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I was out at the jazz festival, there are several venues all over and I was hanging out with a few thousand other spectators at the free stage - everything from young families, to old couples, to the artsy crowd, and every other type of person in the crowd you could think of. Being a warm day, lots of skin showing, and of the hundreds and hundreds of people (mostly ladies hehe) I scanned who were 20ish+ I could not find a single one without visible ink. Even people who were covered up in pants and long sleeves had something peeking over their collar or on their wrists. Even some of the clearly under 20 crowd had permanent tattoos on. It seemed like only toddlers and pre-pubescent kids were the only ones uninked.
Did I miss "free tattoo for eternal happiness day" or something? I am not offended in tattoos in any way, but I do find it disturbing that I was not able to scan someone and not see ink... be it arms, neck, ankles, whatever. I'm sure that there are others out there like me that don't have any either, but I couldn't find one to even ask if I had wanted. It is very eery, I would expect that even the tattoo-less church crowd is becoming a rare thing.
I have no tats and neither does my H .. BUT I do plan on getting one on my back later. I want it to be of two dragons, a platinum hovering over the gold and both with wings extended over a nest and with each kid.. have an egg added with the kids initials or first name.
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only my aunties on my mom's side who knew me when I was 4 call me that!
Anyways, it was a jazz festival, but the free venues attract pretty much anyone looking to get outside on a nice day - like I said there was certainly artsies out there, but lots of mom and pops... plus we (my son and I) also spent a lot of time at 2 different spray parks and every mommy I saw there was inked too (its what triggered me into scanning everyone today).
I get the whole self-expression thing but just how much variation among the dolphin on your ankle or the thorns around your bicep can there be? I really get a laugh at all the literature scripted across random places on the forearm and chest too.
I've really noticed this recently. My workout includes lap swimming, and I often do it right before the recreation swim time. I've noticed that among the young parent crowd, tattoos are nearly universal.
Many of them have to run into the thousands of dollars and in many cases it seems like they can't afford it.
Many of them have to run into the thousands of dollars
Whew man... didn't know tattoos were that expensive... apparently the one I want will just have to wait .. probably more then a year or two from now if it's in that price ranging.
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"Feelings get you in relationships quickly, and feelings get you out of relationships quickly. Feelings do not fill in the for the sacrifice and dedication needed to make a relationship work. Feelings get themselves hurt." ~Nsweet~ Ignorance is an equal opportunity employer.~DedicatedDad~
The most extreme example of 'me too' tattooing was when I went to a conference in Vegas during spring break time. The conference was at a resort hotel SE of town (Grass Valley Resort).
My room was over $350 a night and was one of the bottom level rooms. The place was crawling with college students. Ones who's parents could afford to send DS or DD off for a week at $400-$800 a night.
Ever frigging woman had a belly piecing with some sort of jewel, a tramp stamp and some sort of around the arm tattoo.
I'm sure it was an interesting education for many of the foreigners coming there. We had quite a few Eastern Europeans and SE Asians who must have been blown away at the sheer number of rich spoiled kids partying it up.
Whew man... didn't know tattoos were that expensive... apparently the one I want will just have to wait .. probably more then a year or two from now if it's in that price ranging.
Tattoo artists charge $100 to $150 per hour. A little one can be done in an hour. I'm talking ones where major portions of the body are tattooed over many sessions.
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"Feelings get you in relationships quickly, and feelings get you out of relationships quickly. Feelings do not fill in the for the sacrifice and dedication needed to make a relationship work. Feelings get themselves hurt." ~Nsweet~ Ignorance is an equal opportunity employer.~DedicatedDad~
Tattoo artists charge $100 to $150 per hour. A little one can be done in an hour. I'm talking ones where major portions of the body are tattooed over many sessions.
Yeah... no doubt the one tattoo i want.. will probably take a few sessions.... so that will have to wait.
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"Feelings get you in relationships quickly, and feelings get you out of relationships quickly. Feelings do not fill in the for the sacrifice and dedication needed to make a relationship work. Feelings get themselves hurt." ~Nsweet~ Ignorance is an equal opportunity employer.~DedicatedDad~
They want to be rebels, to stand out and be different... so they rushed out and got tattoos.. they still do not see that they are just following the crowd.
Tattoos can be very expensive. I’ve had a fair number of women tell me that they paid for their expensive tattoos by doing sexual favors for the tattoo ‘artist’. That sounded gross.
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"Feelings get you in relationships quickly, and feelings get you out of relationships quickly. Feelings do not fill in the for the sacrifice and dedication needed to make a relationship work. Feelings get themselves hurt." ~Nsweet~ Ignorance is an equal opportunity employer.~DedicatedDad~
They want to be rebels, to stand out and be different... so they rushed out and got tattoos.. they still do not see that they are just following the crowd.
Tattoos can be very expensive. I’ve had a fair number of women tell me that they paid for their expensive tattoos by doing sexual favors for the tattoo ‘artist’. That sounded gross.
Ugh.. thats just gross.... and I'm not getting a tattoo to rebel against anything.. like i said.. the one I want would probably take up my entire back.. but I want it as a symbol to represent my H and myself and our kids.
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"Feelings get you in relationships quickly, and feelings get you out of relationships quickly. Feelings do not fill in the for the sacrifice and dedication needed to make a relationship work. Feelings get themselves hurt." ~Nsweet~ Ignorance is an equal opportunity employer.~DedicatedDad~
I don't even think you can call them tramp stamps anymore, cause its so prevalent not only the tramps get them... or maybe its that there are a lot more tramps? I'd like the think that the percentiles of trampiness has pretty much remained the same over the last few hundred generations of human evolution?
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tattoos, whats the deal? 
) I would think the crowd there is more likely to be the kind of crowd that gets tatts... 
