It's time for a list of your favorite tattoo fallacies. Should I start out?

I got a tatto on my azz with "your name" on it.

Urban Legend...Folklore...Fallacy

The Blue Star LSD Tattoo story is back.

Guilt By Association

Once our society allows the Tattoo Industry

to take over it's youth...it's just a slippery slope

to drug addiction and leather jackets. An inevitable

slide down, toward everything related to evil and

it's further extremes.

This has been left on my front porch more than once.

I would definitely consider this a fallacy, if not outright harassment.

Carry on men...Ink at the ready...

You'll get ink poisoning. Okay, this is a recent favorite, because it's just so undefined; an efficient use of scare tactics. It hints at blood poisoning (aka septicemia), which can be an issue with depressed immune systems and opportunistic infections, but that's clearly not what it is. The inks used by real artists - hell, probably even some scratchers - are non-toxic. Probably more likely to get poisoned by something like the plastic used in joint replacement surgery (or breast implants...). If ink in general was that bad, wouldn't writing notes on your arm to cheat on a test be tantamount to slitting your wrist?

You only asked for one, so I'll stop there...

ALL tattoos scab. FALSE

Most pros I know rarely get scabbing from their tattooing because they do not overwork the skin and they give very good aftercare instructions. Only the top layer of inked skin should peel like a sunburn. YES, on occasion, parts that move a lot like joint areas and where clothing can rub can and will scab but for the most part, scabbing is not NORMALLY expected.

I read one on here the other day....that ALMOST sounded legit. almost. Someone was under the impression that you could get cancer from tattoos. (good gawd!) and someone answered them saying something about you could get Hepatitus, from the needle, but to look out, because even if they use clean needles, they will re-dip it in the same ink.

Apparently, that person has never been to a tattoo shop and watched as they poured the ink into small containers for each tattoo, and then dispose of them afterwards.

It's like they have nothing better to do than hate tattoos so they make stuff up!

I like the one that everyone who has tattoos like to fight.

Yeah.. I am 5 foot, 130 pounds, I have never gotten into a fight and if I did, what could I do? Give them a hang nail?

Or "People with tattoos are uneducated." Who are the ones spreading this rumor? I have graduated top of my class, been to college and have a 152 IQ.

If you get a tattoo you'll get AID's.

If you get a tattoo in a professional parlor you will NOT get AIDs.

If you've been drinking you will bleed more.

This one is quite possibly true ... but you won't bleed to the point that isn't safe to tattoo you. The reason tattooists don't want to tattoo drunk/high people is when you're in that state you don't always make good decisions and drunk/high people have a hard time being still.

Was tattooed once while I was rolling and I could not hold still. (so the slightly crooked tattoo is my own fault)

Saw a drunk friend being tattooed and just like me she would not hold still.

Women should only get girly tattoos - 'sticker tats' butterflies n hearts n flowers n cupids - I wanna vomit! Good grief, if your going to get a tattoo and boast about it then do it properly and get something bigger than a postage stamp you daft cow. (proud female owner of 12inch wide 'Tramp Stamp' [ewww nasty term] and three upper arm tats over 5inchs high each)

can't believe i haven't answered yet (sorry, i'm housesitting and not in my usual Y!answers addicted routine. :)

anyway, what about "Tattoos are just a fad"

Really? I mean, i *thought* people had been getting them for thousands of years...maybe even more?? Boy was I wrong. I think in about two months the fad will be over and what are we all going to do? It'll be like we're stuck in our Hammer pants while everyone else is wearing skinny low rise jeans. And they'll Laugh at us! OH NO!!!

I have read that you can't get a scar covered.

Not true.

In fact in a tat mag i seen a woman who had had her breast removed and got a tat to cover the scar...it was beautiful!

Anyway yes, it is true that some scars can effect how the tat looks, like raised up ones, but if you go to a good artist they can work with it....and flat scars ....yeah I have a bunch on my ankle where I got my son's name tattooed.....you can't even tell that the scars are there!

Oh, I've got one ...

How about - placement of a tattoo makes you slutty/trashy!

Along this erroneous line of thinking ... let's explore --> a female having a tattoo on her ankle makes her an innocent angel; however, having one on your lower back or on your breast is a sign that you are a slut.

What is wrong with people and their desire or innate need to judge others for our own forms of personal expression???

*sigh*