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Friday Jan 06, 2006
The Barbed Wire Tattoo - Inkedblog Explains
Dear INKEDblog, Out of curiosity, why would someone get a barbed wire tattoo?
Barbed wire was invented in the 1800’s as a way of ‘taming the West’, but is often associated with prison camps and trench defenses in World War 2.
Historically, inked barbed wire was a coded tattoo. Russian coded prison tattoos are some of the most interesting and complicated in the world. Within the Russian prison system, barbed wire across the forehead represents life in prison without parole. In general, barbed wire tattoos all over the world signify confinement.
Lately, barbed wire tats were also made popular outside the pen, by Pamela Anderson. Rather than a coded tattoo most barbed wire tats you see now simply a current fad.
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i was always told a barbed wire tattoo that went all the way around meant u were locking ur soul in hell
Posted by: Christina at January 8, 2006 05:29 PM
i do agree with the original meaning of the barb wire. but the thing about pamela anderson made it popular is bull shit. Why not do some actual research into it and find the real person who first got it outside of prison. Stop giving the credit to celebrities because, A.) your to lazy, or B.)they paid you to say it
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Posted by: Trevor Baker at February 1, 2006 09:27 AM
I got my barb wire cause I did time, have a spiderweb underneath it.
Posted by: Chris at February 8, 2006 10:42 AM
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