Marines Bans Big, Garish Tattoos

Bi-Polar Bear wrote:

again I ask "so what?" and refer you to my comment about this being a pander to conservative image.....

I can sort of agree with excessive piercings, but that is something different. I occasionally take out my piercings if necessary and then replace them. A tatoo is just there.

And when the guy shows up in work on Monday morning and complains that they can't do their assigned job because their back, arm, neck, etc.. is tender from their weekend tatoo work?

If you want to play in a freak show then join the circus.

have you ever had a tattoo? Because if someone is unable to work because they're too sore from their tattoo work then they are pussies with a capital P and don't need to be in the service anyway.

That was a major stretch there good buddy.

Bi-Polar Bear wrote:

have you ever had a tattoo? Because if someone is unable to work because they're too sore from their tattoo work then they are pussies with a capital P and don't need to be in the service anyway.

That was a major stretch there good buddy.

Hardly a major stretch. I've been there and had guys assigned to me complain. But then guys that need tats to prove to the world how cool they are tend to be pussies anyway.

But then you don't have any military experience to know what duties they'd have do you? As usual, lots of hot air with nothing to back yourself up.

And when the guy shows up in work on Monday morning and complains that they can't do their assigned job because their back, arm, neck, etc.. is tender from their weekend tatoo work?

But then you don't have any military experience to know what duties they'd have do you? As usual, lots of hot air with nothing to back yourself up.

The British Royal Court must have been fascinated with the Tahitian chief's tattoos, because the future King George V had himself inked with the 'Cross of Jerusalem' when he traveled to the Middle East in 1892. He also received a dragon on the forearm from the needles of an acclaimed tattoo master during a visit to Japan. George's sons, The Duke of Clarence and The Duke of York were also tattooed in Japan while serving in the British Admiralty, solidifying what would become a family tradition.

Taking their sartorial lead from the British Court, where Edward VII followed George V's lead in getting tattooed; King Frederick IX of Denmark, the King of Romania, Kaiser Wilhelm II, King Alexander of Yugoslavia and even Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, all sported tattoos, many of them elaborate and ornate renditions of the Royal Coat of Arms or the Royal Family Crest. King Alfonso of modern Spain also had a tattoo.

Tattooing spread among the upper classes all over Europe in the nineteenth century, but particularly in Britain where it was estimated in Harmsworth Magazine in 1898 that as many as one in five members of the gentry were tattooed. There, it was not uncommon for members of the social elite to gather in the drawing rooms and libraries of the great country estate homes after dinner and partially disrobe in order to show off their tattoos. Aside from her consort Prince Albert, there are persistent rumours that Queen Victoria had a small tattoo in an undisclosed 'intimate' location; Denmark's king Frederick was filmed showing his tattoos taken as a young sailor. Winston Churchill's mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, not only had a tattoo of a snake around her wrist, which she covered when the need arose with a specially crafted diamond bracelet, but had her nipples pierced as well. Carrying on the family tradition, Winston Churchill was himself tattooed. In most western countries tattooing remains a subculture identifier, and is usually performed on less-often exposed parts of the body.

fishin wrote:

But then you don't have any military experience to know what duties they'd have do you? As usual, lots of hot air with nothing to back yourself up.

that's a buncha hooey fishin.

Do Marines expect time away from ANY duty because they've been driving with their left arm outside of the vehicle and they have a mild sunburn? Likely not - because they know anyone would be able to tell that was a silly excuse. Ink's just an easier excuse to get away with when you're in front of someone who doesn't have any ink.

ehBeth wrote:

mild sunburn

Unlikely as it may be, military members DO get punished under the UCMJ when it does happen. Do a Google search on "UCMJ sunburn" and you'll find several offical Army and Navy documents specifically mentioning it.