I’d never get a tattoo but I can’t blame people for wanting to feel special and unique.

I dont get why some people without tattoos seem to think their opinion about tattoos is terribly novel and important to everyone else.

You dont like tattoos? Great dont geht any. You dont have to like other peoples choices and bodys.

Fuck it, you used the community correctly. Have my upvote you damn prude.

I tent to agree. I don’t have any tattoos myself. My wife has 2. One small 1in diameter white lotus tattoo on her foot that represents here time in sorority. The other is 2 birds with one flying away on her left forearm. It represent the twin we lost at week 23 of our pregnancy and the boy we have. I get the 2nd one being meaningful and personal. The first I do not understand other than wanting a tattoo.

I have thought many times if there is something meaningful enough to me to get it put on myself permanently. And I do not think so. Myself

I have full sleeves and a chest piece. I get them for myself and my own story. They mean something to me. I don’t care what you think about them.

Having said that you used the community correctly. But I not agree with you. Tattoos can be stupid and pointless to the user as well. They can just be there and it’s impulsive and they want to tell a story.

Identity is fluid, tattoos are not.

Personally I have nothing against tattoos—you don’t have to be an artist to appreciate art—I simply cannot think of any design or text I like so much that I want it displayed permanently on my skin.

Also I do not have the pain tolerance nor the nerves to sit still while I get stabbed hundreds (thousands?) of times a second. I hate needles with a burning passion; I can barely handle getting my blood drawn.

You know what’s stupid is people against vaccines having tattoos

Fully agree. Nothing turns me off more than a tattoo. Don’t know where this trend all of sudden came from - at the same time as broccoli hair - but I can’t wait for it to pass.

yea they’re fucking trash, and I agree there are a few narrow exceptions.

What people are you hanging around to get the “do you think my tattoo is cool?”, high schoolers?

Maybe tattoos as a concept are bad (stabbing ink into your skin semi-permanently, that is), but the artistry and skill that can go into them is insanely respectable. Coming from someone who probably will never get a tattoo, I love seeing creative tattoos executed well.

For example: The humble pistol shrimp

I used to want tattoos. Thought I’d be covered from head to toe. Then my brothers started getting tattoos and I realized two things.

1. Good tattoos are really expensive. I’m not talking about full sleeves or back pieces. I mean sticker sized hand or arm pieces are even expensive. You want color? Price goes up. You want something that will look good in five years? Price goes up. You want anything that’s a challenge or creative for the artist to do? The price goes up. Sure you can get cheap little tattoos for $100, but then its a shit tattoo that someone with little experience or a drug habit has to do. (My brothers used to throw tattoo parties for a local junkie to make $50 to $100 a pop off of underaged kids. That dude would make a killing.)

2. Most tattoo ideas are not original or good. Both my brothers got full arms of junk that’s all meaningless platitudes and shitty sticker tattoos. Oh you got a skull. A flower. Some filigree to surround your tramp stamp. Even my own idea which was a snake wrapped around a guitar would have looked like shit after a while.

All this is coming from a tattoo fan. I’ve seen a lot of good work. A lot of cool art. That’s rare. That requires a lot of money, and an excellent artist. Those shops are so few and far between. You have to hope the artist has an opening. You have to have a minimum $1000 for anything with thought and color. After a while I just gave up the idea of getting one and decided to appreciate them from afar.

I wouldn’t say stupid, but I wish people would try to justify them so much, nobody need a drawing on their body as a reminder of something.

Just admit the vanity and narcissism.

I think there’s something important in stupid, goofy etc aspects of life

Many tattoos are stupid. And that’s kinda cool