saxitoxin wrote:Symmetry wrote:Is having a tattoo all that weird? Of my friends, I'm kinda the odd one out for not having one.
If your friends appeared on TV would it more likely be (a)
Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away!, or, (b) L
ast Night of the Proms?
A tattoo is a solemn pact with the angel of mediocrity.
Unless you're a soldier, sailor, Jewish-German, or member of an outlaw motorcycle gang, a tattoo is just something that screams "aspiring suburban dad."
Sorry to be so blunt but this is a
trigger topic for me.
I just noticed Caeleb Dressel is pretty tattooed. Not the normal swimmer Olympic rings in the armpit either, but all kinds of half-finished uglys polluting his other arm. My point is that it isn't the clear-cut solemn pact that it used to be. I know, we like our Nazis in uniform but just like I can't write out people who wear t-shirts outdoors (for the record, they are still underwear, not overwear), you can't write off people with tatoos anymore.
People like to laugh at the conservative groups that protested Elvis, Black Sabbath, Dungeons and Dragons, whatever. The scariest part isn't how wrong they were though. It's how right they were. Bodily self-mutilation is seen as a norm in our society. Next step is sacrificing babies to Molech (conveniently done at the local abortion clinic).