Tattoos

[noisyturtle]

It seems like these days spotting anyone under 50 without a tattoo is like spotting a unicorn. Everyone and their mother has a tatt.

I don't feel like growing up in the 90s tattoos were even close to as prevalent. What cause the surge in people wanting to get inked? Doesn't everyone having one ruin the entire point of individualism they kinda represent?

Personally I never got one cause I get bored of things quickly, and there is literally nothing I could imagine that I'd want on me forever. I do like them on other people, unless it is on the face/neck/or stomach.

It is just crazy to me how frivolously people decide to get one. Just on a whim they'll get something that doesn't hold any real meaning, and I just don't understand the carefree attitude to something that will be seen by everyone for the remainder of your life. Like any character from anything, a band logo, memes. Like, you get a dragon tatt, cool. You get a tatt of the dragon from Shrek 2, why would you do that? I see a lot of Pokemon tattoos that will for sure look great on some 89 year old grandma that has eevee spreading it's ******* on your shoulder.

[tp4tissue]

/headscratch.   no.... ?

Tp4 only sees it amongst poor people. /just kidding.  Yea it's pretty popular.

They used to teach in DARE class, how you can get HIV from tattoos, soooo, yea, scared for life.

[fohat.digs]

Hard for me to understand.

My bid for individuality has generally consisted of wearing brightly colored clothing. One of my kids has 3 small ones, nature oriented.

Years ago I went to a "bad tattoos" corner on the interwebs. Never again.
 

[Findecanor]

I decided a long time ago that I would never get a tattoo, no matter how cool it would look. I know that I am that kind of person that no matter how much I could want one in the moment, I would not be happy with it in the long term.

I think the worst most commercialised, dated, tattoos I have seen have been Star Wars tattoos. I knew a girl who had her arms full of characters ... from the prequel movies, that few people liked back then and fewer remember now.
There have been tattoo areas with half a dozen tattoo artists at official Star Wars conventions. That crass commercialism just make me feel sick. (I don't mean to haul crap on the people working there: I've been drinking with some at nights and they were good people, just there to earn a living, but still.)

But I have also met people with tattoos that I suspect have a very deep meaning for them. In one case I even suspect something sensitive that I wouldn't dare to ask about.

[iri]

Depends on the country I guess.

In the UK, there is no shortage of people wishing for any bull**** to remain on their skin forever.

[chyros]

I've been strongly considering getting one for years. Always teetering on the edge but never got one.

I like most tattoos on other people. Some are just outright bad though.

One thing that's kept me back is that I'm still single and there are a good amount of people who will not date someone with tattoos. But then again, you close one door, and it opens up another one, so maybe it evens out in the end. I still never made the plunge, though.

[fohat.digs]

a good amount of people who will not date someone with tattoos.

As an outside observer (an old man with no tattoos) I find that astonishing, considering the preponderance of tattoos on people half my age or less.

An aside - 10-20 years ago my ex-wife's dermatologist told her that about 40% of her practice was removing tattoos ....

[tp4tissue]

Yakuza tattoo, respect +15

[Findecanor]

Yakuza tattoo, respect +15

Why all tattoos are banned from most Japanese communal baths and gyms. You can't discriminate against Yakusa specifically.

Also a reason for not getting a tattoo. I want to visit an onsen at least once in my life.

[tp4tissue]

Also a reason for not getting a tattoo. I want to visit an onsen at least once in my life.

You want to go to the kind with the grlls,  the regular ones are lame.

[Findecanor]

Also a reason for not getting a tattoo. I want to visit an onsen at least once in my life.

You want to go to the kind with the grlls,  the regular ones are lame.

I hope you mean a unisex onsen in beautiful surroundings. Not a "bath" in an area with a "looking back willow tree" ...

Or maybe you have been watching too many anime with an "onsen episode" featuring "fanservice". Those are not very true to life, you know, you "man of culture" you.

[tp4tissue]

culture

.. is a subjective condition

[noisyturtle]

Also a reason for not getting a tattoo. I want to visit an onsen at least once in my life.

You want to go to the kind with the grlls,  the regular ones are lame.

I hope you mean a unisex onsen in beautiful surroundings. Not a "bath" in an area with a "looking back willow tree" ...

My little pocket-dream I've had for about 24 years is opening and running a hot spring onsen in the mountains, that is also a brewery and whiskey distiller. Old school luxury and relaxation among nature, with incredible food and drink.

Never gonna be able to reach that dream, but I can go there in my mind when life becomes too much.

[chyros]

I'm gonna go to Japan next year with two friends and we wanted to go to an onsen as well - good to know I should at the least hold off until I've been there xD .