OT: There are tattoos...and, then there are stupid tattoos

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Several years ago I was running a business and a young (early twenties) pretty girl that worked in my office was trying to figure out what kind of tattoo to get. I overheard the conversation between her and my office manager who was in her thirties. My office manager was telling her that she should get something small and feminine. At the time I was a guy in my mid forties, pretty far removed from their world I guess. I told her that if she wanted to really do something cool and different, she should consider not being the same as her friends and remain tatto free. They both looked at me like I had arrived from another galaxie.


Two or three years later I ran into her and her new husband. (She hadn't worked for the company for a while.) She introduced me to her husband as the guy she used to work for that talked her out of getting any tattoos. I had totally forgotten the conversation at that point. Her husband thanked me as he thought tattoos were ugly as hell.

Sometimes you can influence someone and not even realize it.
 
Mmmmkay. I guess I just love the color of skin. A woman with great skin really appeals to me. It makes me want to touch. A woman like that...wtf? Am I supposed to touch it or stand back, pensively rubbing my goatee with thumb & forefinger to appreciate the farken arts?

It's just not for me I guess...
 
Pretty woman...but she looks ridiculous. Ever see Jody Head, the woman who makes guitar straps? She's beautiful-and covered from head to food with tats. What a travesty.

And for your info, young Mr. Lung, I almost got a tattoo a while ago and changed my mind.
 
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When I was a young man of tattoo-getting age, in the late 60's when I was a teenager, I had two uncles who had been in the Navy in WWII. One in a submarine and one on an aircraft carrier, both had seen action at sea. Both had small, classic, tattoos on their forearms - obtained during their military service.

It was around 20 years since they had gotten them, and they were both now married with families, and they both told me the tats were a huge mistake.

Remember, these were war vets who had EARNED them.

And they both told me that if I ever got a tattoo, they would break both my legs.

So, I never did.

And now, when I see people whose bodies are almost completely covered, I think it's a shame. I don't like it, and I agree that it does nothing to distinguish you - since so many people are doing it.

And these folks will be sorry when they are 65 and sitting poolside on vacation. As bad as many folks look at that age, imagine the horrid sight of a sagging old man or woman covered with faded ridiculous 'art'. Nauseating.
 
The tattoo fad (in all seriousness it has been going strong for about 10-12 years now- so maybe it is here to stay), is an interesting one. What always got me is how people at a certain period all get the same "fad" tattoo and six years later look like assholes. The amount of people who have "tribal bands" that look absolutely stupid now is mind boggling. The same goes for the "asian character" fad. As well as all the flabby women we are going to see in a few years with stretched out giant butterfly tattoos on the small of their backs.

The other sad tattoo related fad was all the 50-65 year olds who suddenly decided that a $25,000 harley, $1500 leather outfit, and a $300 "Born to be Bad" tattoo really believed it transformed them into Sonny Barger. I have a friend who went through the wannabe outlaw biker faze- at one point every article of clothing except his socks and underwear said "Harley Davidson" on it (the final straw for me was when I realized that his belt said Harley Davidison). Luckily he snapped out of it before getting tattoos- he is in his mid 50's and seriously considered getting a spider tattooed on his bald head.

I once considered getting a tattoo- but could never think up of anything that wouldn't make me feel like an a**hole when I was 60. As DanC said- I have never met a man in his 60's who was proud of his tattoos.
 
Well, I'm not sixty yet, but I like mine. Last I checked, it's still a free country--I like that people exercise their right to do what they want, & I try & stay open-minded towards things that might not personally be my style. I hated it, growing up, when I got sh*t from adults 'cuz they didn't like my looks--F 'em.....marko
 
Aqualung said:
Yikes. I suppose old(er) people such as yourselves said the same thing about long hair in the 60's. All part of the cycle of time. You're young, do crazy things, old people nag at ya, then you become old and do the same thing to your grandkids.
I personally love a woman with tattoos. This woman is in her 40's and her ink still looks great.
Some of you might recognize her from the Blink 182 music video from the late 90's.

Tattoo's are generally accepted now in society and don't carry the stigma they once did. It is what it is and i doubt it's going to change.
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But you can always get a haircut if you decide you don't like long hair :wink: It's time-involved, expensive, and painful to remove a tattoo; imagine trying to remove that much ink? I'm only 28, so I guess it's weird that I'm a young(er) guy that doesn't like a beautiful woman covered in poor-man's Picassos. :) If you like 'em, go for it; like I mentioned earlier, I don't mind looking at rockabilly girls with ink at the car shows, but I wouldn't ever date one. At least my (future) grandkids won't be asking grandma why she got a dinosaur tattoo'ed on her leg and she has to tell them it was once a dolphin :wink:
 
And my posts aren't meant to offend anyone...just a little friendly discussion. If you want a tattoo, by all means go for it, it's just not for me.

Here's one that Bobcat Goldthwait got that he showed on Jimmy Kimmel:

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He noted how popular Chinese symbols are, so he got one, at least the craigslist spelling :razz:
 
I fall in the middle here. I have 2 tats, and they are both on my upper arm, and I cab still wear a short-sleeved shirt and you wouldn't know it. That's a reflection of me and how I feel about them. I got them after the age of 30, they mean something to me and I don't regret getting them. I also do not feel the need to flash them.
What I don't like (And I see this alot) are tattoos just randomly placed all over a persons body, with no rhyme or reason and hand and/or face tats.
I understand that they are more acceptable to society then they were before, but that's never going to happen 100%, which is my personal reason for not having them where they're easily seen.
Like everything else out there, tats are good if they're done tastefully and in moderation.
 
My wife's are on her back right shoulder(Humming bird acquired before we met) and a flower on her left ankle. Again, both are small and very tasteful. But if I had my druthers they'd be gone. These are the last for her, as she knows I don't like the over the top, down the arm and back tattoo's either.
 
I heard you can't donate blood if you have tattoos - is that true, or only within a certain time period?
 
I love the credo that the 50 somethings will relate to:

Getting a tatoo is like sewing your platform shoes to your ankles.
 
They're really nice when done tastefully. My wife got one on her foot, just a simple black flower with the word "constant" below it. Its part of her family crest from Scotland. Im getting one on my birthday (12/18) and its going to be my sons footprints with initials and his b-day.
 
funmachine said:
I heard you can't donate blood if you have tattoos - is that true, or only within a certain time period?
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here,they ask you to wait a year afer your last tattoo until donating blood again.


mike
 
I've certainly been aware of the increasing popularity of tats, and I seen them on people once in a while in my daily dealings, but we were at Disney World in Sept and it was still quite warm so many people were dressed in shorts and tank-tops. I was blown away at the number of people who had tats -- they were everywhere and some of them were really *bad* tats.

The tats appeared to be popular with folks from all social and economic backgrounds and especially popular with a large number of Europeans.
 
Ya know . . . tattoos used to be about rebellion and there were reasons for getting a tattoo . . . each image was there for a reason . . . to commemorate an event or remember someone or something . . . a life event . . . now it seems like people get tattoos just to try to be cool `cause everybody has one . . . keep up with the Joneses. . . most of it is pointless and purposeless . . . it is called body art..

It is like the “BIKER” thing . . . I have been an enthusiast for nearly 40 years. When I started riding I wore the black t-shirts, cut-off jean jacket, greasy blue jeans, chain belt, buck knife, engineer boots, etc. . . you get the idea . . . we were some bad mamma-jammers.

We dressed that way because we were rebelling against society, conformity, “THE MAN” . . . but now that same rebellious image is mass produced by Harley-Davidson (along with other) and people can buy that image with no knowledge, recollection, or concern for what it, or we, stood for . . . Harley makes more money off of clothes than motorcycles . . . needless to say I dropped that attire once it became vogue . . .

Bottom line . . . you can’t buy cool . . . when you can buy cool it is no longer cool . . . NAD
 
Getting back to my original post that started this whole thread......

Some others have mentioned the thug or gang or prison appearance of many of the tattoos we see on on pro athletes. Aside from looking bad up close (personal observation here), from even a short distance, the tattooed body parts look like they are dirty. Skin pigmentation of dark shinned people excludes them from being tattooed with anything other than line art. Branding and scarring are mutilations that just boggle my mind as to WHY. Thankfully, most piercings can grow back if the person stops inserting the body jewelry. But, those ridiculous ear lobe spools would require reconstructive plastic surgury to repair the mutilations. My son went through the phase, and grew out of it before irreparably disfiguring himself. I doubt that he could have gotten his good jobs in mainstream corporate America with ear, eyebrow, and tongue piercings still in place.
 
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How about old guys with tattoos and hairy backs???
 
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