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   mroberts88 said, 2 months ago

   If everyone else is doing it, its not really rebellion, its going with the crowd. Whats wrong with having tattoos? Yes, there are gang related ones, but that doesnt mean that if I have one, I’m in a gang, or a rebel.

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   dsped said, 2 months ago

   Anymore, NOT having a tattoo is rebellious. I’m seeing a lot of parents these days with as many or more tattoos as their kids.

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   HUMPHRIES said, 2 months ago

   What goes around, comes around.

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   sablebrush5 said, 2 months ago

   Tattoos to my eyes look like dirt on the body. When I was growing up, only drunken sailors got tattoos since they were considered low class, ugly and, well, kinda weird… They still look that way to me. But then I’m not hip, with it, or edgy, thank goodness.

   I agree with dsped - not having a tattoo these days is rebellious. How about not having tattoos, not having spiked hair, and not wearing baggy pants that reveal your shorts… now you’re talkin’ rebellion on steroids!

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   pschearer said, 2 months ago

   Are we supposed to know who she is? Or is she just a generic rebellious teen?

   (Forty years ago the only woman I knew who had a tattoo was a former WAC with a black panther clawing its way up her ankle. I bumped into her on the street about 20 years later. She had become a psychotherapist and was wearing socks to cover her tat. I can safely predict that most women who get tattooed in their youth will regret it in their maturity.)

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   myhaircut said, 2 months ago

   My great-uncle got a tattoo while he was a soldier during World War Two. I was always fascinated by it. I wanted a tattoo from the time I was four or five years old. By the time I was eighteen, I knew exactly the tattoo I wanted and where I wanted to put it. But tattoos weren’t “ladylike” so I held off on it. My mother had the same attitude about tattoos as most of the posters here.

   When I was approaching thirty, (and fifteen hundred kilometers away from home!), I finally got up the nerve to get the tattoo I wanted. I’m very happy with it, have had it for the better part of ten years and have no regrets.

   I think tattoos can be a beautiful form of artwork, and a fantastic way of carrying around a memory or something of tremendous personal significance for the rest of your life. I think they can also be butt-ugly and a terrible mistake. But to tar everyone with body art with the same brush, so to speak, is a rather unfortunate generalization.

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   Lewreader said, 2 months ago

   Just think, 40 years from now thousands of grannies with tramp stamps

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   phanchem09 said, 2 months ago

   There are thing about tattoos. I was standing behind a young lady at a gas station, and I realized she had tattoos on her back: three different-colored care bears.

   Bizzaro (May 08) had a toon about why we don’t let kids get tattoos…and he was showing his kid a great big tat of Garfield on his back.

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   LibrarianInTraining said, 2 months ago

   I don’t have any tattoos, but mostly because I just never found them very appealing. That and I’m afraid of needles.

   My mom’s got a big rose tattoo on her breast. Now that she’s older, it looks ridiculous. And she still thinks she’s 20, because all she wears are low cut tops.

   Sometimes I wonder which of us is the more mature one. sigh

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    jack75287 said, 2 months ago

    Why dose talking down to the middle class appeal to so many. Say what you want the middle class pays most of the taxes and they contribute instead of subtracting from society. Has anyone ever been to a country with out a strong middle class. I have Honduras, Iraq. Trust me life is better.

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    Chrisnp said, 2 months ago

    A friend had a tat of a cartoon fish just above her behind. Her mom said “when you’re a little old lady in a nursing home and the nurse has to wipe your bottom, she’ll see that and laugh at you.”

    My friend said “If I can get a laugh while someone’s doing that, my work will be done.”

    Fads come and go. Although it’s bizzare to today to think of senior citizens with tats, I think there will be a future where grandkids will regard grandma’s flaming skull as nothing more a quaint reminder of what people did to themselves back in her generation.

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    jack75287 said, 2 months ago

    Web if you didn’t see my reply from yesterday. If you think what the current health care program won’t grow. Look at England how much private insurance can you buy there. On another point some Doctors in England are saying patients are being terminated early. I know you don’t read Fox news so here is both the fox and the British links on the story.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,546400,00.html

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/dr-peter-hargreaves/

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    jack75287 said, 2 months ago

    satipera6

    What dose it mater. The middle class still pays the majority.

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    rricchhterr said, 2 months ago

    according to whom??

    well he was here, < 9.6.09

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    jack75287 said, 2 months ago

    rricchhterr

    Not sure what your question is. If not the middle class then you have the rich only one to five percent of the population depending on who you talk to. That is not enough to pay for everything. The poor don’t have money so if not the Middle Class then who?

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    Kees said, 2 months ago

    I think it is saying more about the way adults look at things. Let’s face it, a geek like dr Phill: nice respectfull; but always toying with emotions, just like Springer and Ophrah.
    If enough hear that a thing (tattoo or piercing or whatever) is “not done” and it is broadcasted via one of the previous mentioned TV shows, how many Billion people will monkee their view……………?

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    mroberts88 said, 2 months ago

    Like I said before, what is the problem with having a tatoo, other than gang related ones.

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    DavidDow said, 2 months ago

    If adults want tattoos, let them. Some are attractive; most aren’t. Some will look good forever; many won’t. Ultimately, no more important than the battles over teenage hair, teenage fashions, or teenage music. Carl Moore could’ve written this cartoon on any day for the last century. Why does he use that charlatan Dr. Phil so often?

    Political note: President Obama takes another step forward from Bush-Dick: Obama will release the White House visitor logs. Want to know a reason that Bush-Dick invaded Iraq, a reason that gasoline prices hit four dollars a gallon, and a reason that legislation to stem climate change stalled for the last eight years? all the secret visits from Bush-Dick’s cronies in the petroleum business.

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    Tigger said, 2 months ago

    Dr. Fraud is a loon

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    mroberts88 said, 2 months ago

    Tigger, I couldnt agree more.

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    GNWachs said, 2 months ago

    In my practice I don’t pierce ears. Why? Because 100 people will have it done and 1-5 will get infection, perforation, hypertrophic scar or keloid. I only see the bad results not the good ones.

    Re tattoos. My friends are making a fortune lasering old tattoos off. I see allergic reactions, hidden melanomas, infections etc. Uncommon but since so many people get a tattoo bad results seem frequently.

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    Radical-Knight said, 2 months ago

    Satipera6? Come and gone???

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    rricchhterr said, 2 months ago

    let satipera answer for himself, jack752