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People think they are saying a big F-You to the world when sooner or later the world is just going to show them the finger. Tats are a really dicey adventure, either you get a classy or sexy one, or you just get one that seems completely out of place.

I know a girl with a heart tattoo on her foot. To us it looks like a shark's tooth, but she says it's a heart. Since it looks like a shark's tooth it looks utterly ridiculous.

Tyme sent me a link yesterday of a midget with a dollar bill tattoo. Instead of Washington it had a vagina.

I always wish I could see into their future and watch how miserable they are in their 50's and beyond because they have a swastika on their arm, or a vagina on their back or some junk.

I saw a guy the other day with the GOP Elephant logo tattooed on his arm... like his political beliefs would never change or something.

That is a good call. Tattoos should not be an f-you message, they need to be classy, beautiful, or really represent something important to you. Better if they're timeless.

I love tattoos, but more often than not they're done badly, impulsively, wrecklessly. You get the point.

Though, maybe they're good identifiers of the real idiots out there? Oh you've got one of THOSE tattoos... ok well you can get out of my establishment.

Yeah, the guy in question had a truck loaded with a large zero turn mower so he didn't have THAT classy of a job but I can guarantee he would have to move on if he showed up to mow my lawn.

In the case of representing something to you, maybe he wished he was a Nazi or idolized the culture and ideals of the Nazi party... either way it was a good indication that there wasn't much goin on "up there".

Even beautiful tattos are going to go the route of your skin as the years pass...I've yet to see a tatoo look good on an 80 year-old.

I've yet to see a tattoo on an 80 year old.

I've yet to see skin look good on an 80 year-old, so I think that's kind of a moot point.

Once you pass a certain threshold your looks stop being about beauty and start being about distinguishing features/interesting wrinkles.

I've yet to see a tatoo look good on an 80 year-old.

And that is why my body is tattoo free and most likely will be. Honestly, for women that get tats in areas like the stomach aren't thinking about pregnancy. If their stomach doesn't snap back...well...it ain't pretty.

I've yet to see skin look good on an 80 year-old, so I think that's kind of a moot point.

I have. There is a guy that jogs around here, has a very toned body and he's 83. Actually there are quite a few around here. It's how people take care of themselves I guess.

You should get out more, Scrivs. People in their 70s and 80s today most likely saw time in WWII, Korea and/or Vietnam. Lot of tattoing going on back in those days.

I've yet to see skin look good on an 80 year-old, so I think that's kind of a moot point.

Once you pass a certain threshold your looks stop being about beauty and start being about distinguishing features/interesting wrinkles.

It is possible to grow old gracefully and beautifully after living a conscious life, regardless of wrinkles, features, muscle tone, or skin imperfections. Tattoos aren't part of that, and don't demonstrate grace and beauty, IMO.

@Dreamweaver - exactly. The skin can look fine but the body changes. An example, a guy has big muscles and gets a tattoo when he is young. He takes care of himself but his arms at 80, although nice looking, aren't as big as they were when he first got the tattoo. The tattoo doesn't look the same.

In my family the women become smaller. Significantly smaller. They still have meat on their bones but they tend to go from 125-130 to around 105-118 in their 80s and live long lives until 90s. Still active but smaller - perhaps due to loss of muscle (not sure). I know my tattoo, no matter where I get it, will be jacked.

I do get henna tattoos (which are temporary) and I have never had a henna tattoo that I just "had" to get again or missed when it was gone. I'm always ready to move to the next one.

Pharrell is having his tattoos removed - using replicated skin. They grow the skin from a sample of your own and sew it on. He said the tattoos do not represent who he is today.

I wonder how that skin will old up 20 yrs from now though.

Mine's looking better since I started the pushup program. Definition is becoming evident that was not so before.

So yeah, letting yourself go would probably make it look quite a bit worse. I'll take another pic and post it (via my implanted cranial internet-implant), when I'm 80 so we can compare.