tattoo people, is there something wrong with the word 'tat'?
 

a friend is telling me there's something wrong with the word 'tat'.

I don't see any problem with it.

please elaborite as to why this word is a problem?

It's like calling your mother a Cunt

It is disrespectful. I don't have "tats" I have tattoos.

Because of the silent 'w'..

its about as disrespectfull as calling a black president a n!gger president

I have never had anyone say I was insulting them by commenting on their "tats."

Must have been a chick.

Good imagery.

:thumbsup

why is it disrespectfull to call a tattoo a tat?

please explain

You can't. It is a cartoon character or a word in english or Japanese or some other dumb thing.

Never heard of that - it doesn't bother me:error

I have a feeling we are talking to the same person since she keeps yelling at me for calling her two new Tattoos "tats"... :winkwink:

what the fuck?

Here's what I've found Sleazy.

Before the Internet people tended to stay in more localized groups. You spoke mostly to people from the same area, associated mostly with people from the same area, and so on. A set of slang words would be common to a certain geographical area. So for instance, calling someone "mi gordo" (literally "my little fatty") in Costa Rica is a term of endearment while in Mexico the same saying is like calling somebody a fag.

Now that we have the Internet, and especially people like yourself who travel to conventions which bring people from all over the globe together, you associate with groups of people from different regions with different speech patterns. Something you say to your friend from Calgary may well be offensive to someone from The Netherlands.

What it then has to boil down to is intentions. If you say a word with malice of thought, then it's disrespectful. If you say it with no malice, it shouldn't be offensive. So if you're saying "tat" as a way of looking down at tattoos, then yes that's offensive. If you're saying it because that's just acceptable short or slang speech in your area, then it shouldn't be.

I've never heard of that in my entire life, and I was a tattoo artist for years before I started this biz. If it is disrespectful it's news to me.

Must be your faggot French friend ----------> J

Fag :1orglaugh

He is the only unadmitting tattoed queer around here that sucks the popcorn seeds from your shit I can even imagine that would set off a thread like this.

I heard you purposely lay in the same spot for 45 minutes in your spare bed per day, waiting, for him, to come hang out on your gay snowmobile trips, hoping he will "get that ass" ;)

Scott, idiot. :thumbsup :1orglaugh

Just a slang like many words..I know guys covered in them and they say it all the time

TATS



Love you rho rho :upsidedow

Rhonda is mad at me now - she just walked past my office and flipped me off :(

its like calling someone Chief that you hardly know .. it slides just under the insult line. i personally hate when people call me Chief or Boss ....Tatt doesn't really bother me much ..it just sounds like they're trying to sound hip or cool by calling it by a nickname ..

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He is actually talking about me so you are so wrong on all levels.

Hey CHIEF!

I bet you get pissed.

Failure. Banners, that's where the money is at :thumbsup

This is news to me as well, so now I am supposed to be offended when people ask to see my tats? cool, I'm down with that.

Didn't I just fire you for that!

Well shit.. Thats funny. I call people Chief or boss all the time and mean it as more of a way of respect to a someone that is in a form of authority but not directly an authority over me..

Now I hear my former supervisor using it all the time himself to me and a bunch of others.

hey rhonda...


:love-boob

It does not bother me at all.

So, I nailed it.

It sort of identifies you as a bit of a "wanna be" in my opinion. Like someone who is desperately trying to locate hip lingo. I put it in there with "bro" and even "dude". It's like yao, think of new words or use official ones.

That's why I've given up on all forms of "handshakes" and all forms of variations on "good bye".

"Ink" is also lame. "Sick Ink, Bro" is like - not disrespectful at all, just makes me feel like you're a nerdopants or some type of redneckaholic. dig, cool cat? ;)

unless "tat" just comes naturally for you, in which case shout it from the hilltops

thank you for the insight.

I can tell from your post that you're very 'with it' on lingo and coolness.

one question though. Looking at your name and picture, are you a male or a female or something inbetween?

Basically this about sums it up..

Normally the person who says "cool tat bro" normally has a tattoo that is not even prison worthy. To make it worse they feel if you both have "tats" it's like your are in some personal gang and can just randomly chat about your "ink"

It's rather annoying.

Just like people who call it a tattoo gun.

Perfect. This is exactly what I mean.

i hear people say tat all the time

Although I don't see no big deal, at the end of the day it's a tattoo not a tatt. I'm the type of person who calls things like they are.

Like calling your car wheels, or ride or whip. It's a fucking car call it a car ;-)

I think it bothered your friend cause they are probably older and tatt is kind of a immature slang

Let me add that 90% of the people who will call it a tatt doesn't have a tattoo and the 10% that do surely didn't get it in a reputable place. Probably got one crappy colored scab they are so proud of who was done by bob the kitchen wizard tattooing from home without a license.

Tattoos, tatts - I just call them doodles.

"Dude, why do you suddenly have doodles on your arm?"
"They're tattoos!"
"Wait, what? You mean those doodles aren't coming off?!"

Well it's ironic that you mention it, Sleezy, becuause i am actually the captial of hip coolness. ;)

I sure hope you don't feel i was calling you a "wanna be", and thus have black and blues on your heart. You asked a question about the word tat and i gave an answer. Certainly wasn't meant as a personal insult. As a matter of fact, you apparently don't know me from adam or eve, but i know you a lil bit (being you are famous in these circles) and I honestly like you.

Now, as to your knee-jerk reaction to counter-insult what you percieved as an insult (i apologize) referring to my lovely features and asking if i am male or female or something inbetween... well allow me to explain

I have passed through many births and deaths and will likely continue to do so for some time. I have been both males and females, and humans and animals and demigods and goddesses as well. So you pick whatever you like to think of me as, k?

If you open my fly though, a little wiener will pop out.

Shall we be friends? I didn't mean to insult, just to answer your query.

ahem *cough*cough*

I have no issue with it, and I most certainly don't hold the word "tat" on the same level as "c*nt."

cunt was actually a powerful and empowering word when it was invented. didja know that Anne??? PS - sick ink, sis.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh
I think I love you, Vic.

awesome!!!
my plan is unfolding well!!!!
mwaaaaahahahahaha hAAAAAAAAAAAA

I DID know that, actually! But alas, the word has been turned black and moldy. Oh well...it actually doesn't bother me much anyway. Words are just words.

My favorite word? DEBACLE.

that's a great one, debacle.

also, onlookers, please note other awesome words:

1) mint
2) risque
3) crucial
4) debacle
5) ass (as in, "yao, that post was ASS")


words to never say:
1) dude
2) bro
3) tat
4) ink

5) yo, is sometimes ok if you have a new york accent. or do it with attitude. otherwise use "yao"

thank you, good night.

holy shit, that was the hilarious.

TURTLE is a fun word to say out loud.

Other top words:

1. Ridiculous
2. Profound
3. Wiggle
4. Vic

Ridiculous is definitely a good one, as is dreadful. The french canadians put it best though, when they say Tabarnak!

good answer

sleaze when you do interview ambush on me achmed?

Anyone who takes offence takes tattoos too seriously. They're just little drawings on your body.

All I can say is WOW