Tattoos

[wizbang 13]

Re: Tattoos

I have enough scars from accidental encounters with sharp, or hot items. No way I'm doing it on purpose. I can take a Donald Trump sharpie and draw whatever I want anywhere I can reach, and in a few days, It's gone..... Or I can refresh it.... I did an anchor and chain thing on my arm last year at some point. The manager of the food store, who has lots of ink said "I always wanted an anchor tat. Where did you get yours?" I told her, very seriously, she had to earn it, not just buy it. She nodded and said "I get it, I get it!".....

haha Doug ! heres my sharpie tat from when i sailed to looneyburg ."the jokes got old"

[Lugs]

Re: Tattoos

A mate of mine is a former Royal Marine. He had some "issues" a while back, but he's totally sober now and a very mild individual. He is however someone who you want on your side, rather than to be facing him - he's a real unit. Whilst dealing with his PTSD, he got heavily tattooed. And not just tattooed - his arm and chest tattoos involve heavy scarification in the patterns. A huge commitment.

[birlinn]

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When I was a kid, there was a kid who had a jacket with a texta logo on the back that said "Hells Angles" and I've often thought recently that it was lucky for him that tattoos weren't a thing then.

What- no Hells Saxons around then?

Must have been the guy that spray painted "Sid Viscous lives" on a bus shelter near me, way back.

[john welsford]

Re: Tattoos

Lots of Maori heads got cut off back in the day for folks who wanted a face tattoo souvenir

There is a considerable resurgence of the traditional tattoo among the Maori people, including the chin and lip tattoo among the women.
I'm good with it, its culturally important.

John Welsford

[john welsford]

Re: Tattoos

#4 I don't get, but if it is cultural tradition? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I come across these every day, they're not at all uncommon where I live.

John Welsford

[Kevin T]

Re: Tattoos

Tat up your body all you want, it's your body.

What I don't buy, and wonder what the motivation is to defend tats as some who have them seem want to do, but the claim that they (tats) are an expression of individualism, or creativity, or being a rebel, really?

Since it appears that the percentage of the population, at least in the under 40 cohort, is fully tatted, I truly wonder how rebellious and or individualistic the practice truly is. Seems more like a herd mentality to get one as opposed to not getting one.

[CWSmith]

Re: Tattoos

“A permanent reminder of a temporary feeling.” - Jimmy Buffett

The older I get, the more truth I find in that.

I mean, I've changed the pictures that hang on my walls, so...

[AlanMc]

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tats... always presented as "look how creative and individual i am", but are usually worn by the most boring, unimaginative, group think people i know. you want to make a statement to the world? USE YOUR MOUTH!

[johnw]

Re: Tattoos

Tat up your body all you want, it's your body.

What I don't buy, and wonder what the motivation is to defend tats as some who have them seem want to do, but the claim that they (tats) are an expression of individualism, or creativity, or being a rebel, really?

Since it appears that the percentage of the population, at least in the under 40 cohort, is fully tatted, I truly wonder how rebellious and or individualistic the practice truly is. Seems more like a herd mentality to get one as opposed to not getting one.

Perhaps they are rebelling en masse.

[Joe (SoCal)]

Re: Tattoos

tats... always presented as "look how creative and individual i am", but are usually worn by the most boring, unimaginative, group think people i know. you want to make a statement to the world? USE YOUR MOUTH!

Have you seen my photos ? My paintings ? My cooking ? My lifestyle ? People may call me a million things but one thing I’m NEVER called is unimaginative and boring , and I have a tattoo.

Keven it’s not a rebelliousness it’s just individual style like clothes, hairstyles, piercing ears or whatever. Humans have been painting themselves and the walls of caves for hundreds of thousands of years. I think you are applying the word “Rebel” to something that has nothing to do with rebellion.

[AlanMc]

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Have you seen my photos ? My paintings ? My cooking ? My lifestyle ? People may call me a million things but one thing I’m NEVER called is unimaginative and boring , and I have a tattoo.

i dunno joe, you still think ny has the best pizza. get out there and live a little.

[Joe (SoCal)]

Re: Tattoos

i dunno joe, you still think ny has the best pizza. get out there and live a little.

You do know I’ve eaten Pizza in NY, NJ, Chicago, Texas, Arizona, California, France, Spain, even Italy. I’ll be in Naples in September and I’m sure I will have more than a few pizzas.

The best pizza in the word according to me is Johns Pizza on Bleaker St NYC PERIOD end of subject. Get back to me when you’ve gotten out more.

[artif]

Re: Tattoos

tats... always presented as "look how creative and individual i am", but are usually worn by the most boring, unimaginative, group think people i know. you want to make a statement to the world? USE YOUR MOUTH!

"always"??????

[Jack Loudon]

Re: Tattoos

My daughter, along with her three brothers, grew up in an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community where tattoos were forbidden, so the first thing my daughter did upon her emancipation was get a quite a few tattoos. I think the tattoo's permanence may be a statement of the vehemence with which she rejected her upbringing.

[Kevin T]

Re: Tattoos

Have you seen my photos ? My paintings ? My cooking ? My lifestyle ? People may call me a million things but one thing I’m NEVER called is unimaginative and boring , and I have a tattoo.

Keven it’s not a rebelliousness it’s just individual style like clothes, hairstyles, piercing ears or whatever. Humans have been painting themselves and the walls of caves for hundreds of thousands of years. I think you are applying the word “Rebel” to something that has nothing to do with rebellion.

Take the word rebel and rebellion then out of the equation, though tattoos in the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's were seen as the act of the "rebels" "Rebel Without a Cause" and so on.

But the claim that it is some kind of individualistic identifier, now that is horse hockey as everyone seems to be getting one, even the 78 year old granny down the street got one. Doesn't seem so much of singular statement but rather more of a "hey look at me, I'm just like everyone else that got inked up." When I see someone at the beach that doesn't have body art, that stands out as unique.

My question has always been, how at 17 or 27 can you be sure that the flaming skull with a dagger through the side of the head is going to speak to who you are at 45?