If your not in the UK or if football is an oblong ball that is thrown… ignore this post.

Wayne Rooney’s new tattoo is from the Stereophonic’s 3rd Album “Just Enough Education to Perform.”
Apparently in the UK this is big news.

Tattoos will come Back to haunt you
By Richard Carl Nielsen
Source: Loughborough Echo
Quote: “I fear though that five to 10 years down the line that (David)Beckham may have severe psychological problems. His heavily tattooed forearms may well hurt him mentally in the future. In my opinion it should be illegal for tattoo artists to mark up people’s forearms with garish tattoos.”

Getting a tattoo can pose health risks
By Rebecca Skovgaard
Source: Democrat and Chronicle
Summary: Health Risks to be careful about when getting Tattooed

Inking big in the world of tattooing
By Sarah Howden
Source: Scotsman
Summary: Tattoo Tv aids in making tattoos mainstream in Scotland

Chico Ink: Tattoo art creates lifelong memories
By Deeann Resk
Source: Chico Enterprise Record
Summary: Interview with Indian Joe, manager of Alley Tats in downtown Chico

Ink-credible skin: Get the Tattoo You Want
By Mary Paul
Source:Current Hudson County, New Jersey
Quote:”I would say that tribal isn’t what it was in the ’90s, but there are still people that really love the style,” says Paterson. “Nothing disappears. Nothing goes away to the point where it’s a nonexistent style … Tattooing doesn’t always just equal fashion … It’s not [like] clothing, where it’s unheard of to wear parachute pants now. People will get something even though it may have come about decades ago.” Tattoo artist Adam Paterson of Jersey City Tattoo Co.

Japanese water parks banning people with tattoos from entering premises
By Bryce S. Dubee
Source: Stars and Stripes
Quote: “As a general rule, people affiliated with mobsters or criminal organizations are not allowed to enter the premises,” Tokyo Summerland’s Web site states. “The same applies to people wearing tattoos.”

Life at the sharp end
By Leonie Cooper
Source: Guardian UK
Summary: Kat Von D Story

• Iowa Cops’ want to be able to show their tattoos to the world
• Val Kilmer’s friend thinks tattoos are like old tshirts
• Bored Australian writer whines about tattoos
• Story about a 26 year old getting into the tattoo business in the UK
• WSU Student Tattoo Tales

20 Photoshopped Tattooed Pictures here

Negative quotes about tattoos in the workplace…. “I’m closing on 50 years,” wrote one survey participant. “In my youth, the only people who had tattoos were sailors and whores. That’s a hard conception to erase.”

“Although they’re quite fashionable these days, I still consider tattoos and visible body piercings to be a sign of adolescent rebellion,” one manager wrote. “I don’t think people who haven’t resolved their adolescent issues should be in jobs requiring a lot of responsibility.”

According to Mirror.co.uk Pharrel Williams (the music producer) is going to spend thousands of dollars to get skin in a test tube to cover his current tattoos.

Pharrell said: “It’s going to be pricey, but f*** it, it’s worth it. I got fire on my arms, I don’t need fire on my arms! I’m a grown man. There’s an institute called the Wake Forest Institute in North Carolina for Regenerative Skin Treatment,”

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This week in Larson Justice Center in indio a judge will decide whether to grant a permanent injunction against the gang. If the judge does grant the injunction members of the gang can be arrested for displaying their Barrio Dream Homes Gang tattoos. A local tattoo removal doctor, Dr. Tomothy Jochen has a program for women to get gang related tattoos removed for free.”

More Information Here… a lot of interesting comments “This Valley needs a gang ENEMA!!!!!!” or “an eye for an eye – we could execute one of them a year as long as they commit a murder a year.”