Tattoos - How Many is Too Many?

Guys with tats are hot just sayin' :flowerforyou:

I kinda take Neal's view....

By Neal Boortz
OK … if you’re a listener you know that I’m not fond of tattoos, piercings and body modifications. I really try to never miss a chance to make fun of people who have graffiti all over their bodies, humps and bumps where there shouldn’t be humps and bumps, and various types of hardware sticking out of orifices and through things. They call them tramp stamps for a reason.
Predictably, I get emails and messages asking me why I “hate” or why I’m “hating on” people with tats. The people who send these messages are beyond understanding. There is a difference between disgust, repulsion and hatred. If someone wants to ink their body from their toes to the top of their skull it is certainly their privilege to do so. I have NEVER challenged a person’s write to pierce or ink whatever they want to. The other side of the coin, though, is that they must then suffer the societal consequences of their strange obsession. One of those consequences is that they typically have a difficult time finding a job. Some of these people have very marketable job skills ideally suited for hiring them and them tucking them out of sight of fellow workers and especially customers. If you’re obsessed with tattoos and body modification perhaps you might want to consider this in your development of job skills. On the other hand, if you’re applying for a job where you will be in constant contact with your employer’s customers you’re simply going to have a hard time. That’s why I am far more likely to encounter someone covered in tattoos behind the counter at a convenience store than I am in a professional office somewhere.
Additionally --- if I was in the hiring business, and someone covered in tattoos applied for a job I am going to form a rebuttable presumption that this person lacks a certain degree of pride in themselves, a lack of pride that I will assume (again, subject to rebuttal) that this lack of pride will show up in their work ethic as well.
Clearly I’m on to something here. Just look at this website. It’s a Facebook page for something called change.org. The title is “Include Body Modification in Equal Opportunity Employment.” These fools are seeking 100,000 signatures from people who want the federal government to make it illegal to consider someone’s tattoos or other body modifications in a hiring decision. Take a look at the girl in the picture! Wouldn’t you just be oh-so-proud to have her greet customers or clients at your professional office?
Look, my friends. If you want hockey pucks in your ear lobes and tattoos up to your nostrils … go for it. But don’t ask someone else to consider your behavior as anything close to normal .. and don’t presume that you have the right to affect some business owners bottom line by forcing him to hire your absurd self to place before his clientele.
Oh … and I still haven’t figured out why fat women like cankle tats. And is there anything more amusing yet pathetic than a guy with a tramp stamp?

I agree that the number is a personal choice. However, two pieces of advise my grandfather gave me that I still believe today (perhaps I am just gullible) - 1) be able to cover them for Church. 20 make sure they have personal meaning, not just some bikini girl you got at port.

Now my grandfather was in the Navy and times have changed, I have a M-Dot (Ironman Triathlon) tattoo that my son designed when he was age 9 for the first Ironman race I completed, the great seal of the U.S. from my military days, a band of glyphs below the seal (the seal is the pyramid on the back of the dollar bill), and a band of chain links from bike riding under the M-Dot for a total of four "pieces" or 13 individual tats on my shoulders. not a church goer, but can cover them just fine for court appearances or other regulatory business as an employee that represents one of my governors Agencies.

I have only one with plans for more. My first was done when I was too young. My "first love" used a safety pin and ink from Hobby Lobby to create a pentacle with flames around it on my right shoulder. That was a huge mistake. Seven years later I covered it with a beautiful lily, for my daughter Lilly. Since I made that one into a piece for my child, I will of course get one more for each child I have in the future. My next immediate piece will be the Serenity prayer, done on my left side over my ribs. Can't wait! I also have planned a memorial piece for my grandfather. This means I should have four or five in the next couple of years, but all able to be covered. I don't think tattoos mean anything against someone as a person, but I don't expect future employers to agree with me. With that in mind, I would like my pieces to be more discreet. I'm not much of a fan of face tattoos, but everything else is game for me. I think that full body coverings are very sexy on both men and women, but a spattering of them everywhere is not. I know I will have a small amount of them but the plan is to make them well placed to flow together somehow. Tattoos are art, but art can be ugly... As long as it's a well done, well thought out piece, it should be nice.

I have 2 that mean a lot to me. Both can be hidden when I want them to be, but I start missing the one on my foot in the winter.

Face, knuckle, neck, and boobs... I don't care for these.

I find tattoos intriging, and like to talk about them with their owners.

I think its viewed as unprofessional if they are visible.

On a personal note, I just can't figure out what is SO ****en important it needs to be inked into your flesh for all time - to display to the world. Feels like attention whoring behavior to me.

Congratulations...this has got to be the most asinine thing I've heard all day...and I've heard some stupid s**t today.

Don't like them!

Look I think it is completely subjective there is no definitive answer.

Example I like zombie Boy inked up and others will prefer him clean skinned....subjective.



One man's trash(y) tattoo is another man's treasure.