Aw someone got out of bed on the wrong side! I can think of a few things I'd get pedantic about before people calling it a 'tat', shit tattoos for a start, back yard scratchers, idiots in general. In which case y'all can just call me Jed, and this is ma wife and my sister...

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"I guess he picked a knife fight with somebody better?"

I wholeheartedly agree.

..can I still call it a "tramp stamp" if it fits the proper location and style?

I'm just kidding. I appreciate the wanting to remove certain slang or abbreviation to something that warrants more artistic respect in communities.

I actually enjoy just referring to it as "ink" in general. As in, seeing someone with a great tattoo and telling him/her: "That's some great ink you've got there."

But then again, I'm a dork like that.

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I couldn't agree more. I don't know if you've seen the movie "Wild Hogs" (great movie by the way!!), but every time I hear some one say "tat", it either conjours visions of dorky "Dudley" showing off his Macintosh Apple tattoo in Biker Bar... or some Good 'Ol Boys hootin' and hollerin' about a "sweet barbed wire arm band".

I once had my ass chewed out by a well known tattoo artist for referring to a tattoo machine as a "gun" - and I took that lesson to heart too.

A pencil is not a "stick", a machine is not a "gun" and a tattoo is not a "tat".

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exactly right!!

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Trying to stop people from calling a tattoo a 'tat' or a machine a 'gun' is like trying to stop people from getting tribal work...it's just not gonna happen! Even though I agree with you wholeheartedly, I'd rather fight to have women referred to as women rather than 'whores, tramps, chics, bitches' as I personally think women deserve more respect as well, but there will always be disrespectful people who refer to stuff with 'slang words'. I worry less about what others are doing, and spend more time concentrating on what I do and say to make this world a better place! Just my thoughts on this!

So I suppose it's an incredibly bad sign is the tattoo artist himself refers to it as a gun?

Every time I hear some frat-boy with a chinese character or bad tribal on his upper arm say the word "tat" I literally grimace. Literally!

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