Guy With Romney-Ryan Face Tattoo Says He's "Cool With" It
Eric Hartsburg will never forget the 2012 presidential campaign.
Eric Hartsburg will never forget the 2012 presidential campaign. That's because he got the Romney-Ryan campaign logo tattooed on his face in exchange for an eBay bid of $15,000:
Despite Romney's loss, Hartsburg, a professional wrestler, says he stands by his decision. "I am college educated, and I am not an idiot," Hartsburg told ABC News. "Getting the tattoo was a decision that I made, and I am cool with." No regrets, people. That's what living is all about.
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Just when I think no one could be that stupid, someone goes and proves me wrong.
There was a guy on the phone behind me on the bus a few weeks back talking about Mike Tyson's ice cream cone face-tat.
"A fucking ice cream cone?" What the fuck? I guess if I was some crazy rich n*gger I might do some weird shit like that. But an ice cream cone? That's fucked up."
You know it still spells 'nigger', right? There is no get out of jail card. Either you're using the word or you are not using it. No betweens!
Hate to rag on you like that, it is quite niggardly of me to so, actually.
But I'm white...
And the guy is funny as hell too. He was talking about the new trend of black folks wearing tight jeans in order to show off calf definition. The guy is a riot.
My nephew works at a Qwikimart in the 'hood. The local marijuana distribution network has taken a liking to him. The leader of such came in the store a few weeks back greeted him with, 'What's up my nigger (pronounced 'nigga')?' Followed by, 'Why you smilin'?'
Nephew tells him, 'I just got a promotion. You use to call me 'G'.'
"Bobby, you so weird.'
Nephew has a degree in religious studies (I warned him), so it is weird.
Oh, in that case carry on. The '*' is mandatory under that condition.
it's "naggers" Mr Marsh
I've recently seen "nuggers" and "Mondays"(!?).
That's the term for members of the Denver Nuggets.
Mike Tyson has some weird tribal face tattoo. Gucci Mane is the one with the ice cream cone on his face. Brrr!
It's cool because three weeks from now no one will even remember that logo. Or they'll think it's a toothpaste ad...
Aquafresh? It's still around, right?
Only hipsters use Aquafresh.
Hipsters like to kick it old school and just use a twig. But a local twig. Not some fancy twig made in a sweatshop factory in Taiwan. For $20 dollars you can join this year's TwGrBk (A Twig Grows in Brooklyn), where you can learn the best places to get local twigs. All participants receive a T-shirt you can wear inside out until the logo is sufficient faded.
Do tight jeans with a gimp-style hole for your manhood come with the shirt?
For an additional $20 up charge. You also get a copy of the The Unique Beauty of Used Twigs, by famed local artist INSTAGRAM USER ID#194982377.
I hope it's a signed copy, or I'ma rage like a motherfucker.
Locally produced ink with a sustainably-farmed organic quill pen.
Please stop. I can't take it any more.
Romika
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They could do a skin graft of the darker portion to his upper lip. Pretty credible old time stache!
It would go nicely with a set of sleeve garters, and a bowler hat.
Chakotaymny?
That's not a Maquis tattoo YOU IDIOT.
Was his tattoo Maquis? Or just retarded?
There's no reason it can't be both.
There is. The Maquis were battling both the fascist Cardassians and the Marxist Federation. What more can you ask for? That's not retarded!
The Maquis were more like Trotskyists in that they were angry that the glorious People's Federation of Planets compromised with the rightist Cardassians instead of keeping with Kirk-ian Permanent Revolution.
Yeah, I fucking hated the Maquis and the storyline. It just didn't make much sense. Then they extend it to a stupid series.
Pro L, you're just mad because you aren't eating enough real food grown with your own hands. You probably don't even know what real food tastes like, just replicated dreck. Not like Eddington does.
(They really anticipated a bunch of stupid lefty stuff eh?)
It was so stupid. And I liked DS9, otherwise.
Fuck that organic bullshit, Nicole. Replicated Twinkies all the way, especially now that union assholes are screwing over Hostess.
Seriously. Betraying the Federation was chill, but acting like growing and cooking your own food was more awesome than ordering it from a replicator?
Of course, what's-his-face in charge of the whole station liked to cook too. Luddites.
With the large number of planets available, along with extremely advanced terraforming and artificial environment technology, I find it rather hard to believe that naturally grown products would be so hard to obtain.
Maybe Captain Sisko just wasn't some organic-only leftist dipshit, whether it was easy to obtain or not. Eddington was a real asshole.
Don't involve Kirk in any of that TNG-era-and-beyond horseshit, dude. Kirk was an adventurous old US Navy type who even spent an episode explaining to some aliens how the US Constitution was a sacred document guaranteeing liberty and justice for all. It was a very well-written episode, too.
The Federation with Kirk? The best thing ever.
The Federation without Kirk? A militaristic, totalitarian government.
You people are idiots. Do you think Kirk gave a shit about the Federation? How often did he observe the Prime Directive? "Prime Directive, what's that?" was his fucking motto. And how utterly evil was he in the Terran Empire?
Kirk is exactly like me: utterly evil given enough power. Which is why I should never be given any for any reason.
He's nothing like you. He's the opposite of you. You're more like Khan without the superior genes and nice pecs.
Fuck you, ProL, I just upped my bench press weight last night, my pecs are awesome. I offered the world ARDOR!
Epi, although your abilities intrigue me, you are quite honestly inferior. Mentally, physically.
Have you ever read Milton, hamilton?
It's a shame for a good Hindu to admit it, but I'm not up on Milton.
You fool. Khan did it with push ups. Millions of them.
Kirk was a patriotic womanizer who believed in hot alien chicks and liberty. Don't ever group him with any of those subsequent pussies!
Kirk was like an 18th century buccaneer, he was pretty much out there on his own doing whatever he wanted. I doubt it was in Starfleet regulations to maroon Khan and McGivers on a planet. Can anyone see Picard doing that? Nope.
Captains back then had lots of discretion. Lots of it.
I kinda always thought by the end of the Kirk era the Prime Directive was so fucked up that there must've been some sort of pushback on Picard's class.
What I like about TOS is that communication between the Enterprise and Starfleet was strained by the great distances, giving Kirk broader authority. It wasn't like TNG where Picard could receive orders regardless of where they were.
Some fuckin Admiral was always jumpin in his shit.
There's a whole segment where Captain Kathryn "I Have a Filing Cabinet Up My Ass" Janeway and Chakotay, or Chuckles, discuss how Kirk, Sulu, Chekov, and the others were too free-spirited for the Starfleet of Janeway's own time, and how they wouldn't have made it anyway.
Fuck, you Kathy.
I'm glad I blew off most of that series. That would've offended me past my capacity to endure.
At least that part is funny. Much funnier than her whole "I want you to be an individual--no, I mean I want you to be part of the Federation collective" game with Seven.
Yeah. That was pretty irritating, too, Nicole. One moment she's telling Seven the individuality is the definition of freedom and life itself (a libertarian must have sneaked in a line into the script there somewhere while Little Ronnie wasn't looking), and the next she's telling her how you have to accept that other people's decisions take precedence. What the fuck?
They had a very complicated unconsummated lesbian relationship, Res. Janeway was a jealous woman.
Picard would have enrolled them both in welfare.
e plebnista......
"Freedom? That is a worship word. Yang worship. You will not speak it."
Yeah, speaking of that, Kirk went all apeshit on Ron Tracey for using is phasers on the filthy Yangs (the commie fuck). Kirk was all about the Prime Directive! (For other captains.)
He only violated it for good reasons.
Other than episode where he goes native with that Native American-like culture, when does Kirk violate the Prime Directive? The Yang-Kohm, Nazi Planet, and Chicago Gangster episodes all involved someone else violating the Directive first.
Vaal.
"These words and the words that follow were not written only for the Yangs, but for the Kohms as well....They must apply to everyone or they mean nothing! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!!"
In case you don't, here's my landing party now, phasers drawn.
Trust but verify, Tim.
Trust but verify,
Say, is that. . .is that supposed to apply to us, here and now? Maybe Obama could use some Federation intervention of this sort.
That was a fucking awesome episode, Almanian. Jesus Christ, I miss the media sentiments of yesteryear.
The Kardashians are in space now? There goes the neighborhood!
Chakotay's? No. It was something to do with honoring the Indian tribe his grandfather belonged to.
Ha-koo-chee-moya (whatever the shit that means). WE ARE FAR FROM THE BONES OF OUR PEOPLE.
WILL YOU SHUT THAT SPIRIT GUIDE UP SOME OF US ARE TRYING TO SLEEP.
The spirit guide's a thirty-foot-high grizzly bear. You're so very fucked.
You know way too much about Chakotay. I would prefer to know way too much about Jeri Ryan, to be honest.
I swear to God Seven and Harry Kim were fucking between episodes. They always looked far too comfortable in each other's company. The only other explanation is that Harry bats for the other team, and we know that's not true.
It's less that Harry bats for the other team and more that he only really cares about his mom.
Mom complex? Jesus. I knew something was wrong when Harry turned down Seven's offer of coitus in the mess hall.
Yeah watch the episode where they're finally getting letters from home. Little Harry is full of filial piety.
Do Borg have sex? I don't mean Seven of Nine as an emerging individual, I mean back in the Borg collective days. Did drones just go by Alice Krige's or Jeri Ryan's cell in the hive to have sex on demand?
Did drones just go by Alice Krige's or Jeri Ryan's cell in the hive to have sex on demand?
God I hope so.
Perhaps the Borg aren't as different as we were led to believe. In fact, maybe joining the collective isn't involuntary at all.
SPOILER: The collective started in our era as an online X-Box community.
I don't know, there was all that prep work involved in getting the Borg Queen to mate with Data, wasn't there?
It all sounds pretty inefficient to me.
That's only because Data didn't have any "flesh," a true cyborg wouldn't have that problem.
THAT WAS HOT ROBOT FOREPLAY NICOLE.
THEY'RE NOT ROBOTS DO YOU THINK I'M THAT STUPID
DON'T GET SEMANTIC ABOUT ANDROIDS WITH ME NICOLE.
And really, who wouldn't sleep with Lore given the chance? I know I would in a second.
Lore, maybe. Data is Tasha Yar's sloppy seconds though.
Drone 131311: "Time for recreational intercourse. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE."
And didn't they have that retarded virtual world lots of them retreated to every time they went to their alcoves to regenerate? Unimatrix Zero?
A cut scene from First Contact made it clear that, yes, Data boned the Queen.
Crap, how did I not see this before? The Borg were sex fiends! Collecting the best technology and babes the galaxy has to offer. This explains a lot.
Wow, pretty edgy for Star Trek. Then again, there is a book that had the Borg reviving Kirk. That could be what happened.
Collecting the best technology and babes the galaxy has to offer.
Well, if they started as an XBox online group, sure.
Do Borg have sex?
I don't think so. You see baby borg in artificial wombs. Which is resource intensive, explaining the forcible-convert angle they seem to run on.
What? No, that means nothing. They only abduct the hottest babes for their uses, which means a ridiculously low ratio of babe queens to drones. Can't have them spending months out of action being pregnant, so they use their Type III civilization technology to provide artificial wombs. Simple.
Your naked desire for Borg sex is admirable, but there's no way the Borg would leave the creation of Borg to the stochastic process of meatbag reproduction.
Type III civilization. Get that through your head. They have contraception at low cost. In fact, they probably have nanites that can turn on the sperm at will. Only authorized drones can actually conceive.
Purely recreational.
In the Voyager episode "Revulsion" Seven of Nine says that no sex of any kind occurs and the Borg only expand population through assimilation.
I remember seeing Borg babies, though. Maybe one of Picard's nightmares?
She lied to keep the losers on the ship from bothering her so much.
Besides, recreational sex doesn't require conception. Why all this futile resistance to the obvious truth?
Robot girls don't want you, ProLib. Just hook your Fleshlight to the motor from ice cream maker like the rest of us and be content.
It's not about me. I'm happily married. I'm trying to give you hope.
There are babies but I think they might have been assimilated in infancy. Voyager saves a bunch of kiddie drones at one point.
Borg Babies was an intended animated spinoff. "Babies" was a big deal back then- muppet babies, dino babies, etc.
At last we know what the next Star Trek series will be. A Borg ship piloted solely by kids.
That ex-Borg kid who stayed on Voyager all the way to Earth, Icheb, was pretty frisky with Seven. After hitting on B'Elanna being rejected, he pursued and seduced her. It was like a psychologically incestuous relationship. Talk about awkward!
That really puts the ASS in ASSimulate.
Resistance is fertile.
What's her spirit animal?
That boy's as sharp as a bowling ball.//Forghorn Leghorn
Ah say, ah say...boy...
It's still less stupid than 98% of the tattoos I've seen.
I hope someone follows through a year from now and see if this scholar still has that tattoo bolted to his face.
$15,000 or $5,000? Politico link says $5,000. Either way, who would pay for that?
He's a professional wrestler, nothing he does has to make any sense.
Off topic, but apropos your wrestling comment, color me shocked you're not stalking on the Stagblog.
Dude, Lucy stalks me, not the other way around. You should know that.
The commenters there appear to be microaggressing against us.
I feel like Lucy isn't mentioning me enough at her blog. I'm feeling a little neglected.
Maybe if you'd spend less time sneaking into her apartment to install microcameras in her shower and more time sweet-talking her on Facebook, you'd be more valued.
I noticed that. It's giving me a complex.
Well, it's giving me a worse complex because I'm a girl and thus a much bigger part of the "problem." So there.
Well, I presume the prevailing opinion is that you're a traitor to your gender (and specifically your uterus) (a) by being libertarian in the first place and (b) by posting here in the wretched hive of scum and villany.
The Daily Mail story I read about this guy yesterday said his starting big was $5k. It also said he turned down an offer higher than $15k because the requested tattoo was "lewd."
It was probably an Obama logo. Good on him.
Rick Santorum can not catch a break!
ABC reports $15k: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/po.....for-15000/
Wait, he got paid? Then why do we give a shit again? I thought we were for that sort of thing.
Nobody's saying he shouldn't have been allowed to do it, but that's a very different thing than calling him an idiot for it.
Yeah, but it means we're just pissing on his pricing strategy, not his judgement.
At least he's not demanding the govt. paying for removing it.
"Getting the tattoo was a decision that I made, and I am cool with."
The Hitler-Himmler tattoo on the other side of his face, he's a little less cool with.
That's ok, some of the commenters on here would've done the same thing for free.
Zing!
I think that's why some were so mad after Romney lost. It all makes sense now.
YOLO!
YOLO!
YOLO, muthafuggaz!
There's no link. YOU MESSED IT ALL UP. BASTARD!
I blame the squirrels.
Hartsburg, a professional wrestler, says he stands by his decision.
Stands by it, or throws it into the ropes followed by a flying elbow?
I question the author's need to insert the gentlemen's profession at this precise juncture in the piece. The cognitive dissonance abounds.
"I am college educated, and I am not an idiot,"
See what I mean?
Does anyone else here who 'went to college' really believe that somehow makes them personally immune to idiocy?
Who even went to a university where the percentage of idiots was actually *lower* than the general population?? I doubt such a place exists.
The University of the Streets, man.
Starfleet Academy?
No, the Academy had jackholes like Finnegan.
We don't know what the real Finnegan was like. The Finnegan we saw was based on Kirk's resentment filled memories of the guy which could have been a caricature.
See, if he had said "I'm college educated, but I'm not an idiot", I could have respected that.
Many people honestly feel that education imparts intelligence.
In unrelated news =
I've been totally looking for an original Dukakis-Bensten t-shirt for like *forever*.
So is he a Face or a Heel?
His Hitler Jungen hairdo really sets that tat off nicely.
Well played, Mr. Wrestler - well played.
The good thing about Obama tattoos is, we'll always know who to blame: http://wonsandzeros.blogspot.c.....ay_28.html
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Obviously, we need some sort of face-tattoo regulatory agency to stop people from doing this kind of thing to themselves. People aren't rational. The government needs to make certain decisions for them.
Agreed.
I will run for committee chairman. Perhaps I can get life-time healthcare and a not-so-shabby retirement plan.
I'll fight to keep our youth safe from political tattoos and have them go back to swastikas and clever sayings on their necks like "get rich, die trying"
The final twist: in the vast post-Obama American wasteland, that tattoo will help him rule his local fiefdom.
In unrelated news =
I've been totally looking for an original Dukakis-Bensten t-shirt for like *forever*.
"I am college educated, and I am not an idiot,"
Actions speak louder than words.
It was a ridiculous decision even if Romney had won, now it is just sad.
Hmm... 15k? Tempting...