Tattooed or non-tattooed??

[WaterDog]

I don't have one but have thought about getting one. Maybe some day then again maybe not.

[sturgn]

I dont have 1, I have 3 and can't wait to get another and I dont think people look down on me for them at all!

[Cool Texan]

I have a small set of fraternity letters, but they're tatooed on my ankle, so unless I am barefoot or in sandals, you'd never know it was there....even then, you may not notice it right off.

[OceanBlue]

STGrule - fun! Good job! Only I had trouble answering "Opinion?" 'cuz I don't have one, but have been giving it some consideration. So I don't really wish I did have one...

Overall, I guess I'm glad I don't because if I had gotten one in my younger years, I'm pretty sure I'd hate it now.

[GutshotApe]

OK, STG...the preliminary results are revealing....so far, your poll indicates 100% of ex-cons have at least one tattoo.

[Bait O' Eggs]

When I was in school, only the losers stood out on the corner of school and smoked. Only girls wore necklaces, bracelets and makeup. Nobody had a tatoo, and the only piercing were girls ears, and the one boys ear who didnt like the girls :shocked: :shocked:

Call me old fashioned but it hasnt changed one bit for me. Call me a redneck, thats better than looking like a goof. I got no use for standing out on the corner being a loser, dont want to look like a girl with my ears pierced since I like girls I wont be piercing my ears either. Got no use for any more holes in my head or any part of my body for that part. :shocked: Wearing a wedding ring is as close as you will get to putting jewelry on this boy.

If you wanna pierce and tatoo your body, go ahead just dont expect me to think your sharper than a bowling ball. I do think differently of people who do things that make no sense to me. GSA hit the nail on the head for me.

4 primary colors of hair, jewelry hanging off somebodies nose, lip, tongue, bellybutton, ear, eyebrow etc all boil down to to many people, and these people needing more attention to make themselves stand out. Go ahead and poke holes in your body and paint it up. I will look at you all the while I am laughing at you. :tongue:

If I ticked you off, sorry, just how I see it, and you cant change my mind [img]graemlins/berry.gif[/img] Unless your a big knarly harley biker dude that wants to kick my *** then my opinion could be swayed

[No Wishin Just Fishin]

Ex Navy SEAL and only one in my unit that was without a tattoo, but never wanted one. Do have scars where they pinned my Trident on when I graduated( No shirt) Was drunk so didn't really hurt

[ampersat]

i have a tattoo around the thumb of my right hand. given it's the hand you use when you greet someone, the tattoo is hard to miss and it's a pretty unusual place to have one which tends to arouse people's curiosity or suspicions. in cases where i went to job interviews without covering it up, i definitely feel like i was discriminated against. in cases where i have covered it using a bandaid i could tell a difference in the way i was interviewed even if i didn't get the job.

when i started at my current job, i wore a bandaid to cover it up every single day for the first six months. nobody ever asked about the bandaid. the very first day i started going to work without the bandaid on, everyone in my department noticed it and asked me about it. i don't think they thought any differently of me because of it because they had already had some time to get to know me. they all thought it was pretty cool and unusual to have a tattoo around my thumb and they asked me what it means.

i tell most folks it doesn't mean anything, but in fact it does have meaning for me. it marks a time in my life that i feel was special for me, a time when i believed certain things were true. i also told myself when i got my tattoo that if a business didn't want to hire me because i had a tattoo on my hand, then i didn't want to work for them. turns out that i had to hide the tattoo just to get employment. just another one of life's lessons learned.

as far as the general populace, i don't feel i'm looked down upon by anyone because of it. also, if folks do look down on me because of it, they're probably the narrow-minded types i wouldn't want to spend any time with anyway.

[happybrew]

When I was young and dumb, and just out of training in the Army, I went into a tattoo parlor with my buddy. I had sort of made up my mind to get one, but I was wavering. After all, it's permanent, and you may not want it later. My buddy definitely wanted one. I was going to get a nuclear explosion tattooed on my arm. :shocked: My buddy went first. When he was done, we looked at it, and it was on crooked. Needless to say I walked out with my skin in its original condition, and I never walked into a tattoo parlor again. I'm glad I didn't get one. I wouldn't want one now.

It's interesting the different types of people who get tattoos. When I was in college, a friend of mine, a former marine, sat next to me all year in organic chemistry. We both wanted to go to medical school, and we were clean-cut conservative outcasts on our dope-smoking-tie-died-just-left-of-Lenin campus. He would actually wear a tie on occasion. Then one spring day, it was rather warm outside, and he showed up for class in a tank top and shorts. Lo and behold! He had a large tattoo on each arm that he had gotten in the Marines, that I would never have guessed that he had. Just goes to show, you never know.

Another perspective is when you get old. I worked in nursing homes for a few years when I was in college, and I'll tell ya those tattoos look mighty silly hanging off of loose, wrinkled, 80 or 90 year old skin. In fact, often they get blurry and you can't even tell what it once was supposed to look like.

happybrew

[Mr. Carp]

Bait O' Eggs: I am in the same boat as you and GSA. Well Said!

[Silver Hilton]

The only problem I have with the current crazes in tattooing and piercing is, it has now become normal. This raises the bar considerably for when my 10 yr old daughter decides she has to do something outrageous to annoy her parents in a few years. What's she gonna do, amputate something?

[crabbait]

SH - I agree. It is getting kinda scary!

To me, nothing looks worse than a beautiful girl with a tattoo. What a shame.

Consider the Venus de Milo....with a tatt. Defacing God's best work as far as I am concerned.

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[STGRule]

CB: Is it okay for a man to have one (or more) and not a woman? Or did you just mean that it isn't attractive on either sex????

PS Everybody remember, this is for fun. Not a societal statement.

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[GutshotApe]

Semi-final results, STG:

100% of ex-cons responding have a tattoo.

0% of Rhodes scholars responding have a tattoo.

:tongue:

[STGRule]

Hey, I acknowledged your genuine thought process (albeit a wild guess) and included it in my highly scientific poll and now you're dissing me??? :tongue:
I'm more concerned that we have no Rhodes Scholars than we have a couple of tattooed ex- (as in I-already-paid-my-debt-to-society) cons in out ranks. Heaven forbid, how will we ever be taken seriously? :tongue:

[STGRule]

Just for fun, and I really mean just for fun. Let's see if you do or if you don't.

[6wapiti6]

Fun, no place to say you have more than 1 tatoo though! I've got 2...anybody else with more than 1?

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[Thumper]

Tattoos are like suicide ... Permanent solution to a temporary loss of rationality. If you want to get a real job in the future, one that pays serious money, think twice about getting a tattoo in any place that shows. At least you can take the ear jewelry and nose studs off for the interview.

Do people discriminate against guys with tattoos? Yup.

[crabbait]

STG - I was referring to what I find attractive. Since I don't find men attractive, tattooed or not, I find it difficult to answer the question.

I'll put it this way: I have never seen a tattoo that raised my opinion of anyone. Never thought, "Man, that is a cool tattoo, wish I had that on my arm!(forever)"

Tattoos may be all the rage now but they won't be in another few years. The what happens to all those disfigured people? Tattoos don't age well. Tattoos don't do "formal" very well.

The ones I find particularly amusing are the names that people seem to have to have inked into their bodies. Of course, the tattoo lasts much longer than the relationship and the new "special someone" gets to see "Lonnie" emblazoned across their significant's parts when their name is Pat!

I guess I'm from the old school, back when the majority of tattoos were aquired in a drunken stupor. They say a lot of things to me, few of them good. JMHO.

[1pump]

I've been doing an informal survey over the last few years. Whenever I see a person's name tattooed on somebody, I ask the wearer about it (if circumstances allow it). Every single time, unless it's a parent or child, the name emblazoned on the person's dermis is that of an EX boyfriend or girlfriend. Haven't seen any ink for a current squeeze yet.
I worked with a guy who had white-supremacist tattoos all over both forearms, including swastikas and an SS insignia. He no longer held those views, but the evidence of his past was out there for all to see. Seems like that would be a great way to give the wrong impression to someone, like your boss, or a minority police officer. [img]graemlins/eek13.gif[/img]

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[Snapset]

Graffiti on a temple.

[hookem]

I an old fashend also, and don't like tattoo's.
I don't have one and have never seen any I would like to have. Tattoo's on the ladies are almost never a plus. For a guy maybe the Ifish logo!

[Tanner]

Nice try Roy,
I saw you going into that exotic body piercing shop the other day. :tongue:

[Bait O' Eggs]

Jen - where you taking me? dinner, lunch, fishing, ........

Does John know about this

:tongue: :tongue: :tongue:

[OceanBlue]

Roy! Yer bad!

[Killertraylor]

I'm the one with the doctorate degree (Doctor of Jurisprudence) who has the tattoo. I have the crest of my fraternity on my ankle. Just like Cool Texan said - you can only see it when I wear shorts and shoes without socks. However, I have always wanted a tattoo of an eagle carrying a dead bloody pig right on my bicep. I just think it would be cool to freak people out because I'm so conservative.

Roy - I feel like you do when I see big gaudy tattoos that can't be covered up, but small tasteful tattoos just don't bother me. Every time I look at mine I think of all the close friendships I formed in my fraternity and many of the great times we shared together.

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[OceanBlue]

Awww c'mon Roy... I think I could take ya

[Conspiracy Theory]

I am not a fan of tattoos either. But if someone wants one fine. I think they take away from the natural beauty of the human body.

My 27 yoa daughter recently got one of a butterfly, on her back just above the belt line . It's about 3" in diameter. She wouldn't tell my wife or me because she thought we would get mad. She did tell and show her sister, then her sister told us. When she finally told us we didn't get mad as it was her body. I would've preferred she hadn't gotten one. I told her that but I also told her that having it doesn't effect our love, feelings or attitude towards her.

I found one thing interesting on the poll. There were more females that have tattoos than don't. Is this because they think it is a beautifing item like makeup or jewerly or merely because the woman that took the poll don't actually represent the female population? :whazzup:

[Ramstrong]

Funny story about tatoos. When I was in boot camp, one of the company commanders on base had the words "your name" tatooed on his member. He would go into bars and make bets like "I'll bet you a $100 I've got your name tatooed on my member." Of course he'd win those bets. Just an idea of some of the pieces of work the navy attracts.

[Tempered Steel]

I got one about 2 years ago. Not a big ugly where anyone can see it, but a small sword on my shoulder blade. I have taken some semi-independant surveys and have discovered that the tattoo has made me 18% tougher, 24% better looking, and a half inch taller. Unfortunately, those same surveys seem to indicate that I lost 34 IQ points. [img]graemlins/stupid.gif[/img]

[STGRule]

CT: I think it is very indicative of the female population. That is the female population that consists of women that fish, have a computer, and read LIG. I'm sure it's different on the "outside".

PS I have mine just because I like it. It's for me.

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[Conspiracy Theory]

Everything is different outside of Ifish. Ifish is the real world. Outside of Ifish is the fanstasy world, like the Matrix.