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Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Apparently I've never seen a "top flight" tattoo shop. There don't seem to be any around here. I've only been exposed the the real ones that come and go in town. The last time I was in one was exactly February 20th when my friend asked me to go collect the rent the inked-up deadbeat who rents the space was supposed to have paid by the 1st. Perhaps the cartoonish ideas I have come from seeing actual random tattoo businesses without cherry picking the "top flight" ones you refer to.

I stand by what I said. I think your exposure to tattooing is very limited. The dirtball shops that open up in your quiet corner of central OH do not represent the industry.