“Do you think my tattoo is cool?” No, I don’t. There are no cool tattoos. “Check out my sleeve!” Oh god ew.
Tattoos themselves are stupid. Doubly so if it’s some media IP. “I put Batman on my body!” “Look at this image of Goku on my calf!” I can’t think of many things I’d want to do less than that.
There are a few narrow exceptions. Chances are yours isn’t one of them.
If you personally like tattoos, fine. I’m not saying nobody should get tattoos because I don’t like them. I’m stating my opinion that tattoos are stupid, and I am stating it here because it is probably not a popular opinion.
Lol I don’t have tattoos, but I can do this for literally everything you have ever liked or enjoyed.
This is one of those “if you think something that doesn’t effect you and brings others joy is stupid, you probably need therapy”.
You do realize you’re in the “unpopular” opinon community, right?
If your opinion is literally shaming someone over their own life choices that generally don’t have any affect on their life or yours, it’s not an unpopular opinion, you’re just a piece of shit person.
An unpopular opinion should be “I think owning dogs is too much work”, not “What you do with your own body makes me judge you as a person”. An unpopular opinion is “I think Pineapple on pizza is gross” not “I don’t think trans people should exist”.
Maybe learn the difference. OP doesn’t have an “unpopular opinion”, they’re just a straight up fucking asshole.
Finally someone put it into words.
There is having an opinion and then there is being a dick. OP is leaning heavily towards the latter with their post.
I think people have varying opinions on what it constitutes to be an asshole.
Telling others what they can or cannot do to their own bodies, which has absolutely no impact on anyone else outside of their own personal life decisions, doesn’t have the authority to tell other people what they can or cannot do with their bodies.
Simply put.
If you think otherwise, you’re just as big of a human piece of shit as @[email protected]
Notice how this piece of shit person just stopped replying to comments? Probably because they have a piece of shit opinion and people are waiting for them to comment so we can rake them through the fucking mud where their shit ass opinion belongs.
Don’t fucking tell people how to live their own fucking lives. If they aren’t hurting anyone then shut the fuck up and fuck off.
Try looking at the last paragraph of my post one more time. I’m not making any moral judgments on people who get tattoos, I’m saying that I don’t like tattoos, and that if you want to get one, fine. I just won’t think they’re cool or badass or anything like that. I will think that they’re stupid. Not that the person is stupid, but that the tattoos are stupid.
If you’re looking for ad hominem, invective, and hate, you may want to look at your own comment.
By saying they’re stupid you are morally judging them.
You are inherently saying it was a waste of time and/or money i.e. that OP was stupid when they chose to get them.
In reality the answer is that you’re stupid for spending time and effort thinking that people with tattoos made stupid choices, rather then going, cool nice flare and enjoying something a little different from the usual plain jane button up look.
Again, this is not an opinion. This is conservative small mindedness in shutting down stuff different from what youre used to, that doesn’t effect you. Reflexive and defensive negativity is something you feel, but it’s not an opinion.
Try looking at the last paragraph of my post one more time. I’m not making any moral judgments on people who get tattoos, I’m saying that I don’t like tattoos, and that if you want to get one, fine. I just won’t think they’re cool or badass or anything like that. I will think that they’re stupid. Not that the person is stupid, but that the tattoos are stupid.
Seriously? You think people here are stupid? Your comment came blatantly off as telling people who get tattoos are stupid. That tattoos are stupid, people who get them are stupid, and that nothing about them are “cool”, according to you. You don’t own anyone else. You don’t get to dictate or gate-keep what is ‘cool’ to someone else. You don’t get to tell someone else how they are allowed to feel about themselves and how they should use their own body.
Yet you seem to be self-righteous enough to think that you do have that authority. You think you have the authority to tell others how they should feel or what they should do with their own bodies. And I have dozens of others in this comment chain hopefully (but clearly not) gotten it through your egotistical skull that you’re not the ruler over other people’s bodies.
Clearly we’re all wrong but also right. We clearly misjudged that you have the internal ability to understand why your ‘opinion’ is so toxic, while also being right that you’re just an asshole of a person.
I think you’re just reading a lot of things in my words that simply aren’t there. I’m not positioning myself as some kind of arbiter of anything, I am stating my own singular opinion, not making a sweeping judgment or declaration.
Hey, you’re really good at getting me thinking!! To present myself as nonadversarially as possible, if I may I’ll spoiler some thoughts/questions below…
BUT! I really wanna have a pleasant chat about it. Good topic, respecting others. Anyway:
Tap for spoiler
Any right the OP retains to free expression on their opinion, if it’s a safe space?
Any thoughts on calling a behavior stupid in public where it may hurt a stranger’s feelings versus telling a specific person it would be wrong to participate in an activity?
& how could we share an opinion if we feel smoking is bad - anyway to do it without telling people what they can do to their own bodies? Or should we not offer opinions on smoking because it’s too paternalistic, telling them how to live their lives?
Also e.g. racists are poopy but for stuff we choose (apply ink to skin) are the haters necessarily not just big giant haters but actually BAD PEOPLE? (suggestion I guess is “Notice how this giant HATER stopped replying …” but hypothetically in a different thread “See how this low-life racist clown stopped replying” would not earn a comment from me … which I’m now reflecting on, maybe I should diss actions not people… I digress)
Right!
“If you dont like it, dont look.”
And so opinions were discovered.
This “opinion” was discovered a long time ago: https://youtu.be/cR2KrJTvJgQ
Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man!
There’s a phrase that’s been around a while - “don’t yuck someone else’s yum”… just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean that others can’t like it.
What’s worse, Batman or a sports logo?
The artistry can be impressive. What they do to the human body is horrible.
My body is a temple!
Large, awkward to move, needs constant maintenance.
Crumbling from decades of neglect.
Have you considered some graffiti?
My body is a temple… but it’s a southeast Asian temple covered in monkey shit.
My body is one of those temples in Thailand where they let monkeys shit all over the place.
What do you mean? They do nothing to the human body but add art to it.
Tattoos don’t do anything negative to your body. Unless you’re allergic to the ink or something.
There are definitely risks beyond just allergies. Some small studies have found links with increased cancer rates (for example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39819495/ ).
That said, I have tattoos, and I’m not saying people shouldn’t get them! Just be aware.
For the record I totally agree. But if one of my friends just gotta tattoo im gonna pretend to be excited for them. What else are you sposed to do when someone just got permanent artwork etched on themselves?
I had a couple of friends who were drunk as shit one night and they decided they needed to go out and get matching sperries logo tattoos immediately.
They asked me for a ride to a tattoo shop and I told them no and to stop being dumbasses. They basically called me a lame anti-tattoo prude and then took a cab to the place and got the tattoos.
The next morning they were hungover and blamed me for the tattoos cause I shouldn’t have let them go, I should have tried harder to stop them. Fuckin A…
Any self respecting tattoo artist would refuse to tattoo a drunk.
Yeah I think the first one turned them down and they had to get a second cab to take them to another. They were bitching about that when they got back, another reason why I was such a bad friend because they had to pay for an extra cab to be idiots…
These people do not sound like your friends. I hope that “had” in the first post’s first sentence is literal.
Yeah, I haven’t seen them in years
It’s practically required for them to refuse because of how alcohol thins the blood. No tattoo artist wants to take risks with a free bleeder.
I’d be excited for them not their tat.
Then get a tattoo of them on yourself!
Gets a tattoo of wife with a tattoo
Reminds me of a guy I know who got his wedding date as a tattoo. Now divorced.
Right? It not being for you or not fitting your tastes does not mean that their happiness about it can’t make you happy and excited for them. Like my brother-in-law was a punter in the NFL for a couple seasons. My wife and her mother knew absolutely nothing about football and didn’t care for the game. But they both learned enough to appreciate specifically what a punter does and attended many of his games to support him. There is a big difference between loving what someone loves and loving them.
Right? How hard is it to put yourself into someone else’s shoes just enough to realize that they can enjoy something you wouldn’t enjoy yourself. And that’s so you need to be happy for them.
Instructions unclear, I now have an erection and a browser tab with badly translated Chinese characters.
As a tattoo? Now that’s commitment.
You could act like my mother did and be a stuck up judgy old lady about it. “Well I certainly hope you won’t regret it one day, people prefer leaders not trend followers”
Mind you I got my first tattoo at 38 and had been thinking about it for years. Which is why the only people that like my mother are newly born and nearly dead.
I hope you mean “newly born or nearly dead”
I’ve been doing memorial tattoos of my pets :)
Edit: that’s to say, to each their own.
I’ve always said to myself “I’ll get a tattoo when I can think of something that I’ll still think is cool when I’m 70”
Ain’t got a tattoo.
My brother has our family coat of arms as his only tattoo, I think that’s reasonably timelessly cool.
My brother has our family coat of arms as his only tattoo, I think that’s reasonably timelessly cool.
My only tattoo is a matching tattoo all my siblings got. I never seriously wanted one, but at least it means something. I might expand on it when I have my own kids
Until some right-wing fascist group appropriates it.
If my family has a coat of arms, no one ever told me.
You can literally juat make one up, its not like theres some offical process.
And do something cool, like Utah raptors shooting lasers from their eyes.
I’m in a similar situation except reversed. I have several I know I’m gonna get but I’ve just been too poor my whole life to get one.
I hope that turns around then and you can get them one day!
I got WIDE LOAD tattooed in black metal font on the backs of my thighs
Ngl I might steal that lmao. That’s great
Go for it, haha! And thanks! :)
That is exactly the point. Have you ever seen someone wearing a long forgotten bands logo? Or a brand gone shitty? Imagine those idiots who got themselves a Tesla logo tattooed before Musk made it into a Swasticar…
It’s be a cold day in hell that’d I’d wear a tee shirt with a brand let alone tattoo one on me.
Once I’m 70 if I don’t still believe the important things I’ve believed for the last 20 years, then I’d deserve having them tattooed as reminders that I used to get it.
This thought actually made me think about getting a new tattoo (I have a music related one, but nothing political)
That’s a really cool way of thinking about it they I hadn’t considered.
This was always my thought. Recently, I’ve been considering various anti-fascist logos since that’s something that will never change (and if it does, then I should just kill myself at that point)
They are fine for folks that like them. Just like anything they want to wear is fine. Its their thing. I have thought about it but could never figure out anything so big it would be worth it. Something I would definately like years later that encompassed the thing. My brother has gotten quite a few and it was a neat collage. He does some neat things with earings to.
This isn’t a good unpopular opinion, it’s just you whining about something you don’t like.
Pretty sure that’s just like your opinion, man.
I would extend this to all images on people. Graphic t-shirts, hats, logos, text on booty shorts, jewelry
Why does everyone need to be a walking billboard? Why must we cover everything with “art”? Why do we need to constantly be broadcasting messages to everyone who looks at us?
I get that people are excited about these things, and I never want to make anyone feel bad about having tattoos or wearing clothes they like. But personally i west plain clothes, mostly solid colors and the occasional stripes, nothing busier than plaid. I took thr dealership stickers and manufacturers logos off my car.
because you’re boring and weird if you don’t, that’s the reason.
I wear a lot of plain solid color clothes, and have so most of my life. All I get is endless shit for it for being ‘boring’.
I’ve always viewee “boring” as a goal personally
Same here. On the other hand, I would like that someone stroke conversation with me because of some decoration I have on me.
it’s suppose to tell strangers about who you are
Like, if you like a band, you wear the shirt. Then when somebody else who likes the band sees you in that shirt they can be like, “Awesome, what’s your favorite song”. You guys get to talk, maybe you make a friend
But then a bunch of people decided it would be cool to wear those shirts even if they don’t actually like the band or the TV show or whatever that’s on the shirt… but other people who were fans were like, “Awesome, what’s your favorite song”… but the idiot wearing the shirt couldn’t answer the question because they don’t actually like the band or TV show or whatever and instead of thinking to themselves, “maybe I shouldn’t pretend to be a fan of something I’m not” instead decided to push this bullshit narrative that it’s wrong for other people to ask them about their shirt
So now people walk around advertising shit they don’t like because the world is full of stupid people who make stupid rules that other people stupid people follow to prove how open-minded and non-judgemental they are
I don’t care whether you genuinely like it or not. I don’t particularly care if its a mutual interest or not. I don’t really like having unnecessary stimulation in my fiekr of vision.
If I want to talk to people about a band I like, I’ll go find an online community or go to a concert, not talk to random strangers wearing relevant t-shirts.
Yeah, because going outside and talking to people in real life is stupid
Facebook for your body
I dont get why some people without tattoos seem to think their opinion about tattoos is terribly novel and important to everyone else.
You dont like tattoos? Great dont geht any. You dont have to like other peoples choices and bodys.
I’d never get a tattoo but I can’t blame people for wanting to feel special and unique.
I always found them trashy
yea they’re fucking trash, and I agree there are a few narrow exceptions.
What people are you hanging around to get the “do you think my tattoo is cool?”, high schoolers?
