I have been getting tattooed for 21 years and got my first tattoo in the shop of one of the grandaddy’s of Canada’s tattoo industry when I was sixteen years old. Half of the bullshit “code of ethics” that they talk about when they talk about the culture of western tattooing is a weird sort of elitist way of…

I already responded to the effect that this tiny little negligible tattoo will have on the man’s reputation. Don't be ridiculous.

It doesn’t really make a difference to me what style the other tattoos are he obviously isn’t a tattooer that is dedicated Stylistically As he randomly tattoos any old derivative hipster work and thus tells me he’s willing to play for pay. What the fuck should it matter to him what font it’s in at this point.

Those ethnic groups have absolutely no problem selling out that sacred mountain taking groups up it— they have no problem doing fucking hash groups around it ( not the drug but an adventure race where drunken foreigners follow trails of paper through the jungle crashing about in in and have giant Barbi Ragers after)…

I grew up in se Asia. I’ve been to the area many times and hiked the foothills of Kinabalu. It’s primary purpose is not a place of worship. The “sacredness” of the mountain is very loosely determined on whether anyone is profiting off of it at any given time. And sure you can get arrested for taking your clothes off…

Mt. Kinabalu is not so sacred that you can’t book any number of climbing trips up and down it—just like Everest.

Exactly! The moral of the story should always be “sex: it’s really not that big of a deal”

The only time I have ever had to think about whether or not to engage in an act of sex whilst couples vacationing with friends was when we were couples camping and we were running low on water and my friend jokingly said “ well I guess that means no more blow jobs till someone goes on a water run guys”.

Sure you can’t be legally compelled to do it—but if you don’t have a valid reason for not doing it other than an arbitrary and mostly moralistic personal reason like “ it would look tacky” the person you refused can sure as shit call you out as an asshole for it. Such is life in a capitalist and consumer driven…

Most of the shops I have spent time in—and they are respectable shops, will allow people to make their own decisions as long as they are informed of the risks involved-understand that certain areas of the body are highly visible and that tattoos in certain highs wear areas like hands and feet won’t age as well as…

There’s got to be a first time I guess hey. ;).

People sign things called liability waivers befor every single tattoo which relieves both the shop and the artist of any responsibility for things like social scorn or future joblessness as a result of their own poor decision making whilst gettin a tattoo. Many waivers are extremely specific and even waive…

It’s a review of her first person experience with the artist and the shop illustrated with examples to testify how she believes her tattoo reflected a level of taste that was certainly no less than any of those he had already tattooed and publicized before. Simply because you don’t like the way the review was written…

Lol

In which case it’s entirely the prerogative of the consumer to review said individual and provide examples of their taste level and what they believe to be tacky and how their standard of deciding what they will or will not tattoo is arbitrary as fuck and deserving of ridicule. One reaps what they sow.

No.

And the same could be said about gay marriages and bakeries. But we don’t say that do we—because we don’t generally allow individuals who run businesses to allow their personal opinions to interfere with providing of services to individuals even if those individuals do not measure up to some arbitrary standard set by…

You clearly didn’t read the entire thread then— if he refuses to do her tattoo for an arbitrary reason while still performing the same tattoo on others than he gets no respect from me for it. If you are going to claim as an artist and a business person that you have certain standards of behaviour than that had better…

I didn't crop the other tattoos out of the picture. The other tattoos don't negate my point.

Again. If you read what I have said I don’t really give a shit whether Dan tattoos the necks of people with tattoos or not. I hold that his arbitrary policy is exactly that—arbitrary—and that his decision to claim a divine judgement over who may or may not decide what or when another person can put on their body (…