How about fitness and healthy lifestyle acceptance? Time to break the taboo!

Over the next few years he added:

F*** JOHN DALLI HU BASTJAN on his right bicep,

F*** CYRUS IL-PEPE on his left bicep

F*** JPO TAL-MISTRA on his upper back

F*** LOU BONDI DAK IN-NAZZJONALIST on his lower back, over a pair of outspread biker wings.

Now he’s hoping for a few more 2 cents savings so he can pay for laser removal.

I also employed persons with tattoos on the condition that these are not visible, and the exception for those having visible tatoos was employment as dish washers where they can never make contact with the guests.

I have travelled to various countries due to my work, including Japan and the United States, and have never met a hotel employee with visible tattoos, whatever standard of hotel I stayed in.

My advice to those who intend to tattoo themselves is to ensure that they will not regret doing so as trying to remove it is painful, expensive, time-consuming and not always entirely effective.

My final comment is to ask Cyrus Engerer whether he has or intends to have any tattoos himself, despite befriending tattooists to win their vote for Joseph his Saviour, who is proud of having similar values to his.

I am a tattoo artist and I agree completely that a tattoo is a choice, so one not should complain of being discriminated against when not getting a job or whatever.

We even have a name for certain tattoos (Job Stopper). It also comes down to what type of tattoo they are. You can get tasteful artwork or hideous hammalagni. Yes, there is a difference.

I will speak for myself here – I am quite tattooed, have got a few piercings and I run my own business. And that does not make me anything close to injorant/hamallu.

If one is applying for a job as a bouncer at a seedy nightclub, tattoos and body piercings might be an asset, but the same would (should) not get you a job in a bank or any professional office where you come in contact with the public.

A visit to St Luke’s Hospital in golden year 1972 revealed to me the most complete tattooed man I ever saw in my life, a tall skinny Maltese man with tattoos even on his face.

You can get a tasteful one, hidden and out of the way, or one right across your forehead- but that comes with consequences.

There is a reason why as teenagers we thought they were cool but weren’t allowed to get one. Our parents were right about that too. They give the wrong impression and that impression stays with you for life.

I guess one could argue that it is wrong to judge people because they have tattoos, but that is business. It s nothing personal at all.

If you work in a business you are representing that business pretty much all the time, but especially at work. Appearances matter at work because you are the first impression someone is going to have of the company. Tattoos can work in your favour or they can work against you. It depends what sort of job you are going for.

What next? Are we going to have civil liberties extended for those who don’t wear a tie or suit because, jahasra, they get discriminated against when they show up for an interview in an adidas tracksuit and bikini?

Here is an underdog group for Cyrus to champion.