"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
18 November 2006Pictures of sillyEven though they've been legal for two and a half weeks now, I have not felt compelled to run out and get a tattoo; while under certain circumstances they can be attractive — there's a nice little ankh-like design near one ankle on the second-nicest pair of legs I've ever seen — there's still something a trifle off-putting about the whole concept. Steph Waller, as usual, puts it more aptly:
I'm probably just an old fart, but I don't like tattoos. They look dirty to me because they're usually the same color as the grease that gets trapped under the fingernails of auto mechanics.
And on me, regardless of color, it would create the image that the Goodyear Blimp is subletting advertising space. Posted at 10:41 AM to Almost Yogurt , StemwareTattoos are a form of self-mutilation. No one has ever had himself tattooed with something he'd be willing to have hanging on his living room wall for the rest of his life. There's something fundamentally unsane about the whole phenomenon. I can't stand the things either but all my friends have them so I can't say what I really think about them (that they scream "thug!" if on men and "slut!" if on women). Posted by: Andrea Harris at 8:43 PM on 18 November 2006 |