Having a 'funny' tatoo is the equivalent of wearing a 'funny' t-shirt. Every day, for the rest of your life, until you are dead, buried and decomposing. The current fervour for ancient celtic symbols, maori scripts and Winnie the Poohs scrawled in places you wouldn't show a doctor totally baffles me. It's all part of the 'look at me - LOOK AT ME' culture we've created where 'everyone is an individual' and yet we're more the same than we've ever been. Shows like Miami Ink, La Ink and the woefully depressing London Ink feature a parade of one empty headed arsehole after another desperate to depict some great moment of their life for posterity. Of course they've all got a 'story' to tell. Jesus Christ do they. 'Erm yeah, like I knew this really cool guy called Dave or Dennis or whatever, and like he totally died of AIDS or got run over by like a bus or something so I want to capture our friendship for like EVER! Can you mutilate a Daffy Duck on my arse cheek?' My seventeen year old neice has got some scrawl down her forearm. It's some platitude about 'life'. I'm sure at 27, 37, 47 she'll feel exactly the same way as she does now. Tough shit if she doesn't eh? Please don't get a tatoo. And while I'm at it don't give your child a stupid fucking name eh?

Up yours tony coffey. You should get fucktard tattooed on your forehead.