getting your ears gauged should mean measuring your ear people come into our shop all the time and ask for gauges and i hand them a gauge wheel
i mean its the same as saying i want to get my ears inched
or milimetered wtf
2007-10-07 07:20:53 · 12 answers · asked by eeweasle 3 in Beauty & Style ➔ Skin & Body ➔ Tattoos
Your right and they probably just want it because they don't know anything. They go with the crowd. It's sad but people will be people! Funny sometimes too! I kinda chuckle a bit when i hear stupid remarks.
2007-10-07 09:51:16 · answer #1 · answered by Black Betty 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well most people don’t know and/or care as much about piercings (or maybe that specific piercing) as you do. People know a gauge has a lot to do with it, and cant think of another use for the word. So the words have become synonymous in popular culture. i doubt this actuly confuses you, infact im sure most ppl wud get it. it may be technically incorrect, but thats the nature of slang, it mostly comes from ignorance or laziness.
tbh, this sounds like an eliteist 'everyone is ignorant about my specialist subject' rant, rather than a genuine pet peeve. a bit like those snobby ppl who work in record shops who snort at you for not knowing about some obscure mexican techno duo. if you like, il provide the answer you were probably hoping for 'yeah i no, im also a piercing professional, and this really annoys me, i also hate it whenm people think your septum id the bit between your nostrils, when infact blah blah blah' OR 'wow, i never realised that, ive been calling it a gauge all my life, im so humiliated and upset. thank you for enlightening me, o master'
2007-10-07 07:32:59 · answer #2 · answered by bojanglestothemax 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
people call plugs gauges gauge system measurment
2016-02-02 09:31:17 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THEY'RE NOT CALLED GAUGES THE GAUGE IS THE SIZE LIKE "8G' THAT'S "8 GAUGE" PLUGS ARE HE FLAT ONES THAT LOOK LIKE CIRCLES THE OTHER CIRCLES THAT ARE HOLLOW ARE TUNNELS AND THE POINTY ONES ARE CALLED TAPERS OH MY GOD THESE IGNORANT PEOPLE GIVING YOU BAD INFORMATION LIKE NO
2016-03-19 07:09:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would rather hear someone say "it took me 3 years to gauge my piercings to 1/2" " than to hear someone say "I stretched my piercings to 1" in the past month"
Who cares. it's only a word.
2007-10-07 07:55:36 · answer #5 · answered by quinn3448 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cuz plugs sounds nasty....
And exactly gauges are measurements....
So we call it getting them Gauged out.....U could say inching it out i suppose but lots of people dont get them in inches...
2007-10-07 12:07:22 · answer #6 · answered by ~*The Show Must Go On*~ 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
who cares? obviously not everybody is well versed in terminology, especially since so many people say the wrong thing, it is just universally accepted as correct by those who don't know better. maybe you should explain the difference since they don't know.
i guess i understand, it bothers me when people say "tatted up" that sounds so dumb but whatever. i don't know ANY people who have serious tattoos who say "tatted". whatever.
2007-10-07 07:41:37 · answer #7 · answered by somebody's a mom!! 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
they dont want to be educated, just in with the crowd. its quite annoying. its too bad the ones who take the time to educate ourselves on the terminology and care, etc., have to be grouped in with the ones that don't.
2007-10-07 07:30:47 · answer #8 · answered by qpdoll 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, they don't know what they are after. Try explaining the difference to them and find out what they are after versus what you took it is.
2007-10-07 10:20:25 · answer #9 · answered by ~Les~ 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, but some people don't get it. Oh well, what can ya do?
2007-10-07 10:31:11 · answer #10 · answered by Clever_Cat 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋