Are Tattoos the Mark of being Smart or being Dumb?

Most of my friends have tattoos (like minds flock together I guess), and have not once heard anyone refer to people without tattoos as being square or boring..... ever. So I completely reject that premise. I've never actually heard anyone call anybody else square for any reason. I don't think people have used that term since the 70s.

Have you thought that maybe the guy really likes blink 182? I would never get a band name tattooed on me, but am also not close minded enough to refer to someone as a clown for getting a tattoo they like.

 

Getting my blood type on my chest was actually going to be my first tattoo. lol It makes a lot of sense.

No one claimed that a tattoo is necessary for life, you are the one making the multitudes of strawmen here.

 

I actually know some "square", "boring", persons who do work in offices, who do have tattoos. It is again you making the strawmen.

 

I like airplanes. I never felt compelled to get a tattoo of one.

Clowns dress up to get attention, seems to me that is an apt description
of most tattoos...at least that I've seen.

You can't watch a sporting event without seeing an athlete covered in ink...
so impressionable kids think it's cool.

As alluded to earlier, because it's popular, because "everyone is doing it" does
not make it any less "Clownish" to me anyway. I'm not calling for their
banishment or denying a person's right to tattoo themselves...but a fad one day
may not be a fad the next. Unfortunately most tattoos are permanent regardless
of cultural perceptions of the time. I would do my best to talk a young person out of it,
and hopefully provide an alternative role model that ink doesn't make the person.

 

because you don't like tattoos. There's probably people who do like tattoos, who also like planes, that do uave tattoos of them. The fact the you don't like them, doesn't mean its wrong or silly for somebody else to like them. It's a difference of opinion, and thats all.

clowns dress up like clowns, because its either there job, or their act. The fact that you don't dress up like a clown
, doesnt make somebody elses reason for doing so illegitimate.

so what? It was the athletes choice to get a tattoo, and if yur kids get one, then thats their choice.

This is what I'm saying. You people seem to think its impossible for someone to just like tattoos. It's has to be because its popular, or because theres some underlying emotional reason.

Why cant people just like tattoos?

Tattooing isn't just a fad, regardless. People have been doing it for thousands of years. Maybe the reason theres more of it lately in our culture, is because the stigma attatched to it is shrinking.

 

That also makes perfect sense.

 

tattoos are a mark of being a crowd follower.

"Hey look at me, I just gotta be me, that's why I look like everyone else."

 

I'm not saying otherwise. My attorney, who is 38, married with two kids...has tattoos on his shoulders...
now if I thought he was incompetent, I wouldn't have hired him.

Maybe someone reading this thread is considering getting a tattoo. I'm the other
side of the coin. Not everyone is going to accept them, or think them a good idea.

Tattoos used to be domain of Sailors, rock stars and ex-cons...
now it's mainstreaming.

I'm the guy, and folks like me...young or old...are looking at the emperor with no clothes.

Think twice is all I'm saying.

Times change.

I'm not calling anyone out as lacking character or a "loser" merely because they have tattoo...
clown maybe, but that's more an aphorism than a critique on a person's character.

 

They're not saying that to you because you don't have tattoos.

 

It's an act like defacating in public.It reeks of what priority one
holds.Like what Robert Mitchum said about DeNiro in - Cape Fear - >
" I don't know whether to look at him or read him " regarding all the
Biblical verse De Niro { Max Cady } had on his back.

 

Oh I can hear them out there...laughing.

"look at that guy, no tattoos...what a square"

You don't like crazy music.
You don't like rockin' bands.
You just wanna go to a movie show,
And sit there holdin' hands.
You're so square.
Baby, I don't care.


You don't like hotrod racin'
Or drivin' late at night.
You just wanna park where it's nice and dark.
You just wanna hold me tight.
You're so square.
Baby, I don't care.


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0VdFi8p_wM"]Elvis Presley - (you're so square) Baby I Don't Care - YouTube[/ame]

 

I don't have any tattoos, I guess I never felt the need to permanently mark my skin. That being said, I have nothing against them. Tattoos make a statement in the form of visual art. The guy in the OP is definitely making a statement. Sometimes tattoos are subtle, (flower on the shoulder etc.) and sometimes it's pretty bold. (full body).

I once knew a girl who had her whole torso tattooed. She said it started with a small design on her upper arm and then she just couldn't stop.

I have always wondered what statement the 'tramp stamp' was supposed to make. (those tats women get on the lower back just above their butt crack)....

 

Tattooing is not for everybody. Simple as that. My tattoo artist will flat out tell someone to (*)(*)(*)(*) off if they come in and want to get a tattoo on their forehead. In the tattoo business, reputation goes a long way and every tattoo they do represents them as well, so they take placement and the tattoo itself very seriously.

If that dude in the OP walked into my shop and wanted that on his forehead he would be thrown out so fast he would not know what hit him.

What the hell are you talking about? I am trying to figure out where you get this train of thought from? I have never heard anyone with tattoos say anything about anyone without because of the fact that they do not have them. That doesn't even make sense.

Good post. And the tramp stamp says... "look at my ass." LOL at least in my opinion.

 

I also find it interesting that my artist was a Hells Angel (in his younger years), a professional boxer, owns his own tattoo shop, has paintings in the White House, is a college professor (sculpting and art I believe) and was the coach for the men's Olympic speed-skating team. He was Apolo Ohno's coach. Oh yeah, he just tattood Snooki (LOL!) not that it means anything, he has known her and her father almost his whole life.

Interesting man to say the least. How is that for a stereotype.

 

I am glad you have to intellectual ability to compare an art form to defecating in public.

Congratulations.

 

Not an Elvis fan eh?

 

Most Tattoo guys are functionally Illiterate.Most couldn't hack high school.
I doubt you'll ever find a college grad who owns a Tattoo parlor.
I knew a tattoo guy in my town,A good friend of mine went to his Tattoo
Parlor because it doubled as a Billiards Parlor.Best tables around.
But the Tattoo guy was about The biggest ornery Bigot I ever met.
And LOUD.He was smart about stuff that concerned him though.Like
Rock n Roll artists and Trivia about Confederacy stuff.
But he was the kinda guy who lived to size up people at first glace.
As soon as someone said a couple sentences this Tattoo artists' mind was
made up.The very definiton of a Bigot.
So Tattoo artists are prejudice against those w/o Tattoo.
Talk about Irony.

 

I don't think Elvis had a Tattoo.Some sites say he had a Phoenix
on his shoulder and didn't want it to be seen.Other's insist he
was brought up to frown on " defacing the body with a tattoo ".

 

yeah..... I know a bunch of tattoo artists. None of them are like that, and they all graduated high school. Sounds like your friend just went to a (*)(*)(*)(*)ty tattoo shop, so what would you expect? I would never trust a tattoo parlor that doubles as a pool hall to ink me. Most people who are into tattoos research their artists first, as they should since yur spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars for someone to permanently mark you.

 

Tattoo's and Tattoo artists are just a retarded form of Peer Pressure.
They're NOT Intelligent,hard working,athletic or altruistic.
They used to be considered the dregs of society.Had shops only
in Blue Light districts.

 

Again, another ass brained theory. It's impossible for people to just like tattoos, It has to be peer pressure. Your so close minded, that you cant just accept that some people like hings that you dont. There has to be some underlying problem.

Tattooing is hard, believe me I've tried. Tattoo artists are no less intelligent, hardworking, athletic (why would you include athletic?), or altruistic than painters.

Tattoo artists are not dregs on society. They are buisness owners, and artists. You just don't like tattoos, and being close minded, have to attack the people that do.

 

No, I was referencing the song about "being square."
Apparently a joke gone awry.

I've given my opinion on tattoos, ad nauseum.

An intelligent person may indeed have them, but the perception is
that a person with a tattoo is not intelligent...that's just how it's perceived
by most of us over 40 folks who grew up with a negative connotation towards them.

 

If yer trying to tell me Tattoo people don't form cliques and
tend to hang around Tattoo parlors,You'd be mistaken.
Well Competing Tattoo artists might not hang around too much,but
they do connect with each other.It's ALL one Big Clique.
This Tattoo bidness.

 

Are you telling me that people who share interests tend to flock to eachother? Who woulda thunk it. Your right though, that probably is unique to people who are into tattoos.[/sarcasm]

 

The only bigotry here is coming from you, my friend. Take a good hard look in the mirror. Can you not read?

Paintings in the White House, professional boxer, college professor and coach of an Olympic champion seems like a pretty (*)(*)(*)(*)ing good resume to me.

I am 26 years old, what do you think?

Just when I thought your posts couldn't be any more bigoted you spew this nonsense.

Were you raped by a big hairy man full of tattoos or something?

I couldn't even imagine trying to be a professional tattoo artist. LOL! I would literally (*)(*)(*)(*) myself I think. Real tattoo artists - not these jamokes in prison or working out of their apartment train and apprentice for a VERY long time before they consider themselves prepared. They start very slowly, usually smaller tattoos in less conspicuous areas and on friends omg. They consider themselves artists and take a immense amount of pride in their work. A real professional would not tattoo that abomination on that mans forehead in the OP, I know mine wouldn't.