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[Lipstickdiva]

We've been down this road many, many, many times with tattoo threads.  These threads never end up going well and the OP has been here long enough to know that.

[Cakers3]

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@candyagain wrote:

I won't be here to see it but the future elderly tatooed community is going to look very scary.......

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@candyagain   LOL  Yeah, some are missing the point here. 

[Magicrat]

People get them to be different, and by doing so, they're all the same.

[Cakers3]

Tattoos do not bother me at all.

Some are based on generations of culture, and the cultures are around the world.

We know certain tats are gang related and/or prison related and those are cultures within cultures-not understood by those not involved in said cultures.

I guess, though, Justin Bieber must be one angry young man after getting a tattoo on his neck...........but it is of a peach so maybe not.  LOL

[Bridgegal]

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@Magicrat wrote:

People get them to be different, and by doing so, they're all the same.

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     Some,yes but not all.   About 15 years ago my DH started suffering from PTSD linked to his time in Vietnam.  He had what I call a 'mini breakdown' and got therapy.  He also got 2 tattoos on his arm that signified that time.  He did a few others things that helped him recover.  

I'm not a fan of tattoos, but they contributed to his recovery.  He did not get them to be different.  He got them to heal.

[Porcelain]

Logic class now in session. Some people with anger management issues have neck tattoos. I've know a few. So they do exist. That's all my strange personal prejudice is about.

Therefore: not all people with anger management issues have neck tattoos. Also: Not all people with neck tattoos have anger management issues. Therefore: if you have neck tattoos and do not have anger management issues, you do indeed exist, and I am glad of it. Pleased to meet you and I am sure we can get along swimmingly.

My biggest question: Why would anyone go out of their way to inspect the locations of all of Justin Beiber's tattoos?  I just looked him up and he was arrested in Miami for DUI and resisting arrest. So I guess that could have afforded him the opportuntity for one of those fancy ballpoint pen and toothbrush shank jail tatts. If that's what was mean by this...Most neck tattoos are done by professionals however.

Also since everyone is so invested in my extremely important opinions on neck tattoos (which I find surprising but very interesting), I should further clarify that by neck tattoos I am referring to the ones that go straight across the neck in front like a choker necklace. (I didn't include that aspect of my odd prejudice in my original shocking post because I didn't realize then how much anyone would care.) Not little pixie tattoos on the side of the neck or the back of it.

I just looked at a current picture of Justin Bieber and he has nothing on the front of his neck. So he is in the clear! I am sure you are all so relieved!

[Cakers3]

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@Cumbercookie13 wrote:

I have three and I didn't get them until I was in my 40's. My first one is the Aquarius waves symbol on my inside left wrist. My second is a shooting star on the bottom side of my left hand that covers up a burn scar. My third is the Aquarius constellation done in flowers on my bottom right calf.  I plan to get a fourth to honor my mom who passed away in 2019. Something with a ladybug because she loved ladybugs. 

Many tattoos are beautiful and have meaning to their wearers. There's really no stigma in them anymore, only to those who can't shed their extreme conservative views on appearance and/or be a little open minded. 

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@Cumbercookie13  As I stated earlier, tats do not bother me.  I do find your statement, however, to be an odd way to insert a political pov.

I would submit that not all folks who do not like tats are extreme conservative and/or not just a little open-minded.

[Cakers3]

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@BostonMommy wrote:

I have 2 tattoo's in memory of our youngest son we lost in the Marines. I have the same tattoo's that he had in the same places too. I took my son Chris to get his first tattoo. I asked him to wait until he got out of boot camp to get his first. We took him right after boot camp gradutation.  He showed us what he was getting . We paid for it then went off to do some window shopping while he got it.  It's a Tribal panther on the back of my right should blade ( just like my son's). The second one my husband and I did together we both got the same one as our son had  a sunburst on the back of our left cavles. for me it has a special memory and meaning.

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@BostonMommy   I am truly sorry for your loss.

[NicksmomESQ]

Personally I'm not a fan of tattoos. But to each their own. I have some close friends who have them. If it works for them then it's none of my business.Life would be boring if we were all the same.

[Porcelain]

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@Puppy Lips wrote:

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@Cumbercookie13 wrote:

I have three and I didn't get them until I was in my 40's. My first one is the Aquarius waves symbol on my inside left wrist. My second is a shooting star on the bottom side of my left hand that covers up a burn scar. My third is the Aquarius constellation done in flowers on my bottom right calf.  I plan to get a fourth to honor my mom who passed away in 2019. Something with a ladybug because she loved ladybugs. 

Many tattoos are beautiful and have meaning to their wearers. There's really no stigma in them anymore, only to those who can't shed their extreme conservative views on appearance and/or be a little open minded. 

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@Cumbercookie13 Not sure having conservative views or being closed minded has as much to do with opinions on tattoosas you may think.  We, as thinking and feeling humans, are allowed to have opinions on things, whether others agree or not.  Just because someone does not agree with you does not mean they are "closed minded."

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She said conservative views on appearance. The old meaning of the word conservative. As in dressing conservatively as opposed to wildly.