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Question for my Sly Brothers?????

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Alexander215:
Eff everyone else, if you don't know them then they shouldn't mean anything to ya.

Mikekoz13:

--- Quote from: shdwwlk on September 01, 2008, 01:29:17 PM ---Eff everyone else, if you don't know them then they shouldn't mean anything to ya.

--- End quote ---

This is all well and good except that the real world doesn't necessarily work like that. Tattoos still have a stigma to a lot of people. If you're trying to get a job and the guy interviewing you doesn't like tattoos, he doesn't have to say anything about them BUT you may not get the job.

When I was younger trhe whole "eff 'em" attitude was supreme in my life but with a little age comes wisdom.

Oh yeah......I have a half sleeve (that sticks well out of the shirts i wear) and another tattoo on my opposite shoulder. I choose to have them BUT I realize they are not for everybody.....

slyinglide:
Acceptable?  I think that we would like to think of them as acceptable.  I have several Tats, and I have learned that if I need to go to a customers house to do an estimate or consultation on a project, that it is better for me to have them covered.

But I have let them slip a couple of times and have recieved compliments on them......the majority of the people that look down on them have been retired, or older than 55 years of age.

schro:
I feel strongly about a lot of things, I just choose not to express my strong beliefs in ink on my body.

Do I judge people just because they have tattoos? Usually not, but I can say I have laughed at people that have had ink on their face to the point that I've thought "WTF were they thinking"? Then again, they've usually done other things to make me say that (see Mike Tyson, among others).

I personally know a lot of people that have some type of body ink. It's their body, it's their choice, so who am I to say what they do to their own body?

Piercings & Tattoos are just not my thing.

babb4214:
dude, tattoos are badass! I personally have 6, all on my upper arms, and eventually, i'm going to have a half sleeve on my right arm..... I can see how some people have bad stereotypes about tattoos and such, and you really have to know that the vast majority of those people are older people... now a days the people that dont have tattoos dont mind them, it's just not for them.... me, they are for me and they all symbolize something, a part of my life.... so i'm all for you bro, it's not a big deal, everyone has their own opinions.... i also have both of my ears pierced, it's no big deal at all!

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