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Andre's back tattoo

Post by MarkGreen » Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:18 am

There has been a lot of media coverage on social media for the finished full back tattoo on Andre Gray's back.

The tattoo represents people & events from the civil rights movement. Basically a celebration of those who helped shape his future.
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:19 am

Im not keen on the boss tattoo. He should have had that next to Dyche...

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:20 am

In seriousness though, hes had the tattoo to pay tribute to many people who fought for freedom and civil liberties etc. Then wears a pair of Hugo Boss boxers.

Hugo Boss being the company who manufactured The Nazis uniforms in ww2.
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by CombatClaret » Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:22 am

No gay rights activists?
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by MACCA » Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:23 am

I never knew Heaton did time, or have an afro!

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by joey13 » Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:26 am

Can't see the tat of the chip on his shoulder
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by Funkydrummer » Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:26 am

Can't see why David James features ! ! :D

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by MarkGreen » Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:29 am

MACCA wrote:I never knew Heaton did time, or have an afro!
I think you are mistaking Marcelo for Heaton

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by Funkydrummer » Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:31 am

Not a very good photoshop of SD, just in case anyone thought I thought it was genuine.

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by ClaretEngineer » Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:47 am

cricketfieldclarets wrote:In seriousness though, hes had the tattoo to pay tribute to many people who fought for freedom and civil liberties etc. Then wears a pair of Hugo Boss boxers.

Hugo Boss being the company who manufactured The Nazis uniforms in ww2.
Point being? Mercedes Benz and BMW made engines for aircraft (amongst other things), MAN made diesel engines and vehicle components, Degussa once owned the firm that made Zyklon B (Degussa provided the anti graffiti coating for the Holocaust Memorial), Mengele made (up until recently when they were taken over) argicultural equipment.

There are many British companies that are in existence today that made materials for war, that subsequently killed civilians.

I'm surprised given his recent views on gays that there isn't a rainbow :lol:
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by dermotdermot » Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:51 am

What a shambles.

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:55 am

ClaretEngineer wrote:Point being? Mercedes Benz and BMW made engines for aircraft (amongst other things), MAN made diesel engines and vehicle components, Degussa once owned the firm that made Zyklon B (Degussa provided the anti graffiti coating for the Holocaust Memorial), Mengele made (up until recently when they were taken over) argicultural equipment.

There are many British companies that are in existence today that made materials for war, that subsequently killed civilians.

I'm surprised given his recent views on gays that there isn't a rainbow :lol:
Id have thought a pair of calvin classics from jean junction wouldve been more apt.
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by ClaretEngineer » Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:57 am

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Id have thought a pair of calvin classics from jean junction wouldve been more apt.
Is that the old J-3?

Should gone with GAP undies. I was once told that it stood for Gay And Proud by a fellow from Preston, when he found that out he chucked all his GAP stuff away ... :roll:

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by brigante » Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:10 am

The photoshops poor but it's still funny

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by Steve1956 » Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:16 am

Never really took to Gray,he did well for us,poor man's David Beckham wanna be,not interested on what he's done to his skin.....I like my footballers in the Sam Vokes mode.......no silly drawings on their body ..move on.
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by MarkGreen » Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:21 am

brigante wrote:The photoshops poor but it's still funny
Wasn't really worth the effort :lol:

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by Rumbletonk » Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:35 am

How come no space for Lord Mansfield or William Wilberforce!!!

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by elwaclaret » Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:40 am

:-D :-D :-D Classic..... I take it Mr Andre doesn't know Hugo Boss built his empire by designing the SS uniforms for Nazi Germany :-D :-D :-D

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by tim_noone » Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:40 am

CombatClaret wrote:No gay rights activists?
Alice will be along shortly! :shock:

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by Rumbletonk » Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:45 am

I see the gingers have been excluded again
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:55 am

elwaclaret wrote::-D :-D :-D Classic..... I take it Mr Andre doesn't know Hugo Boss built his empire by designing the SS uniforms for Nazi Germany :-D :-D :-D
See above :lol:
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by Quicknick » Fri Sep 08, 2017 11:38 am

What a mess.

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by clive40golf » Fri Sep 08, 2017 12:13 pm

I can understand some of his icons being there, but can someone please explain why Deirdre Barlow's there on the left :D
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by Claretmatt4 » Fri Sep 08, 2017 12:28 pm

clive40golf wrote:I can understand some of his icons being there, but can someone please explain why Deirdre Barlow's there on the left :D
Can I invoice you for a new phone as I've just spit coffee all over mine.
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by Diesel » Fri Sep 08, 2017 12:29 pm

Where's the bag of cement?

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by IndigoLake » Fri Sep 08, 2017 12:31 pm

I like it. Whoever did it is talented.

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by dermotdermot » Fri Sep 08, 2017 12:37 pm

IndigoLake wrote:I like it. Whoever did it is talented.
Really?

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by duncandisorderly » Fri Sep 08, 2017 12:42 pm

dermotdermot wrote:Really?

Like them or not, that tattoo is superbly done.
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by TVC15 » Fri Sep 08, 2017 12:45 pm

Nice to see The Nutty Professor at the bottom of his back - not enough credit is given for what he did for black people across the world.

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by IndigoLake » Fri Sep 08, 2017 12:53 pm

dermotdermot wrote:Really?
Yes. Do you think it's poorly done?

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by dermotdermot » Fri Sep 08, 2017 1:26 pm

IndigoLake wrote:Yes. Do you think it's poorly done?
Okay, the likenesses, i.e. Bob Marley, are sharp but then Ronnie Wood can paint a good likeness but his pictures are rubbish. The same applies here. It's just a bloody mess.

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by dsr » Fri Sep 08, 2017 1:33 pm

Who's the man in the bottom left with the pineapple hat?

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Post by joey13 » Fri Sep 08, 2017 1:37 pm

dsr wrote:Who's the man in the bottom left with the pineapple hat?
Jason Lee

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by Eloise Laws » Fri Sep 08, 2017 1:47 pm

I think its awful but then again i don't like tattoos at all on anyone, but each to their own. I do agree though its a talented person who has inked it

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by Wile E Coyote » Fri Sep 08, 2017 2:00 pm

just a load of cliched black icons, theres something crass and ignorant about it, its like a dated civil rights by numbers for dummies montage. Horrendous.
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by Wile E Coyote » Fri Sep 08, 2017 2:04 pm

clive40golf wrote:I can understand some of his icons being there, but can someone please explain why Deirdre Barlow's there on the left :D

looks more like Thora Hird to me,
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by Wile E Coyote » Fri Sep 08, 2017 2:07 pm

also, i dont recall Ali ever fighting for the title on top of a bus, could've sworn it was Madison Square Garden.

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by The Enclosure » Fri Sep 08, 2017 2:18 pm

Looks absolutely ridiculous....do people not wonder what they will look like in later years.I can't understand wby people feel the need to decorate their bodies, are they unhappy with how they look? Each to their own I suppose.
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by fatboy47 » Fri Sep 08, 2017 2:28 pm

Just looks a knob.

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by ClaretMoffitt » Fri Sep 08, 2017 2:31 pm

Definite racist.
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by piston broke » Fri Sep 08, 2017 2:37 pm

Never get the point of doing one on your back, ie the map in "prison break", HTF are you meant to see it.
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by Deardeary » Fri Sep 08, 2017 2:44 pm

Shoulder chip the on

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by JohnMac » Fri Sep 08, 2017 3:37 pm

His back, his money, his choice.

If you don't like his 'Icons' and you are into tattoos, probably best if you don't get one copied then.

If he had recently had Turf Moor tattooed somewhere on his body the response from some would be markedly different no doubt.
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by edlass » Fri Sep 08, 2017 3:46 pm

I'm ignoring the actual thread purpose a bit and not giving my opinion on this actual tattoo but how do tattoo artists do it?!

I can't draw that well on paper on a solid table with no wobbles. How do people do it on skin? Genuinely, do they draw it on paper first and trace it? Whenever I see a tattoo being done, on TV for example, It looks all thick and blotchy and then a few wipes reveals something like this underneath...

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by JohnMac » Fri Sep 08, 2017 3:52 pm

They use a transfer of the design and put it onto your skin, a bit like the Bazooka Joe one's :lol: and then go over it and fill in the colours if appropriate.

Must be harder tattooing people with 'looser' skin though.
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by EarbyClaret » Fri Sep 08, 2017 4:11 pm

"Who's the man in the bottom left with the pineapple hat?"

Marcus Garvey - as far as I can tell

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by Wile E Coyote » Fri Sep 08, 2017 4:22 pm

he plasters his back with figures who some say fought for equality and tolerance, ironic given his own views on minority groups.
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by Claret&Green » Fri Sep 08, 2017 4:31 pm

EarbyClaret wrote:"Who's the man in the bottom left with the pineapple hat?"

Marcus Garvey - as far as I can tell
I thought it was Idi Amin

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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by bfccrazy » Fri Sep 08, 2017 4:35 pm

EarbyClaret wrote:"Who's the man in the bottom left with the pineapple hat?"

Marcus Garvey - as far as I can tell
Yep - It's Marcus Garvey
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Re: Andre's back tattoo

Post by dermotdermot » Fri Sep 08, 2017 5:50 pm

Are you sure? I thought it was Jazzy B from Soul to Soul.

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