i'm thinking about getting "辻菜摘" tattooed on my arm... should i?
Enjoy your "Street Saits"
I also get "Street Saits".
Or "Crossing Greens Pinch".
"Tsuji Greens Picking Out".
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How about getting 野蛮人 instead?
Tattoos are a bad idea. You'll be stuck with it the rest of your life...
How about not getting some freaking asian symbols? I mean, wow.
It was suprisingly tempting when some tattoo guy said he'd do a washing machine for free. I didn't bite though. ; )
>>9
There are people who get tattoos and live their lives without regretting it, and with the present youth culture of body modification I predict that a larger percentage of recipients of tattoos will remain happy with their decision, as numbers alone will make discrimination against people with tattoos difficult. Besides, theres always expensive surgical treatments later on in life if someone really wants rid of a tattoo.
> numbers alone will make discrimination against people with tattoos difficult
We must live in different worlds, because I can count the number of people I know with tattoos on one hand. "discrimination" happens regardless, since it's a surprisingly good indicator of social status. Number won't change anything, unless it becomes fashionable in the correct strata.
Frankly, I find them a debasement. The human body is a beautiful thing, why would you want to draw some crass scribbles on it?
Plus, for these particular kanji it is indescribably disgusting.
yes
How about 「電車男」, then?
>>14
What do you mean?
i love my tats.. i want more but sometimes they're so expensive. its always good to pick something that you know you'll be satisfied with for the long haul. you have to be ok with openly expressing something on ur sking that other people will see. no regrets.
also make sure you have an experienced tattoo artist. it's always a good reassurance
>>13
Where I live, tattoos are pretty common and nobody really is bothered by them, except for some bussinesses where you have to show your skin and your customers are likely to be elder, more square types of persons (waiter with specific uniform for outdoor work at some seaside restaurant for instance).
>>17
You don't see any problem with getting the legally protected name of a poor elementary school girl tattooed on you?
what is a "legally protected name"?
>>22
I think he was referring to the name not to be officially disclosed to the public due to Japanese laws regarding treatment of culprits and criminals.
"In any case, the individuality of the designs chosen for their tattoos by the middle classes is strictly relative. The iconography is limited and depressingly reminiscent of the “art” produced by prisoners, which is violent, crude, garish and pagan, however well-executed. It is a visual exhibition of modern superstition, the superstition of people who have strong emotions but weak minds and a very limited cultural and historical frame of reference."
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"It is also no accident that some members of the middle classes should have adopted a typically proletarian form of bodily adornment as a badge not only of independence, but also of liberal virtue. A tattoo establishes them as tolerant, open-minded, and sympathetic towards those below them in the social scale: the highest virtues of which they can conceive. The tattoo thus appeals to the kind of modern bourgeois who believes that foulness of language is a token of purity of heart, or at least of sincerity. The tattoo, like the constant resort to the swearword, is an attack on bourgeois propriety, and as such a demonstration of largeness of heart and generosity of spirit."
Theodore Dalrymple, "Exposing Shallowness" (http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/18/jun00/tattoo.htm)ZING!