# I Tattoo, Do You? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 28, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160 "2012-09-28T17:52:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/41 "2012-09-30T04:41:15Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > just tell them you wrote it on your hand with a pen. No one will know the truth. Or you could just admit you are a car nut. _ **Scooter** _, dear heart, specifically a classic Vespa with the shifter on the left grip. If the tat is done properly, the numbers on your hand should line right up with the numbers on the shifter. Maybe I’ll draw them on with a Sharpie and see how I like it. > [@April\_R](#): > > I am with your mom, I wouldn’t want my children to tattoo MOM on them either. I would be ok with something symbolic, like a Pisces symbol or something else that reminds them of me, but for some reason I think the word MOM on someone’s body is a tad bit creepy. I agree. It’s **Mother** or nothing. > [@Chefguy](#): > > [Here](http://www.teambeachbody.com/connect/success-stories/details/-/winner-story/37211682) is my oldest son’s waste of money. Jeebuz what a lot of ink! Just, wow! ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/42 "2012-09-30T04:45:45Z")
> [@melondeca](#): > > Pictures or it didn’t happen. [HERE](http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150491884252432&set=t.100000163614999&type=3&theater) ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/43 "2012-09-30T05:40:46Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Takes after his dad. Except for the whole being in ridiculously ripped shape thingy. And he’s 40. …man I hate that kid… LOL:D ---
**Author:** ![slm2955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@slm2955](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slm2955)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/44 "2012-09-30T05:42:35Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > As you get older, the ink fades and loses it’s definition. Your body sags, and all of sudden the hula girl looks more like a turd on the beach than a dancer. Not true ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/45 "2012-09-30T05:52:28Z")
> [@Arrendajo](#): > > _ **Scooter** _, dear heart, specifically a classic Vespa with the shifter on the left grip. If the tat is done properly, the numbers on your hand should line right up with the numbers on the shifter. Maybe I’ll draw them on with a Sharpie and see how I like it. :smack: I should have Googled that before I tried being clever, 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/46 "2012-09-30T12:49:46Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > I choose to not get a tattoo for very personal reasons, and personally don’t care for most I see, but I can fully imagine why someone might want to. You really cannot even begin to imagine the appeal? Not a jot. 😕:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/47 "2012-09-30T13:28:50Z")
> [@Arrendajo](#): > > Jeebuz what a lot of ink! Just, wow! His wife has a lot, also, but not nearly as much as he does. They once said they’d spent about $10,000 on tats, hence my comment on it being a waste of money. Anecdote: when they were on vacation in Japan and went out to use the hotel pool, he was asked to either put on a shirt or to leave, as the Japanese guests were very uncomfortable with his ink. Seems in Japan it’s mostly criminals who have extensive tattoos. ---
**Author:** ![Stendhal\_Syndrome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Stendhal\_Syndrome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stendhal_Syndrome)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/48 "2012-09-30T17:51:45Z")
I have a couple already. I am getting a memorial tattoo next month where my husband’s ashes will be mixed in with the tattoo ink. And no…it’s not his name. It’s something that is meaningful to me and dear to my heart. My ten year old will be hand drawing three hearts, which will be part of the tattoo. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/49 "2012-09-30T17:54:55Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > His wife has a lot, also, but not nearly as much as he does. They once said they’d spent about $10,000 on tats, hence my comment on it being a waste of money. At least they’ve got something to show for it. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/50 "2012-09-30T18:44:26Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > I tattoo, true, like you. I fondue too! Do you fondue? I tattoo and I fondue! 😃 My Romanian buddy just turned me on to a great artist in Bucharest that I want to have do one on me. He is on facebook as Max Inkspot. He has done one spider standing on someones back that is amazingly lifelike - the shadowing is amazing. He also did a phoenix that was stunning. I am debating getting a [falcon](http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/yy176/aruvqan/Miscellaneous/osprey.gif) on my right bicep and a [killer carebear](http://devinepliskin.deviantart.com/art/Evil-Care-Bear-34660468) on my left bicep. Just hope I can afford to pay the artist to let me use the carebear as I love the image 😛 The local guy that did my wrist would be fine for the falcon, I am thinking in blackwork with no shading, and fairly small. But anything with the shading like the carebear I want to be better than the average guy on [Ugliest Tattoos - Bad tattoos of horrible fail situations that are permanent and on your body. - funny tattoos | bad tattoos | horrible tattoos | tattoo fail - Cheezburger](http://failblog.cheezburger.com/ugliesttattoos) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/51 "2012-09-30T18:47:19Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > As you get older, the ink fades and loses it’s definition. Your body sags, and all of sudden the hula girl looks more like a turd on the beach than a dancer. Everyone is going to get older and saggier when they get older anyways. Quite frankly, I think tattoos on old people are awesome. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/52 "2012-09-30T19:52:11Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Everyone is going to get older and saggier when they get older anyways. Quite frankly, I think tattoos on old people are awesome. I spotted some on my grandpa I had never noticed before, when we were out to lunch with him a couple Saturdays ago (For 29 years how did I not notice my gramps had tattoos:confused:). It was a but of a shock but I figured he got them when he was in the military during WWII and Korea. And we think people used to be so much more innocent in the old days :rolleyes:, hehe ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/53 "2012-09-30T21:09:09Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > Wow, your son is hot… I agree 😃 I have 8 tattoos and I don’t plan on stopping. My son is 17 and we are counting down the months until he can get one legally and I will be there pay for it and get another one. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/54 "2012-09-30T21:55:41Z")
I’m still trying to decide what to get and who to go to. The only decision I have made so far is that I will design my own tattoo, and will be covering, or rather turning a small tat form 35 years ago, into something else. Yes, as **Morgenstern** said, ink fades and tats lose their definition with time. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/55 "2012-09-30T22:34:16Z")
> [@misstee](#): > > I agree 😃 > > I have 8 tattoos and I don’t plan on stopping. My son is 17 and we are counting down the months until he can get one legally and I will be there pay for it and get another one. I have three sons and a daughter, and they’re all far better looking than they have a right to be. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/56 "2012-10-01T00:17:56Z")
I find tattoos to be quite repellent on others, and certainly unappealing for myself. But I have to get used to them, because it seems to be an ever-increasingly popular thing to do, and they’re in more visible locations too, legs especially. **Grumpy old man face** Hmph. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/57 "2012-10-01T18:19:48Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > Sorry, I debated on whether this was a IMHO or Cafe Society because it wasn’t about MHO on tattoos or\*\* tattooing butt \*\*rather their artistic, creative, and cultural merit and prevalence. > > But IANAM 😉 Your typo made me giggle like a 12-year-old. _ **Tattoo butt!!!** _ ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/58 "2012-10-01T23:13:39Z")
> [@lorene](#): > > Your typo made me giggle like a 12-year-old. > > _ **Tattoo butt!!!** _ hahahaha, oops:smack:😃 ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160/59 "2012-10-02T00:11:48Z")
> [@misstee](#): > > I have 8 tattoos and I don’t plan on stopping. My son is 17 and we are counting down the months until he can get one legally and I will be there pay for it and get another one. TheKid’s 18th birthday present was her first tattoo (script on her ribs). At first I could only be moral support, then she okayed a piercing, then said it would fine if I wanted one of my current ones reshaded or something. Finally it was “Fine! Just get a new one! Geesh!” That’s when I had the ladybug done - her nickname is Bug. A few friends of mine thought I was a bad mom for giving her a tattoo for her birthday. It was what she wanted, it ended up being a good experience (despite the jerkiness of the artist), and it’s something she will always remember versus an iTunes giftcard and dinner. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tattoo-do-you/636160.md?page=2)