[Don W]

In fifty years there are gonna be a LOT of grandmas trying to explain those mishappen bits of "art" on their torsos, breasts, upper butts, etc. I'd feel badly for these morons, but they chose to do tis to themselves.

Tattoos ARE a wonderful nad often amazing artform, but the plethora of shabby and sordid tatts are an insult to the art.

[SmithL]

I've been around enough real "Old Navy" types to know that tattoos do not get better looking with age.

[quantim]

In fifty years

No, more like tomorrow.  Employers cleverly know how to dish off a candidate with a series of tattoos on their knuckles and a bull ring through the nose, and maybe some metal thingy through the brow.  Their college degree is rendered irrelevant. 

You are right though on the long term effects...

While we all pay for our excesses of youth, there is no more stupid indulgent thing on an order of magnitude as labeling yourself as human signage, permanently.

[knuthom]

In fifty years there are gonna be a LOT of grandmas trying to explain those mishappen bits of "art" on their torsos, breasts, upper butts,

It won't take fifty years. Pregnancy can do a number on tattoos. My husband is an obstetrician and says he has seen some very distorted ones.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Tattoos ARE a wonderful nad...

Heh....heheh....He said "nad"......heheh

[HitmanLV]

In fifty years there are gonna be a LOT of grandmas trying to explain those misshapen bits of "art" on their torsos, breasts, upper butts, etc.

I've said for years now that in the future there will be a great demand to get rid of body art as painlessly as possible, and without unsightly scars or blemishes. This will drive technology to accomplish the technology. It will be expensive at first but then come down.

Anybody with some fun investment money should find companies on the case and invest in them now. I would.