Guys with huge earrings?

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nogoodnamesleft said:
I'd say this is pretty accurate.
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Sir, that's excellent. :D

I have several tattoos, mostly obtained in the Marine Corps, and they don't show in business attire. Piercings never appealed to me. Every time my hide has been punctured, it's been accompanied by considerable bleeding and pain, and I'm not gonna pay for that. But if other people want to, that's their business.

Hope this helps, and Semper Fi.

Ron H.
 
If everyone else is doing it, How much of an individual are you if you have it done too??
 
Lol I used to gauge (stretch) my ear lobes, back when I thought I was a cool kid. Grew up a little, took em out, and lucky for me the 1 inch hole almost completely closed up. Trendy kids aren't cool in my book anymore, but to each his own.
 
my LGS owners 3 year old son grabbed a waiter by the collar of the neck and told him that "boys aint supposed to be wearing no earrings." GS owner said he about crapped himself and apologized 900 times to the waiter. :D
 
mkk41 said:
Sooo , no one should even try to be remotely individualistic?

Every one should wear black pants , white shirt and have their haircut like Moe of the Three Stooges.

Just like Chairman Mao said.
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To each his own. I personally do not find self-mutilation as being "individualistic", simply a misguided cry for attention or a sign of rebellious mental/emotional issues. But I recognize an individual's right to do so to his own body. I do have a problem with those who whine to me about refusing to hire such. "Fair" or not, we are judged by the company we keep, our personal appearance, language and hygiene.

If you want to live in a cave and wear a bone in your nose, congratulations on being "individualistic". Just don't expect me or society as a whole to support your selfish choices and give you a job based on your skewed vision of how the world should work.
 
Its a disgrace, G-d help me if I ever have a child who wears his pants around their ankles, pierces their face or puts a 2-3 inch (or larger) hoop in their ear. These people need to join the military to learn respect for themselfs and others.

Recently while at a coffee shop a mother and her freak show son came in, he had a very large hoop in his left ear and a bandage on his right. While walking by I asked what had happened to his other ear, turns out his dog grabbed at the hoop and ripped the bottom of his skin in half...

score dog 1, human ear 0

My hopes are in some twisted way the dog was trying to send him a message.
 
Friend of my daughter's had rings in his nipples and a playful half-grown boxer puppy. Wanna guess where this is going? He was playing with the dog, with no shirt on, and the dog jumped up at him, caught a claw in one of the rings, and pulled it out. Ouch.
 
I remember decades ago when (immature) guys starting wearing earrings I heard the saying: only two types of men wear earrings, pirates and queers.
 
As a poster elsewhere said, " I wonder what they would do when I snapped a master lock through that".
 
I was in the Navy for ten years and I watched a lot of my friends get drunk and pay for tattoos. I never got any myself. I knew guys that would get their rating badge on their shoulder and swore they would add a stripe when they made rank. Then the tribal tattoo was all the rage. That turned into barb wire around your arm. And all the sports teams, clothing lines, bike or car logos or whatever that gets the free advertizing. And I have no idea how many lower back tattoos I have seen by women. Then the piercings in anywhere you can think of. Then I met a guy who started inserting pearls under his skin on his forearms. It made a row of bumps that to me looked like he had a disease. Lastly I will never forget meeting a guy in a restaurant in England that had metal implants in his skull so he could screw in horns on his head. That one took the cake. He had a few different sizes and was custom making more of them. To each their own indeed. Just don't break down in front of my house and knock asking to use the phone. You might scare me to death and get a barrel stuck in your face while I'm screaming at the woman to dial 911… Devil horns, I feel like I am already sounding like my father.
 
as dennis leary said "if your a man with hoop earings you better be a pirate" i have seen boys wearing masterlocks in their ears . its a poor cry for attention and lack of self respect im my opinion.
 
I'm in a position where I see some WEIRD stuff daily. Piercings, tats, haircuts, dye (pink fer instance). I also see lots of expresionism on clothing T shirts that have cute little messages like "&%^$ authority" worn at arraignment. We hand out a paper to the clients with dos and don'ts for court appearances; radical stuff like "females-wear a bra" or "do not come to court under the influence of alcohol or narcotics" or "do not bring contraband into the courthouse-you will be searched".
I was against the last one as I felt that anyone dumb enough to bring contraband to the courthouse deserved what he got, but I was out-voted.

I tell my clients who rebel at having to conform "You see that mean old white guy sitting up there-he's gonna decide your fate-and he don't like nose piercings. You go ahead and do what you gotta do.
 
I don't pay much attention to fashion fads for guys... whether it be Hip hop or the days of Disco... but for gals I'd like to see the miniskirt come back into fashion... ;)
 
I was in court one day when they ran this big "bubba" through for breaking parole or similar. The judge read that he had beat someone recently. Bubba kind of growled, "Aw, that one was that q---r up in frisco I think! The judge mentioned something about there is such a thing as a hate crime. Bubba quit when he was ahead!
 
My father has always told my brother "if you get tattoos, put them where you can cover them up". My brother rebelled and has them on his arms and legs. We always figured he was mad at somebody. He is 30 this year and wants to remove them. Unfortunately, tattoo removal surgery isn't cheap, about $3,000.00 for the ones more noticable. In the summer he has to wear a jacket to hide them so he doesn't scare the customers. Sometimes it pays to listen to dad.
 
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Those earings are called gauges. They come in incremental sizes, and the idea is to increase the size regularly to stretch your earlobe hole larger and larger. So those guys you see with the really big gauges have been doing it for a while.

The process is not naturally reversible. If or when the person with gauges decides to get rid of them, it requires a surgery to cut open the ear and stitch it back together without the hole. I'm told this is extremely painful, and expensive. I had my own ear torn open once in an accident, so I can personally attest to the painful part.

As for the "why" part, I'm guessing they do it to freak out guys like most of those that frequent this forum. Next time you see one of them, instead of looking spooked or disgusted (like they want), walk up and say "hey, nice gauges." That'll really freak them out.
 
I don't care where anyone has tatoos but I would like to be there when the artist puts them on some of the young women I have seen. Who knows what is under the clothes where we don't see. AWW I'm too old to thinking like that.
 
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The only body art that I approve of involves bullet holes and stitches. When I pass the Hall of Justice I usually see more than a few people lined up to go in that need a few.
 
I guess my view on the topic is I think it is foolish to do these sorts of things to one's body, but considering the big picture and all, I ain't losin' any sleep over it either.

Generally speaking, I am just not that invested in other people's lives.

Of course it is different when it is one's own children involved.

I do like earrings on a gal, and think pierced ears for the ladies to accomdate earrings are fine. Those clip-on jobs are surely uncomfortable and subject to loss.

(I was in a 7-11 once in Hawaii, a few years back, and noticed a do-it-yourself ear piercer stack hangin' on the pegboard next to the dental floss or what not. Looked sorta like a stapler. Ouch!)
 
No, but I've got a funny ear ring story. When I was, I think, a junior in HS, this would have been '83 or '84, I got my ear pierced; to put it mildly, my dad was NOT pleased or amused and I was told that I was not going to have an ear ring. So I wore the ear ring when I was at school and out, but cut the stud off of one to keep in my ear when I was around the house so the hole wouldn't grow back together, it just looked like the mark from the piercing and my parents never caught on. I only had the ear ring a year or so before deciding it wasn't for me.

About 3-4 years ago I was talking to my mom on the phone, she was telling me something that had really angered my dad, but I don't remember what it was. Anyway, she said, "I haven't seen your dad this angry since that time you got your ear pierced." I thought it was a pretty funny comment.
 
Steave said:
About 3-4 years ago I was talking to my mom on the phone, she was telling me something that had really angered my dad, but I don't remember what it was. Anyway, she said, "I haven't seen your dad this angry since that time you got your ear pierced."
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I can't even begin to imagine how he would have reacted to this:

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When I was a boy back in the 40s my dad cut my hair with hand shears. I didnt like haircuts so took a nail and put it in the shears and squeezed the handels. It broke a couple teeth in the clipper. Dad continued giveing me haircuts with it to teach me a lesson. Of course now it pulled and hurt like heck!
 
I'm waiting to see the plate in the lip thing.

I saw a young man with out his hoop style rings out of his his ears. He looked like he had a couple of night crawlers hanging onto his ears. Kinda gross looking if you ask me. I think it's just another way of saying "hey look at me, I want attention" Before you do something like that,you have to say where do I see myself in 10 years. I have never seen anybody at a work place that was in charge of anything or anybody with that king of stuff.
 
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