Are tattoos passé yet?

Colourful, ornate Tattoos on women look great, if they're well done.

I have no strong feelings on men's tattoos. If there was a design or style I really liked, then I would consider getting one done, but there really isn't.

Crap tattoos look crap, unsurprisingly. But not all tattoos are crap.
 
If you're gonna kick up a fuss about this then why have art in your house? I don't care if you don't actually have any but its principal. Tattoos are artwork they don't need meaning they are what you like. Same reason you'd buy a painting, you buy it because you like the piece then you hang it in your house inflicting your forced preferences on anyone that comes in but you don't hear them complaint. Get over yourself, our skin, our art, your house, your art.
 
to be honest there are a LOT of bad tattoos out there these days. watching tattoo fixers on B3 the other night and you have to wonder what planet some people are on.

ive wanted one for years but never settled on a design.

my sister has several, some are really good but others seem totally knee-jerk for the sake of getting one done.

well she is pretty regardless of the tattoos - though the tattoos let you know a couple of things:

1) it won't take many dates to get her to put out

2) that is a good thing as you won't want to date her for long - she's likely a bit unstable

loldowie :rolleyes:
 
If you're gonna kick up a fuss about this then why have art in your house? I don't care if you don't actually have any but its principal. Tattoos are artwork they don't need meaning they are what you like. Same reason you'd buy a painting, you buy it because you like the piece then you hang it in your house inflicting your forced preferences on anyone that comes in but you don't hear them complaint. Get over yourself, our skin, our art, your house, your art.

I don't think the OP was criticising people getting tattoo's, he was criticising their being seen as a fashion statement, which is exactly what it is to most people.

I'd also suggest that anyone saying that their tattoo is art needs to take a good hard look at themselves in the mirror. Most tattoos are vulgar doodles on ugly people. To call it art is laughable.

But I have no problem with people getting tattoos and sometimes they look good. But on most people it just looks daft.
 
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you can go back and read the posts if you like...

it certainly highlighted something you were unaware of and objected to - yet when presented with evidence you decide to go off on a tangent and argue over claims that aren't being made

at first Tosno states:

The silver lining of tattoos for me, it was a big clue which girls have mental issues and managed to avoid 99% of them for a stress free life.

I quite dislike tattoos, I find them to be quite tacky most of the time. However I'd love to know how you've determined that girls who get tattoos have mental health issues?

He didn't actually say that - he said it was a 'big clue' that they had...

then we've got my post in reply to the comment about tattooed women in general being 'especially gorgeous' + picture of a random tattooed woman

I mention the tattoos let you know

1) it won't take many dates to get her to put out

2) that is a good thing as you won't want to date her for long - she's likely a bit unstable

it is just a random picture of a woman with tattoos, of course I don't know for certain that that one specific woman in the picture has mental issues, I'm just making a similar comment to Tosno - (actually it could have been phrased better - I should have written 'more likely to be' rather than just 'likely')

you claim

What a broken way to look at things. As I've said, I think tattoos are tacky. Her ones in particular are ultra tacky. I think they really do look quite bad. However the tattoos let you know that she likes tattoos and that's about it.

when actually it is a potential red flag:

nope, it also lets you know she is more likely to put out and more likely to have 'issues'... as already pointed out
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"Psychiatric disorders, such as antisocial personality disorder, drug or alcohol abuse and borderline personality disorder, are frequently associated with tattoos. Finding a tattoo on physical examination should alert the physician to the possibility of an underlying psychiatric condition. "
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=28672670&postcount=95

You then want to go off on a tangent and start nit picking over whether I know for sure it tells you something specifically about her... then some confused post where you're under the impression I've implied a causal link... none of which is the case. Just like you've misrepresented what Tosno said you've done the same thing again.

That isn't what you said. Initially your post was pretty much correlation = causation.

Now you've back-pedaled to "she's LIKELY to be like that".

'she's likely a bit unstable' was the initial post

Sure it was a controversial comment to make and has seemingly prompted a bit of butthurt from some posters, though your responses seem more confused rather than anything - you seem to want to argue over the unstable comment even after having been presented with evidence so instead try to argue over claims that aren't even there.

so just to clarify again no I don't know for sure that the specific girl in the photo has 'issues' and nor have I claimed to and no I don't make any claims of a causal link - that is just something you've made up yourself









(she probably is a bit mental though - it isn't like she's got one or two discrete ones, she's got a huge heart with pins in across her chest - quite likely some 'issues' going on there :p)
 
I don't think the OP was criticising people getting tattoo's, he was criticising their being seen as a fashion statement, which is exactly what it is to most people.

I'd also suggest that anyone saying that their tattoo is art needs to take a good hard look at themselves in the mirror. Most tattoos are vulgar doodles on ugly people. To call it art is laughable.

But I have no problem with people getting tattoos and sometimes they look good. But on most people it just looks daft.

I agree completely there is a large majority of tattoos that look like a 3 year old tried to draw a fish, but then there is also lots of tattoos that look beautiful. But it's a form of art and art is all opinion based so you can't say that those bad ones aren't art. Tattoos are an art form. Even a large majority of paintings I look at and wonder how anyone can classify it as art but that doesn't mean it isn't. There is art out there that sells for thousands and it just looks like someone has thrown paint at a blank canvas and stuck a price on it.
 
That is what the Nazi's called "degenerate art". I think they were onto something.

Hitler was refused acceptance into art school because he couldn't paint for ****. Which he blamed on Jews. What the Nazi's considered art is irrelevant.

OP bitches about tattoos, has a tattoo.

People bitching about what constitutes art, despite art being subjective.

Lot's of mumsnet type opinions on the people who happen to get tattoos.

This ****ing thread.
 
well she is pretty regardless of the tattoos - though the tattoos let you know a couple of things:

1) it won't take many dates to get her to put out

2) that is a good thing as you won't want to date her for long - she's likely a bit unstable

LOL

i'm actually speechless at how stupid you sound,
 
Is it wrong that when I see someone with tattoos I automatically think of the blades of glory line "they call me the illustrated man" or the scene out of internship where Will Ferrel has "make reasonable choices" tattooed on his neck.

I guess I am not a fan...
 
I think some tattoos can look good but it is not something I'd ever have myself. Though tattoos can and still sometimes do give a negative sociological first impression to some people.

I think tattoos that are hidden and only revealed when clothing is removed (i.e. back, upper arms, chest etc...) are probably more "meaningful" as they are private generally - I do find facial tattoos and some on fingers/hands and forearms can be quite intimidating, and certainly in the corporate world may still not be acceptable. That said I can understand why some people want to show off their tattoos, and some of them are incredible and intricate.

They personally don't bother me, but I'd never get one, there is nothing important enough to me that I want to put on my body, and in any case I'd never really reveal it to any one other than on holidays (depending on where it was!).
 
2015 and people still look down on people with tattoos. I suppose skin colour, ethnicity, sexual preference, religion and disabilities weren't enough diversification already for you judgemental, perfect examples of the human race.

And lol at OP literally moaning about himself. Bravo!
 
I for one think women with tattoos are especially gorgeous

Me too.

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2015 and people still look down on people with tattoos.

people with tattoos are more likely to be criminals

I suppose skin colour, ethnicity, sexual preference, religion and disabilities weren't enough diversification already for you judgemental, perfect examples of the human race.

only one of those is (sometimes) the result of choice
 
well people certainly get wound up over it:

https://www.facebook.com/Christianity-against-tattoos-413025322192930/timeline/

^^ US Christian satire taken at face value by some rather outraged people :D

well you do have crazies everywhere and it's not exactly clear it's satire.

Facebook is full of loonies so it wouldn't surprise me if people aren't being satirical.

chem trails I was convinced was conspiracy theorists having a laugh but I was wrong it's actually a thing people genuinely think it happens.

Anti vaxxers too
 
people who like them like them and people who don't, don't.

I'm not sure why it has to be any more complicated than that.

not associating with people because they have tattoos is akin to not associating with people who like a certain brand of coffee or brand of trainers.

Tattoos tell you nothing about a person other than if they have good or bad taste in tattoo artists.
 
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