Tattoos, Pauches, Metal hangings and Cycling

[Guy951]

What a load of Politically Correct claptrap IMO!
Now we are to elevate those who disfigure themselves in order to emulate minor celebrities and ignorent and uneducated footballers to the status of a misunderstood minority rather than simply regarding them as misguided and impressionable.
jonty

ALERT,ALERT, smelling miztake

Your point is, caller?

[reohn2]

What a load of Politically Correct claptrap IMO!
Now we are to elevate those who disfigure themselves in order to emulate minor celebrities and ignorent and uneducated footballers to the status of a misunderstood minority rather than simply regarding them as misguided and impressionable.
jonty

ALERT,ALERT, smelling miztake

Your point is, caller?

Just pointing out someone's oversight was I wrong in doing that?

[Jonty]

What a load of Politically Correct claptrap IMO!
Now we are to elevate those who disfigure themselves in order to emulate minor celebrities and ignorent and uneducated footballers to the status of a misunderstood minority rather than simply regarding them as misguided and impressionable.
jonty[/quote]

ALERT,ALERT, smelling miztake[/quote]

Just testing.
jonty

[AlbionLass]

I don't think that celebrities do much to inspire many people to get piercings or tattoos, having been involved with the rock music/biker scene for as long as I can remember I saw many more body adornments of all kinds just on regular people than you ever see on celebrities,even today, tattoos and piercings weren't anywhere near as mainstream 20 years ago as they are now. I've had friends who are tattoo artists and friends who are literally weighed down with facial peircings, I really don't pay that much attention to these things anymore,they are so much of everyday culture these days. To be different now you have to not have a tattoo lol.

I'm quite surprised how much it seems people ARE judging people on their tattoos/body jewellery and quite disappointed.
The worst case of bigotry I ever experienced personally was several years ago when I was very involved in playing the clarinet and I just happened to mention on a clarinet forum that I had a pieced tongue. The rather conservative (it transpired) mainly American membership having chatted amiably online with me about instruments and music for several months suddenly began accusing me of everything from devil worship to drug use and prostitution.


Personally I judge people much more harshly if they smoke than if they have a tattoo, especially women, I think that women smoking looks absolutely horrible. Terrible double standard I know but I'll forgive a good looking guy if he smokes lol.

[Jonty]

Personally I judge people much more harshly if they smoke than if they have a tattoo, especially women, I think that women smoking looks absolutely horrible. Terrible double standard I know but I'll forgive a good looking guy if he smokes lol.

We all have double standards and are irrational to some extent. I'm not sure why I find tattooes and piercings so unappealing - its probably something unpleasant hidden in my deepest psyche: my problem of course.
When I see someone smoking - especially an attractive woman - I think "I wonder if she produces phlegm in the morning?"
jonty

[hamster]

I'm amazed by this thread.
Judge someone by things they cannot control (skin, race, eye colour, age, height, attractiveness) - well indeed that's wrong.

Judge someone by their choices of personal adornment ?- if we cannot judge people by the choices they make, exactly how should we evaluate them? Surely people who choose to lie, steal, act aggressively, show acts of kindness etc should be judged by those choices? I admit that there is also an important need to understand WHY they made such choices, but really!

[AlbionLass]

I think it's important to make a distinction between, judging someone and thinking negatively about them, to say 'judging someone' can sound as though making a negative assumption about that person can be the only outcome.

[Nutsey]

I judge people that embrace dress-down-friday. Uniform is an equalizer that masks any abnormalities in people's chosen dress sense or image. Would i be put off by a doctor with a nose ring? Yes - his employer presumably bans him from wearing it in the first place!

[Doug Deep]

I judge people that embrace dress-down-friday. Uniform is an equalizer that masks any abnormalities in people's chosen dress sense or image. Would i be put off by a doctor with a nose ring? Yes - his employer presumably bans him from wearing it in the first place!

I'd change TO a doctor with a nose ring. It would show me that he/she thinks for his/herself. I see no difference between pierced ears and any other part of the body.

I detest uniforms and uniformity.

[reohn2]

......................... I see no difference between pierced ears and any other part of the body........

You're unlikely to see some of the piercings advocated on this thread,unless you're a member of the Clitoral Hood Institute of Piercings,or CHIPS as its cheerfully referred to by its members

[AlbionLass]

On the other hand you wouldn't know if your (female) doctor did have such a piercing. Unless you knew her pretty well.

[Jonty]

On the other hand you wouldn't know if your (female) doctor did have such a piercing. Unless you knew her pretty well.

The next time I visit my doctor I'll be thinking "has she or hasn't she". I hope she can't read my mind.
jonty

[reohn2]

On the other hand you wouldn't know if your (female) doctor did have such a piercing. Unless you knew her pretty well.

The next time I visit my doctor I'll be thinking "has she or hasn't she". I hope she can't read my mind.
jonty

If she's a woman she can!

[Ash28]

Got myself a chainring tattoo this morning.

[AlbionLass]

I have a permanent one of those from coming a cropper mountain biking yonks ago. What with scars from horse bites, a small knife scar on one thigh and a scar from an airgun pellet on the other I don't need to pay to get ink done. My misspent youth is already tattood on my body.