Posted on 07/12/2010 9:39:08 PM PDT by Niuhuru
Nearly one in three Britons aged 16-44 has a tattoo, according to research.
A massive boom in body art has been led by celebrities, footballers and other high-profile figures over the past couple of decades.
A fifth of all adults have a permanent tattoo, but this rises to a 29 per cent of men and women aged 16-44, the study revealed.
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Which is why I NEVER look to these people for fashion guidance. Or lifestyle guidance.
The tat removal biz will be a big biz. ...if it isn’t already.
Which is why I NEVER look to these people for fashion guidance. Or lifestyle guidance.
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Or investment priorities. Pretty much anything, really.
My son-in-law did some holiday work with UPS. In order to wear shorts (Phoenix) he had to cover his calf tribal thingy with an ace bandage. He said it never ocurred to him that the tattoo could affect employment. Just plain dumb.
It is so sad to see young women with pretty skin that is permanently marked by a tattoo. They would be so much more attractive if they left their skin in its natural, youthful state.
Besides, ladies, that tattoo of roses you just got on your pretty young skin is going to look like a hanging basket in a decade or so.
PING!
It already is.
Everyone who sees my tattoo gives me compliments. No regrets at all.
And, no. I’m not getting another one.
THIS thing hurt like HELL!
Amen and Amen!
Nothing lowers my opinion of a woman faster than seeing body ink.
Stupid is as stupid does... do these folks expect to wear bell bottoms and platform shoes the rest of their lives?
If my wife had a tattoo that said “property of Larry” I'd be pretty pissed even if it was decades old.
I love the look on the guys face thats being inked LoL!
WTF? WTF am I doing?
People used to get tattoo’s to rebel. Now they get them to conform. <<<
post of the day!...
in other words...what goes around...comes around
Unger’s Bible Dictionary under the definition for “Mark” includes the following reference for Leviticus 19:28:
“In Lev. 19:28 we find two prohibitions of an unnatural disfigurement of the body: ‘Ye shall not make any cutting in your flesh for the dead, nor any print any marks upon you.’ The latter (Heb. qa aqa, incision) refers to tattooing, and has no reference to idolatrous usages, but was intended to inculcate upon the Israelietes a proper reverence for God’s creation.”
(Merrill F. Unger, Unger’s Bible Dictionary, 1974 ed., p. 696)
Notice that Unger teaches that tattoos were forbidden regardless the reason.
Wycliffe’s Bible Encyclopedia under the definition for TATTOOING distinctly says:
“While ‘cuttings in the flesh’ have reference here to mourning customs [for the dead], the tattooing does not appear to pertain to such practice.”
(Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia, 1975 ed., p. 1664)
Post pic #22 is just SO WRONG! LoL
A religious tramp stamp.
Sheesh.
I told my sons that they were forbidden to get tats until they are fourty because the ones they pick at twenty, they would surely hate at fourty.
What a destructive and insane fad for many people.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
...or maybe Leviticus 19:28:
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Then again, perhaps Leviticus 19:29 is appropriate:
Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
Tattoos are serious business.
Wow that’s some deep stuff.
All of that makes me want to get tattooed.
At one time, those getting tattoos did so during a night of wild partying and getting stupid drunk. It's a sad commentary of our times that now people are naturally stupid without drink.
Thats my approach.
I have seen people lament heir tattoo within the hour.
Some of my former friends used to try to talk me
into a tat but I told them I already had too
many identifing scars.
It reminds me of a different tattoo that Wm F Buckley and one of his editors suggested for the same location.
It is described in the last three paragraphs of this National Review column.
Indeed it is wrong. In the last line it should be 1 instead of -1. Negative numbers weren't yet invented at that time :-)
LOL
The Pharisees are in the house!
They still get them so they can rebel and be different—just like all their friends...
As the leader of a biker club I am the only one without a tattoo which constantly inspires comments. I have nothing against them. I might even get one someday but I do what I want, go where I want and follow only Christ.
N26,
B5,
S81...
BINGO!!!
I do, however, think of that person as unclean and not having common sense.
That is what I tell my college students. It may be cool now, but when you are 55 the last thing you will want is to tag yourself as someone who came of age way back in the 2010s.
During the last Olympics I saw a photo of Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz — all gray hair, along side the photo of him with the medals and realized it was time to shave my 1970’s mustache. I am doing my best to look younger now.
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