Things aren’t much better here in PA. A few weeks ago, I went to an amusement park that I hadn’t been to for the better part of a decade, and everywhere you looked, there were people covered with tattoos and piercings from top to bottom. Plenty of them were smokers as well. They toted around sickly kids who looked like they’d taken a backseat to Mom and Dad’s destructive habits.
Part of me wonders if this is the byproduct of the self-entitled, all-about-me mentality: that people are so desperate for attention that they’ll do anything - including anything to themselves - to get noticed or fit in.
I don’t know what causes people to disfigure themselves, but it certainly doesn’t make me think well of them.
I’m not sure, just guessing but could it be when Ozzy become mainstream, and rockers were covered in them?
I loath tattoos. I’ve never seen a tattoo that didn’t look awful. However, it is a foolish thing for the military to use in disqualifying people. My oldest daughter and SIL both got tattoos - in the Marines. Both went to Iraq & my SIL is on disability from multiple injuries to his legs, back and head. He saw a lot of fighting, had his best friend killed while they were talking (shrapnel), two tours in Fallujah...all with tattoos.
As for overweight: that can be cured with enough motivation, and the military used to specialize in providing motivation...