How many tattoos do you have? Do you think tattoos look sleazy on women?

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I find my tattoos are very effective at weeding out really horrible judgmental God-awful people from my circle of acquaintances.

BTW, I'm a professional, and I make hiring decisions.

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they are just stupid. conformist, following the sheep. Before Dennis Rodman, nobody had tattoos. Then he got them, then Iverson. Think I'm going to follow those idiots?

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Anonymous wrote:Trashy. I make hiring decisions and a tattoo is an immediate disqualifer no matter how great the candidate. It's simply not the image I want our organization to portray.

I was really upset when my adult daughter got a tattoo. Her body. Her decision. But it just screams trashy. I would never tell her that. I think I bit my tongue in half the day I saw it for the first time.

what kind of mom doesn't instill values in the kids? if you have a strong opinion about something, and you see it in your professional life, how can you not share that with your daughter?

Spoken by someone without adult kids.

no, I never stop raising my kids, giving advice. that is the point of parenting.

I have four adult kids and one in high school. You can give all the advise you want, but adult children are adults. They make their own decisions. I hate her tattoo, but she is an amazing young lady. She is the third to graduate from college. She has a job and lives completely on her own. I would say that despite the awful tattoo, she is a pretty great kid.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's another stupid tattoo story. I have a friend in the Marine Corps and for the last two years he's been working his ass off to be excepted to Officer Candidate school (or what ever they call it). So out of the blue he goes out and gets this stupid tattoo on his arm. A month later he finally gets excepted by the Marines for this Officer School. Once they saw that he had an exposed tattoo, they told sorry Charlie, no visable tattoos for Officers allowed.

This was painful to read, and not due to the stupidity of your friend--it's pretty easy to find out what the policy of the USMC is on tattoos. If he was already a Marine, he should definitely have known.

Accepted. Visible.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a tattoo on the inside of my right arm. It's bright, and very noticeable if I'm not wearing long sleeves. I love it - and get compliments on it all the time. My 73 year old mom isn't the biggest fan, though...

Also, I'm a respected professional in my field, and many fellow respected professionals in my field also have tattoos. I'm also probably not the 'type' one would expect to have a tattoo.

The times, they are a'changin', and it's not as taboo as you think.

Nobody thinks it's "taboo", just trashy.

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I'm a secondary teacher and I have a couple of tattoos, with one small one visible.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't really understand why some people are so bothered by other people having tattoos. I think preppy Tory Birch & Lily Pulitzer types are tacky, trashy, and ugly as hell - but if you like it, you like it - different strokes for different folks. It doesn't mean I make judgments about your character.

Not sure you get the difference between caring/bothered and noticing. Tattoos are definitely a social marker and a class distinction. See many on the Upper East Side? The beaches of MV? In Cap Ferrat?

Of course not.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't have any tattoos but I have thought about getting one. I think there are some really gorgeous tattoos out there, and then there are some not so great ones. A beautifully done (and I am assuming very expensive) tattoo is very different from the kind of blurry ones.

I think the problem is that the all get blurry over time, just as we all wrinkle, sag, and age with the passing of time.

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I am opposed to tramp stamps and the use of Chinese lettering.

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Anonymous wrote:they are just stupid. conformist, following the sheep. Before Dennis Rodman, nobody had tattoos. Then he got them, then Iverson. Think I'm going to follow those idiots?

I think tattoos existed long before Dennis Rodman lol

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Anonymous wrote:Trashy. I make hiring decisions and a tattoo is an immediate disqualifer no matter how great the candidate. It's simply not the image I want our organization to portray.

I was really upset when my adult daughter got a tattoo. Her body. Her decision. But it just screams trashy. I would never tell her that. I think I bit my tongue in half the day I saw it for the first time.

what kind of mom doesn't instill values in the kids? if you have a strong opinion about something, and you see it in your professional life, how can you not share that with your daughter?

Spoken by someone without adult kids.

no, I never stop raising my kids, giving advice. that is the point of parenting.

Dad, if that's you, please understand why my siblings and I prefer talking to Mom. We're in our 30s and 40s. The lecturing can stop.

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Anonymous wrote:they are just stupid. conformist, following the sheep. Before Dennis Rodman, nobody had tattoos. Then he got them, then Iverson. Think I'm going to follow those idiots?

I think tattoos look dumb as hell, but do you really think Dennis Rodmsn was the inspiration for tattoos lately?

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I got one when I was 16. It's small.. I wish I didn't have it though. Thankfully it's easy to hide. My brother has huge ones all over his body.

I had a lot of piercings which are all pretty much gone now. I'd encourage my kids to go that route as they are removable.

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36 years old, arts educator, raised UMC with a very happy childhood. I have four tattoos--actually got my fourth just this year. The others were done when I was 21, 24, and 26.

One of my older tattoos is on my upper right shoulder blade and commemorates my grandparents. I love the way it looked in my wedding dress.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a tattoo on the inside of my right arm. It's bright, and very noticeable if I'm not wearing long sleeves. I love it - and get compliments on it all the time. My 73 year old mom isn't the biggest fan, though...

Also, I'm a respected professional in my field, and many fellow respected professionals in my field also have tattoos. I'm also probably not the 'type' one would expect to have a tattoo.

The times, they are a'changin', and it's not as taboo as you think.

Nobody thinks it's "taboo", just trashy.

Oh no, someone on the internet is judging me! I'll have to tell my mom she did a bad job raising me, because I turned out trashy...