yea they’re fucking trash, and I agree there are a few narrow exceptions.

I always found them trashy

Identity is fluid, tattoos are not.

What people are you hanging around to get the “do you think my tattoo is cool?”, high schoolers?

Fully agree. Nothing turns me off more than a tattoo. Don’t know where this trend all of sudden came from - at the same time as broccoli hair - but I can’t wait for it to pass.

I have full sleeves and a chest piece. I get them for myself and my own story. They mean something to me. I don’t care what you think about them.

Having said that you used the community correctly. But I not agree with you. Tattoos can be stupid and pointless to the user as well. They can just be there and it’s impulsive and they want to tell a story.

Fuck it, you used the community correctly. Have my upvote you damn prude.

Personally I have nothing against tattoos—you don’t have to be an artist to appreciate art—I simply cannot think of any design or text I like so much that I want it displayed permanently on my skin.

Also I do not have the pain tolerance nor the nerves to sit still while I get stabbed hundreds (thousands?) of times a second. I hate needles with a burning passion; I can barely handle getting my blood drawn.

I both fully agree and disagree. While there are several tattoos I would like to have gotten in my life, I’ve never been able to justify the cost. Monitary cost or time cost. I do have one tattoo and it is my wedding ring. I do not wear jewelry and work with my hands. Now some may argue thats stupid for different reasons but it remains my only tattoo.

A friend once drew me a tattoo to get, and that would have been cheaper to have traced on to me, but after many years, I find I’m just as happy to have that piece of art my friend made hanging on my wall.

I love seeing other people’s tattoos, particularly when it’s someone’s art and not yanked from media as you said or just tattoos for the sake of tattoos.

My wife has a number and they all mean something to her individually and look great. My brother has a few that all have meaning to him, and they mostly look terrible, but are still original art.

Its just such a long history and wide range of tattoos and reasons for having them i find it hard to put a blanket statment like " tattoos are stupid" on them. On the other hand i feel “tattoos are stupid for me” completely accurate and reasonable.

I wouldn’t say stupid, but I wish people would try to justify them so much, nobody need a drawing on their body as a reminder of something.

Just admit the vanity and narcissism.

I always say “Never do anything to your body that is permanent”. I don’t like them either.

You know what’s stupid is people against vaccines having tattoos

I think this should be about your own body and not others. I’m not sure why you care so much about what other people are doing to their own skin. This doesn’t seem like “looking at tattoos makes my skin crawl” this is more of a judgement on others’ actions than an opinion on tattoos. You seem to be horrified by “cringe” things - just let people be happy and I think this “opinion” will disappear.

I used to want tattoos. Thought I’d be covered from head to toe. Then my brothers started getting tattoos and I realized two things.

1. Good tattoos are really expensive. I’m not talking about full sleeves or back pieces. I mean sticker sized hand or arm pieces are even expensive. You want color? Price goes up. You want something that will look good in five years? Price goes up. You want anything that’s a challenge or creative for the artist to do? The price goes up. Sure you can get cheap little tattoos for $100, but then its a shit tattoo that someone with little experience or a drug habit has to do. (My brothers used to throw tattoo parties for a local junkie to make $50 to $100 a pop off of underaged kids. That dude would make a killing.)

2. Most tattoo ideas are not original or good. Both my brothers got full arms of junk that’s all meaningless platitudes and shitty sticker tattoos. Oh you got a skull. A flower. Some filigree to surround your tramp stamp. Even my own idea which was a snake wrapped around a guitar would have looked like shit after a while.

All this is coming from a tattoo fan. I’ve seen a lot of good work. A lot of cool art. That’s rare. That requires a lot of money, and an excellent artist. Those shops are so few and far between. You have to hope the artist has an opening. You have to have a minimum $1000 for anything with thought and color. After a while I just gave up the idea of getting one and decided to appreciate them from afar.

I agree I don’t like them either