Tattoos????
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some of them saggy tattoos should create whole new scenarios 0 -
I will offend some, but I call them trash stamps. Worked in corrections 30 years and heard all kinds of stories behind them. 0 -
Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Act in haste and repent in leisure. These may be overused sayings but ring true for me. A friend told me it ain't easy and is painful to remove even a small tattoo. Bob 0 -
Dont have any and dont want any.
Nothing against people that have them, as members of my family and close friends do, just not for me.0 -
I've never understood the desire to alter your appearance and skin with tattoos; but I accept it as one of those personal choice things. I survived 8 years and 9 months in the Navy and never got one nor was I tempted to get one. Heck, I have enough visible scars from my "what the hell did I just do" moments!!!!!! 3 -
Every time I see someone with facial, neck, or sleeve tattoos, I automatically wonder if they just got of prison.
EDIT: What the heck is wrong with f a c i a l?
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I use to work for the Navy. Tattoos were very common, specially the boatswains.
Knocks me for a loop, when I'm in Walmart. And I see these overweight, middle aged, soccer moms. Walking around, with more tattoos than a boatswains mate.
The dermatologists, who specialize in removing tattoos. Are going to wind up, richer than Bill Gates. Removing these soccer moms tattoos. When it dawn's on them, how stupid they look.3 -
Tattoo makeup? What happened to your eyebrows? Were you in a fire? Oh well, like some paint jobs, looks good from 50 ft. 0 -
If I remember correctly if a UPS driver has tattoos they must be covered up at work.If you see a driver with long sleeves,gloves or a turtle neck in warm weather he is probably covering tatts. 0 -
Dad had a small one on shoulder that said MOTHER. He got it as a vet in WW2. Not a Mama's boy. Not a clue why he got it. Had a girl friend with small rose on shoulder. She grew to hate it and could not get the darn thing off. 0 -
10 years in the Navy been all over the world and not one tattoo. As a kid we had a sign painter across the street. I used to like to go to his shop to watch him work. One day I commented about getting a tattoo. He had a tattoo gun so he said I could try it. He did not put any ink in the gun so I could just see what it felt like. It hurt like hell. That was it for me, never got a tattoo.
I see so many young women these days with tats. I have some older Navy friends and their tats look awful can’t image how these women are going to look.0 -
To each their own.
"Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged."
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Some of the nicest people I have met, have had Tattoos.
Some of the biggest scum bags I have met, have not had any Tattoos.
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I have a few tattoos, as luck would have it, got them while in the Navy.
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Scumbag or not. The Tattoo does not make the difference. The Character does.
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There is nothing wrong with a small tasteful tat...
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In my part of the world the only tats I saw were on ww2, vets, carnival workers and such when I was growing up . Never cared for them . Don’t have one and can safely say I am never getting one . Wife and son each have one but that was over my objections
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Think I was behind the last guy, going thru security screening at the SF airport. That was an interesting half hour. 0 -
To each their own........Not my thing but no problem with those that choose to sport them.....
My sons are now in their 30's and back when they were in High School and College, many of their friends were getting all sorts of different tattoos and there was some real peer pressure to do the same....My bride and I wanted them to wait until they were older to make a decision they would have to live with their entire lives. So in our home, the understanding was out of respect for their mother and I, no tattoos or piercings until they were on their own and paying their own way in this world. It was also understood as we were paying the freight for them to go to college, that would end if this understanding was violated....
Some of their friends thought we were pretty mean, uncool parents ...but both sons followed through with the agreement, both finished their degrees and moved on in their lives and careers etc.....To this day neither has been pierced or tattooed. Both have thanked us for this whole process......
If either showed up tattooed or pierced now, it would be fine with me..0 -
I recently saw a young woman with a huge tattoo on the outside of her thigh. She had a small little boy with her, maybe 2 or 2 1/2. A whole bunch of very colorful ink on her thigh, probably a very expensive tattoo. She had obviously gained a whole bunch of weight during her pregnancy and then lost a lot of that weight. That tattoo was now over a thigh that looked like HUGE curd cottage cheese. All that ink and all that money spent and I had no idea what that tat was supposed to be. It had been stretched out and then shrunk. Really ugly!! 0 -
With all the marketing going on I wonder why there are no marketing tattoos. Something like a eat at Taco Bell tattoo would look better than some of what I've seen and mabe get get someone some income. 0 -
If I owned a business, i would not hire anyone who had tats, piercings or dreads. Just my $.02.6 -
I knew a gal who had a tattoo of a seashell on her inner thigh.
She said if I put my ear on it I could smell the ocean!21 -
So again as everyone said, tattoos are a personal thing. I spent 26 years in uniform and have several but that were all in locations that were easily covered in uniform (even with sleeves rolled). 11 years after retiring I did get one on my forearm. Everyone of them has a connection to something in my life or the family background.
Yes times are changing and businesses are not as reluctant to hire people with tattoos or piercings (within reason). I have a team that is mostly younger (programmers, developers, IT analysts) that have tats. I hire them for their expertise and they get paid very well for it. Tats do not impact their work skills or ethics.
Now I will say I look at the "homeless" on the street corners asking for money and they have full sleeves and legs covered in ink. That is not cheap, so they must get enough money to blow on that as well..therefore don't need any from me.9 -
My daughter got one of those "Tramp Stamp" tats several years ago, her choice at 30+ years old. She tried to hide it from me. We were visiting when she bent over, exposing it. I told her it looked nice, but in about 25 years, she'd be wiping it! I thought her husband was going to choke to death on his beer.6 -
I have several tattoos - but not what you think...
I still have the targeted radiation therapy target market boundary location point marks they inked on my prior to lancing my chest abdomen and pelvis repeatedly from all angles with invisible death rays...
Were I not a disfigured wreck I might consider some ink to commemorate things.
The face tats and neck tats and visible offensive content or scares the children freak show self mutilation scares me and is regrettable...
Look at these fools who are mostly fringe losers who became juggalos or followers of insane clown posse - who tattoo clown makeup permanently on their faces...
And find they are unskilled and virtually unhireable and must now have the stuff removed...
Lots of body MOD implants and steel rings and gauges and door knockers and devils horns or vampire teeth or elf kin ears...
That's not a good look as you age.
She who must be obeyed has a full sleeve and a trail down her spine done in the traditional method and patterns in Hawaii - a time long and painful trial...
In tactical scrubs you cannot tell unless she pulls a sleeve up.
How many not so hot now older moms have awful spring break back tats - that sunrise dolphin now looks like something out of Dante's inferno...
Ankle and wrist circles are very popular...
Yes the 300 lb gal pushing 40 in Walmart covered with giant Disney tats or stripper ink - wearing revealing way to tight clothes makes one want to vomit.
Marking military service or some adornment is just fine.
If your 50 and built like Joe rogan a sleeve is fine.
But some have gotten carried away - no mauri tribal tats or Samoan ink if you don't have the bloodline please.
Feel free to make your own choices - just don't expect my tax dollars to pay to fix it later - and don't complain that it's discrimination if some don't accept your look - you where not born that way you chose it...
There was a court case where a guy got fired from his job - they had a no visible ink policy - problem was the ink was applied against his will in a concentration camp.
Big difference.
Random thoughts...
Mike
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I always think of the hypocrisy. They complain that they don't have enough money to live on, but they can spend big bucks on tattoos. 6 -
I'm pretty sure they will regret it someday, those that have sleeves, neck and face tattoos. What I find amusing is when you ask someone why they got a particular tattoo they will say something like, to remember something. I hope my mind never gets so bad I have to get a tattoo to remember something. 0 -
I have one that says “ Shorty’s Bar and Grill, Chattanooga, Tennessee “ 0 -
Tattoos I thought were cool back in the 50s on men that had been in WWII and the Korean War. They were sorta like the guys that rode Harley's they looked tough back in the day but after suit daddies and soccer mom's started getting them then they lost something. I see grandma's with them today and that ain't cool. 0
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