Your thoughts on Tatoos?

[Spikeguy]

Barbed wire around the biceps should definitely be retired.

[mike carey]

8 hours ago, Gilfson said:

So it’s only hot if you’ve committed crimes got it! I’ll get on that asap😂

Ready and waiting.

[Gilfson]

44 minutes ago, Spikeguy said:

Barbed wire around the biceps should definitely be retired.

Ironic coming from SPIKEguy 😂😂

[SirBillybob]

Paul, when asked between World Cup seasons, to predict the possibility of tattoo consensus …

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[+ Alabastrine]

I've been looking for providers recently, if it makes any difference I'm female, so that cuts down on the number of providers available to me. I have other criteria that makes the list of potential providers even thinner, so I am pretty flexible on tattoos with two exceptions: 

1. If the tats look gang related
2. if the tats are horribly tacky and all over, to the point where it detracts from the providers overall attractiveness (ex: face tats) or are so numerous you can't see their body under all that ink. 

If 1 or 2 apply I'll usually move on and keep looking. 

[soloyo215]

On 5/18/2025 at 7:51 PM, KensingtonHomo said:

Interesting. My initial experience with tattoos was people in or retired from the military. 

Yes, of course. I was only pointing at the people who my community deemed as "street people".

[soloyo215]

On 5/18/2025 at 7:26 PM, Gilfson said:

I understand that but at the same time culture and society changes. And Tatoo’s are more common than not especially in my generation. Having a personal preference is fine and if someone doesn’t want to hire me because my Tatoo’s that’s totally cool as they are looking for something else. My thing is just the way some people in this form act like people with Tatoo’s are despicable monster people lol

I agree on both points. I am living proof that there are changes in attitudes. 20 years ago it was unthinkable for me to have a tattoo.

Regarding people's treatment of their distaste for tattoos as "despicable monsters" as you put it, that's fairly common with all kinds of other preferences, from race, age, height, body type, to circumcision status, you name it. Never understood the "strong emotions" around certain things.

[Wings246]

Personally don't prefer tattoos, but not necessarily turned off by them.  However, these are 100% unacceptable to me: tattoos of characters/symbols/alphabets of a foreign language that

1.     Are transcribed in the most unesthetic manner (e.g. out of proportion, misaligned, don’t conform to the standards of that particular writing system)

2.     Mean something completely wrong, stupid, illogical (unintentionally)

Number 1 is insulting to the language/culture.  Number 2 is humiliating to the bearers of the tattoos.

The unfortunate fact is most of them don’t know they are making themselves a laughingstock and yet, wear their public self-humiliations with pride.  Attractiveness instantaneously vanishes into thin air when you are laughing uncontrollably upon witnessing such mishaps.