About a month ago a wrote a blog post about Joanne Raine, a girl from Darlington who ended up regretting her tattoo. Well now another tale of regret and ink has emerged.
Alan Jenkins decided to express his love for his family in the tradional way, a tattoo covering the whole of his back.
Alan spent 20 hours under the needle at a cost of £870. As you can guess things went downhill from there. The tattoo isn’t actually that bad. The drawings of his daughters Daniella and Jade, and his wife Lisa look quite like them. This is a minor miracle as normally tattoos of peoples faces look horrible.
The problems occured when Alans wife of 15 years ran off with a 25 year old Latvian fittness instructor Kaspars Gavars. Alan remains positve despite his cheating wife’s face following him everywhere he goes, saying
“I’ve still got plenty of room on my chest if I get hooked up again.”
Joanne Raine was very much In love with her boyfriend ‘Roo’ and wanted to express that love to him. She didn’t buy him a present however or cook him a nice meal, she got a tattoo. There are three rules to remember if you plan on getting a tattoo
Don’t get someones name.
Don’t have a tattoo written in a language you don’t understand.
Don’t get the name of a band, because every band turns rubbish or reunites when they are 60+ for the cash.
As you can see Joanne ignored the rules. It was only once she showed the guys behind the counter at here local Chinese takeaway her new ink that she found out that it didn’t say’Roo’ but ’supermarket’.
Even that was incorrect as Kanji (the Chinese characters that make up part of the modern Japanese logographic writing system) form whole words rather than letters.
“I did it because I wanted to show him how much I loved him and he had one done as well.”
Perhaps she was lucky that the tattoo doesn’t actually say anything, she has since split up with her boyfriend and can’t afford to get the tat covered up.
I’m here today to talk to you about Podcasts. If you’re reading this then I’m going to guess you know what a Podcast is (or at least how to type ‘podcast’ into Wikipedia). Anyway this post isn’t about podcasts in general its about the best Podcast ever: Guys With Feelings. You may well have the same reaction I did when I first heard the name so try to read it again, this time with a slight hint of irony.
The show benefits from the general nature of Podcasts, it is unprofessional, direct and dynamic. You never know what is going to happen but you can guarantee it will be hilarious. This is how it all came about:
“In January 2006, in response to a major freak-out over his first son being born, Jason Nash created the podcast “Guys With Feelings” with his best friend Jeff Bumgarner. Now, instead of standing around bitching about their wives and babies in private, they’re doing it with really shitty audio equipment and putting it up free on the inter-web.”
The show has a very unguarded feel to it, it is just funny people talking about their lives and whatever else comes up in conversation. As well as the two main hosts Jason and Jeff there is a host of other people involved including
technical master/host Pete.
Recovering Coke fiend Toph AKA ‘Dry-times’
Superfan turned integral part of the show PinkHamster
Comedy genius and star of ‘Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde’ Matt Price
Raving lunatic Dugan
Girl-with-feelings Jen Kirkman
Todd Levin Of Tremble.com puts it well:
“I listen. All the time. And I do so with a very specific personal investment I’m sure many of its listeners share, which is imagining these people are all my friends, squeezed into a restaurant booth with me, and having a loud, animated conversation while I just quietly listen and agree and eat french fries. It’s actually a bit awkward for me to admit this.”
I discovered Guys With Feelings (or GWF) about six months ago and I am now fully addicted. I cannot go a week without a show and feel like I have a kind of personal connection to the guys. I understand that that sounds weired but when you spend hours listening to someone you really feel like you know them. I listened to the entire archives (the show has been going for two years now). The archives are now part of GWF All Access which is a section of the site which you must pay to view. This is a recent development which was very well received by the fans due to the fact that the guys had been producing the show for two years with no profit at all. The main show remains free, the All Access area just provides extra content.
Check out this clip of the guys at the Comedy Central Stage
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