How do you feel about tattoos?

[bellatrys]

(No, I'm not thinking of getting one; they're way too expensive for someone like me. (I did, way back before I had any idea how much they cost.) This is something else. And yes, there are a lot more serious issues out there and a lot more sad things going on that are more important than this, but it's emblematic of a problem particularly rampant in

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Ah - it's our old friend Jonah once again

[anonymous]

I admit, I did go "Whatte the swyve?!" there, until I clicked on the link and saw the name of Jonah Goldberg.

Good grief, does the man do *nothing* else but spend his days ferreting out things about which to fret and fume? Better keep him away from watching any of the rugby matches involving the All Blacks - the sight of the haka would make him swoon dead away...

Deiseach

Re: Ah - it's our old friend Jonah once again

[fidelioscabinet]

Was it the people out at the Godless University of California who did the study which showed anxious, fretful children grew up to be closed-minded conservatives while secure, relaxed ones became open-minded progressives as adults?

Which is, yes, my way of saying Jonah was a whiny baby when he was little and still is.

the National Review's collective vapors

[bellatrys]

are quite amazing, aren't they? God forbid someone expose them to Mozart's "Rondo Alla Turca" or - egads, in DC and NY there are women working there who wear saris every day! The horror, the horror!

Re: the National Review's collective vapors

[fidelioscabinet]

I like the term "50-yard pearl clutch" for those reactions--not sure where it, or the variants, first appeared, but it works for me.

BTW, I think the bride's hands were probably decorated with henna art, which is not quite the same as a tattoo, although it's equally ethnic.

they get classed as "temporary tatoos"

[bellatrys]

most people think of them that way in America, "Henna Tattoo" is how the kits are often sold - though it's crunchy chic to know that they're *properly* called mehndi, of course.

I was amused by the UC study - although there is also the "don't step on cracks" fearfulness which moves easily into adult conservativism, and is not always involved with being whiny and privileged - it's the obsessive/compulsive path to trying to control everyone and everything else around them.

bindi are the stick-on jewels, right?

[bellatrys]

I like those too, but I'm a little too self-conscious to wear them myself...