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Can someone please explain tattoos?

Hemirunner said:
If you’re gonna get ‘em, get face tats. Nothing says “I make great life choices” like face tats. The piercings just raise the employability factor...
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I had to toss this one in the mix.
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It must be fun for the people who prepare your body for burial....all those body piercings must make for a lot of extra holes for embalming fluid to escape. Would be like a garden sprinkler going off on the slab. :D
 
I always liked Charles Emerson Winchester's line in M.A.S.H. " Tattoos are the common mans way of investing in art."
 
747mopar said:
Don't get me wrong, even though I don't have any tattoos I see a lot of really cool artwork that I can appreciate but why is it so prominent for guys to tattoo themselves up with symbols of death and evil like Skulls, Grim Reapers, Dragons, Demons, Satan etc?? I'm just curious, never could figure it out:realcrazy:
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ONE possible reason? Some guys are total wimps but feel the need to appear like a bad ***.
It used to be that a guy with a tattoo was edgy, a rebel or an outlaw. Guys in motorcycle gangs, Sailors and dudes that did time in prison often had tattoos. Nowadays, guys with hands as soft as a woman have them. Very sad.
Also, a BEARD used to be something that only tough guys had. Hunters, Outdoorsmen and manly men. Again, nowadays you see guys with full beards wearing skinny jeans, talking on their iphone while possessing absolutely NO man skills. These are "men" that cannot change a tire.
I resisted growing a goatee for years because I saw too many White collar office jerkoffs with them. I'm talking about the dudes that get their eyebrows waxed, get manicures, drink Starcucks coffee and vote totally opposite of what I do.
Me? NO tattoos. I do not plan to get any either. I did grow out the goatee. I keep it because the Wife really likes it.
 
I got one on my shoulder when I was in my 20's. Still like it. 30 years later still thinking about getting one on my other shoulder to balance it out.
If someone gets a tat of something that means something to them, that's cool. Bunch of random tats up and down an arm, I don't get.
My wife has two and I find them sexy.
 
For years before I got married, I had thoughts of getting another tat. Inscribed directly above the pub line, it would read backwards (forwards when looking back over the shoulder "Yes, it will fit".
Too late now.
 
Well, YOU are a big guy that is plenty manly....Seeing you with tattoos makes sense.
Problem is, many limp wristed 140 lb men get them too.
 
Was with the boss one day when one of those pierced up gals interred the room. Asked him what he thought would happen if she got to close to the big electric magnet in the shop. He was amused by the question and then said I hope we never find out.
 
I have girl hands, small and soft from pushing paper. No tat for me.
 
Worked with a guy 25 years ago, about my age. This guy was tattooed from the neck down to his ankles. I have no idea if he was tattooed under his boxers, but, every square inch was and he showed us. He had longer full hair and every once in a while he'd shave his head. Across the top of his head was a tattoo that read, **** YOU. The whole thing was weird. It was some very fine art work, that to me, had no rime or reason. It all ran together all over the place. The one thing no one here really talked about was the cost. Remember this was 25 years ago. He said that he had about 12,000 dollar invested. Thinking about his saggy old shin now with all that ink on it makes me laugh. I remember wondering what if he ever went bald, that's what you want your grand kids to see across your head.......
 
My Dad was in the Navy during WW II. He had two tattoos. One was a pretty brunette that looked very much like my mother on his upper arm and the other was an anchor on the inside of his lower arm. He never talked about them and I never saw him out of the house without a long sleeve shirt on. He often got teased by others for wearing a long sleeve shirt when it was 90-100 outside, but just ignored the comments. The only thing I remember him ever saying about them was he had shore leave and woke up in his bunk the next day with them. He said he knew when, but not how or why. He never wanted them seen or others to know. There was nothing bad about either of them, but I guess he always considered it wrong. I guess the impression of that is why I don't and won't ever have one.
 
Only one tattoo I ever seen that I actually wanted: A rooster hanging in a noose below the knee. You can win bets and impress women in casual conversation!
 
Tattoos are old news. The new thing is chopping off your dick and becoming a chick. If you're keeping up with the trends you will be needing a sharp knife.
 
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