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Up here Tim Horton's is a sort of national institution... (There was even a Tim Horton's Khandahar, Afghanistan (for the Canadian troops...)

PS: Here it is: I see that the parlor in question is US- rather than Japan-based.

It's a Canadian chain of coffee shops that also sell cookies and muffins. They are also present in border US states such as NY.

A lot of Christians think similarly to you, as evidenced by the quote earlier in post #114 ("Around here (Bible Belt), it is common, especially among evangelical Christians, for the girls under about 40 to have religious tattoos. More do than don't, especially when you get to the under 30 crowd...

Well, exactly. By definition it's believers' baptism: in Scripture they were baptised because they were believers, not baptised in order supposedly to become believers.

Interesting observation! Although on a different note also, my wife and I talked to a young lady with the whole of John 3.16 tattooed on her wrist area; it was her favorite Bible verse and mine also; and I'm sure that other conversations have arisen as a result of the willingness of the young...

I guess it varies from country to country. Having said that, I think the Japanese khoi fish is well established as a tattoo art form and not only for criminals. (Or do I mean Chinese khoi fish?)

PS: Well, now apparently according to statistics in North America 59%-70% or more of parlor clients are female. So your observation was probably more accurate decades back, but there has been a sea change, I guess...

I doubt I had turkey when drip fed, in a coma... Doing okay, thanks! :)

Thanks for the tip! So many ppl assume that getting tattooed is under Western norms; whereas among indigenous / Asian peoples the art was well established long before it took off and became really widespread in parlors in the West.

Comas obliterate memories... :)

Ah non, pas forcément; mais je parle la langue de mes compatriotes francophones...

Umm...that year I was so out of it, under anaesthetic, in an induced coma for bypass surgery. But other years we have enjoyed turkey with particular friends, yes. :)

Thanksgiving is for us associated with mealtime with certain particular friends... :)

Interesting; I'll have to look it up, thanks. I think among various of the Asian / indigenous tattoo traditions it became widespread for women to participate also, long before the trend Western countries. There is some superb artwork on the many ink shows.

Well, I was in hospital during one Thanksgiving, but had a wonderful time meditating by myself on Scripture... :)

It's as if no one among the political activists has supposedly heard of free enquiry at the Renaissance and Reformation, when ppl learned about the world and about Scripture from what they themselves discovered instead of waiting for vested interests representing the established system to tell...

Sorry, up here in Canada... :)

@1stCenturyLady I wasn't around even to be able to see the latest edition of Ink Master recently. Do you see any more significant ink trends emerging?

German Luther 1912: 'Glaube' (faith)... Spanish Reina-Valera: 'fe' (faith)...