Tattoos where do you stand?

I'm a fan of them overall though the number of people that get really fucking bad ones seems way higher than it should be. Also neck tats are quite possibly the trashiest thing a person can do.

It doesn't seem so hard to be smart about it really. Pick an image that doesn't look like ass and place it somewhere on your body that you at least have the option of covering up. And you know get someone to do it who's at least competent.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Scars shouldn't stop a tattoo from taking to the best of my knowledge. Skins skin as far as that goes but it may hurt more or less than regular skin.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I don't know I can fairly regularly tell the difference between an Italian a Spaniard and a Greek. The rest not so much plus give a family a few years of marrying with the large mix that's common around here and the waters do get muddied more than a bit. Eventually it does just turn into generic swarthy guy.

A lot of this seems to come down to terminology when you claim an ancestry it tends to really mean I'm an American + this other random cultural influence. With the I'm American bit just being assumed generally as they're used to talking to others using the same framework. It's partially the fact that just being American can be really nebulous in what it means seeing as there's variance from region to region and then even within that from state to state.

Even state isn't all that helpful at times seeing as we have quite a few states bigger than a lot of countries. So we at times dice it down smaller and smaller until you get to my people came from whatever place. Plus in some area's large groups from that one other country were forced to live together in tight enough quarters for long enough to to force them to have their own subculture. Not that a Italian American is going to be much like a real Italian most likely but they're still different enough from the standard here to need a sub identifier.

Not that it matters much outside the U.S. and claiming it at someone in Europe probably isn't helpful in the least but you know people get used to their cultural identifiers and don't think too much about it before speaking.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.