Tattoos

If you don't mind them on others, what the fuck is your point in posting? Do you not understand ANYTHING in life unless it involves YOU and YOUR body?

r1 is TRIGGERED

I simply don't understand uncut cock! I mean, I guess I don't mind it on others! (Well, truthfully I find it dirty and revolting!) But why do so many people have uncut cock!

People with tats=Sheeple, trying desperately to be "trendy". The day soccer moms started with them, tats became non-edgy and pathetic.

Two words: mental problems.

So they can be different . . . just like everyone else.

Then don't befriend, fuck, date or marry a tattooed person. Stay in a non-tattooed bubble, as much as you can. Avoid movies and tv shows with main characters who sport tattoos. Enjoy life!

All of my friends who have tattoos have admitted to childhood trauma. So I see it as trauma identification and group trauma bonding. It’s so pathetic when they go out of their way to to show them.

Either that or they’re rich as fuck and belong to some secret occult society like skull and bones initiation ritual’s.

1) Neglected as a child

2) Attention

Just went down my contact list the craziest associates I know have the most tattoos. I know a female who has geometric shapes above each breast. She’s bat shit crazy nonstop issues and drama. I know a pudgy bisexual guy with a gigantic tattoo of a phoenix rising on his back another crazy fucker.

My tattoo-less acquaintances they are crazy fuckers they write run-on sentences.

Triggered snowflake. With an ugly tattoo

The more and larger the tattoos , the more and larger the issues. Proved universally true. Don’t know why and what the correlation is - but it’s a fact.

Mental illness.

Justin Bieber

I rest my case.

I don't have any, but I know several dozens reasons why people get them. This is just an invitation to DL low-IQ tight-asked skree-skreeing! Tattoos are simply part of the everyday life of younger people nowadays. As for noticing them, I'll notice ones I think are ugly, or beautiful, or sexy. Or hideously ugly and sexy, such as nasty assed Bo Sinn.

Young Travis. I would have said YES!!!!!!!!

R3 Cut cocks are basically tattoo scars on the penis.

Good observation. Sacrilege to skreeing tight-asses on DL.

gross. simply gross.

Look at this hot tight little scamp! Ugly tattoos, perfect effect for his age!

All I know is when these heavily tattooed people get old, their tattoos are going to look really faded and shitty.

[quote] The more and larger the tattoos , the more and larger the issues. Proved universally true.

"Proved"?? Link please.

Such bad, permanent choices.

Everything about youth fades, my dear. Looks like gramps here got tattooed later in life. Maybe he likes having something interesting to look at rather than his sagging old body.

They look like shit now R23. So they're ahead of schedule. They will simply look more shitty as time marches on.

I have never liked tattoos. I would never get a tattoo. I hate tattoos. I hate tattoos on others. I even hate the tattoos I can’t see on another person.

Stop fucking defacing your body with hideous ink.

This thread is so different from every other tattoo thread we've ever had.

hate them as well. If people want to display their body and be unique why not start hitting the gym big time and really chg your physique and turn yourself into something great? Inking is just faking it and it looks awful as you age. Its tacky and lower class and in my experience the more messed up a person is the more tatoos they have..................... pathetic.

R30 = Veda Pierce

Tattoos suggest a criminal element.

r30 but isn't it a convenience and a courtesy that these people show their signs of mental illness or gang affiliation before initial contact is made?

They deface the body and look like the person has some sort of skin disease. Oh, a small one discretely placed is OK I suppose. But the graffiti garbage scribbled all over bodies all look dreadful, as do the stupid “sleeves.”

Who knows why people get tattoos. Some people think they're pretty; some think having one makes a statement. It makes some people feel "special." Then there are the hard-core ones, who have dozens, to "express" themselves or show the world how tough they are (tattoos are very prevalent among criminals and gang members). I think for some it's a form of self-mutilation. At any rate, people who have lots of tattoos seem to be mentally ill. I myself would never have one. Have somebody take a needle and use it to ink some design permanently into my flesh? Not for me.

It does amaze me that 20-30 something gay men can live in such denial or avoidance of the fact that they are going to get old and saggy. I was very aware in my 20s that I was in my prime but eventually my looks would fade. Would have never gotten a tattoo.

I agree with R30. And what's really tacky and lower class is trying to pass off a Duke or University of Manchester degree like it's our kind of people! I met a Duke man with tattoos. Double whammy. Who would do that to themselves?

R36 ironic because all the reasons you list for getting a tat and I assume the opposite. Maybe because I’m Gen X and our idea of cool was not looking like you’re trying to be cool?

Anyway, the real reason: CONFORMITY

Gays feel it makes them seem tough.

Mostly just monkey see, monkey do!

Criminality? Lower class? Mental illness? You lot sound like the stuffiest, oldest, most joyless bunch of maiden aunts on the internet. I'm glad to be written off by the likes of the sad spinsters on this thread - you all sound like tedious, pretentious bores anyway. People have been tattooing their skin for thousands of years and there are all sorts of reasons why they do it. I have tattoos that are decades old and they still look fine - they don't see a lot of sunlight and I keep very fit, so there's no sagging or fading yet. But do keep shouting into the wind about those awful awful tattoos, and I'm sure everyone with ink will see the error of their ways one day.

Ink on someone over 40 always looks pathetic and makes them seem even older (but keep believing you look 30)

They're a permanent fad. Like if you had to wear 80's shoulder pads for the rest of your life! The only people who should be allowed to have tattoos are holocaust survivors, and even they didn't want them!

Camilla has several!

Does Prince Charles have one too? Perhaps near his spout?

Haven't most members (at least the male ones) of the Royal Family had tattoos somewhere?

So happy I never got one in the 90s when I was in my 20s, never could think of something I would want on my body forever. As a middle aged gay when I see a person sporting several tattoos I think tacky, cheap, w/impulse control issues.

I bet "Karen" even has a few tatts these days.

Do you know how HARD it is to find porn without tatts now? Must be the same with escorts as well...

I have three but all are easily hidden (one on back, others on inner wrists). My largest one is a very simple script on my inner right arm that says:

your time has come to shine all your dreams are on your way

No one ever properly guesses the song.

^^^ and by script, I don’t mean cursive, of course. Sans serif.

Personal expression, just like earrings, jewelry, the choices people make with their clothing or hairstyles. To make sweeping generalisations about such a large and diverse group seems very small minded. Whether you like them or not, body art and modification has been going on for eons, and in many different cultures. Criminal mindset, and mental illness are rather comical instant attributions.

Stretching your ears until they drag on the floor or break open, piercing your body all over and covering yourself in ink are not signs of a well adjusted person. I don’t see mental illness per se, I see a desperate scream for attention. And you’re not going to get it from me.

Oddly, I have come around to them. 37 years old. I have none but have recently thought about getting a tiny one somewhere discrete. I can’t think of what I want permanently though

Because they can.

I have a tiny crescent man-in-the-moon surrounded by very tiny stars. Besides my doctor, only three other people have seen it. Very special people.

There goes your theory about "screaming for attention" r53.

And you'll never be special enough to see it.

Tattoos on porn performers is tragic. It's horrible.

Tattoos are almost as tacky as seersucker in NY before Labor Day!

Tattoos are so...common.

I'm not anti-tattoo, but I could never think of something I'd want forever. Some of them are quite lovely, but I do think generally people go overboard. FFS, Biebs looks like he just rolled around in mud.

I think many people get tattoos as a mark of rebellion and to look edgy. They're a good thing for hiding scars.

I don't judge people who have tattoos but I don't have any. For me it would be like wearing a patterned shirt I could never change. I would get tired of looking at it. Also, tattoos don't age well. The fade and sag and wrinkle.

I have seen few tattoos that are genuinely beautiful. Those I like on others. Too many are poorly executed or corny themes. That said, one of my favorite people is heavily tattooed and has gage earrings. He's a phlebotomist and expert at drawing blood, plus he's engaging and funny. He's beautiful. and kind. I always request him when I need blood drawn.

I hate tattoos.

I went through my contact list again. The most financially solvent and mentally stable people I know don’t have any tattoos. The exceptions are some executives and vice presidents of companies who have small hidden tattoos.

I talk people out of getting new tattoos or getting more.

Christine Lagarde has a tramp stamp!

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R65, what a shame to put all that look into your body and cover up the results. I really don't understand getting so MUCH ink that it all blends together and you can't even tell what any of it is.

All men, not just the gay ones like the subconscious homophobe claims, get them to reinforce their "masculinity".

[quote] Haven't most members (at least the male ones) of the Royal Family had tattoos somewhere?

Would you like to see my battleship?

Tattoos are painful, aren't they? That's why I think people who have a lot of them are mentally ill. Some people even have their eyeballs tattooed. They must be crazy as shit.

r1 = Cunt of the Day for today

r65 an absence of tattoos doesn't make the schoolmarms in this thread joyless - sniffily passing judgement on a massive and diverse group of people for the aesthetic choices they make with their bodies is what seems joyless to me. As for your specimen - he's hot - the ink's a bit excessive for my taste but I wouldn't kick him out of bed for it. r69 - getting a tattoo hurts a little but it's clearly tolerable or it wouldn't be done by so many people, would it? I push weights and that often hurts, but it's tolerable and worth it for the results - does that make me mentally ill?

ALl the gays with beards also have tattoos.

I know this gay guy, he's pretty sexy, but I have never met a more crowd-following gay in my life. Every MAJOR activity and life choice is in line with what the "hot gay guys" are all currently doing. He has sleeve tattoos, of course. As he hits fifty I expect NOTHING will change.

Probably PTSD-related.

Traumas often sever the mind-body connection, resulting in a state of disembodied sensation. While this disconnect saves the person *during* the trauma, allowing him/her to be elsewhere while the horrific pain was happening, it leaves behind it trauma-caused disorders like clinical depression, anxiety, and an inability to feel one’s own body.

Victims therefore often resort to cutting, and extensive inking, in a self-medicating attempt to reconnect the mind-body link.

Alec:

I think it makes people look lower class and tacky. My parents probably put that thought into my head as a child. I’m 38 and will never get a tattoo. If that makes me boring or uncool, fuck it.

they look foul i cannot tolerate them irregardless of who they are on and no im not an old

R74 is a perfect example. Would be great looking without tattoos. Fine now but will age horribly. The scream issues and instability.

R71 You say 'getting a tattoo hurts a little but it's clearly tolerable'.

And you say you 'push weights and that often hurts, but it's tolerable and worth it for the results'.

So I wonder what kind of results you were wanting when you asked that stranger to mark your body? Permanently.

[quote]they look foul i cannot tolerate them irregardless of who they are on and no im not an old

Irregardless? IRREGARDLESS?? This is the biggest fucking "OH DEAR" ever!

I read a good piece (was it in "Psychology Today"?) that argued that there are many reasons why people get tattoos: it's not all the same. Here are some of them:

1) NARCISSISM AND A NEED FOR ATTENTION. Many people want to draw attention to their bodies and regard their body as a work of art. Adding tattoos draws faster attention to their bodies and gains them quick commentary (especially if they flaunt their tattoos when they are new and fr4esh). This is why so many porn stars and go-go dancers have tattoos: for them, having a great body is not enough--they want even more attention for it 9especially since many of thejm have dysmorphiaand think theior bodies could be even better, so the tattoo is a kind of cheat).

2) TRIBALISM. For many people, tattoos are a way to indicated a deep-seated need to belong to a group and have it marked on you. This is why more than 90% of the people who belong to the US Armed Services have at least one tattoo. They often will have their place of action, or a dead buddy's name, inked onto their bodies. This is also why there was such a craze for "tribal tattoos" on the biceps of gay men in the 90s and 00s--it was literally a way of marking they felt they belonged to a tribe of other gay men. It's also why former Secretary of State George Schultz had a Princeton tiger tattooed on his ass--he wanted to signal for tthe rest of his life where he went to college.

3) RISK-TAKING. Tattoos are often popular with people who like to take risks or are impulsive, in part because that's what they signal to other people. Many people (not me) find risk-takers and impulsive people attractive, sometimes just on an unconscious level (why else are bad boys so popular to high school and early twentysomething girls?), and they want to signal that because they recognize it will make them seem more dangerous.

4) RECLAIMING THE BODY. People with extreme body issues often like tattoos as a way of reclaiming their bodies. This is why many trans people and many obese women love tattoos--they feel it's a way to reclaim a body they've always hated.

The article also argued that most people who get tattoos actually are fully aware that the tattoo will fade and look different as they age and their bodies change, but they don't care. It also said that the idea that people are literally addicted to tattooing because of some sort of endorphin or adrenaline rush is just a myth.

Wow - actual informative insightful information. Thank you R80. Makes a lot of sense.

[quote]The article also argued that most people who get tattoos actually are fully aware that the tattoo will fade and look different as they age and their bodies change, but they don't care.

My skin's gonna age no matter what. Might as well have some fun with it.

And also take care of my skin.

I hate tattoos. If you want to remember or commemorate all the shit in your life, get a friggin journal and write it down.

Why in the hell does anyone want a goddamn dead human skull inked into their skin forever?

I remember someone telling my niece after she got her tattoo that it would look horrible in the nursing home someday and that no one would want to look at it, and she responded (correctly), "Do you think people are going to want to look at my skin anyway even without a tattoo when I'm in a nursing home?"

All the same, i do think how hilarious it's going to be in sixty years when the attendants are changing porn performer Ace Era's Depends and discover he has "Fuck Me" tattooed on his ass cheeks. Although i would expect he does not intend to live that long.

Tats

R80 Your excellent post mentions 4 good reasons. I suspect that some are also motivated by the current fad for Playing The Victim, because they know that Skin-painting is a declining fad.

Claiming to be a 'Non-Male' is another coming fad.

The results I was after, r78, were having designs I had chosen or had worked up marked permanently on my skin because I liked them and they meant something to me. It's not complicated.

It's your body to do as you want, R87, but how can you be sure you'll always like them or want them permanently on your skin? It's the permanence that makes the motivation hard to understand for the un-inked. What you like at 25 or even 35 isn't necessarily what you'll like at 45. Fashions change. When the reaction against tattoos comes, as it will, they'll all look dated.

Aesthetically, I'm used to them at this point. A few tattoos, especially on the arms or legs, don't bother me. A large number of tats, especially if they're random or aggressive, makes a porn performer less attractive and a person in real life seem trashy.

[quote]why do so many people have uncut cock!

Because no one loved them enough when they were born to do something about it.

I see more and more people on the street with face tattoos. WTF? It looks terrible.

R87 Did your lover agree with you on your decision to paint your body and all those hours you spend at the gym?

Yeah face tatts are disgusting. You’ll never get anywhere near a decent job and with that shit.

Most gay men with tattoos have histrionic personality disorder, refer to the helpful cartoon.

I have tattoos. Nothing fancy nothing big. That was 20 years ago.

My only worry, though even worry is too strong a word, is that tattoos age, fade and look ugly over time. Mine are modest so they won't look much worse than they are now, but the great works of skin art will show considerable degradation over time

For some it is a fetish. I saw this documentary on tattoos and there was this guy in his twenties, down and out and living with his mother, she had told him if he gets another tattoo he is out on his own. He was talking like he didn't want to get another but before you knew it he was in a tattoo parlor getting yet another tattoo on his mostly tattoo covered body. He went on and on about how he loved the pain of the tattoo needle on his body, he looked like he might actually orgasm while getting the tattoo.

And unfortunately, R95, all our minatory advice merely increases the ardour of these self-destructive, foolish fetishists.

Look at how R87 grumpily responds to my sensible questioning.

Most people are poorly dressed; similarly, most tattoos are ugly or stupid. If they're visible, you're stuck with one (bad) look for the rest of your life.

The worst are the corny ones all the rage with fraus where I live--moms and daughters getting "family" in an ugly font running up their arms, for example. And please, don't tell me your inspiration for your banal tattoos--it's hard to keep a straight face.

Yes, R97, 'banal' is the word. And common.

All the gym bros have at least one. I don't know why fitness circles likes them. I like my muscle guys with no tats

They sure were fun when I was younger but I sure wish I didn’t have them now.

There’s nothing more beautiful than a sexy man with no tatts

Amen r101

R99, isn't it ironic? They'll shave the hair off their chests and arms to show off the muscles and then cover them up with tattoos.

Tattoos are so...tribal!

Tattoos are fashion. But fashion goes out of style.

I lived in L.A. and I walked into the men's locker room at the gym and there was a man, naked, bent over, fumbling in his gym bag, and he had a starburst tattoo around his anus! And I thought, oh brother, someone's screaming for attention, otherwise what's the point?

I think some people just want to be the focus of someone else's (the tattoo artist's) attention for awhile. This is why people spend the day at day spas. You have someone totally focused on you, your body, your feedback.

This, I don't understand. He's so goodlooking and he chose to do this???

Yeah, it all looks so disgusting.

I must add, I think you can tell the intelligence level of someone based on their tattoos. People who tattoo a mishmash of random shit all over, tend to be "lacking" somewhat. (In my experience) But people who may be tatted from head to toe, but had an overall vision and plan, where there is some cohesiveness to the tats, tend to be more intelligent.... or gay. I see more aesthetically impressive tats on gays.

It’s just so irritating when people with tatts complain about money.

R111 Poor British people get the NHS to pay for theirs.

Very definite generational divide on this matter. I love tattoos.

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The word dumbass comes to mind, for me.

I agree with r113. No one under age 30, and possibly to age 40, gives a shit about other people's tats. I like when guys with good arms have them, it just emphasizes them even more

Someone, at R65 in this sad and pathetic thread, asks the valid question—

"I wonder if anyone with a face tattoo has ever made it to 50 years old".

A lot of guys seem to use them like how large trucks etc are used to compensate for other things.

“DL hates them and so do I.”

But I’m so adorable, you awful bitches.

“DL hates them and so do I.”

But I’m so adorable, you awful bitches.

We went to a wedding a year ago and the bride was beautiful except for quite a few tattoos on her arms and back. I really thought she would look so much better without them. I don’t want to be Judgy but I can’t help the revulsion I feel when I see tattoos!

They look dreadful, horrible, and awfully trashy. Like putting random doodles on a piece of art.

Have them, love them (as long as they're not of something stupid like Crying Jesus.) I'm 46.

I could never get one as I could never decide on a visual image I wouldn't hate/be appalled by 2 years later.

I have enough issues to deal with besides fading tattoos. Ugh

Trashy—like graffitied-up neighborhoods in the trashy parts of town. One-time nonconformist, but now like the other classless sheeple.

Remember, some who get tattoos later have regrets. Those who don’t never regret it.

This waining 'influencer' thinks they're "freaking cool".

Waining? Good God.

He tops the spectacle with a Man-bun!!

R112, how can you come of with such obvious lies? It's like you've put no effort in at all! I'm disappointed.

Mental illness.

Wanted them, as far back as I can remember. Just like I knew I liked men and not women, as far back as I remember. As I’m 60 now it was hardly because they were hip, or cool or ‘trendy’.

Could be because my handsome Uncle Pat ( by marriage not blood ), who was a pitman and built like the side of a barn, had faded blue tattoos all along his arms. He had a big heart, a barrel chest ( he was in his 50s ) and most probably became the template for the kind of man I found attractive.

So...Got some great ones, got some duff ones. Obviously the first were reasonably discrete and didn’t compromise employment opportunities. Made money, retired early, was covered more extensively.

It is less so now because it has become so commercialised but there was a great scene and immense camaraderie. Also met a lot of interesting, accomplished people. Like it or not, people have been tattooed in all cultures since mankind began. It’s a folk art and there are as many reasons people get tattooed as there are people.

Sure, I was influenced by my peers when I was younger. I liked motorbikes, punk and rock ‘n’ roll, lowbrow art ... all the stuff that went on to become mainstream. Was I attracted to the fact that it wasn’t mainstream then? Of course. I liked outlaw culture. If I hadn’t been gay I’d have probably moved further into the outlaw/custom motorcycle world but, at the time, I thought it would have been hard to reconcile the two. To an extent I was both right and wrong.

Is it disappointing that so many kids who get tattoos now have no interest in the history and culture of it ?Yes. But that can be said of many other aspects of our culture as well. That’s for them to reconcile.

Now I’m getting old I listen to those whining about tattoos and just wonder if they ( or will do ) dye their hair to hide the grey, try to dress ‘younger’, contemplate or get plastic surgery, wear ‘labels’ and, certainly, say they look at least 10 years younger than their age and thank a god I don’t believe in I haven’t reached this age and still care that much about what other people think or do ( beyond idiot politicians ).

Stop getting wound up about what other people do if it doesn’t affect you. It shows in your face and expression. Really.

I have said this on another tattoo thread, but people with tattoos have a higher likelihood of committing suicide.

According to Thomas Joiner's interpersonal theory of suicide, it is actually quite hard to kill oneself. He posits that one must acquire the physical capacity to carry out the act by becoming habituated to pain in some way -- physical abuse, drug use, self-mutilation, long-term illness, combat, and, yes, tattoos.

Interesting theory.

This person want to be a skull— a lifeless, fleshless skull.

If I see someone with multiple tattoos, I automatically think abused, molested, unbalanced with unhappy childhoods. "I'll never be truly naked again!" Another reason people shouldn't get married. Most create toxic environments and the kids end up being mental basket cases from it.

On the right person they don't look at all like gangrene.

Interestingly, r134 looks like a transitioned version of Lens.

[quote]Stop getting wound up about what other people do if it doesn’t affect you. It shows in your face and expression.

Well, you [italic]are[/italic] forcing us to look at your "art." Do you think we [italic]want[/italic] to be tattoo-passive?

People who get them never stop and really contemplate how their bodies - and the tattoos - age. It's always rather sad to see an old, saggy body with a faded, stretched out tattoo.

I think it’s an old people thing. Most people under 40 don’t care.

I'd agree it's an old people thing-because we old people have aged and see what happens to bodies. We're warning you youngsters-before it's too late!

It’s too late to warn anyone. Most people under 40 have them now.

Can't imagine living in Boca or Miami and seeing old people in summer clothes with tats. Vomit.

[quote]It's always rather sad to see an old, saggy body with a faded, stretched out tattoo.

So, I can infer that old, saggy bodies without them turn you on?

I tried to read this until I discovered it was gibberish—

Yes, R144-Yum!

Look out, ladies! In 50 years, that little rosebud above your boob is going to be a long-stemmed rose!

It's not just a generational thing; it's a class thing. You see way fewer of them on an Ivy League campus than you do just out and about. Maybe the rich kids just have more discreet ones instead of tattoo sleeves and neck tattoos, but there's quite a difference in my college town between the college kids and the clerks at Whole Foods, e.g.

The rich kids have discreet ones because GQ said back in the 80s that these horrible skin-stains should NEVER be larger than your penis!!!

Affluent kids are brought up to believe that only poor trash cover themselves in tattoos.

And then they get them anyway with the rest of their frat bros.

I'm surprised the ink doesn't poison you over time.

OP, tats are bad but you know what's arguable even worse? Non-ear piercings on men, especially septum ones. It's like people say to themselves "I am no longer human. I feel like a bull. I AM a bull." They must be from the Sam Smith school of thought.

R153 weird piercings always come with tatts. I’ve never seen a pierced idiot who didn’t have tatts as well. I’ve seen tons of people with just tatts. They are the gateway.

They are the gateway and they are repellant.

Im in the hate them camp. What happens to younger people that maybe decide to go the corporate route at some point and they climb the corp ladder and then they get invited to a conference in Bermuda and have to go swimming with all the other executives in the firm....I GUARANTEE you it wouldnt do your corporate rise to the top any good to have tattoos. I think perhaps alot of people have given up on upward mobility and just do what they want.

Also. I worked out my whole life and maintained a constant fit body weight, and after 40 avoided the sun completely and even doing all that Im getting executive saggy tits and crepe skin. Adding tattoos to that mix would be awful. Most younger people somehow think time stands still I guess.

We know that farmers brand their cattle to stop rivals stealing their cows.

But modern men want to brand themselves—

I have one small tattoo on my forearm that I got in my early twenties, no bigger than the a quarter in circumference—it's just two letters in black ink, and is often hidden under my shirt anyway. I got it between undergrad and graduate school. I don't regret it in the slightest, but I don't plan on ever getting another tattoo. I have several friends who have a lot of them, and frankly, they don't look great—especially color tattoos. You couldn't pay me to get a color tattoo anywhere on my body. I will say that the majority of the people I know who are covered head-to-toe with tattoos have a notable immature streak.

R158 Are those two letters especially meaningful?

My husbear is covered in them and I have none. I like tattoos on other people. Not on me.

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No should even be thinking about getting a tattoo unless they have an 8 month emergency fund and are donating the maximum allowed yearly to a 401k.

They're trashy and not very smart. What a turnoff.

I wonder how many people have tattoo regret.

R165, the creature at R162 seems to be expressing some regret with his downturned mouth.

His mouth makes him look as lost as Al Jolson.

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I'm not sure why anybody cares what someone else does to their skin? Personally.. I like tattoos that look like art and not a virtual reproduction of someone's great aunt or a skull (kind of basic IMO). They can be gorgeous when done mindfully. You bitches are old as hell. Except for poster R132 who sounds remarkably cool. Tattooed and a fan of punk? Get it:). I'm turned off by uber capitalist types who are driven by status and dress like a Ken doll on a meth bender in Ralph Lauren. To each his own.

I wonder how many heavily tattooed people have a pain fetish.

Also I'm getting my first tattoo in December. I never thought I'd get one but I absolutely love the work of this tattoo artist I stumbled upon. It is incredible how talented some tattoo artists are.

R171 You have one month to change your decision.

And you have sixty years to regret your decision.

I have a yoga instructor (female, 42) who is pretty much covered with them. The worst is one of PeeWee Herman on her left shoulder blade. Nothing against Pee, but when the instructor turns around to demonstrate something, it's all I can do to not burst out laughing. This chick is constantly dicking around with different hair colors (pink and turquoise are favorites) or shaving one side of her head. It all seems like an extreme call for attention.

Wait. There were more than one on my show? One was enough to deal with as it was.

Porn star on 30 April says

"OMG I realized how horrible my tattoos are, and now I’m committed to removing all of them, what is about 20k$.

If you would like to donate money for my tattoo removal, please DM me. "

They should be limited to sailors and pirates

Some who get tattoos later have regrets.

Those who don’t get tattoos never have regrets.

Tattoos are awesome. Y'all are d.r.i.p.s

yeah awesome

^ I'd describe that as awful rather than awesome.

Not sure why, it’s nothing new, but I am a little surprised at how most people on this thread who don’t have tattoos are so opinionated about OTHER people having them. It’s one thing not to want any yourself, or to dislike the way they look on others, I guess...but to assume mental illness or criminality seems like QUITE a leap to me. I’m not sure why people are so quick to judge.

I have several, they are simple and although I am older now, I do not regret any of them. They are actually a lot of fun to get and can be quite beautiful. I am not someone who would necessarily be described as traditionally attractive (although I have an appeal to some) and my tats are sort of a way to show love and approval to myself by adorning my body.

You're awesome R181

It's all jus' PRISON TRAYSH

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^ Lovely teeth, dirty hand.

Depends on the tattoo, location or size. Some are beautiful , interesting, or have personal significance. Some just seem pointless. Names, dates, small tattoos are appealing and tasteful and adorning. But I have two friends with dragon tattoos and unicorns and phoenix on their legs and backs. Is this so they can feel more like those creatures?