Gaelic translation needed-tat advice as well

[Tobus]

It would appear that now tats are fads and I would agree with that statement.

Yeah, I heard that tattoos were a "fad" too when I got my first one 15 years ago. I wish people would stop saying that. A fad is something that everybody gets all hyped up about for a short while and then it falls out of fashion and goes away. Seasonal clothing trends are fads. But it seems clear that tattoos among mainstream society are here to stay, which means they are not simply a fad. The younger generation sees tattoos as more 'normal' than the older generation does, and they accept tattoos. This mentality will likely stay with them as they age; they're not going to wake up one day and decide tattoos should go back in the proverbial closet.

Sorry if this post is a threadjack, but it's one of those phrases that has annoyed me ever since I first heard it. Just because tattoos have become mainstream does not make them a fad. Certain types of tattoos could be fads, but I honestly don't see the popularity of tattoos waning at all. It's only gotten more popular since I started paying attention 15 years ago when I got my first.

[berserkbishop]

Yeah, I heard that tattoos were a "fad" too when I got my first one 15 years ago. I wish people would stop saying that. A fad is something that everybody gets all hyped up about for a short while and then it falls out of fashion and goes away. Seasonal clothing trends are fads. But it seems clear that tattoos among mainstream society are here to stay, which means they are not simply a fad. The younger generation sees tattoos as more 'normal' than the older generation does, and they accept tattoos. This mentality will likely stay with them as they age; they're not going to wake up one day and decide tattoos should go back in the proverbial closet.

Sorry if this post is a threadjack, but it's one of those phrases that has annoyed me ever since I first heard it. Just because tattoos have become mainstream does not make them a fad. Certain types of tattoos could be fads, but I honestly don't see the popularity of tattoos waning at all. It's only gotten more popular since I started paying attention 15 years ago when I got my first.

I dont mind the thread jack at all since it is precisely what I meant when I said the Navy had a long history of tattoos. That is not a fad, it is part of the culture just as tattoos being more readily accepted by my generation is part of the culture.

Over all though, that is not what I wanted this thread to turn into, though it has gone that direction. Any more posts of rampant lion, or any Celtic tattoos would be appreciated.

[WClarkB]

A fad is something that everybody gets all hyped up about for a short while and then it falls out of fashion and goes away. Seasonal clothing trends are fads.

Exactly, and when you see that 15 years is but a mere whisp of a blink of an eye you will then understand my comment. As a youngster (ca 25) I cared for WWII vets, as crusty a group of infidels as you would wish, not a few blushed (literally) that they had gotten them the 30-40 years previously. It is one thing to wear funny clothes and an odd haird0 in your high-school yearbook and another to explain the thing to your great grandkids. I am grieved that Bishop after asking for "advice on a tat" should take umbrage at a rather benign comment. I think Jim's (thescot's) comments to be all that is need to said about that though.

Regretting I offered advice when asked,

walt