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RussellCattle

(1,928 posts) Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:08 PM Mar 27

Why do some "Old Farts" (I'm one) get big, colorful tattoos that they wouldn't have considered for..... [View all]

…..a minute in their youth? Trying to act/feel/look younger than they are? Or just appreciation of tattoos as art. My experiences at the men’s locker room at the YMCA tell me that most of the tattoos acquired after age 50 are pretty artless and ugly. And yes, I’m happy with my role here as arbiter of things aesthetic. Ugly is ugly.

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Why do some "Old Farts" (I'm one) get big, colorful tattoos that they wouldn't have considered for..... [View all] RussellCattle Mar 27 OP

I don't understand tattoos at all, for any person at any age. Ocelot II Mar 27 #1

Stickers enid602 Mar 27 #2

Ditto here... I just don't.... hlthe2b Mar 27 #3

I think tattoos are a bid for permanence in one's life nuxvomica Friday #13

Tattoos have become too commonplace, the next cool thing will be body scarification. sop Mar 27 #4

My sister got 2 or 3 tattoos in her late 50's, cksmithy Mar 27 #5

When I was a kid, tatoos were considered pretty low-class. eppur_se_muova Mar 27 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author AllaN01Bear Mar 27 #7

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Somehow the decals on a pink Ferrari make it better and worse at the same time. RussellCattle Mar 27 #9

Years and years ago, a close friend of mine dated a tattoo artist and got a little goldfish catbyte Mar 27 #10

Tatooos may be linked to increase in cancers LogDog75 Mar 27 #11

I have a ring tattoo on my right pinkie finger.....a bracelet tattoo on my right wrist, a Green Bay Packer tattoo a kennedy Mar 27 #12