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If this really works, getting a tattoo will be no more edgy than getting your hair dyed. Tattoos will rapidly fall out of fashion.

• danieltillett 10y ago
  Tattoos will fall out of fashion no matter what happens.
  • burfog 10y ago
    They are gross. OTOH, I kind of like how they warn me about people who make rash decisions. I'd love to see a proper study of how well tattoos correlate with drug use, STDs, assault, debt, obesity, single parenting, failure to use a seatbelt, tooth decay, low-pay college degree choices, and other indicators of short-term thinking.
    • SolaceQuantum 10y ago
      Single parenting and low-pay college degree choices aren't necessarily short term thinking, nor is obesity or tooth decay. Or debt. I think there is a wide brush and a lot of assumptions being made here, many of which can be harmful. For just one example, it's quite common for single parenting to actually just be a result of successfully escaping an abusive relationship.
      • burfog 10y ago
        Sure, "aren't necessarily", but likely to be strongly predictable. None of the things I list are 100% caused by anything, but lots of things in life can predict other things. For a real eye-opener, check what OkCupid's data says about people who like the taste of beer! For example, getting into that relationship in the first place was...? Were you ignoring warning signs and not really thinking about how reliable the other person might be in the long term? (if it isn't directly your fault, you probably chose unwisely, not thinking of the long-term chances) Failure to avoid health consequences is often short-term thinking. Look, we all know what happens if you live on soda and chips. Despite this, some people don't think ahead, or they "think" but fail to resist the urge. There are lots of reasons for debt. It could be a freak accident. Much of the time though, it was short-term thinking. You didn't save for the future, preferring instead to spend when you could.
        • SolaceQuantum 10y ago
          Like I said, a lot of assumptions are being made here. Many of these have various common and easily brought up examples of how they're not necessarily an indication of the quality you're trying to sift for. By bringing a list of these not-really-indicating qualities there is going to be such a significant category of false positives that it may just look as if one is so eager to judge other lifestyles that they forget to perform basic critical thinking abd empathy. Instead of attempting to brush off a wide range of people with very common and easily explained life qualities, why not assume people generally have reasons for the situations they're in? If there is a personality trait you dislike, one can practice observant behavior to analyze how the trait manifests in an individual and move on from there on how to deal with that individual. Trying to assume all individuals with a trait are the majority of people who may be in certain circumstances in life just seems like poor logic.
    • SmellyGeekBoy 10y ago
      I don't have any tattoos and have zero interest in ever getting any, but this seems incredibly judgemental. Some of the most normal and boring people I know happen to have tattoos.
  • shultays 10y ago
    Well, 5000 years and counting.
    • danieltillett 10y ago
      I think tattoos are even older than this. Tattoos will continue to exist, but they won't be fashionable.
      • masklinn 10y ago
        > I think tattoos are even older than this. Ötzi is the oldest tattooed body we have and thus the oldest hard evidence of that practice. While there is peripheral evidence of probable earlier tattooing (Cucuteni-Trypillian sculptures, and how wide-spread confirmed tattooing practices are circa 1000~2000BCE), we don't have anything hard before Ötzi (circa 3000BCE). Incidentally, Ötzi's tattoos seem to be therapeutic rather than artistic.
• gdulli 10y ago
  I lived most of my life in suburban areas where tattoos were uncommon. And then the last 5 years in a major city where they're everywhere. It's impossible for me to think of them as edgy anymore. They seem more like a cliche now. Just something you need to do to fully fit in with the majority of a much larger range of social circles than I used to think.