Hey, Dude! Check out my new tat! Page 3

Started by Puddle January 20th, 2014 6:15 AM
  • 5069 views
  • 52 replies

Thursday

Age 30
Male
South-East America
Seen April 6th, 2023
Posted August 9th, 2016
456 posts
13.3 Years
I personally love tattoos, all kinds (Well, maybe not ALL kinds, if you know what I mean). I don't have any tattoos (yet, thanks to not having enough money) but I want some really badly.

As for random tattoos, I love the idea (being free and confident enough to get the tattoo) but maybe make sure it isn't a fad? I wouldn't go so far as to criticize someone for the tattoo, mainly because I like tattoos, but try to get someone, even if you only like the design, that you would like later as well. Sit around with the design for a few weeks and if you can still stomach the image, go for it.
Thursday
1006-0591-1577

Eevee-Kins

Sleepy Eyes, Bony Knees

Female
North Carolina, United States.
Seen September 29th, 2014
Posted September 28th, 2014
181 posts
9.2 Years
I have a tattoo on my finger.
I also have dyed hair and eight piercings, which includes stretched ears.
I love decorating my body, it makes me, me.


IGN: Estée | FC: 2964 - 9123 - 4267 | The Adorable Shoppe of Cuteness

Nihilego

[color=#95b4d4]ユービーゼロイチ パラサイト[/color]

Male
scotland
Seen September 28th, 2018
Posted March 16th, 2018
8,874 posts
12.1 Years
I can't really imagine why someone would be outright "against" tattoos. It's fine if you don't want to get one or don't like how they look or whatever, but to me being "against" something would imply an outright moral objection to it. ...which to me doesn't make sense. I can't think of why someone would morally object to someone else wanting to change the way they look by getting a tat. Maybe I'm just reading too much into the first post but it strikes me as kinda... over-the-top if you genuinely object to other people doing something totally cosmetic that only concerns them.

I considered getting one once in memory of someone, but in the end it just never happened. Not for any particular reason, but I kinda guess that in the end I just never felt a hugely overwhelming desire to make the jump and get something on me that'd last forever. Maybe I'll come back to it one day but atm I'm pretty much 'take-it-or-leave-it' on the matter, which certainly isn't enough to push me into getting one.

Needless to say, I'd be pretty much horrified if someone judged me for getting something like that, but that's not even because of the meaning; it's because in general I just don't think we should be judging people for looking the way they want to look. Since that's literally all a tattoo is. It's people who want part of their body to look a certain way that can be accomplished with a tattoo so they get one and it looks that way and it makes them happy. I can't imagine why anyone should have a problem with that. Honestly I don't even think any less of people who get them while drunk / on a whim / without any prior thought either. It's what they wanted at the time, it turned out to be a dumb mistake, and who are we to give them flack for that? They're probably already bothered enough about how they've got something they don't want stuck on them without getting judged for it.

Also, what are your guys thoughts on visible tattoos in the work place?
You can probably guess from what I said above - I'd be totally fine with that. I don't see why anyone has to have a problem with the way anyone else looks so if someone's refused a job / made to take a different position / whatever, I kinda can't help but see that as discrimination. I know that's probably a bit of a dramatic approach to take but I really can't think of another word for it.

All that said, people who say that they find tattoos unpleasant to look at or who would ask others to cover up their tattoos - why does it bother you?