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We All Need To Admit That America Has A Tattoo Problem
The Federalist ^ | 08/04/2017 | Mark Hemingway

Posted on 08/06/2017 10:37:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Windflier; V1Rotate

Oy, we got drone photography at the next shoot bro.
You’ll like it, it’s awesome.

Planning some downrange video of the shooters like what ain’t ever been done before.

Long as nobody shoots the drone...


181 posted on 08/06/2017 1:13:50 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: ameribbean expat
Had an uncle that got drunk with his fellow airborne trainees.

Going to church in hot weather, he had to use two band-aids to cover parts of the tattoo his "buddies" had bought for him.

182 posted on 08/06/2017 1:15:27 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: beelzepug
I’ve never seen anything I liked well enough to have it etched into my skin for the remainder of my life.

Myself and my eldest son both have our Scottish family clan badge tattooed on our right shoulders. They're beautiful, yet discrete. You'll never see them unless we're shirtless, or wearing tank tops.

I've told my other boys that they're welcome to join us when they turn 18, but by no means am I pressuring them to do so. My number three son turns 18 next month, and says he's going to do it.

183 posted on 08/06/2017 1:17:52 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: dfwgator

The ink has been common in BFE for at least since when as a kid, I started noticing stuff like that-didn’t happen in cities until much later, though. As for the hiring thing, most people out here either are self employed or work on a ranch or in another blue collar job where no one gives a damn whether they have ink-rural areas like this are like a different planet from cities...


184 posted on 08/06/2017 1:20:11 PM PDT by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: humblegunner

Amen!


185 posted on 08/06/2017 1:21:39 PM PDT by sport
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To: EinNYC

“Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.” —Leviticus 19:28


186 posted on 08/06/2017 1:24:43 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Windflier

See, now that was well thought out and is something that has personal meaning to you and your family. I like that.


187 posted on 08/06/2017 1:24:54 PM PDT by beelzepug (Anybody I attack may rest assured it's personal!)
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To: humblegunner

Sounds like the upcoming Shoot will be epic. Can’t wait!


188 posted on 08/06/2017 1:25:26 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Agamemnon
In this case, when you gets tats at 49 years old, you will have richly earned the judgement of those who were never so foolish to have done the same.

Clearly circumstances have you looking at the naked bodies of old people.

What might those circumstances be?

189 posted on 08/06/2017 1:26:17 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: SeekAndFind
I somehow got through my time in the Marine Corps with no tattoos. Had a Drill Instructor who had both arms completely covered with them.

Now where I work, it seems there's not a girl under 30 who doesn't fall under the 'cute except for the tattoos' category. Lots of guys with tats, too.

190 posted on 08/06/2017 1:26:21 PM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

I was in the Marine Corps, the most manly of all the Armed Forces, and I never saw fit to get a tattoo. With women, it’s a “tramp stamp” but even among men, it’s a sign of lower intelligence. Sorry guys with tattoos. Those who cover themselves with tattoos have poor judgement and low respect for their bodies.


191 posted on 08/06/2017 1:29:56 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Agamemnon
In this case, when you gets tats at 49 years old, you will have richly earned the judgement of those who were never so foolish

So.. are you a coroner or a funeral home worker?

How comes it to be that you are looking at the naked bodies of old folks?

Do you visit old folks homes and strip the people naked and chastise them for having tattoos?

192 posted on 08/06/2017 1:31:43 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: TheTimeOfMan

Multiple Degree, Network Engineer, veteran, Mensa member with 5 tats...

IOW, your opion is worth exactly the electrons it took to produce them and not one millivolt more....


193 posted on 08/06/2017 1:32:47 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: beelzepug

Thank you, pug. I never actually fell for the tattoo craze, but there came a moment in my life where I desired a personal marking that commemorated something intensely important to me.

As you said, I could only consider a symbol or mark that was of lasting and deep value to me, thus the family clan badge. Even then, I wasn’t willing to place it where it could easily be seen.


194 posted on 08/06/2017 1:33:40 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I consider a tattoo to be a permanent reminder of a passing fad, gotten by those who want to express their individuality by the doing the same thing as everyone else.


195 posted on 08/06/2017 1:34:20 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Charles Martel

Exactly. ;)


196 posted on 08/06/2017 1:35:08 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Texan5

Then you’d better stay OUT of Walmart. You’ll stroke out, or start shooting, LOL!


197 posted on 08/06/2017 1:37:03 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: DakotaGator
As a white collar hiring authority any applicant sporting tattoos or body piercings immediately informs me that he has no judgment. That's an automatic reject. There are plenty of applicants who have worked hard and made good personal decisions available for the second interview.

That is true. Fair or not, a tattoo immediately identifies one as one of the lower classes. I told my millennial children that and none of them has a tattoo as a result, despite some peer pressure to do so.

Never understood it, even when I was younger - back in the 1980s. I was in the Marine Corps then and the only ones that had tattoos were those who got very drunk out in town and ended up in a tattoo parlor where they would have a globe & anchor tattooed to their forearm like they were Popeye or some figure of a girl or whatnot.

Anybody with a tattoo on their neck or face were considered to be a felon who served time in prison. Recent example was Aaron Hernandez, the recent NFL player who went to prison for murder and ended up killing himself.

198 posted on 08/06/2017 1:45:42 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Texan5

Interesting. I had decided if I were to get another, it would be a bouquet of flowers representing my family (birth month flowers). Not sure if I will or not, yet.


199 posted on 08/06/2017 1:51:58 PM PDT by ozaukeemom (I am deplorable and proud of it.)
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To: DakotaGator

I’d bet Nancy Pelosi has the softest, silkiest hands...

Seems to be a trait of conniving, evil, utterly useless women.


200 posted on 08/06/2017 1:55:44 PM PDT by piasa
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