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No Tatt's here

No tats or piercings for me. I can't think of any of my close friends who have any either. Just not the crowd I hang with.
You sure see plenty of hideous ink and piercings though.

No, not me, nor my wife, nor either of our parents or grand parent, nor any of our combined seven siblings, nor any of our children, nor any of our grandkids.

Our daughters are both married to men whom are sporting ink.
(He says, with his head bowed in shame.)

That was funny. Thanks for the smile.

no,none here

So what crowd do you hang with? Do you have them disrobe for a "Tat Inspection", before they get to hang with you?

I love these tatoo threads!

Both of my folks have tatoos. They're in their late 70's now.

The trailer trash got them in grade school, Gary, Indiana in the early 50's, and shows their blood type.

The local government thought this would help treat the godless heathens after the soviet bombers attacked the Gary Works.

Just a little known part of the bizarre history of the cold war, good thing bar codes and micro chips hadn't been invented yet.

I think part of my issue with tat's is a couple of now adult granddaughters that are walking billboards, you see it's part of their artistic expression. We are talking arms and most of the back. I don't have anything to say about it in the sense they are adults, but I don't have to like it.
Seeing them as babies, and now walking billboards.

Almost 60 years old, I have scars and hard used hide. Hard enuf to keep it in one piece without destroying it on purpose. No tats ,no piercings or other "hey look at me sh*t". On my body just trying to keep it all healthy till I'm done with it. The Nazis tattooed the jews in WW2, somebody is going to die trying to do that sh*t to me. I don't care what others do or what's popular. Magnum Man

I don't know anyone, including relatives, who has any visible ones. All they do is advertise that you are stupid enough to deliberately reduce your lifetime earning capacity. People will not hire you or buy things from you.

They look like you have leprosy to me, especially as they fade and blur. I knew one moron who had "Julie" tatooed in large gothic letters on his forearm. What happens when Julie ditches him?

Forget about piercings and forget about earrings on men.

My dad went through WWII without getting one but a lot of those guys did get 'em. Growing up in the 50's & 60's I saw a lot of those tattoos on arms in short sleeve weather. In 1970; as a 20 yr. old Marine I ALMOST got one.... Until I recalled some of the tattoo regrets I heard from some of those guys. Especially one of my dad's pals named "Bud". One summer day circa 1960 I asked Bud to lift up his shirt sleeve so I could see the whole tattoo. When I exclaimed, "wow, that's neat!"; Bud told me: "YEAH, I thought it was neat too, back in 1943, but now I'm so damn sick of looking at it that I can't stand it anymore"... Now I'm glad I never got one; I think Bud was right.

Ron, that is much the way I see it.

My oldest daughter was married to a young man who got full multicolored sleeves, wrist to shoulder, on both arms. This while my daughter was waitressing to make the house payments.

He was in an HVAC apprenticeship at the time. He now finds employment at a call center. At least it pays the child support.

My grand daughters sometimes speak of how cool they think such things look, and sometimes come around showing off temporary tats.

Pa Pa is quite vocal with his disapproval of such graffiti on his lovely girls.

I don't have any. I don't need any help when it comes to ugly.

one of them has this nakkid indian princess thing crawling up her arm and half her back. The love of her life was a "tatoo artist" who practiced on her. I was with her about two minutes after she entered this world, and it does make me growl. They are divorced now.

About as disturbing as a woman I work with. Her neck, arms, hands, and visible portions of her chest are covered with blue outline drawings or script.............put there by her eleven to twelve year old son.

But hey, her wife thinks they are cool.

None here

just one

Did you get that in Deer Lodge?

nope....

Yeah, those boys are better than that.. (grin)