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Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Madolah on April 19, 2008, 04:22:38 pm
So I've been thinking whether or not i should get my ears gaged or not. I had my ears pierced normally before but there healed over now, and im not really wanting to have to slowly stretch from an regular 18gage to what i want (maybe a 6 or 4 at the biggest) so should i get it pierced at like a 12 or 14 starting? I dont want lightsaber things either so what alternatives can be used to stretch it. . . Ive got mixed responses from IRL friends who think i should or shouldn't..

also what are the precautions to having them? if you take them out will they heal over or will there be a hole in my ear forever? how long after getting the ears pierced should i wait till i start stretching?



basically i want between:

(http://picnic.ciao.com/uk/1579586.jpg)

and

(http://www.piercology.com/albums/album13/07_ear_stretching.thumb.jpg)




As of now i only have my Right eyebrow pierced i had my ears regularly pierced and my left cartilage on my ear done a long while ago . . .

So should i or not?








And to keep on General, Do any of you GW'rs have Ear's gauged? if so how big? have any of you ever thought on getting it done?
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Sredni Vashtar on April 19, 2008, 04:40:29 pm
could you post some better pics? i don't know if it's the quality or what but we can't so much see your ear piercings as  the fact that you "get mad chicks"
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Madolah on April 19, 2008, 04:53:26 pm
I dont have my ears pierced anymore im thinking on getting them gauged and i want suggestions on if i should or not?
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: something bizarre and impractical on April 19, 2008, 04:59:35 pm
Why do you want them pierced?

Because you think they will look cool? If yes, then why are you asking us? STOP JUDGING YOURSELF ON THE OPINIONS OF OTHER PEOPLE.

If no then tell us why.

more pix of girls
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Sredni Vashtar on April 19, 2008, 05:16:49 pm
don't get them gauged they would look gay as hell on you
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Von Woofen on April 19, 2008, 05:32:46 pm
gauged ears look stupid on everybody. a lot of piercings are pretty cool but you are guaranteed to look like a jackass with gauged ears. id say just get your ears pierced and leave it at that
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Madolah on April 19, 2008, 05:56:50 pm
Quote from: Von Woofen on April 19, 2008, 05:32:46 pm
gauged ears look stupid on everybody. a lot of piercings are pretty cool but you are guaranteed to look like a jackass with gauged ears. id say just get your ears pierced and leave it at that

had them done before along with cartilage of left ear . . .

If i was to get them pierced it would be gauged, but i assure you i wouldnt be huge gauges they would be 2g at the biggest :/


also its not i want them done but i worry about what others think,  but its the fact some people mentioned i should do it and when i think on it and ask some others i get questioned on why i would or how well it would look on me :/


im not sure...
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Mince Wobley on April 19, 2008, 06:35:36 pm
It looks horrible, don't do it.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Death Gulp on April 19, 2008, 06:53:04 pm
I don't think you should get them honestly, i dont think they look very good.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: something bizarre and impractical on April 19, 2008, 06:55:51 pm
im going to gauge my ears so huge
i wanna gauge them big
so i can put my cat in them and wear my cat as earings
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Fatboys #4 on April 19, 2008, 09:08:40 pm
Um. You can get them pierced at a 6 or a 4 instead of wasting a lot of time. I got mine pierced at 6 not too long ago. I plan on going a little bigger, but not too much. Did it hurt? Sure. I'm pain tolerant though and the pain doesn't even last that long.

(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/i2.photobucket.com/albums/y45/surfer4987/Picture034.webp)

For reference of a 6. Sorry for not resizing haha.

And why don't you decide for yourself if you want to do that. You're the one who has to go to the place and get pierced and has to wear it and shit. Do something or not because YOU want to and not because everybody else wouldn't like it. Just ask yourself is that something you want to do and wear. Nothing else matters besides your fucking opinion. Fuck everybody else. Who are they?
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: jamie on April 19, 2008, 09:13:24 pm
this is the worst thing don't do it
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: bonermobile on April 19, 2008, 09:19:48 pm
anything bigger than a 4 or a 6 looks really bad
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Drule on April 19, 2008, 09:24:22 pm
wow those are some babes
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: something bizarre and impractical on April 19, 2008, 09:27:14 pm
Quote from: Drule on April 19, 2008, 09:24:22 pm
wow those are some babes
what?
the first one looks like an egotistical wad and the second looks like she mated with a donkey and somehow the donkey fused with her face
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: ThugTears666 on April 19, 2008, 11:17:38 pm
Get black ones not hollow ones that would look cool. I heard sometimes if you dont clean them well they are smelly and pussy so be careful of that.

Yeah they closeup and you just have small lines on your ear lobe or maybe even smaller. I'd say think about it for the next month or so and if you still want to do it then go for it.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Vellfire on April 20, 2008, 12:39:56 am
do it then hang tamagotchis off of them and when they beep at you overreact and rip them out of your ears to care for them
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: headphonics on April 20, 2008, 01:04:18 am
i like them, sometimes.  a lot of them look stupid, but some of the hollow ones, and the solid ones too, look pretty cool.  it's kind of gross to see a giant hole when you take them out, but just having them in, it can look really good.  like, i think the first photo you posted is pretty cool, but not the second one.  you should do it if you like the way it looks, though; i don't know why you're even asking gw people.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Farren on April 20, 2008, 03:59:39 am
Gauges are pretty gay,  but I understand how some people can pull them off. You can't though...
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Madolah on April 20, 2008, 04:11:06 pm
Quote from: Fatboys #4 on April 19, 2008, 09:08:40 pm
Um. You can get them pierced at a 6 or a 4 instead of wasting a lot of time. I got mine pierced at 6 not too long ago. I plan on going a little bigger, but not too much. Did it hurt? Sure. I'm pain tolerant though and the pain doesn't even last that long.

(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/i2.photobucket.com/albums/y45/surfer4987/Picture034.webp)

For reference of a 6. Sorry for not resizing haha.

And why don't you decide for yourself if you want to do that. You're the one who has to go to the place and get pierced and has to wear it and shit. Do something or not because YOU want to and not because everybody else wouldn't like it. Just ask yourself is that something you want to do and wear. Nothing else matters besides your fucking opinion. Fuck everybody else. Who are they?

Thats like just about exact size i want ! haha


I think i will thnk on it for a few weeks but im like 52/48 on yes/no right now
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: helter skelter on April 20, 2008, 04:16:08 pm
Do it. It'll be a conversational piece when you're an old man. "Well, I asked the internet and..."
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Bobberticus on April 20, 2008, 08:01:53 pm
Quote from: Von Woofen on April 19, 2008, 05:32:46 pm
gauged ears look stupid on everybody. a lot of piercings are pretty cool but you are guaranteed to look like a jackass with gauged ears. id say just get your ears pierced and leave it at that
qft... Very
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Shepperd on April 20, 2008, 08:26:26 pm
do it unless you're a proud man
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Lars on April 20, 2008, 09:58:32 pm
i have no idea what gauges are so i thought maybe you meant having water that's been stuck in your ear for an hour finally pour out of it and how orgasmic that feeling is


anyway sorry mate but those pictures look pretttttty gay
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: the_bub_from_the_pit on April 21, 2008, 04:24:10 am
I've got a better suggestion:




PS. Don't do it.  People with guages look mad gay.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: kermit the toad on April 21, 2008, 05:02:02 am
From the look of your "personal style" in your pictures, I don't think gauged ears really fit your "look." But, if you want to do it...well, do it.

As for whether they'll actually heal on their own if you stop wearing plugs...I think they will if they are only at the smallest gauge. Otherwise, you will need to get a couple of stitches for them to heal if you decide you don't want them anymore.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: unusualgamer on April 21, 2008, 05:05:27 am
I used to want my ears gauged like this:

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b354/unusualgamer/faffffffffffff.jpg)


but, by the time I would have gotten to that size, I'd be too old, and/or lose interest in it.


anyway, for you, I'd say NOT to get your ears gauged, you'd look really terrible with them (no offense)
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Mongoloid on April 21, 2008, 05:24:47 am
I dunno who's opinions youre looking for, mine is that you've already got kind of a feminine thing goin with the eyebrow piercing, but you'll look like a huge asshole with gaged ears. Body mods are one thing, but gaged ears are disgusting and you really have to think about what you will look like without the pieces in. Unless you plan on never taking them out ever again.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Maximo on April 21, 2008, 05:50:19 am
I dunno. Anything smaller than 6 or maybe 4 on some people is gross. I know this guy Tyler who always is at the same parties as me and he's got 5/8 (smaller than 0). They look really goofy especially since he just has the black wheels that stretch the hole out lol. But last night I had to gauge my friends ear from a 10 to a six, and immediately afterwards went to prom with her while simultaneously hiding it from her best friend.

How weird is that hahaha
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: headphonics on April 21, 2008, 07:17:55 am
Yeah, I just looked at your photos in the picture thread, and I'm going to have to retract my previous statement of YEAH SURE WHY NOT and replace it with the advice that it's not a look everyone can pull off, and I don't think you'd be able to!  Do it if you want, but I don't think it'd match what seems to be your current look at all.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: YourHero on April 21, 2008, 01:13:26 pm
if you have to ask- dont do it
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Mama Luigi on April 21, 2008, 01:33:54 pm
do it you will feel good/cool (the most important thing) afterwards
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Fatboys #4 on April 21, 2008, 06:59:58 pm
Quote from: Mr Epic Hero on April 21, 2008, 01:33:54 pm
do it you will feel good/cool (the most important thing) afterwards

Or prehaps being a smartass on the internet and making judgemental comments and putting down other people is the thing that makes you feel good/cool?



5/8ths is the biggest size you can stretch to and still have it heal naturally. Anything after that, you'll need surgery to correct.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Mama Luigi on April 21, 2008, 08:34:59 pm
Quote from: Fatboys #4 on April 21, 2008, 06:59:58 pm
Or prehaps being a smartass on the internet and making judgemental comments and putting down other people is the thing that makes you feel good/cool?
well what reasons can you come up with to spend money on sticking a piece of bone, horn, amber, glass, etc through your body

because apparently (as your post leads me to believe) there are reasons other than that it makes one "fit in" and feel good about an otherwise shallow and superficial existance

also I realize I'm trolling pretty bad here but he called me out on it so
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: something bizarre and impractical on April 21, 2008, 09:11:40 pm
Quote from: Mr Epic Hero on April 21, 2008, 08:34:59 pm
well what reasons can you come up with to spend money on sticking a piece of bone, horn, amber, glass, etc through your body

because apparently (as your post leads me to believe) there are reasons other than that it makes one "fit in" and feel good about an otherwise shallow and superficial existance

also I realize I'm trolling pretty bad here but he called me out on it so

Before I post I should state that I do have piercings as I feel this is pretty relevant and definitely affects my opinion.

Thinking back, when I got my eyebrow pierced, I think I mainly did it for that reason. I wanted to fit in with my friends who all had piercings. Now (at 4, I had 5 but I took one out because it was annoying; labret) I'm still interested in getting more piercings even though I don't really hangout with anyone that much anymore. It is aesthetics. The same as every person who puts on makeup, or continually cuts their hair a certain way, or dresses in a certain style. It has become--in a sense--mine. I create the character that I wish to present to the world, and that character has piercings. Albeit, piercings may seem a little more 'extreme' than makeup and so my analogy may not be accepted on that basis, but I don't feel they are really all that wild or far off, especially when you weigh the fact many girls will apply makeup continually to themselves for aesthetic reasons for most of their lives--at a monetary cost far higher than a piercing which may only need to be done once.

Is it superficial? Perhaps. But this is a body which will inevitably decay and wear down and I choose to decorate it with ornaments.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Fatboys #4 on April 21, 2008, 11:53:41 pm
Alright, I'll do my best to open your mind.

First off, exactly what is wrong with doing something that makes you feel good? My God, This is our only existence and we should treat is as such. Not by being confined by our mortality, but about accepting it and doing what the fuck you want before the final day comes. I'd rather fill my life with things that make me feel good (Like skating, or surfing, or making music) than missing out on them because I think the only reason I do it is because it makes me feel good. Things only exist as you perceive them. Are you suggesting we give up our hobbies and not do things that make us feel good to be depressed all the time? I'm not sure what you mean.

And fitting in is kind of a highschool mentality. I'm sure there are people who aren't in highschool who are still insecure about where they stand and who they hangout with, but it's really a jouvenile concept. I don't do things because so and so does them, I don't care about all the fucking drama that transpires from that. I do things because I want to. I straighten my hair because I think I look better/more attractive than when I do not. Gives me even more confidence. I don't lose that confidence when it is not straightened because I feel I have a very open minded and humorous personality, but I have preferences (as do you and everybody else.)

Now, I got my ears pierced like this for a few reasons. I have always wanted to get piercings, something to match my face and style. Traditional hoops weren't my thing and neither were diamond studs. With this alternative, I feel  it expresses more of who I am. Not by blindly following a growing trend in a certain group of people, but by having something non-traditional but still looks good. You've got more options of what you want to display depending on your style instead of just a hoop or a stud. I like wearing the color black because it matches well with my complexion, but I don't think black hoops would do it. So I ventured off to the parlor to get it done. It also is a kind of life experience, a sort of bond or fraternity in a way with other people who have done it and understand. It does hurt, a lot and after it's over you get kind of a rush. It's a kind of journey or something, to go in willingly and accept pain and have a hole punched in you. It symbolizes a few of the things in my past and how it made me hurt and how it is always a part of me. I'm not concerned whether you buy it or not because it is something that only I need to understand and if you don't, that's okay.

I just hope you don't think you know everything about everyone simply by their superficiality as you have put it because it makes YOU a shallow person. A rational contradiction.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Mama Luigi on April 22, 2008, 01:09:07 am
fatboys you have changed my opinion on this topic entirely and I want to thank you for changing my opinion on people who get piercings

it is now evident to me that no one gets piercings for superficial reasons (and thanks to your ironic logic, also evident that I am a very shallow person for thinking otherwise)

also I think it is important to let you know that your personal experience has offered much insight to me... putting holes in your body is an experience... a rush if you will. I actually think I'm going to go get a few piercings and put ornaments on me so people better understand my deep and complex existance. it's an important journey, and others will know once they see my pretty decorations that i am indeed an important person
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Fatboys #4 on April 22, 2008, 01:14:53 am
I feel my work here is done. I'm proud of you young grasshopper.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Shepperd on April 22, 2008, 06:31:04 am
Quote from: Fatboys #4 on April 21, 2008, 11:53:41 pm
Alright, I'll do my best to open your mind.

First off, exactly what is wrong with doing something that makes you feel good? My God, This is our only existence and we should treat is as such. Not by being confined by our mortality, but about accepting it and doing what the fuck you want before the final day comes. I'd rather fill my life with things that make me feel good (Like skating, or surfing, or making music) than missing out on them because I think the only reason I do it is because it makes me feel good. Things only exist as you perceive them. Are you suggesting we give up our hobbies and not do things that make us feel good to be depressed all the time? I'm not sure what you mean.
Point of this paragraph: So when you see your earplug you smile and feel good!!
Quote from: Fatboys #4 on April 21, 2008, 11:53:41 pm
And fitting in is kind of a highschool mentality. I'm sure there are people who aren't in highschool who are still insecure about where they stand and who they hangout with, but it's really a jouvenile concept. I don't do things because so and so does them, I don't care about all the fucking drama that transpires from that. I do things because I want to. I straighten my hair because I think I look better/more attractive than when I do not. Gives me even more confidence. I don't lose that confidence when it is not straightened because I feel I have a very open minded and humorous personality, but I have preferences (as do you and everybody else.)
y'know, hair is a shitty anagram. Hair came with you since before you came out of yo momma uterus.
You HAVE to deal with your hair, somehow.. unless you got some disease.
Quote from: Fatboys #4 on April 21, 2008, 11:53:41 pm
Now, I got my ears pierced like this for a few reasons. I have always wanted to get piercings, something to match my face and style. Traditional hoops weren't my thing and neither were diamond studs. With this alternative, I feel  it expresses more of who I am.
ok allow me to laugh a bit
HAHA
right, a piece of material(note: it didn't come with you) stuck in your ear SOMEHOW EXPRESSES YOU MORE.
How?
how?how?how?how?how?how?how?how?how?how?how?how?how?how?how?how?
Maybe "I've got my dead momma's ring stuck in my ear" would make more sense, symbolism yeah!
How about, I got this rare metal my dad found the day a croc ate him in my ear, ok then I would give you the reason.
But no, man it is some boring round thing stuck there and to make matters worse, it stretches a disgusting hole.
I am sorry, I don't see how you get expressed in better ways.
Oh wait, I just got it: it expresses you in the sense that you are PRO-EAR GAUGING DUDE.
and that's that.
big deal you could just have told me, no need of a plug there to let me know.
Quote from: Fatboys #4 on April 21, 2008, 11:53:41 pm
Not by blindly following a growing trend in a certain group of people, but by having something non-traditional but still looks good.
Don't feel special, it is not non-traditional by now.
If you wanted to be non-traditional you could start BY HAVING A NON-TRENDY CHARACTER OF YOUR OWN. I already got you stereotyped: "fatboys #4 belongs to the group of people who dig plugs in their earlobes". Is this prejudice? I don't think so, you actually have a plug there. I do start coming out with conclusions though. A guy with a plug? hmm, there is a little cry for attention in him even if he denies it. That's what I think.
Quote from: Fatboys #4 on April 21, 2008, 11:53:41 pm
You've got more options of what you want to display depending on your style instead of just a hoop or a stud. I like wearing the color black because it matches well with my complexion, but I don't think black hoops would do it. So I ventured off to the parlor to get it done. It also is a kind of life experience, a sort of bond or fraternity in a way with other people who have done it and understand.
Life experience? You're killing me. There's a whole fucking lot more to life than earplug. "Yeah... I KNOW.. HOW IT.. FEELS LIKE!! TO HAVE A HOLE IN MY EAR" You win 300 exp points.
No, seriously, what did you win? Morality? Coolness? Valor? Sacrifice?
I am of those people that don't understand!! I must be missing a big thing of life!
Quote from: Fatboys #4 on April 21, 2008, 11:53:41 pm
It does hurt, a lot and after it's over you get kind of a rush. It's a kind of journey or something, to go in willingly and accept pain and have a hole punched in you.
OH THE PURE THRILL!
That's where you invested your 300 exp points?
I dunno, haven't you EVER GOT HURT BEFORE?
NEVER FELT WHAT PAIN IS LIKE?
If that's so, maybe that would make sense.
Otherwise, where's the journey?
Oh it is because you are looking for it, you're looking for the pain.
Well then something's fucking wrong with you, PAIN ARE SIGNALS FROM YOUR BRAIN TELLING YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING FUCKING WRONG WITH YOUR BODY!
Quote from: Fatboys #4 on April 21, 2008, 11:53:41 pm
It symbolizes a few of the things in my past and how it made me hurt and how it is always a part of me. I'm not concerned whether you buy it or not because it is something that only I need to understand and if you don't, that's okay.
No I don't buy it at all, because I'm a proud man, therefore I don't get it.
Proud, because I am ok with my body and the hostile environment my body and mind constantly bumps with.
Alright you had a hard life, so fucking what? More pain? Ok I'm trying to understand feelings, which are the most part irrational.
So I conclude, you plugged a round ornament into your earlobe based on irrational justifications or expectations.
You won't expect me to be able to explain your dig for earplugs because I'm trying to find a rational explanation and you can only give a justification based on feelings.
To exteriorize your eh.. pain.. thru an earplug is not what I would call the sanest way to deal with depression or whatever shitty situation you've gone thru (if this is the sole reason why you got an earplug, which I frankly doubt).
Quote from: Fatboys #4 on April 21, 2008, 11:53:41 pm
I just hope you don't think you know everything about everyone simply by their superficiality as you have put it because it makes YOU a shallow person. A rational contradiction.
BUT I DON'T THINK I KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE AN EARPLUG!!
I do come out with some hypothetical conclusions about your persona, and I don't pretend to be right but I mostly believe in my first impresions open-mindedly.
Take note, the decision of having an earplug is not supeficial.
It is not like I go "oh look, that guy has an earplug.. eww.. stupid guy"
I rather go "oh look, that guy has an earplug.. why the fuck did he took that decision?"
That decision comes from the inside of a man, and that, my friend, is not superficial at all, it is introspective at its best.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: ThugTears666 on April 22, 2008, 06:42:55 am
cant we just say

"I like it, I like the way it looks and I feel good about having it". WHO THE FUCK CARES WHAT PEOPLES REASONS ARE

Some people morally dont like piercings or whatever and some do. So what.

also shep your against this stuff i take? (merely curious)

Quote
ok allow me to laugh a bit
HAHA
right, a piece of material(note: it didn't come with you) stuck in your ear SOMEHOW EXPRESSES YOU MORE.
How?
how?how?how?how?how?how?how?how?how?how?how?how?how?how?how?how?

also yeah he is wanking on about it ALOT but sometimes pieces of material do express people wether they are disgusting holes or not...

for example clothes...i guess his earings just express his style or whatever
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Shepperd on April 22, 2008, 08:49:37 am
yeah I'm against earings.
Ideally I'm against it on women too, but I'm openminded about it.
also against piercings and tats.
I'm a purist in terms of superficial alteration of the body.

Whereas clothes does not alter your body plus have a operative function. Whether it has this cool design is just killing 2 birds with one stone.

to be fair, I understand how those plugs/earings/piercings help express people.
It is just that I find the justification too stupid.
That's why I ask HOW? it helps expression, because I deny accepting such ridiculous explanation.
To expand, it is ridiculous because the whole idea that a little piece of something attached to your body is supposed to cry the world your discomfort? twisted taste for aestethics? defiance? abnormality? uniqueness? your oh style?
HOW CHEAP IS THAT
really

and just the fact you go through a process of pain is a whole pack of bullshit sold to you making believe that it is all a whole lot more real.
Because pain makes you feel alive, like you're really doing something important. It alleviates.
Alleviates my balls, get a fix in your perception of reality.
there are cheaper and much more effective ways of expressions and they dont leave scars.

Where is the bonus you get by having a style that includes an earplug?
What puzzles me is that drive towards it, because I never got that desire at all, I got repulsion instead.
I'm thinking hard, what if I have one, what if this and that, and just see the pointlessness of it all.

It must be the defiance, it must be that desire to be polemic and call for attention and get those weary looks, like I'm just doing right now...
well whatever I'm sleepy now and am ranting off my head without a fine line
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: ThugTears666 on April 22, 2008, 09:02:14 am
Fair enough really I guess thats your perogative.


His reasoning was pretty OVERTHETOP IMO.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Frisky SKeleton on April 22, 2008, 09:16:58 am
in my experiences ear guages look best on kinda gnarly guys with awful skin because it makes it look like their goal was to look that way.

most other people look better without them (or rather, looked better). i was going to mention JOB PROSPECTS but you've already got the eyebrow. i guess that's easier to cover though
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Fatboys #4 on April 22, 2008, 02:24:07 pm
Well I just made up a bunch of bullshit to get your mind thinking, "Hey maybe people do shit for other reasons (even if they are fucking crazy." If you find something one way, good for you. But it doesn't mean you have to go release your angst and hatred for it simply because it's something you don't like because EVERYONE HAS A MIND OF THEIR FUCKING OWN EACH WITH ITS OWN SEPARATE INTERESTS. Get used to it and don't think your way of doing something is right or superior. Congratulations, you have an opinion on a matter.

Seriously, I hold people here usually intelligent and creative, but you can't even begin to accept to fathom of something different. Coexist. For real.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: something bizarre and impractical on April 22, 2008, 02:28:30 pm
Well, I disagree with some of Fatboy's reasonings, but I'll chime in again. About hair being a poor comparison because we are born with it: I agree to the extent that it is impractical to do nothing with it, but a lot of people (mostly women) will spend a large amount of time on their hair for purely aesthetic reasons. There is no practical advantage to spending that much time on your hair, unless you are counting some sort of social benefit which isn't necessarily absent when speaking of piercings either. It seems to me like you have some deeper grudge against body alteration than anything else, but the only really argument I can see from you is "Why do it?" Which is fair as there should be some sort of reasoning behind anyone's actions. Again, I did it at the start to conform mostly to my group of friends. They had piercings, so I got piercings, and we were bonded on some level by that. But, I've grown beyond that. I get piercings, and tattoos, because again, this is the character that I choose to show to the world. It is mostly an aesthetic thing, yes, but I do not understand what is wrong with that. The justification that it shouldn't be done, because you are not born with it doesn't really work, especially when you seem less averse to it for women. You would also need to be against things like makeup, braces (excluding omg my teeth are killing me; much of braces are done for this reason), women shaving their legs, hair dye, jewelry... I mean, the list really just goes on. And in 99% of cases these are for aesthetic reasons. And you say that it's "killing two birds with one stone" for clothes, but really the most practical thing would be to just buy 20 pairs of pants and 20 shirts and walk out with that. Which, I highly doubt you do. I mean, you might, but given your argument I doubt it. It sounds to me like you have some sort of negative emotional response to the idea of piercings that isn't founded on any sort of rational argument. You throw away the idea that our bodies can be a sort of art and say you are against the idea that we pierce or modify them in any way. This is tantamount, at least I feel, to "I don't think anyone should pierce..." And the important word there is SHOULD, because now you are getting away from aesthetics ("I don't think that looks good") and into ethics ("I am against the idea that anyone should do that"), yet you do so blindly and without providing any sort of ethical foundation to your argument. The only ethical implications I can pull out of what you said are terribly inconsistent.

Sorry for the WALLOFTEXT.

Questions to answer if you feel like it:

[1] What is your ethical basis for people not piercing themselves?
[2] Why are you more open to it on women than men?
[3] Should we only focus on the practical, and never on aesthetics?

Oh, also I don't think their hurt that much.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: YourHero on April 23, 2008, 06:30:12 pm
WOW
so much discussion for a simple decision!
just get a small one (the only decent looking ones) and let it grow in if you dont like it.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Goji on April 23, 2008, 09:12:40 pm
10000000th points to soup for  wasting his time typing all that.

this isn't convincing YOU to get one, its the dude who made the topic's (sorry i'm too lazy to look fuck intanet)

but seriously its cool if you wanna get them guaged. even at 0 (wha i have) they're not big  at all and i have no complainsts. its body modification. some people like it and some don't. if you don't don't go about complaining about how ugly it is, people like it and if you dont, deal

i dont really agree with the guy claiming its like a journey or some shit, its jsut something i do for fun and i don't really care what people think, a lot of people like it or else they've learned to accept it.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Shepperd on April 24, 2008, 05:14:16 am
Quote from: Goji on April 23, 2008, 09:12:40 pm
this isn't convincing YOU to get one, its the dude who made the topic's
no shit
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Tensuke on April 24, 2008, 11:41:30 pm
Quote from: Fatboys #4 on April 22, 2008, 02:24:07 pm
Seriously, I hold people here usually intelligent and creative,

On GW? Seriously?
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Obi-Won Kenobi on April 28, 2008, 06:57:14 pm
mine were pierced/punched too a 10, don't wast time gauging them it will just hurt more.

and yeah i just got mine to look cool but whatever.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Ryan on April 28, 2008, 10:12:27 pm
guys who wear sunglasses on the top of their head have no business getting ear gauges
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: The Milkman on April 28, 2008, 11:55:58 pm
I was going to get ear guages but my mom was said she'd rather me get a tatoo over it so I said ok.
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: Farren on April 29, 2008, 12:35:09 am
Guys I want to get my cock pierced and wear a bunch of bells and shit on it so I jingle when I walk Y/N?
Title: Ear Gauging
Post by: FQGamer on May 03, 2008, 05:31:51 pm
i got 00. i hope to go larger but they get expensive. my last 3 sizes i got from somebody who went bigger already.