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Is the tattoo craze slowing down?

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Originally posted by charlie12:

I hate them and would never have one. I don't want to look like a coloring book

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Originally posted by NK402:

I must confess to having a tattoo myself. It's a small blue dot on my lower abdomen they used to aim radiation at my prostate 15 years ago. It served a purpose for which, I am grateful.

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Originally posted by 1s1k:
I work with tons of 25-35 year olds and I don’t see it slowing down at all. The biggest problem is most people start getting them when they are young and have no taste or money so they end up with tons of shitty tattoos that detract more than enhance.

Out of all the people I work with that have tons of tattoos there is one girl that has a beautifully done tattoo that was clearly done by an excellent artist and probably cost quite a bit of money, and that’s it.

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Originally posted by arcwelder:
What is BS, is people trying to make hay out of not being altered, or being altered. Life will mark us all, no matter what. Don't polish your own nameplate too much.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by NK402:

I must confess to having a tattoo myself. It's a small blue dot on my lower abdomen they used to aim radiation at my prostate 15 years ago. It served a purpose for which, I am grateful.

I have one of those, too. It's my only tattoo.

Since this one is really meaningful, maybe I should have it enhanced:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I don't think so, no. It appears as if this stuff is now so acceptabe, no one bats an eye at it. Especially distasteful to me is seeing a woman with that stuff all over her skin.

When I was young, tattoos were reserved for servicemen, bikers and convicts, and all of them male. If a woman had a tattoo, it was in an intimate location- a teddy bear on her inner thigh or a butterfly on her ass, and no one saw it except her doctor and her lover and if it were up to me, that's the way it would be still.

It's a very sad downturn in this society that this stuff is now perfectly acceptable. Very sad. Are we savages?

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Originally posted by snoris:
The one thing I find both comical and sad about people with tattoos is those I've seen in my job in law enforcement.

When arrestees get taken before a magistrate to get their bond set, a high percentage of defendants argue, "But that's too high, I can't afford it." When I've arrested people on warrants for criminal nonsupport (failure to pay child support), their excuse is often, "The judge set my child support too high, that's why I can't pay it."

A large percentage of these people have tattoos. Not just one, but several. And a lot of them are professionally done, which gets very expensive.

So---no, your bail is not too high, and the family court judge isn't making you pay too much child support. You're spending the money that should be going to your kids on decorating yourself.

For these people, I have no sympathy.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
There will be plenty of “I just got another one” stories, but that isn’t the question.

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:

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Originally posted by vthoky:
That said, there's a lot of ugly ink out there, and I don't think I understand at all why someone would tattoo their face.

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Originally posted by LimaCharlie:
Back in the mid-1960s, I was a young sailor. Four of us got drunk and ended up in a tattoo parlor one evening. I was going to get a heart on my upper arm with a banner through it with my fiancée's name. I was fourth in line and sobered up before it was my turn. I backed out. She was my first ex-wife.

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Originally posted by LimaCharlie:
Back in the mid-1960s, I was a young sailor. Four of us got drunk and ended up in a tattoo parlor one evening. I was going to get a heart on my upper arm with a banner through it with my fiancée's name. I was fourth in line and sobered up before it was my turn. I backed out. She was my first ex-wife.