>ITT: everyone acts like 50 year old conservatives.
"All you hooligans with yer tattoos and yer music!"
Here are some historical European examples of tattoo culture:
>Otzi the iceman is the oldest known human we know of who has been tattooed 61 times. He died in the alps of Italy by bleeding to death.
>Thomas Edison invented the tattoo gun and gave himself a geometric pattern
>Pazyryk mummies adorned decorative tattoos of mythical beasts, animals and monsters (385 BC)
>the british of the 17th century holy lands commemorated voyages with tattoos
>The first documented professional tattooer in the US was Martin Hildebrant, a German Immigrant who tattooed soldiers on both sides of the American civil war
>Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson and Winston Churchill all had tattoos
>Nazis medics learned to tattoo waffen SS soldiers to label their blood types
>crusaders adorned crosses on their foreheads after completing different duties and as a symbol of their faith
>Sailor Jerry is the father of "american traditional" style of tattooing which is still popular today
