The beauty of it is, when they’re 80, with those sagging black blemishes all over them, the grandkids will really be proud.
You don’t like 'em? Bla bla bla whatever. It’s your opinion, that’s all, not some objective truth.
Gee… I have tattooes and a tongue piercing. I must be überskanky.
Oh wait, I’m a man.
I guess I’m just a ho.
Fair 'nuff.
Funny since when, jackass? Last i saw from people at my University MOST didn’t have any (and believe me, everyone at my University always comments and then most say “oh i think they’re cool but i couldn’t think of anything I want on me forever”).
Wow I plan on rewarding myself with a tattoo when I give birth to my son this fall. I didn’t know I’d be getting so much more for my tattooing dollar. I always wanted to be a skanky ho 
I do care somewhat what people think of me. That’s why I abide by the laws of the community and wear clothing every day. If people have a problem with my selection of clothing they can look at someone else though. If I lived on a desert island I’d certainly have plenty of time to contemplate my navel and think of new and amusing ways to express myself. I doubt I’d have the proper tools/knowledge to tattoo myself but if I did I’d try
Oh and they have this amazing concept called the temporary tattoo. Also I can get tattoo pens that I can use that will fade after a month or so. You can try out a tattoo!
Everything about us, from how we wear our hair to the clothes we wear and any jewelery or makeup we put on sends a message to others about us. The car I drive says something about me to those who see me in it. And the message is not always what we intended to convey as it is colored by the recipient’s experiences.
For example:
A person has back surgery and is walking into a store. He’s walking very slowly and very upright but a little stilted.
Jim sees him. Jim’s dad had back surgery last year so Jim thinks ‘ugh poor guy he musta had surgery like dad’
Joe sees him. Joe’s uncle is an alcoholic and tends to get that exaggerated walk when on a bender. Joe thinks ‘ugh he needs to dry out!’
Tattos are the same way. I’ve never experienced the tattoo = skank phenomenon before so they hold no such stigma for me. Obviously you feel differently but that lies internal to you and not inside the ink of the tattoo.
If I live to 80… I’m not going to be worried about the tattoo I got when I was 30. I suspect I will have bigger problems than that then. Besides who knows… maybe when I’m in the nursing home and someone sees my tattoo they will remember that I’m a person too and ask me the story behind my tattoo. Old people are still people with feelings and thoughts and a life full of history, experience and wisdom. If all you see is wrinkled skin then you have bigger perception problems than I thought!
Why should they stop? Just because you think they look terrible? If i wanted i could probably pick out a few things about you that I think are terrible, for instance, your opinion. It makes you look much less beautiful and respectful. I want to see a full length body picture of you front and back so like any good, sarcastic, and judgemental gay man i can pick out all of your faults.
How DARE you assume that tattoos or piercings are a sign of physical abuse. You can go fuck yourself with that one. I have three rather large pieces, and my family is so utterly functional that we’re the strange family among most of my friends - parents never divorced, are still married, mom used words and not her hand for discipline, i’ve never used drugs and neither have my brothers, all three of us are employed or in school. But i’m sure you don’t believe it, and you’ll say i have some sort of hidden abuse somewhere, right? I’ve put it away in my subsconscious, right? I know you like to make assumptions based on what you think you know so make one about me, go ahead.
You work from a bias. I wouldn’t expect you to have asked the right people. LOL.
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It is not just tattoos, but also nose rings, pierced tongue, lip, etc. All of them look trampy and bad, but at least the piercings can be taken out and healed. Wanna wear a nose ring for a month? Go ahead. Can’t do that with a tattoo.
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Nope you can’t. ANYONE with a tattoo already knows that. Tattooists drill that one into your brain when you decide to get one for the first time, or you think “gee, it’s under my skin, so i think it’s probably permanent, derrrrr”. You’re talking to a brick wall. Why do you assume people with tattoos haven’t realized the permanency of it?
Of course I do care, Which is why i wash my clothes, get haircuts, and buy new clothes that i think flatter me when the old ones wear out. Those who have a problem with my tattoos aren’t likely to be the sort i’ll hang out with anyway, and that’s ALL that matters. Maybe you spend your time trying to appease people who wouldn’t be your friend based upon shallow insecurities and prejudiced statements about your personal appearance, but I don’t waste my time on people like that.
Well it would be quite hard to get tattoos if you don’t have access to anyone. HAHAHAHA that’s fucking funny Muad! OMG you are like SOOOOOOO hilarious! Did you even actually think when you wrote that?
No, the people who don’t care what people think of how they look dress how they want regardless of what’s trendy or what’s popular with the group of people they hang out with.
Mainly i hate opinions like this because the one stating them makes stereotyped judgements based upon armchair psychology, as well as their own biased standards as to what makes something beautiful.
I wonder Muad, would you immediately cut off a relationship with someone who was perfect for you after you discovered sometime into the relationship that they had tattoos, or a piercing “down there”?
I’m betting you would, because after all they’d be trampy looking and ugly, right?
Oops, i mean ugly looking, cause we all know that being physically ugly and looking physically ugly are two different things. :rolleyes:
A tattoo was the vehicle for a major epiphany for me recently. I’m in a moderately strange line of work, so I shouldn’t be surprised, but I still was.
I busted my ass last month; I overworked myself again and became briefly… unaware of my administrative obligations.
That brought me the disfavor of the administrator. The first time it happened, she dropped the boom on me so hard I swore it would never happen again, but I temporarily forgot that. When she gave me a polite reminder last week, it was enough for me to spend Saturday in the office trying to sort things out. I avoided another drubbing, barely.
Then one day last week I came back from a field trip at the Archives and was told She wanted to see me. I’m a coward, but I’m also a firm believer that the Band-Aid has to be ripped off to be the most painless, so I went torrectly to stand tall before the Admin.
It was a hot day, perhaps the first this year, and she was wearing a sun dress or whatever you call those half-sleeved things. And that’s when I finally noticed she had a tattoo on her shoulder. Not one of those modern ones–it was one of those sailor-type mean-ass burly things from the '60s or '70s which had blurred beyond recognition. It looked kind of bad; she obviously doesn’t care. If she’s paid like I am she can’t afford to have it removed if she did care.
And that’s when it all came together for me. My billable hours are the most important thing I provide for my law firm, liberal carping aside. She’s the enforcer, and she by-God isn’t fucking around about it–and I would be a fool to fuck around with that myself. She’s got a good job doing an important thing, and that tat tells me she’s not afraid to spill my guts if I fuck her shit up again. But the tattoo spelled it all out for me. I don’t have a tattoo; I don’t like pain at all. So I suddenly have some additional respect for this person’s will and focus (I had plenty before, too).
And what did I have to talk to her about that day? She had kept the window open for me–me alone, I surmise–for filing my new life insurance policy, because she knew I was very busy the week before and had forgot about it.
How cool is that?
Nicely said.
You know, about 80% of the guys I know (which is a fairly sizeable amount) prefer women with tattoos and piercings. And the other 20% don’t care either way.
I think tattoos make a beautiful woman even sexier.
Oh, and 90% of my skanky ho friends who are female have tattoos, so fuck off from them and me.
I think that Muad Dib is upset because all these women, by getting tattoos, are saying that they aren’t interested in him.
I’m a tattooed guy. Bring on the tattooed women.
Don’t forget to show us the pics, Jet.
What the hell? I live in fricking Australia, thank you very much, and I happen to be speaking the truth FROM MY OBSERVATION.
No need to get insulting, for pete’s sake.
Remind me again, why should I care what you think?
During the whole tattoo process from day one (wanting a tattoo) to actually getting the tattoo (several years later) never once did the thought “Gee, I wonder if 90% of the male population will find my tattoo unattractive and think me a skanky ho” cross my mind. I guess between deciding on a design that has meaning and is something I can live with forever, deciding where I wanted to have one, finding a reputable place to have it done and saving the money for it, I forgot about that major detail. :rolleyes:
If you don’t like tattoos that’s great. More power to ya. Nobody is gonna hold you down and forcibly tattoo you. But please just because you don’t like it is no need to insult those of us who do. That’s just rude. And 90% percent of the women I just polled said they found rude behavior to be very unattractive and that it makes a man look boorish and self-centered.
I’m not throwing the OP a rope or nuthin’, but I AM a bit turned off by women with tattoos. I generally keep that to myself, though.
I saw a photo of woman in a white wedding dress with slinky shoulder straps and a dragon tattooed on her shoulder. IMO, it did not look good. My 1st thought is always “man, that’s gonna look awful silly when she’s in her 60’s”.
Of course, I AM a prude.
Gee, thanks for calling my daughter a skanky ho, Muad’Dib, and I guess that makes me a pimp for going with her to the tattoo parlor when she decided she wanted to get that tattoo and helping her pick out the exact design she wanted. (Oh, and the same goes for my niece, who accompanied her and got her tattoo at the same time; I know my sister will be thrilled to know she also gave birth to a skanky ho.) She really appreciates it, as do I.
You have one narrow-minded opinion. There’s a lot of people with other opinions. Just because it’s YOUR opinion doesn’t make it RIGHT.
The good news is that my daughter has FAR too much good taste to be interested in a fucktard like you. Which is probably why you’re complaining; with your self-righteous standards, the number of women who you’d be interested is rapidly decreasing. Hooray for Darwin.
Just to clarify ** Muad’Dib**, it is only girls that look like skanks when they get tattoos?
Very nice.
Go butrscotch! Wow, I’m in awe. What a cool mom. 
I have a question here and a slight hijack:
I have seen a lot of girls lately with tattoos either surrounding their belly button or above their pelvis.
What on earth is going to happen to that tattoo should they become pregnant?
Does it stretch out and become ruined? Or does it shrink back?
Woohoo! Go fizzestothetop and butrscotch!!!
Rock on!
I’d like to get a tiny tattoo on the back of my shoulder or my hip, but I’m a complete and utter pain wuss. It would be a tiny claddagh, or something small but pretty.
At first, when I saw the title of this thread, I thought he meant people with multiple tattoos-all over their chest and back and arms-you know, like rock stars who look as if they’re wearing a shirt even when they’re not?
THAT looks bad, at least to me.
But for crying out loud, a tattoo that’s not big and ugly and obvious does not a skanky ho make. YOU may not like it-that’s fine! But to call people names because of it…well.
BTW, King George V had a tattoo on his chest. Was HE skanky?
Um…[cough]…I actually agree with the OP. I thik tattoos and body piercings look skanky and retarded. I prefer a natutral look. It’s a matter of personal aesthetics. So sue me.
Lest we forget, not all skanky ho’s have tattoos and piercings!
Methinks OP found out the hard way that not all tattooed and pierced women are skanky ho’s.