Tattoos and vacation

[rainman99]

Is this a new fad? Some people I work with went on vacation and came back with a tattoo. My daughter and her husband did it last year. My brother in law and his wife did last month for the first time. My 65 year old sister just came back from key west with her first one. I don't have any never could figure out what i wanted on the body the rest of my life. Although I have some cool looking scars. Think I would prefer to rent a jet ski on vacation. Know it wont last as long but I think it would be more fun. We are goining to Oregon this year for vacation to see our 1 year old Grandaughter for the first time. Maybe I get her a tattoo.

 

[HopeSheFloats]

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Not sure if it's a fad or what, but I could use a vacation from the temporary tattoos I get working around the house or on the car or boat...maybe I should make my home a destination point, something like... Visit 'Clumsyville' home of the hazardous Klutzman.

 

[boat1010]

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I was in the Navy for 23 years and never found anything that I would want on my body for the rest of my life. LOL My grand kids get some tattoos that you put on with warm water and a wash cloth. Look pretty real and last a couple of days.

 

[tashasdaddy]

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might be the GOOD tropical cocktails.

 

[ezbtr]

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I've got a few(5) and still like them all, have all my kids on me
Will probably get some more

 

[rbh]

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Not sure if it's a fad or what, but I could use a vacation from the temporary tattoos I get working around the house or on the car or boat...maybe I should make my home a destination point, something like... Visit 'Clumsyville' home of the hazardous Klutzman.

I will make sure I bring my own personnell protective gear.

 

[lowkee]

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It seems some like to collect all kinds of things they carry with them for the rest of their lives when going on vacation. At least tattoos can technically be removed

 

[mphy98]

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I also made it through the Air Force without getting inked anywhere. I just do not get the fad. A friend of my wife's got one in Lost Wages at a very clean shop, 2 years later it puffed up like a balloon and was nasty looking. It turns out that you can have an allergic reaction to a tat up to 5 years later. She now has to have the skin removed because of infection and new skin taken off other parts of her and grafted back on. Way to much drama for me.

 

[imported_John o]

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I've never understood the self-mutilation culture that seems to be on rise lately.

Especially girls getting disfigured. The female form is so beautiful and then they go and write all over it. I saw a girl in San Diego a while back who would have been awesomely beautiful if it weren't for all teh ink on her (wings tattooed on her back). It was a crying shame.

Then we have those folk who walk around looking like they got caught in an explosion at a hardware store.

I think most of it is driven by mental illness.

(I actually don't care what the guys do but ink or piercings on a woman is like drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa)

 

[npd4432]

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I agree with imported john o, but then I also think that I just may be getting old, because I just dont get it.

 

[Vlad D Impeller]

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I look upon it all as graffiti.

 

[HopeSheFloats]

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I will make sure I bring my own personnell protective gear.

LOL, good luck with that...I don't think a suit of armor would help :redface:

As to the tat's, Those who get them just want to be recognized as an individual...just like everyone else who gets them lol

 

[JB]

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Back in the early 50s I remember many shipmates going through the skin removal method of tattoo removal. Just observing their pain and embarrassment was enough to put me off the idea permanently. Of course, most of the tattoos were typically drunken adolescent (very bad) choices.

On the other hand, I remember a nubile young lovely who had a small (1-1/2") schmetterling on her hip and another who had a small blossom in the same area. I found both attractive. . . sort of like unique jewelry.

 

[4JawChuck]

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#1 way of contracting hepatitis for the rest of your life!

 

[thefairlaneman]

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It offends me to HAVE TO SEE the tats on people who are out in public. Its their right no doubt but I also have a right to think they look trashy on women. I got news for women that display their 'art" in public."Ugly women are still ugly when they get a tat"

 

[kenmyfam]

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They do absolutely nothing for me. Never had one and never will. Don't like the look of them on others and have never pretended to "admire" anyones that wants to try to show it off.
Just my opinion though. Each to their own, it is a personal choice.

 

[JaSla74]

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Tats to me are like a new car or boat. Sure they're great in the beginning, but eventually you'll be looking for the next model. What I thought was cool as a teenager wasn't as cool in my 20s. Nor what I think is cool now in my 30s will I think in my 40s & so on. I take no issue with tattoos, but that ink would have to be dang skippy special for me to carry the rest of my days.

 

[HVAC Cruiser]

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Well I'm guilty, I have the USAF eagle on my left arm for 28 years now, got it at 17 right before I joined. I believe to each his own, in having it doesn't phase or affect me one bit. I didn't get it because I thought it was cool or friends were getting them, they didn't I got it all by myself. Its kinda like my wedding ring to the good old USA . I wouldn't get another, not because I'm against them but because it was all I wanted.

BUT I am a hypocrite because I do lie to my kids when they say THEY want one and tell them I wouldn't do it again that you get prejudged bla bla bla. Their my little ones I don't want them getting one just because they think its cool

 

[Mark_VTfisherman]

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I've never understood the self-mutilation culture that seems to be on rise lately....Especially girls getting disfigured. The female form is so beautiful and then they go and write all over it. ....Then we have those folk who walk around looking like they got caught in an explosion at a hardware store.I think most of it is driven by mental illness.(I actually don't care what the guys do but ink or piercings on a woman is like drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa)

I have seldom seen a woman looking attractive in tats, and most of those I do see aren't that desirable to begin with. Don't they have showers? At least here in VT...

But guys with tats scare me sometimes. Go into the little convenience store in my little town and you see these tattooed relatively young guys with their gaunt arms and greasy hair covered in full-wrap tattoos- they look like refugees from a methadone clinic. Probably are.

 

[Vlad D Impeller]

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#1 way of contracting hepatitis for the rest of your life!

And taken all too lightly these days, also i find it to be repugnant not that there are TV commercials for Herpes medication, but the fact that these commercials blatantly promotes the idea that it is OK to have and live with Herpes as long as you are controlling it with their brand of medication.

In my opinion, to be unique on a South Florida Beach is not having a tattoo.