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They want it to be mainstream, but I still find it to me a minority form of expression and not widely accepted by everyone.
I think tattoos are disgusting and my nephew has his own tattoo business or whatever you call it ,makes a lot of money though ,LOL
Shouldn’t surprise anyone. It’s been known for years that people who handle roses frequently and get pricked by thorns are at higher risk for certain cancers. The same is true of people who chronically have used crankcase oil on their hands (mechanics). The body reacts adversely to persistent environmental irritants.
I don’t have to worry.
Welcome to my life, tattoo
We’ve a long time together, me and you
I expect I’ll regret you
But the skin graft man won’t get you
You’ll be there when I die
Tattoo
I’ve heard it said that the only thing more painful and expensive than getting ink is having it removed.
My personal feeling is, I came into this world without, I’ll leave it without.
Tattoos are also banned in the Bible. God hates them.
I noticed in the military, 1966, that men who got tattoos had nice sharp ones. They had to rub vasiline on them for a few weeks as they healed. In that time the ink spread under the skin making the tattoos look “out of focus.” No longer sharp. I never got a tattoo.
My Dad was a very conservative guy - and hiring manager at a large industrial firm.
The company management didn’t look kindly on tattoos on prospective employees and usually, those guys did not make the first cut
This is post WWII, and if Dad met a fellow Pacific/Navy vet with tats, he would take the guy aside, try to elicit the guys’s story/history, and advise him to cover up tats, and how to answer the interview questions.
Dad said in the 1950s, 95% of tats were Navy/Marines vets - only later in the 1960s did it become hippies - and only after that single moms then middle-class housewives.
I guess you are limiting your shelf life if you go overboard with the tattooing.
May be a silver lining to that.
I’m not sure if someone who is a hundred would want to look in the mirror everyday with his face and neck covered with tattoos.
BTTT
Is this a Scandinavian thing or what ? The study last year that found lymphoma 2 x more likely with any tattoos regardless of size was Swedish research, now Denmark.
Face and neck tattoos ate ugly. I saw a girl with a butterfly on her shoulder, and she was kinda cute
Reminds me of a woman who walked into my gym last week. I thought, “Very attractive.” Then she removed her sweatshirt, and tattoos covered her arms/torso/back.
Oh well... so much for being attractive.
A tattoo is a permanent reminder of one’s temporary insanity.
someone here told a story about working with a coroner who had a body he was investigating that was missing an arm. The coroner deduced that the missing arm had large tattoos by all the ink in the remaining right side lymph nodes
And thus the reason for govt health care. Get your tatoo, uncle sam will have your back.
Too bad. Sometimes we , ourselves,, are our worst enemies. I am speaking for myself, also.