Tattoos Are for Stupid People

As a child I would draw on walle, couch cushions, anything, really…

But you normally grow out of that shit.

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Speiberg says 'Tattoos are for people who have nothing in their life and no avenues to express themselves'.

Tramp and white trash lovvve the. !

It used to be acceptable only for men who had been in he service and then just the one tattoo reflecting that service.

The rise of tattoo sleeves and getting all tatted up everywhere is relatively recent and deeply unattractive. Still, it alerts us to the stupid, trashy, tasteless people we should not hire or fuck so there's that.

This retired porn performer has come to his senses.

Religion is like a tattoo: it looks ridiculous and pitiful to those without one.

The only folks who think your tattoo is really cool are those with similar ones. If you later change your mind about having the tattoo, you feel _really_ stupid. Those with brand-new tattoos just love showing it off to their friends, not recognizing that most of their friends are going to think they're silly (unless their friends already have tattoos).

It is just another example of people doing stupid stuff because the crowd is doing it, if the crowd was against tattoos 95% of these people wouldn't be getting even one.

I have yet to see a single person that looked better with tattoos than without them.

[quote] I have yet to see a single person that looked better with tattoos than without them

I suspect trashy females like 'their man' to have them.

I have no idea why sensible gay men would want to stain their body.

I have 1 tattoo, it’s my cancer sign on my wrist and I’m going to get Cleopatra’s handwriting on my other wrist.

I think heavy tattooing is a Millennial thing and I think Gen Z is getting less from what I’ve seen. I’ve also noticed tattoo removal becoming more and more prominent.

I think the problem is tattoos were for a special scene. It’s inspired by male gang culture and it was for black and Latino men and your white skinheads and metal heads / punks. And now it’s become so mainstream that it’s bound to fall out of trend and people are starting to regret them.

The problem with us millennials is that we’re forever teenagers. We don’t want to grow up. Maybe I’m wrong and older people here can speak on it but millennials are still as materialism and scene-y as they were when they were teenagers. No one wants to have kids anymore because they want to stay a kid. That’s where the tattoos come in. Still rebelling.

I mean I’m not a prude, I like guys with tattoos but I find some of it to be pretentious and scene-y.

[quote] it’s my cancer sign on my wrist

Do you have cancer? It is warning for the medics who find you collapsed on the floor?

It's more than stupid. It's corroborating evidence of mental illness. A tiny tattoo in an inconspicuous place is nothing and is usually just the result of peer pressure. Multiple tattoos, a form of self-mutilation, goes hand-in-hand with other signs that a person is not well.

R11

[quote] I’m going to get Cleopatra’s handwriting on my other wrist.

Where did you find her handwriting? Did she write in English or Egyptian?

This person is not well.

OP, why would you link to that reactionary piece of garbage Watson? He continued to work with Alex Jones even after the Sandy Hook outrages. Don't give him clicks.

R16

[quote] piece of garbage Watson

You need to compile of list of things we shouldn't watch. You can call the list The Cancel Culture List.

People have different standards of beauty. Just because you old biddies don’t like them, doesn’t mean they are bad or trashy. People who get multiple plastic surgeries like Joan Rivers did are far more messed up. But you caftan hags will defend that.

R11 - “Cancer Sign” = 69

GOTCHA!!

The Beebs looks like a drugged up porn slut.

Oh wait...

A good example of a person with multiple tattoos. It's not a question of "standard of beauty". It's about people who are not well mentally.

One tattoo = A fad in his youth.

Many tattoos = Trash and/or complicated.

I remember a recent video from.... "Refinery[some number]" I think... where this white girl goes to a Taiwanese bathhouse, and she's absolutely riddled with tattoos. She goes with a local toady ("OMG, Rachel, you're so enlightened, teach me!"), to "teach the natives" about the "beauty" of tattoos.

It was the most neocolonial bullshit I've ever seen.

Oh it's Korea. Whatever. It's still gross. She's gross. 🤢🤮

Time for your pudding, meemaw.

R24's link: "tattoo artist and activist"

Jesus. How depraved is the UK now?

Wait until it gets old and employers stop hiring because of the tats. They will then all scream discrimination, no it's a choice you made, now live with it. And as you see, they very often don't come off easily, there can be scaring too.

Watch for it angst and wailing, it's coming.

The white girl at R24 is fucking ruined. She ruined herself. She's a fucking psycho freak, and there's no way she's at all happy with her life. Her unhappiness is quite apparent from her "I'm so artistic and ethereal" (another term for it?) behavior. She makes it her "mission" as an "activist" because, subconsciously, she wants to spread her misery around.

Freak.

I think that she looks quite beautiful. Some people are able to pull the fully tattooed look off. It’s like fashion: you don’t want the tattoos to wear you. Her artwork is cohesive and well-done. I get that tattoos aren’t for everyone, and they do correlate with mental illness, but are you really shaming mental illness on this board?

R29, mental illness isn't "shameful". Rather, it's patently undesirable. It's like having celiac disease: not voluntary, nothing good about it, super suboptimal, and the expression of the disease isn't anything to laud.

Just because something was previously shamed, but isn't anymore, doesn't mean it's now a good thing or something to be celebrated. Mental illness is still a terrible thing that needs to be addressed, if the sufferer wants to live a life within the band of normalcy.

And yes, tattooing is deemed correlated with mental illness in the scientific community. But you might know better. Maybe you're on the cutting-edge of research and have advanced degrees in medicine and psychiatry?

[quote] A study conducted by the Centre for Forensic Psychiatry, Michigan Department of Community Health shows that those with a desire to get inked are at a greater risk of suffering from antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). Not just that, the tattooed ones are more prone to substance abuse, sexual abuse and suicide attempts compared to those with a clean body. Researchers have concluded that tattoos are indicators of mental illness, lack of foresight and promiscuous behaviour.

[quote] Results: Significantly more forensic psychiatric inpatients with tattoos had a diagnosis of ASPD compared to patients without tattoos. Patients with ASPD also had a significantly greater number of tattoos, a trend toward having a greater percentage of their total body surface area tattooed, and were more likely to have a history of substance abuse than patients without ASPD. Tattooed subjects, with or without ASPD, were significantly more likely to have histories of substance abuse, sexual abuse and suicide attempts than non-tattooed patients.

[quote] Results: The statistical analysis of acquired results showed a significant correlation between body modifications and psychological and personality disorder and psychopathologies. TAS-20 test results highlighted a significant difference between tattoo and piercing groups and control group (F=29.066; p=0.000). The tattoo group showed results closed to alexithymic values. The SHI test proved a significant difference between groups related to self-harm behaviors too (F=80.416; p=0.000). PGWBI results suggest a link between body modification and psychological goodness (F=19.522; p=0.000): precisely the body modifications affect negatively the psychological goodness. The ANOVA clearly shows a significant correlation between piercing and tattoo groups and psychological distress. As regards the dissociative disorder evaluation, while the DES II test results of all groups are within the healthy people common range; however the ANOVA highlights a significant trend towards dissociative disorder limit for piercing and tattoo groups. The ANOVA statistical evaluation of BSI test results provides evidence of borderline disorders on piercing group samples. The tattoo group lays on the test healthy range but the results show a significant higher mean value on the tattoo group compared with control group. Chi-square test, used to highlight all possible connections between analyzed variables, confirmed a significant correlation only between PGWBI results and number of tattoos and piercing and between gender and body modification type, tattoos prevail on male samples while piercing on female ones.

[quote] Conclusion: The study successfully achieved the proposed objectives, proving statistically a correlation between body modifications and different forms and/or traits of psychological and personality disorders (i.e. borderline personality disorder).

The mentally ill have no place evangelizing bodily modifications. Particularly odious is doing it in a foreign country with a very different culture, where the evangelizer presumes she's more enlightened.

[quote] Compared to women without tattoos, women with tattoos showed significantly lower self-esteem and displayed stronger relationships between three constructs: ideal body, ideal self and tattooed woman status. No significant differences in body image were detected between the two groups. Women with tattoos were characterized by an association between body image and self-esteem, while women without tattoos did not display such a correlation. Thus, it appears that links between self-esteem, ideal body, ideal self and constructs of "woman with tattoos" may play a role in tattooing behavior in young women.

(RESEARCH ARTICLE - Do young women with tattoos have lower self-esteem and body image than their peers without tattoos? A non-verbal repertory grid technique approach - Semion Kertzman, Alex Kagan, Omer Hegedish, Rina Lapidus, Abraham Weizman)

Link won't post here; doesn't work.

In the Western world, the inmates run the asylum by crying and saying how wounded they are, that those in charge are picking on them. Management gives up, and surrenders the asylum to the inmates, sector by sector.

[quote] The presence of tattoos on forensic psychiatric inpatients should alert clinicians to a possible diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD), and also about the potential for histories of suicide attempt, substance abuse, and sexual abuse, according to research recently published in Personality and Mental Health.

(Citing Wiley-Blackwell. "Psychiatric Forensic Patients With Tattoos More Likely To Have Antisocial Personality Disorder." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 16 July 2008.)

Tattoos are such an indicator of mental health issues, that emergency medicine specifically highlights them as a key piece of data to include when evaluating a trauma patient intake. (Suicide, etc.)

R29 knows better than any MD. I'm sure he/she is supremely functional, immensely productive, and exhibits a very high level of life satisfaction. /s

Tattoos on your body is just like graffiti on buildings. Trashy.

Tattoos are for the mentally ill and the credulous kids who follow their lead, buying that it's edgy and artistic. It's sad, actually.

R27 it is already here.

I have heard a lot of complaints from the inked that they experience hiring prejudice.

Actors who get them are are crazy, Chris Meloni, or both.

The fact that so many DLers obsess over mental illness and it’s supposed markers, indicates to me that many of you are probably mentally ill. It is as if you are pointing the finger at other people as a means to separate yourselves and say, ‘See? This is the way people with mental problems behave!’, trying to convince others you are a picture of sanity. Obsessing over other people and attacking them for choices that do not impact you is just bizarre.

R43, you're triggered. And you don't like what doctors and scientists say about tattoos. Because you're mentally ill and ruined your skin. Sad.

Her native language would've been Ancient Greek, R14.

R44 wrong. I don’t have tattoos. I just see tons of stupid threads like this and see right through the types of personalities that post them.

I try to avoid "always" and "never" statements but in this case it's unavoidable: People with excessive tattooing or who claim a "tattoo addiction" are always psychologically unstable. Every time.

Where is the "excessive" line drawn?

Good golly [r30], etc. I didn’t say that mental illness is laudable. You sure went on an odd rampage about it, though. After being raped, I got a few tattoos. My sister did the same. It’s a bit simplistic to lump tattooed people into a general category of “mentally ill.” A tattooed person can go to therapy, take prescribed medications, and live a healthy, emotionally-wise life. Their tattoos won’t indicate active mental illness; in the sense that doctors and laypeople need to be wary.

R14 Koine Greek. In 2014 they found a papyrus wrapped around a mummy and discovered it was a tax exemption document for one of Mark Antony’s friends to live tax free in Alexandria. Historians believe the sign off to the document was Cleopatra’s. She signed “Ginesthoi” as her tag signature which means “Make It So”. Most Ptolemies used tags to sign off on documents which is why they’re pretty sure it’s hers. Most photos of it are very hard to read but I’ve gotten the highest quality one and worked it out in photoshop so it’s legible. It looks like it says “JINROY” at first but enhancing the photo and etc, it’s clearly not. She wrote it in cursive which makes it harder to see the words too but I’ve got it!

I’m a big Cleopatra fan, I love the idea of having 2,000+ year old writing as a tattoo, and the meaning “Make It So” is just a positive and motivating meaning to me. It’s a cool conversation piece too.

r12 when I worked it retail and told a girl it was my cancer sign she actually thought I had survived cancer and the 69 was my patient number or something lol.

You might like John Maddox Roberts' series set in Ancient Rome with Cleopatra as a character in some stories, R50.

I like a nice tattoo on a hot guy. Too many are a turn off

Regrets, they've had a few...

Sorry, here is the right link.

That video is heartbreaking. They see who they could have been and the innocence inside them. You can tell they look at their tattoos like scars at this point.

But in a way, it’s another context because these are ex-gang members and it’s apart of the culture.

Doesn’t necessarily translate over to the fitness freaks or post-emo millennials or scene kids who are all tatted up.

R47 You're right and it drives me nuts, because I still fall for it. I've been talking to this guy a bit, we get along great so far, but he has the tattoo sleeves, tats on his back, tat over heart that looks all fucked up, and a few tats on his legs, and says he wants more! Ugh!!! I have none and don't ever want any.

He has the whole rugged masc thing going on but this obsession with tats is so bizarre. And although, I kinda feel like I'm falling for him, the tat thing makes me take a step back and question what the fuck is wrong with him. Just in some conversations we had, I know he has some deep insecurities even though he still looks good, he's fit and athletic.

I want to be able to look past it but it does make wonder what I'm getting into.

Paul Joseph Watson always talks about getting his ass pegged. I think he is into it.

[quote] Watson always talks about getting his ass pegged.

I haven't heard that. Where did you hear that?

R59 I will bet my money on that he likes this shit.

[quote] this shit.

I could cut and paste that in Photoshop.

Where is the evidence about Watson and his anus?

Paul is cute.

[quote] but are you really shaming mental illness on this board?

WOW.

You are quite the newbie here, aren't you?

[quote] Where is the "excessive" line drawn?

Take a look at Justin Beiber. The lines are all over him.

I remember having dinner one night with a group of people. The boyfriend of a girl I worked with had a tattoo of a dragon that spiraled around his forearm onto his hand. It looked cool but his girlfriend thought it was dumb. He said, "they say never get a tattoo that's longer than your dick, so I didn't break that rule". She looked down and smiled. I remember looking and him and he winked at me. Not sure why cocky straight boys are so hot, but I kinda wanted to find out.

Hi there, I show up like clockwork in every thread having anything whatsoever to do with tatts.

Seeing as how people in the medical community once labeled us as “mentally ill” for being homosexual, I would take their findings with a grain of salt. A few tattoos, or a trendy sleeve is hardly grounds to diagnose a person as unstable. GTFO

Youtube is also for stupid people.

Sure, r67. 🤣

R68 = eldergay.

Just saying.

They’re just not counterculture or anti-establishment anymore, therefore not cool.

R69 “sure”, what? Sure you are bitter because you are insufferable and have no friends aside from the posters on DL? Absolutely.

R70 this whole thread sounds like it is full of eldergays. Including you. I am carbon dating you at 70 years old at the very least.

I suspect it's a sign of some kind of mental illness or condition to be as triggered and worked up as some of you are about other people having tattoos. OCD? I have no tattoos, but I could not care less whether other people have them. Many of them look really good. Some don't. But I don't get why you need to prove it's a sign of mental illness, or whatever. Didn't some native Americans and Canadians have tattoos? And Polynesians? Were they all mentally ill? What's wrong with you people? I think you need to ask yourselves.

It’s really just groupthink for teens or 20somethings. Social media has put a rocket on it.

Most of them are from comfortable families but want to be seen as wrong-side-of-the-tracks bad asses so they get inked up like carnies.

The funniest thing about it is how many of them are vegans and super health conscious, but they don’t stop to think about all those ultra-toxic heavy metals they are injecting into their system — heavy metals don’t ever leave.

I just have one tattoo. A small design on my forearm just for me that I can easily hide, if needed. It took me like 12 years to find the design and have it done. I'm not a showy tattoo person though and most people are surprised that I have one.

I am tempted to get one more small one, relating to my family, but it may take another decade.

In the future, gay men without tattoos will get laid into their 90s.

Imagine what those disgusting tats will look like as people age.

Judging others for choices they make that effect you 0% is stupid.

We are allowed to have opinions about things r79 and even voice them publicly. Shocking, n'est-ce pas?

Being called stupid by someone who doesn't know the difference between [italic]effect[/italic] and [italic]affect[/italic] hardly makes me question my intelligence.

Not always, R80. I've been called Boris too often to let your comment go.

Can anyone explain why they have this reaction to other people being tattooed? Not interested in a rant on what's wrong with the tattooed people. What is your problem, personally, with other people having tattoos? I haven't seen an explanation of that here.

R83 didn’t watch the video?

[quote]Can anyone explain why they have this reaction to other people being tattooed?

It is ugly, and we have to look at it. Also, it's not difficult to imagine someone with tattoos as having criminal intentions. If someone would do that to himself, who knows what he might do to someone else? I would worry about whether he was going to stab me 100 times, as we read about today in another thread.

Tattoos look ridiculous and pitiful to those without one. The only folks who think *your* tattoo is really cool are those with similar ones. If you later change your mind about having the tattoo, you feel *really* stupid. Those with brand-new tattoos just *love* showing it off to their friends, not recognizing that most of their friends are going to think they're silly (unless their friends *already* have tattoos).

In this respect, having a tattoo is very similar to belonging to a religion.

I have a mental illness and no tattoos. On the contrary I know many heavily tattooed people, none of whom have a mental illness. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

I remember a kid with face tattoos complaining that no one would hire him.

I find one (or maybe even 2) tats on the shoulders, as long as they're not huge, can be very sexy. But once someone has them all over their arms, legs, torso, neck, and even more becomes trashy. They're like walking billboards.

I mean, on the plus side, the tattoos may help identify your body if you ever become a murder/earthquake/grisly accident vicitim. I mean, you'd give your family some closure if they were able to find and identify you...or a piece of you.

“He was almost voted “Best Ass” in 2013.”

So near and yet so far.