A kind Christmas gift?

[Burnerman]

Being a generous sort of simpleton, I took concern on my niece and her hubby over Christmas, and gave them a couple of hundred quid. I knew they were desperately saving for a deposit for their first house and I hoped it would help or at least continue with their motivation to save.
So, they've spent it ok.
On a tattoo each.....

I think now its time to have one for myself.
I thought I'd go for M U G on the forehead

Can't win - must be getting old!
John

 

[jctilingservices]

Being a generous sort of simpleton, I took concern on my niece and her hubby over Christmas, and gave them a couple of hundred quid. I knew they were desperately saving for a deposit for their first house and I hoped it would help or at least continue with their motivation to save.
So, they've spent it ok.
On a tattoo each.....

I think now its time to have one for myself.
I thought I'd go for M U G on the forehead

Can't win - must be getting old!
John

if i had known you were flush john you could have paid to have mine off and your niece and her husband could have had mine for nowt

maybe they thought the house was going to cost way tattoo much than they could afford

 

[Burnerman]

Ha yes

Continuing in old duffer mode, I asked her how she would feel about these tattoos when she was as old as me with wrinkled skin etc.....and what her friends would think.
You can imagine the gist of the conversation.

Her answer was ' well it won't really matter will it? We'll all have them'.
Fair comment, I guess. Youth is wasted on the young.
John

 

[MisterG]

Out of curiosity, did you mention the mortgage when you gave them the gift?

I would be really p*ssed off in your shoes, but I dislike tatoos and piercings which colours my opinion.

 

[Burnerman]

Out of curiosity, did you mention the mortgage when you gave them the gift?

I would be really p*ssed off in your shoes, but I dislike tatoos and piercings which colours my opinion.

Well, I hoped I didn't really need to, as I've been harping on about the importance of a rung on the housing ladder etc for quite a bit.....
Also, I don't want to dictate what they were to spend their gift on - I just hoped they would have more sense than to get (more) bliddy tattoos!
Again, thats my bias - I dislike them intensely but as there's so many ghastly programmes on TV such as Miami Ink you can see where they get the thought from.
John

 

[merlin50]

having a tatoo is like putting a tick in a box. it can tell you a lot about a person

 

[Burnerman]

Trouble is mate, spotting the people who haven't got one
Thankfully, piercings and tattoos have passed me by. I'm even too old to have smoked dope.
Each to their own though - I have no right to advise what people should do with their bodies.
John

 

[kirkgas]

having a tatoo is like putting a tick in a box. it can tell you a lot about a person

i've got 5 tattoos, what does that tell you about me?

 

[merlin50]

having a tatoo is like putting a tick in a box. it can tell you a lot about a person

i've got 5 tattoos, what does that tell you about me?

that you like an argument

 

[jctilingservices]

- I dislike them intensely but as there's so many ghastly programmes on TV such as Miami Ink you can see where they get the thought from.
John

yes John then you have icons such as david Beckham, amy winehouse etc starting to get covered in them. Lots of people follow icons

Even Mike Tyson has one on his face,

MERLIN
what does that tell you about them, Beckham is a good role model, Winehouse is a numpty and Tyson is an animal, but i wouldnt say it to his face though

 

[seco services]

having a tatoo is like putting a tick in a box. it can tell you a lot about a person

i've got 5 tattoos, what does that tell you about me?

well kirkgas i think you fall into the same Category as me having 3 ear rings a thug.

W*****S spring to mind.

 

[LastMagicBean]

well kirkgas i think you fall into the same Category as me having 3 ear rings a thug.

Bloody hooligans.

 

[imamartian]

Being a generous sort of simpleton, I took concern on my niece and her hubby over Christmas, and gave them a couple of hundred quid. I knew they were desperately saving for a deposit for their first house and I hoped it would help or at least continue with their motivation to save.
So, they've spent it ok.
On a tattoo each.....

I think now its time to have one for myself.
I thought I'd go for M U G on the forehead

Can't win - must be getting old!
John

Unfortunately BM... you're wrong. Apart from being one incredibly generous individual, you've missed the obvious notion of human behaviour, and the fact that we all, individually, exist with a completely different set of values....

I mean, why are some folk happy with a £40k credit card bill hanging over their heads, whereas other people (like me) pay off their credit cards every month?

As much as you feel it's the right thing to do, you can't force your values onto others....

Maybe you should've bought them a Santander gift token?

 

[Mickymoody]

Churchill (the prime minister - not the dog!) had a tattoo, of an anchor, because that is your right of way if you sailed the atlantic.

But maniacs have tattoos of the current celebs, but when you are 60, and those celebs don't exist, and nobody knows them how rubbish will you look?

Or Chinese symbols, that the person being tattood, doesn't understand, "It say's love and Piece"...really.

 

[Burnerman]

Being a generous sort of simpleton, I took concern on my niece and her hubby over Christmas, and gave them a couple of hundred quid. I knew they were desperately saving for a deposit for their first house and I hoped it would help or at least continue with their motivation to save.
So, they've spent it ok.
On a tattoo each.....

I think now its time to have one for myself.
I thought I'd go for M U G on the forehead

Can't win - must be getting old!
John

Unfortunately BM... you're wrong. Apart from being one incredibly generous individual, you've missed the obvious notion of human behaviour, and the fact that we all, individually, exist with a completely different set of values....

I mean, why are some folk happy with a £40k credit card bill hanging over their heads, whereas other people (like me) pay off their credit cards every month?

As much as you feel it's the right thing to do, you can't force your values onto others....

Maybe you should've bought them a Santander gift token?

You know thats very profound and you are absolutely correct
I have to consider what their values are and hopefully that won't interfere with any future gift! Thank you!
John