Since we LOVE discussing skin color....

[Rotobeast]

Since we LOVE discussing skin color....

What are you thoughts on tattoos and the people who discriminate against them ?

http://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/tattoos-in-the-workplace-will-ink-sink-your-career.html/?a=viewall

I don't have a problem with most of them.
I find neck (front/side), face, hand, and finger tattoos less than appealing.
I've walked out of restaurants when seeing an employee with those tattoos.
I suppose it's a psychological thing where I associate it with being unclean.
I cannot help that it changes my appetite.
Facial piercings (mainly nose and lip) REALLY repulse me from eating in an establishment that hires such a person.
I can only think of boogers collecting on the inside of the nose-ring, waiting to fall on my food.
With the lip-ring, I visualize saliva oozing through the lip hole, drizzling my food.
Oh, gauged ears.... you ever smell these things ?
I imagine chunks of ear-cheese in my salad.

Now....mind you.....
I have A LOT of friends that have tats, piercings, ect... but I don't really go to their house for dinner.

So yeah.... I have No-Ink Privilege.



Sent from my SM-S820L using Tapatalk

[GMDino]

In general I don't have a problem with them.

I can understand where the face / more visible ones can make employers nervous, but some of the finest people I know have lots of tattoos.

[Rotobeast]

(10-03-2016, 01:42 PM)GMDino Wrote: some of the finest people I know have lots of tattoos.

Same here.
My wife has a couple, but professionally placed, with business in mind.

I think aversion to things like this go back to a more tribal/animalistic time in our evolution.


Sent from my SM-S820L using Tapatalk

[*bfine32*]

This was a big deal recently in the Army. The higher ups came down with some pretty restrictive guidelines; however. it didn't take too long for them to realize they made a mistake.

[*bfine32*]

(10-03-2016, 01:51 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: Same here.
My wife has a couple, but professionally placed, with business in mind.

.........not gonna do it.

[Rotobeast]

(10-03-2016, 02:05 PM)bfine32 Wrote: .........not gonna do it.

Awww.... but the bait is right there.


Sent from my SM-S820L using Tapatalk

[GMDino]

(10-03-2016, 01:51 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: Same here.
My wife has a couple, but professionally placed, with business in mind.

I think aversion to things like this go back to a more tribal/animalistic time in our evolution.


Sent from my SM-S820L using Tapatalk

I never saw the reason to get one, other than to identify the body later.  

But different people have different reasons.  I have friends that have several in memory of someone who passed.  I know one who got her first at 60 because she always wanted one and didn't have the nerve to before that.

But to each their own on this one.

[Belsnickel]

I've considered it for quite some time, the problem is that I have promised myself I won't do it until every time I consider it and think about what I would like done the same image sounds good to me for two years unabated. It hasn't happened yet.

[Rotobeast]

I had thought of getting one or two, in the early-mid nineties, before everyone and their brother started getting them (tribals/tramp-stamps).
The few original thing I'd conjure up would seem to end up on some celebrity, before I could get it done.
Another colossal problem is that I am very picky and very cheap.
Those don't jive together, when dealing with tattoos....lol

Sent from my SM-S820L using Tapatalk

[treee]

It depends. I don't really mind tattoos unless they're depicting something I find distasteful, which is completely subjective.

[*Nately120*]

I don't mind if people have tattoos, but wouldn't tattoos sort of lose that cool and edgy factor if they were completely accepted by mainstream society? Personally, I see the whole tattoo thing on the same level as claiming to be terrified of clowns; at one point it made you different and interesting but everyone started doing it and now having zero tattoos and NOT being terrified of clowns makes you a rebel.

Wacky, eh?

[Rotobeast]

(10-03-2016, 05:27 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I don't mind if people have tattoos, but wouldn't tattoos sort of lose that cool and edgy factor if they were completely accepted by mainstream society? Personally, I see the whole tattoo thing on the same level as claiming to be terrified of clowns; at one point it made you different and interesting but everyone started doing it and now having zero tattoos and NOT being terrified of clowns makes you a rebel.

Wacky, eh?

Pretty much why riding my Harley isn't as fun anymore.
Back in the late 80's-early 90's, people would nearly be repulsed or fearful when you'd thunder by.
Now, everybody's desensitized by MasterCard bikers.

Ahhh....the days of being covered in soot from semi exhaust, enter a rest stop, and have people part like the Red Sea.
Now, you have to be a 1%er to have that effect.

A damn shame I tell ya !


Sent from my SM-S820L using Tapatalk

[Mike M (the other one)]

They don't bother me.
Each to his own. Now if I was at a restaurant and the tattoo/piercing was really repulsive to me or my wife, then I would simply ask for another server.

[Beaker]

(10-03-2016, 02:07 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: Awww.... but the bait is right there.

[Bengalzona]

(10-03-2016, 01:51 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: Same here.
My wife has a couple, but professionally placed, with business in mind.

Tattoos?

She told me they were birthmarks.

(Bait taken)

[*michaelsean*]

I don't like tattoos at all, but I woukdn't discriminate against someone if I were an employer unless I felt it would adversely affect my business. The exception are face tattoos. I will prejudge you for those.

[Rotobeast]

(10-03-2016, 09:49 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: Tattoos?

She told me they were birthmarks.

(Bait taken)

Sucker !!

Now I have a name to put with the video footage.





Sent from my SM-S820L using Tapatalk

[oncemoreuntothejimbreech]

(10-03-2016, 12:31 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: Oh, gauged ears.... you ever smell these things ?

No, but I would love to hear the story of how you did.

[RICHMONDBENGAL_07]

They don't bother me at all really. I don't have any (which shocks many who knew I was in the Navy), but like many have mentioned, I wanted one that was personal to me, and so many seem to have them these days. Also now that so many have them, I don't care about them now. I will say this, something really puts me off with random neck or facial tats. There is a really pretty waitress at a restaurant that I go to that has a neck tat. I always wandered what made her decide to put that there?

[oncemoreuntothejimbreech]

I never wanted a tattoo enough to spend the money. Plus I saw WWII vets with a tattoos of Betty Boop, for example, which may have been cool in 1943, but decades later looked like skin cancer. Plus, I watched a PBS documentary about Nazi concentration camps which showed lamp shades and books made from the tattoos skinned from the Jewish prisoners. (Cue our Holocaust denier in 3, 2, 1 . . . )