On 22/12/2010 12:56 PM, A Moose in Love wrote:


>> Why do you wear lace panties? How can so many idiots assume that no
>> one ever sees Miche nude or at least semi-nude... people do go to the
>> beach, many wear the skimpiest of beachwear... except for yoose
>> envious ugly blobs of blubber. Most folks admire well done tats...
>
> I think most tats are pretentious. They show me that tat people are
> obsessed with themselves. I can actually get past the tats if the
> person has some kind of personality. Usually they are just go along
> bots.

Aren't most fad followers pretentious? They buy and wear the lastest
food fashions, the latest hair cuts etc in order to portray a pubic
persona and most of the time it is just a false front. I have been
disappointed many times to learn that the people who tried so hard to
look and act cool were really tense and uptight, the opposite of what
they tried so hard to portray.



>> many envy them and would like the same, only they haven't the nerve.
>
> Maybe some people this applies to. It doesn't apply to me. Why would
> I want a tattoo in the first place? I can't think of a reason.

The only reason I can think is to have an example of regrets from my
youth. The living embodiment of things I have to admit that I have done
out of rashness.



>> Throughout history
>> various body markings were viewed as achieving various plateaus of
>> maturity/responsibility within their society.
>
> I'm not referring to those tats. I'm referring to tats worn by
> everyday Tom, Dick and Harry's and Sheilas as well.

Like the homeless git wearing the face tattoos of a Maori chief ;-)



>> I think it the height
>> of bigotry to denounce another's adornment...
>
> You can call it bigotry. Makes no difference.

The bigotry is reversed. You are supposed to see the tattoo and assume
certain positive traits because they person had someone else do a
drawing on their skin.