They have a son with a good job and a wonderful future wife.
A tattoo is hardly going to wreck anything.
( girlinthehole, Tue 11 May 2010, 15:44, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

it's not the disapproval
it's the lack of understanding. my bro and parents have the same view, that people only have them because they want to be "different", but because so many people have them it doesn't make you different anymore. This means they will ask me annoying questions.

whereas my view is that some tattoos are awesome, and it is nothing to do with anyone other than the individual. I can put this view across easily to sensible people....
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 11 May 2010, 15:48, Reply)

Tell them they're talking out of their arse.
There are hundreds of reasons why people get tattoos.
( girlinthehole, Tue 11 May 2010, 15:50, Reply)

we know that
try telling it to a 65 year old lawyer. his is a hard mind to change.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 11 May 2010, 16:10, Reply)

Punch him in the cock.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 11 May 2010, 16:29, Reply)

Remind him that it isn't so long ago the good stuff was the preserve of the professional classes.

(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 11 May 2010, 17:22, Reply)