Chuffy
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- On the banks of the Exe
Hmmm. I'd love a bike tat, but it's incredibly hard to come up with something original.just jim said:
Anybody got a tattoo and if so what
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col
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User76 said:Indeed, in fact I always make it quite clear that I was not in the Parachute Regiment, but that I was in the artillery regiment attached to the para brigade. Although, to be fair, I think most people pick that up quite quickly because I can hold a conversation without either trying to shag or kill the other person and I can read and write
Who cant read and write?
Just wonder why the wings instead of your own regiment?
Randochap
Senior hunter
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- British Columbia, Canada
Whitstable, Kent, 2007
col
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User76 said:I think that it was more about the earning of the jump wings that was the achievement. Jump wings are not the cap badge of the Parachute Regiment, merely a badge of achievement open to all the Army. So probably thats why, more like getting an Ironman tattoo after doing an event, but much much harder
Its just some get the wings tattoo and let people beleive it means they are real paras,when actually gaining jump wings is a piece of cake to the actual training the paras do,and its a maroon beret,not red
col
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User76 said:Are you sure you were never in the paras???
There is indeed, or was, an all arms jump course where sailors, like Marines, can get their wings without p-company. In 5th Airborne Brigade, as it was, everyone went through pre-para, p-company and became 'proper paras' but we were badged to different corps. So, 9 Squadron, 7 RHA, the field ambulance, REME even the cooks, everyone has done the full para training. We even shared the same town, and trust me, the only distinction between us over the weekend was the motif on our maroon or green t-shirts. If it was raining or cold, then everyone just had a Barbour jacket, jeans and a pair of Desert boots.
Oh the other difference of course was that the other corps could read the KFC menu and not just have to rely on the pictures
They still class those that didnt do the basic 6 months including pcompany as not a real para,which they arent,they are marines or guards who learn to jump,nothing winds a para up more when these claim to be paras
But your right,when you learn to jump your a parachutist,but not para reg.Oh and the general term was anyone not in para reg was a craphat,even those that learned how to jump,this isnt a dig at you,but just what the term was
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Kind of like the idea of a tattoo, but I've a real problem with needles, so it's just not going to happen.
One question though, what's the fasination with odd languages? Why would you want anything written in chinese across your back? Unless you speak/read chinese, it could say anything and you'd never know. Surely if somethings important enough for you to have it permantently etched on your body it should be in a language that people can understand? (not ancient Greek) Or do these phrases come across as fantastically pretentious when the public can read them?
One question though, what's the fasination with odd languages? Why would you want anything written in chinese across your back? Unless you speak/read chinese, it could say anything and you'd never know. Surely if somethings important enough for you to have it permantently etched on your body it should be in a language that people can understand? (not ancient Greek) Or do these phrases come across as fantastically pretentious when the public can read them?
Old tats don't look good.
When I were but a lad,we used to sail with an old seadog in his 60's who, as kids, we assumed he had some of of skin disease.
His arm was covered in red and green blotches and welts.
In his late teens he had had a black, green and red snake drawn all around his arm with the head on his shoulder and the tail by his thumb.
50 years later all the black had gone and the red and green had faded and spread.
When I were but a lad,we used to sail with an old seadog in his 60's who, as kids, we assumed he had some of of skin disease.
His arm was covered in red and green blotches and welts.
In his late teens he had had a black, green and red snake drawn all around his arm with the head on his shoulder and the tail by his thumb.
50 years later all the black had gone and the red and green had faded and spread.
