Tattoo's & Scaring

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On the 19th October 2008 (I know because I wrote this down) myself, my husband and another couple went to the Warren House Inn, near Mortonhampstead on Dartmoor for lunch. They have lots of interesting magazines there and my friend handed me one called 'Geography'. In it they had an article on tattoo's, piercings and scarring and I commented on the scarring, wondering how it was done. Later on that evening, back in Exeter myself and my husband were at another friends flat and they flicked through the tv and put on a programme called 'Last man standing' (I'm not to sure of the channel, but it could have been Dave) and they were actually carrying out the scarring on the contestants using blades! I found this so funny that on the same day I had pondered the question as to how, a friend randomly chose a programme that told me (This was a different friend to who I was with in the pub and so was not aware that I had read the article earlier that day) that I wrote it down!
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