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Are Tatoos Naff?

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  • 16-08-2022 12:25pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭


    On holidays in Italy and have gotten to know the English couple beside us at the pool really well. When they met each other, their kid’s names and dates of birth, the dates their parents died, what football team they support.

    I haven’t spoken to them once. Just read their tatoos.

    I occasionally might see a T-shirt that I think looks pretty cool. I have yet to see a tattoo and think, wow, that’s cool, unique or interesting.

    Do some people regret their tatoos or consider them an important part of their identity?

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,365 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    I don't think we've ever had a thread on tattoos in AH.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    Well in that case it should be a good opportunity for people to share their opinions.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,986 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Also unusual for a thread here to be bitching about other people's personal preferences that have no effect on anyone else. A refreshing change.



  • Registered Users Posts: 7,307 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    Most of them are naff tbh. Even the arty ones

    What looks good on taut youthful skin will look horrendous when older.

    Invest in long sleeve shirt companies because a boom is coming.



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,570 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Oh yay, another tattoo thread. Just what AH needs.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,986 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa




  • Registered Users Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭EOQRTL


    Tattoo's distinguish scumbags from normal people.





    Throws grenade and runs.......



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • Registered Users Posts: 15,895 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB




  • Registered Users Posts: 545 ✭✭✭Crocodile Booze


    I've no regerts about my tattoos. Only God can jugde me.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 394 ✭✭Miadhc


    The fact you use the word naff tells us all we need to know about you.



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,365 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    I think the OP might want us to ask about his holiday in Italy.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    Yes you are absolutely correct.

    The use of one word reveals everything one could possibly wish to know about an individual, like some all revealing shibboleth!

    So tell us. Is Naff a gay phrase from the 1960s, a French phrase from the 1980s or an Italian phrase from the 1950s?

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • Registered Users Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Tow


    I once saw a guy with 'eire' across the top of his back, in an old traditional front. He had a strong NI accent. I felt like asking him what happened to the fada, but thought better of it!

    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,908 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    Mod - OK let's address the actual topic instead of having a go at op, thanks



  • Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If done well no.

    Personally don't have any, see other tattoo thread as to why.



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,742 ✭✭✭PsychoPete




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,732 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Yes, they look crap on most people IMHO



  • Registered Users Posts: 278 ✭✭89897


    I have several tattoos, I neither regret them nor are they an important part of my identity. They are just something I like and have liked for a long long time.

    They are visible when I want and can also be covered. I dont particularly care what anyone thinks of them but if someone has questions about them I'll answer. However if someone tries to enforce their view of them on me, they'll be quickly told how little I care about it.



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,839 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Yes.


    You arksed.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 30,425 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Do some people regret their tatoos or consider them an important part of their identity?

    Well to answer your question OP.

    I think some people regret there tattoos but the majority would not. Providing they didn't get something stupid when they were blind drunk.

    In years to come will people regret getting I'd say some might but I'd say they'd always be improving technology to remove them.

    In general tough people are fairly happy with them.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭Feisar


    I find them the artsy ones attractive on women though i have none myself. Having said that, a blown out butterfly ya picked up in Ibiza just looks silly.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,275 ✭✭✭✭mdwexford


    Maybe you should try talking to people instead of staring at them from your high horse.

    Might result in a more fun trip.



  • Registered Users Posts: 55,156 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    I find most them hideous, personally.

    The likes a Beckham's and Ed Sheerhan's, for example, absolute scruffy looking!

    Post edited by walshb on


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Bad ones are, the prison-grade crudely drawn kind.

    Flegs and Brit/Provo stuff are seldom a good look.

    Common and overdone ones, doggy paws on tits/tramp stamps/Asian characters which probably read 'fried rice'.

    Most will age poorly, like the clothes you wore in your teens and 20s will look odd on you when you're in your 30's and 40's. Unique, ageless tattoos are where it's at, not following a design trend.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Sounds like a pretty low-end resort. Or one frequented by the families of footballers.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    Oh you mean like judging people from what they have written or have written on them?

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I don't have a problem with them, and only haven't gotten any because they would interfere with my work (perspectives in Asia regarding tattoos matter). Might get one for my shoulder blade when I reach 50. It's always been something that I wanted but was just inconvenient.

    Still, I've friends who either had them, and/or were tattoo artists in Asia, and I've seen some beautiful work. Also a lot of people maintain their tattoos, getting them touched up, or whatever.. I find in western countries people get tattoos and then just let the fade/flake away.. My ex had a large tattoo at the base of her back of a Chinese dragon, and it was gorgeous work (lovely back too)..

    So, yeah, obviously it depends on the style of tattoos, whether they're amateur or professionally done, and whether they're maintained/touched up every decade or so.



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    I think most tattoos are awful, maybe a few small tattoos look OK it think anyone who has a large tattoo on arm, neck , leg look awful

    They show this person is an idiot , chav or someone who has absolutely no taste. It's funny people get a tattoo of their girlfriends name and break up after 6 months if you look at crime documentarys most criminals have tattoos

    If you get a tattoo it should not be visible when you are wearing a shirt

    I thought naff had been replaced by cringe

    I think some people get a lot of tattoos as a way of showing off , eg i, m so daring, different, creative,

    People are strange heard on a podcast Frank skinner met a male fan who had a tattoo of Frank's face on his chest,

    Some people get a tattoo of a random Chinese word cos it looks nice I think all tattoos over a certain size are awful even if the art is of a high standard



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  • Registered Users Posts: 350 ✭✭kal7


    Yes, they are naff.



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