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Tattoo remorse fuels boom for dermatologists
cnn ^ | 9-18-07

Posted on 09/17/2007 10:27:23 PM PDT by LouAvul

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To: ByDesign

One of the patients at work had his childrens names on tattoed on his arms. It really was some lovely work. Thats one of the few tattoos I have ever complimented someone on.


101 posted on 09/18/2007 9:42:52 AM PDT by linn37 (Phlebotomists need love too.)
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To: LouAvul

Laura Hathaway initially had no regrets after getting a tattoo on her lower back when she was 21. But now, 10 years later, she wants it gone.

The pharmaceutical sales representative from Atlanta, Georgia, says it doesn’t fit in with her current lifestyle as the mother of a 2-year-old boy who just started to talk. “The other day I bent over and he said, ‘What’s that?’ and it just confirms why I’m having it removed.”

I’d like to know what she had tatooed on her backside for the pleasure of whoever usually ‘held that position’....(chuckle)


102 posted on 09/18/2007 9:43:47 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: LouAvul

Or as Jimmy Buffet calls them:

“A Permanent Reminder of a Temporary Feeling”


103 posted on 09/18/2007 9:55:27 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: SergeiRachmaninov
Your hip-hop culture, your rap music, your baggy trousers, your Nazi motorcycle helmets, your punk body piercings, your green and purple hair, your bad-ass dogs, and your tats....I regard it all with spitting contempt.

From past experience that's what you think of guns and gun ownership too so...I got a cheekful for your kind too. ; )

104 posted on 09/18/2007 7:24:26 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: TigersEye

No guns, no dogs, no tats? hmmm no apple pie either you think? lmao ~Pandy~


105 posted on 09/18/2007 7:34:10 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: pandoraou812
No, comradski, no apple pie, Nyet! No rhock hand rholl, no bad guys wiz loud geetarz, no tatoose. Nyet. And NO gunz.

Baze ball? Mebbe.

106 posted on 09/18/2007 7:47:25 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: TigersEye

What no gunz? Now I am not liking this one bit. No rock & roll etc...What is left????


107 posted on 09/18/2007 7:51:08 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: pandoraou812

Universal Health Care that’s what. Don’t sweat it, pandy. Most of these high and mighty folks will be first in line to get their UHC chip inserted. With any luck the gooberment will hire a big tatooed biker to insert it for them. LOLOL


108 posted on 09/18/2007 8:01:34 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: TigersEye

big tattooed biker??? EFG now TE you know I got one of those right here ...Think he would want the job? lmao


109 posted on 09/18/2007 8:06:53 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: LouAvul
The tattoo ink is then reabsorbed into the body through the lymphatic system.

Standing by for the impending lawsuits when this is shown to correlate with lymph node cancer rates rising in those having tatoos removed.
110 posted on 09/18/2007 9:44:43 PM PDT by festus (I'm a fRedneck and proud of it.)
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To: yorkie
When traveling, never register in a hotel that is on the same street that has these three ‘businesses’: 1. Strip joint 2. Tattoos 3. Adult book store

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111 posted on 09/19/2007 12:09:11 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler ("A person's a person no matter how small." -Dr. Seuss)
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112 posted on 09/19/2007 12:13:27 AM PDT by BJungNan
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To: BunnySlippers
Well, no.

One can either follow God's Word, or one can debauch their bodies and hope that they've got it right.

Frankly I believe that if God wanted somebody to have a tattoo, then they'd be born with a mole, wine mark or something like that.

Dunno, its probably just me. Quite frankly tattoos are against my religion for the same reason that ANY debauchery is. I believe that they're as much an abomination unto the Lord as drunkeness, fornication, adultry and rudeness are.

But that's probably just me.

Don't know what to tell you 'bout that.

Thre is a way the seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. - Prv 16:25

113 posted on 09/19/2007 12:34:30 AM PDT by raygun (I DO know everything; just not all at once (its a virtual memory thing).)
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To: Michael.SF.
As Neal Boortz often says, “No woman was ever made more beautiful by the addition of a tattoo.”
114 posted on 09/19/2007 12:47:03 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: FreedomPoster; TigersEye
You would be surprised at how many of those beauty marks are not real. Or the eyeliner that is tattooed on so a woman looks great 24/7. (I wouldn’t let anyone near my eyes with a needle.) Are all of you anti tattoo people aware that there are many children born with harelips & that tattoo artists will donate their skills & time to make lips for these children after surgery? That way they have more normal lives. Or how about the women who lose their breasts and when they get reconstructed breasts tattoo artists can tattoo an aureola. So I guess these people are non humans & stupid and all the other mean nasty comments I’ve read. How narrow minded . If you don’t like tattoos dont look at people with them. Its not is what is on the outside of people ...its what is on the inside that counts.
115 posted on 09/19/2007 10:34:44 AM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: SergeiRachmaninov

Yes, but you can eventually turn off rap music, change to more suitable clothes, let your body piercings grow together, let the dye grow out and cut your hair, and get a Golden Retriever ....

but the tat is forever, unless you have the time and money for the dermatologist.


116 posted on 09/19/2007 10:42:37 AM PDT by altura
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To: altura
...but the tat is forever

A critical distinction that I neglected to make in my rant (although I did make reference to it in #22).

It is a critical distinction, and you are right to emphasize it. It puts tats in a different category from all the other stupid antics of exhibitionists. I really am much more disturbed by tats than all the other the temporary stuff. I must be going soft because it actually pains me that kids are permanently branding themselves with their foolishness.

Another thing that really upsets me about tats is their prevalence on college basketball players. I sometimes like to watch my old school's games, and I've tried hard for years to look away from the fact that half the players are not students at all but ball-playing thugs whose lives -- in every respect except their dribbling skills -- are an affront to the lofty pretenses of the university. Now, when they appear all tatted up, including, I think, gang markings, it is impossible to look the other way.

Street culture has always been with us. But I just despise to see how the establishment culture -- including universities -- have rolled over for it. I guess I was overlooking the fact that it sells.

117 posted on 09/19/2007 11:20:35 AM PDT by SergeiRachmaninov
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To: LouAvul

Cool, another anti-tattoo judgefest. Let’s look down our noses at those people!


118 posted on 09/19/2007 11:36:30 AM PDT by mysterio
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To: SergeiRachmaninov; TigersEye
I must be going soft because it actually pains me that kids are permanently branding themselves with their foolishness

I doubt any of these kids as you put it give a hoot what you think. That must pain you too. Why don't you just not look? It is their lives & if they want to make a mistake let them. After all its not your business. You aren't going to change them. Maybe try to educate them . But if they want a tattoo they will get one or more... Furthermore why don't you look into what is inside of people without judging the outside? You might be shocked at what you find. Or not. Shaking my head again ...~Pandora~

119 posted on 09/19/2007 12:16:14 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: pandoraou812
Furthermore why don't you look into what is inside of people without judging the outside?

I hate to tell you this, pandy. People don't want to look inside of other people. It requires looking inside yourself first and that's the most dangerous place you can go. Most people don't have what it takes to face that. Most.

Can't sing, ain't pretty and my legs are thin.

Can't help about the shape I'm in.

Don't ask me what I think of you.

Might not give the answer that you want me to.


120 posted on 09/19/2007 6:45:25 PM PDT by TigersEye (Don't taze me, Bro!!!)
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