Posted on 05/18/2025 5:27:26 PM PDT by george76
My dad was in the Navy during WWII. How he managed that without getting tattooed, I do not know. My older daughter got a very small tattoo of an orange and green mushroom, on the skin at the base of her back, when she was very young. Even though it doesn’t show, she has regretted it ever since. When I was a child, I noticed a tattoo on the arm of my uncle, who was a Christian missionary. I had never seen one before, and asked him what it was. He replied, “I got that when I was a sinner, before I gave my life to the Lord. It’s a reminder of the life He saved me from.”
“I’d rather adorn myself with a beautiful piece of jewelry than some ink splatter scar.”
Being a jewelry lover myself, I absolutely agree with you.
Both of my parents died in 2020. I prayed with each as they took their last breath. One in April, one in November. My siblings did very little to help me. Once the estate was settled, and they got their money, they never looked back.
I was angry at the world. Rather than get a tattoo, I got a mullet haircut. Looked awful. I didn't care: Hey world, I'm angry. Now, 4 years later, I'm not angry and I am wearing the cutest medium length bob with bangs.
No tattoo regret.
Are Tattoos Toxic? | UConn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4grpD4DdBBo
Professor David Grant teaches one of his most popular
lectures on the toxic heavy metals in tattoo ink.
Why do young girls/women wear metal rings in their noses?
Don’t they see how dumb they look?
(I have officially become my Dad)
+1, loved Lewis. We saw him in person soon after we married around 40 years ago, at the GA Tech student center. Funny stuff.
I’ll quote another Atlanta favorite, old school radio talkmaster Neal Boortz:
“No woman was ever made more beautiful by the addition of a tattoo.”
It seemed appropriate for the thread.
I think some men manage their facial hair disgustingly; and their pot bellies are disgusting, too.
But all that really matters is the man inside, and that can cover a multitude of ‘sins’.
Sounds like Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill will be in good shape.
Ironically Frank Beard will have some ‘splainin’ to do.
"...laser treatment increased the risk of lymphoma by three times...laser treatment breaks down azo compounds—chemicals used to color tattoos—into potentially toxic, cancer-causing substances. This breakdown may release more harmful chemicals into the body, further raising the risk."
My younger daughter is a liberal and she’s covered in tattooes. My older daughter is a conservative, but she also got a tattoo to memorialize her brother. Our political persuasions weren’t affected by getting a tattoo and we didn’t suddenly become blithering idiots afterwards. It’s just one way we chose to remember our loved one.
That sounds like my mother and father in-law. They both got tattoos that were very meaningful to them when they turned 50. Hers was a flower whose petals stood for her five children. He had always taken great pleasure in gardening and Nature, and had a tattoo done of a tree species that had meant a lot to him.
The funny thing is, historically they put rings in noses of women who were slaves, subordinates. Now they voluntarily do it to themselves but think its empowering.
I know how not to get them to do it. Have guys demand they do it because its the subservient marking of a person who’s a slave. It will stop in days.
As the years go by no matter how decorative they were to start with, they start looking like bruises and sores.
And the way they stay in place - you shed skin over time so I looked up how the tattoos don’t disappear if they are on the skin - actually a complicated issue with the immune system holding the ink in place under the skin.
When I was a young kid, I was at a carnival and there was a show with a tattooed fat lady presented for the viewing pleasure of the crowd. Her whole body was “tattooed”...it probably was temporary ink drawings on her skin.
Don’t know why the “moderns” don’t use temporary tattoos...that way if your favorite team goes bankrupt or moves to a different city you aren’t shackled with a permanent reminder of the viccisitudes of life.
Does that give you a clue about the total disconnectness of the youth today? They have no concept of the fact that following a style is transient, or that things one does today may not be recovered from in the future. The pain they feel from the procedures they undergo is only a harbinger of the physical pain they will get in the future. They have no concept of future trials. Let them enjoy their insouciant youth, because tomorrow, the pains persist.
Unless the aliens take you..
AFAIK no one in my entire family has a tattoo - and that includes my sister’s kids and husbands.
I’ve always thought they’re ugly and I have enough freckles anyway.
I see some very colorful tattoos unlike the past ones.
I wonder how many metals they have?
Make a ‘fashion statement’ with hair, clothing, jewelry etc…. Items easily changed or removed without complications vs the skin graffiti.
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