Piercings, Tattoos and Devil's Horns

I have no tats. I see otherwise nice looking people ruin (my opinion) their appearance with some of the now popular tattoos and piercings. I can't help wondering how they'll feel when they become older. Also, who employes these (again, my opinion) freaks? I, of course like women's "normal" earring piercings and smaller discreet tats are not unattractive. I don't mean to sound old fashioned but I guess truth is, I am in some regards.
 
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I have one small pastel colored tattoo, in an area that could only be seen when I wore my french cut bikini, back in the day. I still love it and so does hubby, it never has been exposed to the sun but for a couple of Hawaiian vacations. Pale colored flower with clouds and rainbow. Happy I got it, only one I have. Hubby doesn't have any. I think the people on that page, that go overboard like that, have some deep-seated issues. I've never personally known anyone like that, so I can't really judge...just going by what I see.
 

I have a tiny Blue Bird holding a rose in its beak.... It's about the size of a quarter and it's on my left ankle.. Some people say it looks like a marijuana leaf at first glance. lol!
 
I hope none of those folk ever get into a bar fight - too many rings/buttons/knobs to rip out!

They're a bit extreme, granted, but hey, it's their body.

I feel the same about the Care Bear I have on my left buttock ...
 
AZ Jim said:
I have no tats. I see otherwise nice looking people ruin (my opinion) their appearance with some of the now popular tattoos and piercings. I can't help wondering how they'll feel when they become older. Also, who employes these (again, my opinion) freaks?
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Well my daughter who is thirty has a tattoo that commences around her shoulder and moves down her arm to her elbow. Two lovely little birds, a couple of little rabbits and an assortment of flowers woven in around them all. And she works in a doctors office as the office manager. So there you go, that's who hires people with tattoos.


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I don't have any tats, neither does my hubs. My boys decided to get many tats tho.
At the hospital tats have to be covered. I'm not sure if anyone having visible tats get turned away from getting a job or not, but I do know I've seen people covering their tats. I can't say I've seen anyone with unusual piercings either. I think it's written in the dress code as a no-no for having either showing.
 
If I was hiring for a business that deals with the public, people with tattoos and piercings wouldn't get a job. They would be okay for factory work unless the piercings might be a danger around machinery.

It's funny, tattoos used to be a thing for sailors and most of them were fairly small. Now, at least in my family, it's the girls that get them. Four of the grand daughters have them across their back and down their arms. I don't believe any of the grandsons have any, at least not visible ones.
 
flowerchild said:
I don't have any tats, neither does my hubs. My boys decided to get many tats tho.
At the hospital tats have to be covered. I'm not sure if anyone having visible tats get turned away from getting a job or not, but I do know I've seen people covering their tats. I can't say I've seen anyone with unusual piercings either. I think it's written in the dress code as a no-no for having either showing.
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Why on earth would they have to cover their tattoos in the hospital? Is that some sort of archaic snobbery at work? Or do you mean they work there and thats an employment requirement?

Sounds like the doctors of Pemberton (a tiny backwater community North of Whistler) are very progressive. But I have to admit, I'd certainly give the OP body modifiers a second look. I wonder how bad they will all look when they get old and their skin changes and starts wrinkling and sagging. They'll look like they're made of wax crayons and they're melting I'll bet.

Personally, I don't mind tattoos (both my daughter and my husband have major tattoos on one arm), but strangely I've never felt that I wanted to get one. I think I'm too aware that my moods and interests change and it would be a drag to get an 'interest specific' tattoo and then a few years later, to fall out of love with that interest.
 
Debby said:
Why on earth would they have to cover their tattoos in the hospital? Is that some sort of archaic snobbery at work? Or do you mean they work there and thats an employment requirement?

Sounds like the doctors of Pemberton (a tiny backwater community North of Whistler) are very progressive. But I have to admit, I'd certainly give the OP body modifiers a second look. I wonder how bad they will all look when they get old and their skin changes and starts wrinkling and sagging. They'll look like they're made of wax crayons and they're melting I'll bet.

Personally, I don't mind tattoos (both my daughter and my husband have major tattoos on one arm), but strangely I've never felt that I wanted to get one. I think I'm too aware that my moods and interests change and it would be a drag to get an 'interest specific' tattoo and then a few years later, to fall out of love with that interest.
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Yes... The one I work for requires tats be covered... Most, if not all hospitals do... why? who knows.. unless it's a religious thing.. since most hospitals are affiliated with one religion or another... Makes no sense to me... but neither does forbiding open toed shoes, even for office people who have no contact with patients.... but they forbid that too.
 
Okay, I "must" weigh in here...:)
I'm probably the oldest person to get a first tattoo. Explanation follows:
I tend to do something extra for 5-year birthdays.
For my 65th, I hiked my way across Norway ... up to 10 miles/15 km per day.
For my 70th, I rafted the Colorado River in Grand Canyon.
For my 75th, I was supposed to do the Polar Bear Watch in Churchill, Manitoba. For medical reasons, I was strongly urged to forgo that.

So I went to visit family in Kansas City. Bought us front row seats at my first professional soccer/football match. And prevailed upon my grandson to arrange an appointment with Kimo...a tattoo artist who has a 3-4 month backlog of appointments as a rule. I made my own caricature of a cute little ladybug [ I make ladybug paperweights ], which Kimo did an absolutely gorgeous tattoo of on my upper arm.

Son, daughter-in-law, grandson, granddaughter-in-law all came to see how the old gal would handle being tattooed. Piece o' cake!! Any woman who has had kids would have the same reaction... I loved it then; I love it now :love_heart:.
 
I have no 'tats' and don't know anybody who has, but have no problem with other people having them.Especially if they are discreet and can be covered up when needed, like Phil's care bear [I hope it's rainbow bear hmmn?];)
 
I got mine as a 60th birthday present for myself. It was a "bucket list" item. My late husband was very opposed to tattoos and though he wouldn't have tried to stop me from getting one, he wouldn't have been happy about it. My boyfriend was Navy and he has the "obligatory" small eagle on his forearm.
 
My school girlfriend had a tatoo of her first two boyfriends on her breast. I can't help but wonder what long faces they must have now.:rolleyes:

But seriously, I Aways wanted a small tat but always chickened out. My skin is getting so wrinkly now that I don't know if I could get a decent one or not.
 
Well, SB, that article/pictures sure AREN'T for the "faint of heart"! Pretty Gothic looking to me, but, for whatever reason/reasons, that how some folks want to look. I remember reading about/see a photo of the kid that played Clark Griswold's (Chevy Chase) nephew in National Lampoon's Las Vegas Vacation. In the movie, he was in one scene and it showed his mouth locked with piercing rings. In the movie, Clark asks his brother, played by Randy Quaid, "how does he eat" and Randy says, "what can I say, the kid loves to eat out of a straw." And, when the movie was made, this is really the way the kid looked in real life. However, he doesn't look that way today.

Some people get pretty surprised when I tell them that I was in the Navy during Viet Nam and never got a tattoo. Actually, just before meeting my wife, I was considering getting an eagle tattoo on each forearm, but decided not to. Sure glad that I didn't, because my wife don't like them or the "today" piercings.

If I remember right, the whole "body tattooing" thing goes way back........to the days of the old Circus thing called The Side Show. I remember seeing a black/white and color photos tattooed ladies, but no tattoo's on the face. th78JSYI9T.jpgthJZ6XEP5L.jpg

For our own reasons, we don't associate with people that have tattoo's, if we can see them.

Guess the world is as wild today as it was back in the Side Show days!
 
Excellent pics, Rockr!

I'm reminded of a ditty Groucho Marx sang in one of his movies ...

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Lydia, oh Lydia, say, have you met Lydia?
Lydia the tattooed lady
She has eyes that men adore so
And a torso even more so
Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclopedia
Lydia, the queen of tattoo
On her back is the Battle of Waterloo
Beside it the Wreck of the Hesperus, too
And proudly above waves the red, white and blue
You can learn a lot from Lydia


(la la la la la la)


When her robe is unfurled, she will show you the world
If you step up and tell her where
For a dime you can see Kankakee or Paree
Or Washington crossing the Delaware


(la la la la la la)

(la la la la la la)


Lydia, oh Lydia, say, have you met Lydia?
Lydia the tattooed lady
When her muscles start relaxin'
Up the hill comes Andrew Jackson
Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclopedia
Lydia, the queen of tattoo
For two bits she will do a mazurka in jazz
With a view of Niagara that nobody has
And on a clear day, you can see Alcatraz
You can learn a lot from Lydia


(la la la la la la)

(la la la la la la)


Come along and see Buffalo Bill with his lasso
Just a little classic by Mendel Picasso
Here's Captain Spaulding exploring the Amazon
Here's Godiva but with her pajamas on


(la la la la la la)

(la la la la la la)


Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclopedia
Lydia, the queen of them all
She once swept an admiral clean off his feet
The ships on her hips made his heart skip a beat
And now the old boy's in command of the fleet
For he went and married Lydia


I said Lydia
He said Lydia
I said Lydia
He said Lydia
Ole!
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QuickSilver said:
Yes... The one I work for requires tats be covered... Most, if not all hospitals do... why? who knows.. unless it's a religious thing.. since most hospitals are affiliated with one religion or another... Makes no sense to me... but neither does forbiding open toed shoes, even for office people who have no contact with patients.... but they forbid that too.
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Do you ever get the feeling that some folks just like to make rules for the sake of rules?
 
Rocky said:
Okay, I "must" weigh in here...:)
I'm probably the oldest person to get a first tattoo.........Son, daughter-in-law, grandson, granddaughter-in-law all came to see how the old gal would handle being tattooed. Piece o' cake!! Any woman who has had kids would have the same reaction... I loved it then; I love it now :love_heart:.
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That's a great story Rocky and you sound like an adventurous and open minded old lady! Hooray for you!
 
Debby said:
Well my daughter who is thirty has a tattoo that commences around her shoulder and moves down her arm to her elbow. Two lovely little birds, a couple of little rabbits and an assortment of flowers woven in around them all. And she works in a doctors office as the office manager. So there you go, that's who hires people with tattoos.


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Very lovely tattoo she has. Many companies are aware of the differences in todays generation and as many millionaires and billionaires themselves sport tats, some allow them to be displayed some don't, you go along with the company rules when you apply and are hired for the job to a large degree. But in general today, having a tat isn't as big of an issue or stigma it once were. The ones in link are a bit much, but, to each their own.

Hey become a doctor, no one will care.

https://www.google.com/search?q=doc...Fweird-people-need-to-stop-whining%2F;500;408







Some historical figures of interest that had a tattoo or two.

http://mic.com/articles/78927/14-historical-figures-you-probably-didn-t-know-had-tattoos

Being single and not dead, I'm really fine with this any time any day, just for the fun of it.


I wrote this before posting what I wrote here in another thread.
I don't have a tattoo, don't ever plan to get one, but I have admired many I've seen and respect people as individuals. Are some tattoos not so nice to look at, sure, do some make me scratch my head sure, do some even make me go wtbleep was that person thinking, well, yes, but I don't sit in judgment of the type of human being they may or may not be because of a tattoo they wear. I've dated some retired vets/marines, in my day and they are very proud of the wings or whatever emblem they sport, in their day, of course they kept them in places they could cover them so as not to have them shown in their work environment. But this is a different time and good for those that don't face the same stigmas.
 
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