tattoos tacky or cool?

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

Or how about you chill the fúck out?

aahh now - surely - i was only messin......:(

mgmt wrote: »

Tattoos are tacky and IMO the mark of a knacker.

Really? Thats the best you could come up with, hmm really showing your level of education with statements like that. The mark of a knacker ah yeh sure everyone that has them is a drug dealer. Just like every black man robs from the state, the polish robbed all our jobs, all men are bastards, Ireland full of alcoholics who like to fight, in America there all dumb etc etc etc:rolleyes: gob****e.

Rantan wrote: »

dug dealers and balck men?? I was concerened before but now I'm just confused??

Yeh its called a typo its fixed now its called edit button, sorry it wont happen again I do always love the spelling police around here:rolleyes: sorry im not the best typist in the world.

I think tattoos can look really great but only if care is taken in-
a. Who does your tattoo-it's not enough to go to your local tattooist down the road and expect to get the a wonderful tribal or realistic portrait work done if that's not their specialty. If you want quality work you have to be prepared to travel, perhaps outside the country if needs be to get top class work.
b. Size-too many get tattoos that are too small where the design will end up a black splodge on their skin in a few years.
c. placement-unless you work in a creative field getting a hand or neck tattoo is going to be a big no-no for most employers and having arse antlers, a 'tramp stamp' (hate that expression), most kanji etc. just looks tacky.
c.Design-if someone takes time and considers carefully what they want and works with their artist to come up with a custom designed piece that's interesting and unique with artistic merit.
I don't think tattoos have to necessarily have meaning, I've seen lots of wonderful tatts. online that are chosen purely for aesthetic appeal.

Unfortunately looking around at the quality of tattoos on people in this country, with some notable exceptions that I've seen on some boardsies in the tattoo forum , most people DON'T think about any of the above and the tattoos they end up with are either poorly done or badly designed and end up with the same crap that everyone else has, although standards seem to be improving a bit here. I see little imagination and thought put into most tattoos and it shows.

I think that's why so many people think all tattoos are tacky or ugly, because the standard in this country has been so poor up til now; and also that traditionally the only people who got them were "hard men", prisoners, sailors and so on, whereas in other countries like the U.S. for example lots of professionals like doctors, scientists etc have tattoos now have them because it's become so mainstream and so the standard has improved.

I love high quality custom work by great artists and I'm saving to get my first tattoo at the moment, but I won't have the money for another while yet because I have to factor in the cost of travel to another country to get the quality of work I want from the artist I want.
Good work costs a lot of money and I'm not prepared to settle for second best for something that'll be on my skin for the rest of my life.
Other things in life I may do, but not that

luvbulmers01 wrote: »

Yeh its called a typo its fixed now its called edit button, sorry it wont happen again I do always love the spelling police around here:rolleyes: sorry im not the best typist in the world.

apologies - i was more amused with the typo than enforcing spelling law to be honest - maybe I just have a ret*rded sense of humour....

mgmt wrote: »

If you sport a tattoo, I'd classify you in the same category as an adidas wearing knacker. My opinion. Hate all you want. I couldn't give a toss.

Ha im not hating your just an idiot. Who belives in stereotypes, think of me as a knacker all you want I dont care i just find your narrow mindness laughable. Likewise i love tattoos and ill always have them regardless of what peoples attitudes to me or them are.

what is the origin of tattoos?

I've got a tatt on my forearm I put there as a drunken 16 year old, later covered over with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monas_Hieroglyphica

Badly I hasten to add.

and I never once regretted doing it

Gets me into some wonderful conversations. It looks variously like the word 'die' or a little dude with horns and a big mickey, but hey it's soooo much more than that.

People who would discriminate against another because they had 'some work done' aren't worth bothering with.

Fine if you don't want to get one yourself, but to paraphrase a great contemporary philosopher 'Is it becoz I haz a tatt?...'

And a young lady I was acquainted with had the same but a little different (and done a lot better) on her hip, jaysus, drool..........
Twas cosmic I'm tellin' ya :pac:

And I'm going to get another on my chest real soon too, despite what some of you may think.

It's even contrived in such a way as to look even better when I'm old and bet down :cool:

I got this really tacky tattoo about two weeks ago.
I regret it so, so much.
Don't do it kids.

http://i51.tinypic.com/aytli.jpg