tattoos

[Gozer]

Tough to miss that splash zone.

[CaptainCrunch]

Grunt . . . Let me just dot the i's for you baby. Oh there's a little j too, let me get that

Bow chicca bow bow

[Winsor_Pilates]

Originally Posted by DESS

Their inevitable explanation of why it is special/personal/unique to them is also a nauseating conversation I'm sick of having.

This conversation usually only occurs when you ask people about their tattoos, so you could just not ask and then you wouldn't have to hear that explanation.
It's not people run up to strangers and say "hey look at my tattoo and let me tell you the story behind it"

[Matata]

Originally Posted by Ironhorse

This one gives a new meaning to WTF :

Every time I try and read the text, all I get out of it is "Be fruitful and multiply."

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Ironhorse

This one gives a new meaning to WTF :

What's love got to do got to do with it?

[CaptainCrunch]

Whats brilliant, is that when she reaches 80 and her back fat collapses compressing it down to a single phrase "Old and still gettin it on" she'll be the one laughing.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Whats brilliant, is that when she reaches 80 and her back fat collapses compressing it down to a single phrase "Old and still gettin it on" she'll be the one laughing.

Like a Mad Magazine Fold-In.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by troutman

Like a Mad Magazine Fold-In.

except with dirty talk

[GreenTeaFrapp]

Or maybe the Jehovah's Witnesses have updated their recruiting techniques.

[AFireInside]

Anybody else completely sick of tattoos? No matter what somebody gets a tattoo of, I find myself hating it and thinking it looks stupid. Their inevitable explanation of why it is special/personal/unique to them is also a nauseating conversation I'm sick of having.

I have a tattoo myself, but I'm getting it removed. I've had one treatment already and holy crap the laser hurts way more than the tattoo needle. But yeah, tattoos are mass gay dude.

I hate narrow minded, stupid posts. Also the laser isn't so bad. I'm getting an old one lightened up so I can cover it with some bigger nicer work.

If you get nice work, you'll be happy with it. I like tattoos, I like tattoos on girls. The only times I ever discuss my tattoos are when people ask me, which happens daily. I have about 50 hours so far, and am looking at (hopefully) another 50 or so in the next year.

I won't leave this picture up long, but here is one of mine. You can tell in this picture that my elbow had just been touched up. And one of the coolest parts of the tattoo can't be seen and its the creepy house on the inside of my bicep.

***picture has been removed. (not a big fan of having pics of myself on the web! although that picture is on a website already.)

[Peanut]

I could never think of a place on my body that I wanted a tattoo AND that wouldn't look gross and saggy by the time I'm 50. Ankle or foot was about all I could come up with - but both of those places means the tattoo would show if I was wearing a skirt at work. Therefore, I have none.

[Traditional_Ale]

I really don't like tattoos at all because I find they are all kind of superficial.

Getting a portrait/profile of a dead person or pet that you loved might be the only exception in my books, because you really would want to honor them forever.

No offense to AFireInside, but I would not want to honor that particular image by permanently etching it into my skin.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by AFireInside

I hate narrow minded, stupid posts. Also the laser isn't so bad. I'm getting an old one lightened up so I can cover it with some bigger nicer work.

If you get nice work, you'll be happy with it. I like tattoos, I like tattoos on girls. The only times I ever discuss my tattoos are when people ask me, which happens daily. I have about 50 hours so far, and am looking at (hopefully) another 50 or so in the next year.

I won't leave this picture up long, but here is one of mine. You can tell in this picture that my elbow had just been touched up. And one of the coolest parts of the tattoo can't be seen and its the creepy house on the inside of my bicep.

You disagree with him. That's cool, but it doesn't make his post stupid. He's expressing his opinion. So are you. You're both entitled to it.

[Kybosh]

I don't care if people have tattoos or not. The one thing I always wondered though was why does a tattoo need to have a particular meaning? Why not just get your cowboy riding a brontosaurus rex tattoo because it's a neat picture.

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by AFireInside

If you get nice work, you'll be happy with it.

Too true. That is absolutely key.
I also think that people regret larger tattoos less. It's when you choose to get a half-assed non-commital sort of tattoo that you regret it.

[DESS]

Originally Posted by AFireInside

I hate narrow minded, stupid posts. Also the laser isn't so bad. I'm getting an old one lightened up so I can cover it with some bigger nicer work.

If you get nice work, you'll be happy with it. I like tattoos, I like tattoos on girls. The only times I ever discuss my tattoos are when people ask me, which happens daily. I have about 50 hours so far, and am looking at (hopefully) another 50 or so in the next year.

I won't leave this picture up long, but here is one of mine. You can tell in this picture that my elbow had just been touched up. And one of the coolest parts of the tattoo can't be seen and its the creepy house on the inside of my bicep.

Well first off, I think it's nice that you posted those pictures to illustrate your point. I'm not big on posting pics of myself on the web so that took balls.

You clearly take this topic very personally so I'm going to try to tread carefully here, but honestly, of course people ask you about your tattoos - they're huge. I'm curious though to know if you think people ask you about them because they like them. If I knew you I'd say cool tattoos man because it would be mean and socially unacceptable to say anything but that. It's pretty unlikely everybody actually likes them though. Do you concede that they are a topic of conversation for some simply interested in the psychology behind doing something so dramatic to their body?

Anyway, take what I said with a grain of salt. After all, this is the interwebz.

[dissentowner]

I love my tats, all 11 of them and I want more. My skin is a canvas for artists, I love it. Everything I have on me has meaning though.

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by Kybosh

I don't care if people have tattoos or not. The one thing I always wondered though was why does a tattoo need to have a particular meaning? Why not just get your cowboy riding a brontosaurus rex tattoo because it's a neat picture.

Good point, and I totally agree that getting a tattoo just because it looks cool is a rational thing to do. I think a lot of the 'my tattoo has meaning' stuff is, for many people, just a sort of defence against culture that is conservative about body modification. My tattoos do have meaning to me, but I also never show them to people. Only people who know me well enough to see me with my shirt off get to see them. Still, I appreciate that others may have tattoos just because they look cool, and I can accept that.

[evilcougar]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

I love my tats, all 11 of them and I want more. My skin is a canvas for artists, I love it. Everything I have on me has meaning though.

Further to this point, maybe those of us WITH tattoo's think you all WITHOUT tattoo's are to chicken or judgemental to get one!
Everyone has a reason why they want one or don't want one, that doesn't mean that those of us who have some are "trashy" or anything else.
Each to their own. I totally get why people wouldn't want a tattoo, but being one who harbors 5 of them, i also totally get why people do want them.
As previously mentioned, everyone is entitled to their own opinions, there's no need for put downs for either side.

Take it easy on the narrow mindedness please.

I have 3 and all of them have a memory or meaning to me. To remind me of a time in my life or of certain people in my life. I got my tattoos for me, not anyone else. I put alot of thought into them and will like them until I'm wrinkly and old.

If someone else sees them and admires them, that's great.
If someone else sees them and thinks I'm trash, then fata you. I won't waste my time talking with someone that is judgmental of someone just because of they have a picture of something on their body. Get to know the person before you criticise their morals and/or background.

Just because DESS didn't put enough thought into his tattoo or do research into getting a decent artist to do it right and feels the need to get his lasered (TBH I don't know why you're getting it removed...) doesn't give him the right to generalize his opinion to cover all tattoos and everyone that has one. He can have his opinion, just don't paint us all with the same brush.

PS AFireInside: beautiful work! My birthday is Halloween, so I really appreciate the whole motif!!!