Tattoos & Piercings: Thoughts & Experiences?

[Moonbear]

I do not like piercings at all, I don't find them appealing. Tattoos I don't mind, they just have to be tasteful and not overdone. I don't think I will ever get a tattoo myself because I am not artistic enough to design one myself and don't think I would ever come up with something i would want forever...plus years down the road it would likely look terrible.

I don't mind ear piercings, but don't care for any others. I'm not really even fond of more than one piercing per ear. One SMALL, tasteful tattoo won't bother me too much, but if they cover more than about 2 square inches of skin, I really start to cringe about them. And, those ones that seem to be more indicative of obnoxious attitude rather than something meaningful really bug me...the barbed wire around the arm, the "cut here" dotted line on the wrist...

I don't jump to the conclusion Cyrus does about them being a "tramp" though. My experience being around people with those sorts of tattoos is that a lot of them are actually kind of low in self-esteem and really aren't getting that many dates or "hook ups" because of that lack of self-esteem. The tattoos seem more like a way to appear something they are not to cover up their lack of self-esteem and look tougher.

 

[Danger]

The tattoo that I want to get will never embarrass me. It's my modification of a design that Theodore Sturgeon (I think that it was him, but it might have been one of the other 'golden age' SF writers) used in autograph sessions... a 'Q' with an arrow through it. My modification is that I use a 'balloon' font question mark in chrome yellow with a red arrow through it (pointing to the right). It simply means 'Ask the next question.'
By the way, my piercing was someplace that would be seen only by special invitation, so it definitely wasn't some public display of being someone that I'm not. It just made me feel better about myself, and I really regret that it kept rejecting.

 

[Poop-Loops]

I don't jump to the conclusion Cyrus does about them being a "tramp" though. My experience being around people with those sorts of tattoos is that a lot of them are actually kind of low in self-esteem and really aren't getting that many dates or "hook ups" because of that lack of self-esteem. The tattoos seem more like a way to appear something they are not to cover up their lack of self-esteem and look tougher.

Note to self: get tattoo on lower back.

 

[scorpa]

I don't mind ear piercings, but don't care for any others. I'm not really even fond of more than one piercing per ear. One SMALL, tasteful tattoo won't bother me too much, but if they cover more than about 2 square inches of skin, I really start to cringe about them. And, those ones that seem to be more indicative of obnoxious attitude rather than something meaningful really bug me...the barbed wire around the arm, the "cut here" dotted line on the wrist...

I don't jump to the conclusion Cyrus does about them being a "tramp" though. My experience being around people with those sorts of tattoos is that a lot of them are actually kind of low in self-esteem and really aren't getting that many dates or "hook ups" because of that lack of self-esteem. The tattoos seem more like a way to appear something they are not to cover up their lack of self-esteem and look tougher.

Yeah I didn't really count ear piercings, my ears are pierced, it is pretty much the norm for most women to have them done, I think I got my ears pierced in grade 5 or something like that. I meant piercings like eyebrows, lips, tongue...ect that I find rather revolting. Most of my family members outside of my immediate family have tattoos so they don't really bother me, that and maybe I've spent to much time hanging around motorcycle shops to really notice them that much. I do not like it when people go overboard and get sleeves, or full back tattoos...ect, it looks bad enough on a guy and it looks even worse on a girl.

 

[fileen]

Piercings can cause some the the nastiest and most foul-smelling infections I've encountered in the ER - not to mention the tongue piercings causing thrush. Not fun.

hmm, thrush. Horses get thrush in their feet, its a stinky rotting problem that causes the hoof to fall apart and fill with goop. Is this the same thrush? My boyfriend had a tongue piercing, it grossed me right out. I never even knew he had it at first (he was very discreet) He nailed my tooth with it once while attempting a kiss. Needless to say he did not get the reaction he was hoping for. It took him forever to realize that it was the reason he was not receiving many kisses. He took it out but there's still a hole. I can't imagine poking a hole in my tongue.. ew. He told me to comment that he has had piercings in many places, nipples, eye brows, lips etc. and he claims that none of them hurt.

 

[lisab]

Piercings can cause some the the nastiest and most foul-smelling infections I've encountered in the ER - not to mention the tongue piercings causing thrush. Not fun.

Would that be anaerobic bacteria? Ugh -- GAG! I can't imagine having an infection RIGHT IN MY NOSE...

 

[lisab]

hmm, thrush. Horses get thrush in their feet, its a stinky rotting problem that causes the hoof to fall apart and fill with goop. Is this the same thrush? My boyfriend had a tongue piercing, it grossed me right out. I never even knew he had it at first (he was very discreet) He nailed my tooth with it once while attempting a kiss. Needless to say he did not get the reaction he was hoping for. It took him forever to realize that it was the reason he was not receiving many kisses. He took it out but there's still a hole. I can't imagine poking a hole in my tongue.. ew. He told me to comment that he has had piercings in many places, nipples, eye brows, lips etc. and he claims that none of them hurt.

In humans, thrush is a yeast infection. When a person gets thrush in their mouths, they get a thick white coating on their tongue. It's icky.

I don't know if the thrush that horses get is also a yeast infection.

 

[fileen]

well its black, and it smells super nasty. It is definitely bacterial, it usually happens if a horse stands in wet for too long. Horses that don't go to pasture, or horses that are outside in mud all the time often get it. It is usually cleared up with a product called Koppertox. It could be yeast, now I want to know. Time to ask google...

 

[fileen]

nope, its fusobacterium necrophorum (say that ten times fast) an anaerobic bacteria. However, apparently horses can get yeast infections in their feet.
Well we really do learn something new everyday. I love exam time, it gives me a wonderful excuse to spend my time learning about other stuff...
http://www.betterbebarefoot.com/types_of_hoof_infections.php

Im curious how the hole in the tongue causes this yeast infection? Is there always yeast in our mouths? Also, how do you get rid of it? Can you get it if you don't have a piercing?

 

[Cyrus]

I have to disagree with you on this I am afraid. I think that when people make such judgments (such as judging a homeless person to be crazy) it is due to their ignorance and inability to see beyond themselves. There are lots of people (hint: me) who have had lots of experience volunteering with homeless people, and who have taken the time to educate themselves, who know that most homeless people suffer mental illnesses that render them unable to function in a normal society. Many people understand that homeless people are not crazy, they are however often sick. Most people are able to find compassion and understanding.
You are not talking about first impressions, you're talking about stereotypes. Most people are able to reason beyond a stereotype. (however I've been avoiding blonds since having to deal with my crazy house mate. Shes another one who may be suffering some mental illness, caught her spitting in my shoe... )

She was spitting in your shoes? What the hell?

 

[fileen]

ya I have a strange love for my shoes and she know it. I own dozens of pairs and they are all neatly kept in boxes and treated with the greatest of care. I am particularly fond of high heels. I like how they make my butt look, so I will often pull out a pair that matches my outfit and wear them if I don't have a lot of walking to do. I was in the kitchen when she came home and I had left a pair of purple silk heels at the door. She didnt see me standing in the kitchen and I watched her hork up a big spit ball and leave it in my shoe. I am heart broken. My boyfriend bought me those shoes. He is going to be pretty mad when he hears about it. I may not tell him...

 

[lisab]

nope, its fusobacterium necrophorum (say that ten times fast) an anaerobic bacteria. However, apparently horses can get yeast infections in their feet.
Well we really do learn something new everyday. I love exam time, it gives me a wonderful excuse to spend my time learning about other stuff...
http://www.betterbebarefoot.com/types_of_hoof_infections.php

Im curious how the hole in the tongue causes this yeast infection? Is there always yeast in our mouths? Also, how do you get rid of it? Can you get it if you don't have a piercing?

I only know about it because my daughter had it when she was an infant. It's very, very common in babies (even those without piercings!). As I recall, her pediatrician wasn't too concerned with treating it aggresively. In fact I don't remember her treating it at all! It went away pretty quickly.

 

[lisab]

Oh, and yeah, your roommate is nuts!

 

[fileen]

I kind of feel sorry for her. For example, she is clearly jealous.. but of what I can't imagine... She has this great hot body, long blond hair etc. So I've collected some shoes, big deal!

 

[Poop-Loops]

Find something she likes and spit in it, too.

You say she has a good body? Spit on it when she's asleep. That'll show her.

 

[fileen]

hahaha I don't have it in me to be mean. I believe in Karma. I don't need to screw her, she's screwed herself by surrounding herself and poisoning the people around her with negativity. Its just a little spit, I cleaned it with some dish soap and water. Haha, she probably regretted the impulse the moment she got close enough to the shoe to get a whiff of stinky foot! I also made my presence known immediately after, so I imagine she's embarrassed. We have many of the same friends, and though I am not a blabber mouth, I certainly haven't kept her behavior a secret.

 

[chaoseverlasting]

If a girl has a tattoo on her lower back, multiply the number of guys she said she has slept with by 10.

Thats just stupid.

 

[fileen]

I agree, how many people wander around declaring the number of people they have slept with? How does that topic of conversation even come up, "so, uh, how many people have you had sexual intercourse with?" that's just crazy. I think I would probably laugh in a persons face if they thought to ask me something like that!

 

[tribdog]

I agree, how many people wander around declaring the number of people they have slept with? How does that topic of conversation even come up, "so, uh, how many people have you had sexual intercourse with?" that's just crazy. I think I would probably laugh in a persons face if they thought to ask me something like that!

How can you laugh in someone's face when you are bent over and facing away from them so they can see your tramp stamp.
Sorry, just kidding, didn't mean it, just a joke.

 

[fileen]

I don't have one, and I generally don't bend over allowing people a clear view of my bottom. I also don't wear those crazy low rider jeans that allow the world to see ones personal bits. I find they often just push all the jiggly bits from around a womans hips up and over the pants leaving a ring of fat around the pants line. As a result a perfectly healthy woman looks like she's wearing a life preserver. If I did have a tattoo it wouldn't be where just anyone could see it. If I happened to be bent over with my butt facing a person when they ask me how many people I've slept with I think I may actually have to cause them some physical pain.

 

[lisab]

As a result a perfectly healthy woman looks like she's wearing a life preserver.

That unflattering look is called a "muffin top"

 

[fileen]

haha that's a good one, I myself like the comfy and pleasantly geeky corduroy pants with lots of stretch. No muffin top for me

 

[fileen]

Im not sure I know what you are talking about, however I am aslo pretty sure I would rather not know.

 

[vincentm]

Yes.

Exactly the sarcastic rhetoric i was expecting..

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Exactly the sarcastic rhetoric i was expecting.

I wasn't expecting this sarcastic rhetoric.

 

[Cyrus]

I wasn't expecting this sarcastic rhetoric.

Me either!

 

[Cyrus]

I don't have one, and I generally don't bend over allowing people a clear view of my bottom. I also don't wear those crazy low rider jeans that allow the world to see ones personal bits. I find they often just push all the jiggly bits from around a womans hips up and over the pants leaving a ring of fat around the pants line. As a result a perfectly healthy woman looks like she's wearing a life preserver. If I did have a tattoo it wouldn't be where just anyone could see it. If I happened to be bent over with my butt facing a person when they ask me how many people I've slept with I think I may actually have to cause them some physical pain.

You sound like a very boring person. Now bend over in your low cut jeans so I can see your tramp stamp.

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Apparently in South Carolina tattooing is banned at least according to Maury?

They tried fighting it before the supreme court as a breech of the right to free expresion on the basis it was an art, tried and failed. But it is an art form, a canvas is a canvas, no matter how you might think that it is wrong to tattoo yourself, it takes a long time to become proficient, and the best artists are extremely skilled. Personally I think they have a point, although I wouldn't personally get a tattoo to save my life; but it's a persons choice about what they want to wear, what they want to wear permanently and therefore what they put on themselves, be it art or otherwise.

Still you can always move to all the states around SC and get it done there just across the border. So I'm not sure what exactly this law is meant to do?

 

[Moonbear]

Apparently in South Carolina tattooing is banned at least according to Maury?

They tried fighting it before the supreme court as a breech of the right to free expresion on the basis it was an art, tried and failed. But it is an art form, a canvas is a canvas, no matter how you might think that it is wrong to tattoo yourself, it takes a long time to become proficient, and the best artists are extremely skilled. Personally I think they have a point, although I wouldn't personally get a tattoo to save my life; but it's a persons choice about what they want to wear, what they want to wear permanently and therefore what they put on themselves, be it art or otherwise.

Still you can always move to all the states around SC and get it done there just across the border. So I'm not sure what exactly this law is meant to do?

Probably a public health concern. Even in states where there are regulations in place licensing parlors and ensuring they use proper sterile techniques, it's hard for the customer to know if the place they've walked into is legit or not, or they're cutting corners, etc. Maybe they had too much of a problem with unsanitary practices and spread of infection that it was easier to shut down all the places than try to go around inspecting and licensing the ones who did things right.

 

[lisab]

So I'm not sure what exactly this law is meant to do?

Its purpose is to allow those with a proclivity to get into another person's business the opportunity to do so.

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Probably a public health concern. Even in states where there are regulations in place licensing parlors and ensuring they use proper sterile techniques, it's hard for the customer to know if the place they've walked into is legit or not, or they're cutting corners, etc. Maybe they had too much of a problem with unsanitary practices and spread of infection that it was easier to shut down all the places than try to go around inspecting and licensing the ones who did things right.

Yeah see in this case the guy was pretty much up for licensing and practising to ensure that tattooing was done professionally and safely, but it seems SC weren't up for that either. I can see the health concerns maybe a valid reason, but since people are going to go out of state and perhaps indulge in un-safe quazi legal tattooing, I don't see why they are so anti tattooing. Seems like it's more to do with prejudice than reason I think. I mean I'm prejudiced against tattooing myself, but not against it done in a safe environment for those who choose to; It's their body; just like you can't regulate against stupidity, you can't regulate against art - whatever it may be - just because you don't like it.

 

[devil-fire]

I'd like to get a tattoo but I'm tight on cash at the moment. A guy I used to know (he has since gone to jail for selling cocaine) had a philosophy about tattoos that seems vary sound to me. It was something in the lines of "I'm going to have this same hide until I die go I might as well make it look good. By the time my tattoos are old and all wrinkly and look like crap, I expect I'll be looking like crap in general for being 40 or 50 years old, so I've got nothing to lose".

I don't think of a tattoo as something somebody wears, like a shirt or hat, it is a part of their body. Having a good tattoo can be as attractive as a 6 pack of abs, just the same as a bad tattoo can be like an unsightly wart.

 

[Moonbear]

Yeah see in this case the guy was pretty much up for licensing and practising to ensure that tattooing was done professionally and safely, but it seems SC weren't up for that either. I can see the health concerns maybe a valid reason, but since people are going to go out of state and perhaps indulge in un-safe quazi legal tattooing, I don't see why they are so anti tattooing. Seems like it's more to do with prejudice than reason I think. I mean I'm prejudiced against tattooing myself, but not against it done in a safe environment for those who choose to; It's their body; just like you can't regulate against stupidity, you can't regulate against art - whatever it may be - just because you don't like it.

Seems it's been legal for a few years now, with regulation for infection control.
http://www.everytattoo.com/southcarolinalaw.shtml

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Seems it's been legal for a few years now, with regulation for infection control.
http://www.everytattoo.com/southcarolinalaw.shtml

Ah democracy in action, must of been an old show.

 

[fileen]

You sound like a very boring person. Now bend over in your low cut jeans so I can see your tramp stamp.

Perhaps I am boring.. that doesn't bother me too much. I don't think I am boring though, I just like a little mystery. I love my body just the way it is, and I don't think that just anyone should have the right to look at it. Theres not much else that I can really say is mine.

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Perhaps I am boring.. that doesn't bother me too much. I don't think I am boring though, I just like a little mystery. I love my body just the way it is, and I don't think that just anyone should have the right to look at it. Theres not much else that I can really say is mine.

No I think I'm quite shy about my body always have been, if that's boring so be it: I am boring.

 

[fileen]

I don't think its boring, I think its exciting! If you walk around in the nearly naked all the time, then everyone knows what youve got, but if you keep it to yourself...

 

[lisab]

I don't think its boring, I think its exciting! If you walk around in the nearly naked all the time, then everyone knows what youve got, but if you keep it to yourself...

I think you're right, fileen, but only to an extent. I don't know of many males who get perked up looking at women in, say, burkas .

 

[fileen]

Who needs males? Mine doesn't seem to mind. Love yourself and other people will be forced to do the same

 

[tribdog]

Love yourself and other people will be forced to do the same

really? I don't see the connection. You can love yourself all you want and it has no bearing what so ever on how I feel about you.

 

[fileen]

but you are not exposed to me, only impersonally on the internet. In fact, you don't even know my name, my mannerisms, my likes or dislikes. Its not the same. I think it only works for the people you surround yourself with, I also don't think it works for everyone. I am sure there are people who hate me (I live in blissful ignorance of who or why) but I like to think that most people around me love me. Perhaps it is more related to having a positive attitude than anything else. As a general rule though, I prefer happy bubbly fun people, to unhappy unfriendly non-fun people

 

[fileen]

I also prefer boring appropriately dressed people, to exciting scantily clothed people. I like people to have some self respect

 

[tribdog]

really? I like sluts
I'm just kidding. You ever get in one of those moods where you just want to be a smart alec? I can't get out of it

 

[fileen]

I do actually, I usually plague my mother with it though. I am cool with you liking sluts, whatever floats your boat! One question though, would you really marry a girl like that? Is that the kind of person you want to spend the rest of your life with, or do you just like to sleep with them?

 

[Cyrus]

Perhaps I am boring.. that doesn't bother me too much. I don't think I am boring though, I just like a little mystery. I love my body just the way it is, and I don't think that just anyone should have the right to look at it. Theres not much else that I can really say is mine.

Thats it, I am spitting in your shoes unless you bend over and show me that tramp stamp.

 

[Moonbear]

I do actually, I usually plague my mother with it though. I am cool with you liking sluts, whatever floats your boat! One question though, would you really marry a girl like that? Is that the kind of person you want to spend the rest of your life with, or do you just like to sleep with them?

*reads tribdog's mind* Ooh, that was a bad idea...there's scary stuff in there! *shudders*

He's wondering if that's a trick question.

I know one person who dislikes you though...your crazy roommate. I'll bet she's left behind a long line of guys wondering why they always find crazy women. People like that should come with a warning label...I think that's a good use of a tattoo.

 

[fileen]

haha I agree, I nice big stamp on her forehead "unmaintained, use at your own risk"

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Last night I spit into my wife's shoe. It's an overrated pleasure.

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Last night I spit into my wife's shoe. It's an overrated pleasure.

What you get up to in the privacy of your bedroom is your own affair.

 

[tribdog]

I do actually, I usually plague my mother with it though. I am cool with you liking sluts, whatever floats your boat! One question though, would you really marry a girl like that? Is that the kind of person you want to spend the rest of your life with, or do you just like to sleep with them?

I don't think a woman's past has much to do with how I feel about them. sex is a very important part of a relationship though and I am much more likely to marry someone who is fun in bed than someone who is uptight and views sex as sin. I think the world has a terrible double standard about women being sluts and men being studs. I've slept with hundreds of women so I have absolutely no room to talk about my girlfriend's totals.