I work with a lot of truckers and hardhats.
A number of them owe thousands in child support and still go and spend money on things like tattoos.
Hell if they would just buy a couple reams of paper and borrow the company zerox they could tell the world more than the tattoo would.
How about,I hate my X wife and her lawyer .
I’m doing this because I am supporting My Kids like a Good guy and if it wern’t for that I would get this really neat tattoo with snakes N stuff.
Oh My God do You Think OpalCat will Flame me for this
Anyway, tattoo prejudice is alive and well- my husbands boss declined to hire a very qualified applicant because he had tattoos on his hands. It’s a very professional place and his boss is very straight laced, and wouldn’t send him out on sales calls to their clients. Right or wrong, the prejudice is out there.
Zette
“If I had to live your life, I’d be begging to have someone pop out both my eyes. Just in case I came across a mirror.” - android209 (in the Pit) Zettecity
Voted “Most Empathetic”- can you believe that?
I’ll admit I’m a bit biased towards tattoos since I have a couple.
There is a guy where I work. He’s in his mid thirties. Still plays guitar in a band. His arms (from shoulders to wrists) and top of his chest - make him look like Mike Ness from Social Distortion. Has doubly pierced ears (two in each ear), but doesn’t wear the earrings anymore.
He’s a nice guy with three kids.
And just got promoted to manager.
Relax, aha. Your bright son will always be bright. He may not always make the decisions you wish he would. He’ll learn. If you’ve given his a good ‘base’ to start on, you have to trust he’ll be alright.
I am large,
I contradict myself,
I contain multitudes.
~Walt Whitman
Well, think about what you want. People who don;t tire of their tattoos usually get them because they represent something special to them. For instance, my leg tattoo is the character wu4. It means “awaken, realize, become aware”, A buddhist dictionary on the web says it’s use also applies to Buddhist enlightenment.
Also, don’t get it the minute you find something only visually appealing. I reccomend taking time to think about it and make sure you would want it on you forever. It took me a year before I was sure I wanted my leg tattoo, and especially in a fairly public place (the leg isn’t all that private).
AND, on price, My leg tattoo though being 4 inches square, only cost me 80 dollars because it took an hour to do, and was solid black with no special details (the artist’s price was $80 an hour).
I myself am an incorrigible conlang slut. I love oral lex.
Now, now, your son has gone out and done this fabulous rebellious thing and you are going to go out and trump him? What do you want him to do, have try something else to freak out the old man? Let him glory in his autonomy for a few years, and then go get one.
Ok, aha, I’m gonna make you feel a lot better. I am 32 years old, married,have a good professional job and a wife, no kids yet, but probobly this year, and when I was 20 or 21, in a moment of pure drunken clarity, I decided to give myself a BRAND!!! You can still see it on my upper arm, but I am lucky aluminum is such a poor conducter of heat, It’s pretty faint. We all do stupid stuff when we are young. I am with the majority here in that I feel a tattoo is no big deal, but, it could have been worse. Upside is, I still trump most folks in the " utterly stupid things to do" catagory.
I think it can be pretty easily demonstrated that the prejudice is not on the part of the boss–I don’t think you were implying that anyway, but if the tatts on the hands will lead to fewer sales (and they almost certainly will), then the person isn’t really qualified to have the job.
By the way, pro-tattoo folk, what about the tattooing of the entire face? I’ve seen it, and it makes me think of a dictionary definition of “tragically hip.”
Surgoshan,
It was a heart, thank you very much! See, I was drunk AND mooney over a girl- a dangerous combination. Good thing I didn’t decide to fly, isn’t it?
Mine is a simple silouhette (sp?) of a dragon flying in front of the sun. It’s only about three inches long, 4 colors (black, yellow, orange, red), and cost about $100, which I guess is average.
I really like it, although it is about five years old now, and I think I would like to get it touched up a bit. You know, add a few small things to jazz it up a bit.
Actually, the Maori traditionally did this with men (except preists who had a small tattoo on the face, so i’ve heard), and the women had a chin tattoo. Modern Maori i hear are starting to get the facial tattoos again (I forget the name, perhaps Guanolad will know), to reclaim their heritage.
Anyway, i think most facial tattoos are horrid, and I wouldn’t want one, personally (i’ve seen few good ones). BUT, i’m not about to tell someone else they shouldn’t have it. It’s their body.
I myself am an incorrigible conlang slut. I love oral lex.
I saw a picture the other day of a guy with a tattoo on the head of his penis. I thought that was a little odd, and coming from me, that says something. I wonder how drunk he had to be to even think about doing that…
Heck is where you go when you don’t believe in Gosh.
ummm I was reading this through and got to wondering if maybe different parts of the country look at tattoos differently than other parts. Say for instance In regards to hiring. Would they be more liberal towards tattos in the workplace in LA than in Oklahoma city?
