Gaelic translation needed-tat advice as well

[sfb]

With all the respect due to one so wizened and obviously knowledgeable in the things of the world--after all, you are about to graduate--you are wrong. Well meaning people who have spent many years gaining experience and wisdom have offered you their best advice in the hope of being your friends and helping you to do well, and you have rudely told them to shove it.

So, you are correct. You are a grown; do as you wish. But to spit in the eye of those who would attempt to offer friendly advice is out of line, and it does not speak well of your maturity.

That's inaccurate, patronising rubbish.

[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

[WClarkB]

That's inaccurate, patronising rubbish.

Does this amount to a cogent argument?

"The way of a unwise is right in his own eyes: but he that listens to considered advice is wise."

[Tobus]

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.

Again, for something to be a fad, it would be a temporary style that goes away. Tattoos among normal people has not gone away, nor does it show any sign of doing so. Like I said, there are now several generations of people who accept tattoos as non-shameful. Starting with Generation X, probably, and now their kids which are old enough for tattoos as well. Given that tattoos have worked their way into everyday life, I see absolutely no reason to think the trend will magically disappear within the next several generations.

Just because the trend is relatively new doesn't make it a fad. I find that the folks who label it as a fad are usually simply trying to belittle it or use the term as an insult. As if to imply that anyone who would get a tattoo is doing so only to fit in with the crowd (which is usually the case with fads). This, in my opinion, displays a bit of ignorance or misunderstanding as to why people get them. And I mean no offense to anyone by that comment. But just because someone doesn't understand why others would want tattoos doesn't make it a fad; nor does it justify belittling entire generations of people who get them.

[WClarkB]

Again, for something to be a fad, it would be a temporary style that goes away. Tattoos among normal people has not gone away, nor does it show any sign of doing so. .

vide supra

[berserkbishop]

Enough, launch all the insults you want my way. I dont really care. I wanted some advice ON DESIGN not on the finer points of the morality and significance of a tattoo. I even requested that the argument went no further, but things have snowballed (granted I caused that some of the problem by asking people not to post their personal feelings on tattoos in this thread in a "brusque" manner.) Sorry to sully the board with this garbage.

Close this thread down mods. I will take my inquiries elsewhere.

[Panache]

Thread closed per OP's request

Cheers

Jamie