I have five tattoos! Do you have any tattoos?
I love them! I have 4. Are yours symbolic?
A couple of them are. I have a Chinese symbol that means family and an arrow that symbolizes moving forward. Are yours symbolic?
ear tattoos on livestock as a form of branding.
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The word "tattoo", or "tattow" in the 18th century, is a loanword from the Samoan word "tatau", meaning "to strike". The "Oxford English Dictionary" gives the etymology of tattoo as "In 18th c. tattaow, tattow. From Polynesian (Samoan, Tahitian, Tongan, etc.) tatau. In Marquesan, tatu." Before the importation of the Polynesian word, the practice of tattooing had been
has stated: "I really think if you have a tattoo you have to wonder about what kind of future you have ahead of you. As an employer, I wouldn't employ someone with tattoos as I would wonder what customers would think about them. For me, tattoos are just a way for people to find attention who haven't found another way in their life to achieve it by conventional means."
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During an appearance on ITV's "This Morning" in July 2013,