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As a big game hunter I take exception with their use of the term “bull”:
Male barbary sheep are RAMS, while female barbary sheep are EWES.
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Rule 34…
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Two different animals, two different tattoos:
…a barbary sheep and a bull for his upper right arm. While a sheep might not seem particularly fierce…The bull is a more obvious symbol…
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Well then. Good thing he didn’t shout “Baah Ram Ewe”…
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As long as we are continuing the ancient and proud English tradition of calling the celtic peoples sheep lovers…
What is the difference between a Scotsman and the Rolling Stones?
The Stones are all, “Hey you, get off my cloud” and the Scotsman is all, “Hey McCloud get off my Ewe!”
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Yeah, we fuck 'em you eat 'em. Enjoy. 
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Popular tattoos 5,000 years ago were sheep
Isn’t a sample size of one (1) a little thin to be making sweeping statements on?
Or [genuine question for the statisticians out there] is it legitimate to infer that sheep tattoos were actually popular because the only example we have includes a sheep, and therefore sheep must have been common/popular for this random example to have had one? Is that generalise-able for all small (but truly random) sample sets, or only the really old ones?
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I have nothing truly constructive to add.
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Or both the sheep and the S tattoos are meaningless and just happened to be included in the local artist’s sale on flash art.
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Oh, they were that band that released “Tattoo Ewe”, right?
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“You see that barn? I built that barn with me own two hands, a finer piece of work you’ll never find, but do they call me Angus the barn-builder? No!!”
“See those thatched cottages in the village? I thatched those roofs with my own hands, but do they call me Angus the thatcher? No!!”
“But you fuck one sheep…”
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