Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.

40 percent of adults think the surge in the number of people with tattoos is bad for society; only 7 percent consider it a positive development.

Not surprisingly, the survey by the Pew Center for People and the Press found that the older a person is, the more likely he is to find tattoos distasteful. But even among 18-to-29-year-olds, only 15 percent say the increased incidence of ink is a change for the better; 22 percent in that age group believe it's a change for the worse.

A previous Pew survey found that almost 40 percent of 18-to-40-year-olds have at least one tattoo.

We speculate that the continued hostility toward tattoos exists primarily because people only remember when they see a truly awful one.