[jbdlfan]

The tats, piercings and gauges are definitley a generational thing. I am amazed at how many folks will immediately dismiss someone for any of these. Do you know how many of your doctors, nurses fireman, emts, teachers lawyers are tatted these days? You just can't always see them. I know of at least five pastors with tattoos. "Don't judge a book by it's cover. You may be on chapter two, they may be on chapter twenty-two."

[jbdlfan]

Just curious, if you needed a good doctor and heard the best person around was in Orlando. But when you went to see him he was all tatted up. You would go to a different doctor????
How about your fireman that comes to save your house, are waiting for one without piercings or tattoos?

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by jbdlfan

Just curious, if you needed a good doctor and heard the best person around was in Orlando. But when you went to see him he was all tatted up. You would go to a different doctor????
How about your fireman that comes to save your house, are waiting for one without piercings or tattoos?

I do not care what a lawyer, veterinarian, doctor, policeman, or fireman looks like. Just if that person is good at their job.

Some of the nurses at the Villages Regional Hospital seemed to have tattoos of various kinds and all of these did there job well.

[Patty55]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

I do not care what a lawyer, veterinarian, doctor, policeman, or fireman looks like. Just if that person is good at their job.

Some of the nurses at the Villages Regional Hospital seemed to have tattoos of various kinds and all of these did there job well.

I do care what a lawyer looks like, I want someone who looks professional, can think on his feet and is dressed traditionally. I once reprimanded my attorney for wearing a pea green suit.

[Walter123]

Originally Posted by Patty55

I do care what a lawyer looks like, I want someone who looks professional, can think on his feet and is dressed traditionally. I once reprimanded my attorney for wearing a pea green suit.

Did he get you off??

[Bonanza]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

I do not care what a lawyer, veterinarian, doctor, policeman, or fireman looks like. Just if that person is good at their job.

Some of the nurses at the Villages Regional Hospital seemed to have tattoos of various kinds and all of these did there job well.

Originally Posted by Patty55

I do care what a lawyer looks like, I want someone who looks professional, can think on his feet and is dressed traditionally. I once reprimanded my attorney for wearing a pea green suit.

I, too, care what a professional person looks like. Somehow, a doctor with a beard bothers me. To me it doesn't represent the cleanliness and professionalism look a doctor should have. No, it wouldn't stop me, but I don't like it. My old gyn doctor had a beard and being the old, outspoken person I am, told him what I thought.

If you are a professional person no one can fault you for not having a tattoo.
It doesn't usually work the other way 'round.

[marennorge]

I am a firm believer that stereotypes become stereotypes for a reason.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by jbdlfan

The tats, piercings and gauges are definitley a generational thing. I am amazed at how many folks will immediately dismiss someone for any of these. Do you know how many of your doctors, nurses fireman, emts, teachers lawyers are tatted these days? You just can't always see them. I know of at least five pastors with tattoos. "Don't judge a book by it's cover. You may be on chapter two, they may be on chapter twenty-two."

The generational thing is what you're pushing. YOU are the age of my children and our children and their spouses and their friends and their business associates aren't tattooed or pierced, and neither are our grandchildren. Neither are our siblings children and grandchildren. Neither are all cousins and their children and grandchildren, nor were our neighbors back in Ohio who are your age nor their children

It is something else, but it isn't generational.

Our grandchildren, siblings.

[KayakerNC]

Originally Posted by Patty55

I do care what a lawyer looks like, I want someone who looks professional, can think on his feet and is dressed traditionally. I once reprimanded my attorney for wearing a pea green suit.

[Cisco Kid]

If this guy was sitting at the town square with is machete. Would you judge him. Nothing he is doing is illegal.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by Patty55

I do care what a lawyer looks like, I want someone who looks professional, can think on his feet and is dressed traditionally. I once reprimanded my attorney for wearing a pea green suit.

A lot of legal work never gets done in a courtroom. Any smart lawyer would not want to anger the judge and/or jury she might get. I would expect that if you hired a law firm with a good reputation that they would have a trial lawyer who looked like someone a jury and or judge would like.

I meant say a lawyer for a will or something like that. If she has a nose piercing while doing routine stuff in her office, it would not bother me that much.

I got a postcard from one of the best trial lawyers in the country when I was looking for help with my 224 613 Project. This is Gerry Spence. Google him. I will put up his picture some time. http://www.spencelawyers.com/attorne...erry-l-spence/

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by onslowe

I grew up in NYC. One learned profiling early, especially on subways and subway stations.
I'm no expert, and I never 'violated' someone's alleged constitutional rights. But it got me away from or out of danger umpteen times.

Imagine how many dead police officers there would be absent the survival tactic of profiling?

I agree with the OP. Many many times, tattoos are a signal. Some idiot wants to 'belong' to his peer group of losers and social misfits. Or wants to imitate those role models locked up in prisons.

I grew up seeing men once in a while with one or two on them. Not a 'sleeve' as they now say, nor a full back full of drawings. I am glad I am not in the 'dating game' now. Women with tattoos are not my cup of tea. YMMV.

onslowe: your story brought me back to a time when my friend his wife mine and me traveled from upstate to attend the Yankee/Red Socks double header. My friend had a new Cadillac that he was very protective of and so arrnaged for overnight stay i White Plains. We took the train from there to Yankee Stadium.

When we entered the train at White Plains the train was bare at the next stop people boarded but crowded around us and this same scenario repeated it self for a good number of stops. I found this behavior to be peculiar until i recognized the social-economic change the closer we came to the inner city in passengers and now realized what the people in White Plains had done and probably did every day

[Patty55]

Originally Posted by Walter123

Did he get you off??

Pea soup suit I unloaded. The traditional one I spent five years with.

[Patty55]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

A lot of legal work never gets done in a courtroom. Any smart lawyer would not want to anger the judge and/or jury she might get. I would expect that if you hired a law firm with a good reputation that they would have a trial lawyer who looked like someone a jury and or judge would like.

I meant say a lawyer for a will or something like that. If she has a nose piercing while doing routine stuff in her office, it would not bother me that much.

I got a postcard from one of the best trial lawyers in the country when I was looking for help with my 224 613 Project. This is Gerry Spence. Google him. I will put up his picture some time. Wyoming Personal Injury Attorneys, Gerry Spence, The Spence Law Firm

Nose ring girl could remove it for the office, they make you do that at Starbucks, so why not a law firm?

Yes, Gerry Spence is considered one of the best trial lawyers, I'm sure he didn't look like a facacta mess starting out.

I don't care if it doesn't show, I don't even care about an arm tat, we started out talking extremes with face and neck tats and now we're talking Spence's hair.

[rubicon]

Gerry Spence what a piece of work the master of illusion a real foxhedge