How do you feel about Tatoos? (page 15)

free2beme

I have no problem with them, just limited usage to some degree. I work in a professional environment, where tattoos would not be something you would want to be covered in from head to toe. At the same time, I like them in certain locations and think their fine. For woman, on the ankle, the lower back or upper shoulder is nice. For men, the upper arm is a good location or upper back. Even someone who is a tattoo artist will discourage you from putting them places that can not be covered by clothing. As you never know where your future might lead, and in that time, you might not want to be before a group giving a speech with a tattoo on your chin or neck.

Fisherman

I cannot understand this tattoo craze. Why, Why, Why. THe body is not canvas or something to scribble on. Whats done is done. I do not want to make you feell bad but again I do

Can some one kindly explain why you like tatoos?

Styles, drugs ,sex, music and such like thing I can understand but not tatoos.

hillary_step

Abbadon,

I do love someone who knows their stuff. In context it is almost Monty Pythion. I suffer from this in Sci-Fi movies... they could do Star Trek in a far more credible fashion given our knowledge of physics, but so much of it is just wrong .

One of my neighbours is a screen-writer. He is a likeable young man in his late twenties, just out of film school and is inundated with work from the movie industry. Problem is that he knows very little about films, or for that matter anything much.

He comes around every so often with his much more clued in wife and frankly I have been astonished at his ignorance, both of his subject, or for that matter life in general. He seems to be typical of the one-dimensional 'professionals' that are spewed out in their thousands from Universities all over the world these days. They are a mixture of ninety per-cent confidence and ten percent talent. It used to be the reverse of this.

I remember a tale that Rod Steiger once told of being taken in to the office of a young man whom he was shocked to find was running one of the worlds biggest film studios. He asked, "Mr Steiger' have you much acting experience?'. Steiger replied, 'Well, I received an Oscar for 'In The Heat Of The Night'. The young man replied, 'Never heard of it'.

Whenever I see a faux pas on one of the facile shows that plug up the screens on TV ( bar code on an Elizabethan costume ) , or foolishly venture into the cinema to view the latest 'brilliant, sensational, must see movie', I realize that my neighbour will have a long, long career.

Thank God for the French Movie industry and for my generalizations, which are miserably accurate.

HS

OpenFireGlass

THe body is not canvas or something to scribble on.

SAYS WHO?

RichieRich

Can some one kindly explain why you like tatoos?

I can only explain why I myself like tattoos.

To start things off, I've always admired tattoos. My father has extensive tattoos on his arms and such, and when i was young, I used to just sit there and study the tattoos on his arms. The lines, the color, what certain things meant or didn't mean- all little details I can still recount.

There are certain elements in my life that I have deemed important enough to immortalize on my body forever.

not that everything hurts horribly, but pain is a factor in tattooing too, so when people are tattooed, it shows an investment for the end result.

hillary_step

What needs to be admitted is that tatoos are a fashion, so in fact one person can speak for the many. Unlike flared trousers and those disgusting ties with the huge knots that embarrassed us all in the 70's, they cannot be buried in the back garden and their existence denied in the decades to come.

They are sported by numerous people who would not have considered carrying them twenty-five years ago and will not consider carrying them in twenty-five years time. Unless of course an international mass movement toward piercing and tatooing began spontaneously owing to aliens, with the Mason's help of course, triggering off a genetic signal within the genes of those who were blessed to be 'individuals'.

Mind you, the same alien call went out in the 80's when numerous people wore their hair in the 'mohican' style and dyed them the same color as a hippies paisley underpants. When you see someone wearing that style now you wonder if the person has just emerged from a coma in a hospital room without a mirror, or that maybe they are a late developer.

Be honest tatoo bearers - you are just plain ole fashion victims.

HS

jgnat

Me, I won't get a tattoo on principle. The principle of temporary fashion that hillary-step mentioned. Some days I wonder if I'll be the lone bare-skin in my seniors home.

BUT I am offended by people who think that the rest of the world should stop. Relish the freedom in this country that allows this wide variety of expression, including preserving the right to go door-to-door, paint your bodies, or even stick a cigarrette through a hole in your ear (yuk, Richie).

R6Laser

Tattoos are a personal choice. I won't condem those who decide to have them done, neither does it offend me. But most times tattos are done because its the latest fad. I still remember when everyone was getting their barbed wired tattoos around their biceps. Almost everyone at college was sporting one. Now the barbed wired tattoo has come and gone, and anyone with one looks mighty stupid.

At one time in my life I was thinking about getting a tattoo but ended up deciding against it. I haven't found something yet that defines me that I wouldn't mind having on my body for the rest of my life. For now I'm happy being one of the few unique persons that don't have any tattoos.

kerj2leev

I think I'm starting to agree with Fish!!!!

kittyeatzjdubs

What needs to be admitted is that tatoos are a fashion,

Yes, they are. One that's been around for thousands and thousands of years.

Has it ever occured to you that maybe people have always wanted tattoos, but because they were so looked down upon in society, they never dared to get one. I'm sure that's what a lot of people were saying when women started wearing pants...''Crazy fashion! It'll stop in a few years.''

How can you say it's just a fashion craze when the Japanese have been doing it since around 297 AD. The Samoans were doing it when they were discovered back in the 1700's. And guess what....THEY'RE ALL STILL DOING IT!

~luv, jojo

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