# Can we quit with the grousing about tattoos? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 2, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-quit-with-the-grousing-about-tattoos/443730 "2008-04-02T22:05:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-quit-with-the-grousing-about-tattoos/443730/81 "2008-04-05T03:45:52Z")
[QUOTE=psychobunny] [“magic” tattoos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UV_tattoo) [/QUOTE] I’ve been toying with the idea of doing Disneyland’s hitchhiking ghosts as a UV tattoo. ---
**Author:** ![NightRabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@NightRabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NightRabbit)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-quit-with-the-grousing-about-tattoos/443730/82 "2008-04-05T06:25:29Z")
[QUOTE=Apocalypso] Mirrors, my friends, mirrors… To elaborate: Why would I not know what it looks like? I can stand with my back to a mirror and look over my shoulder and see it just fine. Anyhow, as Farmerchick said, all of my tattoos are deeply personal and very meaningful to me. I don’t really care if people see it or not. In fact I really don’t like showing it to people unless they are into tattoos themselves. It gets a bit old “come over here Mike, you gotta see this guys back…Hey **apocalypso** , show him your back!”. “Um, no”. “Why? Aw, common!”. [/QUOTE] I still don’t get it. Say you woke up tomorrow without it. Would you feel diminished? Would you feel less like “you”? I guess I just don’t get the concept that you change your body, and it becomes more “you”. I have the same problem with these weightloss commercials that say, “find the real you inside”. How your body looks doesn’t reflect the real you! I mean, I’m pretty tied to my arms, but were I to lose them in an accident tomorrow, I wouldn’t be any less me. ---
**Author:** ![FarmerChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@FarmerChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarmerChick)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-quit-with-the-grousing-about-tattoos/443730/83 "2008-04-05T10:24:11Z")
[QUOTE=NightRabbit] I still don’t get it. Say you woke up tomorrow without it. Would you feel diminished? Would you feel less like “you”? I guess I just don’t get the concept that you change your body, and it becomes more “you”. I have the same problem with these weightloss commercials that say, “find the real you inside”. How your body looks doesn’t reflect the real you! I mean, I’m pretty tied to my arms, but were I to lose them in an accident tomorrow, I wouldn’t be any less me. [/QUOTE] You don’t have to “get it”. My tattoos are not for you. They are for me. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-quit-with-the-grousing-about-tattoos/443730/84 "2008-04-05T10:38:56Z")
[QUOTE=LifeOnWry] I’ve seen any number of tats that are definitely not to my own taste, but I think the only one that really threw me was a young (early 20s) co-worker who had a tattoo of the Nestle Quik bunny. I asked her what the significance was, imagining a really interesting story. She said she just really liked the Nestle Quik bunny. _shrug_ Alrighty then. [/QUOTE] Yeah, there’s that too. 🆒😛 But as another useless data point in my collection, my ex-best friend has a memorial tattoo for her deceased father. However, you’d never know it unless you were part of her inner circle because, for whatever her reasoning, just a casual observer would be told that she simply thought the design was pretty and that it “didn’t _mean_ anything.” I never understood why she did that. I suppose it just has to take all kinds. And centrifugal force. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-quit-with-the-grousing-about-tattoos/443730/85 "2008-04-06T03:27:09Z")
> [@NajaNivea](#): > > despite the fact that they cover a good portion of my body, most people in my daily life will never see them or even know I have them How _you_ doin’? 😉 > [@Troy McClure SF](#): > > Personally, I think they’re hot, and I’ll likely get one in the near-ish future… just waiting to settle on something. Same here. I’m pretty sure I’ll get one one of these days, but I just haven’t stumbled upon an image that represents me well enough. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-quit-with-the-grousing-about-tattoos/443730.md?page=4)