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10.0.0.1

Well, the language is lacking here. Instead of "more unique" perhaps one should say "unique in more ways". As was pointed out DNA is unique. However if one person is unique in DNA but a second person is unique in DNA and is the only person in the world with 7 hands, could the latter not be considered "more" unique due to bothe the number of unique atributes and their extreme nature?

Reckless Insight

Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!

What job do you do? I work in an office but I make it clear that hiring me includes hiring my (varying in length) blue-black hair. And my complete lack of day-to-day dress sense.

WHAT?!?! No Ric Romero yet? I'm so disappointed.

I do not make it clear that working for me means looking presentable, I simply look for the next person.

vastrightwing

Just so long as you know you're passing over some good people for trivial reasons, that's fine.

That is totally !

tshauk

You'd be suprised at some of the tongue-pierced women out there that barely suck any penis at all.

/not bitter.

Sadly, I only recently learned from my husband that my lower back tattoo has gained the moniker of "tramp stamp" ... Don't you hate it when you are an early adopter of something that later gains so much popularity that others apply a name to generalize the people doing it? On the other hand, I was pretty much a tramp in the early 90's so I guess I had that coming ...

I brought my first girlfriend to Thanksgiving dinner once and my family noticed her tongue piercing. My mom tried to make me promise I'd never get one. This is after I already had 3 tattoos, a nose piercing and a navel piercing. She was more bothered by the piercings than the tattoos, for some odd reason.

Anyway, I can't get my tongue pierced even if I wanted to. The stringy thing under the tongue that holds it in place reaches all the way to the end of my tongue. When I first kissed my husband he thought I kissed wierd because I can't stick my tongue out of my mouth!

Body mods, tats=attention whoring of the highest order.

Ah....piercings.

The current "in" way to express one's unique individuality by doing precisely the same thing everybody else is doing.....

/Wonders what tribe all the "tribal" tattoos come from
//Don't get me started on the kanji tattoo idiots

Yay, all the morons are cming out of the woodwork with their "piercing doesn't make you unique!" bullcrap.

Why does it have to? What's wrong with just liking the way piercings or tattoos make you look?

I don't have either but I'm tired of this bullshiat.

Gothnet - I work for a webhost atm, though that may be changing soon. I love the freedom this job allows, but the pay is not where I would like to be. They didn't actually have me change anything about the way I looked, but I was getting desperate before the interview for this place came along.

I may actually be getting into law enforcement soon. In which case I'll keep my hair short and piercing out at least while on duty just to be practical. I would hate it if some idiot tried to start a fight and ended up ripping out a nipple ring.

Either way, I'm probably going to stretch them back out at least for my off time.

Gothnet

All this wisdom on being unique and not trendy from someone with "goth" in their UID.

soze: Not to mention that a piercer who knows wtf they're doing doesn't hit the muscle.


That's a neat trick, considering the tongue IS a muscle.

Her doctors diagnosed trigeminal neuralgia, a nerve disorder sometimes called "suicide disease" because of the excruciating and dispiriting pain it causes.


Hmmm... Suicide Disease, yeah that's something I'd voluntarily jump into. Sounds like a blast.

TTIWWP

/wants to see tattoo pics
//don't have digital camera handy to do mine

70 comments and no pics of the guy from Rat Race? I weep for the future
/well, mostly for the kids who get ink/piercings to make them unique
//just like everybody else

Body mods...HAH!
Right knee: 6" scar from operation for shattered kneecap
Right eye: 1/2" scar on upper orbital from hockey stick slash
Left palm: 2" scar from welding inexperience
Left shin: 1/2" diameter scar from gunshot wound
Left forearm: 3" scar from knife wound.

It's kinda like Quint and Hooper comparing shark bites.

ObTroll: Body mods are for people who's lives have been so boring that they aint got no scars.

"I'M SMARTER THAN YOU MAKING ME UNIQUE... BUT SOMEHOW ALSO VOIDING MY PREVIOUS ARGUEMENT."

Dumb asses.

Anyway, piercing's cool with me. I don't care. I had my eyebrow pierced with a nice little piece of jewelery stuck in it because it looked cool. It looked even cooler when it was done, too. Problem was, I couldn't deal with it completely disrupting my sleeping for the first month or so I had it on my face, especially since I sleep like crap as it is. Other than that, I didn't have a problem with the piercing itself.

I didn't get it to be trendy, but I didn't get it for any deep, mystical meaning either. I just got it because it looked good. You guys with your tongue piercings though - why? I don't get it. I know there's this urban legend regarding oral sex attached to it, but as far as I understand it, if you suck at sucking, the rod isn't going to help you anyway. Is there any other reason for having a tongue ring I don't know about?

Oh Romero, where art thou Romero?!?!

I breezed over the subby's headdy and I was like "oh something about r2d2... then I RTFA.

/anyways
// all i gots

/// nuttin'

I used to have a double tongue piercing (10 gauge and 14 gauge). Also had the labret and a few through each ear going up to 8 gauge. I wasn't trying to make a statement, I wasn't trying to be different, or unique. Simply put, I just really like they way they looked on me. I wore them for the same reason some women wake up and put on makeup. But, college is over now, and I'm in the real world, working for "the man". And "the man" doesn't appreciate the aesthetic quality of the metal like I do, so they have all been removed. I like 'em, but not enough to jeapordize my career.

/still have the nipple rings though. REALLY love those.

LoveRBS: Oh Romero, where art thou Romero?!?!

farking winner.

whyerhead: Worst piercing i've ever seen is some woman who had a couple of metal balls sticking out of the back of her neck..



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I had a few earrings in an ear about ten years ago...didn't go any further than that. As a dear friend of mine said to me, "The adult male already has enough holes in his head, why add more?"

Why is it that people automatically assume the pierced and tattooed are trying to be unique?

I got my first piercing just for kicks. From that point on, I was stuck. I'm a youngin, so the whole 90s "get a bunch of piercings and a tattoos" phase had already passed when I got mine. I didn't do it to be unique, or to be like anyone else. I did it cause I thought it looked cool, and didn't carry a huge risk.

nstoppiello: there isn't really any reason for having a tongue piercing other than having a tongue piercing. I don't see why it needs a purpose. It would be great if it shot laser beams and made coffee, but then what would I use the tattoo on my ass for?

always rememeber you're unique.

just like everyone else.

Reckless Insight: nstoppiello: there isn't really any reason for having a tongue piercing other than having a tongue piercing. I don't see why it needs a purpose. It would be great if it shot laser beams and made coffee, but then what would I use the tattoo on my ass for?


Providing target practice? :D

42 is apparently too old to appreciate ink, metal and mods. Oh, and get the hell off my lawn.

I have my piercings cause - well, cause I like them... I've had my tongue pierced for 7 years, and I just got my labret a few months ago.... For my work, I take the jewelry off the labret, and the stud just barely sticks out, and my "soul patch" (aren't I cool now!) covers the stud. My girl has a "Marilyn" piercing that I love. And she got her tongue done the same time I got my labret. As for the oral pleasures, doesn't make a damn bit of difference. She was great before the tongue, and I thought the ring would be mind blowing. It doesnt make a damn bit of difference. And on my end, I think I perform better without the ring than I do with it...

CapeFearCadaver

Piercers can get a permit from their local health board, but there's no professional licensing. As long as my autoclave passes NYS and Albany health code, I could start piercing legally right now.

That's part of the problem; the APP is trying to set up some sort of self-governing oversight modeled on the AMA or the ADA, and it's just not coming together. I think another ten years would help many piercers get over their rock star selves and get to work kicking the hacks out of their profession.

everyone else

The tongue is actually two muscle sections (with a third in the back) bound together with some connective tissue, which is why you have that big long ridge down the middle of the bottom of your tongue.

/don't have an autoclave.
//but man, sometimes it'd be convenient!

PhamNuwen: i never understood why people would deliberately hurt and injure their bodies to insert jewelry.
I never understood why people would deliberately and often permanantly injure thier minds by closing them.

Senator Claghorn: //Don't get me started on the kanji tattoo idiots
Hey, something we can agree on.

To those who said about research first, I can't state this enough, I have a dream catcher tattoo that I got as a solution to horrendous, and I mean horrendous, nightmares. Had been thinking about ink for four years before that. It worked, I don't know if it's psychological, spiritual or other but it works, I don't care. I prefer it to waking up soaked in sweat entangled in the sheets from a nightmare where a second after waking I would have died a very painful and long death in the dream.
But the artwork is not all that great.
I still wouldn't change it.
I've gotten two more since (not dream catchers).

I also have had three piercings, lobe first stretched to 4ga. Hafada next, stretched to 6ga and toungue stretched to 10.
I had to take the ear out for work (fear of injury) the hafada I took out stupidly when we moved to let it breath and lost the jewelry, so I didn't put it back in.
Still got the toungue, I like it, you can't see it, does it work better for oral? Not sure, but my toungue worked just fine without it.
I miss the other two.

Actually, everyone is wonderfully unique in so many ways.

eye yam we told did All this wisdom on being unique and not trendy from someone with "goth" in their UID.

If you actually read myposts you'll find out that I don't claim to be unique, I don't claim piercings or tattoo's make you unique, I don't claim anything makes you unique. I just hate the stupid farking assholes that crawl out of the woodwork and say "X is attention whoring" or "X is trying to be unique by being just like everyone else". It's the most retarded strawman argument in the world.
Goth is not about being a unique flower. Piercings and tats aren't about being a special flower. I do the goth thing because I like the way I look, like the music and (sometimes) like the people I meet. People get piercings and tattoos because they like the pain and the aesthetic. What's so farking difficult about that?

Or should we all wear sackcloth and never wash because anything else would be egotistical and attention whoring?

Back to the article, it took the doctors trying three different pain medications before they reccomended she take out the piece of metal in her mouth. Nice.

IrishBlunder: Left shin: 1/2" diameter scar from gunshot wound
Left forearm: 3" scar from knife wound.
Your mother must be so proud.

/I have no idea where I was going with this.
//Snark!
///Slashies!

I'm waiting with baited breath for brain piercings to become the next hotness. Also brain splitting (as in tongue cutting). Brain piercings and splittings would be REAL fashion statements!

/Only half joking.
//Darwin surrenders.
///ps: true non-conformity is a state of mind, not an external statement made by the uniform de jour.

jillery

I used to have the same tongue issue, where the tissue underneath wouldn't allow me to extend my tongue past my bottom lip. Seems to be genetic because my mother and half sister also have it. As I got older (almost 27 now) I started to have speech and, not surprisingly, self esteem issues. So back in January I went to an oral surgeon and had a relatively inexpensive procedure called a "lingual frenectomy", where about an inch and a half of the tissue was cut out. Insurance paid for most of it and my speech problem is gone. I had a lisp for about a week until the swelling went down but other than that no problems. I *highly* recommend the procedure. I practically live like a nun now so haven't "tried out" the new tongue yet. *cough* Kissing was always a pain in the ass though.

Gothnet: Or should we all wear sackcloth and never wash because anything else would be egotistical and attention whoring?

Sackcloth would be attention whoring, not bathing, well that's just a whole different level.

If you feel the need to get a tattoo or piercing, stop think about how it would really make you look and how it will effect your daily life. If you have done these things and still want to get one, please check yourself into the local ward for treatment for dementia. The fact is that society( to be exact business society) has no place for such things. If you feel the need to be special or unique, come to grips with the fact you are not and get over it.
Just think about the names, "Whale tales"(thongs) and "Ass Antlers"(tattoos right above your butt).