Also, I can hear a coworker snoring on her desk.
Quote from: yirj17 on October 24, 2016, 10:55:55 amLol more respect for a decision someone made while wasted on and drugs than for someone who spent time actually thinking about a mostly permanent decision. Okay. Because that at least sort of makes sense. If you actually thought about it and still decided to do it, you're even more of an idiot. You had the chance to think this through under a normal state of mind and still reached a terrible decision. It's like if you decided to blow 100 bucks betting on the longshot at the track while drunk and having fun with your friends. Okay, I get that. Betting 100 bucks on the longshot while sober because you think it's a good idea? You're a moron. Same for physical stunts or something like that. At least the next day the person will realize what a dumb idea it was. Someone who made that decision sober? That means they truly believe it was the right course of action, which means their judgment is permanently shot.
Lol more respect for a decision someone made while wasted on and drugs than for someone who spent time actually thinking about a mostly permanent decision. Okay.
Quote from: HaLo3 on October 24, 2016, 12:36:12 pmAlso, I can hear a coworker snoring on her desk. Me too.
Sometimes getting a tattoo or piercing is an act of reclaiming, celebrating, feeling comfortable with one's body. Maybe it's therapy. Maybe someone with anxiety wants to be brave and do something permanent. Your response to tattoos and piercings just shows your privilege, I'd argue. If you haven't had a complicated relationship with your own body, then of course you wouldn't understand getting tattoos or piercings. This. This is precisely the nonsense I'm talking about when it comes to tattoos. Someone who is getting a tattoo to "Reclaim" themselves or as therapy is someone who is lying to themselves or otherwise not dealing with reality. They've chosen a tattoo instead of asking themselves hard questions and engaging in difficult solutions.
I respectfully disagree. It's one thing if you simply think it's dumb (that is your opinion and you are entitled to it), but I think it's silly to compare someone soberly spending one's money (regardless of whatever it is being spent on) versus someone who isn't even in a right state of mind to make a decision due to intoxication/drugs. To actually respect the latter's "decision-making" seems strange to me. People will spend their money on whatever they want. Everyone's opinion will vary on whether that was money well-spent.
There's a lot of ageism going on in this thread. Imagine if someone was making reasonable arguments for why they thought, say going to football matches was a waste of time and everyone kept telling them they only held that opinion because they were a woman.
There's a lot of ageism going on in this thread. Imagine if someone was making reasonable arguments for why they thought, say going to football matches was a waste of time and everyone kept telling them they only held that opinion because they were a woman. Seriously though, can no one accept the idea that there might be some poor decision making behind getting tattoo or piercing?
Quote from: eggieguffer on October 24, 2016, 01:19:11 pmThere's a lot of ageism going on in this thread. Imagine if someone was making reasonable arguments for why they thought, say going to football matches was a waste of time and everyone kept telling them they only held that opinion because they were a woman. ?Seriously though, can no one accept the idea that there might be some poor decision making behind getting tattoo or piercing?
Quote from: Jennipennypie on October 24, 2016, 11:53:58 amQuote from: HaLo3 on October 24, 2016, 09:53:56 amQuote from: yirj17 on October 24, 2016, 09:39:57 amIt's persimmon season...I had never had a persimmon before coming to Korea and I didn't know what they were. A few months into my first year, Emart had a sale of the soft ones, but they were wrapped in the package upside down. I hadn't bought any tomatoes since coming because they seemed so expensive from what I was used to so I bought these, thinking that they were tomatoes. I got them home and started cutting them up to cook with, and even though I thought they seemed really weird, I kept on and made a savory pasta sauce with them. I never got over that and I don't like persimmons now...Have you tried the frozen ones? They are nice. I also had never tried persimmons and didn't like their weird stringy jellyness at first. Now I love them.The soft persimmons I'm okay with but I can barely tolerate the hard persimmons. And I've already been gifted a big bagful. Fortunately I can pawn them off on a friend who actually likes 'em
Quote from: HaLo3 on October 24, 2016, 09:53:56 amQuote from: yirj17 on October 24, 2016, 09:39:57 amIt's persimmon season...I had never had a persimmon before coming to Korea and I didn't know what they were. A few months into my first year, Emart had a sale of the soft ones, but they were wrapped in the package upside down. I hadn't bought any tomatoes since coming because they seemed so expensive from what I was used to so I bought these, thinking that they were tomatoes. I got them home and started cutting them up to cook with, and even though I thought they seemed really weird, I kept on and made a savory pasta sauce with them. I never got over that and I don't like persimmons now...Have you tried the frozen ones? They are nice. I also had never tried persimmons and didn't like their weird stringy jellyness at first. Now I love them.
Quote from: yirj17 on October 24, 2016, 09:39:57 amIt's persimmon season...I had never had a persimmon before coming to Korea and I didn't know what they were. A few months into my first year, Emart had a sale of the soft ones, but they were wrapped in the package upside down. I hadn't bought any tomatoes since coming because they seemed so expensive from what I was used to so I bought these, thinking that they were tomatoes. I got them home and started cutting them up to cook with, and even though I thought they seemed really weird, I kept on and made a savory pasta sauce with them. I never got over that and I don't like persimmons now...
It's persimmon season...
don't have tattoos myself. got nothing against them though. been thinking of getting one for years but could never settle on a design i liked. for me it would be more just because i love some of the tattoo artwork, not because of anything meaningful.that said, i think some people really need to evaluate where they get their tattoos. getting tattoos on your neck that can't be covered by a collar, on your hands/fingers, or places like that, is just not good.you can rant and rave about how people shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, how it's the 21st century and people should be more progressive and blah blah blah, but at the end of the day everyone needs to exist in society, and there are still some conservative people out there. if you applied for a job and DeMartino was the one interviewing you and you came in with your neck and hand tattoos you probably wouldn't get hired. as just one example. and then you could say all the things that people have said in this thread but it still wouldn't change the fact that your tattoos have cost you a job, no matter how unfair you think it is.and i think people really need to choose their artists carefully, and not be afraid to pay good money for it. i've seen the difference between cheap tattoos done by crappy artists and more expensive tattoos done by great artists and they're worlds apart. this thing is going to be on your body for your whole life so it's really not an area to skimp on when it comes to payment.
Like I said previously, over 50% of people born post 1980 have a tattoo.