I would class your classing as elitist.

they're machines. Besides, only the paint job is being changed.

Lead pipe.. apply directly to forehead.

No idea, I just copy pasted.

I'm not a paritculary religious man so I don't know.

Yes, it's better put that way.

And apparently they do in Turkey.

some of the IRS guidelines consider whether or not an institution has:

a distinct legal existence and religious history,
a recognized creed and form of worship,
established places of worship
a regular congregation and regular religious services, and
an organization of ordained ministers

Source: http://www.legalzoom.com/taxes/other-tax-topics/what-constitutes-church-under

Do people assume Tattoo artists are uncultured deliberately or was it just a joke in poor taste?

It is.. but you know what?

I don't think I'd have the empathy and desire to support the downtrodden that I do if it wasn't for my own experiences.

I like to say that it's not the good times that show a person's character but the bad. Someone who only has good times in their lives is a spoiled brat, right?

I survived, I am a better person than I was then. That is what I try to focus on.

My relationship with my father is better now that I'm 37, too. He stopped trying to push me in directions I didn't want to go. And while it's still strained, the last fistfight I got in with him was decades ago.

So yah. Could be worse.

Avarana, that's simply not true, even without wartime conditions.

Citation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_2012

Edit: I'm an idiot aren't I? You were using a figure of speech...

I will tell you this.. the day my father called me a failure as his son to my face is a day I'm glad happened.

That was the day I realized I'd never be what he wanted me to be and literally said "**** him. I'm being who I am."

You speak truth.