Tatoos

[Drunkjewishfan]

Is it me or do most people that have a tatoo or many kind of look like oafish clowns? I'm not insinuating people that have tatoos are clowns ( at least not our veterans ) but I always thought it might be a biproduct of low self esteem. I wonder if thats why so many black athletes have them. Just my 2 cents.

 

[backrow]

i have one, and i've never suffered from low self esteem.

 

[Carolina Speed]

I'm in no way trying to belittle anyone who has a tattoo, but when there is something in question as many of you know, I will put a Bible verse out there, to help.

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord. Leviticus: 19;28.

If anyone has a tattoo, that doesn't mean your going to hell. It is just good advice from God, that getting a tattoo isn't good for you.

We've all sinned and made mistakes! I believe God gave us the Bible for answers to any questions we might have about anything!!!!

For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Romans; 3:23.

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Romans; 10:9

 

[Drunkjewishfan]

The last thing I want to do is offend anyone. But when I see someone especially with a neck tatoo I just don't get it. I don't think al people with tatoos have low self esteem but it's amazing how many black basketball players and football players have them. If you look at colleges with higher recruiting standards you don't find so many guys with tatoos like the Dukes and Northwesterns of the world. I always thought most classy black guys in basketball avoided them and even some of San Antonios players have them. Just strange.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

I don't have any tattoos and I don't think people should get all tatted up. I don't like looking at them either. I'm sure some of my students don't like having to look at a tattoo of a pink skeleton head with big bloodshot eyeballs and other "shocking" features on the upper back of one of my female students (also pierced up) either. Things like that sure don't help people's looks. Yuck! uke:

 

[The Hock]

I can remember watching MTV in the late 80's, and Axel Rose was writhing around on stage as Guns and Roses performed "Welcome to the Jungle," and he had all those tattoos, and I was thinking to myself, watch, more kids will start getting tattoos, and I was right. Before then tattoos were more a biker and lower class thing to do, but now it's respectable. I notice a lot of would-be bohemians get them. It's almost mandatory, so they can fit in with the rest of the non-conformist crowd.

Some years ago I thought about it myself. I was going to get a rooster pheasant on one side of my back, and a drake mallard on the other. I never went through with it though. Man, a fad can get anybody I guess if you're not careful.

 

[backrow]

bunch of stiffs i designed mine myself, it has a meaning clearly discernible to me only, it looks like a small tribal and it's on my shoulder where i can easily hide it. i don't regret it at all!

EDIT: oh, and it's tattoos if one wants to get technical haha

 

[Thrashen]

Is it me or do most people that have a tatoo or many kind of look like oafish clowns? I'm not insinuating people that have tatoos are clowns ( at least not our veterans ) but I always thought it might be a biproduct of low self esteem. I wonder if thats why so many black athletes have them. Just my 2 cents.

The last thing I want to do is offend anyone. But when I see someone especially with a neck tatoo I just don't get it. I don't think al people with tatoos have low self esteem but it's amazing how many black basketball players and football players have them. If you look at colleges with higher recruiting standards you don't find so many guys with tatoos like the Dukes and Northwesterns of the world. I always thought most classy black guys in basketball avoided them and even some of San Antonios players have them. Just strange.

Right, you certainly didn’t want to “offend” anyone. After all, “oafish clown” is a run-of-the-mill complimentary phrase.

Also, I corrected some of the words you were attempting to spell…”tattoo,” “self-esteem,” “tattoos” and “ byproduct.”

This thread is even less persuasive that your recent encounter involving “Ebonics.” Please note that I’m not simply admonishing you because I am in favor of tattoos, as I don’t even currently have one myself.

 

[jaxvid]

Yeah I'm old school, a single tatoo that designates something important to a person, like a Marine seal or a Navy Anchor is understandable but to fill your body with scribbling like grafitti on an abandoned building is retarded. I lump it in with bones through the nose and rings around the neck, the kind of stuff primative ignorant people do. So many white people have fallen prey to this style that it's hard to criticize them all, but deep down when a guy my age sees someone like that we think --BUM. That's just the way it is. Keep that in mind if you get all tatted up.

 

[Carolina Speed]

Right, you certainly didn’t want to “offend†anyone. After all, “oafish clown†is a run-of-the-mill complimentary phrase.

Also, I corrected some of the words you were attempting to spell…â€tattoo,†“self-esteem,†“tattoos†and “ byproduct.â€

This thread is even less persuasive that your recent encounter involving “Ebonics.†Please note that I’m not simply admonishing you because I am in favor of tattoos, as I don’t even currently have one myself.

Yeah, matt or drunkblackfan or whoever, the thread tattoos got my attention, because I wanted to see others opinions as well as state my own, but someone isn't necessarily a clown because one has a tattoo. I think the more appropriate thing to do was ask why? Why do we see this trend, especially with younger people of all colors. I'm a Duke fan and there's been more and more players coming in with tattoos!

I'm not exactly sure why kids get "tatted up", but I did some things when I was younger I wish I hadn't . I almost got one myself when I was in The Marines, but I decided not to.

I know I've acted like clown myself, but someone with a tattoo, is probably trying for lack of a better word, expressing themselves, a belief, an allegience, etc.

 

[Bronk]

I was a Marine (sorry, I don't subscribe to the once-and-always ethic of the USMC anymore) and I never could bring myself to get a tattoo.

I have friends and co-workers from a variety of walks of life who have tattoos and they don't necessarily bother me. Two of these friends would ride with me until hell froze and then halfway over the ice, so the matter of a skin illustration seems a small and inconsequential thing in light of that kind of loyalty. My maternal grandfather had the remains of a tattoo he got while in the Army in WWI (the fearful nostrils of a vicious rattlesnake).

But I have two adult sons who are tattoo-free and, frankly, their mother and I prefer it that way.

 

[Rebajlo]

Here in Australia, tattoo parlours are one of the very few "growth industries".

Tattoos are so bloody prevalent that I sometimes think that my countrymen are transmogrifying into a green skinned goblinoid race straight out of a Dungeons and Dragons monster manual.

Just for the record, I cannot stand the things myself, but each to his own - my uncle has a few (the old style eagles, serpent-entwined daggers, etc) that are the relics of a turbulent and rebellious youth in Communist Poland.

 

[Drunkjewishfan]

If a tattoo gives a person some personal meaning thats fine, but I just have a hard time dealing with people that get multiple inkings. I know for a fact most police departments will not hire applicants if they are tatted up. It just looks unproffesional. I think the fact that most state prisoners get them is a sign of the mentality of numerous tattoo seekers.

 

[The Hock]

Back when I was in the army some of the guys would come back from the weekend with tattos. One guy from Chicago (had a Polish name) got three in three weeks, big ones on his arms. I thought at the time, he's just marked himself for life.

Another guy, a skinny nervous type with big watery eyes that always made him look like he was about to cry, came back from the weekend with half a tattoo on his forearm. It was supposed to be a panther with a dagger in its teeth (something to make him look tough I suppose) but he only made it through the outline before the pain got to him. It was sad and funny at the same time. A month later when we'd finished our training he still hadn't got it finished. I hope somewhere down the line he was able to get it done.

 

[werewolf]

People mutilating their own bodies. The death throes of a decadent civilization.

 

[DixieDestroyer]

I too have never had a "tat" and never will...nor have I sported an earring or long hair. My wife says I'm John Wayne-esque, and I guess I'm "old fashioned". I can see military fellers sporting 1-2 tattoos (as Jaxvid alludes to), but beyond that & it looks trashy. These young MMA fighters look silly loaded up w/ the so called "body art"...as do the affletes of the NFL & NBA. To each, their own...but tattoos aren't for me.

 

[Drunkjewishfan]

Well spoken Dixie. I think that reflects my sentiments on the issue. It just seems like more and more people are out there getting them. And it scares me.

 

[screamingeagle]

When did this trend in tatoos start? Was another thing that Michael Jordan started?
In my day the only people who had visable tatoos were ex cons. Even the hippies of Haight Ashbury didn't have them. Hippies also didn't have earings or piecings. Now it seems that every youndg person has them.

 

[Deus Vult]

A couple decades ago, I had long hair and a pierced ear lobe; but never a tattoo. I've never smoked or experimaited with drugs, either.

 

[space hillbilly]

I don't have a tatoo and I don't want one! The last thing white people need is an identifying mark...

 

[werewolf]

When did this trend in tatoos start? Was another thing that Michael Jordan started?
In my day the only people who had visable tatoos were ex cons...

And sailors. But even when i was a sailor in the Navy I thought they were stupid, and I'm very glad I didn't get one. I really hate fads and trends and the conformist bovine herd mentality that is so easily led and manipulated, and like SH says, nice identifying mark you're putting on yourself. Michael Chertoff and the Kammissariat of Homeland Security likes that.

 

[Rebajlo]

Australian gets HIV from Bali tattoo
A West Australian has contracted HIV after getting a tattoo while on holiday in Bali.

The incident has prompted the West Australian Health Department to urge all Australians who have had tattoos or piercings in Bali to consult a doctor and consider getting a HIV test.

It is understood the person was tested after returning to Australia from Indonesia.

The department has not revealed the age and sex of the person or details about where the tattoo was done.

The Indonesian health authorities have been notified about the case.
WA Health director of communicable disease control Paul Armstrong told the ABC: "Anybody who has had a tattoo in Bali or a body piercing in Bali should consider the information that's come out and talk to their doctor about getting tested for HIV."

Mr Armstrong advised travellers not to get tattoos and piercings done overseas, particularly in developing countries.

Source: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8394619/australian-gets-hiv-from-bali-tattoo

 

[The Hock]

Bummer in Bali. I suspect a lot of these "developing" countries never will really develop. Poor guy. The turmoil in his mind when someone asks "so what's the story behind your tatoo...?"