To think some people are going to regret some of these ridiculous tattoos.

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What is it with tattoos lately. They're just getting ridiculous and some of them look plain stupid. Rita Ora has some just under her armpits, the part of the arm that gets dangly as you age. Just what is the point, they don't look good at all. I don't think they define you as a person (as lots of them say) at all. How does it.

It announces to the world how many years it's been since you were young/ keen to be cutting edge.

Really? And there's me thinking I was getting a my next tattoo as a dedication to my darling husband. I didn't realise it was cutting edge to get a tattoo in memory of someone you love. Gosh! Who knew? I'm so grateful you put me straight on that.

Dang OP you mean I'm going to regret this Jeremy Corbyn tat?

Or Jorah, maybe it's because he completely respects the woman who raised him and didn't want to go against her wishes. It's called being a decent human being

Ohbehave1

Why would it not be discriminatory? Rejecting someone on the grounds of having tattoos is just that. You couldn't day don't play with someone because of their colour or where they live.

Eh? Are you seriously conflating a dislike of tattoos with racism?

Both my parents have passed away and I'm in my 40s but part of the reason I wouldn't get a tattoo is because I know they would have been disappointed.

I don't think I ever heard them voice a particularly strong disapproval of them, but I know they wouldn't have particularly liked.

I like my parents, and care what they think. I don't think this is that unusual, to all those gleefully saying that if you tell your kids to do one thing, they'll automatically do the opposite.

Hehehe lots of you on this thread would hate mines.

I have a full thigh, shoulders, arm. All old school big fat chunky needle black and grey. I used to have a (highly talented) tattoo artist for a boyfriend who would tattoo me while I dozed off to rock music.

I have a beautiful naked lady on my upper arm (because I think the naked body is one of the most lovely things in this world) skulls, roses, keys, sparrows, and a big knuckle duster on my lower forarm!

And I work in a professional job too

"I like my parents, and care what they think. I don't think this is that unusual, to all those gleefully saying that if you tell your kids to do one thing, they'll automatically do the opposite."

I only started getting tattooed in my late twenties/early thirties, and I was terrified of telling my mum because I didn't want to disappoint her. But she's been very supportive to a sweet but almost awkward degree; asking me lots of questions, wanting to see pictures of new work etc; she'll buy me books about the history of tattoo for Christmas and such too. I realise now that she properly believes that my body is mine to do what I want with (although she was quite a strict mum when I was young, I wasn't allowed pierced ears or hair dye until 18). I will never stop caring what she thinks but my fears on this score seem to have been misplaced.

My dad is a different story, however. He will go to his grave not knowing I have any tattoos if I have anything to do with it, which is quite some feat when you consider my coverage. It wouldn't be worth the nuclear fall-out. So whilst I have gone against his wishes, there has been nothing gleeful about it!

todays tattoo shops are tomorrow's laser removal clinics

Totally agree with this. I am slowly coming arounsd to the fact that there is some truly amazing and beautiful work out there and like another poster said, I find myself unexpectedly drawn to a nice sleeve on a nice muscular bloke's arm, which I honestly never thought I'd say. I think the whole bearded hipster with full sleeves look quite appealing but it's difficult to execute well and that's the problem. It's a look that requires a degree of good taste and good judgement to get right and so many people get it horribly wrong.

But I still cringe every time I see a young woman walk towRds me with huge tattoos covering very visible parts of her body that are impossible to cover up easily in normal clothes. Occasionally someone very hip and stylish makes it all look very edgy but most of the time it just looks trashy and a bit tragic.

I have been getting tattooed for 27 years,so really i couldnt give a flying fig wht anyone else thinks.
Plus all this i could never to that to my parents,have never ever gone against their parents.I find that incredidbly hard to believe.

It's not about 'never going against your parents' - anybody who's lived has done that.

It's more that it's not a foregone conclusion that if you tell your DC not to do something, they'll default go ahead and do it.