Posted on 09/08/2013 2:21:27 PM PDT by Perdogg
If you had to stop and think about it for a day, would you still get that giant dragon tattoo across your back? That’s the question being raised by health regulators in our nation’s capital, where Washington, DC officials are considering a mandatory 24-hour waiting period before getting a tattoo or body piercings. "The licensee or operator of a body art establishment shall ensure that no tattoo artist applies any tattoo to a customer until after twenty-four (24)hours have passed since the customer first requested the tattoo," reads the language of proposed language of new regulations from Washington DC’s Department of Health.
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I think they used to be taboo, but I don’t think they are with the younger generation.
Well, obviously not! But I certainly can understand why they were taboo for centuries. They’re horrible.
All this will do is send business to the skank factories outside the city limits and force DC shops to move or close.
I would imagine drunken idiots are over 50% of the customer base.
I don’t like “body art”, AFAIC God is the only one who makes good body art, through the creation of a beautiful woman.
But this smacks of nanny state Nazism. And I’m sorry, “health regulators” want this? Who elected these “health regulators”? It should be up to the city council, not some bureaucrat.
Yep. When I was beginning in practice I had a fair number of WWII vets as patients. Those old timey tattoos did smear, because of age, and the growth of new skin cells.
I remember one old Navy guy with a tattoo of a bulldog smoking a cigar. Pretty cool, I thought, but the bulldog was quite "weathered".
True. In fact they are so ubiquitous, that when I see a tattoo, I'm totally unimpressed.
Like 'em? More power to ya.
But I'm more impressed by people who refuse to go along like sheep because something is "trendy".
I have tattoos, I’m going to Hell?
I am not God. How would I know if you are going to Hell? I simply posted Biblical quotes as to why the Judeo-Christian ethic is anti-tattoo.
It draws back to the idea that your body is a temple and that self mutilation is a form of vandalism against the temple of God.
It also has a great deal to do with the worries of the early Jews reverting back into pagan customs. Tattooing was looked upon as a very pagan custom that was practiced heavily by non-Jews who where involved in all sorts of pagan idolatry. Often that paganism involved ritualized tattooing as well as ritualized human and child sacrifice.
Prior to the 1980’s it seemed that sailors and convicted felons where the only people that had tattoos. How it ever became mainstream is a mystery that I can not understand.
That being said, I could care less what most people do with their own body. I, however, would never get one. I don’t like the way they look.
I threaten my kids that I will get a tatoo or piercings if they get one.
I’m thankful my kids do not seem to be interested in them.
Oh, good. Don’t let them ever get one, mom. They are awful and turn so many other people off. Employers, mostly!
I’m not in favor of government interference here either. But tattoo parlors were filthy in the 1980s and thought to contribute to HIV/AIDs transmission through the needles or whatever they use for the ink. Some of them in NYC were shut down along with massage parlors and bathhouses.
Yeah, even now I wouldn’t go near some douchebag with a needle. No thanks.
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I see people with tats and piercings I automatically lower my expectations. lol
I wonder what would happen if the DC health department proposed a 24-hour waiting period for abortions.
Obnoxious busybodies . . .
Nanny State PING!
Thanks for the p ing!
I’ll go out on a limb and say “most” people who get tattoos are being foolish.
Having said that, I’m shocked that there are so many on this website that advocate a nanny state to “protect us from ourselves.”
I make my own choices and I demand the right to make my own mistakes! If you want the damned government to “keep you safe” than go to a communist/facist country!
My favorite movie quote -
“I’m the enemy. Because I like to think, I like to read. I’m into freedom of speech, freedom of choice. I’m the kind if guy who would sit in the greasy spoon and think “Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the big rack of Barbecued spare ribs with the side order of gravy fries?” I *want* high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter and buckets of cheese alright? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinatti in a non-smoking section. I wanna run around naked with green jell-o all over my body reading a Playboy magazine. Why? Because maybe I feel the need to okay pal? I’ve *seen* the future, you know what it is. It’s made by a 47 year-old virgin in gray pajamas soaking in a bubble bath, drinking a broccoli milkshake and thinking “I’m an Oscar-Meyer Wiener”. You wanna live on top, you gotta live Cacteau’s way. What he wants, when he wants, how he wants. Your other option: come down here, maybe starve to death.”
One of the best waitresses I know is a heavily tattooed mother of four. The food and the service is excellent.
The owner immigrated from Italy. Everything is made fresh from scratch on the premises.
I’d love to outlaw tattooes.
I don’t have any tats. I’m not particularly interested in them. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to empower the government to prevent them.
Are there any things that you like that others might want to make illegal?
Be careful. You’re advocating a lot of power in those who would love to own you.
You think so? Is there anything much more unattractive than a faded bloated tatoo showing over the pants of a seriously overweight person? Or arms and bodies covered to a point that they look like side-show exhibits at carnivals of old?
Unless Margaret Sanger your inspiration you really can’t round those offensive people up for their own good.
Every time I “thought” I “wanted” one I chose to wait one year. If I still “wanted” one with the basic (similar) design after one year I would get it.
Because of this I never got one.
Based on the philosophy written by this website's founder (linked on the website's main page) a lot of these little Hitlers seem to have taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque!
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