Here's a fun one sure to stir the pot: Tattoos. Like them or no?

[bubbleheadchief]

The Nazis ruined a few things for everyone...two of the lesser known ones being the following



1) A great moustache style



2) The Swastika which is a symbol of good luck in origin. There was a female hockey team once called the Ferny Swastikas and they had a giant Swastika on the front of their jerseys. Bad idea thanks to the Nazis.



Germans are actually the friendliest good willed people I come across at my work place (hotel industry). I have been hard pressed to find a German I haven't liked. Highly educated and very respectful peoples who I do believe carry a lot of guilt which humbles them and humanizes them.



Anyways someone mentioned somewhere in this thread that they also see tattoos as something people get to draw attention to themselves. If there weren't a more harmless way to draw attention to oneself. EVERYONE tries to draw attention to themselves in some form or another..no one ever wants to admit it though. Some do so through harmful means others go subtle roads to do so and some go more flashy roads. There isn't anything wrong with drawing attention to yourself..it's how you do it is the issue. Tattoos are a harmless way of doing so (I guess gang tattoos are a different story in a sense).



There has been a lot of talk also about how people get tattoos for spiritual reasons or a way to connect to a feeling or emotion. Very true. Can someone explain to me what those who grow a beard and moustache are trying to do with it? Is that not someone trying to relate too and feel more masculine? For aesthetic reasons? Religious and spiritual? To draw attention to their masculinity? Too show their social class? Too celebrate a connection to a past heritage? It's the same thing. Only difference is tattoos can't be taken off easily, hurt more, and can't tickle the happy spots. I am going to get shit for this but I find that moustaches look ridiculous on a lot of people who have them more so than a bad tattoo on someone.

Because I am fucking lazy and dont have to shave every day prior to putting on a uniform.

 

[MassHavoc]

Because I am fucking lazy and dont have to shave every day prior to putting on a uniform.

Yep, I have a beard mainly because it's easier than shaving all the time. I clean things up maybe once a week... It's not the greatest beard, but it doesn't look horrible so I keep it. Plus the wife doesn't mind so I win that one too.



And growing a beard I don't think has the same expressionary tone as physically manipulating your body, and it's a natural expression of your body. Maybe for women, if they grew a beard it would be a message as it's not quite as natural. Or asians, with the long scraggly beards trying to be kung fu masters. ( I say this because I always make fun of my friend John when he hasn't shaved in a while, worst facial hair ever).

 

[TSD]

Yeah I grow a beard (its not an extreme beard and could be considered just lengthy stubble) because it fits me. Thats the only reason why.

 

[BlackHawkPaul]

I have a beard too. I'm half Ukranian, so I have a full beard 5 hours after shaving.

Thank you genetics.

 

[winos5]

Me too. I have 5 o'clock shadow by lunch. When I was in basic the MTIs made me shave twice a day because I was a (and I'm quoting) "hairy mother ******".

 

[MassHavoc]

HAHA I'm not anywhere near that, If I didn't have a beard I'd have to shave every couple of days. It's my back that I'd have to worry about! hah

 

[Pez68]

Some of you guys crack my ass right up the middle. I usually try pretty hard not to use the words ALWAYS or NEVER or EVERYONE when referring to things like these studies. These are generalities. If some of you don't like generalities or stereotypes that's tough shit because they aren't going anywhere. Just because I show that someone has a certain proclivity doesn't mean that everyone in that particular group is the same way or acts the same way.



As far as multiple, uncovered tattoos on the face, neck, hands and other taboo areas: you tell me where they are going to work outside of construction, lawn maintenance, tattoo parlor, rock band, etc. I don't make the fucking rules, I just report what I see. You have a problem with it, talk to the people doing the hiring (or not hiring in this case).

People who have multiple tatoos that are clearly displayed outside of the clothing, such as the face, neck, hands, legs are just showing me that they make poor decisions in life and don't look into the future for possible consequences.

So which is it? The people doing the hiring that feel that way, or you? Before, it was "clearly displayed outside of the clothing" and now it's just "taboo areas". What exactly is a taboo area? A tattoo on the hand or neck is taboo, according to who? I have seen plenty of men and women, working in plenty of normal jobs, that have arm, hand, leg, ankle, and neck tattoos. Have a couple family members that are pretty well ranked police officers, with several visible tattoos on their arms and hands. A few that are firemen as well. I work with several people that have visible arm and hand tattoos in the IT field. I have several relatives that work in the medical field that have tattoos "CLEARLY displayed outside of the clothing". Ankles, legs, arms, hands, neck, to name a few.

My question: Why hasn't the acceptance grown with the percentage? If half of Americans (in that demo) have them, why aren't they more widely accepted?

How do you know the acceptance HASN'T grown? Because I'd say it most definitely has grown. For ****'s sake, you said yourself that your company has no problem hiring people with piercings or tattoos, so where are you getting this stigma from? Maybe it hasn't grown with you, but that's just one person. My experience with those around me tells me exactly the opposite. Tattoos are not a big deal. At all.

 

[BlackHawkPaul]

HAHA I'm not anywhere near that, If I didn't have a beard I'd have to shave every couple of days. It's my back that I'd have to worry about! hah

Don't get me started.

If I have the curtains drawn open and my shirt off, the neighbors think a mad science experiment went bad at my house and a human sized ferret is eating all of the rice cakes.

 

[TSD]

Lol that reminds me, the other day I was about to take a shower and I look at myself and I was like, when the **** did i get so goddamn hairy?



Seriously when I was about 22 the only hair I had on my body was a small spattering in the middle of my chest and my forearms, legs and of course crotch. I thought I was done growing new hair.



Now my friggin chest and stomache are covered with hair.

 

[Ymono37]

HAHA I'm not anywhere near that, If I didn't have a beard I'd have to shave every couple of days. It's my back that I'd have to worry about! hah

Aye, me too.



Except I wish the shit that grows on my back would trade off with the top of my head.

 

[Tater]

Just wait a few more years until the nose hair starts.

 

[bri]

Ewwwwwwwwwwww. Can you only get a tattoo where no hair grows. Cause I don't think I've ever seen a tattoo with hair coming out of it.

 

[MassHavoc]

Just wait a few more years until the nose hair starts.

Yep, I'm getting that bad in the last year or so too, really messes with my nose and allergies and such, topped with the weird ear hair on my ears not in my ear, and well I'm slowly becoming a werewolf I believe. Too bad it wasn't teen wolf.

 

[Pez68]

Ewwwwwwwwwwww. Can you only get a tattoo where no hair grows. Cause I don't think I've ever seen a tattoo with hair coming out of it.

Nah. Guys have arm hair, right?

Yep, I'm getting that bad in the last year or so too, really messes with my nose and allergies and such, topped with the weird ear hair on my ears not in my ear, and well I'm slowly becoming a werewolf I believe. Too bad it wasn't teen wolf.

Yeah, the nose hair is really starting to piss me off. I have to trim it like once a week now... Thankfully I don't have the hair growing out of my ears yet! You have to be like..... RKs age, for that to start happening.

 

[BlackHawkPaul]

Ewwwwwwwwwwww. Can you only get a tattoo where no hair grows. Cause I don't think I've ever seen a tattoo with hair coming out of it.

Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

 

[bri]

Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

My point is, does the tattoo kill the hair follicles or do they just shave over them or get waxed or what? Because most of the ones I have seen on the forearm are on the underside where it's not hairy to begin with or the upper arm where it is usually hairless. I don't have any tats and never will so I can't go by personal experience. However, I know it's much easier for you to all think I'm fuckin' stupid.

 

[LordKOTL]

My bro has a shin tattoo that has hair over it. Not carpet-thick, but defintily not the very fine hair most people have in most areas of their body not covered with thick hair like on the head and in the pubic/armpit regions (and other areas). For my tat, there is the very fine hair all over it (my back is not a carpet, yet).



Any tattoo artist worth their salt will shave the area of tattooing regardless before sterilizing the area. Even a very fine hair (like the ones that are on your forehead) pushed into the skin will cause an ingrown hair, and will thus prevent the skin from absorbing the ink, and regardless of whether or not it gets infected, once healed, the tatoo will look patchy.

 

[winos5]

Hair tattoo



Well I guess if you can get cosmetic eyeliner, eyebrows or lip tattoos why not foux hair stubble.

 

[TSD]

My point is, does the tattoo kill the hair follicles or do they just shave over them or get waxed or what? Because most of the ones I have seen on the forearm are on the underside where it's not hairy to begin with or the upper arm where it is usually hairless. I don't have any tats and never will so I can't go by personal experience. However, I know it's much easier for you to all think I'm fuckin' stupid.

No my buddy has hair growing where all his tattoos are. he just shaved beforehand.





On a side note, which I completely forgot about. Another friend of my has Morrissey's name tattooed on his penis.

 

[dlrob315]

No my buddy has hair growing where all his tattoos are. he just shaved beforehand.





On a side note, which I completely forgot about. Another friend of my has Morrissey's name tattooed on his penis.

Does it look better limp or erected? And, does that qualify as an instant gang bang for his wife/girlfriend?