Where can I live where no one has tattoos?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tattoos should be legal only for age 25 and up. Too many regret getting them as teenagers or 20 somethings, only to discover that "clever slogan" won't look good as a grandma with wrinkles and sagging skin.

At an ice rink yesterday in Moco, I saw a grandmother picking up her granddaughter after figure-skating practice. The grandmother (approximately age 65) was wearing shorts, and her legs were full of tattoos.

I genuinely admire the confidence of this lady, but I am afraid to say that the tattoos just did not look attractive.

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Anonymous wrote:Tattoos should be legal only for age 25 and up. Too many regret getting them as teenagers or 20 somethings, only to discover that "clever slogan" won't look good as a grandma with wrinkles and sagging skin.

At an ice rink yesterday in Moco, I saw a grandmother picking up her granddaughter after figure-skating practice. The grandmother (approximately age 65) was wearing shorts, and her legs were full of tattoos.

I genuinely admire the confidence of this lady, but I am afraid to say that the tattoos just did not look attractive.

The horror! How dare this grandmother not care about whether strangers think she is attractive! What is this world coming to!

[Anonymous]

She's not there to decorate your world, PP.

She's there for her grandchild and for her own life. It isn't about you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tattoos should be legal only for age 25 and up. Too many regret getting them as teenagers or 20 somethings, only to discover that "clever slogan" won't look good as a grandma with wrinkles and sagging skin.

At an ice rink yesterday in Moco, I saw a grandmother picking up her granddaughter after figure-skating practice. The grandmother (approximately age 65) was wearing shorts, and her legs were full of tattoos.

I genuinely admire the confidence of this lady, but I am afraid to say that the tattoos just did not look attractive.

I'm sure she'll be devestated that you don't find her attractive, because the only thing that matters is whether a creepy stranger finds us attractive.

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Anonymous wrote:Tattoos should be legal only for age 25 and up. Too many regret getting them as teenagers or 20 somethings, only to discover that "clever slogan" won't look good as a grandma with wrinkles and sagging skin.

Adults shouldn't be able to make their own decisions. That's a bad take.

Have you ever actually seen old sagging tattooed skin? It's not pretty and it won't look any better on old you, no matter how cool you think you are.

Yeah, all the time. And they just look like cooler, decorated versions of saggy skins.

You guys act like saggy skin is a thing of beauty that gets marred by tattoos. It's weird.

And I've never met anyone that's old with saggy skin that regrets their ink. Their always happy to talk about it

[Anonymous]

Tatooine? No, Tattooute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Saudi Arabia

Tell me you never seen a Bedouin woman without telling me you have never seen a Bedouin woman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tatooine? No, Tattooute.

Re: Tatooine, please read my earlier comment about Bedouin women.

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Anonymous wrote:How old are you, lol? I'm Gen X, upper middle, and half the people I know have a tattoo. I only know boomers with this attitude towards tattoos: my DH's friend's wife, age 70, said this to me when I got mine: "Aren't you afraid someone will think you got it in prison?!?" If she'd been wearing pearls, she would have clutched them.

+1. My mom seriously thinks everyone with tattoos lives in a trailer. No freaking clue.

LOL! They're on the beach in Nantucket!

[Anonymous]

Another Georgia poster without tattoos checking in here. Recently purchased for 1.2 in Atl area.

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Anonymous wrote:Tattoos should be legal only for age 25 and up. Too many regret getting them as teenagers or 20 somethings, only to discover that "clever slogan" won't look good as a grandma with wrinkles and sagging skin.

Adults shouldn't be able to make their own decisions. That's a bad take.

Have you ever actually seen old sagging tattooed skin? It's not pretty and it won't look any better on old you, no matter how cool you think you are.

+1 so true!!

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Anonymous wrote:Tattoos should be legal only for age 25 and up. Too many regret getting them as teenagers or 20 somethings, only to discover that "clever slogan" won't look good as a grandma with wrinkles and sagging skin.

Adults shouldn't be able to make their own decisions. That's a bad take.

Have you ever actually seen old sagging tattooed skin? It's not pretty and it won't look any better on old you, no matter how cool you think you are.

Yeah, all the time. And they just look like cooler, decorated versions of saggy skins.

You guys act like saggy skin is a thing of beauty that gets marred by tattoos. It's weird.

And I've never met anyone that's old with saggy skin that regrets their ink. Their always happy to talk about it

Yeah. Those old, skinny, wrinkled, sunworn men and women living on the beaches in Florida are always happy to pop open a beer and chat.

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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.

NP here. Very few people with any class who were also drug free were getting tattoos on visible parts of their bodies in the 80's and 90's.

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Take a look at Florida's mugshots. LOTS of folks covered in tattoos. Most charming.