Tattoos & Piercings: Thoughts & Experiences?

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The discussion centers around opinions on tattoos and piercings, including personal experiences with pain and aesthetics. Some participants express a strong dislike for tattoos, particularly common designs like lower back tattoos, labeling them as unattractive and associating them with negative stereotypes. Others share their experiences with piercings, noting varying levels of pain and the potential for infections. There are mixed feelings about the permanence of tattoos, with some individuals hesitant to commit due to changing preferences over time. The conversation also touches on generational differences in attitudes toward body modifications, with some participants reflecting on their own or their children's choices regarding tattoos and piercings. Overall, the thread reveals a spectrum of views, from enthusiastic support for body art to strong aversion, highlighting the complexities of personal expression through tattoos and piercings.
  • #61
ya I have a strange love for my shoes and she know it. I own dozens of pairs and they are all neatly kept in boxes and treated with the greatest of care. I am particularly fond of high heels. I like how they make my butt look, so I will often pull out a pair that matches my outfit and wear them if I don't have a lot of walking to do. I was in the kitchen when she came home and I had left a pair of purple silk heels at the door. She didnt see me standing in the kitchen and I watched her hork up a big spit ball and leave it in my shoe. I am heart broken. My boyfriend bought me those shoes. He is going to be pretty mad when he hears about it. I may not tell him...
 
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  • #62
fileen said:
nope, its fusobacterium necrophorum (say that ten times fast) an anaerobic bacteria. However, apparently horses can get yeast infections in their feet.
Well we really do learn something new everyday. I love exam time, it gives me a wonderful excuse to spend my time learning about other stuff...
http://www.betterbebarefoot.com/types_of_hoof_infections.php

Im curious how the hole in the tongue causes this yeast infection? Is there always yeast in our mouths? Also, how do you get rid of it? Can you get it if you don't have a piercing?

I only know about it because my daughter had it when she was an infant. It's very, very common in babies (even those without piercings!). As I recall, her pediatrician wasn't too concerned with treating it aggresively. In fact I don't remember her treating it at all! It went away pretty quickly.
 
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  • #63
Oh, and yeah, your roommate is nuts!
 
  • #64
I kind of feel sorry for her. For example, she is clearly jealous.. but of what I can't imagine... She has this great hot body, long blond hair etc. So I've collected some shoes, big deal!
 
  • #65
Find something she likes and spit in it, too.

You say she has a good body? Spit on it when she's asleep. That'll show her.
 
  • #66
hahaha I don't have it in me to be mean. I believe in Karma. I don't need to screw her, she's screwed herself by surrounding herself and poisoning the people around her with negativity. Its just a little spit, I cleaned it with some dish soap and water. Haha, she probably regretted the impulse the moment she got close enough to the shoe to get a whiff of stinky foot! I also made my presence known immediately after, so I imagine she's embarrassed. We have many of the same friends, and though I am not a blabber mouth, I certainly haven't kept her behavior a secret.
 
  • #67
Cyrus said:
If a girl has a tattoo on her lower back, multiply the number of guys she said she has slept with by 10.

Thats just stupid.
 
  • #68
I agree, how many people wander around declaring the number of people they have slept with? How does that topic of conversation even come up, "so, uh, how many people have you had sexual intercourse with?" that's just crazy. I think I would probably laugh in a persons face if they thought to ask me something like that!
 
  • #69
fileen said:
I agree, how many people wander around declaring the number of people they have slept with? How does that topic of conversation even come up, "so, uh, how many people have you had sexual intercourse with?" that's just crazy. I think I would probably laugh in a persons face if they thought to ask me something like that!

How can you laugh in someone's face when you are bent over and facing away from them so they can see your tramp stamp.
Sorry, just kidding, didn't mean it, just a joke.
 
  • #70
I don't have one, and I generally don't bend over allowing people a clear view of my bottom. I also don't wear those crazy low rider jeans that allow the world to see ones personal bits. I find they often just push all the jiggly bits from around a womans hips up and over the pants leaving a ring of fat around the pants line. As a result a perfectly healthy woman looks like she's wearing a life preserver. If I did have a tattoo it wouldn't be where just anyone could see it. If I happened to be bent over with my butt facing a person when they ask me how many people I've slept with I think I may actually have to cause them some physical pain.
 
  • #71
fileen said:
As a result a perfectly healthy woman looks like she's wearing a life preserver.

That unflattering look is called a "muffin top" :smile:
 
  • #72
haha that's a good one, I myself like the comfy and pleasantly geeky corduroy pants with lots of stretch. No muffin top for me
 
  • #73
Im not sure I know what you are talking about, however I am aslo pretty sure I would rather not know.
 
  • #74
Cyrus said:
Yes.

Exactly the sarcastic rhetoric i was expecting..
 
  • #75
vincentm said:
Exactly the sarcastic rhetoric i was expecting.
I wasn't expecting this sarcastic rhetoric.
 
  • #76
jimmysnyder said:
I wasn't expecting this sarcastic rhetoric.

Me either!
 
  • #77
fileen said:
I don't have one, and I generally don't bend over allowing people a clear view of my bottom. I also don't wear those crazy low rider jeans that allow the world to see ones personal bits. I find they often just push all the jiggly bits from around a womans hips up and over the pants leaving a ring of fat around the pants line. As a result a perfectly healthy woman looks like she's wearing a life preserver. If I did have a tattoo it wouldn't be where just anyone could see it. If I happened to be bent over with my butt facing a person when they ask me how many people I've slept with I think I may actually have to cause them some physical pain.

You sound like a very boring person. Now bend over in your low cut jeans so I can see your tramp stamp.
 
  • #78
Apparently in South Carolina tattooing is banned at least according to Maury?

They tried fighting it before the supreme court as a breech of the right to free expresion on the basis it was an art, tried and failed. But it is an art form, a canvas is a canvas, no matter how you might think that it is wrong to tattoo yourself, it takes a long time to become proficient, and the best artists are extremely skilled. Personally I think they have a point, although I wouldn't personally get a tattoo to save my life; but it's a persons choice about what they want to wear, what they want to wear permanently and therefore what they put on themselves, be it art or otherwise.

Still you can always move to all the states around SC and get it done there just across the border. So I'm not sure what exactly this law is meant to do?
 
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  • #79
Schrodinger's Dog said:
Apparently in South Carolina tattooing is banned at least according to Maury?

They tried fighting it before the supreme court as a breech of the right to free expresion on the basis it was an art, tried and failed. But it is an art form, a canvas is a canvas, no matter how you might think that it is wrong to tattoo yourself, it takes a long time to become proficient, and the best artists are extremely skilled. Personally I think they have a point, although I wouldn't personally get a tattoo to save my life; but it's a persons choice about what they want to wear, what they want to wear permanently and therefore what they put on themselves, be it art or otherwise.

Still you can always move to all the states around SC and get it done there just across the border. So I'm not sure what exactly this law is meant to do?

Probably a public health concern. Even in states where there are regulations in place licensing parlors and ensuring they use proper sterile techniques, it's hard for the customer to know if the place they've walked into is legit or not, or they're cutting corners, etc. Maybe they had too much of a problem with unsanitary practices and spread of infection that it was easier to shut down all the places than try to go around inspecting and licensing the ones who did things right.
 
  • #80
Schrodinger's Dog said:
So I'm not sure what exactly this law is meant to do?

Its purpose is to allow those with a proclivity to get into another person's business the opportunity to do so.
 
  • #81
Moonbear said:
Probably a public health concern. Even in states where there are regulations in place licensing parlors and ensuring they use proper sterile techniques, it's hard for the customer to know if the place they've walked into is legit or not, or they're cutting corners, etc. Maybe they had too much of a problem with unsanitary practices and spread of infection that it was easier to shut down all the places than try to go around inspecting and licensing the ones who did things right.

Yeah see in this case the guy was pretty much up for licensing and practising to ensure that tattooing was done professionally and safely, but it seems SC weren't up for that either. I can see the health concerns maybe a valid reason, but since people are going to go out of state and perhaps indulge in un-safe quazi legal tattooing, I don't see why they are so anti tattooing. Seems like it's more to do with prejudice than reason I think. I mean I'm prejudiced against tattooing myself, but not against it done in a safe environment for those who choose to; It's their body; just like you can't regulate against stupidity, you can't regulate against art - whatever it may be - just because you don't like it.
 
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  • #82
I'd like to get a tattoo but I'm tight on cash at the moment. A guy I used to know (he has since gone to jail for selling cocaine) had a philosophy about tattoos that seems vary sound to me. It was something in the lines of "I'm going to have this same hide until I die go I might as well make it look good. By the time my tattoos are old and all wrinkly and look like crap, I expect I'll be looking like crap in general for being 40 or 50 years old, so I've got nothing to lose".

I don't think of a tattoo as something somebody wears, like a shirt or hat, it is a part of their body. Having a good tattoo can be as attractive as a 6 pack of abs, just the same as a bad tattoo can be like an unsightly wart.
 
  • #83
Schrodinger's Dog said:
Yeah see in this case the guy was pretty much up for licensing and practising to ensure that tattooing was done professionally and safely, but it seems SC weren't up for that either. I can see the health concerns maybe a valid reason, but since people are going to go out of state and perhaps indulge in un-safe quazi legal tattooing, I don't see why they are so anti tattooing. Seems like it's more to do with prejudice than reason I think. I mean I'm prejudiced against tattooing myself, but not against it done in a safe environment for those who choose to; It's their body; just like you can't regulate against stupidity, you can't regulate against art - whatever it may be - just because you don't like it.

Seems it's been legal for a few years now, with regulation for infection control.
http://www.everytattoo.com/southcarolinalaw.shtml
 
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  • #85
Cyrus said:
You sound like a very boring person. Now bend over in your low cut jeans so I can see your tramp stamp.

Perhaps I am boring.. that doesn't bother me too much. I don't think I am boring though, I just like a little mystery. I love my body just the way it is, and I don't think that just anyone should have the right to look at it. Theres not much else that I can really say is mine.
 
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  • #86
fileen said:
Perhaps I am boring.. that doesn't bother me too much. I don't think I am boring though, I just like a little mystery. I love my body just the way it is, and I don't think that just anyone should have the right to look at it. Theres not much else that I can really say is mine.

No I think I'm quite shy about my body always have been, if that's boring so be it: I am boring.
 
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  • #87
I don't think its boring, I think its exciting! If you walk around in the nearly naked all the time, then everyone knows what youve got, but if you keep it to yourself...
 
  • #88
fileen said:
I don't think its boring, I think its exciting! If you walk around in the nearly naked all the time, then everyone knows what youve got, but if you keep it to yourself...

I think you're right, fileen, but only to an extent. I don't know of many males who get perked up looking at women in, say, burkas :smile: .
 
  • #89
Who needs males? Mine doesn't seem to mind. Love yourself and other people will be forced to do the same
 
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  • #90
fileen said:
Love yourself and other people will be forced to do the same

really? I don't see the connection. You can love yourself all you want and it has no bearing what so ever on how I feel about you.
 

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