Don't have any ink. No regrets.

I can appreciate the art and skill. I can also appreciate strong memories and emotional ties.

Thoughts?

Nope…No regrets that I’m “tat-free”! But, I wad never one of the “cool kids” either……maybe “tats” would have changed that! 😂 memtb

I got one of a mosquito that turns into an eagle.

Sometimes scares the wimmins.

My father had one one his hand when he crossed the southern cross in 1942 always said don't get inked. Never have

Got a few. 1/2 sleeve on left arm, a single tattoo on my right arm.

No regrets and I really don't even notice them much anymore, but doubt I ever get another.

We live close to the shortest mountain range in the world.

I had an old crop duster tell me once that he could always tell where home was when he saw The Sutter Buttes and I told my girls that story a bunch. I pointed them out to my daughters every chance I got with the hopes they would get familiar with them and know where they were in our valley.

I'm not big on tats, but my daughters all wanna get one of The Sutter Buttes because of me.

I'd probably get one as well, but I'd never tell them until it was go time!

LOL

My dad always said that a tattoo was a permanent reminder of temporary insanity. That being said, I have a couple and like them.

I had a friend who would drink ink and bite people.

Nope. Not my THANG!

Good ink is cool.

How much ink is the right amount? No idea.

I’ve got two.

Don’t like tats on faces. Same for harpoon holes in the face. Keep it below the neck line, would be my only suggestion.

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Ink free.

When grandpa upped for the Navy in 43 he said great grandpap kept telling him to not forget his body wasn't a billboard.

I have 1. Wife has a full sleeve and one across her stomach to hide a shi..tload of scarring from a half dozen abdominal surgeries.

I ride a Harley, and I have many. My only regret, getting old.

Beats the alternative.

Valkyrie?

Tattoo ...old Indian word for bad decision maker !

Not one single regert.

No ink.
But I don't care how many someone has either. If that's your thing,knock yourself out.

Never saw a tat I admired.

If you want to see some bad ones with Chinese or Japanese characters, there's a Youtube guy from Japan that translates some of them. Many time they don't say what the person thinks. Some are ridiculously stupid.

I have 5. All 5 are on my forearms. I waited until I was over 40 so I could make sure it was what I wanted. My first tattoos are whitetail antlers. One on each arm. Second was my brothers initials when he passed away at 45, I was 47. While i was getting my brother’s initials, i got cactus on my left arm below brother’s initials. 5th was a stick man shooting a bow on my right arm, looks like cave art. If I get another, it will be a roadrunner on right forearm.

Had a bunch from Cracker Jack and Capn Crunch

but the washed off in a couple days

No regrets, ever

I've yet to see a woman that looked better
because of the ones she had

A woman I occasionally diddled with decades
ago reappeared a couple of years ago, and
I guess right after us parting she had more
than a few done and a good many visible
on arms and back and neck up to the bottom
of the ears. After all those years it looked as
if she'd fell out of a truck bed on the highway
and was bruised all over.
Not very pretty or complementary in any way

Doubt they get them to make themselves more attractive.

I've heard more than one person say, they knew they were close to home when they can see the Buttes.
It is something special.

Yep, and proudly, here.

I'm ink free too.
I have nothing against them, some of those artists are very talented.

Dying young

Damn kids!

Now that I think of it, a simple black line delineating the peaks of the smallest mountain range in the world would look pretty cool. If I was in to tattoos.

No tats here. Never felt compelled or lacking enough to get one.....

I've collected enough scrapes and identifying marks by accident to ever consider getting my body mutilated on purpose. Isn't putting scars on one's body a sign of mental illness?

Oh Tattoo, You've done it again...

The Buttes are in your face if I hunt the fanily rice in Live Oak. And no ink here.

My wife don’t regert hers



And neither do I

Agreed.

Got 1, Osprey my favorite bird, been around them all of my life. No regrets and I would do it again. Left arm up high.

I don't have tattoos - I have scars!

I got one or two no regerts and I could give a f what anyone thinks about them. Walk a mile in my shoes…

Ain’t got none, younger two kids and my boys wife have a few apiece.

I have none but both boys and their wives have them.

No, not really. Though I did offer to kick my Daughter's arse up around her ears when she thought of getting one.

I think a lot of people that get them due to emotions at the time, end up regretting them.

None!

One of my middle school buddies was over having dinner with us shortly after getting an earring. We were probably about 13. My father looked at him, looked at me, and said: “you ever get one of those I’ll rip your damn ear off.”

It was a pretty quiet dinner.

I regret a lot of decisions that I have made during my life but getting my tats are not among them.

I agree 100%

Nope ...... Don't like them, esp the large obvious ones on women.

I work with a 1st Nations guy that has a small inuksuk tat on his arm. I can appreciate that a lot more than Chinese script on some dolt's neck.

Don't have or want one.

I have my Dads name on the inside of my left wrist.

I lost him almost 30 years ago

Not my cup of tea! Just for that reason! Regrets, anything that i did have imprinted into my skin would be looked at as mistake sometime later. Why pay for a mistake with $.

My great grandfather Frank had a mermaid on his forearm. He repeatedly told us never to get one and that we would regret it if we did. I am not sure that is the reason I never got one. I got no issues with them.

Tat Free ,it's your body.

Not for this old kid.

My dad and uncles had plenty of tattoos all over them. Dad always said to get one if you want to but keep it decent and a place that a dress shirt can cover. Me and my brothers are all mid 30's and older with no tattoos at all.

Got one
It's 38 yrs old and looks like chyt...
Covered up under shirt sleeve on left arm.
Btdt... felt no desire again to get anymore.

I’ve always wanted a tattoo of a butt with a tattoo of a butt on it.

On my butt.

I have two. Don't really give a rat's azz what other folks think about the subject.

Lol!!!
3 young drunk E5 11B,s in Stuttgart got tats 1 night.

Looked " good" for about 8 or 9 years .

Had 1 needle line crisp black for everything which is the fuzzy blooming blob everything now.
Colored in with reds, burnt orange yellow, white, green eye.
Black outlines went deep to hold.
Color went in shallower due to 3 and 4 needle application.
Give it another 30 or 40 yrs the black will work its way outward like the colors did and disappeared....
Blah blah blah..

Anyways this is what they look like 38 yrs later.
Some beleive when they get them they "last" all nice and fresh.
Give it some time.
Skin is a organ constantly replenishing itself outward.
I have never seen a tat on a person with alot of age on it look good....

🥴🤪🤔😖🤣🤣🤣

I wonder if people who wound up with words that are spelled incorrectly regret getting them.

I told my daughter that if she thinks me wearing old style clothes is bad, how would she like to wear the same old, outdated design for the rest of her life?


They always look like bruises and nobody beyond family ever gets close enough to read them.

Never got a tat, ditto for a perm or earring.

I have one that says "Shorty's"..............when it gets hard it reads "Shorty's Bar and Grill Albuquerque, New Mexico 505-276-3723".

Great for IDing people if .Gov ever wants to put us in "our place".

My disposable cash went some where else.

This ^^ Neither of my kids have one. My daughter in law has one. She doesn't let her kids see it.

kwg

I don't have one myself, but 8-10 years ago almost all the young guys I work with were getting tat's like crazy.

The tat craze seems to have died off now. Almost none of the young guys I work with are getting them anymore. Maybe it isn't as cool or edgy if everybody has one?

Absolutely no regrets.

They are a personal thing.

Tatted people are just like any other group of people. Good, bad, mental, selfish, generous, intelligent, not so intelligent.

How I see it and in a world that fell for the bs of NFT's - a tat is, at least, something you really do own - from an art perspective.

Have 3 and no regrets. Got my first when I was 50.

None myself. Growing up around lots of vets I noticed them often. Few looked good. If they had text it wasn’t very legible anymore. While I do remember getting some advice not to get a tattoo the recollection of how they age is what kept me away.

Today they seem mainstream. Don’t notice them as much anymore. Not something that adds beauty to an attractive woman in my eyes. Each to their own though.

Skill and technology most certainly better. They may last and stay sharper as they age, more so than the ones I remember in my youth.

I have half sleeves on both upper arms, 2 on my chest, 1 on my stomach no regrets. I do regret not getting full sleeves on both arms.

I've got two on my back to memorialize hunting in Africa. Leopard and Buff. You wouldn't know it unless I take off my shirt. If I ever kill another of the big five I'll get it inked, too.

Will likely get another to memorialize rafting adventures. Upper arm/shoulder.

I have seen several on Guys at work with mispelled words. Have seen a

No Regerts!

None for me. Never been a joiner or the look at me type.

I always wonder if they are unaware, or if, like some on the 'fire, are proud of it.

Enough scars as it is on my ole' body.

Got 1. It's just there. I don't think much about it.

Dess;
Good morning to you, I trust the last day of the second month is shaping up appropriately.

When I saw the thread title, it reminded me of the Corb Lund song with the same one.



Best to you all, inked or not.

Dwayne

Corb is great.

Always loved this one.

Teal;
Morning my cyber friend!

Hope you folks got a little less snow than we did and that you're all well.

If you ever get a chance to see them live, they put on a pretty good show or at least have the 3 times we've seen them.

They don't have a playlist for the night apparently. The do an opening song, Corb interacts with the crowd and then they wing it. Wild no?

On the tattoo thing, both of our daughters are artistic and loved to watch a couple of the tattoo shows on whatever channel they were on.

I thought they'd have some already, but so far they've not done so.

Best to you all on the last day of the second month.

Dwayne

Never got one. Seen a few good ones, and seen a lot of bad ones. Some just look like graffiti.

Thanks sir - we don't get decent music acts here too much anymore. I'd have to go to Milwaukee, Chicago or Minneapolis to catch people who can legitimately charge more than 20 bucks to see them but if Corb comes up - I'll go. You can tell he's got a sense of humor by his songs.

I have 4, 2 in the 70's while in the service, and 2 at age 60. No regrets whatsoever.

Got a classic late 90s/early 2000 tribal on my arm.
It’s a time piece for sure! Lol

Well played!

ink free

No ink here. Wife's grandfather had a couple on his forearms from 1920's . HE was greatly ashamed of them and I never saw him outside without a long sleeve shirt.

Not going to let you be buried in a Jewish cemetery now...

I always find these tattoo threads interesting.

Why would I care what someone does as far as tattoos or shooting 270-s for that matter.

I have one.
Don't regret getting it.
Don't plan to get any more.

No ink.

Thought about getting one in the 90’s. Came back to my senses before I did.

Ron

"Permanent reminder of a temporary feeling" is how my friend described it to his daughter. There was a beautiful lady around here working various places with so much blue ink all over her exceptional body. It was just a distraction, nothing more. She was so exceptional, with attitude to match, you would never question it at all. But damn....

A friend came back from the Army with a forearm tattoo, when I asked about it, He said, I got drunk.

???
Then why did you get that big dick tat on your forehead?

Tom might not be the sharpest arrow in the quiver.

Newlyweds? Within a month my last name would be following my wife's first name.

Was it a tat, or just you putting your uncircumcised wiener on me again while I was sleeping with your mom?

We need family therapy to discuss your jealousy.

Lol

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None, no regrets

Dess: No... never wanted one and in fact hold them in somewhat low esteem!
Such an amazing high percentage of felons I arrested over a 29 year law enforcement career had tattoos that I naturally look with suspicion upon tattooed people.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Never saw the appeal but live it up.

I knew a guy in the USARMY who had the MTV emblem on his arm....I always wonder what happened to him

No regrets here.no personal tats either.

Suppose I am prejudice at some level. Been initially attracted to a few women. Find the human form can be very attractive. Ink on human skin live or dead is a turn off for me in a pretty strong fashion. Can't explain this other than it just is true. So I suppose I have found myself regretting finding Ink in places not on my body that were a turn off to me. Suppose Holocaust lamp shades go through my mind.

Put the same art on canvas & Ill be a fan better than 9 times out of ten.

No tats. No regrets.

Not a fan of graffiti in any of its' forms.

None,some look really good on women till they hit 60 ish.
But-- to each his own.

Never saw a need to decorate my body with chit

Daughter got one when she was in college and now she can't eat shellfish because the ink made her allergic

Nope, I listened to my old man, "tattoos are for white trash and convicts", no regrets and that includes making it through a career in the USMC, an extremely heavily tattooed bunch, with nary a one.

See a lot of cops with sleeves these days...must get confusing for a Varmint out there.

yup hot stuff devil, dumb '70's tat. covered up with a tattoo i now love!

Your name " Third Leg Larry" ?

Dude, mom’s not that bad of a trashy whore. You sure you didn’t get her mixed up with that Rosie blow up doll I sent you?

On second thought, maybe that was me.

Roofies do weird things to me, OK?

It's a vageyena.

I just remember tramp stamps being a thing 20 years ago, seems every girl I ran across had one. I wonder I how they explain them to their kids they have now.

I dont have any, you dont put a bumper sticker on a mercedes

Nothing says “hire me” like a face or neck tattoo.

Ink free, as is my whole family.

I will be an investor in the first quality tattoo removal company that makes a clean canvas and doesn’t use lasers or a belt sander. Big $ to be made there.

Sofa king ugly to boot.

To hell with tats! I'm wanting to see the Dumba asses start putting a 7" plate into their lower lip like the Wahtusi do!

Regret things you didn't do, never things you did.

I had my SGT stripes tattooed on my pecker.......



I still pull rank.

"This is my rifle, this is my gun ..."

My wife and I were sharing a elevator with a Dr. and a heavily tattooed lady. After the lady got off, the Dr. turned to us and said, “I have found over the years a persons probability to pay their bills goes down in correlation with the number of tattoos they have”

My association with tattoos has not been positive. My first (late) wife was dealing with lung cancer and the oncologist identified a spot that they thought called for a radiation treatment. They mark the spots to aim the laser with a tattoo. She went in the next week, but she had lost weight that week such that when they hit her with the radiation in those spots they fried her esophagus instead of the tumor.

Her #3 son got awful tattoos of skulls with long hair and a top hat up and down his arms and couldn’t understand why the grocery store where he worked insisted that he wear long sleeves when he worked there. One day he didn’t go in to work because he had taken my 20 gauge shotgun, put it in his mouth and pulled the trigger. After finding him I was going to be the one that identified the body at the funeral home and there was no way that I needed to see what was under that sheet again. The tattoos were enough. He was not a good influence for my own son.

I actually met the lizardman (google him) at a concert in Atlanta a few years back, buddy and I drank a couple beers with him, he was very well spoken and just seemed like a great person. After a few minutes you didn't even notice all the tattoos and body mods...just a normal guy.

Getting them removed can be a pain in the butt.
https://www.kaotic.com/video/20067cdb_20230303020519_t

Holy sheet that’s funny 😄

We used to have a boat captain with Born to Rise Hell on his chest. He also had Ne regerts. Had another one spelled wrong can't remember what it was though. He was covered with tatts some professional but mostly jailhouse.

Years ago, had a student, she was probably 16 (?) Kid in her neighborhood got ahold of a tat gun,
She had one on her ankle "Angle" Supposed to be "Angel"

Another kid (same neighborhood) Had one across the back but it wasn't centered, and it was mis-spelled, Something like candyland or candy man, or something,,,

A lad in Crestview, FL. , Brad, got OUTLAW on his lower stomach, wrote in an arching design. Artist forgot the U so - OTLAW . Brad then tried to cover it up with some homemade ? tattoo gizzy.
I told his cousins who told me about it , he should have left it alone having it spelled wrong was gangster .

I later saw the tattoo and could still make out the spelling, Brad didn't like talking about it. laf.

never understood the appeal of the damn things...

I wasn't born to be a bill board...and no I don't have any of the damn things..

I don't understand the current fad of people getting them all over themselves..

but its their body, not mine...

My doctor told me that tattooed people are the most likely to not be able to deal with pain.
The conversation started with a discussion of how much a shot "hurts", lol