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The Countries: Forget it, Burkina Faso, Michigan is still the worst.

Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
I think tattoos are nasty AF but jeebus

https://bbc.in/32JOFOE?fbclid=IwAR2N...cKAGOHF0pyTIoc
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It is really bizarre how much of a textbook Rightwing Autocracy the CCP is. "Healthy in mind and body", "protection of public morality", the state and dominant race as an organism to be kept hygienic -- all the sick fascist biological metaphors. It's like they the took 5% of Mao that was Hilterian and threw away the 95% that was Marxist.

Maybe the extremes really do wrap around and meet on the other side.
 
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To be honest, tattoos aren't quite as widely accepted in Asian culture as they are here in the West.

A past work friend was born in Japan, came over here in his late teens (currently 28-ish), attended the Univ. of Illinois-Chicago, and has since returned to take an engineering job in Japan. His dad worked in Finance and came to the Chicago area for work. Both retained their Japanese citizenship. He was always shocked at how prominent tats were here in the US/West. In Japan they have pretty deep ties to being associated with crime and the underworld. You just don't see them in society, period. Even if you do have them, you cover them up.

Not saying much of what China does is good. But just saying that Asian society as a whole, is a completely different set of norms than what we have in the West here.
 
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RaceBoarder said:
To be honest, tattoos aren't quite as widely accepted in Asian culture as they are here in the West.
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That might be true in Japan but certainly not in Thailand and the Philippines. I've also seen plenty of Koreans here tatted up but not sure about how widespread it may be on home soil.
 
Tattoos are going to be looked back on as the stupidest fad since those beauty marks French courtiers put on their faces, or ties.
 
Slap Shot said:
That might be true in Japan but certainly not in Thailand and the Philippines. I've also seen plenty of Koreans here tatted up but not sure about how widespread it may be on home soil.
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They are definitely common in Pacific Island culture, and I'm sure that is where the influence came from for South Asia.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Can you really call it a fad when it's been a cultural thing for a couple thousand years?
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I meant as a gen pop thing. Tattoos have had specific meaning for subcultures for a thousand years, but they were only appropriated by the Great Consumer Cow as "look at me desperate to be unique the same way as all my classmates!!!" the last 30.

It's the equivalent of if everybody started wearing a sword around. Or a feather headdress. Awesome if you're a Ninja or a chief. Pathetic if you're in retail sales.
 
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Kepler said:
Tattoos are going to be looked back on as the stupidest fad since those beauty marks French courtiers put on their faces, or ties.
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I was working with our Parks system in the mid to late 1970's, and was shooting the breeze with a couple of other employees one day when one of the kids mentioned that he wanted to get a tattoo. This guy working maintenance, a WWII vet, suggested he not. When the kid asked why, the vet rolled up his sleeve, pointed at the green and blue blob on his shoulder and said, "'cause this is what it's going to look like in 40 years."
 
SJHovey said:
I was working with our Parks system in the mid to late 1970's, and was shooting the breeze with a couple of other employees one day when one of the kids mentioned that he wanted to get a tattoo. This guy working maintenance, a WWII vet, suggested he not. When the kid asked why, the vet rolled up his sleeve, pointed at the green and blue blob on his shoulder and said, "'cause this is what it's going to look like in 40 years."
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The best argument against tattoos is the best argument against tanning and boob jobs. Look at middle aged women.
 
Kepler said:
I meant as a gen pop thing. Tattoos have had specific meaning for subcultures for a thousand years, but they were only appropriated by the Great Consumer Cow as "look at me desperate to be unique the same way as all my classmates!!!" the last 30.

It's the equivalent of if everybody started wearing a sword around. Or a feather headdress. Awesome if you're a Ninja or a chief. Pathetic if you're in retail sales.
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Among white people, I've always thought of them as a subculture thing that got out of control when it became mainstream for tons of 18 year-old girls to get a crappy tatt as a middle finger to their dads. Like punk rock going pop.
 
Huh.

The United States and South Korea have “effectively” reached an agreement on a draft declaration that would formally end the Korean War, South Korea’s top diplomat said Wednesday.

An armistice was signed in July 1953 to end a war that began in 1950 when North Korean troops invaded South Korea. A formal peace treaty ending the war was never signed.
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aparch said:
In not so good news, this isn't ominous or anything...

“Nuclear mushroom may rise over Ukraine, but the NATO flag may not.”

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/s...97880827830278
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While I get Ukraine being scared Russia will only risk so much. If Biden threatens Putin sooner or later Putin will back down. They just don't have the infrastructure for any sort of real battles nor would they ever drop The Bomb and risk the world basically annihilating them. (it would be pretty unified in response) I mean the US spent more on their military this year than the GDP of Russia! (well that is a bit of an exaggeration but not really)

Russia now is an updated version of the Russia my great grandfather fought for in WWI. Only this time instead of sending people to the front with broom handles (which they did for him...he also got shot 9 different times and returned to the front line) they send them with 1970s era weaponry. Most NATO nations on their own could probably hold them back let alone all of us. The US would own Russia.

(this is where someone talks about Putin being crazy and Russia being prideful and arrogant which is true but irrelevant)
 
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