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Original poster

to think that women with tattos...

300 replies

Gichin · 31/05/2010 00:13

Look soooooo common, or is my age (47)

OP posts:
MrsC2010 · 31/05/2010 10:40

Hmmm, ironic that I grew up in a house far bigger than the OP's, went to a very expensive school and have had a career earning a small fortune. YET, am still in love with the two very small, very unusual little tattoos I got done in my late teens. You can't see them unless I choose to expose them. Not sure what that says about her presumptions!

I might get another in a few years, I have the spot and the basic design already chosen.

I agree that SOME tattoos are pretty heinous, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder and there is nothing tackier or more lacking in class than someone who makes such crass statements about a whole swathe of the population, based on some delusional idea of superiority.

posieparker · 31/05/2010 10:43

Perhaps that's the point MrsC...it's those with tattoos you can see that look horrendous.

scurryfunge · 31/05/2010 10:44

I'm not even sure the OP believed in any of the tripe she was spouting....I think the thread was for her own amusement.

ScreaminEagle · 31/05/2010 10:44

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quokka · 31/05/2010 10:53

I chose to get a tattoo after getting skin cancer and receiving a huge scar getting it cut out. I have so many scars on my body now that I look at my tattoo and think how pretty it is. I have recently had another skin cancer removed which has left another huge ghastly scar on my sternum which is very visible and I'm thinking I should get another pretty tattoo to balance it out. So I think your wrong, I don't feel common at all.

bobbiewickham · 31/05/2010 10:56

Oh blimey, OP, haven't read the whole thread, but I do think you should at least be able to spell tattoo at your age.

I have two.

Maybe I am common.

Maybe I'm not.

Either way, I don't give a hoot

mumofthreesweeties · 31/05/2010 10:57

OP,everyone is entitled to do what they want with their body. I reckon all the celebs in Hollywood and the UK are 'common' then by your standards. Please crawl back under the rock you came out of. You are doing us a disservice by being so judgemental. I have two tasteful tattoos and I am not common by a long shot. You are though

Mittz · 31/05/2010 10:59

I like this screamingEagle

Do you own a pink mobile? Mine is Black..

Do you watch Jeremy Vile? Repulsive tabloid twunt.

Are you on benefits? Yes but I am working , just not quite enough to survive on.

Do you live in a council flat / house? No, private rented. Have personal views about house 'ownership'.

Did you smoke whilst pregnant? I have never smoked and don't drink.

Do your DC's drink fruit shoots? They have had the odd one but, I wasn't struck by MN lightening.

Are you a single mother? Lone parent yes.. does this make me even more judgeable? Bummer

anything else?

Erm..... I can play the sax and the guitar, DD is learning the violin, and I once sat on a Duchesses knee and had tea with a Duke.

Mittz · 31/05/2010 11:00

Respect to you Quokka...

quokka · 31/05/2010 11:03

right back at you Mittz

2shoes · 31/05/2010 11:03

yabu and a snob

Mookymoo · 31/05/2010 11:06

Saw a haggard old woman on the bus earlier, tutting, with a mouth like a cat's bum. Was that you Gichin?

Isn't it terrible when people stereotype/generalise??

Would have thought it more common to start a thread about tattoos without having the decency to look up the spelling first...

mumofthreesweeties · 31/05/2010 11:06

My tattoos are not in obvious places so if I dont choose to reveal them you would never know, so OP - imagine you were to talk to me and become friends with me then later on say after two years find out I have two tattoos, would our friendship end then? You are highly ignorant, you cant judge someone because they have tattoos!!! There are probably loads of people you liaise with everyday who have tattoos in discreet places. As asked earlier, would your view of them suddenly change upon realising that they have tattoos?

Alicetheinvisible · 31/05/2010 11:07

Oh yes, this is fun

Do you own a pink mobile? Mine is Black..

Do you watch Jeremy Vile? No

Are you on benefits? No, not entitled to a penny due to DH's high earning job (really not a boast btw)

Do you live in a council flat / house? No own our house

Did you smoke whilst pregnant? Never smoked

Do your DC's drink fruit shoots? Yes if she wants one when we are out

Are you a single mother? No, i am married

anything else? Yes, i have been told i am posh (not convinced on that one tbh) i have 2 horses, i am a bit bunting cupcakey and quite girly. My children are called Tarquin and Arabella (actually i made that one up )

AnnieLobeseder · 31/05/2010 11:07

Well, my mum would agree with you, but most of the middle-class professional women I work with have one or two as well.

I think tattoos are like clothes, some are beautiful and classy, some are horrible and common. You can't group them all together as one or the other.

notquitenormal · 31/05/2010 11:26

It's very Hyacinth Bucket to go around worrying about how common other people are. Really classy people kept their opinions to themselve.

Nothing wrong with being common either...it isn't actually a synonym for rough.

Rollmops · 31/05/2010 11:51

I appreciate that it's ones right to do whatever one wishes with ones body, and believe, that tattoos add decorative and/or 'spiritual' *touch' to the said body of course.
However, tattoos are often looked upon as rather vulgar and common manifestation of 'art' - if that's how they are represented - and therefore tattooed person is viewed often as slightly vulgar and common creature indeed.
Again, everyone is entitled to their opinion, no?

scanty · 31/05/2010 11:58

I don't mind them and thought about getting one round the time when they were becoming really common. Glad I didn't as I feel unique in not being tattooed, everyone and their dog seems to have one now.

HappyMummyOfOne · 31/05/2010 12:21

I'm not keen on tattoos, piercings (other than one in adult ears, ankle bracelets and lots of gold jewellery but its personal taste.

Didnt realise having a different mobile to black was "wrong" though - never heard that one before.

fyimate · 31/05/2010 12:37

Oh nice one Mittz, I love the violin!

And I'm so jealous Alicetheinvisible, 2 horses! I used to have horses.

Does anyone here pull off both 'posh' and 'common' voices? I do both, totally confuse people

Tbh I think those with tattoos have no problem expressing themselves and I'd rather be around people who are upfront than not.
Makes things more interesting and most the time they'll tell you whats on their mind rather than talk about you behind your back.

Mittz · 31/05/2010 12:41

I love you Alice,, do you wanna see my bum

Original poster
Gichin · 31/05/2010 12:41

All the snide remarks about my spelling are amusing to say the least. I guess it supports my comments regarding being common. I guess some people are too thick and insensitive to think that I may have dyslexia. I don't btw.

OP posts:
Mittz · 31/05/2010 12:42

Common? .... Me?

veryconfusedandupset · 31/05/2010 12:49

I worked with a very pretty girl who had a circle of dolphins tattooed around her navel - post baby it didn't look quite so lovely ( wish she hadn't shown us really. i think some tattoos can look quite classy, but obviously disney characters etc. just make you look as if you don't respect yourself.

Kaloki · 31/05/2010 12:51

Do you own a pink mobile? Black. I'm a goth FFS!

Do you watch Jeremy Vile? No

Are you on benefits? I'm disabled.

Do you live in a council flat / house? No

Did you smoke whilst pregnant? Never smoked

Do your DC's drink fruit shoots? No, no DC's yet

Are you a single mother? No, see above

gichin It's your age love.