Where can I live where no one has tattoos?

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Anonymous wrote:People that try to fit into a certain clique often end up doing this. Ever wonder why so many basketball and football players have tattoos all over? It’s part of the culture of the groups, there’s peer pressure to fit in and look like everyone else. The ones with enough self confidence don’t care about superficial body markings like tattoos.

For regular folks, their environment influences their decisions. That’s why it’s so important to be selective in who you spend your time with.

The stupidity and amateur psychology in this thread is amazing.

The takeaway from this dumbass:
- it takes self confidence to resist getting a tattoo
- pick your friends carefully, otherwise you'll end up with a tattoo

You seem really defensive. I don't think PP's comments are off base. People get tattoos because of cultural influences, and that people generally are affected by their cultural surroundings. If you think that people who get covered in tattoos generally lack good judgment, why wouldn't you want to avoid living around them?

This is stupid circular reasoning.

All you have to do is to think long and hard about why tattoos were so verboten in 1990 compared to today. It wasn't as if you couldn't find a tattoo artist back then. Even the hippies shunned tattoos.

Most people are lemmings to a degree. Cultural influences heavily determine what we consider cool and edgy and attractive. Most people today getting tattoos are influenced by seeing their friends and whatever "influencer" they admire getting tattoos, because that tells them what to think is attractive and pretty. It's why fashion come in and out of style all the time.

But there is a difference between fads like piercings or clothing trends or hair styles and tattoos and it's that tattoos are nearly impossible to remove, especially the more extensive they are. And there is something to be said about studying the psychological behaviors of getting a tattoo.

Ah yes, everyone is a lemming and blame any change on instagram. Keep on pearl clutching, boomer.

Well, yes. That is the point. We don't exist in isolated vacuums. How else do you explain styles coming in and out all the time? You are no exception, your worldview and tastes are heavily determined by the culture around you. Today, that culture tells you tattoos are cool and edgy and attractive, whereas just a generation ago the same culture shunned them as ugly and distasteful and stupid. WWYD.

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Anonymous wrote:People that try to fit into a certain clique often end up doing this. Ever wonder why so many basketball and football players have tattoos all over? It’s part of the culture of the groups, there’s peer pressure to fit in and look like everyone else. The ones with enough self confidence don’t care about superficial body markings like tattoos.

For regular folks, their environment influences their decisions. That’s why it’s so important to be selective in who you spend your time with.

The stupidity and amateur psychology in this thread is amazing.

The takeaway from this dumbass:
- it takes self confidence to resist getting a tattoo
- pick your friends carefully, otherwise you'll end up with a tattoo

You seem really defensive. I don't think PP's comments are off base. People get tattoos because of cultural influences, and that people generally are affected by their cultural surroundings. If you think that people who get covered in tattoos generally lack good judgment, why wouldn't you want to avoid living around them?

This is stupid circular reasoning.

All you have to do is to think long and hard about why tattoos were so verboten in 1990 compared to today. It wasn't as if you couldn't find a tattoo artist back then. Even the hippies shunned tattoos.

Most people are lemmings to a degree. Cultural influences heavily determine what we consider cool and edgy and attractive. Most people today getting tattoos are influenced by seeing their friends and whatever "influencer" they admire getting tattoos, because that tells them what to think is attractive and pretty. It's why fashion come in and out of style all the time.

But there is a difference between fads like piercings or clothing trends or hair styles and tattoos and it's that tattoos are nearly impossible to remove, especially the more extensive they are. And there is something to be said about studying the psychological behaviors of getting a tattoo.

Ah yes, everyone is a lemming and blame any change on instagram. Keep on pearl clutching, boomer.

Well, yes. That is the point. We don't exist in isolated vacuums. How else do you explain styles coming in and out all the time? You are no exception, your worldview and tastes are heavily determined by the culture around you. Today, that culture tells you tattoos are cool and edgy and attractive, whereas just a generation ago the same culture shunned them as ugly and distasteful and stupid. WWYD.

Tattoos have been edgey and cool for decades. Sorry boomers like you need Facebook to tell you about trends years after they started.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People that try to fit into a certain clique often end up doing this. Ever wonder why so many basketball and football players have tattoos all over? It’s part of the culture of the groups, there’s peer pressure to fit in and look like everyone else. The ones with enough self confidence don’t care about superficial body markings like tattoos.

For regular folks, their environment influences their decisions. That’s why it’s so important to be selective in who you spend your time with.

The stupidity and amateur psychology in this thread is amazing.

The takeaway from this dumbass:
- it takes self confidence to resist getting a tattoo
- pick your friends carefully, otherwise you'll end up with a tattoo

It's a virus spread by the lizard people and JFK Jr. who run the worlds - yes, worlds, around us. It is a way to identify one another. MTG knows all about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are a small number of acceptable tattoos: a Princeton tiger head, a Skull and Bones 322, a symbol of your Seal Team. Most others are really not up to snuff.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect OP is referring to full sleeves and neck and face tattoos, not the small rose or dancing bear GenX'ers got on their ankle or foot to be edgy in college.

Agree that the small tattoos are trashy.

The small tat owners are followers. They don't have the guts to commit to a real tat but want to be seen as part of the herd around people who think tats are cool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many quarterbacks have tattoos? Google search:
Less than 1.3 percent of NFL quarterbacks have tattoos
There's a reason for that. NFL quarterback is the ultimate position of influence and responsibility.

The brains of the NFL operation do NOT have tattoos.

Almost the funniest post in this thread. Good job brainwashed NFL bro.

[Anonymous]

Not going to read through 14 pages of this thread, but dual advanced degree household and I can't begin to count the number of tattoos between our similarly situated friends. This post is a troll.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect OP is referring to full sleeves and neck and face tattoos, not the small rose or dancing bear GenX'ers got on their ankle or foot to be edgy in college.

Agree that the small tattoos are trashy.

The small tat owners are followers. They don't have the guts to commit to a real tat but want to be seen as part of the herd around people who think tats are cool.

This is very true. Go big and bold will hold.

Small tats are embarassing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Japan would be good
or any Orthodox Jewish community

Yes. Japan. Where there's not an entire culture and style of tattooing called "Japanese Traditional"

[Anonymous]

When I was young, I liked the look of tattoos but didn’t trust myself to come up with a design I’d like forever. Now I’m old and dgaf it looks fun but tattoos are expensive! I probably won’t ever get one.

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Anonymous wrote:GA poster here, it’s like the middle class is more into the preppy golf look. Again, not saying it’s impossible, but people aren’t too edgy in how they dress.

Look for places where people dress up a bit. Golf wear, Lily Pulitzer patterns, tennis skirts.

+1 Sea Island, GA

Nah, they have them there too.

You guys are cracking me up! I am a CEO and I have a tattoo. It's under my Pebble Beach and Master's golf shirts. You can't judge people. You have no idea what's under their clothes.

LOL YOU crack ME up! Are we supposed to be impressed??? $167K lol is CHUMP change in DC.

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Chief_Executive_Officer_(CEO)/Salary

What's $167K? I made more than that 20 years ago. Yes, I am a CEO with a tattoo and make 5 times that amount.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:GA poster here, it’s like the middle class is more into the preppy golf look. Again, not saying it’s impossible, but people aren’t too edgy in how they dress.

Look for places where people dress up a bit. Golf wear, Lily Pulitzer patterns, tennis skirts.

+1 Sea Island, GA

Nah, they have them there too.

You guys are cracking me up! I am a CEO and I have a tattoo. It's under my Pebble Beach and Master's golf shirts. You can't judge people. You have no idea what's under their clothes.

LOL YOU crack ME up! Are we supposed to be impressed??? $167K lol is CHUMP change in DC.

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Chief_Executive_Officer_(CEO)/Salary

What's $167K? I made more than that 20 years ago. Yes, I am a CEO with a tattoo and make 5 times that amount.

Sorry, 6 times more than that.

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Anonymous wrote:People that try to fit into a certain clique often end up doing this. Ever wonder why so many basketball and football players have tattoos all over? It’s part of the culture of the groups, there’s peer pressure to fit in and look like everyone else. The ones with enough self confidence don’t care about superficial body markings like tattoos.

For regular folks, their environment influences their decisions. That’s why it’s so important to be selective in who you spend your time with.

The stupidity and amateur psychology in this thread is amazing.

The takeaway from this dumbass:
- it takes self confidence to resist getting a tattoo
- pick your friends carefully, otherwise you'll end up with a tattoo

You seem really defensive. I don't think PP's comments are off base. People get tattoos because of cultural influences, and that people generally are affected by their cultural surroundings. If you think that people who get covered in tattoos generally lack good judgment, why wouldn't you want to avoid living around them?

This is stupid circular reasoning.

All you have to do is to think long and hard about why tattoos were so verboten in 1990 compared to today. It wasn't as if you couldn't find a tattoo artist back then. Even the hippies shunned tattoos.

Most people are lemmings to a degree. Cultural influences heavily determine what we consider cool and edgy and attractive. Most people today getting tattoos are influenced by seeing their friends and whatever "influencer" they admire getting tattoos, because that tells them what to think is attractive and pretty. It's why fashion come in and out of style all the time.

But there is a difference between fads like piercings or clothing trends or hair styles and tattoos and it's that tattoos are nearly impossible to remove, especially the more extensive they are. And there is something to be said about studying the psychological behaviors of getting a tattoo.

Ah yes, everyone is a lemming and blame any change on instagram. Keep on pearl clutching, boomer.

Well, yes. That is the point. We don't exist in isolated vacuums. How else do you explain styles coming in and out all the time? You are no exception, your worldview and tastes are heavily determined by the culture around you. Today, that culture tells you tattoos are cool and edgy and attractive, whereas just a generation ago the same culture shunned them as ugly and distasteful and stupid. WWYD.

Tattoos have been edgey and cool for decades. Sorry boomers like you need Facebook to tell you about trends years after they started.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so I'm not a boomer. Back then they were considered trashy, mostly Vietnam veterans and Hells Angels riders. Predominately very bottom of the barrel working class, with the exception of a few military, usually naval, enlisted sailors from WWII. No one "normal" got tattoos. No one considered them cool and edgy. There is a reason the counter culture hippies avoided tattoos outright. My mother, who was a granola hippie of the 60s, said most people saw tattoos as redneck and racist white trash.

The only reason people consider them cool today when they were trashy and rather revolting 30 years ago is cultural. And culture influences individual decisions. You aren't immune. I don't doubt the next generation will be mocking your tattoos and seeing them as silly, which is what generations always do when they rebel against the conventions of the previous generation.

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Anonymous wrote:People that try to fit into a certain clique often end up doing this. Ever wonder why so many basketball and football players have tattoos all over? It’s part of the culture of the groups, there’s peer pressure to fit in and look like everyone else. The ones with enough self confidence don’t care about superficial body markings like tattoos.

For regular folks, their environment influences their decisions. That’s why it’s so important to be selective in who you spend your time with.

The stupidity and amateur psychology in this thread is amazing.

The takeaway from this dumbass:
- it takes self confidence to resist getting a tattoo
- pick your friends carefully, otherwise you'll end up with a tattoo

You seem really defensive. I don't think PP's comments are off base. People get tattoos because of cultural influences, and that people generally are affected by their cultural surroundings. If you think that people who get covered in tattoos generally lack good judgment, why wouldn't you want to avoid living around them?

This is stupid circular reasoning.

All you have to do is to think long and hard about why tattoos were so verboten in 1990 compared to today. It wasn't as if you couldn't find a tattoo artist back then. Even the hippies shunned tattoos.

Most people are lemmings to a degree. Cultural influences heavily determine what we consider cool and edgy and attractive. Most people today getting tattoos are influenced by seeing their friends and whatever "influencer" they admire getting tattoos, because that tells them what to think is attractive and pretty. It's why fashion come in and out of style all the time.

But there is a difference between fads like piercings or clothing trends or hair styles and tattoos and it's that tattoos are nearly impossible to remove, especially the more extensive they are. And there is something to be said about studying the psychological behaviors of getting a tattoo.

Ah yes, everyone is a lemming and blame any change on instagram. Keep on pearl clutching, boomer.

Well, yes. That is the point. We don't exist in isolated vacuums. How else do you explain styles coming in and out all the time? You are no exception, your worldview and tastes are heavily determined by the culture around you. Today, that culture tells you tattoos are cool and edgy and attractive, whereas just a generation ago the same culture shunned them as ugly and distasteful and stupid. WWYD.

Tattoos have been edgey and cool for decades. Sorry boomers like you need Facebook to tell you about trends years after they started.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so I'm not a boomer. Back then they were considered trashy, mostly Vietnam veterans and Hells Angels riders. Predominately very bottom of the barrel working class, with the exception of a few military, usually naval, enlisted sailors from WWII. No one "normal" got tattoos. No one considered them cool and edgy. There is a reason the counter culture hippies avoided tattoos outright. My mother, who was a granola hippie of the 60s, said most people saw tattoos as redneck and racist white trash.

The only reason people consider them cool today when they were trashy and rather revolting 30 years ago is cultural. And culture influences individual decisions. You aren't immune. I don't doubt the next generation will be mocking your tattoos and seeing them as silly, which is what generations always do when they rebel against the conventions of the previous generation.

Your memory of the 80s and 90s is quite different from mine. In fact, two seconds of googling counters your assertion. The 80s were, in fact, when tattoos exploded in popularity. I'm guessing you had a pretty sheltered childhood and, honestly, you come off as a bit of a nut.

[Anonymous]

Maybe an orthodox Jewish neighborhood

My awesome generous socially conscious self-made neighbor has a sleeve of tattoos
-I’m in 20815.

I don’t want a tattoo for me but can look past them on others.