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If it's flaunted in public (and those that I see ARE!), then being intrigued by it is my right.

So also is having an opinion about it my right.

Being curious about it doesn't automatically mean judging it.

Anyone who's flaunting a tat in public must be ready to bear disapproval as well as approval.

Being open-minded doesn't require having a hole in your head.

I judge beer guts and fat asses long before I do tattoos.

Tyson's tat is restrained, graceful, not at all offensive, on a face that can stand some improvement (like mine or 'most anybody's).

Doesn't bother me, but I still wonder why.

think the wife and I are finally going to get tattoos,

not going to try and keep up with our daughter, who sports more ink than I'd like although all the stuff she has, has been professionally done.


we're just going to have wedding bands tattooed upon our ring fingers

haven't worn a ring since I dang near lost my finger from my wedding ring within 6 mos of putting it on, it's all bent up anyway.


she was talking bout getting the infinity symbol and something else, don't remember what


mine's just going to be an inscription that encircles my finger, something romantic like

"got a hottie pregnant and now she's turned into this ball and chain"


yeah I know I'm a poet and a romantic at heart!

Not really, O neg covers most anyway...and besides, the left arm is probably the bit they won't find as that is the way the world works.

Tattoos are just markings...like a book, which gives the reader an opportunity for interpretation. The only fast rule is that a tat, which was done voluntarily, is an effort to tell people somebody something important. The message received is often not that which is intended.

There was a guy in Hong Kong in the 'fifties who's specialty was a tattoo of two pigs screwing, with "True Love" inscribed under the picture.

Then, later on, a customer could go back, and - for three times the money - he would turn the pigs screwing into a rose.

So..... if you see an old guy with a rose and "True Love" under it........... look closer.

Blood type � now, that's a down-right practical use that I hadn't thought of, especially for people with certain occupations!

My buddy's wife has pale lips and no eyebrows except those that she had a tattooer improve and provide. Now those are practical! If I hadn't been told, I'd've never noticed!

That could easily be misunderstood.

Not sure I get how pale lips and eyebrow enhancement is any different than a tat. Both give you something that God did not provide.

Not that I mind tats actually. But seems like the pot calling the kettle black.

I"m just glad my wife is as intended mostly... doesn't use much makeup, maybe a bit of face powder and thats it. No eye stuff, no lipstick and so on. Just almost as issued so to speka.

I have no problems with tats. If they are reasonable, and have significant meaning for the owner. I have ann ex BIL who survived 2 trips to the middle east. He had the USMC symbol tattooed on his upper arm. HE EARNED the right IMHO. My son and his wife had he GPS coordinates of the church they were married in tattoed on them on the 1st anniversary. Would have been OK if she hadn't walked out on him 6 months later.

What I don't understand is the "artwork". Most of it has no meaning, it is just an attempt at art and usually looks like crap. Both of my kids, 28, and 24 have several. I had no problems with the 1st, or even the 2nd, but it seems to be addictive. They both can't seem to stop.

I Have a "death" tribal that covers from my the point of my upper arm down to my "t-shirt" line. It represents my Father, my 2 grandfathers and one grandmothers deaths as they are all intertwined with each other, then there are 2 single "wing lines" that are friends I lost both of whom were lost in combat.

I have no issue with tattoo's or people with them. It may be the fact that I have a few. the ones that I get the most comments on are my calves, which have my son's name and birthdate surrounding their footprints off their birth certificates. Took a hell of an artist to make them look so good. Next up is a sleeve on my right arm for the 8 brothers in arms that I lost in Iraq. I get them for me, not for anyone else.

LOL
Yea,,,, I guess I should have said,
I have a few "tattoos" myself etc etc.

Babe had a portrait of John Lennon tattooed on the inside of one upper thigh, and a portrait of Marty Robbins on the inside of the other upper thigh.

From her angle, she couldn't tell how realistic they looked, so she asked a drunk, who was waiting to be tattooed, to critique 'em for her.

"I can't tell (hic!) who that guy's s'posed t'be, 'n'I (hic!) can't tell who that guy's s'posed t'be. But that guy in the middle is def'nitely Willie Nelson!

+1

This is one of the very few mistakes I didn't make when I was "young, dumb, and full of cum" as an old man once called me.

I don't think badly of people who have tattoos, and consider it their business not mine.

Nothing looks classier on a 65 year old woman than a saggy lower back tatoo. I am sure it seemed like a good idea at the time though.

Pithy and very true.

Never had a problem with the guy with a tattoo on his arm, or the girl with a little butterfly somewhere. However, the new fashion is to have large and numerous tattoos to which I have a visceral negative reaction that I don�t understand. It is a blind, mindless reaction that comes from some primeval part of me that says the person is sub-human. I suspect this reaction is similar to the way bigots react to people of color, homophobes react to gays, ets.

Because he's a bonafide stupidazzz.