How Old is Too Old to get a Tattoo?

If a 40 year old gets a tattoo is that just sad? Like going out and buying a shiney red sports car and screaming to the world "I'm NOT old! Really, I'm Not!" Or is it a wash. (I've determined that it isn't "cool" because there isn't much you can do at 40 that is considered "cool.")

I'd say when your skin is so wrinkled it takes two people to stretch it flat.

I remember when my (then high school age) niece proudly showed me her new butterfly tattoo on her abdomen. I said "Great! It's keep you from getting pregnant!". Stunned, she asked "HOW?" I told her "you get knocked up, that thing will look like a bug on a windshield". My brother must have laughed for a week.

Age has nothing to do with getting a tattoo. You just have to be stupid.

whoa man, wrong board to ask this on. you're stupid if: you want a tattoo, a piercing, eat meat, don't eat meat, wear trainers, wear flats, are liberal, conservative, middle of the road, run 30 mpw, run 110, live in NY, live in texas, live in boston, drink beer, don't drink, like CU, hate CU... the list goes on.

do what you want. don't look for approval from these crackheads. i forgot who said it originally, but it's become one of my favorite quotes, and most of the posters here would do well to remember it:

you don't have to be elite to be elitist.

When I left the military ten years ago I told myself I'd grow my hair long, and get an earring and a tatoo. I was thinking a Canadian flag.

My hair has gotten pretty long between haircuts on occasion, but I never (yet) got around to the earring or the tatoo. Maybe some day...

...well, probably not.

On a related note, what's the collective wisdom about the lower back/upper butt crack tatoos that young ladies all seem to have these days? I gotta say, my first impression when seeing one poke above a waistband used to be "must be a stripper," but there seem to be too many these days (unless there really are that many peelers out there). So I don't like them. But I'm nearly 40 - maybe I've become a bit of a prude?

How 'bout the rest of you fellas?

I got one after getting out of basic training for the Marine Corps..After years of not liking it I made a descion to have laser procedure and remove it...Getting a tattoo increases the risk of hepatitis[sp]and does nothing to enhance oneself..

I already have one tattoo. I was thinking of getting #2. should've put that into the first post.

Nowadays it is original and "cool" to NOT have a tattoo.

There was an article in today's paper on getting tattoos for Valentine's Day. There was a 79 year old woman who got her husband's name in a heart done after he had passed away. Guess after 50+ years of marriage she figured he really was the one.

Now on to number 2.

hey jest, why do you think that is? This site does seem to elicite a certain "nastiness" about it. Is it because runners are a just smarmy group of smart asses?

Any thoughts or theories on the subject?

There is an inverse correlation between the number of tattoos one has and his intelligence.

This has been proven.

(For those of you with a lot of tattoos this means that the more you have, the stupider you are)

With your original post/questions you answered it yourself.

tats are a sure way to get street cred. i say do it. nothing to girlie though.

btw, people on the inside call them "ink."

learn the lingo before you do it.

is too old. Be different. have no tatoos!

jersey wrote:

is too old. Be different. have no tatoos!

Tattoos, expressing individuality by following the social customs of every teenager in the Mall of America?

So original. So edgy. So lame.

If you're old enough to sober up, log on, and ask advice, probably too old.

Seriously, if you have to ask others (esp. here!) for an opinion, that shows me enough uncertainty that you probably shouldn't do it.

Albert Einstein wrote:

There is an inverse correlation between the number of tattoos one has and his intelligence.

This has been proven.

(For those of you with a lot of tattoos this means that the more you have, the stupider you are)

Umm... 'stupider' is not a word. Try 'more stupid'. Who's more stupid now?

jersey wrote:

Be different. have no tatoos!

Yup, having no tats is "different"......suuuuuure. People without tats are the minority.........ok, whatever you say.

I have a better idea: don't do ANYthing that anyone "cool" (like a rock star, or famous athlete, or model, etc) would do, like drive a pimped out car, or get really buff, or have tats, or drink alcohol, or sleep with hot women, etc. No, just continue to be a geeky, non-tatoo wearing, non hot-girl getting, non-cool car driving, non-partying, not-buff, skinny runner nerd who spends all day long arguing on internet message boards, and YES..... THAT will make you cool!!!

(and if you believe that, you are probably out helping OJ search for the real killers)