who thinks tattoos are lame...

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I think large, loud, and colorful tattoos of scorpions are very ugly.

I have two tattoos - one was done out of stupidity, the other one I like a lot on a symbolic level, and it cheers me up. I'm planning another one which will be the most meaningful to me as it will be a sort of memorial.

they're all in unexposed places (although I guess they would've been partially exposed if I'd lived in a warmer climate).

I've never thought of them as being counter-culture, actually. absolutely delighted to hear such negative comments though always happy to filter out petty people.

I like tattoos. Two out of my three siblings have tattoos. Sometimes I wish I could get a tattoo myself, but I know that would be a bad idea given how fleeting my interests are...

None for me, thanks.

Tattoos are ok when they're not butterflies on the lower back or tribal arm bands. Most people who have a tattoo have something lame like that.

When I think of a temple, I think of something lavishly decorated. I understand what you're saying but, for many people, their tattoos are an extension of their love for their bodies. Or, in some cases, a means to learn to love their bodies.

While many people get tattoos for foolish reasons, assuming a persons reasons are foolish is unfair (not that you were doing this Cockney).

A sign at my old tattoo shop said "The only difference between tattooed people and untattooed people is that tattooed people don't care if you have a tattoo."

That's completely untrue. There are countless of tattooed people who expect that certain groups should have tattoos. Group pressure, "initiations", etc., etc. One random thing was on a BDSM forum I'm a member on, where one member stated that he finds that a dominant person has to get a tattoo to be able to be taken seriously. He meant that the pain of it strengthens the character. So silly (in the negatively silly way).

For the record, I don't think one generally should call tattoos "lame". Personally, I just very strongly dislike them. It puzzles me how they can be so popular, all over the world... in secluded tribes, even (then again, I guess it maybe spread from there, after non-tribal people visited them).

Fair enough, but I've found it to be true of most.

who says there is a grain?

I don't particularly like the look of tattoos (but I find them less off-putting than a large amount of metalwork stuck into the body).

I cannot think of anything to have tattooed onto myself that I would want their permanently.

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A number of people have had "do not resuscitate" tattooed onto themselves towards the end of their live to reduce the chance of their wishes being ignored.

i love tattoos on men and women. i don't have any, myself - my skin is not suited to it and my interests change too fast. i like seeing the new art so last year i went to a body mod convention. i am fascinated by them and don't see why and expanse of bare flesh is really necessary to preserve.

Nobody has any business hating anything, unless it hurts people other than those doing whatever it is. Tattoos are no exception. I have one big one on my left shoulder, which represents some of my special interests, and is overlaid in a jigsaw puzzle pattern. My wedding ring is also tattooed; same as my wife's. And I come from a horribly Victorian and proper East Coast family of stuffy college professors and lawyers, and they all would hate any tattoo of mine. But that's their problem; not mine. I did mine because I wanted it, and I thought about the pros and cons for a long time before I did it 4 years ago, and I've never regretted for even a picosecond. I didn't do it to be different, since as a matter of fact, many of my peers also have tattoos.

If I had to guess, I'd say that the dislike or shame on tattoos, comes from religious issues (defiling the body), and from the history being that many tattooed people were lower class in occupation, or criminals. Nowadays, most people I know with tattoos and piercings, are well-educated, and certainly not criminals. I even know a California Superior Court judge who has tattoos, and is a Yale law graduate, and member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Does this include other materials jammed through the body?

Charles

i like the snakey things through your nipples. they look right cool.

Against that norm, against the grain... same diff.

I tattoos

"your body is your temple, decorate it!" dunno where I heard it first, but always a good rebuttal to the "my body is my temple" anti-tattoos folk