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SC legislators at work (well, sort of)
Tattooing, which has been illegal in South Carolina, will soon be legal again.
However...
It will still be illegal to get tattoos on the face, head, or neck.
If you are under 18, you can't get a tattoo.
If you are 18 or over, but still shy of your 21st birthday, you need permission from Mommy or Daddy.
Yes, you can enter the military at age 18 and be shot at by people who hate soldiers (or, for a change of pace, by enemy soldiers), but you can't get that tattoo on your arm, butt cheek, whatever, until Mommy shows up at base and hands you that permission slip. Sure, of course, to cause great derision amongst the rest of the unit.
What gets me is that Parris Island, home to one of the more well-known Marine training centers, is in South Carolina. And Marines and tattoos go together like Marines and really dopey haircuts (or Marines and bar fights. or Marines and an utter lack of intelligence. You get the point.) Now, I think I've seen a sum total of zero Marines who had tattoos on the face, neck, or head. In fact, I'm fairly certain such would be frowned on by the brass. But you can't tell me that they're all trucking over to Savannah prior to this to get "Semper Fi" on their forearms.
Mind you, I sort of agree about the "under 18" clause. In that, when I was younger then 18, I was pretty damn foolish. (Some people, obviously raving lunatics, might still insist that I am still pretty damn foolish. But they rave, and they are lunatics. It doesn't mean they're wrong. I just wanted to qualify it.) I was also fairly intelligent, if prone to certain activities that might be viewed by some as lacking in common sense. (Such as mocking the low intelligence of football players, or correcting the pronunciation of vocabulary words said by English teachers.) Now, at one point in my life, I did want to get a tattoo. But it was lack of the necessary fundage that stopped me, not the law. (In fact, until I went to college, I didn't know it was illegal.)
Now, considering my lofty IQ, and my current low opinion of many of the denizens of this stupidity-infested shithole of a state, I think the last thing we need is every high school or pre-high school dipshit going to get tats. As much as I might chortle when their ritualistic mutilation and scarification bothers them later in life when they're entering the job market, some of them can run faster then me, so I can't chortle at them all. On the other hand, if it was "under 18 requires parent/guardian permission" and "over 18 is on your own recognizance", I'd think better of it then. I mean, let's face it... if they're 16 or 17 years old, and they really want (and can afford) a tattoo, the longest they will have to spend in a car is a few hours. And I'm damn sure Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia tattoo parlours will continue to be happy to take their money.
The SC legislators mean well (wait, no, I'm wrong. They mean to be stupid little ostrich versions of legislators, hiding their heads in the ground whenever something important comes along), but they fell well short of a good mark. Of course, they've been so busy, filibustering on whether there should be a mandatory seatbelt law, that they've barely had time for anything else, like actually working on the budget, or modest little things like that.
However...
It will still be illegal to get tattoos on the face, head, or neck.
If you are under 18, you can't get a tattoo.
If you are 18 or over, but still shy of your 21st birthday, you need permission from Mommy or Daddy.
Yes, you can enter the military at age 18 and be shot at by people who hate soldiers (or, for a change of pace, by enemy soldiers), but you can't get that tattoo on your arm, butt cheek, whatever, until Mommy shows up at base and hands you that permission slip. Sure, of course, to cause great derision amongst the rest of the unit.
What gets me is that Parris Island, home to one of the more well-known Marine training centers, is in South Carolina. And Marines and tattoos go together like Marines and really dopey haircuts (or Marines and bar fights. or Marines and an utter lack of intelligence. You get the point.) Now, I think I've seen a sum total of zero Marines who had tattoos on the face, neck, or head. In fact, I'm fairly certain such would be frowned on by the brass. But you can't tell me that they're all trucking over to Savannah prior to this to get "Semper Fi" on their forearms.
Mind you, I sort of agree about the "under 18" clause. In that, when I was younger then 18, I was pretty damn foolish. (Some people, obviously raving lunatics, might still insist that I am still pretty damn foolish. But they rave, and they are lunatics. It doesn't mean they're wrong. I just wanted to qualify it.) I was also fairly intelligent, if prone to certain activities that might be viewed by some as lacking in common sense. (Such as mocking the low intelligence of football players, or correcting the pronunciation of vocabulary words said by English teachers.) Now, at one point in my life, I did want to get a tattoo. But it was lack of the necessary fundage that stopped me, not the law. (In fact, until I went to college, I didn't know it was illegal.)
Now, considering my lofty IQ, and my current low opinion of many of the denizens of this stupidity-infested shithole of a state, I think the last thing we need is every high school or pre-high school dipshit going to get tats. As much as I might chortle when their ritualistic mutilation and scarification bothers them later in life when they're entering the job market, some of them can run faster then me, so I can't chortle at them all. On the other hand, if it was "under 18 requires parent/guardian permission" and "over 18 is on your own recognizance", I'd think better of it then. I mean, let's face it... if they're 16 or 17 years old, and they really want (and can afford) a tattoo, the longest they will have to spend in a car is a few hours. And I'm damn sure Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia tattoo parlours will continue to be happy to take their money.
The SC legislators mean well (wait, no, I'm wrong. They mean to be stupid little ostrich versions of legislators, hiding their heads in the ground whenever something important comes along), but they fell well short of a good mark. Of course, they've been so busy, filibustering on whether there should be a mandatory seatbelt law, that they've barely had time for anything else, like actually working on the budget, or modest little things like that.
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Wow. I suppose I take my few remaining freedoms very much for granted.