Posted on 04/02/2008 7:45:56 AM PDT by bamahead
Got a trampy little kid that isn't quite ready to get inked? No problem. Toys "R" Us has lower-back tattoo stickers for little miss thing.
We like how they're right next to the Hannah Montana and Minnie Mouse stickers.
Shiny red buttons? I thought they were RedHots that fell of her edible G-string.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. No tats for me, it is a deal killer.
Now I need some Drano to scrub my brain with..............
I see so many of these sheep with tattoos, going to the store nowadays is like walking into a carnival in Trailerville Tennessee.
No deals then ;)
I see them through different eyes....several of the women I admire and respect most have tats-— Carolina Nerricio, Rachel Brice and Nina Rall to name a few. As well as severl good friends. Again, for me, it’s mark of a creative spark.
“””The Florida beaches are full of tramp stamps. 25% or more have them””””
Are the full?
Or are they 25%?
Which one?
Oh noooo, you're not self righteous, nope.
“”””Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. No tats for me, it is a deal killer.”””””
Thats good. Thats great. Thats wonderful. You are 100% entitled to that opinion. Thank you for saying that instead of “all women with tattoos are trailer slut prostitutes and are going straight to hell”
You are welcome. To each his own.
I don’t look down on tats, but I definitely have the creative spark and not a single one on me.
My older brother's wife has one. She is the mother of three as well. She graduated college and graduate school and now reads the thingys on the CATscanning machine at the hospital. She interprets them for the neurologists. She also is in the rotation for the nursery at church for the small children during services. She has a tattoo of some type of flower and bird on her back because botany was her minor in college and she loves the aviary they have on their property.
Yep.....two REAL trailer whores right there!!!
OK, I'll side with some of the folks on this thread that it's judgmental to look down on those who have tats or assume that the women who have them are slutty. I'm 100% with you. Heck, my wife has a tat and she's an RN with impeccable sexual mores...of course, she also got hers before 1990, so she had one back when they were just cool instead of ubiquitous.
However, this is also the truth: There's a reason those lower back tats are called tramp stamps. If I put on a three piece Armani suit, a Rolex and a Benz tie clip, go down to the Benz delaership and get mad at the first guy who assumes I have the money to buy a Benz, I'm nuts. If I put on a firefighter's uniform and walk into Wal-Mart and get mad at folks who thank me for being a firefighter, I'm nuts. If I go into Wal-Mart with my Packer hat and jersey on and get mad at the first guy who asks me how I feel about Brett Favre retiring, I'm nuts. If one adopts a tattoo style and placement that I usually see on a girl right above her thong that's sticking out of her low-rise jeans or pajama bottoms and below her "Your boyfriend thinks I'm a great kisser" belly shirt (actual sighting, by the way; she was wearing the pajama bottoms and leaning across the Wal-Mart jewelry counter), then that sends a message. Whether it's the intended message or a true message about that particular woman doesn't change the message, any more than a Bear fan wearing a Packer jersey changes the message of the Packer jersey.
Personally, I could really care less if your mom, daughter, grandparents, baby and your pets are tattooed.
I just don’t care.
LOL!
Let me qualify that...
People with a creative spark that resonates with my creative spark.
It’s all about perception and who you value and what you value.
Me? For all concerned, I’d avoid someone who saw tats as ‘deal breakers’ because I know not only would they hate my back mural, but the music I listen to, the books I read, the stuff I write, the friends I hang out with, the way my house is designed, the food I eat, the sheets on my bed, my dust bunnies that run in herds and get drunk after midnight.
IOW, all that I am, I wouldn’t want to expose to all that they believe. They would see me as something I’m not while I would probably see them a little too clearly for their own comfort.
Negative associations can be seen through two sides of a mirror-— from my side, I’d rather hang out with my tattoo’d and pierced friends as well as my tolerant non-tattoo’d and non-pierced friends than folks who saw them as ‘bad’.
Been there, done that, tried to fit on the wrong side of the mirror—— And I like the side of the mirror I’m on.
One day it dawned on me that all those that could tell me what to do or be bothered by what I did were dead.
It’s a very liberating moment.
Suddenly, I wasn’t living a life based on trying to keep peace with someone, keep Mama from having coniptions or not offending someone else. And heck, I’ve worked in enough nursing homes to know that non-tattoo’d 80 year old skin looks just as bad as tattoo’d 80 year old skin.
Might as well have some color.
Piercings give me just more places for sparklies.
Have you seen the Santos?
it may be the mark of a creative spark for a few... but for many tat beholders, it's just another way to be like so many others... they do it because it's like owning the latest and hottest pair of jeans on the market... to me this is the opposite of creative spark...
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