Full of holes....lead or stainless steel?

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Sunday, June 11, 2006 00:15
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AERIN

Tuesday, June 6, 2006 8:38 AM

I got my ears pierced when I was in 2nd grade and my mom insisted I let them grow closed when they got infected. Then I got them re-pierced years later. For a while it was like a maze in there - earing goes in the front and can't find it's way out the back.

In college I got the top of my ear pierced. Wow, that thing just never stopped hurting. It's maybe 8 years later I still have to be careful how I sleep on it. I also have an ear cuff that wraps around the ear without a piercing. It only hurts if the metal gets crushed, which happened just before the last one broke.

My cartilage earing used to get pulled out all the time in Taekwondo. I wore my hair in a long braid, and when I did a spin-kick it would whip around my head, snag on the stud, and then rip it out. OUCH! I'm an idiot.

Serenity tat is a cool idea. I'm going to think about that.

MSG

Tuesday, June 6, 2006 3:16 PM

Future Mrs... go for it. I think it's always good to have personal symbols of triumph. Here's mine..damn can't get it to paste in.. it's the orangey red circle with chinese characters inside and the word serenity running across it.

You're only young once, but you can be immature any time!

RUE

Friday, June 9, 2006 2:20 AM

PhoenixRose:

I just happened to stumble across this thread. You might be interested in "The Decorated Body" by Robert Brain. http://ursusbooks.com/item11755.html

Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.

MAGHAFFAR

Friday, June 9, 2006 2:36 AM

Piercing any part of the ear except the lobe -- and even that spot leads to the eye points in acupuncture -- will stimulate dozens if not hundreds of micro points of nerve endings. There's a whole chinese science of ear-based acumpuncture cuz, like the bottom of the feet, there's just a whole acre of acupuncture points there waiting to get stabbed.

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SCRUFFYHANSOLO

Friday, June 9, 2006 2:43 AM

WOW i didn't think i had alot going on but everyone else makes me feel crazy. ok here is the run down:

i used to have six in my left ear but only two now one in my tragis and one in the groove above the ear lobe

i used to have my left eyebrow pierced twice they eventually worked themselves through the skin and out

one labret piercing got 10 years ago and has stuck around

one tongue ring second time around though first one i swallowed the ball now i cinch it up better

last but not least one left nipple that was the only one that actually hurt me

i suppose my skin is just very pierceable i plan on getting a tat on my back but have never settle on spending that kind of money since it would be large

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AERIN

Friday, June 9, 2006 2:57 AM

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Originally posted by MAGhaffar:
... there's just a whole acre of acupuncture points there waiting to get stabbed.

No kidding? Lucky me. I can't decide if it's vanity or some type of macho thing that keeps me from taking the thing out. Eh, a little pain is good for ya. Toughens ya up.

ZOID

Friday, June 9, 2006 7:21 AM

c'isall:

No piercings, no permanent paint on the skin, even though it was considered de rigeur in my former career. Couple of reasons:

Dad had tattoos he'd got during WWII. He advised me against ever getting tattooed; said it was the worst series of decisions he'd ever made, and that alcohol was the prime motivator. And of course, they don't look nearly so good after thirty years. I know a person of the female persuasion who got a very pretty petite butterfly on the side of her breast when she was in her 20's; now it more closely resembles a full-torso condor. Once again, gravity is proved.

Second reason:
God made us beautiful enough and with all the holes we need. It's like taking a (visualize your favorite luxury automobile) and then adding curb feelers and a really cheesy flame paint job to the nose. When it comes to enhancing the human body, generally speaking, less is more.

I also don't like plastic flamingos adorning my lawn, bumper stickers, or velvet Elvii on the walls of my home... And at least those could be removed once the novelty wore off, should I ever take leave of my senses thus.

Naturally,

zoid
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PHOENIXROSE

Friday, June 9, 2006 7:26 AM

Don't forget all the acupuncture points in the tongue! My mom (who studied acupuncture briefly) always said the worst thing to have pierced was the tongue because it was such a major point. None of my piercing-obsessed, masochistic friends would listen to me about that, of course. Ah well.

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CHRISISALL

Friday, June 9, 2006 1:36 PM

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Originally posted by zoid:

God made us beautiful enough and with all the holes we need. It's like taking a (visualize your favorite luxury automobile) and then adding curb feelers and a really cheesy flame paint job to the nose. When it comes to enhancing the human body, generally speaking, less is more.

Hey Zoid!
Being a Wing Chun dude, I once considered getting a Chinese symbol for the martial art on my shoulder, but also being a dabbler in Tai Chi and San Shou and Drunken Boxing, I wondered if I might ever switch my leanings, martial art-wise. So I didn't get it.
Mention has been made here of a Serenity tat. That kinda sounds cool, but fading would inevitably occur, and I wouldn't want my grandkids to be asking me "Grandther, what does 'Senrility' mean?"

In the end, the best body enhancement I can think of is done with a couple of 15lb dumbells and some sit-ups. Savy?

I know that ya do Chrisisall

ZOID

Friday, June 9, 2006 3:26 PM

'The Big C' (is all) responded:

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...I wouldn't want my grandkids to be asking me "Grandther, what does 'Senrility' mean?"

That's assuming, of course, that reading is still in vogue by the time you're a grandfather. 'Speling adn gramer' are already goners...

And if one gets a tattoo done of the Chinese symbol for 'serenity', well, that's sure to lead a tale that'll leave the grandkids rolling their eyes at what a nutter gramps is.

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...In the end, the best body enhancement I can think of is done with a couple of 15lb dumbells and some sit-ups. Savy?

Comment devrais-je savoir? Even that sort of enhancement ('body sculpting') can be taken to extremes that detract from the simple beauty of the human form. But at least it's (supposedly) reversible, given time.

In general, I'd say that I feel no need to turn my body into a signboard or an object of (self?) worship. I have a mind and a mouth with which to make myself known. This way I can change my mind as often as I like, without having to resort to laser surgery to get my body to reflect it.

So piercings, which will heal shut if left unused (right?), may be only silly/tacky/a sign of deep self-interest. But tattoos are a horse of many different colors. They ain't comin' off -- even after the sentiment that spawned them has long since been forgotten -- and they fade, they stretch, they warp.

I can think of nothing more ironic than a constant reminder, indelibly writ on your flesh, of how foolish you were when you were young. I'd prefer to keep my own idiocy (then and now) out of the public eye. That's what memories are for: Suffering one's mistakes in the privacy of one's own mind is enough penance, without inviting the rest of the world to act as witness.

For example: I expect more than a few will take exception to my opinions. But eventually this thread, like all the others, will disintegrate into the mists of the Web. And I don't have to wear this opinion etched in technicolor across my biceps. Savez-vous?

Parenthetically,

zoid

P.S.
Keeping one's body toned and fit to do work is as important as doing likewise with one's mind. Neither is much good without the other.

P.P.S.
Angelina just had a baby -- congrats to mama and papa, btw -- and I wonder how that full-length lower abdomen tattoo she sports is holding up. I mean, it must at least have been rib-tickling to see it balloon up over the course of nine months. I wonder how it looks with even the lightest hint of stretch marks and a possible Caesarean scar running through it. Surely the message (something in Latin) must be somewhat muddled. Apropos, perhaps, considering the wearer...
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