The media seem to finally be stumbling onto something I've noticed for years: tatoos ain't what they used to be:

As models flaunted head-to-toe body art and hard rock pulsated in a cavernous ballroom, veteran tattoo artists at a New York convention on Saturday wondered if their once taboo artistry was losing its nonconformist lure.

It's Reuters, so maybe the tatoo thing just isn't as big in Britain yet. Somehow I doubt it.