Stop with the leg tattoos already

I wonder whether there’s any correlation with people posting things to the dead on FB.

Similar thought process I think aracer… 😉

Trying to work out how my “tribal” tattoo is clichéd and standarsised rebellion when it symbolisises my family tribal heritage and cultural background. Oh well I suppose if I looked more “ethnic” it would be less of an issue…damn you great grand parents for diluting my genetics into just a sort of swarthy skin tone 😀

the dreads and mohawk were just part of being a goth though in the 80’s and 90’s so you got that bit right junky old bean

Oooooo scxc is it joolz or nma piece?

I’m old enough to remember when there were only two type of men (women never had them) who had tattoos; ex-Sailors and ex-Cons.

And it should’ve stayed that way.

Shibboleth – Member
Oh dear countzero, the spelling error you’ve highlighted in an attempt to discredit me was a quote from someone else! Silly billy!

In my experience, the tattooed classes typically share the following characteristics:

– A certain naïveté and badly formed sense of style and taste
– a very short-sighted attitude
– a propensity to adopt a rather immature “two-fingers” attitude to society
– a desperate need to feel part of a niche
– an alarming lack of originality and a sheep-like mentality
– high levels of narcissism and pretentiousness

I hope this answers the questions posed to me in sufficient detail and stimulates sensible debate.

Funny really since all my tattooed friends and colleagues share none of those characteristics.

In my experience, the tattooed classes typically share the following characteristics:

– A certain naïveté and badly formed sense of style and taste
– a very short-sighted attitude
– a propensity to adopt a rather immature “two-fingers” attitude to society
– a desperate need to feel part of a niche
– an alarming lack of originality and a sheep-like mentality
– high levels of narcissism and pretentiousness

I hope this answers the questions posed to me in sufficient detail and stimulates sensible debate.
Well, I’ll be sure to show your opinion of just how unreliable people with tattoos are to my sister-in-law, as she has quite a few.
As a highly experienced theatre anesthetist who has worked in the A&E at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, among various hospitals, currently working in Devizes, I’m certain she’ll take your opinion very seriously, and have them removed forthwith.
Actually, she’ll call you something involving your opinion, and precisely where you can shove it, in very precise anatomical detail.
She saved my brother’s life when he was hit by a car right in front of her, and she’s ten times the person you’ll ever be.

I’ve got a leg tattoo and I’m quite normal.

I’ve got no tattoos at all and I’m definitely not normal.

Funny really since all my tattooed friends and colleagues share none of those characteristics.

To be fair Shibboleth did say “In my experience”. He might have far more tattooed acquaintances than you.

He certainly appears to have a worryingly obsessive interest in their personalities.

I lied about being normal

I’ve got no tattoos and always tell the truth.

I am considering the camel

I blame the porn industry.

Well, I’ll be sure to show your opinion of just how unreliable people with tattoos are to my sister-in-law, as she has quite a few.

Countzero, can you talk us through which word you thought spelled “unreliable”? I’m more than happy to happy to help a literacy struggler to improve their reading.

Is that the cause of Shibboleth?

Stop feeding the troll! He is only trying to wind you up for sport.

He is only trying to wind you up for sport. fapping purposes

ftfy

Stop feeding the troll! He is only trying to wind you up for sport.

he’s doing very well though! 🙂

Nobody has offered any credible arguments to contradict my opinions yet though… So I take it the majority largely agree with me.

Who agrees with him? I know it’s troll feeding but hey ho.
I don’t as he hasn’t given a single bit of credible argument to this thread.

Keep reeling ’em in Shib! 😆

I have a tattoo, i may be considered thick by some, not so by others, don’t see why all the tatooed folk are getting so wound up at shib, it’s funny both ways- his (possibly misguided) opinion, and you lot for biting so hard.
Wonder if this can go as long as the Scottish independence thread.

Scottish Independence will be done and dusted before the end of the year. Tattoos are for life.

Blimey! He still winding the (very very sensitive and defensive) inked ones up. 😆

Shibboleth earlier……

I don’t as he hasn’t given a single bit of credible argument to this thread.

In my experience, the tattooed classes typically share the following characteristics:

– A certain naïveté and badly formed sense of style and taste
Tattoos that depict a style that the wearer has recently adopted, eg. Look at all the goth wannabes, 50’s pin-up stylers, music-orientated tattoos, often on young people who have recently “discovered themselves”
– a very short-sighted attitude
See above – if they can’t foresee that their tastes WILL change considerably over the coming years, they’re VERY shortsighted.
– a propensity to adopt a rather immature “two-fingers” attitude to society
You only need to read the attitudes of the inked on here to understand this one – the sort of people who wear shorts/vests in winter and then get all uppity when we pass an opinion on them.
– a desperate need to feel part of a niche
A good example would be the born-again cyclist that I race against. He’s had a bike tattooed on his arm, has Specialized stickers on his BMW… Nuff said.
– an alarming lack of originality and a sheep-like mentality
The inked bleat on about how original, unique, different they are, and that their tats are an expression of that individuality, and yet the overwhelming majority plagiarise other tattoos or styles in some way or another.
– high levels of narcissism and pretentiousness
The very act of adorning your body with your ‘creative thoughts’ is a narcissistic act. Don’t really think that needs expanding upon any further.

So, who wants to start?

Mine is a piece of artwork that was done by a close family member who was subsequently killed in a car accident. She was a very talented artist and I miss her every day.
Which of your statements does that cover?

All… But 5 and 6 mostly.

Mine is a piece of artwork that was done by a close family member who was subsequently killed in a car accident. She was a very talented artist and I miss her every day.
Which of your statements does that cover?

this one

a desperate need to feel part of a niche

😀

Well everyone’s entitled to an opinion I suppose, but opinions shouldn’t be confused with facts.

Thank you all for a delightful thread.

I may have to go and get my first tattoo simply to a) ensure the enduring disdain of and b)guarantee I can never be employed by Shib.

No problem Tomkerton… These threads have a habit of weeding out the idiots. 😉

I may have to go and get my first tattoo simply to a) ensure the enduring disdain of and b)guarantee I can never be employed by Shib.

I was thinking along the same lines 🙂

These threads have a habit of weeding out the idiots

quiet.

So I take it the majority largely agree with me.

I think the majority can’t believe this thread is still going on.

I’m so punk rock that my tattoo’s tattoo has its own tattoo.

This thread is apparently more interested than the threateningly doomed NHS, which in itself is interesting.

Leg tattoos? Great if you want, great if you don’t, each to their own. My calves seem to have a predilection for chainring scarification, some interesting and persistent patterns are normally on show.

I’ll take on your initial points, got nothing better to do today:

I hate tattoos, I make no secret of it, but the thing I hate most is the self-righteous indignation of the inked when you pass an opinion on it.
You do, however, feel that it’s ok to pass on your self-righteous indignation to whoever will listen regarding people with tattoos and how you feel about them? acceptable for one, but not for the other? is this because you feel that you are intellectually superior based on the fact you made a different choice in life?

For god’s sake, you had a tattoo as some sort of self-expression. An expression is useless if it falls on deaf ears.
If the tattoo means something to the person but never shows it off, then it’s not offensive to you. If they do show it off, then surely it becomes useful?

So, for the record, my opinion of all tattoos: Chavvy. Cheap, chavvy, short-sighted, foolish chaviness by attention seaking, chavvy chavs hell-bent on confrontation.
For the record, you seem to have a real problem with anyone you deem to be from a lower class than yourself. I’m guessing that you don’t normally brush shoulders with these people unless you’re actually trying to throw off the shackles your past in some fashion, perhaps grew up in a “chavvy” household and don’t want your new friends to find out……I don’t know, maybe I’m being judgmental about someone I don’t know.

here are some chavvy people with tattoos

Shibboleth – Member

In my experience

You obviously need to get out more, as any experienced person can see that yours is limited.

Chavvy. Cheap, chavvy, short-sighted, foolish chaviness by attention seaking, chavvy chavs hell-bent on confrontation.

Has it never occurred to you that labelling people as “chavs” says absolutely nothing about them, but speaks volumes about you?

Aaaaaaaargh – That tat of Dimbleby’s makes my inner entomologist scream in rage – the scorpion is an arthropod within the class Arachnida, they have eight legs not six. Someone fetch a rubber….oh!