Tattoos, like 'em, or hate 'em?

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Tattoos have grown in both how many people have them, and in how much skin is tattooed. My dad had a tattoo on his right arm, "USN', for his time in the Navy, during WWII. As he grew older, he was embarrassed by the tat, which few every saw. Today, it's fashionable to ink huge, visible portions of your body. I'm a purist. I don't like tats. To me, they screw up a beautiful body. And I don't get the symbolism of most people's tats. Who cares if you loved a band that broke up 20 years ago. Today, it's not a tiny heart on your butt, but a snake curling out your back, and up the right side of your face and head. Yet, other people love them.
 

Depends. i'm with Radish Rose, for the most part i figure none of my business. When i see ones i think are well done, art, i'll compliment the person sporting them. For me the biggest turnoff are ones that amount to hate speech. Why would anyone put damn swastikas all over their bodies and sometimes faces?

Don't judge people by them or body piercings either, some of the kindest people i've encountered were extensively tattooed.

Never felt strongly enough about any image to get a tatoo myself. Tho if i did it would probably be a "Semi-Colon" one.

https://www.upworthy.com/have-you-seen-anyone-with-a-semicolon-tattoo-heres-what-its-about
 
Looked through a lot of tattoo books at many parlors during my military days.
Never found one that I liked enough to have on the bod.
Now my skin is too wobbly so it wouldn't look good anyway.

Still think about getting one every once in a while.

What I have in common with my Dad who did 30+ years in the Marines/Navy and escaped
without one tattoo. That had to be tough to resist during WWII and beyond.
 
I don't get the appeal, other than it's a way for people to bond with other like-minded individuals and they can talk about their tattoos. Not exactly stimulating conversation for me, but I'm old.

Young people these days don't seem to have much going for them unless they were born into well-off families, since it costs so much for housing. A lot of them are just getting by and don't have much hope for the future, so they grasp onto the little things that provide them with some transient pleasure like tattoos and piercings.

What gets me is when I see panhandlers with tattoos. How do they have money for that, yet they're out panhandling? Plus, they're often smokers, which is also pricey.
 
I have one. It was a 60th birthday present to myself. Few have seen it.

I was taking a shower, "supervised" by my then-2- year-old great-granddaughter (as anyone with children knows, no one is allowed privacy in the bathroom when there is a toddler in the house). She took one look and yelled, "MOMMY! MEEMAW WRITED ON HERSELF!!! SHE'S NOT SPOSTA WRITE ON HERSELF!!!!!"

I like some tattoos, I don't like some others. But, the only thing that is *my* business is what I do to *myself*.......
 
The thing about tattoos in my mind is: they represent the wearer's mindset at the moment the tattoo is created. Later on, like most people do, the mindset moves on, making said tattoo obsolete, possibly regrettable.

One day at age 15 I decided to do a couple homemade tattoos, one was the Gemini zodiac birth sign, the other was my girlfriend's name. Now, I can't take credit for having any common sense at that point, but something told me that completing my girlfriend's name was just a bad idea, so I ended up just with the first letter "C" ...which people have been asking me about the meaning, for the last 55 years. ;)
 
Nathan said:
The thing about tattoos in my mind is: they represent the wearer's mindset at the moment the tattoo is created. Later on, like most people do, the mindset moves on, making said tattoo obsolete, possibly regrettable.

One day at age 15 I decided to do a couple homemade tattoos, one was the Gemini zodiac birth sign, the other was my girlfriend's name. Now, I can't take credit for having any common sense at that point, but something told me that completing my girlfriend's name was just a bad idea, so I ended up just with the first letter "C" ...which people have been asking me about the meaning, for the last 55 years.
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Yes... what do "they" say..."Youth is wasted on the young" 🤭
 
To me, most of them are pretty disgusting. It seems that a lot of urbanites just screaming to be noticed or to be different. My late wife used to say, "Wait until they are old with those tatoos; then you'll really see some people as ugly as sin." It used to be popular with sailors when they got drunk, I suppose but give me any 20 year old girl and I say, "Goodbye Sex Appeal and Hello Ugly." That this old timer's view. You might think they are the nicest thing since the invention of mother's milk. Each to his own!
 

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I think it depends on the person. I watched the Adele concert on ABC and even the little tattoos on her arms seemed out of character with the grace and beauty she portrayed on stage.

I'm sorry if this seems old-fashioned and misogynistic, but as much as I dislike them on men I find them even more out of character on women.

Bringing it back to men, I think the tattoos on Adam Levine from Maroon Five are disgusting. Just my opinion.
 

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