Millennials and Gen Z have ruined it.

[NFrameFred]

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 . . .

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

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[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.

 

[zeke]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[Imissedagain]

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

 

[Doug M.]

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.