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Opinions required on tattoos please.
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My grandson has had a tattoo done on his upper arm. He is only 17, so I suppose, theoretically, he should have got permission from his parents, but who does in these days! Anyway, his father has hit the roof and says that tattoos show what kind of person you are, working class or middle class. Working class being people with tattoos and middle class without tattoos. I think he is being a snob and I would like to think of a few, so-called 'middle class' people with tattoos. Any thoughts on the matter, especially if you know a few I could cite in any argument?
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most people I know who have tattoos have them because they like them, not to show them off to others.
16:42 Wed 06th Jun 2012
Some little ones can be tasteful, but if you are covered all over in them it can look silly. I was on a train once and there was a man with his son. man had suit on, and he had tattoos of tears going down both cheeks as though he was crying. Clearly done years ago as they had faded, but he looked ridicullous. They need to be thought about very carefully.
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I put this in a few years ago....it caused a right rumpus! BTW, he thanked me last year for doing it:-)
I put this in a few years ago....it caused a right rumpus! BTW, he thanked me last year for doing it:-)
I should have said that on a personal basis I do not like them. I agree that they are ugly and a policeman once said to me, 'if someone did that to me, I would arrest them for GBH'.
Why on earth should a popular Aber be banned for asking a simple question sqad? All I want to know is are they an indication of what kind of person you are? As towie says, my grandson thinks it is 'cool'.
Why on earth should a popular Aber be banned for asking a simple question sqad? All I want to know is are they an indication of what kind of person you are? As towie says, my grandson thinks it is 'cool'.
I have sympathy with the father. It's not what you want society to think it is what they actually do think. Personally I don't like tattoos, but if someone believes it is nice to have doodles on their body then that is their choice, their taste. It wouldn't do for us all to be the same. In any case it seems to me they only became popular when celebs starting having them and many youngsters then followed suit (I suspect at least partially for shock value).
I don't know what the age limit is for not needing permission but I suspect 17 is probably under it.
I don't know what the age limit is for not needing permission but I suspect 17 is probably under it.
The historical connotation with tattoos is the armed forces, because you could only obtain a tattoo abroad, usually after a drunken dare on a night out.
Nowadays, a lot of young people have tattoos, they are far more acceptable than they were years ago, when as advised, they were seen as 'common' or lower class.
My personal view is that every individual has the right to decorate their body if they so wish. I really like some, dislike others, it's a matter of design, and the suitability of the wearer.
I would not have one because it would simply look silly on me.
For others - live and let live.
Nowadays, a lot of young people have tattoos, they are far more acceptable than they were years ago, when as advised, they were seen as 'common' or lower class.
My personal view is that every individual has the right to decorate their body if they so wish. I really like some, dislike others, it's a matter of design, and the suitability of the wearer.
I would not have one because it would simply look silly on me.
For others - live and let live.
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