People with Huge ear rings/ear stretching

GodSaveTheQueen

just noticed a number of people over the last month or so with these huge ear hole ring things that are like big friggin circles inside the place were a normal ear ring would go. It is like having a piece of 3/4 inch pipe in your lug.

Why would people do that if all you are left with is a huge drooping ear with a large hole in it? Can these people not see past being 16-21?

I doubt those size of holes ever close.

This is the type of thing I mean http://asoboo.com/images/full/44912.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Stretched_Earlobes.jpg

Why?

Kiera

Well Will....

Schism

Pfft... amateurs.

InkSlinger67

Give you a handy place for bus fare when you take it out

wudangclan

i've heard the expression 'to talk a hole in someones ear' but thought it was purely metaphorical

yurmothrintites

It really brings new meaning to the song

Do your ears hang low,
Do they wobble to and fro,
Can you tie them in a knot,
Can you tie them in a bow,
Can you hrow them over your shoulder,
Like a continental soldier,
Do your ears hang low?

GodSaveTheQueen

Kiera wrote: »

Well Will....

Well will....what?

My name is URL

Schism wrote: »

Pfft... amateurs.

I didn't know what I was looking at there for a second

Poor Uncle Tom

They have part time jobs working as prizes in the carnival...

El Guapo!

I know a bloke who has it done and when we wer in a nightclub a friend of mine put a pad lock through it and ran away with the key for the whole night!!!

Will

Why? I like the way it looks on me.

Will

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

They have part time jobs working as prizes in the carnival...

I've worked for many multinational companies (if that's what your into), have a degree in computer science and am pretty happy with my life. Just because I decided to stretch my lobes doesn't instantly mean I'm some "grade A" waster, or angsty teen.

January

Each to their own I suppose... I bet anyone with plugs likes it. Just because it's not an interest of yours doesn't mean they won't enjoy it when they get past 21 years of age!

Gauge

Well, I'm past 21 and have a degree and a skilled fulltime job.

My lobes are only 1/2" though, maybe if I make them a bit bigger I can finally get that part-time carnival dream job...

GodSaveTheQueen

Will wrote: »

I've worked for many multinational companies (if that's what your into), have a degree in computer science and am pretty happy with my life. Just because I decided to stretch my lobes doesn't instantly mean I'm some "grade A" waster, or angsty teen.

Why do you do it? To be different? Have you a pic I can see? How big is the hole?

Schism

My name is URL wrote: »

I didn't know what I was looking at there for a second

Heh, takes a couple of glances :P


On the ear thing. I once seen a guy dressed in a suit and tie with a stretched lobe, it didn't take anything away from the look. Quite a dapper gent he was.

Will

GodSaveTheQueen wrote: »

Why do you do it? To be different? Have you a pic I can see? How big is the hole?

I did it because I liked the way they looked, and figured they would suit me. I didn't do it to be different or to rebel. I started when I was 20, am 23 now. I'm not posting my pic in AH no. The holes are 1" or 25.4mm.

schism: coulda been me. And no, I was not going to a court appearance :pac:

GodSaveTheQueen

Will wrote: »

I did it because I liked the way they looked, and figured they would suit me. I didn't do it to be different or to rebel. I started when I was 20, am 23 now. I'm not posting my pic in AH no. The holes are 1" or 25.4mm.

Do you think you will still wear them when you are 65?

Kiera

GodSaveTheQueen wrote: »

Why do you do it? To be different? Have you a pic I can see? How big is the hole?

Yeah Will, show us your hole

GodSaveTheQueen

Kiera wrote: »

Yeah Will, show us your hole

He said he won't already.

Will

It's not something I jumped into. I had my lobes pierced for 2 years before and thought about it long and hard. It's not something you go into on a whim, if you do your a bit silly.

When I'm 65? Who knows, it's 42 years away. Long time away, il let you know.

Mimikyu

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GodSaveTheQueen

Will wrote: »

It's not something I jumped into. I had my lobes pierced for 2 years before and thought about it long and hard. It's not something you go into on a whim, if you do your a bit silly.

When I'm 65? Who knows, it's 42 years away. Long time away, il let you know.

So you didn't think too far ahead. That is what I thought. Thank you for your answers.

I pretty much thought that about the few I had seen.

Kiera

GodSaveTheQueen wrote: »

He said he won't already.

Relax there, sparky. It was a joke. You get jokes, right?

Will

GodSaveTheQueen wrote: »

So you didn't think too far ahead. That is what I thought. Thank you for your answers.

I pretty much thought that about the few I had seen.

I can't honestly say because I don't know what the future holds. I went into it knowing they were for life, so if you want an answer then yeah I will wear them when I'm 65. Rockin down the street with a load of OAP biatches at my feet :pac: :cool:

Aidric

Utterly repulsive imo. Each to their own though.

Pighead

GodSaveTheQueen wrote: »

So you didn't think too far ahead. That is what I thought. Thank you for your answers.

I pretty much thought that about the few I had seen.

You old judgemental so and so! What's with all this long term thinking nonsense! You sound like Pigheads mother! Live for the now and stop being so rigid and bound by rules. If you saw a red stripey jumper would you not buy it on account of the fact that stripes look dodgy on old people?

GodSaveTheQueen

Will wrote: »

I can't honestly say because I don't know what the future holds. I went into it knowing they were for life, so if you want an answer then yeah I will wear them when I'm 65. Rockin down the street with a load of OAP biatches at my feet :pac: :cool:

Good for you

When I get redundant I can see a market for ear plastic surgery

Poor Uncle Tom

Kiera wrote: »

Relax there, sparky. It was a joke. You get jokes, right?

there's a lot of short fuses around tonight, kiera.

My name is URL

Not my thing but I have tattoos so I'm not against body modding, it only seems somewhat outrageous because it's relatively new.. piercings and dying your hair were new once too

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

What's wrong with it exactly?

wudangclan

6 billion people on the planet so a little extra plumage to stand out is no harm

Will

Stretching body parts has been around for centuries, meso-american tribes, african tribes where it's still done and even in ancient ireland.

Tongues, labrets (lip), lobes and nostrils were the most common

Gauge

Well, he does raise a interesting point Will- how will you feel when you're 65 and your otherwise smooth and perfect non-wrinkled body will be marred by those unsightly saggy lobes?

Sure, you could be glad that you actually went through the time consuming process of stretching them, you could admire your extensive collection of hand carved jewellery, you could even be proud of yourself for achieving an aesthetic that you know YOU like, but you won't. Nope, it'll be off to the ear surgeon with you. And all because you didn't take your old age pensioner self into account.

*sigh*

Kiera

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

there's a lot of short fuses around tonight, kiera.

I know! Whats that all about i ask you?

Where is the love, Tommy?

GodSaveTheQueen

Pighead wrote: »

You old judgemental so and so! What's with all this long term thinking nonsense! You sound like Pigheads mother! Live for the now and stop being so rigid and bound by rules. If you saw a red stripey jumper would you not buy it on account of the fact that stripes look dodgy on old people?

I'd happily wear a red stripy Jumper ala Where is Willy. One cannot say verbatim that they look wrong on old people.

Having "I love Pig Head" tattooed on my chest, while young and adventurous (too cool for school) to end up being dumped because he was in a phase and moved on from me, would be stupid if not heartbreaking.

The Big Red Button

Ugh ... have you seriously nothing better to be doing than judging other peoples' personal choices? Don't you think there are more important things in life? Does it really offend you that much to have to share the same earth as these people?

Maybe you're just jealous because some other people have enough imagination, personality and self-confidence to do something a little bit different with their appearance.

It mightn't be to your taste; it's not something I've personally ever considered; but if other people want to get it done then fair play to them!

Will

http://www.crystalinks.com/bodypiercing.html <-- have a read there, some interesting stuff

The quote is from the site there.

An Irish body-piercer has helped to solve a Bronze Age mystery. A series of enigmatic gold Ñboxesæ and Ñbobbinsæ dating back more than 3,000 years seem to have been ear-spools, worn in an enormously distended perforation through the lobe.

"I happened to see Paddy O'Donoghoe on the Late Late Show," Mary Cahill of the National Museum in Dublin explains in Archaeology Ireland. "My immediate reaction was to shout 'He is wearing the Ballinesker boxes in his ears'. " In fact Mr O'Donoghoe, who runs a piercing parlour called Bodyshock in Dublinºs Temple Bar district, was wearing a modern gold spool in a perforation nearly 3in across.

He joined Ms Cahill at the museum, which has one of the finest collections of prehistoric goldwork in Europe, and helped to identify several pieces as ancient ear-ornaments. One type, known as 'boxes', look very like a pillbox, with straight walls: a set from Mullingar are between 2in and 3in in diameter and an inch deep, and would have been held in the earlobe simply by the elasticity of the flesh.

A second type has slightly concave walls, so that the lobe would have been stretched over the rim before retracting back in place to hold the earspool tightly; a third kind has a relatively small central cylinder which was passed through the ear before the much wider outer and inner discs were attached.

All were made of thin sheet gold, decorated with sets of concentric circles: recent rock-art discoveries in Ireland have shown that a form of scribing compass was used to produce perfect circles. Similarly distended earlobes are known from many other cultures, ranging from the pre-Hispanic Maya and Aztec, who used jade and obsidian earspools as well as gold, to contemporary Swahili women in Kenya. "Some of us may be surprised that our Bronze Age ancestors were practitioners of body-piercing," Ms Cahill says. "In order to distend the earlobe to the required size the process must be carried out over a long period by hanging weights from the perforation. It can be painful, and carries the dangers inherent in any para-surgical procedure."

Other enigmatic gold objects may also have been fitted to various body parts, she suggests: "It is not too outrageous to propose that prehistoric people in Ireland may have pierced the rim of the ear, the septum and wings of the nose, or the mouth. Many of the ornaments may have been exclusive, based on sex, age or status: we do not know what symbolism they carried, but they embodied powerful meanings, perhaps even magic."

Poor Uncle Tom

Will wrote: »

Stretching body parts has been around for centuries, meso-american tribes, african tribes where it's still done and even in ancient ireland.

Tongues, labrets (lip), lobes and nostrils were the most common

And other bits, in peoples minds at least......

Kiera wrote: »

I know! Whats that all about i ask you?

Where is the love, Tommy?

I think the whole world's addicted to the drama,
Only attracted to the things that bring you trauma...

GodSaveTheQueen

chatterpillar wrote: »

Ugh ... have you seriously nothing better to be doing than judging other peoples' personal choices? Don't you think there are more important things in life? Does it really offend you that much to have to share the same earth as these people?

Maybe you're just jealous because some other people have enough imagination, personality and self-confidence to do something a little bit different with their appearance.

It mightn't be to your taste; it's not something I've personally ever considered; but if other people want to get it done then fair play to them!

I'm not judging anyone.

Are you?


:rolleyes:

Will

Gauge wrote: »

Well, he does raise a interesting point Will- how will you feel when you're 65 and your otherwise smooth and perfect non-wrinkled body will be marred by those unsightly saggy lobes?

Sure, you could be glad that you actually went through the time consuming process of stretching them, you could admire your extensive collection of hand carved jewellery, you could even be proud of yourself for achieving an aesthetic that you know YOU like, but you won't. Nope, it'll be off to the ear surgeon with you. And all because you didn't take your old age pensioner self into account.

*sigh*

I should probably just quit while I'm ahead and go now, I mean life is just too short. Should probably stop stretching my lip too *gasp*

Will

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

And other bits, in peoples minds at least......




I think the whole world's addicted to the drama,
Only attracted to the things that bring you trauma...

maybe have a read of the link I posted, or even look at the quoted piece

Kiera

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

And other bits, in peoples minds at least......




I think the whole world's addicted to the drama,
Only attracted to the things that bring you trauma...

I like shiny things!

Gauge

Aw crap, what about my tongue and septum? I'll be kicked out of the bridge club

Will

I should probably just quit my job as a care assistant and take up robbing banks and old women. We can set up our own bridge club Gauge, we can have tea and short cake.

Pighead

GodSaveTheQueen wrote: »

I'd happily wear a red stripy Jumper ala Where is Willy. One cannot say verbatim that they look wrong on old people.

Having "I love Pig Head" tattooed on my chest, while young and adventurous (too cool for school) to end up being dumped because he was in a phase and moved on from me, would be stupid if not heartbreaking.

It's Where's Wally ya big eejit! Anyway what's getting a tattoo with a spurned lovers name on your body got to do with Will having his lobes stretched? Are you trying to say that Wills lobes are planning on dumping him because he put holes in them?

GodSaveTheQueen

Will wrote: »

I should probably just quit my job as a care assistant and take up robbing banks and old women. We can set up our own bridge club Gauge, we can have tea and short cake.

Why would you consider giving up your job over this? I only asked a question and I didn't ask about you.

Relax dude!

Poor Uncle Tom

Will wrote: »

maybe have a read of the link I posted, or even look at the quoted piece

Will, I'm not having a go at you. I agree that body piercing has been happening for as long as people have been on this planet. I'm in a good mood and making a few smart comments, that's all.

Will

:eek:

Say it aint so Pighead Say it aint so

(welcome back btw)

Ah no, GodSaveTheQueen, I think my life is now ruined. You have opened my eyes to the trouble that lies ahead of me. The tattoos and piercings, not to mention the stretched piercings, it's all just crashing down around me now. My whole world. Gauge, I will bring the tea, you bring the shortcake.

GodSaveTheQueen

Pighead wrote: »

It's Where's Wally ya big eejit! Anyway what's getting a tattoo with a spurned lovers name on your body got to do with Will having his lobes stretched? Are you trying to say that Wills lobes are planning on dumping him because he put holes in them?

No. I was talking about jumpers with big red stripes on them and old people as per what you asked.

It was Where is wally, my bad.

GodSaveTheQueen

Will wrote: »

:eek:

Say it aint so Pighead Say it aint so

(welcome back btw)

Ah no, GodSaveTheQueen, I think my life is now ruined. You have opened my eyes to the trouble that lies ahead of me. The tattoos and piercings, not to mention the stretched piercings, it's all just crashing down around me now. My whole world. Gauge, I will bring the tea, you bring the shortcake.

Try not to take it all so seriously. We were all young once and we were right