How do you feel about tattoos?

Postby **count2infinity** » Thu May 07, 2015 10:53 am

Just curious... I know dodint dodints all the time about how terrible they are and I've seen others echo that feeling. Personally, I love them. I have one myself (plan to get more in the future) and I love seeing them on other people. They've always intrigued me. Anyways, take the poll. We'll see what the 5AF peanut gallery thinks...

Postby **meow** » Thu May 07, 2015 10:55 am

99.9% of them look like trash. The 0.1% that don't are beauties.

Postby **CBear3** » Thu May 07, 2015 10:56 am

I was going for, "I just don't get it."
So I picked I'd never get one myself. The full sleeves etc. make me cringe, mainly because they're on 30 year old or younger individuals. If you're into using your body as a canvas, that's cool, but you just ran out of canvas really early in life.

Postby **tifosi77** » Thu May 07, 2015 10:56 am

I have two, one of which has been inkus incompletus since 2002. I've dated inked girls in the past, as well. Mrs Tif is sans ink, and that's cool, too.

Postby **NAN** » Thu May 07, 2015 10:57 am

I voted I like them but wouldn't get one. That is the way I feel now, although I do want to get one, just scared to. So I wouldn't say "never".

But on others, some are pretty damn cool. Maybe one day I will have one.

Postby **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Thu May 07, 2015 10:58 am

I don't get most of them. I've been considering getting one but I'm not impulsive so it never happened.

The worst is people who get tats from an amateur and it looks like ****. Also, I've never seen a good tattoo that was just words

Postby **blackjack68** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:01 am

I used to be universally in the "people who have them are trash" camp.

I have mellowed with age and realize. I don't really care what someone does.

However, I wouldn't hire someone heavily covered in ink for a professional job. So I still have some bias.

Postby **tifosi77** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:02 am

I have two very concrete rules regarding ink:

1) No names

2) No faces

The only exception to the above would be your own children. But a supplementary guideline is that words in general are to be avoided unless there's some super special significance at play.

I now leave you with a tattoo of Bruce Lee using someone else's fist to bring the pain.

Postby **Clams Herbert** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:04 am

Have a consultation coming up to get a sleeve done. So yeah, for them.

Postby **shmenguin** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:06 am

On dudes...no opinion.

On girls, a tatto has never made someone look better. Most of the time it makes them look worse. At best it's a net neutral (like mrs smenguin's ankle tattoo).

Postby **dodint** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:07 am

Just curious... I know dodint dodints all the time about how terrible they are...

That escalated quickly.

Postby **count2infinity** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:09 am

Just curious... I know dodint dodints all the time about how terrible they are...
That escalated quickly.

I just love the word filter, so I use it whenever possible.

Postby **count2infinity** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:11 am

I follow r/tattoos and I have seen some absolutely stunning pieces:

this one just made me smile:

Postby **Gaucho** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:15 am

What meow said.

I thought about getting a tattoo when I was 16 and I'm super glad I decided against it.

Postby **BigMck** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:18 am

The wife occasionally works at a VA clinic and she says when asked about having lots of ink, most men reply that at some point in their life they regret it. A tattoo of a anchor is fine, but these are the guys with faces, images, etc... Skin eventually loses elasticity and that ink goes with it.

On a woman, what shmenguin says. Except about his wife; I have never seen her tattoo so i can't judge.

Postby **dodint** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:18 am

I just love the word filter, so I use it whenever possible.

Yeah, I just meant more that I made the comment in the other thread. Refreshed like 10 minutes later, no replies. Went back to the Off Topic forum and there was a tattoo thread with 7 replies.

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:20 am

So, the things that c2i posted are cool and all, but the overwhelming feeling for me is: "yeah...but.......why?"

I guess I just don't think to express myself in that way...thus the need for a poll I suppose...

Maybe I'll start wearing a bumper sticker on my ass...a real think piece like "Dukakis '88" or something...

Postby **King Colby** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:27 am

I voted if theyre done well then yes.

I like meaningful tattoos like a family crest or something commemorating a lost loved one...

99% are trash though. Either meaningless or poorly done. Or worse, a sports team logo. Yikes.

I would get one if there was something important to get.

Postby **Viva la Ben** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:29 am

I never understood the whole body modification subculture.

Postby **King Colby** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:31 am

My cousin has an anchor on her foot.

Why?

Postby **count2infinity** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:32 am

ask her... lol

Postby **King Colby** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:34 am

She thought it was cute. Like thats cool, hang a picture of one in your house then. No need fpr an all black sideways anchor on the top of one of the worst parts of your body.

Postby **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:36 am

my cousin has a fish on her foot. Idk why...

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:40 am

I wonder if Rylan used to have a tattoo on his foot...?

Postby **NAN** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:45 am

They probably wonder why we complain about stuff on a messageboard with strangers.