I’m thinking of getting a charles fort tattoo, does anyone have one? His bespectacled headshot in Fortean Times would make a great tattoo. Or how would one graphically illustrate measuring a circle starting anywhere?

In this rare case a Japanese man suffered visual effect, eye inflammation, and loss of hearing as a result of a reaction to a back tattoo. FULL STORY: https://www.sciencealert.com/the-trigger-for-this-japanese-man-s-hearing-loss-was-traced-to-his-back-tattoo PUBLISHED CASE REPORT...

I'm all for defacing your own body with ink and a needle, but this is something else... metro.co.uk/weird/article.ht ... _page_id=2 Link dead; no archived version available. Apologies if everyone's seen this already.

Hell I always assumed that was a joke but this shows people really are that stupid: Source

Once I found myself talking to Pete Shelley out of the Buzzcocks after a gig, and he told me that he'd once signed a fan's arm with a dodgy biro, which caused him to put three "L"s in "Shelley". Several years later, he met the same fan, who had the signature tattooed on her arm, complete with...

Do you think this is for real or an UL? story

I read with fascination about that bloke reported in the News Archive (2 Aug) who wants to become a tiger. Filed teeth, tattoos, grafted-on whiskers, etc. Now he wants to have some old tiger skins grafted onto himself. What worries me about this is, if he does have this done, won't the hair...

Tattoos as a sign of undying love have always fascinated me. Don't people realise the elusive and mercurial world of love???? A uncle of mine whilst serving in Canada during the war forgot he was married and had his loves name 'Gladys' tattooed on his arm.......he spent the next 40 or so...