"There’s something deeply fascinating to us about absurdly, purposelessly expensive items. Maybe it’s the questionable novelty of a $6,747 cell phone or a $13,875 leather jacket or that even if we somehow we won Bingo and came into a boatload of cash, we probably wouldn’t spend it on something like a $924,000 tattoo.

Yes, you heard that right in proof that the recession was just a really really bad dream, luxury South African jeweler Shimansky has unveiled the world’s most expensive tattoo."

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