Here it is:
The spitting image of a street gang member!
(Especially those painted nails; they are red showing her allegiance to the Bloods.)
Yeah, I saw this, and she looks like a well groomed, attractive and serious woman with occasionally tattooed arms. Nothing like a biker.
Well, I’ll have you know there are adults who venture out into public wearing…..PAJAMA BOTTOMS! And those darned kids are still on my lawn!
But seriously, the board skews older and increasingly crotchedy. It’s completely unsurprising there’s at least one (and likely more) poster who’d clutch their pearls at the mere thought of visible tattoos.
I have no problem with visible tattoos. (Many of them are very nice.) But I won’t go outside of the yard wearing pyjama bottoms.
I think this was my son’s biggest shock in college. People going to the dining hall in their pajamas.
Same.
I’ll go outside in pajama bottoms when I take out my trash late at night (the day before trash pickup). That’s it.
Though when I lived on Guam as a teenager I wore shorts every day for two years (it was always too hot for pants) and they had a drawstring and all that. They weren’t much different from pajama bottoms with really short legs to them. So I guess it’s not that weird.
Yeah, I solve that issue by going the opposite direction and wearing sweatpants or, in summer, gym shorts, as sleepwear/housewear.
That’s exactly what I do.
(I’m wearing them now as I work from home, though I am also wearing a polo shirt in case I need to get on a Teams call and have to be on camera.)
A few? It’s two full sleeves, and who knows what else, but yeah, OK.
You must all be such super cool kids with your massive tattoos. Outside of your circle, not everyone thinks you’re as cool as you do, but yes I forgot where I was. I’ll remember not to push the hot buttons in the future. I beg forgiveness from the hive mind.
I don’t have a single tattoo, and I don’t intend to ever get one, but I don’t mind anyone having some, even a full body sleeve. I usually don’t judge people by their looks. And concerning hive mind: haha, the hive mind of the SDMB regarding tattoos must be split evenly in two halves, judging by the backlash against them in every thread just mentioning them.
Seriously.
I don’t have tattoos and never intend to get any myself, and I might think particular tattoos are poorly done or ugly, but when it comes to other people and tattoos I mind my own business. If a law enforcement lady wants two full sleeves (and possibly “other things”) I really don’t care.
Don’t have any, don’t want any, think they’re low-rent as hell. I’m glad my GF doesn’t have any.
But I also recognize my built-in attitude is about 40 years out of date. So 40+ year old tats are still low rent but recent tats are legit fashion statements. They fit the milieu they were created in.
My 30ish niblings have some. Hooray for them, and no judging from me. But still not my thing.
Maybe @Just_Asking_Questions needs to think about the chronology of change in society. I have no doubt his own grandfather would have severe misgivings about some of his stuff were Grandad still alive to comment. Mine too, and everyone else’s too.
It’s a form of the circle of life: we all carry obsolete attitudes from the past. What matters is what we do with / about them.
Funny, I got a tiny one when I was in college, the Sanskrit word for impermanence in simple black ink, because I had recently become a Buddhist. It’s on my wrist facing me and it’s really not for other people. After college I spent about fifteen years regretting it, but recently recommitted to Buddhism, so it’s in fashion again! Also the Zen clergy at my Sangha are heavily tatted metalheads. Mine is quaint by comparison.
I confess I used to turn up my nose at tattoos, and I still don’t find them attractive (mostly). When I was younger, the tattoos I came across were mostly from former sailors (uncle, brother-in-law) But as a crotchety old codger™ I find I have gotten accustomed to seeing them on younger people and no longer find them threatening or distasteful. Or edgy.
One thing that I like about this place is that there are catchphrases that immediately out the user… as someone who’s opposed to that “Fighting Ignorance” stuff. Or at least a jerk.
I was going to use the label “whiny, self-styled ‘persecuted minority’”, but if it caught on, then I’d sound like part of a dreaded hive mind.
Very wise.
My positive attitude of tattoos as exotic and rebellious is also out of date…
Highly influenced by a wild weekend I spent with older art students on an island (early '70s).
One of the older guys had spent the night with one of the women, and I was with him on a sand dune when a coalition of students approached him and one got up the nerve to ask “So, umm, what was she like?”
He fixed the young lad with a knowing stare and revealed "She has…
Tattoos."
Cue muted gasp from the assembled multitudes.
Hooray for two thoughtful and insightful posts there @digs.
In my now single aging swinging bachelor life I’ve sampled the tattooed youth. Distracting at first but otherwise immaterial. Kinda cute sometimes.
Like plastic surgery I wonder about how it’ll look on folks in the old farts’ homes, but I bet they’ll be fine enough.
Brilliant! 
Another in the series “Attempted Career Suicide Via Social Media”:
Should end up being minor but embarrassing stains on their CVs.