Body Art?

This is a topic that I find irritates me consistently.  I finally decided to launch my official complaint here and now since Van Halen has returned with Diamond Dave and released a song and video that looks more like an obnoxious Super Bowl commercial for a seniors only strip club. 

Honestly, what do all these people see in having a "piece" or a "sleeve" done on themselves?  When all of them are sitting around with their grandchildren and the kids are confused because they get yelled at and/or bathed for drawing on themselves with pens, what is their answer going to be?  At least the kid drawing on himself is honestly expressing a feeling at the time.  I find it hard to believe that some methed up Airstream dweller is expressing herself with a rose on her tit - although I suppose it could be if at middle age she feels represented by a long stem, lifeless, wilted flower.  Not only them, but the toothless, drunken men they shack up with usually have some sort of stupid tribal tattoo that is tribal only in reference.  My first thought when I see a shaved head and with an idiot hanging off it is "wonder what tribe he's from?"  Only recently have I realized that it IS indeed a tribe.  The tribe of the my-truck-is-worth-more-than-my-trailer-and-my-wife-weighs-more-than-both-and-all-of-them-have-Calvin-pissing-on-something-somewhere-on-them tribe.  Then it dawned on me - instead of peace pipes and ceremonial gatherings, they have Monster energy drinks and Pay-Per-View.  They really are tribal after all.

The argument from the land of food stamps is of course that they are expressing themselves.  I find it sad when I see a really beautiful girl with a bull ring in her nose or a hole in her face that shouldn't be there, accompanied by arms that look like comic book vomit.  Apparently some people find this crap attractive, so there must be a certain variety of person that jerks their gherkin to hardware catalogs and graphic novels.

Again, this is only my opinion, if people want to age looking like they have a skin condition, that's their thing I guess.  I just don't get it.

Til next time.