part of his disability check because to the courts, taking care of the child is first. Being as he will not have much to live on once the divorce hits we can assume he will have to move in with his family or be in a shelter because there is no way he will be able to afford to pay rent and utilities on 50% or less of his disability check. Your right Ali, he is a scumbag even if his wife was a monster because he put his daughters out too but tell her to hang in there, the guy will have 16 years of living like a refugee to pay for his mistakes.

A friend of mine purchased a new Vista machine to replace his two year old XP machine. Even brand new he was concerned because it seemed to be "slower" than his old machine so he brought both machines to me and we benchmarked both with several programs I have and guess what, the two year old machine was almost equal and even better than many areas of the new machine, so being as I have several XP keys I wiped his machine and installed XP pro on this Vista machine. New benchmarks showed a 19% overall increase in performance...........Vista is garbage in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, I also have some friends who were involved in the beta that say Windows 7 is way, way better than Vista but I still say it is better to let it come out for awile and see what people are saying about it in 6 months before I even consider giving it a chance.

Thanks, that was really the point, to step back and both contemplate the life/death reality and to get back to what can make life great. Our friend worked a lot but still tried to spend time with his family, juggling these things sometimes ends up leaving your family on the short end of the stick....... This man never smoked, rarely drank, and was even close to his ideal weight and still he falls dead with a heart attack. This just points out that there are no gurantees in life, you can do everything right and drop dead at 30 and do everything wrong and live to be 102. Death comes to us all, will we be able to say we are proud of the life we lived?

There is almost always fault on both sides of the issue, but he should have at the least made sure they had somewhere to go or gotten them an appartment or something. He knew he did not want to be with her long before this happened so he should have taken steps to at least be sure the kids were taken care of. I am assuming the kids are his kids and if so, I have never known a Judge that would let something like that go without some serious penalty. He will most likely end up on the street himself, maybe he already knows that and is trying to do it to her before it happens to him......some people are just crazy but he has to know that the Judge will rip him apart.

Thank you both.

But if we object to paying an extra $1700 a year in insurance premiums every year then we must be racist...............