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Do you look down on people with tattoos?

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    #602
    flazio
    Registered Users Posts: 12,885 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    As a 5'5 bloke there aren't many people I can "look down on"
    It all depends on the artistic nature of the tattoos for me.


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    #603
    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    L1011 wrote: »
    Don't like them, wouldn't get one but wouldn't judge someone for one except some of the really stupid ones (face, side of neck etc).

    They're clearly a fashion thing at the moment, seriously considering investing in a tattoo removal firm soon enough. Beards and tattoos will look incredibly dated in five years time.

    I'd get a risk assessment done before investing, I've heard that tattoos will go out of fashion in the next 5 years for near on 30 years now.


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    #604
    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    aroundthehouse wrote: »
    attended one yesterday as it happens

    Having a coffee with your mum doesn't count.


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    #605
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    It depends of course on the type of tattoo you get.

    A dirty tramp stamp and belly tops? Yeah **** off.

    Something tasteful and meaningful to you? Fine, go for it.


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    #606
    aroundthehouse
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭aroundthehouse


    Graces7 wrote: »
    I just googled that and the connection is very strongly acknowledged. and imagine having the name of someone you once loved then fell out with branded on you...

    i knowi wouldnt be seen dead wearing the clothes i wore when i was 18, imagine being stuck with some dumb tattoo for life....


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    #607
    aroundthehouse
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭aroundthehouse


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    All those Maori's are mentally ill. I don't think I'm generalising when I say every last one of them is.

    thats very different, that is part of their heritage and culture going back centuries, they dont rattle up to the local tattoo parlour and get "grandad forever" written all over themselves


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    #608
    aroundthehouse
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭aroundthehouse


    Shenshen wrote: »
    Having a coffee with your mum doesn't count.

    had more than coffee with your mum if you must know, and yep shes got a tramp stamp :(


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    #609
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,754 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    aroundthehouse wrote: »
    thats very different, that is part of their heritage and culture going back centuries, they dont rattle up to the local tattoo parlour and get "grandad forever" written all over themselves

    Hilarious. I kind of want to get that tattoo now.

    Maori's certainly wouldn't get "granddad forever", they would get something that honours their heritage/ancestors. Like a classy "granddad forever", if you will.

    Maybe, like the OP, your opinion is enlightened by your view looking down on those who choose to get a tattoo.


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    #610
    aroundthehouse
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭aroundthehouse


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    Hilarious. I kind of want to get that tattoo now.

    Maori's certainly wouldn't get "granddad forever", they would get something that honours their heritage/ancestors. Like a classy "granddad forever", if you will.

    Maybe, like the OP, your opinion is enlightened by your view looking down on those who choose to get a tattoo.

    if people want to get tattoos thats their own business and i have every right to hate the sight of them the same way they have a right to get them and i cant help it if my estimation of a person goes down when i see they have tattoos
    the bigger issue is the mental health of someone who covers themselves in them


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    #611
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,891 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Shenshen wrote: »
    I'd get a risk assessment done before investing, I've heard that tattoos will go out of fashion in the next 5 years for near on 30 years now.

    They've only been fashionable to the current extent for about 5 years. Not 30.


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    #612
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,754 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    True. And I have every right to question the mental health of someone who believes some ink on your skin is directly linked to mental health problems. It would be funny if you weren't serious.


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    #613
    Lyle Lanley
    Registered Users Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Lyle Lanley


    aroundthehouse wrote: »
    i'd say if her superiors knew she had tattoos they would look down on her
    The company judge her on her skills and qualifications. They're just happy to have been able to get her. When you're at that level you have a lot of options, you'd know that though I suppose.


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    #614
    aroundthehouse
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭aroundthehouse


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    True. And I have every right to question the mental health of someone who believes some ink on your skin is directly linked to mental health problems. It would be funny if you weren't serious.

    any form of self harm has to be looked at seriously from a mental health standpoint, i'm glad you find mental health issues so funny


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    #615
    aroundthehouse
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭aroundthehouse


    Lyle Lanley wrote: »
    The company judge her on her skills and qualifications. They're just happy to have been able to get her. When you're at that level you have a lot of options, you'd know that though I suppose.

    indeed and i know that if it came down to 2 individuals with the same qualifications etc, the person without the tattoos would get the position


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    #616
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,754 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    aroundthehouse wrote: »
    any form of self harm has to be looked at seriously from a mental health standpoint, i'm glad you find mental health issues so funny

    Wow. Straw man, how surprising.


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    #617
    aroundthehouse
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭aroundthehouse


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    Wow. Straw man, how surprising.

    its an important issue and shouldnt be sneered at


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    #618
    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    L1011 wrote: »
    They've only been fashionable to the current extent for about 5 years. Not 30.

    I started seeing people with tattoos, particularly tribal and the famous tramp stamps, from the late 1980s onwards.

    And so far, I've not noticed a decline in their popularity.


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    #619
    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    aroundthehouse wrote: »
    had more than coffee with your mum if you must know, and yep shes got a tramp stamp :(

    Interesting, considering she doesn't like coffee.


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    #620
    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    aroundthehouse wrote: »
    indeed and i know that if it came down to 2 individuals with the same qualifications etc, the person without the tattoos would get the position

    Given the vast numbers of employed people with tattoos, that statement does make me wonder what's wrong with non-tattooed people that tattooed people out-qualify them so frequently?


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    #621
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,754 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    aroundthehouse wrote: »
    its an important issue and shouldnt be sneered at

    Oh I'm well aware. Its you I'm sneering at due to your lack of intelligent argument and misrepresentation of what I actually said.


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    #622
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,754 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Shenshen wrote: »
    Given the vast numbers of employed people with tattoos, that statement does make me wonder what's wrong with non-tattooed people that tattooed people out-qualify them so frequently?

    Because they all have mental health issues obviously! :) Didn't you know?


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    #623
    aroundthehouse
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭aroundthehouse


    tattoos will forever be associated with jailbirds and sailors


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    #624
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    aroundthehouse wrote: »
    tattoos will forever be associated with jailbirds and sailors

    Well that's just plainly untrue.


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    #625
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Idk man, things have changed a bit from the days of only utter scum and sailors having tats. Personally I don't like them (would find it a major turn off on a woman) but I don't see how people with them are mentally ill.

    I mean come on now.


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    #626
    aroundthehouse
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭aroundthehouse


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    Oh I'm well aware. Its you I'm sneering at due to your lack of intelligent argument and misrepresentation of what I actually said.

    you just seem to come on here and sneer at people with your unintelligent ignorance and attempt to divert from the real issue


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    #627
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users Posts: 16,105 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    aroundthehouse wrote: »
    you just seem to come on here and sneer at people with your unintelligent ignorance and attempt to divert from the real issue

    Oh the irony !


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    #628
    Hellrazer
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,596 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hellrazer


    aroundthehouse wrote: »
    tattoos will forever be associated with jailbirds and sailors

    Don’t be so stupid.


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    #629
    Hellrazer
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,596 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hellrazer


    aroundthehouse wrote: »
    the bigger issue is the mental health of someone who covers themselves in them

    No mental health issues here!!!!
    Now yourself on the other hand could be debatable.


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    #630
    pawdee
    Registered Users Posts: 549 ✭✭✭pawdee


    The best tattoo I ever saw was one of a fox hunting scene that covered a fella's entire back.....red jacketed huntsmen, horses, beagles the lot, and the fox about to disappear down the crack of his arse.


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    #631
    K.Flyer
    Registered Users Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    aroundthehouse wrote: »
    attended one yesterday as it happens

    What, you brought in the tea and biscuits?


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