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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: Diana in Wisconsin

Oh, is that ever the truth! The nearest Walmart is in a town of 6000 or so 22 miles away in the next county, so there aren’t as many of the yoga pants clad hippos as in the city Walmarts-but I leave the heat at home if I’m going there. T5’sguy packs whether at work or not-but even he leaves his pistol locked in the truck if we goes in there-no sense tempting fate...


201 posted on 08/06/2017 2:04:40 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: Texan5

Good plan, LOL!


202 posted on 08/06/2017 2:10:31 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: ronniesgal
Indeed. One lives with one’s choices.
203 posted on 08/06/2017 2:13:06 PM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: loungitude

Absolutely.

I was in a restaurant once and this male waiter walked up and was covered in tats and had piercings in his ears, eyelids and nose. I nearly threw up...got up from the table and walked my ass out!


204 posted on 08/06/2017 2:20:37 PM PDT by Ammo Republic 15
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To: SamAdams76
Great that your children listened to you! Hard for kids not to jump onto the tattoo bandwagon. But making that choice is a step they take towards personal maturity.

Armed forces tattoos almost always are accompanied with a bar story. Falls under the “seemed like a good idea at the time” category ;-)

Prison ink is the worst example of self branding. In Japan the only ones tattooed used to be members of the Yakuza. Normal Japanese were mystified by tattooed Americans.

205 posted on 08/06/2017 2:23:19 PM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: TigerClaws

A friend of mine on seeing a tattoo on an otherwise attractive woman moved on saying “Tramp Stamp”. The thought stayed with me. I must say I have never seen a tattoo on a woman and thought “how attractive “.

Most times I just pity her...


206 posted on 08/06/2017 2:24:13 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Charles Martel

Good call. Great Buffett tune.


207 posted on 08/06/2017 2:25:50 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: SeekAndFind

Lydia oh Lydia that encyclopedia
Lydia the queen of tattoooo ...


208 posted on 08/06/2017 2:27:06 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: piasa

LOL. I expect they are more like harpy’s claws!

Soft delicate hands were only a long ago indicator of the social class that a women may be part of. And they never revealed what was in a woman’s heart.


209 posted on 08/06/2017 2:29:48 PM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: DakotaGator
Really no good reason to get a tattoo. It does not improve how you look and likely it will affect your upward mobility in the workplace. There are many corporations that will not hire or promote somebody with visible tattoos as they are automatically assumed to be of a lower socioeconomic order.

Why handicap and brand yourself in such a way?

210 posted on 08/06/2017 2:36:10 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: American in Israel
A friend of mine on seeing a tattoo on an otherwise attractive woman moved on saying “Tramp Stamp”.

What would he have done had he not "moved on"?

211 posted on 08/06/2017 2:36:46 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: AZLiberty

That’s where she got all her celebrity orphan babies?


212 posted on 08/06/2017 2:39:59 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: miss marmelstein

22 years in uniform but I don’t have any tattoos. I’ve been drunk enough, even to the point of not remembering the night before (I am ashamed of that but grateful I survived), but never drunk enough to get a tattoo.

Why?

I was afraid of needles and the pain. No kidding.


213 posted on 08/06/2017 2:43:12 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: bgill

Is that the skank that has what looks like the newspaper classified section on her back?


214 posted on 08/06/2017 2:44:42 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: TigerClaws

I have had young female employees get tattoos and then try and hit me and others up for Christmas $ for their kids. Not happening. Tattoos are nasty and take away from a woman’s natural beauty. Many employers I know will trash applications of anyone with a tattoo as soon as they walk out the door. They don’t want that image. I have advised many employees if you’re hell bent on destroying your body put those tattoos in strategic locations so they can be covered if need be for employment purposes.

They are trashy and low class and show the devolution of American culture.


215 posted on 08/06/2017 2:47:14 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: SamAdams76

Glad you asked.

I used to play in a lot of bands in the mid 80’s to mid 90’s.

Some of the bands I worked for or played with had members that were tattooed from head to toe.

In those days it meant you stood askance from society and were committed to the music.

We also had “good” tattoos, meaning that the people we let put ink on us were actually talented, not schmoes.

I only have a couple and they are not visible when I have on regular clothes, way too busy working to spend a lot of time in tattoo shops.

Now if I had any idea that every Tom, Dick, and Mary would be walking around with BAD tattoos in 2017, I would have never got any in the first place.

Went to Disney last year, looked like I was at a shitty tattoo convention.

My tattoos reflect my misanthropic nihilistic rage , don’t mind wearing that brand.


216 posted on 08/06/2017 2:54:31 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: AlaskaErik

Remember the Chinese character tattoo fad a few years ago? Turns out that when translated many of them were nonsense, printed backwards, or insults.


217 posted on 08/06/2017 3:04:42 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: bgill

Just looks like nasty varicose veins.


218 posted on 08/06/2017 3:06:22 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: ozaukeemom

I am with you. None of my Tattoos show unless I want them to. One is my tag line on my back. Oh well, guess I’m a looser as well.


219 posted on 08/06/2017 3:08:11 PM PDT by Xenodamus (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -TJ)
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To: Rome2000
Well yes, if you are in the rock & roll industry or in professional sports, etc., that is different. If you are say Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers or a linebacker from an NFL team making $5m a year, you can afford to get tattooed from head to toe. You are never going to have to apply for a corporate job at Merrill Lynch or Google.

Fact is, you immediately limit your career opportunities when you decide to get tattooed in visible body areas. If you already have it made in the entertainment industries, all the power to you. You can say "FU" to the world and live as a rebel. But there are too many poor schmucks who emulate those who have made it but never made it themselves. And not probably never will.

220 posted on 08/06/2017 3:08:17 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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