what is the world coming to... Jack the Ripper tattoo..

[missjef]

http://modblog.bmezine.com/2007/08/28/jack-the -ripper-portrait/ (scroll down under the image to alsop read the comments)..
i know what you get tattooed on yourself is completely up to you.. but i think this is a rather disturbing tattoo to get on yourself, and also makes me wonder about the person who had it tattooed on themselves.
What are your views on this subject? and the comments underneath the picture?

[Goodsoulette]

Thanks for that site Wardy. I have read a few JTR books and think it always makes a great whodunnit. I though From Hell wasnt bad either.

[missjef]

shadow man that definately is a scary looking woman.. and i shall be looking at that website and reading it at some point! thanks for that. :-)

Goodsoulette it just as bad really thinking about it.. i know they never found out who jack the ripper is, so its still just an 'unrecogniseable' image, but someone has obviously gone into a tattoo parlour and asked for a drawing to resemble what they think jack the ripper may have looked like. i just find something odd about wanting that tattooed on you. of course i think if someone wanted a recognised serial killer such as Hindley, or Bundy then it would be worse and because of that more offensive.
i find the fact that one of the women in the comments finds nothing wrong with getting a sleeve done of serial killers really worrying.

[zig_zag]

dont be taken in Goodsoulette ,mr mince has only proven himself to be ghost

[Shadow Man]

From Hell was good insofar as it showed The Elephant Man in full colour.

Interesting fact, which I have mentioned on here before, is that old potato head Joseph Merrick himself is believed in certain quarters as a suspect for the Whitechaple slashings. He was in St Thomas's at the very same time as the murders, before he was given a room in the hospitals and between spells in various Victorian Freak shows, he limped through the streets of the easy end in a huge balaclava maybe fantasising about women he knew he would never have. The bitter irony of The Elphant Man is his genitals were completely unaffected by the various conditions his cruelly suffered.

However, due to pressure from The Proteus Society, the web link I mentioned scrubbed Merrick from the suspect link.

Another wonderful fact from Wardy.

"Ssssssshhhhhh I am ssssnot an elephasssssnt"

[Shadow Man]

And David Bowie played The Elephant Man so I have done full research.

[Pippa68]

Was that 'Jill the Ripper' the mad midwife theory?

And yes..she was one shocking specimen.

[Shadow Man]

It was pippster. I quite like the theory of a woman being the Ripper, but in all honesty even with archaic forensic science in Victorian England, would the fairer sex be capable of such brilliance? Capable of evil, hell yes, a woman scorned in the Devil him(her)self, but elluding the authorites with such delicate detail and masterminding at least 8 murders without being caught? No, Mr Ripper was a man.

[Goodsoulette]

I also dont think a woman would mutilate a vagina...... I really dont!!


Wardy, what was the name of the suspect that then moved to America and similar murders happened there?

[Pippa68]

Well as they say the female of the species is more deadly than the male..but as you are talking about brain power I have no right to argue with you, Captain :o)

However I do agree JTR was a bloke.

[Shadow Man]

Francis Tumblety was a yank or a candadian and was clearly up to no good each side of the pond.

The one you are thinking of elludes me at the moment, but he is on the suspect list.

[Shadow Man]

missjef, see what I mean about Mr Ripper. Although I wouldn't have his tattoo, he still has a remarkable, yet macabre, interest in society.

[missjef]

i wont disagree there certainly is definately still an interest in the subject, i just find it an odd choice of tattoo that's all. seem's to me to be in bad taste really.

[Goodsoulette]

Who's been banning posts here? THere were 29 a second ago.....and there has been nothing , oh hang on I said the disgusting V word...... ffs.