Eighty-three percent of Americans with tattoos do not regret getting them. Sixteen percent do. Of those 16 percent, two percent say they regret getting them because having them affects their job in some way. But the number one reason cited for feelings of regret about getting a tattoo was “because of a person’s name in the tattoo,” according to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive online during July 2003 among a nationwide sample of 2,215 adults.

The same poll found that 16 percent of all adults have at least one tattoo. Thirty-six percent of Americans age 25 to 29 have tattoos; the number drops to 28 percent for the 30 to 39 age group, and continues to drop in multiples of seven to age 64 with only seven percent.

WVD.....I like the tatts, especially the dragon !!!

How about asking God then...
go ahead, see if he would encourage you to continue to spew words of hate & anger...

Thanks.He's my guardian. I gave birth to that one! Every step that I took it would hurt like @ell, for about 3 days.

Ok folks.You all realize that all this bickering with big mouth is falling on deaf ears,right?
I mean,you're just giving him the attention that he craves.And apparently not getting at home.
Do any of you really care what the big bonzo says? You all know that any normal person wouldn't be able to talk, let alone type if he spouted off all this b.s around real live people.He'd be punched so hard that he'd probably would think he's his own god!
I say we get back to the topic of which bonzo doesn't agree with.Tattoos.
He's hijacked the thread enough.

Amen!! WVD> where are your tats? I can't seem to figure out where to find them. Don't you hate it when everyone says how cool and beautiful something is and your the only idiot that can't locate it? Did you post a link? I read where you said they are on the other place but I don't know where that is

It was clear back on page 10 because of all this b.s.
Ok.I don't know how to post a link but heres the addie.

groups.msn.com/Herald-Mail/homepage

I wish they were better but I only had a one time use camera.

http://groups.msn.com/Herald-Mail/shoebox.msnw

here is a working link

The pics turned out pretty good for a disposable camera. Was it a digital?

The color in the tatts is great! My son has one that's about 4 years old now, and the color has kinda faded. He'd like to get it touched up.

So, let me understand this.

Not only do you have the initial cost (and pain) of the Tattoo, but you have ongoing maintenance?

Seems like an expensive form of expression to me.

Just a thought.

Different people hold color in various forms. I hold color very well as does Wvdl. Some people with darker skin or who spend great amounts of time in the sun have trouble holding color. It is recommended to use a high spf sun screen on your tattoos to avoid fading. When I know I will be in the sun I use a spf 45 on my tatts. Some inks hold differently than others. Some artists may not put ink as deep or heavy as others. There are a lot of variables. Everyone has different skin types and they produce various results.

Thank your for the clarification.

There are lots of expensive forms of expression. I could care less how WVD spends her money as long as it does not affect me. I don't have any tatts, and don't want any, and don't particularly like to see them, but that's just my personal opinion. Some people don't like things I wear or do. To each his/her own. I have friends with them, and piercings, and that's fine.

Anyone who thinks they can judge character by the presence or absence of an earring or tattoo is either mentally off kilter or just plain ole stupid. So I suppose they deserve our pity, or maybe our prayers, but I don't like it when prejudiced jerks go out of their way to hurt others' feelings. Would we tolerate it as easily here of this forum if someone said all blacks were lowlife thieves and drug dealers? Or all hispanics are lazy, all jews are greedy, all Catholics were child-molesters, all Baptists are crazy redneck snake-handlers, and all Middle Easterners are murderous terrorists?

Get thicker skin is easy to say, but some folks' skin might have been chafed thin by other hard knocks of life. It's easier, and better, and more civilized, to just not go out of one's way to insult and hurt others for no good reason. Don't draw first blood. Easy, no?

I agree that if you are old enough to die for your country you should be able to get a tattoo and drink for that matter.

But this isn't such a bad thing. It is a big decision. Not just getting that tattoo but where to put it what size color or just black work. I would think the majority of tattoo removals or cover ups are ones people got at an early age. Whether they change their minds on design or went to a bad artist or don't like the placement anymore.

On the the other hand you do not want to create an enviorment where teens are tattooing their selves or each other. I think it should definitely be up to the states to decide. But it creates some problems either way.

I also think it is a good thing for tattoo shops to question certain areas of the body to be tattooed or the design. I think everyone has the right to tattoo(or pierce) whatever part of their body they wish. But they need to make a very informed decision. Unfortunatley there are very stereo typical people in this world(as evident by this thread) and career future and things need to be take into consideration.

I know certian shops who won't tattoo face, head, hands or necks. I have been to many tattoo conventions and seen all types and placement of tattoos. Occasionly you will see a very young person with their face tattooed. While this bothers me in no way you do have to wonder what that person plans on doing for the rest of there lives.

well said Snoop

Well, I was attempting to steer away from the bashing that was happening on this page, but I do believe once "someone" reads what you typed Snoopy, I believe it will just continue.

Oh well, let the cards fall were they may. I might suggest that you get a "flak-jacket".

Perhaps you can tell me what I said that is so controversial.

Need I say more?

All that statement boils down to is "do not judge a book by its cover". It is absolutley true.

The sun is probably what faded it. He's spent a lot of time working outside, and never wears sunscreen. He gets a great tan (unlike mom!), but it's done a job on the tattoo.

AMEN SNOOP!!!

Yes. Help me out here. Exactly what about that is controversial. Please explain it to me.

I'm going to let it go, might I suggest you do the same.

If you'd like a bigger stick to stir the pot, please do it in the thread I created for you. JUST Kidding, you may exercise your First Amendment Right at any time.

No.Just a regular 35mm.Hubby said that they had too much flash.If I ever get a digital(maybe Yule?) I'll change the ones on the site.

I gave you God's word about tattoing already, dipwad!

YOU made a statement that makes me believe you and your son CLAIM to be Christians. That means you have no business dismissing the negative perceptions others may have of your or your son's tattoos or body piercings.

You are commanded to avoid all appearance of evil. That would include not tattooing yourselves because, while it may not MAKE you a low life dirtbag, it gives others the impression that you might be one and therefore reflects negatively on God and all Christians. I gave you the scriptures that back up my assertions already. Maybe you should try re-reading them?

Tats are like lots of other things. They contribute to that first impression you get of someone, which is always subject to change as you get to know them. All I am really saying is that tats have a generally negative influence on many peoples' perceptions of you. I think that many people choose to get them specifically because of their connotations, which says even more about their character. But of course getting a tattoo won't make you anyone other than the person you were before you got the tattoo. It just tells me that you're trying to make a certain kind of "statement", and one that I think generally reflects negatively on you, in my eyes. I know plenty of people who have them, and most of them are decent enough people, but their decision to get the tattoos was in no case ever anything but a reflection of a negative character trait or impulse of one kind or another, even though it doesn't color my ENTIRE perception of the person.

What would someone charge to tattoo I'M A LOCAL on my forehead?

It depends:

If you don't mind a Rusty Nail, Latex Paint and a Hammer, I can do it for 5 bucks.

If you prefer a more "sterile" setting you'll have to look in the phone book.

I'll do it with a sharpened paperclip and a bic pen for $10. I'll even hold the paper clip over a candle for a couple seconds to sterilize it.

All my tattoos have some form of honor to go with them.They weren't a "whim".They were thought about and I chose the design.Three are for my deceased Son,Daughter and Father.I don't give a rat's patutty who thinks what about them.Everytime someone asks me what my rose says, my daughter's name is spoken aloud and remembered.Considering how she was alone( with out her family around her) when she was murdered that's the LEAST I could do, being her Mother.And my son was the angel that carries his name.
I have no room in my life for people who judge by looks instead of words and deeds.

very well said Snoop, ITA!!

and also, very well said WVD.

#1- I am not a "dipwad"
#2- go back and read my post, I said to ask God if spewing words of hate & anger would be considered Christian-like.

"light a candle for the sinners...and set the world on fire" -Rev.Marilyn Manson

Here's your
antichrist
superstar

Now THAT was funny!

Thanks!

I call B.S. You dedicated several minutes of your time, and gave several inches of text on an internet forum for me.

Of course yours is a typically moronic generalization. EVERYONE judges by looks to an extent, except for blind people. And NOBODY judges purely by looks, once they've heard the person's words and seen their deeds.

If you folks really didn't care what I and the other 6.5 million Americans who sahre my opinions think, you wouldn't keep replying. You obvously do care what I think, and it's driving you nuts that you cannot FORCE me to accept your standards. The length of this thread, and so many others where people have gone on and on and on attacking me and my opinions, is testimony to that fact.

Well, he's got the queer part right! I don't know about slimeball, but to each their own!

I heard precious few responses to my ear piercing question from anyone young enough to have an answer worth hearing. Naomi can say whatever she wants, she's just taking her son's word for it. If having your right ear pirced no longer means you're a flaming queer, I would like to hear it from someone young enough to actually know what the young folks of today think about it. NOT what they tell their mommys and daddys.

Well B...I am 30 and I remember your left ear right ear crap, and I'm telling you that is true...I know many MEN who have their ears pierced several times, IN BOTH EARS! They are most certainly NOT gay....Times have changed, how bout you catch up with it! Or not....Whatever you wanna do!

You did I am still quite young 28 and know many people my age and older and you are wrong on your ass-umption.

B. doesn't always listen to what you say....Just what he wants to HEAR!

Just how you hijacked the thread.I still wish the Mods would move all this crap to some thread devoted specifically to all off topic rants.I mean there are PAGES of this stuff!

You bore me little man with your hypocritical christian b.s. that seems to be by rote.Same crap/different day.Get some new material. I've heard better shit from street corner preachers.

I think you like to be attacked.I think that you get a woody from it.I think that your just a masochistic,fake christian who uses the "religion" hook to get your humiliations so you can get your rocks off.But,it doesn't matter what I think.You're the one that has to "pay up" at the end meeting with your god.So,whatever blows your skirt up little man is nothiing to me.By your own words here on this board,you have,to me showed that you're not a true christian.That taking pleasure from the hateful,nasty words that you write here to others proves that you're no christian.As you may have read,others here feel sorry and pity for you.I don't.You know that what you do and say is wrong and against what you try to preach here on the board.To me you're a joke.A cartoon representation of what real people who are christians act like.If you don't know by now,I will say that when everybody missed you and wanted you to come back,I didn't.The board was a much better place for your absence.I wish you would have stayed gone.I'm through even seeing that you're here on this board.I'll ignore you like I was told to ignore rowdy/roho/buckaroo.You'll not get your sexual pleasure from me attacking you.
There,I've just dedicated several more inches(which I hope are longer than your "inches")of text to you.They will be my last.Joke.Fake.

And I'm asking AGAIN,formally for the Mods to move all of the PAGES of this off topic postings to some place else.Please?

How young you want? My nephew is 18 he and his friends all say the same thing; there is no meaning in having your right ear pierced. So do all of the younger people I work with. I'm not old myself, I'm only 35. And as I said in a previous post, I know many gay men who have no piercings. Ear piercings do not advertise ones sexual preference!

Whenever I read one of BMIC's rants, this is how I picture him.....

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit

OK, I almost lost my raisin bran on that one!

Now thats funny

What's the name of the tattoo parlor out on the Duel? The one in the little shopping center?I can't remember,it's been so long since I was there.