Footballer's rifle tattoo

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swee'pea99

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AndyRM said:
It is conveying both of those things. Lazily and obviously.
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It's drawing a direct equivalence between failing to protect your child's skin from the sun and committing them to something they didn't choose and won't later be able to reverse. I don't see where lazy comes into it, but obvious is of the essence when you're trying to communicate using posters. As for emotive, mentioned earlier, well, again, yeah. That's what makes it effective. That's why I questioned the original post. To me, the poster looks obvious and emotive and that's almost an in-a-nutshell definition of good poster advertising.
 
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Accy cyclist said:
I've posted about him (R U player) here on CC in the past.
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You've posted about tattoos quite a lot, generally. Tattoos on women, on fat people, on 'slappers' and 'slags', on David Beckham (several times), on people who you perceive as being unpleasant to you in your community, on footballers. You've been telling cycle chat that you don't like tattoos - that you think they are ugly, and 'shoot', and so on - for years. So it's no real surprise that you've taken the DM line about this footballer bloke and his tattoo and swallowed it whole. We get it - you don't like tattoos, and feel absolutely entitled to whinge on about them in a nasty small-minded judgemental way ad infinitum. And you are entitled to. Nobody is stopping you. Just don't be surprised that some people disagree with you.
 
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swee'pea99 said:
It's drawing a direct equivalence between failing to protect your child's skin from the sun and committing them to something they didn't choose and won't later be able to reverse. I don't see where lazy comes into it, but obvious is of the essence when you're trying to communicate using posters. As for emotive, mentioned earlier, well, again, yeah. That's what makes it effective. That's why I questioned the original post. To me, the poster looks obvious and emotive and that's almost an in-a-nutshell definition of good poster advertising.
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It's lazy because it says tattoos are bad, and they've used a very specific style of tattoo to convey this.

Yes, it's effective which is fine but I disagree completely with the equivalences it's creating.
 
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AndyRM said:
It's lazy because it says tattoos are bad, and they've used a very specific style of tattoo to convey this.

Yes, it's effective which is fine but I disagree completely with the equivalences it's creating.
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I don't think it says that. It could be said that it says tattoos are not an irreversible decision you should make for anyone else - particularly a child - but I wouldn't have a problem with that.
 
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Ahh Yes ive seen that..
 
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I can actually kind of see what both of you are saying - the intent is obviously to make the point that sun damage to the skin is as permanent as a tattoo would be, and it makes that point clearly and effectively. But there is something in it that does read a little bit as tatts=bad to me, and which niggles me a bit - I just can't quite put my finger on it, or properly explain it. I'm trying to figure out if @AndyRM's onto something with the 'style of tattoo' thought - facial tattoos are still a bit of a 'taboo' in a world where getting a tattoo isn't really seen as shocking any more to most people, so maybe it's something to do with that, combined with that really heavy (germanic?) font. I probably don't know enough about the traditions of tattoos to work out my thinking though.
 
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My old man let me fire his revolver when I was about six years old. He knelt beside me and supported the gun in my hand while I squeezed the trigger. This was in 1950's Ireland when gun ownership (Probably illegal) was plentiful.

I think I'll get this one in his memory -

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S'funny, I'm not a particular gun fan (although I know a few people who are keen on shooting-as-sport) and (like all my siblings) never did get on particularly well with my dad. Nonetheless, one of the positive sets of memories I do have of him when I was little is of learning to shoot with him, and helping to clean his guns. I think I was the only one of us that really expressed any interest in shooting, and only at targets - I didn't ever go out bunny-hunting, which never appealed at all.

I wouldn't want a tattoo to remember it by though!
 
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