Posted on 10/06/2013 2:49:36 AM PDT by AlexW
While I have not been in America for almost ten years, I do watch American TV via my G-sat. My most popular channel is the History Channel. What shocks and amazes me is that most all of the women on all of the programs are slathered with Tattoos. Is this a new phenomena in America? Have women degraded themselves to such an extent? Some may think it cool. I think it is disgusting.
I often tell young people that tatoos are like an old calendar picture that can never be changed.
I’ve never understood why tattoo parlor s are open all night. Even with the explosion of tattooing, I can’t see enough demand to justify running a business all night.
When I entered the Army way back in 1970, my dear gone to be with Jesus Christ mother told me two thing, and she meant it. You better not get a tattoo marking up your body.
My husband wanted to get a tattoo. I told him he should join the military first and earn it. For myself, I never could get one. I would have instant regret. 34 and tattoo-free!
“Go with dermatology, young med student. Your fortune will be made...”
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My brother, one of twins, is a dermatologist.
It is considered to be a great specialty, as your patients
never get well, or die.
You cite one of many.
How does a shop that needs 2K rent, approx 300.00 electricity, another 100.00 or 200.00 for water sewage, make it on the occasional 300.00 or 400.00 tat ?
Unless the tat business is WAAYYY more lucrative than that.
People judge you by your appearance. When I see a young woman with a tatoo I immediately subtract 10 points from her IQ.
Hahaha...I believe they make their money on “return business”...:)
Or a front for a drug dealer.
Tat’s all, folks? U.S. Army weighs new tattoo policy
(Reuters) - Tattoos are everywhere these days, with no body parts off limits. But the U.S. Army may be asking new recruits to roll up their tattoo sleeves as part of a new uniform policy.
A regulation to ban tattoos that are visible below the elbow and knee and above the neckline is under consideration, the armed forces newspaper Stars and Stripes reported.
Sergeant Major of the Army Raymond Chandler, the top noncommissioned officer, outlined the proposed rules to troops during a visit to Afghanistan, the paper said on Tuesday.
Existing tattoos may be grandfathered in, but all soldiers are still prohibited from having tattoos that are sexist, racist or extremist, it said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/25/us-usa-military-tattoos-idUSBRE98O0V620130925
?....who convinced them this was attractive?”
They started gaining popularity in the early-mid seventies. In about ‘72 when I was 14 we started noticing them at the beach. Little devil with a pitchfork, flower (rose), butterfly was about the entire range. Many were visible only in a bikini but most were covered even by a bikini. I heard our girlfriends discussing them once and the final consensus was: “Some are cute but you can’t get rid of them once you have one...?” A few years after that Cher got a few and went to her publicist and THAT is when the popularity explosion occurred.
Those detatchable rubber hoods over the keypad for your pin (at the checkout) get detached by me when I go to use it, and as I detach it, I explain ..." I'm old, my eyes are bad, and this thing forces me to stoop down and try to figure out the top row"
This really happened at a LOWE'S ...
At the checkoput, I proceded to do the aforementioned and a (once) pretty girl ... maybe 24 or 25 yo, tatted all from the neck down to the wrist on one arm came over to me and spoke like a drill instructor ... SIR, put that back on!
I said NO, and continued inputting my pin.
The cashier hurredly cleared me through and I got an earful from my wife when we got in the car.
That girl is still in LOWE'S and I see her with a clipboard all the time and it really appears she's some kind of more than a cashier person.
I don't know what that all means except ... I really don't like this person.
What?
You don’t want a woman you have to scrape and repaint every few years?
Not to mention you might have to give her a few good washings with bleach between paintings.
I laugh at the facial tats on mug shots. Don’t these idiots know how easy it is to find you after you’ve committed a crime?
At Stanford and Ohio State, it is almost a tattoo free zone.
I swim a lot so I know.
I guess the smart girls and the cow girls just don’t get urban hip.
I have no problem, with a small, discreet tattoo. Even a moderate one on a guy’s arm or leg is okay with me, depending on the content.
In my line of work (healthcare) I came to know many older men, and often had the opportunity to speak at length with them over the course of several hours, and it was clear most of them were indifferent to their tattoos, but there were a significant number who regretted them.
I am an amateur historian, and the tattoos were something that helped me initiate conversation, particularly about their military service (since on many guys of that generation, that is what they were)
The women I treated in their forties and up did not have tattoos back then, and the few who did, appeared to greatly regret them. I had many cases where as soon as the tattoo was visible, they would simply apologize in advance or try to explain them. I felt bad for them, a youthful indiscretion that would never go away, and they were quite self-conscious about them.
I presume that is not the case with many women now, but after seeing how tattoos aged on men’s skin, I cannot imagine in that what we see today on the skin of these young women is going to look at all attractive in 20-30 years.
Personally, I can’t fathom it. My wife’s nephew is a homosexual, and he has come to a few family functions wearing the big wooden circles in the ears and such, which is disgusting to me, but worst of all are the metal posts sticking straight down out of each nostril.
They look for all the world like snot concentrators. Eating turkey while sitting across the table from him was an exercise in my ability to focus on my food.
But, as my wife says, piercings and such will go away when you remove them. The tattoos don’t.
The History Channel is not about the study of history. The History Channel is concerned with the alteration of society via the “Oh, this is normal, this is what people have done throughout ‘HISTORY”! This is what YOU should be doing too!”
i guess i missed that part
That's the problem with cable. Or I should say unintelligent viewers. Occasionally, the History Channel actually puts a show on concerning an historical event. Now it's whatever uneducated viewers want. Ditto for the Travel Channel. I thought it was about traveling to interesting places around the world. Now it's about a guy who eats a lot of food. We have a problem in this country with too many un or ill-educated people.
I remember my first trip to London in 1985 and I noticed the people who were tattooed were the ones that had given up on life. They felt they could not get ahead so they stopped trying to get ahead and just accepted their fight for improvement. Of course the government in Great Britain was getting to the point where we are today, depending too much on government to take care of them.
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