Holy crap! This dude must be, like, 100 feet tall!!

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R/C model A-10 'Warthog'

I don't particularly like Steven Seagal, but, he's growing on me...

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You can continue not caring for him, because he didn't do it.

original picture and a bunch of other photoshops here:
http://dimka-jd.livejournal.com/2757409.html

Damn.

I think I prefer to believe the Russians 'shopped his fingers out, then said "This is original picture."

Thanks.

Who knows? Maybe they did.

In Soviet Russia, they don't shop your fingers out, they chop your fingers off.

You're thinking of the *other* mafia, the Yakuza.

Gesundheit.

Friend of mine once suggested that the next step in body art would be the amputation of fingers. I held out for branding.
My new BF - and expert in all things Manga - pointed out that the Yakuza already severed digits. When I say new BF, this was back in 1995.

Haven't heard of any branding yet, 'cept that done for media reasons by hardline veggies.

Weirdly, I would love a brand.
I've never burned myself except by accident, but I've burned myself plenty. And my skin heals so slowly (even before my liver issues.)
Received wisdom is that if you have a tattoo you want anoter one. Not in my case, although I've considered an anchor for Bri - hope being an anchor.
But I'd rather have it branded than drawn.
I guess it's a matter of cost - they'd have to make a branding iron for each single person.

there are places that do branding, and other types of scarification body art

There's been more than the odd geek that's used a LASER engraver to do custom branding/scarification. clicky

I've burned myself accidentally on the collimated but non-focused beam on my unit (had the safety interlocks bypassed and thought the etch was finished when I reached in to remove an etched piece), but that beam had nowhere near the power density of the focused beam that comes out of the final focusing lens.

Is it weird that I still find it beautiful?

I had laser eye surgery. Didn't hurt, but boy did it smell. Eugh, I can smell my own eyeballs.
And the bruising from the device that kept my eyes open took a week to heal, regardless of what the TV adverts show.

I will get a branded anchor. When I win the lottery. That will have made Brianna laugh her tits off.

I followed a guy up the escalator last week who had his fraternity sign branded on the back of his calf. Guy was black, and I assumed it was a black fraternity. Seemed odd to me since his slave ancestors were branded against their will. But I guess he had his reasons.