Beckham's Tattoo

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What do you think of it and more importantly, what do you think of some of the opinions expressed on it here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3738305.stm.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 22 May 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

of course I should've said latest tattoo althought this is the most prominent, at least until he grows his hair again.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 22 May 2004 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

beckham = handsome

beckham's tatoo = ugly

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 22 May 2004 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

it is indeed a terribly executed tattoo. There are numerous tattoo atrists on Oxford's Cowley Road who could (and would)'ve done a better job and they're quite possibly creasing up and pointing at the picture of it in hysterics as I type. But the oddest thing is the fact that it has been deemed controversial. Not that controversial is a term we are not used to seeing of course - it is honey to the bee as far as newspaper sales are concerned. It is just that it is difficult to see how anyone could make a connection between having a tattoo done with the best of intentions which is not a hateful image - the complete opposite in fact - and promoting hooliganism. But hey, in some respects I need to defer to those who really know and love their football...Markelby, Dave B and Cabbage for example, for proper input on this I suppose.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 22 May 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

BECKHAM REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Saturday, 22 May 2004 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

It looks like biro.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 22 May 2004 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Am I right in thinking that the tattoo will "calm down" in time? It looks very full on, like the lines are too thick and uneven.

As for the relationship between tattoos, football and hooliganism - perhaps if lots of non-hoolies get visible tats like Dave's, then tattoos will gradually LOSE their association with violence. But it's a silly idea, I think.

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 22 May 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

in that not-so-good picture that tattoo looks like it's still healing (possibly scabbing).

Are tattoos really that big of a deal there? I can't imagine a sports star here being called a biker b/c of his tats (or even that name being given much of a negative connotation)

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Saturday, 22 May 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but Beckham is accepted as a role model - a role model doing something that they fear and don't understand is bound to get a knee jerk reaction from stupid people.

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 22 May 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

So that's why he was still a role model post-Rebecca and pre-tattoo, I guess.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Saturday, 22 May 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

ummm, what's a yob?

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 22 May 2004 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

and is Beckham that one famous soccer player?

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 22 May 2004 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

it's odd that this is his ninth tattoo but the first one that has been taken agin, the idea that arm, leg and torso tats are fine but as soon as it gets to the neck it's like "how can he!!!!"

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Sunday, 23 May 2004 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

wait 'til he gets one on his face like Tyson or him out of Star Trek Voyager.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 23 May 2004 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

he needs to get one of those Bajoran V-wrinkled nose jobs

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 24 May 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm more interested by the way the bbc website seems to have scanned in a chunk of the daily mirror. can't they get their own pictures? or is it more of an attempt to seem above this stuff, by reporting that other people are getting upset by it?

(i don't like tattoos btw. it's probably the permanence)

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 24 May 2004 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmm, wouldn't want one myself on account of the permenance but don't mind them on other people, if they're good, which this one isn't.

The funny thing about the BBC story is not the story itself, but the responses to it. Whilst the general demographic of ppl who post comments on websites prolly doesn't overlap much with the demographic of those who send comments to Points of View, most of the comments on that webpage suggest that, well, they are the SAME PEOPLE...I'm even imagining the bbc voiceover ppl in my head as I read them!

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 24 May 2004 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

It makes me sick that people take an interest in things like this when people are being killed in Baghdad, soldiers being shot at, and children being bombed.
Lewis, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear

I was reminded of this comment when listening to the Today programme this morning on Radio 4 when they had a report on the Chelsea Flower Show - maybe I should make the same comment on the BBC's Chelsea Flower Show webpage (I'm sure there must be one)...i.e. that I thought that it was SICK that people took and interest in trivial things like FLOWERS when people are being killed in Baghdad, soldiers being shot at, and children being bombed!

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 24 May 2004 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

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