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17th March 09, 01:59 PM
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 Originally Posted by CDNSushi
I think it's incredibly insensitive to call out someone on something (like a coat of arms) that they have spent a LOT of time and money getting tattooed on themselves and telling them that they are wrong in having done so. Fat lot of good it does them now. Tattoos are permanent. Right or wrong, there's no sense in making someone feel bad about it. ...Here, BigMikeLV did NOT ask anyone to comment on whether his family history came from a bucket shop or whether he has right to something or not. He only asked where he can find a particular crest on a T-Shirt. Nothing more.
This is exactly what I'm talking about when I sometimes say that being RIGHT is overrated. What benefit is there for you if you prove someone else wrong? It makes you feel good and the other person feel like crap, and ultimately nothing good comes of it.
Tattooes are not permanent. Dermatologists do land office business in their removal by laser or the old fashioned way, minor surgery.
What can last longer than a tattoo is misinformation passed down through several generations, and relied upon by the unwary to their detriment.
There are some things that are matters of mere opinion and taste, and then there are some things that are not. It's better to at least be aware of the difference, and to have it pointed out in the privacy and relative anonymity of an internet bulletin board than embarassingly in public, and thus be made to look uninformed, credulous and pretentious before others in real life.
But then that is just my opinion, arrived at after decades of genealogical research, getting at the truth, and clearing away all sorts of genteel lies that were told by my forebears and those who researched them, and which has led me and many researchers to waste their time hacking away at thickets of colorful, self-important fictions.
Last edited by gilmore; 17th March 09 at 02:14 PM.
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