Tattoos

not to change anyone's vote but this is a p hard hitting editorial i think peeps should read. food 4 thought

"why put a bumper sticker on a ferrari?"
http://www.ubspectrum.com/opinion/why-put-a-bumper-sticker-on-a-ferrari-1.2755789?MMode=true#.TynfbyMke5L

haha yeah my opinion on bumper sticks and my opinion on tattoos has a lot of overlap. why put a bumper sticker on any car?

Holy shit that article is 10 kinds of terrible

that article makes me want to get a giant tattoo of a looney toons character on my face, just out of spite

horrible article but i wish some of the people commenting and criticizing it weren't doing stupid things like calling the girl ugly...

(like on the comments inside the article. although to be fair, it's not most of them).

You read comments on a news publication website, man, you got what you asked for.

hahahahahahahaha

I can't even.

totally passing this on to a friend who gets tattoos

Was going to invoke the 'your body is a temple' saw BUT the author herself beat me to it. HOW many times did I hear that in church? "Why would you get a tattoo on your beautiful and scared body that we fought Satan to get? WOULD YOU SPRAY GRAFFITI ON THE TEMPLE???" I wonder if she is LDS.

Or do a lot of other religions have rich extended metaphors about human bodies and temples

My mom used to say shit like that and she's not LDS. In fact that whole article sounds like something my mom could have written.

Yes I especially loved this part:

But at the end of the day, are you really a happier person? Has this tattoo, for instance, caused you to learn something new about yourself? Has it challenged you? Has it led you to self-growth? Nothing comes out of getting a tattoo. You get a tattoo, and that's it.

i think most all my lady friends have tats and most of em are pretty awes (the tats...and the ladies)

I for one learned just how long I could hold in a fart during a tattoo session, por ejemplo.

But at the end of the day, are you really a happier person? Has this Belle and Sebastian cd, for instance, caused you to learn something new about yourself? Has it challenged you? Has it led you to self-growth? Nothing comes out of getting a Belle and Sebastian cd. You get a piece of morose bland music, and that's it.

OMFG abbotttt hahahaha

I am a happier person because of my tattoos for several reasons!

ain't any different than any other form of fashion sensibility other than you can't take it off when you go to sleep...big whoop!

IT'S JUST A HAIRCUT. AT THE END OF THE DAY, ALL YOU DID AWS CUT YOUR HAIR. DO YOU FEEL BETTER ABOUT YOURSELF CUZ OF THIS HAIRCUT

I am a happier person because of my tattoos for several reasons!

+1. they make my arms heaps nicer to look at for one

I regret zero of my tattoos and well over half of my haircuts.

tbh I marked great changes in my life with some wicked scars and a police record so tattoos seem not bad

I was in therapy for a long time and we talked about tattoos at one point and my therapist (not herself the tattooed type at all) gave her take on them, which is that each tattoo is sort of a picture of who you were at the time you got it. thinking of them this way is really rewarding and rich to me, they're kind of more honest & direct & richer than say diary entries.

i've been perusing getting one for like 11 years but I've chickened out

I for one learned just how long I could hold in a fart during a tattoo session, por ejemplo.

And I, for one, learned just how limitless my shared experiences in this life will be.

...you won't find yourself in a rut when your future grandkids ask you what's up with the angel wings on your upper back as you're in the middle of giving them a life lesson on the importance of values and morals.

God knows the last thing this world needs is another generation of kids questioning their basic values and morals.

I usually think of "questioning" as "examining" and not taking for granted, so I'm disagreeing w/ her here.

And anyway, why are you giving your grandkids lessons on morals with your top off.

each tattoo is sort of a picture of who you were at the time you got it

I remember exactly where I was and what I was thinking when I got each of mine. All my tattoos were pondered for a long time to some degree and seeing them reminds me of what it was that made me finally say DO IT and actually get a particular thing tattooed on me.

I've never been one for journals or diaries but tattoos are a daily permanent reminder of what I valued aesthetically (and philosophically, I guess) at points in my life, what decisions I made and if they turned out to be good ones, and makes me think about what I decided to get and what I discarded as bad ideas and how I should deal with other such things in the future.

Exactly, which is why I think that the un-sarcastic answer to these questions

But at the end of the day, are you really a happier person? Has this tattoo, for instance, caused you to learn something new about yourself? Has it challenged you? Has it led you to self-growth?

is, Yes, in a way.

I used to write down my thoughts all day long in what I guess was a journal (now I have ILX and FB for that*) and just like photographs interact with those written memories, so do tattoos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GBVF8FzPI0

welp

wselp

that is such an ultimate guilty ws

lol yea

How long before someone posts her to WSoS?

omg x-post

YOU GUYS

pretty sure that is an attention-seeker with an IQ of about 80, can we stop mocking the those with intellectual disabilities

lol are you serious?

the ANGEL on my BACK with BROKEN WINGS is CURLED INTO A BALL

can you BELIEVE the CRAZY stuff in MY LIFE?!? i have TWO GUYS names on MY ASSHOLE

HOW do you TATTOO "DEEJ" on to MY BUTTHOLE? is it D-E and E-J on the OTHER SIDE?

Is this your sister or something?

droppin a deuce deuce

I think I just mocked the hell (god, it is sort hard not to type some sort of joke with the word "shit" here but that is such an easy hit) out of this woman and her bizarro way of speaking. I was joking.

no qualms about mocking this video but seriously, that girl is way dumb

REALLY? YA THINK?

She's definitely something that's for sure.

Girl Celebrates Successful PhD Defense by Getting Butthole Tattoo

dropping a deuce deuce, or as we call it, "besmirching his name"

i also like repeatedly needling my anus

im sorry but crazy / stupid tats are hot for all the reasons sensible normal people dont get them, b/c the are ridiculous tasteless and stupid & show poor judgement

I don't know if I can watch that again because she is sort of scary but did I understand her correctly in that she had two dudes names on her anus and was getting it covered up?

um

http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97057_g035_8-croissant.jpg

I just think we all need to know that there's someone out there with an ass tattoo of a croissant reading the paper wile drinking a coffee. That is all.