It's time to discuss tats on chick's a$$esFollow

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax. Of cabbages and tats on chicks' asses."

I largely agree, being anti-tattoo myself. The whole lower back tattoo thing does nothing for me.

Which was a polite way of saying "I'd rather you didn't place your old man hands so close to my ***, thankyouverymuch."

Ozzy recently said, "To not get a tattoo is to rebel." It's one thing if ol' Totem, Mr. Middle Class say tats are unoriginal, but when anti-establishment rock's icon says they're lame, it time for white America to lay off the ink.

Just wait until these **** stamps get stretch marks in ten years. That butterfly is gonna look like the one that hit your windshield 50 miles ago. U-g-l-y, baby.

Totem

Ok, since I'm rollin' here, let me tell you what I really think. Being the sexist that I am, I was mostly speaking about women with tattoos. Tattoos on a man, particularly an ugly man, are like primer on an old rusty car. Who really gives a shi[i][/i]t? Now, on an attractive women, a tattoo is like a big a$$ fading bumper sticker on a shiny Ferrari or a Porsche. It just looks freaking stupid, and looks worse as time goes by. A bad idea all around made all the moreso by how common it is.

Totem

Funny you mention that Totem, when was the last time you saw a **** where the chick didn't have a tattoo? Mark of the debil they's is.

or one who's not afraid of a little pain

RAWR!

Wait, I still don't like tattoos. But I like teh womyns under them.

I don't share totem's views on tattoo's myself, probably because I have numerous ones myself. That aside, I think getting a tattoo because it's "cool" or "sexy" is insipid, however not every tat has to have meaning either. Few of mine have any "meaning" but rather just stories behind them. Tat's have been around for a longer amount of time than written history, so I have no idea where this "rebel" thing comes from out of it. For me, I always wanted to get many tat's as a kid(my father and mother not having any, and my grandfather only having a few military related tat's), and I started getting tattoo's at 15 years old(from a professional, mother approved).

Even today with tat's as popular as they are, still require a certain level of eccentric behavior. Contrary to popular belief, I don't have any STD's(including hepititis), and I am not on welfare, so those points are moot.

As far as women with tattoo's go... For me it really isn't criteria. Some women pull it off well, and others don't, kinda like the color red.

I would just definately say, for employment purposes, stay away from tat's on the neck, face, and hands. Anything a business suit, or dress shirt won't cover. Though I do know a couple that got wedding bands tattooed on, for whatever reason. On that note, don't get wife/girlfriend/husband/boyfriends names inked, as well they aren't permenant, children's names are okay.

As far as people judging me for having tattoo's? If they like it, cool, if they don't, well fu[b][/b]ck em'. To me it just seems to be really shallow to judge someone for somthing so petty. I do not see where someone has the audacity to think someone is scum of the earth because of a tattoo when in fact, everyone has a little piece of proverbial **** on their face.

/shrugs

Monkey see, monkey do, Rimesume. Eccentricity is not a necessary ingredient in the recipe. However, desire to be part of the cool crowd generally* ** is.

Totem

* note that you may indeed be one of the exceedingly rare few that get tats because they express some inner... thing... that demonstrates you're a unique snowflake, but for the vast majority of people, especially chicks with **** stamps, it is a cheap way to fit in. Wanna really show how freaky you are? Go Mike Tyson on us and prove you don't give a shi[/i]t by inking your face. [i]That's sticking your thumb in the collective eye of mainstream America. But please stop pretending you are cutting edge by throwing down some green and getting one of those cookie cutter designs.

** the above diatribe prolly doesn't apply to you Rime, since it appears you are a dude and this is a chick-specific rant.

It's not just for teens any more, T-bone. I have a very dear friend who is in her mid just hit the big 5-O. Before anyone goes to speculatin, yeah, when I was 18 I was putting the wood to Mrs. Robinson. Anyway, she got divorced, did the mid-life crisis thing, and has come out of it a homeopathic healing, herb selling, herb selling, candle-lighting, leg hair-growing bleeding heart war protesting liberal. She's making up for the fun she thinks she missed out on watching her sister wear ill-fitting clothes and drive away in the back of the Dodge cargo van.

Whatever. She's a grown woman and is more than capable of making her own decisions. One of the things she's decided to do is go out and get herself 5 tatoos now. They are all in places she could show a married man, but they are of these ridiculous little pithy hippy-esque images, all moon-glowed and flowered up with their trite platitudinal messages and "meanings". She's not a bad looking woman for being 20 years older than I am. If she kept herself up, still drove the convertable bimmer and shaved her legs occasionally she would still rate highly on the senior citizen boneability scale.

Instead, she has decided to regress and become one more unique and special person in a crowd of similarly unique and special people, all marching to a different drummer playing the same tune, over and over and over again.

EDIT: speeling > me

Edited, Thu Oct 13 01:51:18 2005 by MoebiusLord

I have two sleeves (coverable by a buisness short-sleeve shirt), and they both have incredible meaning to me. I love my tats and am reminded every day of the reasons I got them.

People give tats a bad name, I'll admit that weird design thing on the lower back screams 'I'm a *****' but many people get them done for many valid reasons.

My girlfriend is also has a sleeve and she's working on her masters in Marine Biology, while working at an aquarium. Don't caterogize women with tats as dumb broads who make bad choices.

Besides, you're all video game nerds. Most girls with tats wouldn't talk to you as a joke. Har Har Har.

In closing, I find well thought out, well placed, meaningful tats incredibly sexy.

I guess they're handy if you want to be more easily identifiable. You know, you can get your SSN in a few places so if you catch a remington roomsweeper in the face they don't have to resort to DNA testing to match a name to the corpse.

Other than that, my view of tattoos is largely negative. If you need one to remember a special moment, then I pity you. If you need one to indicate how special you are, I despise you. If you have to have ink to prove you're cool, I really don't want to be around your posturing ***. I you believe that a tat will grant you some sort of special power, ability, or immunity, I keep my distance because I don't like people with no tangential connection to reality.

I do try to temper my view with the same respect I grant to foreign cultures but it's hard to put the ink people into that category because most of them are obvious dumbasses in so many other ways. I'm gonna keep working at it, though. One day I will be a kinder, gentler Tom who empathizes with the dumb things people try to justify daily. Til then, amigos.

It just acts as a Bullseye.