…. and are much less likely to get that job/promotion cuz visible tattoos still carry a social stigma, like it or not, so since you’ll make more money than them, the police will be much more likely to believe your side of the story when you call them after getting your ass kicked.
Though the image says tattoos make you cool, that’s not what most of us get them for. We get art that we appreciate or something that holds meaning to us in one way or another.
What does it matter how the art looks when I’m old? It’ll still mean the same thing 50 years from now as it does today. My skin is going to be a timeline of my life, I can look at each piece of art and remember what state of mind I was in during the time of my life I got it. Though it may look more like a shapeless blob when I’m older it will still be a part of me and I’m ready to embrace it.
I’m way too fickle for a tattoo — there isn’t anything I can imagine liking enough to want on my body for the rest of my life. Except maybe Jessica Biel.
Tattoos used to be cool, or badass, or what-have-you, but now it’s a crapshoot. I used to assign a story to my students, “The Skin Game” by Joe Queenan, in which his father comes back from the dead to order him to get a tattoo, because it makes him a man; so he researches tatts and each night has to convince his dad’s ghost that tattoos are no longer for sailors, bikers and miscreants; finally he shows the ghost a picture of the Backstreet Boys, with all their tatts, and his dad’s ghost relents.
and if they can’t kick your ass they can denoted their suicide bomb. Real cool.
detonate even. Pesky fingers.
…and the no have self esteem
…. and are much less likely to get that job/promotion cuz visible tattoos still carry a social stigma, like it or not, so since you’ll make more money than them, the police will be much more likely to believe your side of the story when you call them after getting your ass kicked.
I make more money than you.
@RoQ & deuce
lol, riiiight
@... deuce
unless one of your tats is the Fraternal Order of Police logo, then you’re pretty much golden.
Tattoos are not stigmatized anymore unless there are facial or extremely graphic.
Sorry, tattooed people, “cool” is not something you can buy and have placed on your body.
Have fun when you’re 80 and your art looks like shit.
If your art looks like shit by then, everything will look like shit by then, so what does it matter?
Sounds like someone is scared of tattoos.
@MikeBabaguh
Though the image says tattoos make you cool, that’s not what most of us get them for. We get art that we appreciate or something that holds meaning to us in one way or another.
What does it matter how the art looks when I’m old? It’ll still mean the same thing 50 years from now as it does today. My skin is going to be a timeline of my life, I can look at each piece of art and remember what state of mind I was in during the time of my life I got it. Though it may look more like a shapeless blob when I’m older it will still be a part of me and I’m ready to embrace it.
No regrets.
Well said Tattooed-Geek.
I’m way too fickle for a tattoo — there isn’t anything I can imagine liking enough to want on my body for the rest of my life. Except maybe Jessica Biel.
Tattoos used to be cool, or badass, or what-have-you, but now it’s a crapshoot. I used to assign a story to my students, “The Skin Game” by Joe Queenan, in which his father comes back from the dead to order him to get a tattoo, because it makes him a man; so he researches tatts and each night has to convince his dad’s ghost that tattoos are no longer for sailors, bikers and miscreants; finally he shows the ghost a picture of the Backstreet Boys, with all their tatts, and his dad’s ghost relents.
tattoos are like the coolest t-shirt you can never take off.
what shirt would you have chosen 5 years ago?
“My skin is going to be a timeline of my life”… like a permanent record of when skulls where cool and not used as motif on j.crew pants.
it’s the personal equivalent of stickers on the back of your car.