More Tattoos in the "News"

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Permalink Reply by Amy Cole on July 22, 2008 at 10:46am

Whatever. Clearly this guy has no clue. How about "to each his or her own"?

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Permalink Reply by Marisa_DiMattia on July 22, 2008 at 4:44pm

i finally put up my response to this on Needled
http://www.needled.com/blog/?p=2584

Silly old man.

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Permalink Reply by JD LaRish on July 22, 2008 at 5:11pm

"Or maybe, if this was a pissing contest, I’d whip out my Columbia J-School MS and show you just how big my tattoo writing skills are. Alas, I have others here to mock."

i love it!!

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Permalink Reply by Sarah on July 23, 2008 at 10:40am

funny...silly old man is exactly what i thought too...haha

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Permalink Reply by Judy on July 22, 2008 at 5:31pm

Okay...so, in summary

Tattoos suck and we are losers.
40% or more of us have them.
Celebs make lousy tattoo choices (duh!)
Change is the only thing that's permanent (double duh!!)
The economy sucks (Because we're tattooed this is somehow our fault??)
He has been a sheep most of his life
and, once more, in case you didn't get it.......tattoos suck.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah........like Amy said.....whatever.

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Permalink Reply by Jess on July 22, 2008 at 5:39pm

Yeah all I really read was "blah blah blah....I have a closed mind....blah blah blah" He was probably dumped by some hot tattooed chick and is out to get them all now. Whatev - we know we rock! I love my tattoos and I'm the only one that has to love them. I'm offended by morbidly obese people, but I don't go telling them to lose weight becuase I don't like it. It's not up to me to change them!

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Permalink Reply by Miguel Collins on July 22, 2008 at 5:59pm

I tell them to lose weight because their future health issues will cost society as a whole more in the long run.

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Permalink Reply by Miguel Collins on July 22, 2008 at 5:58pm

Can I share, just for a moment, Ok

There are times that I agree with Mr. Cohen. I know I know I try to kill the inner ultra conservative in me but it refuses to die. Especially when I see young kids with heavy coverage.

My wife says I need to stop wanting the tattoo coolness to be mine, but it never fails when I go to a music festival I go away thinking I'm going to laser this off so I won't be associated with these clowns with bad ink.

Or maybe when I see heavily tattooed punk rockers on Colorado Blvd in Pasadena begging for change.

Ok I got that out, back to the regularly scheduled program.


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Yea I hate this article also, Richard Cohen needs to wake up.

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Permalink Reply by Dachi on July 23, 2008 at 1:57am

Condemnant quod non intellegunt

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Permalink Reply by Gordon B. on July 23, 2008 at 4:46pm

Good lord. What a closed-minded nitwit. You have to wonder how many tattooed people he's actually _talked_ to -- he comes across as someone who saw a few tattoos on ESPN and went, "wow, look at all that ink!" -- went home and Googled "celebrity tattoo pics" -- and then sat down and wrote the article.

There are as many styles of tattoos, and reasons for getting them (and reasons for not getting them) as there are people. So typical of an op-ed columnist to assume that everything is easily explained away in 900 words.

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Permalink Reply by Rowan on July 23, 2008 at 11:25pm

Sounds like Mr. Cohen always wanted a tattoo but was too afraid of the stigma he now helps to perpetuate with drivel such as that opinion piece.

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Permalink Reply by Father of Roses on July 24, 2008 at 12:36am

He makes some good points, especially about heavily covered kids. However, it's all really just his opinion. That's been his experience. Mine has been different. Live and let live. I'm pretty heavily covered, and I seem to do okay.

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