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I’ve often wondered what kind of doofus pays to have a tattoo put where they can’t see it.
And Sir Robin bravely ran away...
First of all it’s ignorant of you to be like that, second of all there is NO way that that could be offensive to anyone in any way shape or form. It’s not anything to do with religion or any of that it’s a memorial for my grandfather who passed away and I was extremely close to him so before you go spouting off, maybe you should bite your tongue and think again, you can’t judge a book by it’s cover.
Please elaborate on how it’s offensive?
I’d love to know since I find it hard to believe that a fish would offend someone.
The article didn’t clarify on what I was upset about, I wanted to serve this country and I was told no over a simple thing, most military members are covered in tattoos, which is normal. So why would this be a issue?
That is a very ignorant thing to say. I was contacted by the wsj after going to go get my tattoo removed. Remember there is always 2 sides to a story.
Then please tell me how it offends you, there is no way that a simple outline could offend someone one and if it does then there are obviously issues there.
It’s 800 dollars to remove, I’m a college student and I have bills. You do the math.
At one point my hair was short enough where you could see it.
How does that have anything to do with voting.
I don’t think that there is any kind of inked image that can improve the appearance of any human, whether it is a dragon, a piece of barbed wire, an eagle, a rose, a butterfly or a pile of steaming garbage, to me it DETRACTS from the enjoyment of life. I am just as entitled to my opinion as you or anyone else is entitled to believe that a tattoo is attractive. I am the great grandson of a confederate veteran and I was born and raised within ten miles of the site of the first secession meeting but I consider a “Rebel” flag tattoo offensive as I do a stars and stripes tattoo or any other kind of tattoo, even if it is just the outline of something. I don’t go out of my way to tell people I don’t like their tattoos, I try to ignore them but I will never find them anything but a negative. It is my nature to prefer things plain and simple, I wouldn’t wear a ten thousand dollar Rolex watch if you gave it to me, maybe if you paid me to wear it I would, I wouldn’t give fifteen cents for all the fancy men’s jewelry on the Earth if all I could do with it is wear it, now if I could trade it for a log cabin on a Trout filled stream in East Tennessee that would be different, if you see that as my having “issues” then think what you will, I don’t really care.
Basically I agree with a comment I once heard on the radio from some commentator, “Nothing else says low rent like a tattoo.”
I agree, particularly about the log cabin on the trout filled stream.
My father was career Navy, and was adamantly against tattoos.
Your statement above is patently false.
In any event, the location of the tattoo is the issue. By ignoring the long term consequences, you made a poor decision when you chose to get that tattoo. I can't work up much sympathy for someone who made a bad choice.
Lol...maybe in DC or San Francisco....
Lol...”you’re not going to make it, soldier...”
I knew a guy from High School who was a really unpleasant wise @ss. He joined the marines right out of school but didn’t change his attitude. One day his unit organized a “field hockey” game with training rifles. 3 guys in his unit charged him and all of them hit his leg, breaking it in multiple places. He was later honorably discharged having been disabled. This was his version of the story, and knowing him it was worse than he related.
I know I’m stepping into it, but you deserve an honest answer.
Even though I used the word “offensive”, that’s really not a proper description. However, “offensive” seems to be the chosen word for anything people have a negative opinion of. So be it.
I’m not offended by a fish on this woman, nor am I by any of the visual content of the dozens of tattoos my 26 yo niece sports all over her body. Some are technically artistic, others just plain goofy, and a few which look homemade that I am pretty sure they are not. I like the young woman, treat her much better than her mother does. Nonetheless, I do not like tattoos, neither esthetically nor as a practical matter. IMO it was dumb to cover her body in the manner she did.
Now, and this is the key to this discussion; I don’t have to justify, to *anyone’s* satisfaction, my distaste for tattoos. Does not matter why I don’t like them. People can do what they want to their bodies in that regard. But they are stupid, intolerant and selfish if they think they have some sort of “right” to demand that I like it or that I be required by the PC thought police to hire someone that will have a negative impact on my clients or customers, or whomever I do business with. There is no such “right”. Many years ago I had very long hair, and at that time that meant a lot of jobs I was qualified for I could not get. My choice and their business to run as they wished.
But I also knew that long hair and clothing was a fashion statement, that fashion changes, and that if and when I wanted those jobs I could cut my hair and change my clothes. People usually get tattoos as fashion statements which is illogical given that fashion is temporary and tattoos are not. Nonetheless, as a free person they may certainly do so. However that imparts them no special rights as if they were born with something they had no choice about.
I like what I like, and I don’t like what I don’t like. If anyone finds that offensive, they are quite free to simply not associate with me.
Right of free association. That is indeed a fundamental right the left would like to eliminate entirely.
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