Every tattoo is going to lead to regret at some point. Or situations where your tattoo is inappropriate (nevermind the hypothetical example above, think about wearing wrong brand in areas of LA). There's probably even a name for these phenomenons.
The crown though is sportsmen. Sportsmen with an abundance of tattoos. While tattoos make you more warm, requiring more sweat elsewhere, bottom line leading to higher body temperatures. I've seen it in football (which Americans call soccer), I think it was David Beckham who set the trend here (regarding the full body tattoos).
I've never heard of this before. Isn't it a bit... tasteless, at the least, to get a tattoo of a wing in relation to 9/11?
I'd say in 2023 it has been pointed out by world events the USA is the best world police. Because the alternatives are far more nefarious.
Anyway, tasteless, sure I can follow that. Is it going to lead to physical aggression? Very possibly. There's other examples, too. People getting swastikas having to hide them at work or later renouncing such politics. Relationships breaking up, painful reminder. Military people getting tortured over having certain tattoos (happening in a current military conflict)
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To be fair, this comment and your comment before it both read a bit nonsensically.
> While tattoos make you more warm, requiring more sweat elsewhere, bottom line leading to higher body temperatures
appeared a very stupid comment indeed. However I am wrong and will always admit it and learn from it, so do you have any links to show that tatts, once healed, affect body temperature detectably?
(edit: looks like I am wrong. I take it all back with fulsome apologies).
I have no knowledge of this, can you give me a few pointers please?
> Every tattoo is going to lead to regret at some point
wat the ever utter fuck? 100% crap.
> While tattoos make you more warm, requiring more sweat elsewhere, bottom line leading to higher body temperatures
(criticusm removed. Study quoted elsewhere on this thread looks plausible and credible).
This is certainly untrue. People get tattoos for all sorts of reasons, and those that get them after due thought and because they have real meaning to them don't tend to regret them at all.
That said, I have seen people get tattoos on a lark, and the tattoos they get don't really mean anything to them. Those people are more likely to regret them later -- but even then, they often don't.
In a lifetime? Potentially enough yes to not opt for such. Tho there is different size and place, I'd say the main issue is with ones which end up practically 24/7 public.
If I look at my own life, then in every situation a t-shirt or sweater with statement or brand would make more sense than a tattoo. These can translate a meaning just as well, but allow to switch based on social setting. Which very much changes throughout life.
Religious, political, romantic, hobby, passion statements are fluctuating within a person's life. Just in different likeliness. Even when one believes they don't.
So Alice thinks Bob is the one, and Alice gets a Bob tattoo. After all they're 12,5 years together, must be enough for forever? And she had an Aum from her youth, and a logo of her favorite band, Nirvana. 10 years later, Bob dies in a car accident. Alice meets Charlie, a Catholic. Alice eventually wants to replace her Bob tattoo with a Charlie tattoo, and resents her Hindu passion. She refined her music taste. Charlie loses Catholicism as Alice isn't Catholic. However, since he worn a cross necklace, no tattoo has to be removed. Regarding Nirvana? Ah, turns out Kurt Cobain did some #metoo stuff which got finally uncovered. There goes your idol. So yes even things seemingly non-volatile and stable can change. And thoughout a lifetime, its very likely they will.
Same with biohacking NFC chips under your skin. In 10 years vulnerabilities are found in the chips or the keypair doesn't fit anymore or they figure they can be compelled to authenticate (robbery, law enforcement).
My wife has a tattoo and had a piercing, I had a piercing. We both regret the piercings (hers was nipple, mine was eyebrow) cause of complications. The tattoo seems more silly to me though, though only visible to public in swimming pool.
You see, we're in such a quick pace and globalization has succeeded there isn't much we can take for granted in our lifetimes.
The job tattoo thingy is just an example. And since I have needle phobia I'd say no thank you with that as reasoning first and foremost. (The observant reader might notice a person with needle phobia having received a piercing in past. I did not realize I would need anesthesia via a syringe; I thought some kind of patch on skin would've been suffice. I didn't look into it enough. So I panicked and literally ran out of the shop and would not get my money back, so I bitten the bullet. Don't think I had to pay extra so I suppose that was nice. The severity can also differ a bit and for medical related I've used oxazepam with success recently. Tho I recognize its addictive nature and hence would prefer not to regularly use such.)
Maybe? I'm an older guy and know a lot of people my age with tattoos. Very few of them regret their art, even when their art isn't as meaningful as it once was. It still serves as a totem of a certain time in their life.
But it's also true that lots of people regret tattoos. I do think that people younger than 30 or so should avoid them.
A friend of mine is a tattoo artist, and he has a lot of advice for how to avoid regretting one later, because his specialty is doing cover-up tattoos for people who later regret one they got. The most common reason for regretting a tattoo is that the tattoo they got was done or was placed very poorly and didn't get any better with age.
> Alice thinks Bob is the one, and Alice gets a Bob tattoo
This is touches on a piece of advice he has: never get a name tattooed on you. Not your lover, not your spouse, not your parents, not even your children (he has a couple of stories where children have died young and the tattoo their parent had became a constant reminder of grief).
He considered this so important that he would personally refuse to do such tattoos at all.
So it all depends. People who take seriously the fact that tattoos are forever tend to be fine with the ones they do get, even over a lifetime.
What odd, and false, blanket generalizations.
Commenter is probably just a fish out of water, no judgement.
There has been a lot of study on why people get tattoos. It's genuinely fascinating and worth learning about even if you have no interest in tattoos themselves.
It turns out that, regardless of history or culture, there is only a small set of motivations for getting them. I don't remember them all, or the nuances, but in general, the motivations tend to be to mark yourself as part of a group, to mark yourself as not part of a group, totem (commemorating an important event), artistic/aesthetic, and therapeutic (to help heal from trauma).