Tax the Tattoo's

A marvellous idea...every tom..dick..harry..nee'r do well sport some horrendous tattoo's a lot self inflicted...Tax them at source .. £20 for leg display..£30..for arm display £60 for neck display..£100 for any facial disfigurement. We will soon recoup the losses for the elderly and let the wandering visual deformities pay for it...Sorted.

Good call BB, The human body is a work of art no matter the shape or colour , covering it in graffitti is a crime

That is a marvellous idea. My niece is a tattooist which to me, is shocking, because she is a very beautiful young woman and is a terrific artist, but huge tattoos on her arms. As I said in another topic, all well and good on young skin, until the skin gets old and wrinkly, and the ink starts to fade.

I hate tattoos, and piercings, no matter where they're done, and I've seen some people with both arms and legs covered in them, which I find disgusting. The body isn't a blank canvas to be mutilated, and that's what tattooing is.

I saw a guy on TV whose face had been tattoo'd to look like a skull, including his bald head! Terrifying to look at.

I'd charge more than you though, Mr Biker.

How about taxing serving or ex police officers anybody who takes the oath to arrest even members of his or her own families must be on some kind of power trip or worse still wrong uns tax them 99 percent of their incomes

egg flip, have you ever had a job ?

Billinge Biker

Did any of your customers ever have the ACAB tattooed on their knuckles

Mollie...she must be a talented Girl
Eggy...tha Talkin tripe as usual I'll give thi a borra if tha short lad.
TTS...Many Many..but I have a birth certificate.. No

TTS.A mate of mine had ACAB tattooed on his knuckles,he did it himself,but he was never in any trouble with the police,he was just a crackpot.

They never think what they will look like when they get old and not as fit as when they had them done!

OC in time many will regret having tattoos and will expect the NHS to remove them

I may have chirped this before...2 uncles...a brother and myself...a span of over 50yrs Naval service between us....and not one tattoo to show for it. Neither of us fancied any after looking what abominations others had subjected themselves to.

Mr Biker, she is, but I think it's a wasted talent. She's a qualified graphics designer and has all sorts of degrees after her name.

I know tattooists can earn a lot of money and it's her life, but she could put her talents to a much better use. Neither of her parents have tattoos, so where she got the idea from in the first place is anybody's guess.

I wonder how many people will be happy to have needles piercing their skin in the name of "art", but are terrified of injections?

I had a couple of tattoos done when I was 16, (and stupid.) A a chap called "Tex" did them. He worked from his front room somewhere in Scholes or Hardybutts. You can hardly make out what they are supposed to be now. Some of the folk with them now will look like sheets of blotting paper when they get older.

Jacks, that was so dangerous. I believe a bona fide tattooist has to be qualified in certain aspects of hygiene and other things to understand the dangers of using dirty needles which could cause infections, before they're allowed to use a human subject, and it could take many months practising on other materials first. You were lucky.

I probably was Mollie. I never gave it a thought at the time.

Plenty of my mates had them done by Derek Higham in Hindley,he later opened a tattoo shop in Blackpool.Another bloke who did them was a fireman from Aspull as a sideline.I never had any but one lad used to draw them on your arms with a biro and colour them in with the tip of a wet match,at least the washed off.