Paul Braun wrote:
> Personally, I'm good with ear piercing as long as it's not one of
> those swiss-cheese ears with 1,285 piercings. Tatoos turn me off.
>
> However, I'm all about boobs. Boobs are good.
Man-boobs?
No, probably not. ;-)
I have a couple of "permanent" sleepers in my left earlobe. I use to
have, in the same ear, at the top of the ear, in the cartilage, another
similar sleeper. Also, at the same time I had a barbell in my left
eyebrow (both were installed at the same time). In the case of the
cartilage one, it never properly healed (which sounds worse than it was
- basically, it was always slightly tender, which made it uncomfortable
to sleep on), and after about 18 months I took it out. The barbell in
the eyebrow...well, as it was my first eyebrow piercing, I later
discovered it should not have been a barbell, but a sleeper - barbells
put too much forward pressure on it, and it tends to "grow out", as mine
did (in about 3 months).
I liked them, and I'd like them again, but I couldn't be bothered
dealing with the potential repeat of the same irritating circumstances.
During the piercing (done in a piercing/tattoo studio) I was given
advice on other types of piercings (a girl in the next cubicle was
getting the full-bore genitalia treatment), and was informed that the
ear cartilage was one of the more painful ones (septum was another), and
that the "Prince Albert" was actually one of the least paintful. Yeah,
sorry, but I wasn't convinced. :D
As for tattoos, well, that's one of those things I've been "gonna" do
for many a year. I figure that, at 38, I'm old enough to determine that
I won't regret it, and so it's just a matter of figuring what to get.
I've thought of a dog paw on each shoulder and each foot, and possibly a
tail up my back. Whether I will actually get up the "courage" and find
someone I feel I can trust to do them....?
As for what people think of tattoos or piercings...well, many people are
going to criticise and judge you on individual characteristics you have,
that they focus on, no matter who you actually are. This almost
certainly will have an unavoidable influence on your life (eg. the job
interviews someone mentioned). You can spend your entire life trying to
make the maximum, or an "acceptable", number of people in a normalised
society feel comfortable with you, if only to achieve employment in some
particular field. There's a good chance this will require what feels
like significant compromise on your part. As individuals we sometimes
choose, maybe, the degree to which we compromise our Self for the
company we keep? In my case, I even had "friends" saying that they
"liked" and "accepted" me as a "gay person" because I wasn't "one of
those effeminate ones"; because I was "straight-acting". Possibly I was
(acting) to try fit in. Possibly in some ways I still do. I probably
need to keep working on that, amongst other "compromises".
If you (and this is a universal "you" - not a defensive or offensive
"you" attendant on anyone here) don't like my piercings or my (proposed)
tatts...or, rather, if you assign your dislike of them (or any other
particular single, subjective, personal aspect of me) to my entire
personality/character, then it's going to be your problem rather than
mine. Frankly, you should assume that I really don't give a fat rat's
manky clacker. I'd suggest, though, that you dislike me for Me, and not
for what I wear (or who I sleep with for that matter). Personally, if I
am forced to take a dislike to someone, it's because they've shown
themselves to be a complete and utter dickhead rather than because of
how they're decorated.
I don't want to be a "curmedgeon" when I "grow up". Sorry, but I don't.
There seems too much "miserable, old bastard"ry involved. However, I do
admire, and aspire to, an aspect of curmudgeony which I can probably
best sum up like this: F*&k 'em if they can't take a joke.
It's a bit of body art. Build a bridge; get over it.
Cheers,
Marc
Noosa Heads, Oz
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