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I am not obsessed with personal grooming.............honestly.

My previous thread about beards is purely chance.

Why the present fashion for indelible irremovable tattoos ?

Today I saw a young man with a splendid design, I do appreciate a good design, some tattoos are real works of art......no seriously.

But why did he have to disfigure himself by getting this art work plastered up his neck snaking from below his shirt , curling over his lower jaw, and onward and upward ,over cheek, onward across his temple, ending in a subtle curly cue flick on his forehead ?

Why do they do it ?

As with all forms of bodily mutilation, I find it grotesque. All those pretty vivid colours will eventually turn a dirty blue / black. How many pretty young girls consider what they will look like when they're middle aged, covered in scrawls?

Bruv;1473948 wrote: I am not obsessed with personal grooming.............honestly.

My previous thread about beards is purely chance.

Why the present fashion for indelible irremovable tattoos ?

Today I saw a young man with a splendid design, I do appreciate a good design, some tattoos are real works of art......no seriously.

But why did he have to disfigure himself by getting this art work plastered up his neck snaking from below his shirt , curling over his lower jaw, and onward and upward ,over cheek, onward across his temple, ending in a subtle curly cue flick on his forehead ?

Why do they do it ?


Why? The same reason why my generation took to LSD and heroine like puppies to the tit: Because “EVERYBODY was doing it – it was “COOL - and they thought that it would have no consequences.

FourPart;1473950 wrote: As with all forms of bodily mutilation, I find it grotesque. All those pretty vivid colours will eventually turn a dirty blue / black. How many pretty young girls consider what they will look like when they're middle aged, covered in scrawls?


You're reading my mind.

I was guilty of 'making my own statement' by wearing my hair long for most of my life, but......I could always get it cut if need be.

A phase of drug taking or drinking is just that for most people, a phase, something you grow out of sooner or later with most times only a few drawbacks, unless you are very unlucky.

If this young fellow was a sailor on a whaler in pursuit of Moby Dick or perhaps a Maori shaping up for the Haka, I could understand, but he was shopping for a can of baked beans in a UK super market..........so so sad.

Bruv;1473972 wrote: ......... A phase of drug taking or drinking is just that for most people, a phase, something you grow out of sooner or later .........


That's what every O.D. and junkie said about heroin.

Bruv;1473972 wrote: .............A phase of drug taking or drinking is just that for most people a phase, something you grow out of sooner or later with most times only a few drawbacks, unless you are very unlucky.


Or have an addictive personality

The ones I feel sorry for are the ones who get their idols names tattooed all over their bodies, only to see them fall from grace. Imagine being permanently scarred with "Gary Glitter Forever", or "I Love Rolf Harris". The same sort of thing can be said about couples who get tattooed with each other's names - only to have the relationships go pear-shaped.

Bruv;1473948 wrote: I am not obsessed with personal grooming.............honestly.

My previous thread about beards is purely chance.

Why the present fashion for indelible irremovable tattoos ?

Today I saw a young man with a splendid design, I do appreciate a good design, some tattoos are real works of art......no seriously.

But why did he have to disfigure himself by getting this art work plastered up his neck snaking from below his shirt , curling over his lower jaw, and onward and upward ,over cheek, onward across his temple, ending in a subtle curly cue flick on his forehead ?

Why do they do it ?


Who cares?

It is our future.

FourPart;1473985 wrote: The ones I feel sorry for are the ones who get their idols names tattooed all over their bodies, only to see them fall from grace. Imagine being permanently scarred with "Gary Glitter Forever", or "I Love Rolf Harris". The same sort of thing can be said about couples who get tattooed with each other's names - only to have the relationships go pear-shaped.


“Forethought is the key. That's why I have Geo. Bush. Jr, Donald Rumsfeld , Tony Blair, Silvio Berlusconi, and Fredrik Reinfeldt tattooed on my ass. :yh_angel :yh_shhhh