What is up with tattoos and tourists / expats here?

[save the frogs]

11 hours ago, jayboy said:

.That class - upper middle class - expect their children to strive and achieve.

 

Yeah but maybe one of the reasons some people get tattoos is to flip the finger to the whole societal norm / status thing, which they think is bs anyway.

 

And I tend to agree with them, even though I don't have tattoos. 

 

Maybe you can learn a thing or two from these people, instead of stubbornly being fixated on status. 

 

Is the point of "education" to go around saying you're better than everyone else? Is that the point of trying to get into Harvard? Is that really an educated person? 

 

[3NUMBAS]

They won’t look good in the old folks home when they’re 75 

[save the frogs]

11 hours ago, 3NUMBAS said:

They won’t look good in the old folks home when they’re 75 

 

Neither will you. 

 

[jayboy]

3 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Headmaster said he was rubbish at school.

That's not educated IMHO, need at least a degree to be considered educated.

 

I believe the headmaster said he would either end up in prison or as a millionaire.

 

Interesting to note your definition of ''educated" with a university degree.Might come as a surprise to Steve Jobs,Bill Gates,Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell - or in another field - Shakespeare. Charles Dickens, H.G Wells,Mark Twain, George Orwell.

 

Where did yo go to University? (no fibbing now)

[BritManToo]

13 minutes ago, jayboy said:

I believe the headmaster said he would either end up in prison or as a millionaire.

 

Interesting to note your definition of ''educated" with a university degree.Might come as a surprise to Steve Jobs,Bill Gates,Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell - or in another field - Shakespeare. Charles Dickens, H.G Wells,Mark Twain, George Orwell.

 

Where did yo go to University? (no fibbing now)

Undergrad at Bath University

Postgrad at Bristol University

All 100% funded by the British government, both fees and living expenses.

 

Rich and educated and High class all have different definitions.

I have known uneducated market traders that were rich

Librarians that were well educated but poor

And a Lord that was high class (and rich and educated).

[jayboy]

3 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Undergrad at Bath University

Postgrad at Bristol University

 

All 100% funded by the British government, both fees and living expenses.

 

Bath and Bristol both excellent.It therefore surprises slightly me you hold such a narrow definition of education.

 

I prefer though I will not give the source because it would freak out some intolerant people.

 

"an educated person should be - literate, numerate, historically aware, culturally curious, engaged by science and technology, aware of the demands of the workplace, ready to take their place as an active citizen in an open democracy."

 

 

[Purdey]

Tattoos go back millennia in Thailand and elsewhere. While I don't like them personally as they are forever, I can't blame people who have them as the tradition is older than me (just).

[ignis]

10 minutes ago, Purdey said:

Tattoos go back millennia in Thailand and elsewhere. While I don't like them personally as they are forever, I can't blame people who have them as the tradition is older than me (just).

2 old men [in there 80's] in the Village are covered in Tattoos very old with black ink + every faded, moved here to the Village 21 years ago, they were old and faded then.

 

Don't see the point to them so never had any, somehow always related  tattoos as people that had been in Prison,  these days appear all sexes have them  - still don't see the point

[Harrisfan]

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Headmaster said he was rubbish at school.

That's not educated IMHO, need at least a degree to be considered educated.

Mother a dancer, that's not high class IMHO.

Education is overrated. 

[Kinok Farang]

4 hours ago, NoshowJones said:

I am almost certain these tattooed people will have a very low IQ, they are nothing more than sheep who follow the flock and with very little brains. Will you see well educated people in good jobs following the flock? I very much doubt it.

Same applies to the shirtless, big bellied, big titted brigade.

 

4 hours ago, NoshowJones said:

I am almost certain these tattooed people will have a very low IQ, they are nothing more than sheep who follow the flock and with very little brains. Will you see well educated people in good jobs following the flock? I very much doubt it.

Same applies to the shirtless, big bellied, big titted brigade.

Please don't bring my missus into this.

[Harrisfan]

2 hours ago, 3NUMBAS said:

They won’t look good in the old folks home when they’re 75 

Who cares

[save the frogs]

12 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Education is overrated. 

 

To get good jobs, sort of. But after a while, it didn't serve me well when I started changing into different types of work. 

 

And for status, which is so important to this poster and which he bases his premise that people with tattoos are of lower status than him. So be it. If that's important to people. To me, it's stupidity. 

 

[Harrisfan]

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

 

To get good jobs, sort of. But after a while, it didn't serve me well when I started changing into different types of work. 

 

And for status, which is so important to this poster and which he bases his premise that people with tattoos are of lower status than him. So be it. If that's important to people. To me, it's stupidity. 

 

Education gives knowledge. Afterwards it's contacts.

[Chris Daley]

Because they have small penises.

[Cameroni]

So I was at the market. I saw a Thai man. 

 

His face covered with those Buddhist tattoos. HIS FACE. Like Mike Tyson. But more.

 

I bet the ladies go nuts for him.

[save the frogs]

Here is some history on tattoos.

The reason it makes people so nervous is that we have been influenced by Christian rituals or ideals. Tattoos are historically a ritual of "savages".

 

So there is deep-rooted psychological and religious connotations to tattoos. It's mostly taking place on a subconscious level. That's why tattoos make people nervous, but they're not exactly sure why.

 

https://www.the4thwall.net/blog/2014/9/9/initiation

 

The pe’a is a traditional Samoan tattoo worn by men, covering the body from torso to knees. Young men receive it as a rite of passage into adulthood. This initiation is a critical and highly ritualised event in a Samoan man’s life, signalling the transition from one stage of being—adolescence—to another, more evolved, state.

 

Affronted by the heathen revelries associated with tatau, the early Christian missionaries from 1830 onwards sought to ban tattooing and continued to apply censorship pressure up until 1920.

 

Christian missionaries and colonialists have a well-known history of effacing indigenous ritual and replacing it with their own ecclesiastical forms of ceremony.

 

 

[fredwiggy]

3 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Education is overrated. 

Living proof there

[Harrisfan]

4 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

Living proof there

Look at you

[still kicking]

Farangs?

[Luuk Chaai]

On 5/1/2025 at 7:55 PM, KhaoHom said:

That will look great how long? Then what? Then ... these types hit the beach and it's blurry af in two years

I'm sleeved on both arms   plus chest and back  dating back 40 years .  and still look good

you get what you pay for 

and.   I adore tats on women !

 

[Luuk Chaai]

On 5/1/2025 at 9:29 PM, jayboy said:

 

Considered by who? Inked up losers?

 

The best and brightest of young people, the ones that are going places in life, tend not to have tattoos

you watch too much TV

 

back in the U.S.  "you" would be shocked by all the higher ups at  USG/National Gyp/ and wall streeters are inked up .....

Under those suits and ties are some pretty normal people

[save the frogs]

11 hours ago, Luuk Chaai said:

 I adore tats on women !

it's mostly men that are giving tattoos a bad reputation because most men have a bad sense of style.

 

[tjintx]

On 5/2/2025 at 2:28 PM, save the frogs said:

 

Neither will you. 

 

 

Jeez, bit of an easy call there.   Look at him now!

[still kicking]

 I adore tats on women ! 

[Cameroni]

59 minutes ago, Luuk Chaai said:

 I adore tats on women !

 

Personally I think these tattooed women have really brought hardcore porn down into the gutter.

 

 

[RT555]

Wow........You have to get out from under that rock.......

[rattlesnake]

On 5/2/2025 at 9:25 AM, save the frogs said:

 

Yeah but maybe one of the reasons some people get tattoos is to flip the finger to the whole societal norm / status thing, which they think is bs anyway.

 

And I tend to agree with them, even though I don't have tattoos. 

 

Maybe you can learn a thing or two from these people, instead of stubbornly being fixated on status. 

 

Is the point of "education" to go around saying you're better than everyone else? Is that the point of trying to get into Harvard? Is that really an educated person? 

 

 

+1 to this, that was definitely my primary motivation when I got my first ones 20 years ago.

 

Also, as I stated in the previous fornightly tattoo-bashing thread, I would be interested to see in what physical shape the 'educated' snobs on this forum are… That would put things into perspective.

[rattlesnake]

4 hours ago, Luuk Chaai said:

I adore tats on women !

 

 

So do I.

[Homburg]

I don't know what all the fuss is about.  I never saw anything wrong with tats on Popeye....

[Acharn]

On 5/1/2025 at 7:40 PM, Celsius said:

Everyone in the west has them for the last 30 years. I'm in canada now and every cuck seems to have them. However, women have gotten a bit smarter and abandoned this "trend".

I live outside Nakhorn Sawan. Everyone here seems to have tattoos, especially religious in nature. It's an ancient tradition in Thailand, maybe because the government used to tattoo people to show their citizenship (for taxation purposes).