Anonymous wrote: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.

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?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.