Lowrider Loc: Kennesaw, GA

I hope this article ends the tat controversy. Why someone would even ask such a question is beyond me. One only has to go out in public, especially on a hot day to see all of the tattoos they could ever want to see. Tattoos make no sense to me but then again I am 67 and on the conservative side. Small ones in discreet places are ok I guess. I have always felt people that got tattoos are the same people that stand out in a crowd, the same people that have trouble containing themselves but again, that is just my opinion. I suspect if you tracked down the people that put flowers on the side of the road where a friend or relative was killed... you would see a lot of tattoos.

But research backs me up. I do hope to some day see a tattoo that looks good to me. But then again I am only 67... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/reef-karim-do/psychology-of-tattoos_b_2017530.html

Oh, and please don't shoot the messenger.

Leo Perez

And then there was the lady who was in love with Robert Redford. She wanted to a tattoo of his face right next to her privates because she was so in love with him. So the Tattoo guy works on her for hours and finally take a mirror and tells her look, Robert Redford. She looks and looks and tells him that he doesn't look nothing like R.R. Do it again on the other side and don't screw it up. He works and works on the tattoo finally finishes it, she looks at it again, you mess up again. Look lady he looks just like Robert Redford in fact the first guy that walks by the shop we will ask him for his opinion. Sure enough this drank guy comes walking by and the tattoo guy asked him, "Hey Mr. look at this tattoo and tell me who he looks like". So the drank guy looks at the guy on the right, then he looks at the guy in the left, then he looks right in the middle of the lady privates, He says " I don't know who the guy in the right is and I don't know who the guy in the left is, But the guy in the middle is ....... Willy Nelson..."

Popeye Loc: LifIno

Funny!

Earworms Loc: Sacramento, California

Very informative article, thank you.

Mary Kate Loc: NYC

Those people with the dreaded tattoos also are in the Armed Forces. It is they and those nasty tattoos that allow us to worry if the beer is cold and the pizza hot. However, I'm sure one or two here would do the same. I don't know if the writer for HuffingtonPost is an authority or just a reporter with a belief.

drucker Loc: Oregon

I personally have never had any inclination to get a tat and nobody in the immediate family has one — that I know of — but I do have a funny story to tell.

I was standing in a slow-moving line at Walmart with my three-year-old grandson to get a cold drink. An middle-aged man in line ahead of us was wearing a tank top and walking shorts. Nearly every square inch of exposed skin was covered with old-style dark blue/black tats in a well done line-art style. For my grandson the ones on his legs were at eye level. I saw him looking at the tats and knew a question or comment was coming and I was trying to figure out what my response was going to be. After a few minutes he looked up at me and announced in a disdainful tone, "Papa, that man drew on himself."

I just said, "Yes, I know. He decided he wanted the pictures on his skin all of the time and they won't wash off." Silence followed for a bit while he pondered my response, then another question . . . "Not even if he takes a bath and uses soap?"

I answered, "No."

Still more silence, but never any comment about the fact that at his eye level, filling the side of each calf was a very good full-length drawing of a very well-endowed naked women!

If the man heard the comments and my answers, he never gave any indication.

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

I have one, a 'cruising swallow', I was in the Coast Guard and it was supposed to be a good luck token. as 'the swallows always return', most of the guys in my company got them and.....I've always came home!

Earworms Loc: Sacramento, California

firtree Loc: Florida, USA

Good article. I can see getting those types of messages removed/covered. I personally would have never put that sort of tat on my body, but to each his own. I hope he chooses wisely for his cover-ups.

Bartulius Loc: Bristol, Ct

None for me; considered getting one of Lady Liberty holding the American flag but...