World's Worst... Tattoos

[I, Cosh]

To be fair i've revently dyed my hair turqoise and am in line for a few tattoos so....I guess it's just a matter of degree concerning how much you want to augment your body. Only you can dictate that, no one else.

Absolutely right. Equally, only I can dictate whether I find it stupid and to be mocked.

[Tiplodocus]

I think it's probably been said before but I genuinely just don't have that sort of commitment to anything* in my life to get it permanently marked on my body. 

Things change: Imagine you had a Star Wars tattoo and after ROTJ, all we got was a 1000 ewok movies and Holiday Specials?

And my mind changes: Bands I liked when I was 18 I can barely listen to now. My Rubettes tattoo remains covered up.



* 2000 AD, obviously.  But even then I couldn't decide on which logo I'd go for.

[radiator]

I guess it's just a matter of degree concerning how much you want to augment your body. Only you can dictate that, no one else.

Well, up to a point, yes, but at the risk of sounding like a blustering old reactionary, I'm firmly of the opinion that only someone with some serious underlying mental health issues would want to do that to their own body, and I'm honestly shocked and a little sad that the guy's family didn't hold some sort of intervention and try to get him some help.

[NapalmKev]

I gueas it's just a matter of degree concerning how much you want to augment your body. Only you can dictate that, no one else.

Well, up to a point, yes, but at the risk of sounding like a blustering old reactionary, I'm firmly of the opinion that only someone with some serious mental health issues would want to do that to their own body, and I'm honestly shocked and a little sad that the guy's family didn't hold some sort of intervention and try to get him some help.

Various Tribes around the World and throughout Human history have modified their bodies. Tattoos, piercings, elongated necks. Even mullets!

Sex Change Operations could also be regarded as body modification. Or even prosthetic limbs!



Cheers

[radiator]

Just because things have been done throughout human history doesn't mean they were a good idea.

And I wasn't talking about piercings or tattoos. What that guy has done reminds me of that poor soul who had all that surgery to make him look like a tiger and ended up committing suicide.

[Hawkmumbler]

Maybe he just's want ti join his bretherin in hell...

[JamesC]

To be fair i've revently dyed my hair turqoise and am in line for a few tattoos so....I guess it's just a matter of degree concerning how much you want to augment your body. Only you can dictate that, no one else.

I think there should be some kind of protection for people though. And let's face it, he's unlikely to have done this himself - someone's taken money to do that to him. Not good.
It seems to me that he's effectively given himself a minor disability.
If I decided I wanted to 'augment' my body by cutting my big toes off would it still be okay?

[richerthanyou]

No problem with people carrying out body modifications. Any legally consenting adult should be able to do whatever they want to their own body if it doesn't harm anyone else.

Love seeing freaks about the place. Makes life so much more entertaining.

[TordelBack]

It's interesting to reflect that, thanks to social media,for today's youth EVERYTHING they do is permanent - so body modification may seem like a more minor thing than a thousand Facebook indiscretions following them through life.

[Hawkmumbler]

It's interesting to reflect that, thanks to social media,for today's youth EVERYTHING they do is permanent - so body modification may seem like a more minor thing than a thousand Facebook indiscretions following them through life.

Nail on head, Tordels. For me at least, these tattoo's feel more like I'm painting, I feel like I own myself and what others think can take a running jump off a cliff. I can see people taking body augmentation the same way and the permanence is barely of interest.

[Satanist]

Arrogance of youth and all that. At 20 you know it all but by 40 you realise what a complete cock you were. I look forward to 60 when I realise what a complete cock I am now 

[Hawkmumbler]

Live in the moment, Satanist, I've spent too much of my life caring what others thought about me. Since just going mad and just being a lot more loving to myself my depression and anxiety's really wound its neck in. I feel better and healthier now than I've ever done!

[shaolin_monkey]

Every ailment my body has I was born with - I have no control over them.  I've learned to live with them.

Every tattoo I have, and body modification, since I was 17 years old, I adore.  They are mine - I chose them, I had complete control over them. 

Some deem them unsightly, some like them very much.  Some wonder why the hell I did it.  I accept all of those reactions, but ultimately only my own reaction to my own choices counts.




Still, that guy with a hole in his face is a fucking idiot.

[Woolly]

A close friend of mine is heavily tattooed and pierced, and once had a plate with 3 screw-holes inserted in her forehead, so she could wear 3 horns like a triceratops.

She is also one of the sanest, kindest and happiest people you could ever wish to meet.

Now that fella with the cheek-holes - it's certainly extreme, but I don't think anyone should jump to conclusions about his mental health because of it.
He clearly wanted to do it, even if it is completely unfathomable to me why he wanted to.

For the record, I don't have any tattoos or piercings. (My body isnt exactly a canvas, what with all the ribs and lack of muscles!) But I know alot of people who do, and they're all absolutely lovely 



That [spoiler]filthy cunt[/spoiler] tattoo though... (shakes head and sighs)

[JayzusB.Christ]

To be fair i've revently dyed my hair turqoise and am in line for a few tattoos so....I guess it's just a matter of degree concerning how much you want to augment your body. Only you can dictate that, no one else.

I used to have turquoise hair too -  I beat you to it by about 17 years though

Tattoos aren't really my thing; but I have a permanent mini-crater in my tongue to remind me of a botched piercing.