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to be judgy pants about people that have tattoos and keep getting more, especially women??

532 replies

dontsqueezetheteabag · 28/01/2013 09:08

I hate tattoos. Whilst I appreciate everyone has a right to their own taste and choices I still cannot get over the fact that people have them in places where they are visible.

A colleague of mine has just returned to work after M leave with a horrific tattoo from her wrist to her elbow. How can she go out and meet clients looking like that?? It can be seen through tops and obviously below short sleeved tops.

What I really don't like is seeing lovely brides on their wedding days, strapless dresses and tattoos on their upper arms and backs..... urgh!!!!!!

Anyone else with me??

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threebats · 28/01/2013 13:55

I have tattoos! I love them, all of them, I have 8 of them and all of them mean something to me. I have lyrics, I have French words, I have a guitar with a snake around it on my upper back and my absolute all time, top of the lot favourite is my bat on my lower back with MEATLOAF emblazoned across the top of it - I have been known to whop this out when I am at a concert of his and proudly display to the stranger next to me - All hail the Great Meatloaf!
They are on my back and my arms and I would have more done except it means I can't swim in chlorine for a while after having one done and frankly, if I do not swim, being the only exercise I like and am good at, my backside will hang onto all those bars of chocolate I almost like as much as I like my tattoos! Its taken me a good 4 months to be able to swim without feeling the need to sink to the bottom of the pool and drown so, I can't take up to 6 weeks off for a tattoo to heal up right now. Sadly. As I have plans for another one!
I consider my tats to be meaningful as they are personal to me. I consider them to be art. I think its a great craft to be able to tattoo and tattoo well. And respect to the person who can take the pain of having one done - I fainted on every one of them - twice on the big guitar one but after it was done? I was so incredibly proud of it and happy with it and happy with myself. Isn't that was counts in our lives?
If somebody does not like them that's okay also - each to their own. I take no offence at others offence to my tattoo's - we are all different, if we were all the same how yawningly boring the world would be.

EggRules · 28/01/2013 13:56

Let's all behave like the NHS then; treat people well, regardless of tattoo coverage, grammar, vocabulary, earnings.Wink

WhoeverHeardOfAWormskinRug · 28/01/2013 13:56
noddyholder · 28/01/2013 13:56

Amen!

noddyholder · 28/01/2013 13:57

'low class and trampy' pmsl

BupcakesAndCunting · 28/01/2013 13:59

HintOfBream, presumably your employer doesn't mind employing cows, then?

Yes, I called you a cow. Your post to Dita was uncalled for.

And a big, fat LOL at OP getting all Victorian about the vulgar language. Go to Penguin Club if you're getting all faint at a bit of mild language.

Montybojangles · 28/01/2013 14:04

dontsqueezetheteabag thank god, thought I might be the only person in the world who hated the shapeless monstrosity that is the UGG (also completely agree you should never over squeeze a teabag, DH does it and ruins a good brew)

chocoluvva · 28/01/2013 14:05

Threebats, you're doing a great job of changing the impression I have of 'heavily' tattooed people being aggressive.

noddyholder · 28/01/2013 14:07

Aggressive? As this thread unfolds I am more and more glad to be one of the inked!

coraltoes · 28/01/2013 14:11

I dislike tattoos. Must admit if I like a picture, I'd hang it on the wall not ink it onto my skin. However what others do is not my beef.

Now my mate has two dds. Dd1= short name, which she has tattood onto her wrist. Dd2= long name which she won't get tattoo as too painful. How will dd2 feel?!

Original poster
dontsqueezetheteabag · 28/01/2013 14:14

Monty Grin

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mirry2 · 28/01/2013 14:14

What about piercings? Who likes/doesn't like them? I think they were a fashion fad and tattoos will go the same way in time. I've noticed there are now tattooists who advertise tattoo removals.

theodorakisses · 28/01/2013 14:14

Yes, I think so. I have a tattoo on my bum. My job is quite boring but high up and the majority of my staff are Arabic men. My best ever recruit was a British woman (white) with dreads and covered in tats, including her face. Everyone loved her to bits and she was soon headhunted to go to Dubai. if you are a good person who shows integrity and honesty, nobody (even in the Gulf) gives a shit how you choose to express yourself.

aldiwhore · 28/01/2013 14:15

I think the vast majority of tats look shit, or rather, don't suit the person wearing them... some are amazing, that's my personal opinion and not a 'judgement' on people with tats.

I do agree that tats on show in a corporate environment don't give a great impression, on men or women but that in itself is something that is more an issue with the viewer and their misplaced judgement than tats being somehow an indication you can't do your job.

The only tats I judge are disney ones... I am very judgey then. The rest, each to their own.

Personal opinion again, I love art, I love skin I don't 'like' skin art.

But then I like pickles, many people don't, that won't stop me liking them or eating them. Nor should it.

theodorakisses · 28/01/2013 14:15

I am in qatar by the way

theodorakisses · 28/01/2013 14:17

And the "especially women" bothers me.

ditavonteesed · 28/01/2013 14:17

presumably piercings are as low class and trampy as tattoos.

I actually had far worse reactions to piercings than tattoos and ended up taking my lip ring out as I was not having any luck finding work when I was younger.

theodorakisses · 28/01/2013 14:18

aldi, I bloody love gherkins. You have reminded me I have a jar in the fridge...off to put them outside for an hour to warm up.

ouryve · 28/01/2013 14:18

I don't like tattoos, but YABU. Just don't have any, yourself, and you'll have nowt to worry about, OK?

theodorakisses · 28/01/2013 14:20

And just wait until your kids start wanting them, that's when you realise that expensive laser treatment can be useful if they change their mind. But if they don't, what then? Disown them?

ditavonteesed · 28/01/2013 14:21

theodora, I think that is the worst part of the op, we no longer need men to make us conform, we do it to each other as well. (and I'll have a gherkin please)

noddyholder · 28/01/2013 14:22

My son is planning one atm I must say so far all his designs look cool and I have no problem with it

Velve · 28/01/2013 14:25

It's not unreasonable to not like tattoos.
It is unreasonable to judge a person's character based on their tattoos. We all make assumptions about others, I think it's just a weird human thing to do, but we shouldn't judge someone based on our own assumptions about them when we don't know them.
If you don't like tattoos you don't like them, but that's your problem, not the tattooed person's.
YABU for the "especially women" line, though. Shock

StuntGirl · 28/01/2013 14:25

Amen limburg.

theodorakisses · 28/01/2013 14:26

My oh doesn't like tattoos, fair enough. he loves me enough to respect my wishes. I wish I could share a pic of my lovely lost employee, piercings and tats galore and possibly the most desirable employee I have ever had. She is working in a very public position and I honestly believe that everyone sees past it. In the UK that may be an achievement, in the Arab world, a woman will struggle to get to where she has, let alone without being skinny and blonde. I adore her.