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Originally Posted by YYC in LAX
Serious question. So if you had Valo403 tattooed on your body and I saw you in public, would I be wrong to judge that you live in or lived in the Calgary area and listen to HIM?
Would that be one of those "almost certainly" inaccurate conclusions you're talking about?
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Perhaps you need to re-read what Silver was replying to in the first place:
You think you can judge how someone is as a person based on their appearance?
To which he (she? I never get this right) said of course you can.
You'd be right about those characteristics of me (although somewhat dated now, eagerly awaiting a new album) but that has very little to do with who/how I am as a person. It's a very small detail, maybe it would allow you to strike up a conversation but that's about it. Tattoos can certainly give you some vague insights into what a person likes or maybe some of their personal history, but the majority of them aren't going to tell you who someone is as a person. At the extremes that may be the case, I'd say that a couple of thunderbolts on someones neck says who they are as a person, but most tattoos are just going to give you a jumping off point, if that.
I don't even have a tattoo, but I have a lot of friends who do and it's shocking how off I would be on them as people if I made a judgement based solely on their ink.