What's with postcode tattoos?

Tooks said :

what said :

Hi all, I’m one of the boys in that photo! I find it sad and quite funny that after all these years that, that photo is still circulating. That is the problem with society these days is that you people have no friends and no life, its people like you that are killing Australia, buy hiding behind your computers, where are your communication skills, better yet where are your friends? (computers don’t count)
I am now 30 years old and have a successful buisness, a wife and child, just bought my first house a little ago without any hand outs or help, just hard work.
I have been friends with the Belco boys for over 20 years now and we all still hang out on a weekly basis.
Please before you judge us take a good hard look at your self first and answer me this.
What have you done in your life that you can put other people down?
And if you can, try to find one of us down the skate park skating, come say what you have to say face to face.
Thats if you can brave the outdoors!!!!!!!!

Now that you’re an adult and a father, just admit that it’s a stupid tatt.

;P

No i still like it, its a symbol of where i grew up, mates and of my fav place to skate. Yes im an adult and a farther and still skate as much as i can.

I’m thinking a game of ‘guess the retard’ could be fun, if a bit politically incorrect…

what said :

Hi all, I’m one of the boys in that photo! I find it sad and quite funny that after all these years that, that photo is still circulating. That is the problem with society these days is that you people have no friends and no life, its people like you that are killing Australia, buy hiding behind your computers, where are your communication skills, better yet where are your friends? (computers don’t count)
I am now 30 years old and have a successful buisness, a wife and child, just bought my first house a little ago without any hand outs or help, just hard work.
I have been friends with the Belco boys for over 20 years now and we all still hang out on a weekly basis.
Please before you judge us take a good hard look at your self first and answer me this.
What have you done in your life that you can put other people down?
And if you can, try to find one of us down the skate park skating, come say what you have to say face to face.
Thats if you can brave the outdoors!!!!!!!!

I think you’ll find many of us are employed fighting the Reptoid Invasion. But hey if you want to be forced to work in their underground sugar mines, fine, we’ll stop fighting the good fight.

what said :

Hi all, I’m one of the boys in that photo! I find it sad and quite funny that after all these years that, that photo is still circulating. That is the problem with society these days is that you people have no friends and no life, its people like you that are killing Australia, buy hiding behind your computers, where are your communication skills, better yet where are your friends? (computers don’t count)
I am now 30 years old and have a successful buisness, a wife and child, just bought my first house a little ago without any hand outs or help, just hard work.
I have been friends with the Belco boys for over 20 years now and we all still hang out on a weekly basis.
Please before you judge us take a good hard look at your self first and answer me this.
What have you done in your life that you can put other people down?
And if you can, try to find one of us down the skate park skating, come say what you have to say face to face.
Thats if you can brave the outdoors!!!!!!!!

Now that you’re an adult and a father, just admit that it’s a stupid tatt. ;P

Captain RAAF said :

PBO said :

Captain RAAF said :

That’s some amazing stupidity right there!

Not the idea of getting a tatt but of getting a tatt of Belconnen’s post code. What a pack of c*cks!

I’m getting some inkery tomoz, and it’s Mjolnir all the way! Soon to be followed by Yggdrasil and Hunin and Munin, Thor fighting the World Serpent etc etc.

Soon, I will be just as tough as my missus with her felix the cat tatt!

Somehow i think that the only ink you have is the Flying Unicorn on your ankle……and maybe a tramp stamp.

What is it that they say about assumption?

Is that where the ass stretches and grows too fat and what was once a Bon Jovi emblem is now a rorschach print?

PBO said :

Captain RAAF said :

That’s some amazing stupidity right there!

Not the idea of getting a tatt but of getting a tatt of Belconnen’s post code. What a pack of c*cks!

I’m getting some inkery tomoz, and it’s Mjolnir all the way! Soon to be followed by Yggdrasil and Hunin and Munin, Thor fighting the World Serpent etc etc.

Soon, I will be just as tough as my missus with her felix the cat tatt!

Somehow i think that the only ink you have is the Flying Unicorn on your ankle……and maybe a tramp stamp.

What is it that they say about assumption?

Captain RAAF said :

That’s some amazing stupidity right there!

Not the idea of getting a tatt but of getting a tatt of Belconnen’s post code. What a pack of c*cks!

I’m getting some inkery tomoz, and it’s Mjolnir all the way! Soon to be followed by Yggdrasil and Hunin and Munin, Thor fighting the World Serpent etc etc.

Soon, I will be just as tough as my missus with her felix the cat tatt!

Somehow i think that the only ink you have is the Flying Unicorn on your ankle……and maybe a tramp stamp.

That’s some amazing stupidity right there!

Not the idea of getting a tatt but of getting a tatt of Belconnen’s post code. What a pack of c*cks!

I’m getting some inkery tomoz, and it’s Mjolnir all the way! Soon to be followed by Yggdrasil and Hunin and Munin, Thor fighting the World Serpent etc etc.

Soon, I will be just as tough as my missus with her felix the cat tatt!

what said :

Hi all, I’m one of the boys in that photo! I find it sad and quite funny that after all these years that, that photo is still circulating. That is the problem with society these days is that you people have no friends and no life, its people like you that are killing Australia, buy hiding behind your computers, where are your communication skills, better yet where are your friends? (computers don’t count)
I am now 30 years old and have a successful buisness, a wife and child, just bought my first house a little ago without any hand outs or help, just hard work.
I have been friends with the Belco boys for over 20 years now and we all still hang out on a weekly basis.
Please before you judge us take a good hard look at your self first and answer me this.
What have you done in your life that you can put other people down?
And if you can, try to find one of us down the skate park skating, come say what you have to say face to face.
Thats if you can brave the outdoors!!!!!!!!

+1, BELCO PRIDE!

what said :

What have you done in your life …try to find one of us down the skate park skating

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Hi all, I’m one of the boys in that photo! I find it sad and quite funny that after all these years that, that photo is still circulating. That is the problem with society these days is that you people have no friends and no life, its people like you that are killing Australia, buy hiding behind your computers, where are your communication skills, better yet where are your friends? (computers don’t count)
I am now 30 years old and have a successful buisness, a wife and child, just bought my first house a little ago without any hand outs or help, just hard work.
I have been friends with the Belco boys for over 20 years now and we all still hang out on a weekly basis.
Please before you judge us take a good hard look at your self first and answer me this.
What have you done in your life that you can put other people down?
And if you can, try to find one of us down the skate park skating, come say what you have to say face to face.
Thats if you can brave the outdoors!!!!!!!!

wwm said :

Before you judge postcode tattoos at least take the time to get to know the people and the reasoning behind the tattoos. The example of the Belco guys in the photo may portray a bunch of bogans but I think to judge them that way is very shallow.

From my understanding the tattooed Belco guys are a tight knit group of skateboarders who simply take pride in the fact that the Belconnen skatepark has always been rated one of the best in Australia and are proud to call it their home. Many of them own local businesses, help set up community events, are involved in the maintenance of the local skateparks and even pay tax too!

I only know a few of them but most are top blokes and deserve more credit for what they are doing in the community.

For the unintentional comedy provided to the community, these guys are surely deserving of OoA’s.

BlueShirtedMan said :

I think the best part about this photo is that two of the four are ex-Radford, would be in their early thirties now.

Their parents must be constantly pondering how else they could have spent those private school fees!

Why should their former schooling matter? Money does not buy class. You get douchebaggery from all walks of life. Some would argue that private schooling introduces you to different forms of ‘douchery’. Perhaps your point is that without private schooling they would have got the tatts anyway but would have used proceeds from crime or the free-tat service at AMC to get them done.

But as wwm said – the decision to have such tattoos, stems from a different pride with their skateboarding group and that work. So good on them. Perhaps the private schooling taught them some kind of respect.

Perhaps Blue Shirted Man is another former ex-Radfordian who is now without tattoos in a meaningless hum-drum life.

So is the angry looking guy doing the duckface a little person or something?

Before you judge postcode tattoos at least take the time to get to know the people and the reasoning behind the tattoos. The example of the Belco guys in the photo may portray a bunch of bogans but I think to judge them that way is very shallow.

From my understanding the tattooed Belco guys are a tight knit group of skateboarders who simply take pride in the fact that the Belconnen skatepark has always been rated one of the best in Australia and are proud to call it their home. Many of them own local businesses, help set up community events, are involved in the maintenance of the local skateparks and even pay tax too!

I only know a few of them but most are top blokes and deserve more credit for what they are doing in the community.

Deref said :

shirty_bear said :

Deref said :

What’s the gesture that the bogan on the right’s making?

Pointed upwards, it’s heavy metal’s devil horns (courtesy Ronnie James Dio RIP)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_horns

Thanks. So these morons are Christians/Muslims/Jews I assume.

What is it pointing downwards?

I don’t think it has any significance, pointed towards a person it is intended to invoke the evil eye, or, if you feel the person in questions has cursed you, to protect from the evil eye. Perhap he does think he’s Spiderman

Deref said :

What is it pointing downwards?

It’s what Spidoucherman does when you point a camera at him.

Deref said :

So these morons are Christians/Muslims/Jews I assume.

If they are Muslim, they aren’t very faithful, as it is considered haram. Still, as long as they repent, it’s all good.

If they are Jewish, some branches and temples consider it to be forbidden.

Deref said :

shirty_bear said :

Deref said :

What’s the gesture that the bogan on the right’s making?

Pointed upwards, it’s heavy metal’s devil horns (courtesy Ronnie James Dio RIP)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_horns

Thanks. So these morons are Christians/Muslims/Jews I assume.

What is it pointing downwards?

Um … do you seriously not know the horns? It’s got nothing to do with religion whatsoever. Have you never been to a metal or rock concert?

shirty_bear said :

Deref said :

What’s the gesture that the bogan on the right’s making?

Pointed upwards, it’s heavy metal’s devil horns (courtesy Ronnie James Dio RIP)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_horns

Thanks. So these morons are Christians/Muslims/Jews I assume.

What is it pointing downwards?

I had not noticed this habbit (guess I’m just not paying enough attention to Bogans) but in the spirit:

00davist representing 2144, 2148, 2019, 2577, 2575, 2576, 2600, 2905, 2906, 2602, 2615, 2622 & 2913 Yo!

Deref said :

What’s the gesture that the bogan on the right’s making?

Pointed upwards, it’s heavy metal’s devil horns (courtesy Ronnie James Dio RIP)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_horns

Champ in the photo seems to think he’s Spiderman.

2603, civilised and educated.

Hanksinatra said :

I hope the gentleman with the belco tatt on his arse is tough if he is a career criminal who lands in jail. An opportunity to disgrace that fine precinct.

2614: the number of times I’ve had my ass pounded in prison.

To commemorate his halcyon days spent working in the parliamentary triangle, an acquaintance got ‘2600’ tattooed across his lower back. A tramp stamp, if you will. But in order to assert his individuality (which is what the tattooed classes crave), each digit is encased by an Australia Post regulation orange box.

What’s the gesture that the bogan on the right’s making?

I think the best part about this photo is that two of the four are ex-Radford, would be in their early thirties now.

Their parents must be constantly pondering how else they could have spent those private school fees!

Jivrashia said :

Will Canberran geeks ever have the courage to tattoo their postcode “7334”???

(I thought it was 7334, but wiki says 1337?)

omg.. you definately fail at any l33tness with that post

I hope the gentleman with the belco tatt on his arse is tough if he is a career criminal who lands in jail. An opportunity to disgrace that fine precinct.

Danman said :

I always wanted to get a tattoo of the Big Dipper and see if the bogans could point it out in the sky for me. Funny, I bet most of the southern cross tattoo people would have trouble finding south by the stars, let a alone the southern cross.

Perhaps the perfect tattoo would be the south pole on the right shoulder blade, the southern pointers on the left shoulder blade. Make sure the axis of the two tattoos intersect just above your bum crack, that way you can explain the concept of the Celestial Pole to the locals 🙂

Jivrashia said :

, but wiki says 1337?

yes, 1337 = LEET = Elite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet#History

devils_advocate said :

*adopts air of superiority*

“Kind of limits your ability to buy a house in another suburb when you grow up, doesn’t it?”

I think it’s more the demographic these “these types of people”(TM) find themselves in that limits their ability to escape to more affluent areas, rather than any tattoo.

Do you think anyone with a post code tattoo is ever going to own their own house? or did you mean “Kind of limits your ability for Housing to place you in a house in a different suburb?”

…and did the well hard dudes in the accompanying pic not have the readies for the ‘nenn’ or are they just actual real bogans..? [rhetorical]

Danman said :

I always wanted to get a tattoo of the Big Dipper and see if the bogans could point it out in the sky for me.

Funny, I bet most of the southern cross tattoo people would have trouble finding south by the stars, let a alone the southern cross.

prefer pleiades, meself, but your point (no pun intended) is most excellent! 🙂 maybe if the stars were made of frangipanis they’d have a chance..?

Will Canberran geeks ever have the courage to tattoo their postcode “7334”???

(I thought it was 7334, but wiki says 1337?)

Good on them for advertising the Bermuda Electric Light Company Limited. http://www.belco.bm/
Or are they employees of the Belco Community Credit Union? http://www.belco.org/Home.aspx

Belco tattoo? I’m lost for words.

Still, it’s refreshing to see the youth of today comfortable enough with their sexuality to share such an intimate moment in front of the camera.

PBO said :

“2614”…….That means employed in postcode speak.

*chuckles*

All of these clowns that ape gangsters in the US and think they’re hardcore wouldn’t last a day in the areas that their ‘heroes’ live. This is just yet another thing for me to identify those with a low IQ.

I always wanted to get a tattoo of the Big Dipper and see if the bogans could point it out in the sky for me.

Funny, I bet most of the southern cross tattoo people would have trouble finding south by the stars, let a alone the southern cross.

At least by having the Belco tattoo’s they’re having pride in Canberra. Good on em’.

I don’t think I’ve ever known or come across anyone with a postcode tattoo! I mustn’t hang around the right people. Or the wrong people as it were. That photo of the Belco douchebags never fails to crack me up though lol.

Now, the dilemma…
Do you go with where you grew up? Where you first lived in Canberra/Queanbeyan? Where you live now?

I think I need to have a little lay down and think about it.

Still think its stupid we didnt get the 1000’s and stuck with NSW’s 2000’s left overs.

Its very hard to pick a tattoo thats going to apply to yourself for your whole life. Obivously these chaps feel they’ll never move!

PS it’d be great for taxi’s and belco wont be so ‘cool’ forever

2615 is half of Belco – Yo!

PBO said :

“2614”…….That means employed in postcode speak.

Tried buying or renting in Aranda lately?

I find the post code thing particularly weird in a place live Canberra where half a dozen suburbs have the same number, which can cover a whole lot of different types of people.

Its been discussed a few times before. Those who even have their postcode tattooed on their arm answered here: http://the-riotact.com/images-of-canberra-belco-yea/5065

poetix said :

2602 gettin’ smuggy

You’d be advertising a restaurant at the Ainslie Shops if you did that …

“2614”…….That means employed in postcode speak.

Tattoo = prima facie evidence of bogan status. Excessive identification with a place = serious image issues. Why advertise,unless it’s a cry for help? What’s the postcode for the AMC?

2602 gettin’ smuggy

Unfortunately, it seems that douche behaviour is becoming more and more prevalent in Canberra these days..

Question though, do you get the southern cross stickers before or after the postcode tattoo?

MJ

wow, lucky for me i didn’t get Quankers for life… as I live in Gunners now..

2914 Yo!

2617 Represent Yo!!

*adopts air of superiority*

“Kind of limits your ability to buy a house in another suburb when you grow up, doesn’t it?”

I think it’s more the demographic these “these types of people”(TM) find themselves in that limits their ability to escape to more affluent areas, rather than any tattoo.

It also help prove what areas the bogans live in.

So people with IQs less than 10 can tell people which town they live in.

Imported douchebaggery

So that Balinese authorities know where to ship the body back to?

I’m all for postcode tattoos. Now you can tell that someone is a complete dip**** without having to speak to them.

it doesnt limit your ability to change suburbs, it just means now you can tell people thats where you came from in a jenny-from-the-block kinda way haha