Posted on 03/05/2025 8:53:36 AM PST by Red Badger
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They want it to be mainstream, but I still find it to me a minority form of expression and not widely accepted by everyone.
I think tattoos are disgusting and my nephew has his own tattoo business or whatever you call it ,makes a lot of money though ,LOL
Shouldn’t surprise anyone. It’s been known for years that people who handle roses frequently and get pricked by thorns are at higher risk for certain cancers. The same is true of people who chronically have used crankcase oil on their hands (mechanics). The body reacts adversely to persistent environmental irritants.
Somehow, I got thru 4 years in the Marines without getting a tattoo.
Practically all of my buddies did..........
I don’t have to worry.
Welcome to my life, tattoo
We’ve a long time together, me and you
I expect I’ll regret you
But the skin graft man won’t get you
You’ll be there when I die
Tattoo
I like how all the bright colors fade to that gross green over time.
I’ve heard it said that the only thing more painful and expensive than getting ink is having it removed.
My personal feeling is, I came into this world without, I’ll leave it without.
Tattoos are also banned in the Bible. God hates them.
I noticed in the military, 1966, that men who got tattoos had nice sharp ones. They had to rub vasiline on them for a few weeks as they healed. In that time the ink spread under the skin making the tattoos look “out of focus.” No longer sharp. I never got a tattoo.
Same here. All I heard was the bitching about the pain and later itching.................
How sweet. I can hear that as a sung lyric, backed by the plucking of a Ukelele or a Flute.
My Dad was a very conservative guy - and hiring manager at a large industrial firm.
The company management didn’t look kindly on tattoos on prospective employees and usually, those guys did not make the first cut
This is post WWII, and if Dad met a fellow Pacific/Navy vet with tats, he would take the guy aside, try to elicit the guys’s story/history, and advise him to cover up tats, and how to answer the interview questions.
Dad said in the 1950s, 95% of tats were Navy/Marines vets - only later in the 1960s did it become hippies - and only after that single moms then middle-class housewives.
I guess you are limiting your shelf life if you go overboard with the tattooing.
May be a silver lining to that.
I’m not sure if someone who is a hundred would want to look in the mirror everyday with his face and neck covered with tattoos.
Tatoos other than those that are emblems of military service are the indelible mark of the lowlife. The more ink, the shorter the life and not just from luekemia and lymphoma.
“ Somehow, I got thru 4 years in the Marines without getting a tattoo.”
Me too, Devil Dog! I was 9 years.
I grew up in a neighborhood where the only tattoos I saw were numbers on the forearm. They have had a negative connotation ever since.
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