Author Topic: This is taking the need for 'parental consent' too far  (Read 2582 times)

Rhiannon

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Re: This is taking the need for 'parental consent' too far
« Reply #25 on: July 07, 2017, 05:34:19 PM »
Oh alright then Rhiannon, i obviously can't get my point or what I feel across,no matter.
I still say most parents wouldn\t like their adult children to be tattooed even if they don't put their misgivings in print
- and what all that business about we did at 21 was, has nowt to do with anything. It's a different era, rents higher, student loans etc. We were different in our day. Still nothing to do with tattoos.

I'll leave this discussion to others.

(Saw your post floo,quite agree but thankfully don't know anyone personally who has them. See them on TV of course.)

What we did at 21 matters because if we were mature enough to make big decisions (even if we got them wrong) then so are today's kids. Of course it matters. What is it with parents infantilising their adult offspring just because they can't afford stuff?

And a lot of parents I know have tattoos and piercings. And no, I don't live somewhere 'chavvy'.

Shaker

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Re: This is taking the need for 'parental consent' too far
« Reply #26 on: July 07, 2017, 05:34:39 PM »
Tattoo sleeves can be gorgeous.
I'm working my way up to something like this: http://tinyurl.com/yb687n53
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Rhiannon

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Re: This is taking the need for 'parental consent' too far
« Reply #27 on: July 07, 2017, 05:36:15 PM »
They are gorgeous. I think the only issue is whether they would fade or not.

Shaker

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Re: This is taking the need for 'parental consent' too far
« Reply #28 on: July 07, 2017, 05:38:00 PM »
They are gorgeous. I think the only issue is whether they would fade or not.
Keeping them away from too much direct sunlight is a must in that respect. And modern tattoo inks are far better from a fading point of view than old ones.
Pain, or damage, don't end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back. - Al Swearengen, Deadwood.

floo

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Re: This is taking the need for 'parental consent' too far
« Reply #29 on: July 07, 2017, 05:38:02 PM »
I'm working my way up to something like this: http://tinyurl.com/yb687n53

MEGA YUCK!!! :o

Rhiannon

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Re: This is taking the need for 'parental consent' too far
« Reply #30 on: July 07, 2017, 05:51:00 PM »
No need to shout. It's rude.

floo

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Re: This is taking the need for 'parental consent' too far
« Reply #31 on: July 07, 2017, 06:40:41 PM »
No need to shout. It's rude.


MEGA YUCK! ;D

Owlswing

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Re: This is taking the need for 'parental consent' too far
« Reply #32 on: July 08, 2017, 06:22:21 AM »

I have tattoos - a picture of the Green Man on my left forearm, an ex-girlfiends name (the mother of my first son), and the Japanese characters for 'father' 'son' and two of the characters for 'daughter' on my right forearm.

Despite this I was against my daughters having them done, something unfeminine about it.

My son has, as far as I am aware, none.

My older daughter has, I think thirteen or more.

My younger daughter has two, but plans at least two more.

My atttitude with the girls was that their mother, my ex, has three, I have mine - I told them that I was not exactly enamoured of the idea of them having them, but that it had to be their choice.

The law states that they must be over 18 to be tattooed, the hygiene regulations for tattooists are stringent and enforced rigidly.

The bottom line is that all three of my kids are adults and perfectly capable of making their own decisions pro or con.

If, at eighteen, you can make the decision to join the forces to fight, and be killed fighting, for your country you sure as Hell have the right to put pictures on your skin regardless of what you parents think about it.

I find the woman in the article to be just about the worst case of 'Jewish Mother Syndrome', selfishness cubed, that I have seen or heard of in yonks!
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