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07-01-2014, 03:27 PM | #1 | |||
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I must say I agree wholeheartedly with this article, now how do we change this absurd 'me' culture? |
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07-01-2014, 03:36 PM | #2 | ||
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w*****s is the right word here.
Yeah it's funny when you go to the gym, when you see most of the guys wearing singlets to show off their try hard tattoos so people will think their cool. Trying so hard to impress other people is certainly not cool at all. |
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07-01-2014, 03:40 PM | #3 | ||
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this should be interesting!
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07-01-2014, 07:11 PM | #5 | ||
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I'm an individual, ya can't fool me, OI,OI,OI !!
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07-01-2014, 08:04 PM | #6 | |||
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he has blown himself up so big with roids and whatever else that he sleeps with a pedestal fan in his face to stop him from overheating. he is tattooed from head to toe and so pumped up he cant speak properly and his head looks like it wants to pop at any second. He will go to the gym, stand in front of the mirror, lift 1 single weight and then flex his handiwork whilst admiring himself for 5 minutes. I just laugh, he thinks he's beautiful. Honestly though, what did people expect, throw human **** fighting, a gym on every corner open 24hrs and the face book generation into the same mixing bowl and you get self absorbed hero's who thrive on intimidating people and wont stop until they have made their point. |
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07-01-2014, 09:09 PM | #7 | ||
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Im 25, own a staffy and have my legs tattooed, don't do roids and im certainly not muscled never walk around shirtless in public (I even swim in a shirt) and have never been in a fight - nor do a plan to be.
Didn't start drinking till I was 22, and even then I rarely drink. Anybody who assaults somebody else for no reason should be jailed immediately, and people who can't handle their booze shouldn't be allowed in public. |
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08-01-2014, 09:14 AM | #8 | ||
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He's a brainless try hard, people like him dont pick on people their own size...
cheers, Maka
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08-01-2014, 03:52 PM | #9 | ||
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This is the biggest problem in this country the individual rights we have to many and they should be smashed community rights is what should be enforced harshly what is best for the community should be king unfortunate to many bleeding hearts have come about and given everybody the same rights and second chances soon as we rise up and demand action the better how many people have to die before we tackle the scourge of alcohol and ban it forever but will never happen to many people enjoy a good drink as its ok me as an individual never do anything wrong there for why should drinking be banned its because of idiots like this that's why think about that next time your having a glass of alcohol how many people die for your right to have a drink after work. For the record i never drink ever and have worked with drunks for 5 years so my opinion is very biased to the point of hatred and disgust
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08-01-2014, 04:18 PM | #10 | ||
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Most of them can't fight and cry when they're hit. They all try for the one punch knock out and if that doesn't work then they cop a hiding. Seen many small average looking guys put thugs like this in their place. It's the quiet ones to watch out for, because the more you train in a discipline the more you won't go out and start a fight. Because you have seen so many average plain looking guys, that know how to look after themselves. So you don't want to start a fight just in case you pick the wrong bloke.
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08-01-2014, 05:46 PM | #11 | ||
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theres no I in team , but theres plenty of something in U .
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08-01-2014, 06:02 PM | #12 | ||
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??? Mystified
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08-01-2014, 07:48 PM | #13 | ||
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08-01-2014, 09:30 PM | #14 | |||
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This clown (Shaun McNeil) is not a victim of "The New Conformity"; he alone is responsible for his own actions. The fact he has; tatts, muscles, a dog and is on face book do not diminish that fact.
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08-01-2014, 10:05 PM | #15 | |||
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Hatred is quite popular over there so you should fit in nicely . I'm agree on the disgust though to the point where I am disgusted that there are people out there like you running around with opinions like that . One Fred Niles is more than enough thank you . |
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08-01-2014, 11:34 PM | #16 | ||
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I do not have a tattoo. I will never have a tattoo. If folk want to get at tattoo, err good on them.
My only Tattoo is this... My Genes, which are made of a combination of my parents genes - 50/50. So my genes are made up of my grandparents genes 25-25/25-25 and etc... In other words, my Granddaughter has in each and every one of her billions of cells 1/4 of the genetic material supplied by me, hopefully the good stuff. So far this appears to be the case. She is 6 years old and I think maths will be tricky (not great for a guy who loves science). There it is, imprinted. She can type 'such is life', or incomprehensible Japanese letters on her body, extolling this or that virtue or data, but it will not change who she actually is. A picture or couple of words are laid bare when actually asked to pay account for an action or word. My Tattoo's are engraved in everyone of my cells, half my children's cells and now, 1/4 of my granddaughter's. My daughter has picked up a couple of tats which she now regrets. My granddaughter's dad is running out of room for tats, i.e. he has a camera tattooed on his larynx. Legs, arms, torso. Doesn't matter what the subject is supposed to say, it just becomes a mish mash of this and that. He wears polo necks to cover up the camera.
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09-01-2014, 12:13 AM | #17 | ||
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I have a tattoo, had it for 15 years. I've been working out of late, and I've also taken a self-portrait recently. According to the article quoted, i'm set to bash someone any minute now.
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09-01-2014, 12:41 AM | #18 | ||
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Plenty of those same sort of people are perfectly functioning members of society. The oldest conformity in the world is tar everyone with the same brush and segregate humanity into different groups.
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09-01-2014, 12:52 AM | #19 | |||
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09-01-2014, 01:24 AM | #20 | |||
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I'm close to 50% tattooed now and I occasionally work out. If I could walk long distances I'd walk with my girlfriend down at the beach and I'd take my dog too (whippet). But if someone looks at me, I'll smile and wave and ask if they're having a nice day.
People without tattoos still assault people.
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09-01-2014, 03:39 AM | #21 | ||
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I think the article quoted by the OP raises the point that guys who are generally anonymous and conforming feel pressured by the current obssession with celebrity to "become" someone (important?). They start with body image...and generally it ends there and they feel good about themselves. Some however move on to other less pleasant aspects of celebrity and starting try to dominate those around them.
Personally I got nothing against tatts and it is probably not fair to link it to violence. If a tatt means something to you, good. But, I just dont understand why people get their skin indelibly marked with graphics and messages they would never contemplate decalling on their cars. Must be alcohol and peer pressure.... which are probably the same reasons we all drive Fords instead of something boring like Toyotas. |
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09-01-2014, 10:00 AM | #22 | ||
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Tattoos don't make you are trouble maker, a lot of islanders have tattoo and they are purely tribal and usually have some type of meaning from their families past. I'm a clean skin or a blank canvas as one tatooist referred to me one day. lol
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09-01-2014, 02:20 PM | #23 | |||
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it talked about heavily muscled tattooed and with that attitude I find the current tattoo trend hilarious. It seems so many people are unhappy with what they are or their appearance and some try the tattoo fix anglos try to look like islanders or ex cons via tatts well off people try to look poor via tatts asians try to look anglo via surgery or bleaching their hair too much money and self esteem issues islanders are one of the few exceptions, they are what they are and are happy within themselves |
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09-01-2014, 02:55 PM | #24 | ||
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Why would you assume that so many people get tattoos because they are unhappy, want to be someone else or are rich?
My experience is the opposite. People I know who are into tatoos, have ones that are mostly hidden, and/or have art that is personal to them. Perhaps we can bundle up all the heavily muscled, tatooed lads with attitude and lock them all up. I mean they must all be doing something against the community. We should ask the goverment to implement similar laws to the "bikie" laws in Qld. That'll fix all them wannabee's!! PS: you must not know to many islanders, or if you do, not know them all very well. ;)
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09-01-2014, 03:09 PM | #25 | |||
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Has this bloke got "too much money and self esteem issues" ? I hope not, not when he's packing a gun....
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09-01-2014, 03:10 PM | #26 | ||
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Tattoo culture has changed big time thesedays. Obviously xxx000 you have no idea why people actually get tattoo's. Its no longer a criminal thing. Sure there are those who get them to look tough or because they're drunk, but to use a similar term in these situations, they're the 1%. Most tattoos people get have some meaning to them, remembrance, spiritual, family, etc. to say that all people who get tattoos are trying to be someone else is ridiculous. To take something from the article, if someone gets a tattoo of their kid on them or their birth date or something, how is that them trying to change who they are? Is that not embracing who they are?
Tattoos are an artfom that can be placed on someones skin, leaving a mark forever. They way you're looking at it is no different than saying every car enthusiast is a hoon. |
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09-01-2014, 03:27 PM | #27 | ||
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"Bogan what to be" springs to mind whenever Major Tattoo work is mentioned.
Maybe I'm old school, but seeing someone with a full sleeve tattoo or tattoos on their neck or face makes me think they have their priorities or head space in the wrong place. |
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09-01-2014, 03:29 PM | #28 | ||
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im tattoo'd and love going to the gym. I wear one of those skimpy singlets. I run without a shirt on. I have taken many selfies before and smash the **** out of snapchat. If you know what that is. Often i get really drunk in public when i go out.
So judge me. Truth is -I just finished uni and got my degree - i have never done drugs, never will. (yes not even weed) - I dont judge you because your not tattoo'd - my tattoo's mean something to me, in fact i never told anyone when i got them, never uploaded a photo #newink #omg #lookatme -I started going to the gym because i was so skinny i was embarrassed for myself. I have confidence now, not cockiness. There is certainly a culture like described in the OP. There is also a thousand other harmful cultures that exist in society today. Predetermined judgement of people based on appearance is one of them.
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09-01-2014, 03:45 PM | #29 | |||
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how many penalty units apply if you break this 'law? |
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09-01-2014, 03:48 PM | #30 | ||
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The old conformity was mullets. Give me tats any day.
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