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Tattoos

Tatts 36 members have voted

  1. 1. How many do you have?

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      68%
      24
    • 1
      11%
      4
    • 2
      2%
      1
    • 3 to 5
      11%
      4
    • 6 to 10
      0%
      0
    • Covered in them
      5%
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  • BilllyGOAT
    BilllyGOAT

    NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!

  • Harrisfan
    Harrisfan

    Lots then lol

  • Gottfrid
    Gottfrid

    And again, you managed to create a topic, where you just can use one-liners to agitate and irritate people. If you wish to know, I have 4, and I am happy with them. My wife has none, but she has no

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28 minutes ago, connda said:


Tats never appealed to me, never will. My favorites are women who get tatted up, and all I'm thinking is, "Wow - what a mess you're going to look like post menopause, especially when you begin to wrinkle and the ink diffuses." Well, pair up with an equally tatted guy and they can age like lizards which have been baked on a rock in the desert.

I noticed many young Western women last week in Bangkok, adorned with tattoos. I wonder if they will regret them later in life.

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1 minute ago, TedG said:

I noticed many young Western women last week in Bangkok, adorned with tattoos. I wonder if they will regret them later in life.

I think so

8 minutes ago, TedG said:

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Permanently clowned.

6 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Real winner

It’s a laughing matter

9 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

Sure, but then just maybe, the OP should be more into it and give more meat on the replies. What is a study to you, if the one behind it, just shut everyone down? It could have been interesting, with supportive information. Like how many tattoos do you have, where are they placed and what motive do they have. Was it something that made you choose the motive. Did you get your tattoos when you where sober or was it a decision made by an alcohol fueled mind. Do you socialize with people who have or don´t have tattoos? Do you have or would you rather choose a partner with tattoos or not, and does it really matter? Are you happy with your tattoos? Do you plan to add more tattoos in the future?

There you have your social study. This topic is just created by a person who has a negative view on tattoos and only wish to look down on the ones who have.

Good answer

1 hour ago, Patong2021 said:

Aren't the notes the same size?

Thai bank notes increase in size as the value increases.

Once seen as a sign of low-class individuals, tattoos now show a reverse prole drift, with people from higher classes getting tacky tattoos.

3 hours ago, blaze master said:

Thai bank notes increase in size as the value increases.

How did I not know this at 20+ years? I just opened my wallet and compared 20-100 and 1000. There are indeed differences in the horizontal length, I think I never noticed or forgot because the width is identical and I just shove bills in my wallet and mostly pay with plastic now, but still, not very observant.

1 hour ago, Patong2021 said:

How did I not know this at 20+ years? I just opened my wallet and compared 20-100 and 1000. There are indeed differences in the horizontal length, I think I never noticed or forgot because the width is identical and I just shove bills in my wallet and mostly pay with plastic now, but still, not very observant.

Be honest. You did, and continue to do like most here, when it comes time to pay the bill. and just hand your wallet to your Thai missus. That's why you have no idea about it.

1 hour ago, Patong2021 said:

How did I not know this at 20+ years? I just opened my wallet and compared 20-100 and 1000. There are indeed differences in the horizontal length, I think I never noticed or forgot because the width is identical and I just shove bills in my wallet and mostly pay with plastic now, but still, not very observant.

The ladies notice the width.

8 hours ago, blaze master said:

The ladies notice the width.

Of the wallet, yes. The other width they don't care about. Their "brother" takes care of that. 🙂

3 minutes ago, KhunHeineken said:

Of the wallet, yes. The other width they don't care about. Their "brother" takes care of that. 🙂

Totally not my experience. After all I am very handsum man sexy man.

To each his own, but also one cannot help but have an opinion.

 

As disconcerting as this might be, I probably find myself in agreement with harris on this topic. To me, tattoos scream “sheeple”. Tatts were around for thousands of years, but only when they became a fad did the sheeple all jump on board.

Personally, I find tattoos butt ugly….on anyone. They are noisy. Nobody looks better with one, and the rationale that “it has special meaning” is bizarre. Deface one’s body to make a memory? The brain has plenty of circuits to build and hold memories, and if the mind ever goes, the tatt-wearer is likely also to forget why the heck he or she got the tatt. I've heard people say their back tatts have "special meaning". What? They can't even see the thing that has "special meaning".

The worst are fresh ones on fat flabby old men. I cannot help but feel those guys think the warrior tatts make them a babe magnet. They just look silly, similar to a guy with a wrinkled face who dyes what hair he has left Commie Black.

The fad does seem to be dying, and not before time. There is plenty of research now linking tatts to autoimmune disorders like Lupus, and colored tatts linked to various cancers. I don’t know who could ever have thought that having ink injected into one’s skin could NOT be harmful. It’s a foreign substance and the body is designed to attack it. It gets moved into the lymphatic system and ends up in lymph nodes, where it can cause reactions and mutations. Is following a fad worth Lupus or cancer?

Again, humans are free to do whatever they want to their bodies, but humans also cannot help having opinions. If we look at something and find it unpleasant or ugly, we don't have to act on that opinion, but at the same time we cannot deny what we feel.

19 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

You keep reading my topics cause your life is very sad. Stuck in Isaan with nothing to do. If I hated someone as much as you hate me I'd put them on ignore. Too bad you need to read my topics to brighten up your miserable days.

I don´t hate anyone. Especially not a person like you, that I´ve never met. I don't know if you are fun to be around or hang out with, and therefore I can´t feel any hate or like you as a person. My days are definitely not miserable. I have a great life, a great family and all I need around me. Also, why would you think that I am stuck in Isaan? I have made a choice to create my life here. If you go to a place you like or settle down in an area that is nice to you, do you consider yourself stuck. In that case I feel very sorry for you.

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12 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

My days are definitely not miserable. I have a great life, a great family and all I need around me. Also, why would you think that I am stuck in Isaan?

Because the tone and content of your posts appear to be from a deeply unhappy person.

Even your avatar presents you as an unhappy person.

17 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Slang used for decades by lots of adults. You just proved you have a very low IQ.

Yeah, that´s what we all thought. You are measuring IQ level based on how many slang words a person knows. After that you are calling other people dumb and stupid. Please, reconsider as you are digging a really deep hole right now.

5 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Because the tone and content of your posts appear to be from a deeply unhappy person.

Even your avatar presents you as an unhappy person.

Ok, then you are a woman, right?

58 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

Ok, then you are a woman, right?

Change your avatar to something nice.

Add some positive content to your posts.

Show everyone how happy you are.

It's not hard.

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Change your avatar to something nice.

Add some positive content to your posts.

Show everyone how happy you are.

It's not hard.

You see! Now I am happy. 😉

21 hours ago, TedG said:

I noticed many young Western women last week in Bangkok, adorned with tattoos. I wonder if they will regret them later in life.

Tattoos have become a sign of conformity and social validation, the opposite of what they used to be.

5 hours ago, Wingate said:

There is plenty of research now linking tatts to autoimmune disorders like Lupus, and colored tatts linked to various cancers.

Funny how tatts have been around forever, but the link to autoimmune diseases and cancer has only been disseminated for a couple of years. It's true those ailments are on the rise… and I don't think tattoo ink is the culprit.

1 hour ago, rattlesnake said:

Tattoos have become a sign of conformity and social validation, the opposite of what they used to be.

A good sign of insecurity and sheep mentality!

But thats how it is, humans is strange animals

52 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:

Funny how tatts have been around forever, but the link to autoimmune diseases and cancer has only been disseminated for a couple of years. It's true those ailments are on the rise… and I don't think tattoo ink is the culprit.

And you cant think thousands of holes in your skin with inks often in different quality and different ingredients can make harm ?

2 minutes ago, Hummin said:

And you cant think thousands of holes in your skin with inks often in different quality and different ingredients can make harm ?

Ink quality has improved over the past couple of decades. There are different types and a good tattoo artist will not use toxic ingredients. People seeking tatts should discuss this with their artist and it is good that awareness is raised on the issue.

7 minutes ago, Hummin said:

A good sign of insecurity and sheep mentality!

But thats how it is, humans is strange animals

I totally get people's aversion to tattoos, and agree (bearing in mind I have several myself which I did between 10-20 years ago) that in the 2020s they have become a symbol of conformity and herd mentality to the point where the only people sticking out in a group (and therefore those showing independence of mind) are the untattooed ones, a total inversion of what it was back in the 2000s.

1 minute ago, rattlesnake said:

Ink quality has improved over the past couple of decades. There are different types and a good tattoo artist will not use toxic ingredients. People seeking tatts should discuss this with their artist and it is good that awareness is raised on the issue.

I totally get people's aversion to tattoos, and agree (bearing in mind I have several myself which I did between 10-20 years ago) that in the 2020s they have become a symbol of conformity and sheep mentality to the point where the only people sticking out in a group (and therefore those showing independence of mind) are the untattooed ones, a total inversion of what it was back in the 2000s.

I got one when I was 17 back in the 80ies, my father made me disinherited. Well I was only 17, but had started skydiving, so it was important to me to have one personal one, and managed to hide for a year or so. Today, Im just happy I didn’t take more of them.

24 minutes ago, Hummin said:

I got one when I was 17 back in the 80ies, my father made me disinherited. Well I was only 17, but had started skydiving, so it was important to me to have one personal one, and managed to hide for a year or so. Today, Im just happy I didn’t take more of them.

Fair enough. And back in those days, some inks were definitely problematic.

8 hours ago, blaze master said:

Totally not my experience. After all I am very handsum man sexy man.

I'm single, so totally not my experience either. 🙂

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