Guys with huge earrings?

[wnr700]

I've seen a trend locally, of white males, mid-20's...wearing huge hoop earrings.

I'm not talking your wife's golden hoops hanging from their ears... I'm talking 2 or 3 inch plastic studs of varying degrees seperating the center of the ear lobe.

They look almost African inspired, something out of an Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom, just relocated, and time warped 30 years into the present.

Is it Goth?

Is it White sumpremicist?

There is a row of tattoo shops nearby... (not implying goth/ supremacist)

It just baffles me...

 

[azasadny]

It's the new "I want to be a unique individual, so I will do what every other loser is doing"....just like tattoos, piercings, etc...

 

[GKC]

I had joked for years about "going wild" when I retired and growing my hair long and getting my ear pierced (I worked in management at a large, very conservative company) so when I did retire, my wife and sons dared me to do it. One day, when we were at the mall, I made a joke about it as we passed one of the places that offered ear piercing, so my wife and middle son (who was with us) challenged me...and I did it. I wore it for several weeks, feeling increasingly stupid, and I knew I could never face my dad, so I finally took it out. Thankfully the hole closed up (it was just a regular piercing, not one of those huge ones) and you can't tell it was ever there.

I knew my dad would say something like, "The Good Lord gave you enough holes in your head already, so why do you feel the need to add another?"

What really baffles me is the pierced noses...for one thing, how do they manage to keep it in? For another, when they blow their nose, does snot shoot out of the hole?

 

[oldman45]

It's the new "I want to be a unique individual, so I will do what every other loser is doing"....just like tattoos, piercings, etc...

You may be right. As for me, there will be no piercings that I am willing to sit down and pay for.

As to a son getting earrings of any size, not as long as theyput their feet under my table, live under my roof or get any form of support from me.

Many years ago I had a daughter, now passed away, that was told by me just like each of my kids, "If I catch you with drugs, you will not have to worry about the police becuase I will take you in myself in handcuffs and I will not bail you out or pay an attorney to represent you." She did not think I was serious. I was. She went to jail, in cuffs, sitting in the front seat of my car. It was a long time before we would speak again. But a son with earrings is just as much of a not allowed item as are drugs. Not an arrestable offense but one I would not tolerate.

 

[HCD]

echo what azasadny said



and for my part " it is a big loud cry for attention"



and would you hire him?

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

"This too shall pass". I think I have reached the stage where I no longer pay attention to fads, fancies, and fashions. When I was in High School
1963-1967 it became the fashion for (some) boys to wear their hair long, nowadays I see boys (and men) with shaved heads and what I call a recruit haircut, though invariably the ones I see like that never served in the military.

 

[bennettfam]

As I age I have become much more tolerant of people doing their "thing". It's the person inside that counts.

But if I owned a business where employees dealt face to face with customers I would not hire them. How you look to others if very important in business.

 

[G-Mac]

I work with a kid (late 20's I'm guessing) that has those stupid huge ear piercings. They're between the size of a quarter and a half dollar, I'd estimate.

Goes without saying he has some Chinese letters (Egg Foo Young? ) tattooed on the back of his neck and "tribal tattoos" on his arms. I keep meaning to ask him what "tribe" he belongs to.

Not only that, he has facial piercings. Little studs with gold balls....two of them...below his lower lip. Eyebrow piercings, etc.

OK...here's the really weird part...apparently, at some point in his life, he was into "cutting" and "branding" his arms. He has several designs...one looks like a scorpion...on his forearms...that are basically made of scar tissue...from cutting with a sharp instrument (razor blade? scalpel?) and/or "branding" with something hot.

I guess some people would call all this "body art".

I call it "mental illness".

 

[Muley Gil]

I reckon I'm old fashioned, but I don't think men should wear earrings. I work in a Federal building and I'm constantly amazed by the old guys I see with earrings.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

What really baffles me is the pierced noses...for one thing, how do they manage to keep it in? For another, when they blow their nose, does snot shoot out of the hole?

I would think so. But as long as you're not looking in the mirror when you do it, who cares?

 

[azasadny]

B.L.S.E.

B.L.S.E. = badge of low self esteem. That's what a guy I know calls this stuff... When we wore our hair long, that wasn't PERMANENT. These body defacements are permanent, especially tattoos on the face, neck, hands, etc... Some of these freaks are even tattooing their eyelids, eyeballs and who knows what else....

 

[NMPinNYC]

I would think so. But as long as you're not looking in the mirror when you do it, who cares?

Anyone one wonder what happens when you decide you don't want that big piercing in your ears anymore? Do you have a piece of pasta flopping around where your earlobe hangs? Yuck.

 

[imjin138]

A lot of guys at work wear them now, a lot of sleeve tattoos on both men and women. Nose, eyebrow peircings even some through the back of the neck. I have explained many times that at our job it is a health and safety issue.

But I am told they are individuals.

 

[NCTexan]

When I see folks of all ages and persuasions doing these extreme body modifications or adornments... It seems like a desperate cry of "Somebody... anybody... please just notice me!"

 

[mkk41]

It's the new "I want to be a unique individual, so I will do what every other loser is doing"....just like tattoos, piercings, etc...

Back in the days of wooden ships and iron men , every sailor and pirate worth his salt had tattoos and gold earrings.

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

I'd say this is pretty accurate.

 

[bloo]

In my younger days we all wanted to look like Elvis. Then we grew up and washed and cut our hair and turned our collars back down. What happens when these guys/girls get older and some of them grow up? The girls have as many or more tattoos than the guys. Nothing says pretty like looking like a side show freak.

Ted

 

[Beaver]

I used to work at a big GP papermill in Toledo, Oregon and some of the best characters in the world worked there. I really learned to cuss at that mill. One of my best bud's was a tough ex-marine named Dave who loved to give me, the designated hippie longhair, complete foo foo at all times. He was into short hair, and no jewelry, but only for Marine Corp reasons.

He grabbed me by the hair once and drug me around on the floor of the shipping dept. for awhile, teaching me that long hair in hand to hand combat is a great handle for your enemy. I was told we were just playing. I'm sure the big earrings you talk about would have made great handles for Dave also. Ouch!

 

[Rule3]

My Wife works at a major Urologist office with many Doctors.
Oh the stories I could tell you about male body piercings gone bad

 

[old bear]

Interesting chart

nogoodnamesleft

Interesting chart, I have to admit I have two (2) in the green zone and one (1) I regret in the red zone, right wrist, I had the same job for 27 years. I did get some interesting comment when ever I had any dealings with our local biker population. "Dude, I'm not a cop who did a jolt before coming on the job."