Posted on 05/01/2019 3:06:23 PM PDT by LucyT
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Dude! I’m going to have a tattoo on the inside also!
Doesn’t matter.
Just send money!
Yup, people droppin dead from tats left and right.
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This tatoo craze is not going to end well.
And we will end up picking up the tab.
Duh, the ink doesn’t move in corpses, only in live bodies which thus still have lymphatic flow. That tattoo ink ends up in lymph nodes has been known for decades, long before the current ink craze. Where do the folks think the ink went from the once vibrant WWII and Korea era military tattoos. If they could have lived to be 200 their skin probably would have cleared. Laser removal of tattoos, as mainly done to avoid scarring, doesn’t remove the ink. Rather it breaks the ink particles into smaller pieces which can be more efficiently cleared out via the lymphatics.
Nothing signals “entry level” and “looser” like tattoos and body piercings.
Yep, with the direction of the ‘Rats these days, tats will be handed out like 0bama phones. There will be a clamor for Universal Single-payer Tatooing. Anybody that borrowed to pay for their tats will demand the Feds forgive their debts.
“Nothing signals “entry level” and “looser” like tattoos and body piercings.”
Exactly.
Expect future progressive (e.g., brain-addled) congresscritters to add “tattoo rights” laws in the future, followed by “tattoo quotas”, and later the demand for at least the prez or vice-prez (misspellings intended) to be a tattooed wierdo.
Because brain damage. (Military folks who have earned their tats excepted, of course.)
I think there are already programs and coverage for tattoo removal. Painful and expensive. Anyone getting a tattoo should be forced to look at old people with tattoos. That’ll cure them of the idea.
Hideous skin graffiti. Don’t mark the skin as found in Bible scripture.
In my own opinion tats look awful and I have to fight my first impression of a person when their inked skin is talking loudly on my eyes.
“Anyone getting a tattoo should be forced to look at old people with tattoos.”
True. I agree. I had a neighbor who got an “anchor” tattoo in 1942 while serving a ship in the Pacific in WW II. In 1992 the anchor tattoo was a blurry spot. He lived to 94 years old and had no illnesses from the tattoos.
Roger that! I generally believe people with tattoos and non-traditional piercings fall into two categories which can overlap; followers and self loathers.
Back 62 years ago,in school I accidentally rammed a #2 lead pencil into my finger. It left a permanent black mark under the skin. I just looked and it has not changed in all these years, but that was graphite, and not tattoo ink.
I also remember, in the military back in 1966, some men getting tattoos. After a few months the tattoos lost their sharpness and began to blur.
For the most part I'd agree. Can't imagine myself ever getting even a temporary tramp stamp, though in my state (PA) it seems like more than half the people have them.
And yet, there's a family friend who's a SEAL. He's tatted like Queequeg, and his wife has a few. Thoroughly admirable people, nonetheless.
I don't even have pierced ears.
I never knew that the military granted "tats" for military service........wow, I learn something here every day.
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