Tattoo's and Body Art

I think that temporary body art can look quite good. For example, the Mehndi hand paintings look very nice and artistic, but they are only temporary and can easily be cleaned away, tattoos on the other hand cannot. Some tattoo's can actually mean and represent something important, but in my opinion and from my own experience they are pointless.
In the picture above is my friends tattoo, which apparently means 'Sound and Rhythm' in Malasian. Apart from looking like a sad face, the message is ridiculas. He needs a tattoo to tell everyone in malasia that he likes music, waste of money.
Another thing I don't understand is why people get their own name tattoo'ed on their own body, is it really that hard to remember? There are lots of websites dedictaed to shit tattoo's, like http://ugliesttattoos.com/ for example.
The most ridiculas example of tattooing I could find is this video of 'The Leopard Man'.