Tattoos.

[heyabbott]

Do you have any? What are they and where? Does your significant other have any? Before or after you got together.
Would you mind of your adult children got one or many?
How much do they cost?

 

[bigpern23]

I have two - one on my left calf and one on my left forearm. The left calf only cost about $40 US dollars but I got while traveling abroad. It likely would have cost between $350 and $500 stateside. The other is fairly small and cost $50. Got both before I began dating my wife, who has none. Seeing them as I approached her for the first time in 15 years, they definitely made her wonder if I had changed. Thankfully, they didn't scare her off.

I wouldn't mind if my kids eventually get one when they're old enough. I'd prefer they don't end up covered in them, but I'll leave that to them.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

I assume telling an adult child you don't want them to get a tattoo is the quickest way to get them in the chair.

 

[JackReacher]

I assume telling an adult child you don't want them to get a tattoo is the quickest way to get them in the chair.

Kinda what I was thinking. Terrible move.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

Anything below the neck is fine. #cooldad

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

Anything below the neck is fine. #cooldad

One of my roommates in college had his dad tell him anything that could be covered by a short sleeve shirt and shorts.

It's funny because he's now a VP at a major pharmaceutical company and I'm guessing people would be surprised that he is just covered in tats.

I'm not sure it's as big of a deal as it used to be, but one of my managers has a sleeve and he has to wear long sleeves every time he's in the office, which probably isn't too much fun in Northern California in the summer.

 

[Vombatus]

I prefer scars and have lots of them, with stories.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

All journalists have scars.

 

[Oggiedoggie]

But most are on the inside.

 

[Vombatus]

Beauty is only skin deep. Ugly goes to the bone.

 

[bigpern23]

Yeah, I always wear long sleeve button downs and long pants to work, so I'd be surprised if anyone I work with knows I have any tattoos. I don't do it to hide them, that's just how the men in my office dress.

 

[Big Circus]

Neither me nor my wife have them. I've never found them terribly attractive, but I imagine I would on her, because she's the sexiest. I'm not anti. I just haven't found anything I'd want to put on my body.

A buddy has a tattoo of his first car, a Volvo sedan, on his side. I like that.

 

[Flip Wilson]

I have two. My kids' names on the left side of my chest, kind of over my heart. And an outline of my home state with the state flag inside it, high on my left hip. I have plans for at least two more: One in memory of my dad, and one for my wife. If my kids want them when they're adults, that's up to them, but I'll try to discourage them from getting one the day they turn 18 (which is what my nephew did; as the clock struck midnight to the day of his 18th birthday, he was in the chair.).

 

[Walter Lippmann]

Does anyone ever say "Your tattoos are awesome!" when you reach your mid 40s?

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

People often say stuff like that. Seems silly, but if you got tattoos in the first place, you can't complain too much about people occasionally commenting on them.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

Small Cobra Kai logo on my arm.
Sapere Aude on forearm.

 

[expendable]

Nothing on me. I don't think they're unattrictive, they're just not for me.

 

[spikechiquet]

I have a really dirty line from The Doom Generation (crazy flick if you have not seen it) about tattoos on genitalia floating in my head, but I will just let you google that one.

My wife has four (a firey sun tramp stamp, one each on her hip bones and one of the top of her foot), I have none...but only because I am a wimp. I did have my tongue pierced for a decade though...only kept it in because I wanted to make it worth the money I spent on it.

Pretty much going to have to just tell our son to keep them below the neck I guess. Maybe he will be wimpy about needles like me! LOL

 

[Bradley Guire]

Damn it to hell, don't go by the book, think like a pirate! I want a man with a tattoo on his ****! Have I got the right man?

By a strange coincidance, you do, sir.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I am 46. When I was say, in my 20s, tattoos were not as common as they became for the cohorts right after mine. Especially the idea of a woman getting a tattoo. The only people who had tattoos were longshoremen and bikers.

It seemed like at a certain point, though, rather than a tattoo being rare, you were rare if you didn't have one.

When I was a freshman in college, there was this girl -- sweetest, midwestern, goody girl type around. You'd meet her, talk to her for a few minutes and think you had her all figured out. One night we were all hanging out and had a little to drink, and she told us she had a tattoo. We were all like, "Where? Show us!" After a little coaxing, she ended up with her pants off showing us a tattoo of an anchor right near her vag. It was such a big deal to us. Today, it would be a yawn.

I don't have any. I've never had any desire or considered it. I also kind of shake my head when I see a really bad tattoo.