Tattoos

[cabinetman]

I don't have any tattoos (yet), but been thinkin' about it. What's your opinion about tattoos? If you have any, what have you got, and where?...if it's OK to tell. Pictures would be interesting.

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[Pappy]

None here, and no desire to get any. Just not my thing but they don't bother me on others.

My sons and daughters in law are a different story. Both the girls have a fewsmall tats. Yougest has several. Eldest is the ink canvas. Osborn album cover over is entire back, Tigger on his left forearm are the biggest and both were featured in one of the magazines several years ago. He probabbly has 20 or so smaller ones over his body.

[toolguy1000]

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they are awful. i have never seen a tattoo on someone that i respected. a tattoo? why not just carry around a sign that says "look at me" instead. at least when you came to your senses, you could put down the sign. a tattoo is much harder to expunge.

[leehljp]

Not having any or ever having any desire to consider one, I have often tried hard to put myself into the place of others who do. I have tried to understand the want, need or desire to have one. I have wondered what it is that one would feel in getting one. Does it improve one's self image, make them feel better about themselves? Does it scream out or even subtly say something like "This is me" or "Look at me." Is it a matter of "This is who I am". Is it a matter of "I like this art." Is it an "identifier" with a group? Is it rebellion or defiance statement?

I can understand Art and have seen a few that look really great! However, in saying that, I have not been impressed with most. It seems like the difference in the really beautiful and great works of art are rare, while far too many are fuzzy looking made by "starving artist" rather than a true master.

Why and what purpose do tattoos serve to the wearer of it?

Then again, LOML says there are a LOT of things that I don't understand about LOTs of people, including her, and sometimes our daughters!

[BobSch]

I'm not a tat fan, never saw the need or reason for them.

I do think about all those twenty year old hotties and what they're going to look like in fifty years. SHUDDER!

[JoeyGee]

I love the irony of tattoos, in that once it was a sign of rebellion or toughness. Now it's almost a sign of non-conformity if you DON'T have one.

I am proudly non-conformist and do not have any.

[RAFlorida]

Have a few.

And wished I had none! Back in the late teen and early 20ish, drinking was my biggest problem and several times got some tats while drunk.
Trust me, if they were ALL GONE, I'd be a happy person...

[LCHIEN]

I never had any desire to get one. I have to admit I have certain stereotypes, profiling or prejudices, what ever you want to call them, when I see someone with them. I also wonder if that's exactly what they want me to think when I see them (is that reverse profiling?)


If you want to laugh at some really bad ones, try a Google search for worst tattoos:
http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&so...=worst+tattoos

[Whaler]

In 1957, fresh out of basic training in the Air Force, several buddies and I hit the tattoo parlor after a few beers. I just got one on my upper arm of a set of wings and propeller. Haven't regretted it but am glad I didn't get more. I think tasteful tattoos are fine but it makes me sick to see these people completely covered in them.

[Mr__Bill]

I don't have any tattoos (yet), but been thinkin' about it. What's your opinion about tattoos? If you have any, what have you got, and where?...if it's OK to tell. Pictures would be interesting.

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Are ya thinking about getting your name and address on your forearm? That way it's easy for the folk who find you to take you back home again.

I can see someone getting a tattoo for something that is meaningful to them. However the random pictures you often see often seem to say 'I wanted a tattoo but didn't know what so I got this!'

Now they are looking into the possible cancer risk to what is in some of the ink, not to mention the other health risk of what may also be on that needle.

That said, I have seen some photos of young ladies who were rather fetching in their tattoos.....

Bill

[drillman88]

I think as with most things moderation and taste go a long way. I dont care for sleeves or neck and face tattoos. I think some of the younger people who are acting on the "tattoo me everywhere with anything" fad may pay later in life through typecasting or descrimination of sorts.
I have a frind in law inforcement who has his childrens and wifes name tastfully done on his upper back and he andhis wife both have wedding bands tattoos on thier ring fingers that are covered with the regular bands. I like the way his turned out.
I have considered getting a family tattoo in a similar fashion as his, but I can't get past the risk of hepatitis and other diseases. I am not a germophobe by any means, but I am not sure if I could trust someone outside of a medical setting to do something like this.

[cabinetman]

Are ya thinking about getting your name and address on your forearm? That way it's easy for the folk who find you to take you back home again.

Not a bad idea, but what if I move?

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[annunaki]

Never had an interest in "Comic Book Arms".

Four years in the Navy didn't create any desire.

They are permanent reminders of temporary emotional immaturity.

Those people look like graffiti-covered ghetto walls.

Tattoos have never made ugly beautiful, any more than facial hair ever made an adolescent mature.

Women Tailbone Tats = Tramp Stamps.

To all you obese women out there wearing sleeveless shirts and waddling into the 7-11 in the early morning hours to get a breakfast burrito the size of a roll of paper towels and a few donuts ... those tattoos on your ankles and calves really DO make you look slimmer. No! I swear! They do! And those cigarettes hanging out of your mouths add an aura of sensuality that is hard to describe.

On the Positive side, Law Enforcement's job is made so much easier, with identification of "Perps"

[TB Roye]

Just think of what these people will look like in 30-40 years when every thing starts sagging. My daughter in law had a bunch from when she was on the street and doing drugs and such. She and my son changed their lives around and became stand up citizens he has two on his upper arm with his wife's and Daughter's and will his son's. She has had and is having hers removed as it bring back painful memories. She now is the HR person for a Nonprofit Drug rehab program here and dresses very professionally so the ones she has left are not visible.

If someone has a small discrete one that's ok, I have no desire or need for one. No it woudl be to hard and painfull, to many wrinkles and sags.

Tom
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[scmhogg]

I escaped three years in the 101st Airborne without the obligatory parachute or jump wings.

When my son was around six, he's 26 now, we scared the bejesus out of his mother with these transfers.