Do you look down on people with tattoos?

flazio

As a 5'5 bloke there aren't many people I can "look down on"
It all depends on the artistic nature of the tattoos for me.

Shenshen

L1011 wrote: »

Don't like them, wouldn't get one but wouldn't judge someone for one except some of the really stupid ones (face, side of neck etc).

They're clearly a fashion thing at the moment, seriously considering investing in a tattoo removal firm soon enough. Beards and tattoos will look incredibly dated in five years time.

I'd get a risk assessment done before investing, I've heard that tattoos will go out of fashion in the next 5 years for near on 30 years now.

Shenshen

aroundthehouse wrote: »

attended one yesterday as it happens

Having a coffee with your mum doesn't count.

CruelCoin

It depends of course on the type of tattoo you get.

A dirty tramp stamp and belly tops? Yeah **** off.

Something tasteful and meaningful to you? Fine, go for it.

aroundthehouse

Graces7 wrote: »

I just googled that and the connection is very strongly acknowledged. and imagine having the name of someone you once loved then fell out with branded on you...

i knowi wouldnt be seen dead wearing the clothes i wore when i was 18, imagine being stuck with some dumb tattoo for life....

aroundthehouse

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

All those Maori's are mentally ill. I don't think I'm generalising when I say every last one of them is.

thats very different, that is part of their heritage and culture going back centuries, they dont rattle up to the local tattoo parlour and get "grandad forever" written all over themselves

aroundthehouse

Shenshen wrote: »

Having a coffee with your mum doesn't count.

had more than coffee with your mum if you must know, and yep shes got a tramp stamp

Deebles McBeebles

aroundthehouse wrote: »

thats very different, that is part of their heritage and culture going back centuries, they dont rattle up to the local tattoo parlour and get "grandad forever" written all over themselves

Hilarious. I kind of want to get that tattoo now.

Maori's certainly wouldn't get "granddad forever", they would get something that honours their heritage/ancestors. Like a classy "granddad forever", if you will.

Maybe, like the OP, your opinion is enlightened by your view looking down on those who choose to get a tattoo.

aroundthehouse

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Hilarious. I kind of want to get that tattoo now.

Maori's certainly wouldn't get "granddad forever", they would get something that honours their heritage/ancestors. Like a classy "granddad forever", if you will.

Maybe, like the OP, your opinion is enlightened by your view looking down on those who choose to get a tattoo.

if people want to get tattoos thats their own business and i have every right to hate the sight of them the same way they have a right to get them and i cant help it if my estimation of a person goes down when i see they have tattoos
the bigger issue is the mental health of someone who covers themselves in them

L1011

Shenshen wrote: »

I'd get a risk assessment done before investing, I've heard that tattoos will go out of fashion in the next 5 years for near on 30 years now.

They've only been fashionable to the current extent for about 5 years. Not 30.

Deebles McBeebles

True. And I have every right to question the mental health of someone who believes some ink on your skin is directly linked to mental health problems. It would be funny if you weren't serious.

Lyle Lanley

aroundthehouse wrote: »

i'd say if her superiors knew she had tattoos they would look down on her

The company judge her on her skills and qualifications. They're just happy to have been able to get her. When you're at that level you have a lot of options, you'd know that though I suppose.

aroundthehouse

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

True. And I have every right to question the mental health of someone who believes some ink on your skin is directly linked to mental health problems. It would be funny if you weren't serious.

any form of self harm has to be looked at seriously from a mental health standpoint, i'm glad you find mental health issues so funny

aroundthehouse

Lyle Lanley wrote: »

The company judge her on her skills and qualifications. They're just happy to have been able to get her. When you're at that level you have a lot of options, you'd know that though I suppose.

indeed and i know that if it came down to 2 individuals with the same qualifications etc, the person without the tattoos would get the position

Deebles McBeebles

aroundthehouse wrote: »

any form of self harm has to be looked at seriously from a mental health standpoint, i'm glad you find mental health issues so funny

Wow. Straw man, how surprising.

aroundthehouse

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Wow. Straw man, how surprising.

its an important issue and shouldnt be sneered at

Shenshen

L1011 wrote: »

They've only been fashionable to the current extent for about 5 years. Not 30.

I started seeing people with tattoos, particularly tribal and the famous tramp stamps, from the late 1980s onwards.

And so far, I've not noticed a decline in their popularity.

Shenshen

aroundthehouse wrote: »

had more than coffee with your mum if you must know, and yep shes got a tramp stamp

Interesting, considering she doesn't like coffee.

Shenshen

aroundthehouse wrote: »

indeed and i know that if it came down to 2 individuals with the same qualifications etc, the person without the tattoos would get the position

Given the vast numbers of employed people with tattoos, that statement does make me wonder what's wrong with non-tattooed people that tattooed people out-qualify them so frequently?

Deebles McBeebles

aroundthehouse wrote: »

its an important issue and shouldnt be sneered at

Oh I'm well aware. Its you I'm sneering at due to your lack of intelligent argument and misrepresentation of what I actually said.

Deebles McBeebles

Shenshen wrote: »

Given the vast numbers of employed people with tattoos, that statement does make me wonder what's wrong with non-tattooed people that tattooed people out-qualify them so frequently?

Because they all have mental health issues obviously! Didn't you know?

aroundthehouse

tattoos will forever be associated with jailbirds and sailors

Noveight

aroundthehouse wrote: »

tattoos will forever be associated with jailbirds and sailors

Well that's just plainly untrue.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Idk man, things have changed a bit from the days of only utter scum and sailors having tats. Personally I don't like them (would find it a major turn off on a woman) but I don't see how people with them are mentally ill.

I mean come on now.

aroundthehouse

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Oh I'm well aware. Its you I'm sneering at due to your lack of intelligent argument and misrepresentation of what I actually said.

you just seem to come on here and sneer at people with your unintelligent ignorance and attempt to divert from the real issue

iamwhoiam

aroundthehouse wrote: »

you just seem to come on here and sneer at people with your unintelligent ignorance and attempt to divert from the real issue

Oh the irony !

Hellrazer

aroundthehouse wrote: »

tattoos will forever be associated with jailbirds and sailors

Don’t be so stupid.

Hellrazer

aroundthehouse wrote: »

the bigger issue is the mental health of someone who covers themselves in them

No mental health issues here!!!!
Now yourself on the other hand could be debatable.

pawdee

The best tattoo I ever saw was one of a fox hunting scene that covered a fella's entire back.....red jacketed huntsmen, horses, beagles the lot, and the fox about to disappear down the crack of his arse.

K.Flyer

aroundthehouse wrote: »

attended one yesterday as it happens

What, you brought in the tea and biscuits?

Roger Hassenforder

pawdee wrote: »

The best tattoo I ever saw was one of a fox hunting scene that covered a fella's entire back.....red jacketed huntsmen, horses, beagles the lot, and the fox about to disappear down the crack of his arse.

Better than a beaver coming up out of it.


Some tattoos are epic works or art, a credit to both the artist and the stoicism and tolerance of the "wearer".
Some are absolutely brutal scratchings on skin. Probably regretted with 12 months of getting it.

Other than one on your head, they're grand, i wouldnt judge someone with a visible taboo

aroundthehouse

Hellrazer wrote: »

No mental health issues here!!!!
Now yourself on the other hand could be debatable.

denial, i feel sorry for you

aroundthehouse

K.Flyer wrote: »

What, you brought in the tea and biscuits?

i dont eat biscuits they are bad for you

aroundthehouse

Hellrazer wrote: »

Don’t be so stupid.

Facts are never stupid i'm afraid

Conservative

Nothing worse than seeing a beautiful woman who has destroyed that beaity with tattoos. Very small ones I can just about abide but in general they're for lowlifes and cretins.

bodice ripper

Conservative wrote:

Nothing worse than seeing a beautiful woman who has destroyed that beaity with tattoos. Very small ones I can just about abide but in general they're for lowlifes and cretins.

And god bless each and every one of them. They pay this vandal.

Conservative

Shame on you.

kylith

Conservative wrote: »

Nothing worse than seeing a beautiful woman who has destroyed that beaity with tattoos. Very small ones I can just about abide but in general they're for lowlifes and cretins.

You, in your biases, can't appreciate when a person takes their body and uses it as a canvas. Whether as a form of expression, or asserting control over the one thing they will always have; whatever the reason they may have.

You lack the culture to appreciate this art form. And i pity you.

bodice ripper

Conservative wrote: »

Shame on you.

Dick Pickle

Usually there’s a bit of a lack with people who tattoo themselves. Particularly those who get words printed on their bodies - they’re not books ffs !

bodice ripper

Dick Pickle wrote: »

Usually there’s a bit of a lack with people who tattoo themselves. Particularly those who get words printed on their bodies - they’re not books ffs !

There's nothing quite like having your own Executive Order though...

Strumms

anyone who would think any less of a person because they possess a tattoo or any type of body art is a ****wit pure and simple. I don’t have any but I can admire tattoos as art and if I see one I like great. If something isn’t to my taste ? So what ? Other people and their individual life choices / artistic expressions are not always going to be everyone’s liking... I would however look down upon the type of absolute cretin who would look down on someone for having body art.

twowheelsonly

Conservative wrote: »

Nothing worse than seeing a beautiful woman who has destroyed that beaity with tattoos. Very small ones I can just about abide but in general they're for lowlifes and cretins.

So nobody in your family or circle of friends has one ? I can only presume that you'd either disown them or tell them that they're lowlifes if they did ?


I don't have any but have no problem with those that do and I can appreciate the artistic merit in a lot of them. A lot of crap regrettable ones out there as well but I wouldn't tar them all with the one brush.

Sassygirl1999

No but I do look down on people who look down on people or people who use that phrase

RonanP77

I'm 41, I have 8 tattoos, got my first 29 years ago and I have a few more planned, currently trying to come up with a nice design that will actually mean something to me. I come from a good family, have an alright job, I'm not a scumbag or layabout. I really don't like face or neck tattoos.

My wife doesn't have any and never will but I actually really like them on girls.

witchgirl26

Conservative wrote: »

Nothing worse than seeing a beautiful woman who has destroyed that beaity with tattoos. Very small ones I can just about abide but in general they're for lowlifes and cretins.

Nothing worse than seeing an attractive guy who has destroyed that beauty with ignorance. A few close minded opinions I can put up with but in general opinions like that are for lowlifes & cretins

Dick Pickle

witchgirl26 wrote: »

Nothing worse than seeing an attractive guy who has destroyed that beauty with ignorance. A few close minded opinions I can put up with but in general opinions like that are for lowlifes & cretins

That’s gibberish. Try again.

pawdee

Popeye had tattoos of anchors. One on each arm.

aroundthehouse

twowheelsonly wrote: »

So nobody in your family or circle of friends has one ? I can only presume that you'd either disown them or tell them that they're lowlifes if they did ?


I don't have any but have no problem with those that do and I can appreciate the artistic merit in a lot of them. A lot of crap regrettable ones out there as well but I wouldn't tar them all with the one brush.

If anyone in my family got one i would disown them, we are not football hooligans, convicts and dockers

iamwhoiam

aroundthehouse wrote: »

If anyone in my family got one i would disown them, we are not football hooligans, convicts and dockers

But you are very judgmental