“Do you think my tattoo is cool?” No, I don’t. There are no cool tattoos. “Check out my sleeve!” Oh god ew.
Tattoos themselves are stupid. Doubly so if it’s some media IP. “I put Batman on my body!” “Look at this image of Goku on my calf!” I can’t think of many things I’d want to do less than that.
There are a few narrow exceptions. Chances are yours isn’t one of them.
If you personally like tattoos, fine. I’m not saying nobody should get tattoos because I don’t like them. I’m stating my opinion that tattoos are stupid, and I am stating it here because it is probably not a popular opinion.
Not all people with tattoos are trashy, but all trashy people have tattoos.
I cant even stand pen ink on my skin, the thought of permanently marking my skin my literally injecting ink into it gives me the creeps
They are fine for folks that like them. Just like anything they want to wear is fine. Its their thing. I have thought about it but could never figure out anything so big it would be worth it. Something I would definately like years later that encompassed the thing. My brother has gotten quite a few and it was a neat collage. He does some neat things with earings to.
I dont get why some people without tattoos seem to think their opinion about tattoos is terribly novel and important to everyone else.
You dont like tattoos? Great dont geht any. You dont have to like other peoples choices and bodys.
What’s worse, Batman or a sports logo?
I have full sleeves and a chest piece. I get them for myself and my own story. They mean something to me. I don’t care what you think about them.
Having said that you used the community correctly. But I not agree with you. Tattoos can be stupid and pointless to the user as well. They can just be there and it’s impulsive and they want to tell a story.
I’ve been doing memorial tattoos of my pets :)
Edit: that’s to say, to each their own.
When I was young, I saw some dude with a biohazard symbol on his calf and thought that was cool. I told myself I’d wait until I was 25 to get inked.
25 came and went and I couldn’t think of anything cool to get. Now I’m old and proud of the fact I never got a tattoo. Maybe when tattoos aren’t cool anymore I’ll be super old and won’t care and will have plenty of dead beloved pets behind me to immemorialize on wrinkly, saggy, liverspot-splotched skin.
It’s a good thing you didn’t get that tattoo. A biohazard tattoo signifies that you’re HIV+ in the gay community
Huh, I wonder if that applied to the guy I encountered. Might explain the reaction I received when I complimented it.
I’m in a similar boat, but I wouldn’t say I’m “proud” of it. I don’t see having a tattoo or not as a moral or ethical question. I don’t really see anything to be proud of (or not proud of).
If you’re getting, or not getting, a tattoo based on the popularity of tattoos, then I think you’re doing it for the wrong reasons.
I’m just highly impressionable and want people to think I’m cool (I might be a little less-so now…one of the perks of aging), so I could have seen myself jumping to get one in a clumsy attempt to collect coolpoints from others. So, in light of knowing myself, I’m proud I exercised a little bit of strategic foresight and thought about my own long-term health and desires first.
I’ve always said to myself “I’ll get a tattoo when I can think of something that I’ll still think is cool when I’m 70”
Ain’t got a tattoo.
My brother has our family coat of arms as his only tattoo, I think that’s reasonably timelessly cool.
My brother has our family coat of arms as his only tattoo, I think that’s reasonably timelessly cool.
My only tattoo is a matching tattoo all my siblings got. I never seriously wanted one, but at least it means something. I might expand on it when I have my own kids
I’m in a similar situation except reversed. I have several I know I’m gonna get but I’ve just been too poor my whole life to get one.
I hope that turns around then and you can get them one day!
Until some right-wing fascist group appropriates it.
I got WIDE LOAD tattooed in black metal font on the backs of my thighs
Ngl I might steal that lmao. That’s great
Go for it, haha! And thanks! :)
That is exactly the point. Have you ever seen someone wearing a long forgotten bands logo? Or a brand gone shitty? Imagine those idiots who got themselves a Tesla logo tattooed before Musk made it into a Swasticar…
It’s be a cold day in hell that’d I’d wear a tee shirt with a brand let alone tattoo one on me.
Once I’m 70 if I don’t still believe the important things I’ve believed for the last 20 years, then I’d deserve having them tattooed as reminders that I used to get it.
This thought actually made me think about getting a new tattoo (I have a music related one, but nothing political)
That’s a really cool way of thinking about it they I hadn’t considered.
This was always my thought. Recently, I’ve been considering various anti-fascist logos since that’s something that will never change (and if it does, then I should just kill myself at that point)
If my family has a coat of arms, no one ever told me.
You can literally juat make one up, its not like theres some offical process.
And do something cool, like Utah raptors shooting lasers from their eyes.
I’ve been considering getting an anti-fascist tattoo. I could never really think of anything that I’d want to have on my body permanently. Something I wouldn’t regret in 30 years.
One thing that I know won’t change is my disdain for fascism.
And I’m aware of potential issues having said tattoo could cause. So I’m still mulling it over.
Other than that, I’m hard pressed to think of anything that I wouldn’t eventually regret.
I have 2, looking to get a 3rd soon. I don’t really talk about them, because I got them for me. They mean something to me, so they’re intimate pieces of art that only a few people know about. I’ve never heard someone talk about their tattoos unprompted either
The artistry can be impressive. What they do to the human body is horrible.
What do you mean? They do nothing to the human body but add art to it.
Tattoos don’t do anything negative to your body. Unless you’re allergic to the ink or something.
There are definitely risks beyond just allergies. Some small studies have found links with increased cancer rates (for example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39819495/ ).
That said, I have tattoos, and I’m not saying people shouldn’t get them! Just be aware.
My body is a temple!
Large, awkward to move, needs constant maintenance.
My body is a temple… but it’s a southeast Asian temple covered in monkey shit.
Crumbling from decades of neglect.
My body is one of those temples in Thailand where they let monkeys shit all over the place.
Have you considered some graffiti?
Met a scientist that worked at NASA. He didn’t like tatoos either, but made a pact that if they launched their satellite project, they would all get tattoos of it. I don’t like tattoos at all but I can respect that.
I’d want medical conditions (diabetes, allergies) as a tattoo rather than a bracelet.
Personally, as someone with a long history of medical care and lots of problems, I’m keen on the idea of using microchips for that sort of thing. I’m honestly kinda surprised we don’t already, what with it being old technology.
Little chip in the fleshy part of your hand, gets scanned as routine prior to any medical intervention. If you don’t have anything to worry about or don’t want the chip, reader comes back with no chip detected and they do the regular stuff they do now. If they find the chip it could have medications, conditions, allergies, and potential complications, as well as a copy of your medical records if they should need it. Also a copy of your living will/advanced directive, something which should be disused and updated at every yearly checkup (it isn’t, of course, but it should be)
Someone with a lot of issues would be stuck with a pretty big tattoo.
However, it certainly wouldn’t hurt in the interim for some stuff like drug allergies and DNRs.
I think this is nice on paper, but I personally would never have any tech installed in me that could be exploited. 100% the government at some point would fuck it up and use it for hate crimes, or places would scan them and target you with ads or worse. It’s unfortunate that the world can’t be full of empathetic trustworthy people so we could have nice things like this.
I sorta think so too, thus I don’t really want to take them myself. BUT I think some people have really cool tattoos that look amazingly good on them
