I used to hear 'bullseye' before tramp stamp became the popular term. Still do occasionally. I'm not sure which is worse.

Oh it's very much a comment on the people who drink it. It has a slightly higher alcohol content than other standard lagers, and everyone knows drunk people beat their wives? Or something? The company is always trying to look as classy as possible in their ads to counter that image. I think it might be working...

It's worked pretty well over here. They definitely market as an upscale.

I used to hear 'bullseye' before tramp stamp became the popular term. Still do occasionally. I'm not sure which is worse.

I heard "target tattoo" for a long time. In fact, the first time I saw the term "tramp stamp" was in the credits for "How I Met Your Mother" when they credited a minor character as "Tramp Stamp Girl" or "Girl with the Tramp Stamp"

Drew is no longer a series of tubes! Hooray!

YAY!

and when things started getting tense I was convinced the next several hours would be about recriminations and escalation

Our systems tend to work. Which is good.

"Tramp stamp" has always bugged me. Because that location IS an ideal spot for women to get tattoos, and the casual misogyny of the term is ugly.

It IS ideal. But I dithered a lot before I put my spiral there because of the casual misogyny. I think if it had been a more horizontal image, I wouldn't have at all.

I will point out that it's a fabulous place to have a not-seen-by-anybody-if-you-don't-want tattoo until you fall asleep on your stomach in the stands at the racetrack and jeans inch down. Then your dad finds out.

Skimming past so many posts.

Happy Birthday to Nora!

I have only heard 'tramp stamp' and 'wife beater' here. I think people might be cautious of their word usage around me because they know I will jump all over them. Butch cami is cute and I shall add it to my vocab.

So happy to read that Drew is back to the old fashioned way of consuming food. Yay for going tubeless!

I think it's bad to only use certain terms around certain people because then it makes the okayness of the terms about the other people, and not about the term. It implies I'm only doing it because so and so might get pissed, and makes me think of people hiding casual racism around me but being more racist elsewhere. Or worse, of thinking I'm down with their use of racist terms! (its happened). So, I don't want to be THAT person, even if I don't think it's quite the same thing. I think its just a wishy washy way to be, and thats not who I want to be. I don't classify it the same as, say, using swear words around some people, or something. I wouldn't use "Jew her down" around some and not others, why am I "sometimes" ok with wifebeater? Haven't parsed in my head.

I have not managed to fully shake use of the insult "retarded" and will occasionally still use it in certain company.

I caught myself before I said, "spaz" yesterday.

Happy Birthday, Nora (meant to type that last time and only thought it, oops.)

I have not managed to fully shake use of the insult "retarded" and will occasionally still use it in certain company.

This is, for me, the problem with the casual use. You don't even realize what you are saying. And what it means. It happens to me sometimes too. Generally followed by a feeling of horror at what I just said.

I'm wearing a ribbed tank right now and it's ... kinda chilly actually. But I wanted to change out of my outside clothes when I got home.

Note on lower back as tattoo location. I know a very pretty 45 year old who got a butterfly tattoo at 20. She says she needs to get it seriously modified (not just retouched which she has done on occasion) because it now looks more like a vulture than a butterfly.