# The 10 tattoos that annoy me most **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 29, 2008, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910 "2008-11-29T09:10:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/221 "2008-12-05T02:16:42Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > How many tattooed people walk around in regret of getting their tattoo(s)? I’ve not met one yet, and many I do know in my conservative circles go for more. I don’t know, but at the huge Army medical center on the post where I was stationed, Tuesday of every week was tattoo-removal day. All day long soldiers and their family members and retirees and spouses would walk in and get laser treatments to remove those embarrassing tattoos. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/222 "2008-12-05T02:34:23Z")
Well, if you work there, your sample is a bit skewed! I would think the military has its share of dumb tattoos. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/223 "2008-12-05T04:16:35Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > How many tattooed people walk around in regret of getting their tattoo(s)? I’ve not met one yet, and many I do know in my conservative circles go for more. Lots and lots and lots of people. I have met many, some close friends and family among them. Have you turned on a radio lately? There are constantly commercials on advertising tattoo removal; it’s a huge industry now. I saw a program on (maybe the Discovery Channel?) that said some tattoo artists are getting into removal now because it’s become the bigger business. If you’re using “no one regrets tattoos” as a way to psych yourself up for one, you’re in for a rude awakening. > [@Philster](#): > > I am going from no ink to quite a bit soon. > > This is about what I am getting and I am built pretty much like that and I am a corporate senior manager. Prob will leave off the forearm part. > > [Photo Storage](http://s725.photobucket.com/albums/ww259/philjleone/?action=view¤t=full_body_tattoo.jpg) Why that, in particular? I see it on people all the time and don’t understand the significance. And why point out that you are a corporate manager? That is pretty much **exactly** the type of guy I would expect to get this tattoo. > [@Philster](#): > > Gladly! > I have been getting in extraordinary shape so that it ‘works’ on me. You realize that the tattoo will still be there long after you’re out of shape and it doesn’t ‘work’ on you anymore, right? I’m not trying to break your balls but could you maybe possibly just a little bit be getting this for one of **cmyk** ’s 4 bad reasons to get a tattoo? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/224 "2008-12-05T04:42:44Z")
> [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](#): > > I don’t know, but at the huge Army medical center on the post where I was stationed, Tuesday of every week was tattoo-removal day. All day long soldiers and their family members and retirees and spouses would walk in and get laser treatments to remove those embarrassing tattoos. Bunch of sheep. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/225 "2008-12-05T06:48:05Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Bunch of sheep. Oh, so now they’re sheep if they want to get it removed? I love this line of thinking. “Some people do something I don’t like, therefore they’re all sheep and have no thoughts of their own. \*I \*don’t do that, so _I’m_ such a unique rebel.” :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [December 5, 2008, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/226 "2008-12-05T07:51:33Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The people who are getting tattoos now are going to keep moving on through time. My guess is that at some point in the near future, fifteen and sixteen-year-olds are going to collectively decide that tattoos are something that old people, like thirty-year-olds, do and therefore are hopelessly uncool. Teenagers will stop wanting to get tattoos when their parents have them. Their parents already have them. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/227 "2008-12-05T07:51:59Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Oh, so now they’re sheep if they want to get it removed? > > I love this line of thinking. “Some people do something I don’t like, therefore they’re all sheep and have no thoughts of their own. \*I \*don’t do that, so _I’m_ such a unique rebel.” > > :rolleyes: Uh, Feather Lou was being funny. Rolled eyes right back atcha… ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/228 "2008-12-05T12:12:24Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Bunch of sheep. With the ability to deal out lead poisoning. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/229 "2008-12-05T16:56:42Z")
Thanks Featherlou. I’ll keep commuting as long as I have a job! 😉 I think the responses in this thread bear out the idea that there’s already a backlash going on about tattoos, which, at least in my own mind, means I was right. :p;)😃 **Cisco** , excellent point about thinking ahead. If the tattoo works now, what about years from now, when it might not? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/230 "2008-12-05T18:42:06Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > Uh, Feather Lou was being funny. Rolled eyes right back atcha… Indeed. _I_ thought it was funny, anyway. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/231 "2008-12-05T20:35:34Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > Gladly! > > I have been getting in extraordinary shape so that it ‘works’ on me. You’d better stay in extraordinary shape, because that would look rirdiculous on a flabbly body. Like point and snicker ridiculous. I have a friend (female) who has a band tattoo around her ankle that she got in her 20’s. She’s now in her 40’s and not in good shape, and when you see her in shorts or capri’s the first reaction is Oh my God, those ankles are huge! She’s getting it removed. ---
**Author:** ![Jaglavak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@Jaglavak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaglavak)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/232 "2008-12-06T21:36:19Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > I see it a lot at bars now. I guess the girls think that they’re cute and that two inches makes a difference. They’ve been saying that about me for years now. ---
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/233 "2008-12-06T23:58:38Z")
Didn’t read through all the way, might’ve been mentioned, sorry if that’s the case. How about the man with the tattoo of the biker chick on his leg, that he lovingly purchased _implants, implants by christ! for a tattoo?_\*\* Or the sick up somewhere north who got his fat bald water-head tattooed to look like a New England Patriots Helmet? I’m all for tattoos, they’re sort of romantic if done right and meaningful, but that’s just idiocy. ---
**Author:** ![supergoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@supergoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supergoose)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/234 "2008-12-07T00:26:10Z")
I don’t have an opinion on the tattoos you mention, really, aside from “not my cup of tea.” I just wanted to say, I love your username. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/235 "2008-12-07T23:54:08Z")
Personally, I don’t think all people who get tattoos are sheep; some are gangbangers or whores! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/236 "2008-12-08T01:39:23Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > I appreciate people who are willing to get shitty tattoos. I feel like they’ve gone the extra mile for my amusement. > > Mr. [Cool](http://www.jimimoto.com/page737/files/page1_blog_entry38_24.jpg) [Ice](http://www.davidrdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/mr-cool-ice-tattoo-456a1109.jpg), [Earth Crisis face](http://blogs.bellinghamherald.com/gobham/media/blogs/a/crises.jpg), and [Hatebreed moustache skinhead](http://a7.vox.com/6a00d4141f3422685e00d41445c32f6a47-500pi): I salute you for taking things to the next level. A little bit of personal trivia on that Hatebreed mustache guy - My sister, two best friend/coworkers, and I were hanging out on the back patio of my office during our morning break about a year and a half ago. Suddenly, we heard a bit of a commotion about 50 yards away, on the other side of some trees and into the road that passes our office building. A few minutes later, cops came flying to the building right across the street (The University of Utah Orthopedic Center). We learn later that a prisoner from the Utah State Prison (Curtis-something (I forgot his last name) - the tattooed faced guy in that photo) was taken to the center for X-rays. While there, he wrestled the armed prison guard escort’s gun away, shot and killed him, then took off towards the back of our office building, where we were sitting out on the patio drinking coffee. He changed his mind and carjacked a passing car instead. There was a stand-off in a different part of town and the guy was apprehended. I always wondered what would have happened had he gone the extra 25 yards to where we were sitting. About tattoos. . . . My late grandma loved bluebirds. My artist daughter is going to design a small bluebird and all of us (me, my sis, niece, daughter) are going to have it tattooed. I am thinking my upper back. I am not worried about how I will feel about it later. It is just a personal memorial to my grandma. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/237 "2008-12-08T02:03:32Z")
When I was 18 years old, I came very close to getting a tattoo of a pot leaf with the words “Born to be wild” on my upper arm. As a 46 year old mother of three, I am soooooooooo glad I didn’t do it. ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/238 "2008-12-08T03:18:12Z")
When I was 20, I thought I might like a tattoo. I thought about it for 10 years, and looked at designs, and thought about what **wouldn’t** be an unrecognisable blob when I’m 80. For my 30th birthday, I got myself the tattoo I designed. I went to a great local artist (she meets with you several times to make SURE you know what you are getting into!) and got a small lizard that peers over my shoulder. I had lots of reasons why I got what I did, where I did, when I did. You may not like it, but it still means a lot to me, at 45. I doubt I will be regretting it at any point - if anything, I like it more now than I did then! ---
**Author:** ![Henrichek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@Henrichek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henrichek)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/239 "2008-12-08T05:28:54Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > I can remember seeing this really hot guy at my gym in West Hollywood in the late 1980’s and he got a brand new tattoo he was showing off on his arm…it was [this](http://stephyy.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/batman-logo-large-view.gif). > > I remember thinking, “It isn’t going to be long before he regrets getting that…” Hmm, are you sure he wasn’t a Russian spy from GRU? [http://eyeball-series.org/gru/pict4.jpg](http://eyeball-series.org/gru/pict4.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910/240 "2008-12-08T06:25:20Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > I am going from no ink to quite a bit soon. > > This is about what I am getting and I am built pretty much like that and I am a corporate senior manager. Prob will leave off the forearm part. I have that very same photo on my desktop as a reference. I’m trying to work up the courage to get it as well. I’m bookmarking this thread so I won’t miss your ‘after’ pics. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-tattoos-that-annoy-me-most/474910.md?page=13)