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Originally Posted by rhetorical
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what's to truly understand and appreciate? Its semi permament body sketching that tends to drip after a few years and strawberries turn inot carrots and dolphin into eels. I have yet to see anything beyond decent hot rod airbrushing. Not a lot of Monet's and van Goghs or even Warhols scribbling on tits and asses and tramp stamping for a living. However, I have noticed that the latest crop of young actors that Hollywood is currently hatching seem to eschew this form of body modification. And if this trend continues, all you inked up folks gonna look like you be wearin' mullets you just can't shake. Back to the sailors and marines getting them legless paralytic drunk in some exotic foreign port with a tart on each knee and an anchor on their arm....where they belong. But that's, at the moment, perhaps the ever so slight minority opinion. But feminists came and went. The red baiters and flag burners came and went. The hippies came and went. The punks came and went. This too shall pass and date you like a permanent leisure suit. So that twenty grand face lift won't have a prayer of hiding your age. You'll be wearing it like a bar code. Tattoos make my life a misery in photo shop getting the fuck rid of some chickees idea of art....whether is celtic, japanese, indian or whatever this years flavor of the month is. You might have guessed where I stand on tattoos.
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So basically you had no question you just felt the need to shove your opinion down my throat. I got my first tattoo at 17 and I am 35 now. All of my work still looks as good as the day I got it. I don't give a rats ass about "dating myself" which actually shows your absolute ignorance about the true tattoo culture or the history of the practice. I got my work FOR ME not for anyone else. And as someone that is involved in an industry that is often judged and vilified by a large part of society I find your judgmental attitude a little surprising though I probably shouldn't.
There are plenty of people out there that go to shitty artists or get shitty designs. Then again there are people that do shitty jobs and or make shitty decisions in all situations.
You don't like tattoos then fine don't like them. I'm not going to try and change your mind. But I also wouldn't make broad statements about something I obviously know nothing about.
Oh and seeing peoples tattoos and not liking them does not mean you know what the true tattoo culture is about. Spend sometime with some true artists, go to tattoo conventions and talk to people that have been involved in that industry for years and you might find you have something in common with them.