I’m 36 and Covered in Tattoos — I Regret Them All

New York Post ^ | April 28, 2023 | Emily Lefroy

[Flavious_Maximus]

Those that get tattoos all over their bodies are bowing to a primitive lifestyle. No different than if they put wooden plates into their mouths to stretch their lips like monkeys. They want to show the world how savage and brutish they are. They have succeeded. /spit

[Dogbert41]

The days are long gone when an unemployed bum could always find a job at a freak show after getting him/herself tatted up.

[1Old Pro]

mental illness

[Tacrolimus1mg]

Lots of cultures around the world perform scarification and tattoos for standards of beauty and status. I know the vast majority of FReepers, at least in threads like these, don’t particularly like tattoos on their partners, but there’s one simple rule that helps evade regret: Make sure it symbolizes something personal and important to you.

I do like tattoos on women, though I have only one. It’s on my right hand, between my thumb and forefinger. It says, “LOVE”, and I designed the font for it. I got it after my first breakup (we dated for 7½ years starting at 14 and were talking marriage) as a reminder that I’m loved by someone, no matter how I hurt - by family, friends, whomever; I’m loved. Sounds corny, I bet.

Once I advance through careers in medicine, I plan on getting a Rod of Asclepius on my back. Not huge, probably three or four inches long.

I think she looks lovely, ink included.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Should anyone who can afford a tattoo be allowed to receive government assistance?

[VideoDoctor]

Much of this began right around when Angelina Jolie flashed her tats

The very same woman who, by CHOICE, had her healthy breasts surgically removed, as a PREVENTATIVE to ever having BREAST CANCER!

Think about that one?

[systemjim]

***these people are trying so hard to be nonconformist that they become conformists.***

As they say, “Young people today all want to be *different* just like everybody else”. :-)

[Songcraft]

:-)

(Put 'em in customer service!)

(They might be good to have working in the complaint department.  Probably would cut down a lot on complaints.)

[higgmeister]

Paul the Apostle wrote this in his First Epistle to the Christian Church in Corinth.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17

¹⁶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

¹⁷ If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

¹⁹ What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

²⁰ For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Growing up as a Methodist, I was taught not to defile your Holy Temple.

[drwoof]

Completely unemployable.

[Eva]

I wish that we had a like button because I think there are probably a higher percentage of people who regret removing body parts than regret tattoos.

[SamAdams76]

I would cross the street if any of these monsters were coming down the street my way.

And I'm 6'3" and over 200 pounds.

[Songcraft]

Maybe they could be school bus drivers.   Maybe them kids would sit still and behave themselves for those faces.

[lilypad]

Lots of young people just can’t seem to see anything in the future nor the consequences of what they do.

[Songcraft]

They probably get really lonely, because no one wants to be near them (unless maybe they are a matched set with someone else, or at a tattoo convention somewhere).

[GOPJ]

In a few years the sad massive regrets from trans people will come flooding in.

[GOPJ]

At least this young women didn’t destroy her face... the trans kids will be much sadder when they start flooding in in a few years.

[IncPen]

Does she mention all the holes she has had punched everywhere?

A lady doesn’t kiss and tell!

[Songcraft]

You're right.   (Makes you wonder what might happen when they start thinking later on about what certain adults had pushed them into doing in the past.)

[Georgia Girl 2]

There’s a small taboo that’s kind of cute then there’s body art.