The history of doing tattoo on the human skin started several thousands years ago and is as varied as the people who bear them. The word “tattoo” has two major roots - from the polynesian words ‘ta’ and ‘tatau’ which mean ‘striking something’ and ‘to mark something’.
You’ll never look back at getting a tattoo as a big mistake if you do your homework and research our and another tattoo collections. Your decision should be strongly based on what tattoo you want to get and why.

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During the Soviet period, widely acknowledged truths that could not be expressed in public formed the staples of underground political humor. Common themes included the hypocrisy or infirmity of Communist Party leaders, the brutality of the system, and the absurdity of upbeat official slogans and proclamations.

During the 1990s, hundreds of popular jokes mocking the stupidity or vulgarity of wealthy “New Russians” overshadowed political humor in Russia. As a rule, jokes did not feature prominently in political rhetoric (although Liberal Democratic Party of Russia leader Vladimir Zhirinovskii sometimes played for laughs with outrageous statements and antics).

That said, political humor did not disappear. Perhaps surprisingly, the myriad jokes depicting Leonid Brezhnev as feeble and decrepit were not recycled during Boris Yeltsin’s extended bouts with serious illness. But Yeltsin’s style of rule did occasionally inspire jokes, especially during election campaigns, when the president often appeared more committed to staying in power than to observing democratic procedures.

For instance, during the run-up to the April 1993 referendum, Yeltsin used his control over Russian television to promote his stands and to shut out his parliamentary opponents. The media drumbeat urging Russians to vote “yes, yes, no, yes” on the four referendum questions was so strong that one joke told of a man offering the traditional Easter greeting, “Christ has risen,” only to hear his friend reply, “Yes, yes, no, yes.”

A joke making the rounds during the 1996 presidential campaign ridiculed Yeltsin’s promises to reverse course on a host of issues, from the war in Chechnya to economic policies.

“Yeltsin proclaims at a campaign rally, ‘Elect me and you’ll get a brand-new president.’

“‘What if we don’t elect you, Boris Nikolaevich?’ asks a voice from the crowd.

“‘Then you’ll get the same old president,’ Yeltsin replies.”

Such humor echoed Soviet-era mockery of empty Communist slogans. But many jokes geared toward supporters of Russia’s largest opposition movement, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), inverted a common theme of dissident humor. Incompetent management, manifested in low-quality manufactured goods and chronic shortages, had spawned countless jokes during the Brezhnev-era “stagnation”:

Q: What would happen if Communists took over the Sahara Desert?

A: In a few years sand would be in short supply.

Q: What doesn’t buzz and doesn’t go up your ass?

A: A Soviet machine engineered for buzzing and going up your ass.

Q: Is it possible to build communism in a single small country, such as the Netherlands?

A: Yes, it is possible, but what do you have against the Dutch?

The sharp decline in living standards during the 1990s, coupled with the collapse of Russia’s infrastructure, gave rise to humor lampooning the incompetence of Russia’s new rulers. The following joke appeared in “Pravda Rossii” (a free newspaper published by the KPRF) during the 1999 parliamentary campaign: “It’s winter, and a ‘democratic’ intellectual wakes up one morning covered in sweat. He can’t understand what’s going on. He takes one blanket off the bed, then another, but it’s still too hot. He takes off a third blanket, but it’s still warm. He takes off his hat and his sweater — it still isn’t cold. He gets up and goes into the bathroom. When he hits the light switch, the light comes on. He turns on the tap — there is both hot and cold water. Then he goes into the kitchen and turns on the stove — lo and behold, the gas is on as well. He shouts to his wife, “Anya, get up right now and pack your things! The Communists got back into power!”

Of course, not all Russians would agree with the premise of that joke or find it amusing. But as a wise grandmother used to say, “Many a truth has been told in jest.” The emergence of humor portraying Communists as effective managers of public services is vivid testimony of how difficult power outages and disruptions in gas and water services have made life for so many Russian citizens. Such jokes are also consistent with numerous opinion polls that indicate a plurality of Russians, perhaps even a majority, remember the “stagnation” era as the best time for the country. As in the Soviet period, the jokes of the political opposition are a window onto widespread beliefs not commonly expressed in the media or acknowledged by ruling elites.

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  1. Year 1957 The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
    The respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in. Many called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this the BBC diplomatically replied, “place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.”
  2. Year 1985 Sidd Finch
    Sports Illustrated published a story about a new rookie pitcher who planned to play for the Mets. His name was Sidd Finch, and he could reportedly throw a baseball at 168 mph with pinpoint accuracy. This was 65 mph faster than the previous record. Surprisingly, Sidd Finch had never even played the game before. Instead, he had mastered the “art of the pitch” in a Tibetan monastery under the guidance of the “great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa.” Mets fans celebrated their teams’ amazing luck at having found such a gifted player, and Sports Illustrated was flooded with requests for more information. In reality this legendary player only existed in the imagination of the author of the article, George Plimpton.
  3. Year 1962 Instant Color TV
    In 1962 there was only one tv channel in Sweden, and it broadcast in black and white. The station’s technical expert, Kjell Stensson, appeared on the news to announce that, thanks to a new technology, viewers could convert their existing sets to display color reception. All they had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their tv screen. Stensson proceeded to demonstrate the process. Thousands of people were taken in. Regular color broadcasts only commenced in Sweden on April 1, 1970.
  4. Year 1996 The Taco Liberty Bell
    The Taco Bell Corporation announced it had bought the Liberty Bell and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Hundreds of outraged citizens called the National Historic Park in Philadelphia where the bell was housed to express their anger. Their nerves were only calmed when Taco Bell revealed, a few hours later, that it was all a practical joke. The best line of the day came when White House press secretary Mike McCurry was asked about the sale. Thinking on his feet, he responded that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold. It would now be known, he said, as the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial.
  5. Yaer1977 San Serriffe
    The British newspaper The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement devoted to San Serriffe, a small republic said to consist of several semi-colon-shaped islands located in the Indian Ocean. A series of articles affectionately described the geography and culture of this obscure nation. Its two main islands were named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse. Its capital was Bodoni, and its leader was General Pica. The Guardian’s phones rang all day as readers sought more information about the idyllic holiday spot. Only a few noticed that everything about the island was named after printer’s terminology. The success of this hoax is widely credited with launching the enthusiasm for April Foolery that gripped the British tabloids in subsequent decades.
  6. Year 1992 Nixon for President
    National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation program announced that Richard Nixon, in a surprise move, was running for President again. His new campaign slogan was, “I didn’t do anything wrong, and I won’t do it again.” Accompanying this announcement were audio clips of Nixon delivering his candidacy speech. Listeners responded viscerally to the announcement, flooding the show with calls expressing shock and outrage. Only during the second half of the show did the host John Hockenberry reveal that the announcement was a practical joke. Nixon’s voice was impersonated by comedian Rich Little.
  7. Year 1998 Alabama Changes the Value of Pi
    The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the ‘Biblical value’ of 3.0. Soon the article made its way onto the internet, and then it rapidly spread around the world, forwarded by email. It only became apparent how far the article had spread when the Alabama legislature began receiving hundreds of calls from people protesting the legislation. The original article, which was intended as a parody of legislative attempts to circumscribe the teaching of evolution, was written by physicist Mark Boslough.
  8. Year 1998 The Left-Handed Whopper
    Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a “Left-Handed Whopper” specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. The following day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, “many others requested their own ‘right handed’ version.”
  9. Year 1995 Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers
    Discover Magazine reported that the highly respected wildlife biologist Dr. Aprile Pazzo had found a new species in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer. These fascinating creatures had bony plates on their heads that, fed by numerous blood vessels, could become burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speeds. They used this ability to hunt penguins, melting the ice beneath the penguins and causing them to sink downwards into the resulting slush where the hotheads consumed them. After much research, Dr. Pazzo theorized that the hotheads might have been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of noted Antarctic explorer Philippe Poisson in 1837. “To the ice borers, he would have looked like a penguin,” the article quoted her as saying. Discover received more mail in response to this article than they had received for any other article in their history.
  10. Year 1976 Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity
    The British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on BBC Radio 2 that at 9:47 AM a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event was going to occur that listeners could experience in their very own homes. The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational alignment that would counteract and lessen the Earth’s own gravity. Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment that this planetary alignment occurred, they would experience a strange floating sensation. When 9:47 AM arrived, BBC2 began to receive hundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt the sensation. One woman even reported that she and her eleven friends had risen from their chairs and floated around the room.
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You’ve waited for it, you’ve imagined it, you’ve planned it: your wedding day! The day when everything should be perfect and nothing should go wrong… but you fear for the worst and you are so worried not to miss something that you may actually forget to enjoy the day! Here are some pictures that may help you to imagine what’s expecting you.

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Striking up a good conversation with your date can be as challenging as coming up with real good sensible questions to ask her. Common questions like “where do you live” or “what do you work as” are really typical and boring.

Others try to be a little bit cheeky and try asking joke-like questions instead. Some leaves a good impression on their date, but others are immediately struck off the dating list. Learn to be the smart AND cheeky one, and ask funny dating questions, instead of the mundane ones that bore your dates to death.

“Funny” can mean two different things. Funny hilarious or Funny weird.

The idea here is not to be funny hilarious. Funny dating questions can be pretty lame or sometimes when there is too much jokes around, it just spoils the whole dating mood. Dating questions like…

You: Did you know that Elvis died …

Her: Yeah.

You:.. his hair! (quickly)

Some guys can be pretty good with these kind of tricky cheeky questions, so if you think that you are one of them, then you should give it a try. Otherwise, if you think you are not the kind of person who can crack good jokes, then stay away from such questions at all costs.

Next you have the Funny weird kind of dating questions. These are the kind of questions that your date would not expect you to ask. This is pretty good so that you are able to analyze for yourself what kind of a person your date is.

Is she humorous? Is she shy but ticklish? Or is she a person that you shouldn’t mess with?

If you are looking for funny weird dating questions to ask, then check out the list below:

1)What’s your favorite domestic animal?

2)If you were alone in a forest, how would you feel?

3)If you were in a white room surrounded by people dressed in white, what kind of emotions do you feel?

These questions are not any kind of questions. These questions are meant to make you understand her and her life better. Like for question 1, her favorite domestic animal is how she thinks other people views her. For question 2, her emotions will tell you how she feels about death and for question 3, her emotions will tell you how she views marriage.
And the 4th question, which many of us would consider it as the most important question:

4)What’s your favorite food? Give three reasons why?

Her answer to this question will tell you of her views on sex. Interesting isn’t it?

This is just one of the few ways which you can use funny weird dating questions to check out the inner thoughts on how your date views life So, indirectly, you will get to know so much more about her without her even feeling interrogated by you.

As a guide, try to mix these weird questions around the conversation instead of bombarding her with weird questions all at one go. You definitely would not want to sound like a weirdo, would you?

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