Surely they are passe by NOW!
No, no, they were passe in 2006. Now they’re totally retro chic!
What is interesting to me is that there are now a bunch of television shows on covering up bad tattoos. Hopefully this will herald the end of the fad tattoo, although I suspect there will always be aficionados.
For what it’s worth, I’ve never had a tattoo, never wanted one, and never saw one that didn’t trigger a feeling of repulsion. I can understand some of the reasons people get them, but if it was to enhance one’s attractiveness, it sure didn’t work on me.
I readily admit that my mileage has indeed varied.
Not completely yet: my sister in law doesn’t have one.
By the time she decided to use cloth as wallpaper that trend had been out of decoration mags for two years.
My father’s cronies got tattoos when they were serving in the Philipines during WWII. By the ''60s they were had bled and faded to blue/ green/ black smudges, impossible to tell whether it was an eagle, a panther, or a pretty girl originally. I suspect that is why they are not now popular among my peer group of middle-aged, middle-class men.
Modern inks and techniques are far superior, but I still have no interest in getting a tat for myself. My Wife is considering getting her first to commemorate completing her chemo regimen.
If I was going to get a tattoo, I’m smartassed enough to want this:
וְשֶׂרֶט לָנֶפֶשׁ, לֹא תִתְּנוּ בִּבְשַׂרְכֶם, וּכְתֹבֶת קַעֲקַע, לֹא תִתְּנוּ בָּכֶם: אֲנִי, יְהוָה.
You should have waited 3 more years before posting this.
My Hebrew is non-existent, but that’s Leviticus 19:28, isn’t it?
Otzi the Iceman had tattoos. I’m sure the other mountain villagers of 5000 BC expressed sentiments similar to the OP’s.
This is an old story, and it was old in 2006, 1906, and 1906 BC, among other years.
It’s “And scratched mind, not let your flesh, and wrote Tattoo, not let you: I, the Lord”, according to Google Translate.
Hahaha, I have a tattoo now. Albeit a small one. 