Millennials and Gen Z have ruined it.

TX-Dennis · #51 09-13-2023, 12:52 AM

No tattoos for me. My son told me a few of years ago that he wanted to get a tattoo when he turned 18. I asked him to do me a favor and wait until he's 21. Then if he still wants it to go ahead. To my surprise he agreed. Now approaching 21 he told me a few days ago that he's definitely getting a sleeve done on his left arm after his birthday.

It's okay with me. I just didn't want him to do something at 18 that he'd regret at 20. Hope he won't get anything done on his face or neck, though. That seems to be increasing in popularity recently. He says he won't. He's a man of his word, so I believe him.

alwslate · #52 09-13-2023, 06:00 AM

For awhile way back when I was a lot younger I thought about getting a tat. Now I'm glad that I didn't.

Heinz · #53 09-13-2023, 07:53 AM

In today's world, they will need to start tattooing their preferred sexual identity.

pawngal, I remember a girl who sat across from me on a commuter train in Berlin who had a wonderful dragon tattooed across her upper bosom. Probably 20 years ago now and I still remember it as one of my most scenic commuter train rides.

Iggy · #54 09-13-2023, 08:34 AM

I see so many gals that are very attractive until I see they’ve ruined everything with tattoos and rings in their noses.

Yuck!!

GypsmJim · #55 09-13-2023, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Rustyt1953

I am guilty of having profiled people and have been proven wrong far more often than right.

Well, you've been lucky. Every time I see a metal or ink adorned individual I expect bad customer service and they always prove me right.

desi2358 · #56 09-13-2023, 11:49 AM

I see way more tatoo than I care too working retail. Not a fan of tatoos or piercings. A small, artful tatoo is one thing but so many seem to be covered in "artwork" that is often, at best, poorly done. And it doesn't age well, colors fade or run together. From a distance they just look dirty. Many young women slathered in ink that just detracts from their own body, what will they look like on twenty or thirty years? One lady I know personally has been back more than once to have a tat lasered off, have to wonder about long term effects on her skin.

As to the piercings, so long as they stick to something basic. at least if they take them out the skin will eventually heal. The extreme examples though would require quite a bit of cosmetic surgery to ever have any kind of "normal" appearance again. I suspect the ones that go overboard are more excited about "shocking the normies" and never consider the effects of aging (and being able to make a living) that their bizarre mods may have down the road. Much like facial tats they seem to say "I will never fit in to society at all"!

Xfuzz · #57 09-13-2023, 12:06 PM

We walk the beach daily.
At peak summer time it is remarkable what some
of the young ladies wear or don't wear.

Basically a Vag patch and nip covers and that is it...
The tats are from one end of their bods to the other.
Makes me wonder when dignity was cancelled.

Buford57 · #58 09-13-2023, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Chubbs103

My grandfather got the name of his girlfriend tattooed on his forearm before deploying in WWII. They were supposed to get married. It turns out she chose to do so before he came home.

I always thought there was a lesson in that story about choosing the right tattoo.

I've never felt the need. I've also seen some really good (and really bad) ink over the years.

My dad had a bluebird on his left bicep with a solid blue ribbon under it. He got it in Korea. When I was about to get married he told me the ribbon originally contained the name of my fiance. (Same name, different woman). He had it altered when he met my mother.

About 15 years ago the Sgt. in charge of background investigations for CHP told me that their regs prohibited visible tats. Said it was really tough telling a Marine with the EG&A on his forearm that he'd be spending his entire career in winter shirts.

RobertJ. · #59 09-13-2023, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Rustyt1953

It's refreshing to know that people still gauge others by appearance.

"I try my best to be just like I am
but everybody wants you
to be just like them"

Bob Dylan

from "Maggie's Farm"

Rustyt1953 · #60 09-13-2023, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by RobertJ.

"I try my best to be just like I am
but everybody wants you
to be just like them"

Bob Dylan

from "Maggie's Farm"

He is worthy of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature.

raljr1 · #61 09-13-2023, 12:27 PM

I am not a fan of tattoos or multiple facial piercings. That said, I refuse to judge folks by that. My son has some army friends with significant tattoo coverage and they are salt of the earth types. I also had a guy who worked for me at my last role, who had ear slits facial tats and various other body art/modifications. He is highly intelligent, highly skilled, a great father to his kids. Who am I to question what they choose to do that doesn't impact me?

I will do everything I can to prevent my granddaughter from doing so, but ultimately, she too will do what she chooses.

wood714 · #62 09-13-2023, 01:36 PM

I have a couple. The monster dude I got around 1979, the cross a year later. My son has a few more than me. If you look at his left arm, he has the exact cross I have in the same place.

GypsmJim · #63 09-13-2023, 01:50 PM

I was a road warrior back in the day. Just after 911 and after the TSA was in full force, they were randomly picking people as they entered the jetway to get on the plane. A sort of secondary screening.

I was waiting to have my row called when they announced first class. They chose an elderly very frail looking gentleman to pull aside. He was on a walker and became very upset, almost to tears, when they wanded him. He had a pacemaker and was afraid.

As they were tending to him they let other passenders go. The next one was a hip hop sorta guy with face piercings and tats up his neck. He smelled real bad too. As he walked he kinda danced with a smile. The old guy said how could you stop me and not that ^&%$# behind me. Now he stopped dancing and his language to the old man was as foul as he was.

That was probably early 2002. Right then I knew we were in serious trouble.

walkin jack · #64 09-13-2023, 03:49 PM

I believe that there are many levels tattoos, piercings, and surgical modification. Myself, I have one tattoo, no piercings or surgical modification.

I have a Navy tattoo on my right bicep. I was 18 and it was done by "Painless" Nell (a misnomer for sure) in San Diego in 1962, on my first boot camp liberty.

I have never regretted it but never got, or wanted to get any more. I confess that I just do not understand why anybody would want to go to such drastic extremes as in the pics above. And I can't help but wonder if these people don't experience serious regrets at some point in their future.

I wonder if they gave any thought to the profound effect it would have on their social life and ability to earn a living.

As far as judging a book by it's cover, well, sometimes you can. You make the choices in how you dress, comb your hair and behave in public, to tell others a lot about yourself. You can't always get it right but many times you can.

If you see a person with all these extreme tats, etc. You may not know anything about him but you have a good idea about what he is not.

You see a guy in a Stetson hat, and snap-front Brushpopper shirt, Wrangler jeans and pointed toe cowboy boots, He is telling you a lot about himself.

bruce5781 · #65 09-13-2023, 04:18 PM

Does anyone have a good home remedy for tat removal ?

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375hh1973 · #66 09-13-2023, 05:07 PM

Yep, its been awhile since the last "tattoos are bad" thread.

Wife has a couple tats.

Makes 6 figures, owns guns, and votes conservative. Pays taxes.

Horrible person!

I dont have any (yet).

Oh and I ate at a fast casual restaurant and didn't take off my baseball cap.

There, I have confessed our sins

paplinker · #67 09-13-2023, 05:33 PM

I was once a couple hours away from getting my first tattoo with a couple bored buddies on a weekend in the 1980s.

Then I remembered one of my fathers life lessons. The one about thinking for myself.

This was going to be it.
Pin on Memory Lane

Not against tattoos, just maybe think it out a little.

StephenWhoDat · #68 09-13-2023, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Rustyt1953

I considered having one put on my belly that says: "Bake at 1800° for 3 hours".

That's hilarious!

Ματθιας · #69 09-13-2023, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by bruce5781

Does anyone have a good home remedy for tat removal ?

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Baby oil and a belt sander, maybe?

ImprovedModel56Fan · #70 09-13-2023, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by NFrameFred

OK - I'm a target. Raised in a different time and the mores, morals, and certain things pertaining to style were impressed upon me at a young age, so I've been told I'm "judgmental". Guess what ? We ALL are. If you have any common sense you have to make value judgments every day about things that affect your health, safety and personal preferences on what you find attractive AND repulsive. After seeing myself in the mirror for almost 70 years I'm the first to admit I have no right to "make fun" of the way anyone else looks . . . but people who go out of their way to be seen should not expect universal admiration in their choice of off putting style statements.

Kind of off the track here, but a simple telling illustration is a well endowed woman who insists on wearing low cut form fitting tee shirts with cute, pithy, enigmatic or humorous statements printed across the breast level, and then taking umbrage when someone looks. If you don't want to be looked at don't put it prominently on display with a big sign that says "LOOK HERE !".

I'm from the age where tattoos were seen only on sailors and Marines for the most part and considered 'low class' on most anyone else. Times change, styles change, minds change. But when you ink up your face, neck, hands and any usually visible area with trashy looking and or profane images you don't get to play the "I'm sensitive ! Don't look at me !" card.
My personal "judgmental" issue I'm puzzled by is someone (usually a female but many times who can tell these days ?) who is not generally considered to be 'attractive' to begin with, wearing an unflattering haircut, with a frame carrying twice the weight it was designed for, metal piercings all over her face and the fashion sense and hygiene of a person living under a bridge who seems to think that having hummingbirds or butterflies tattooed on their calves and ankles is going to make them a sexy catch.

Hey, like the kids like to say these days, "you do you". Doesn't affect me in the least. Just don't demand that I accept your choices without reservation and exercise my choice to avoid dealing with you as is my right to be left alone or decide I'd rather not have someone who looks like an escapee from a hepatitis ward preparing my food. We are free to make our own choices. Doesn't mean we're free from the consequences of those choices.
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Already liked it. I wonder how much more I would have liked it before the edit.

Catwrangler · #71 09-13-2023, 08:17 PM

I've never seen a work of art I wanted to live with the rest of my life.

Rustyt1953 · #72 09-13-2023, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Catwrangler

I've never seen a work of art I wanted to live with the rest of my life.

I married one.

Mule Packer · #73 09-13-2023, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by walkin jack

You see a guy in a Stetson hat, and snap-front Brushpopper shirt, Wrangler jeans and pointed toe cowboy boots, He is telling you a lot about himself.

Oh great...and all this time I thought I was traveling incognito.

Inusuit · #74 09-13-2023, 08:43 PM

My granddaughter wants a tattoo. I told her she had my permission and support if she waited until she was 70 like I did.

CAJUNLAWYER · #75 09-14-2023, 09:48 AM

Get a couple of flies hovering around the gluteal cleft to go with that tramp stamp

Another boomer thread about the demise of the younger generation. How quickly we forget what a bunch of a holes WE were back in the day......

greeman · #76 09-14-2023, 11:51 AM

I had a buddy when I was in service (over 50 years ago) say to me. Let's go to town and get a tattoo. I just asked him, Would you put a bumper sticker on a Ferrari?

GypsmJim · #77 09-14-2023, 05:41 PM

Please lady, don't file a grievance against me and take me to HR. I swear I was not looking at your large breasts hanging out of your blouse. I was merely reading your tattoo....

JH1951 · #78 09-14-2023, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Golddollar

I'm diabetic. I get enough needle sticks every day.

I agree. You and I are in the same boat.
I have given thought to getting some ink pads and using them with the test pricks. If we were to put some thought into pinprick placement, who knows what we could come up with over time?

wood714 · #79 09-14-2023, 11:06 PM

Boomers brought us the hippie movement. Their was also up to 40,000 of them that sought asylum in Canada.

What a respectful looking group of America's finest! I was only 12 in 1969, so I missed out on most of the fun.

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Rustyt1953 · #80 09-14-2023, 11:07 PM

^^^^^

My peeps.

NFrameFred · #81 09-15-2023, 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by wood714

Boomers brought us the hippie movement. Their was also up to 40,000 of them that sought asylum in Canada.

What a respectful looking group of America's finest! I was only 12 in 1969, so I missed out on most of the fun.

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Aside from your over exaggerated slap at "boomers" the freaks in your photos bring home your point well. And pray tell, since we're apparently making such sweeping generalizations now, which political side would you guess those 40,000 (your number) of asylum seekers and the hippies in your photos come down on today ? And don't conflate the experimentation of the freedom with the hair styles and garish clothing of the time that many of the youth availed themselves of as a matter of fitting in with that deeper question. Seems to me our current political realities reflect quite a few of those whose thinking at that time had them hightailing it to more socialist climates. That's the microcosm of it. Give an inch and a mile gets taken. Folks that are given freedom with little or no inculcation of morals or responsibilities abuse that opportunity for freedom until it morphs into a hydra headed monster bearing no resemblance of anything like the freedom the Creator wants for us. Same with the current subject of this thread - it's not so much about tattoos as it is license and excess, abandonment of associated standards and resulting loosening of the glue that differentiates "civilizations" from "populations".

One of my favorite poets penned the following song lyric . . .

The Greatest Generation raised a bunch of rotten brats
They tried their best to give them all the things they never had
They'd spilled their blood for freedom to give their children better dreams. . .
The ingrates took the keys to the kingdom
And traded them for 'magic beans' . . . .

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Heinz · #82 09-15-2023, 07:47 AM

NframeEd. I think you are doing a disservice to boomers. I think this highway to hell this country is on started with the folks born in the 1980's and their offspring, now of voting age. We moved that down to 18 to accommodate more of them
PS, I am a war baby.

zeke · #83 09-15-2023, 07:50 AM

Their body, their choice. Life is not anything more than a series of decisions and consequences. Am of belief most people first judge by appearance, as there may be precious little time to learn a strangers character. And a lot of people's appearance is to create a certain first impression.

NFrameFred · #84 09-15-2023, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Heinz

NframeEd. I think you are doing a disservice to boomers. I think this highway to hell this country is on started with the folks born in the 1980's and their offspring, now of voting age. We moved that down to 18 to accommodate more of them
PS, I am a war baby.

I look at this way - those who gave so much for so many in WWII (Tom Brokaw's Greatest Generation) mostly grew up in hard times, with little or nothing, and after surviving the horrors of that war and all that entailed, a great number went overboard to spare their children from having to ever live through something like that. Their children (us/boomers) set the stage for the time period you reference, so in effect I don't feel I'm busting on "Boomers" as unfairly as you may think. They wanted their children to have better lives as most parents do; but given what their parents experienced they let their offspring get away with quite a bit since they themselves were coddled a bit, hence the 60's through the 80's period when 'self' was elevated above all while couched in sheep's clothing masquerading as 'social justice and social responsibility' - noble aspirations, but not by personal sacrifice - usually at the expense of others who didn't agree with you.

I guess like Harry Truman, the Greatest Generation took responsibility with the view that "the buck has to stop here". That propagated into the following generations propensity take for granted what had been handed to them and to "pass the buck on to the next guy while I live for myself".

Hence the idea that "The Greatest Generation raised a bunch of rotten brats". We can agree to disagree.

Dave.357 · #85 09-15-2023, 08:29 AM

I have a eagle on my arm ,got it while in Navy a long
time ago. It has now turned in to a buzzard
and is waiting for me to stop moving.

Rule3 · #86 09-15-2023, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Rudi

At my market there is a young lady, she is very pretty. But has a big honkin' snake tattoo on her fore arm, and several others. She was born perfect, not an improvement.

Yep, I don't understand it. I am seen many drop dead beautiful Women that IMHO destroyed their good looks with tats and piercings.

prairieviper · #87 09-22-2023, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Rustyt1953

It's refreshing to know that people still gauge others by appearance.

Appearance can say a lot about a person. Gang tattoos immediately come to mind. A masked individual with a weapon entering a bank is another. I could go on but you get the point. Appearance should not be the only factor to consider but it should not be dismissed either.

GypsmJim · #88 09-25-2023, 10:28 AM

I just spent the weekend helping my wife at an outdoor craft show. Saw literally hundreds of people walking by her tent.

Many many beautiful people. A few had visible tats that were attractive. Well done, but not overdone.

OTOH, after about a day and a half of making observations, it just came to me!! The ones covered in tats and / or piercings that all looked ugly, were ugly people to begin with. Additionally, the ugliest ones all had ugly clothes as well.

WR Moore · #89 09-25-2023, 11:48 AM

Jeff Foxworthy has/had a good bit about tats. He mentioned that the cute little butterfly you got at 18 or so would morph over time. "I don't wanna go over to grammies! She's got a buzzard on her back!"

One day was watching a young lady stretch while in the explosive detector. Cute young thing, but when she stretched, her top pulled up and revealed a nice butterfly above her low rider slacks. First kid is gonna mess that one up big time.

I recall a similarly placed tat seen on a beach in the late 1980s. Repeating the saying would earn me a time out, so not gonna go there.

ladder13 · #90 09-25-2023, 11:52 AM

Clothes, shoes, hats etc, can he taken off easily, not so with tats. No comparison to today.

Imissedagain · #91 09-25-2023, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by steelslaver

Seems to have morphed into a Mother-in-law thread.
Not mine, as she was a great Gal.

Doug M. · #92 09-25-2023, 12:05 PM

I am not a fan of the extreme piercings. I have an earring, but took out for jury trials. I have tats on my shoulders/arms. One is a Rott head, with the words Life's Short Bite Hard around it; one is a version of our prosecutor's association seal with a citation to RPC 3.8 (special duties of a prosecutor); one is a shark with 2 bar admission dates, one is an anniversary tat for my wife and I (she has a bunch more than I do). I also have a 2 word tat on my triceps that will be familiar to Marines and fans of R. Lee Ermey.

I stay active so the skin is pretty much in good shape and none of the tats have stretched, etc.