Or get a diode bridge on my wrist and find a job in electronics. Is it like the feeling you get when you commit to a decision you've been thinking about for a long time? If it's like that then maybe I should get a pinecone inked on my collarbone and go back to the country. I wish I understood what it is about it that makes you happy. I get judged all the time for being so opinionated, which is why I have no need for tattoos or high heels either.Īnd I'm sorry if somebody made you feel bad for wanting to get a tattoo - kinda sounds like that's what happened. They aren't saying they think nobody should wear heels, they're just saying they can tell she ain't from 'round here.Īnd if you think I sounded oddly judgmental in this post then THANK YOU! I think I sound viciously judgmental in most of them.
I think it's customary to judge people who do things out of context, like somebody wearing high heels to a breakfast taco joint on a Saturday is going to look out of place and somebody is probably going to comment on it on Twitter. I said I'm amazed by their conviction in defining themselves.
I didn't say I expect everybody else not to get a tattoo. Or in the case of the fellow with only FU filled in for FUCK OFF, he may have gotten half-way there, and then changed his mind. Maybe they thought their face was a mistake and their new tattoo would better suit their personality. Or maybe they imagined that their personality would be forced to change to fit the new tattoo. People with tattoos are THAT sure who they are and who they want to be in EVERY SITUATION? FOREVER? How? What if they're wrong? Maybe people with tattoos never heard the Talking Heads song "Seen and Not Seen." But I can emphasize different aspects of myself outwardly through my appearance. I can't really change the fact that I'm prone to curse and correct errors of fact all the time. I want to show that I get who they are and understand what they value. If I'm going to see my dad I wear something that makes me look conservative, if I'm going to see my mom I wear something edgier, if I'm going out with my younger friends I wear something with graphics on it. If I'm going to a job interview I wear something that makes me look professional. As long as I don't need to borrow his car his little quirks don't confront me. This friend does have his navel pierced but he doesn't have any tattoos. Like my brilliant physicist friend who is so obsessed with his own penis he made a plaster cast of it and created a hard plastic gear shift lever in its exact likeness. Some of my favorite people have one thing they do that I don't like particularly, but I know enough other stuff about them that I respect and appreciate that I just ignore the parts of their personality that I think are silly. I think people's personalities are so variable a tattoo puts too much emphasis on just one aspect of it. Why bother to get to know you when they already presume to know what you're all about because it's WRITTEN right there on you. People look at that and put you in a category. Once you get one, especially really visible ones, they define you. And that's the thing that bugs me about tattoos. Wouldn't it be hard to form a first impression of somebody as "super nice" if FUCK OFF is staring you in the face? If you have a tattoo people are going to ask you about it. I assume my friend got to know FUCK OFF guy when he had his shirt on. He hasn't asked him the story of the tattoo.īut clearly he wants to know. My friend says he plays bike polo with this guy, who is super nice.
A friend of mine sent me a link to a photo this morning of a guy sleeping with his head on a Boston terrier with a tattoo across his chest that says "FUCK OFF" in a sloppy outline font with the FU filled in. If you are in a mood and want to make a statement, get a damn t-shirt.