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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: SeekAndFind

Wow! I guess I am stupid and so much more! I have three tats on my upper back. Each one was thought through carefully. I was 49 when I got the 1st one. It was not due to being drunk, or in love or low self-esteem etc. They do not show, unless I wish them to. I had no idea how judged I would be here.


41 posted on 08/06/2017 11:08:06 AM PDT by ozaukeemom (I am deplorable and proud of it.)
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To: ronniesgal
Open a laser surgery tattoo removal clinic in 10 years or so and you should make bank.

In Austin, I've seen a laser tattoo removal clinic right next door to a tattoo parlor - side by side in the same strip mall.

42 posted on 08/06/2017 11:08:34 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nobody’s appearance has ever been improved by a tattoo.


43 posted on 08/06/2017 11:08:43 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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To: dragnet2

I was at the drive up window of a fast food place the other day.
The young lady taking my cash had a chain of tattoos on her left inside forearm. I started whistling The elephant walk, but see did not recognize the song or know why I was whistling it.
Her chain of tattoos? Three elephants from small to large, tail to trunk!
Oh brother....


44 posted on 08/06/2017 11:09:14 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: SeekAndFind

Are there any other theoretical ways to remove tattoos besides costly laser? Seems to me there must be some chemical/enzyme process that could do it.


45 posted on 08/06/2017 11:09:21 AM PDT by montag813 (ue)
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To: ronniesgal

I am. I’m anti-tattoo.


46 posted on 08/06/2017 11:09:37 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Tattoos are yet another manifestation of the decadence and vulgarization of American culture.


47 posted on 08/06/2017 11:10:54 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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To: SeekAndFind

So many anti-tat folks are like their skins....blank and featureless. While they may deem themselves somewhat “purer” than others, there is a lack of depth within and without. Not to mention the snooty bigotry inherent in their self proclaimed superiority.


48 posted on 08/06/2017 11:10:54 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: SeekAndFind

She tried to remove it but it still shows. Angelina has dozens all over. Head to toe. Arms, hands, back, butt, legs, front areas, etc. Loonytoon. Hollyweird crazy lib.

49 posted on 08/06/2017 11:11:28 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: TigerClaws

“Sad to see otherwise attractive females with trashy tattoos.”

I absolutely detest them. I’m pretty old, so in my day, the only place to see a tattooed woman was in the circus, with her bearded companions.


50 posted on 08/06/2017 11:12:08 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: TigerClaws

“Trashy tattoo” as opposed to the classy ones?


51 posted on 08/06/2017 11:13:02 AM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
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To: hopespringseternal
Nothing says “stupid” quite like a tattoo.

I'll have to tell my son that next time I see him walk by with his crossed-rifles Infantry tattoo.
52 posted on 08/06/2017 11:13:52 AM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: ozaukeemom

Get use to it.


53 posted on 08/06/2017 11:14:45 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: bgill

“...stuck with tattoo forever...”

It was often said by moms in olden days that, “It is a woman’s prerogative to change here mind.”

Back when I was a kid, one did not see tattoos on regular fellas. Oh the man spraying for bugs might have one from his Navy days but most service guys did not even have em. The cliche that it was a carnival worker thing was pretty much true.

The father berating his son for even thinking about Navy Flight school basic in AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN told Richard Gere’s character, “Officers don’t have tattoos.” Nowadays they often do.

When I was a Second Lieutenant, even the girls in sex films did not have tattoos but now the captain of the cheerleaders in prestigious high schools are likely to have them.

I think they are universally unattractive.


54 posted on 08/06/2017 11:15:10 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini.)
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To: ameribbean expat
"Sign of dissatisfaction with self."

"Not sure what happened to women, but too many have no anchor in reality. I’m not picking up the tab."

Well said.

When I see two-tone or three-tone hair, I think: "druggie"

When I see a pierced tongue, I think: "Oral sex"

When I see a tattoo, I think: "low self-esteem and mental disfunction"

55 posted on 08/06/2017 11:15:36 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Guess I wasn’t his ‘True Love’ after all? ;)

"Permanent reminder
Of a temporary feeling..."

- Jimmy Buffett

56 posted on 08/06/2017 11:16:09 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Paal Gulli

Sure, bring that home to meet mom and dad.

57 posted on 08/06/2017 11:16:11 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: dragnet2

How about the paw print tats?


58 posted on 08/06/2017 11:16:48 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: GraceG
What might work better would be to sell devices that emit the same sort of wavelength to break down tattoo ink but can be put on the skin for several hours each night as someone sleeps.

How do you know about this? Is there published r/s on it, or existing attempts? Fascinating.

59 posted on 08/06/2017 11:17:24 AM PDT by montag813 (ue)
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To: hopespringseternal
'Nothing says “stupid” quite like a tattoo.'

Well said.

60 posted on 08/06/2017 11:17:44 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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