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10 Feb 2012, 7:51 am

auntblabby wrote:

i would rather not mar what god hath wrought. something tells me that the tattoo/piercing fans are the more socially successful ones among us. :idea:

I am in no way socially successful. However, I do have one tattoo and a few piercings. I like the feeling of getting them.

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10 Feb 2012, 8:36 am

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I think most piercings and tattoos look plain creepy.

I can agree with some that look carried away. But I came across someone who had piercings and a nerdy flair and that just peeked my interest in them more.

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10 Feb 2012, 8:57 am

I fine with them, but I do have a problem with people getting them just to be cool.

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10 Feb 2012, 1:42 pm

Ugly ugly ugly!

Not to mention they scream: "look at me I'm an attention seeking social conformist and I haven't got a a single original idea of my own!! !"

My GF has a little tiny tattoo and a little tiny navel piercing. It looks oooookay but I'd rather she didn't have them either.

I don't have any tats or piercings.

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10 Feb 2012, 2:29 pm

Does anyone else find it interesting that nobody voted that they like one but dislike the other?

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10 Feb 2012, 2:59 pm

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Ugly ugly ugly!

Not to mention they scream: "look at me I'm an attention seeking social conformist and I haven't got a a single original idea of my own!! !"

Being attention-seeking seems to me to be at odds with being a social conformist. I think it's more that there are a lot of people who would want them whether they were popular or not. The current social acceptability just means that those who would not have gotten them, due to fear of what others might think, now feel free to do so.

While the current popularity is certainly distinct from, for instance, ancient tribal practices, it must be recognized that the urge to modify the body has existed in many different cultures at many different times throughout history. The desire to do so is common to much of humanity, assuming that those who now feel free to follow that desire are simply conformists is unfair and insulting. I'd want mine even if I were the last person on earth, whether I got attention for them or not, whether others accepted me for them or not, and I think most people with them would feel the same way.

Not that there aren't those who do it only because they think it's cool, but they are definitely the minority.

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10 Feb 2012, 3:14 pm

auntblabby wrote:

i would rather not mar what god hath wrought. something tells me that the tattoo/piercing fans are the more socially successful ones among us. :idea:

I'm hardly successful. I have zero friends. Not even my own sister really knows what to make of me.

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11 Feb 2012, 2:17 am

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

i would rather not mar what god hath wrought. something tells me that the tattoo/piercing fans are the more socially successful ones among us. :idea:

I'm hardly successful. I have zero friends. Not even my own sister really knows what to make of me.

if you've ever had so much as one single solitary boyfriend or girlfriend that you were intimate with, that qualifies as "socially successful" AFAIC. because if it happened once, it can always happen again. it means you have the basic social "right stuff."

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I am in no way socially successful. However, I do have one tattoo and a few piercings. I like the feeling of getting them.

as i replied to "TeaEarlGreyHot"....

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11 Feb 2012, 3:26 am

Or they just saw someone they could manipulate.

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11 Feb 2012, 6:03 am

auntblabby wrote:

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

i would rather not mar what god hath wrought. something tells me that the tattoo/piercing fans are the more socially successful ones among us. :idea:

I'm hardly successful. I have zero friends. Not even my own sister really knows what to make of me.

Ozzer wrote:

I am in no way socially successful. However, I do have one tattoo and a few piercings. I like the feeling of getting them.

as i replied to "TeaEarlGreyHot"....

As far as you're concerned maybe. compared to the rest of the world, not so much.

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

Or they just saw someone they could manipulate.

seriously. not every relationship can be considered a social success.

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11 Feb 2012, 6:06 am

mds_02 wrote:

As far as you're concerned maybe. compared to the rest of the world, not so much.

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11 Feb 2012, 6:18 am

auntblabby wrote:

mds_02 wrote:

As far as you're concerned maybe. compared to the rest of the world, not so much.

you consider such a person socially successful. that does not mean that that person considers themselves successful, nor does it mean that the rest of the world might not consider them an utter loser.

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11 Feb 2012, 6:19 am

mds_02 wrote:

While the current popularity is certainly distinct from, for instance, ancient tribal practices, it must be recognized that the urge to modify the body has existed in many different cultures at many different times throughout history. The desire to do so is common to much of humanity, assuming that those who now feel free to follow that desire are simply conformists is unfair and insulting. I'd want mine even if I were the last person on earth, whether I got attention for them or not, whether others accepted me for them or not, and I think most people with them would feel the same way.

Great point, expression is a natural thing for humans to do, people from the start of time have expressed themselves through one means or another. Tattoos are personal to the individual person and can share a meaning to the person wearing it plus I like tattoos for artistic reasons, it's a talented skill to be able to put an image on the skin and do it well.

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11 Feb 2012, 6:24 am

mds_02 wrote:

my original point was that it could always be worse. one person could feel like a loser but there will always be somebody worse off than that one person. but nobody wants to ever think of that for some reason, nobody wants to think about the less fortunate, they only have their attention focused on more successful people they envy for having more of whatever than they do. i'm guilty of this also, i have envy for people who have managed to have at least one mate. having the experience of having one mate is still better than never getting to have experienced such.

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11 Feb 2012, 6:30 am

KyleTheGhost wrote:

No. I don't have any of either. I think they are unhealthy.

I am heavily tattooed on my upper body including the neck and I'm in good health. Seriously some people are still stuck in 1950's conservative America, there are plenty of professional people and athletes with tattoos that are in good health, the ink used in tattoos is non-toxic and biologically inert, tattooing has been done for thousands of years in one form or another.

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11 Feb 2012, 6:42 am

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mds_02 wrote:

I was trying to say that the "successful" people that some envy usually have their own insecurities.

I understand your envy, and sympathize. At the same time, you have a habit of minimizing or denying the problems of others because you see yours as worse, which comes off as a little insulting. And (gonna use myself as an example here) though I am very lucky and have finally found someone with whom I have a healthy uplifting relationship, for most of my life sex and romance were painful and sometimes downright degrading complications to my existence rather than anything positive. Some people are not as lucky as me when it comes to getting past that. There are many people, who you'd consider successful and be envious of, who end up regretting every sexual or romantic experience they've had.

I think I really should mention here that I actually like you, other than one bad habit you are unfailingly pleasant toward everyone you interact with here, and I don't want any hard feelings.

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