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Stretched earlobes ....horrible

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  • #62
    Whitewinged
    Closed Accounts Posts: 935 ✭✭✭Whitewinged


    I wouldn't get my ear stretched myself but whatever you like. I always kind of wanted to get my eyebrow pierced but never went through with it.

    If I was an giving an interview and the person had a stretched lobe, it wouldn't effect my decision but there are obviously people who do make those judgements.

    My OH had his chin pierced and he was asked to take it out to get into a nightclub one night. Not sure what reason they gave him. He just didn't bother putting it back in after that. That was in 2004 though.


  • #63
    Sean Strong Giraffe
    Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Sean Strong Giraffe


    The one in the OP looks pretty

    I do wonder what happens if you ever get tired of it though, would it heal back or something?


  • #64
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,188 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    bluewolf wrote: »
    The one in the OP looks pretty

    I do wonder what happens if you ever get tired of it though, would it heal back or something?


    Fairly minor surgery I'd say.Get the lose bit cut off,probably local anesthetic.


  • #65
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    smash wrote: »
    Ear sex made possible

    Probably the only place that's tight anymore.


  • #66
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,854 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    The calling card of the gobsh1te.


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  • #67
    Medusa22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭Medusa22


    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »
    Probably the only place that's tight anymore.

    Depends on the size of the tunnels :D


  • #68
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    I'd rather have stretched earlobes than a stretched arsehole.


  • #69
    BenedrylPete
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 178 ✭✭BenedrylPete


    Rank looking things, been round people with them and kept wanting to put a bicycle ulock through the loop, lock it and fk the key away.


  • #70
    BenedrylPete
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 178 ✭✭BenedrylPete


    Mesrine65 wrote: »
    I'd rather have stretched earlobes than a stretched arsehole.

    Theres certain forums which think otherwise.


  • #71
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,876 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    Genuinely can't see why the OP objects or thinks it renders the wearer unemployable.
    We have natural holes in our nostrils, and, er, other places, and nobody minds a bit.
    Even Royalty wear pierced ears for real pearls and the like.
    I don't really see why a large, decorative piercing is any worse. It doesn't affect your ability to do any job that I can think of.


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  • #72
    Figbiscuithead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 307 ✭✭Figbiscuithead


    Ime, people who look like the girl in the OP tend not to want jobs as bankers or accountants and usually go into more artsy, creative professions where this look is acceptable. That's just in my experience, though. I know someone who has two of them and works in a record label and is very, very nice and very good at her job.


  • #73
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Figbiscuithead wrote: »
    Ime, people who look like the girl in the OP tend not to want jobs as bankers or accountants and usually go into more artsy, creative professions where this look is acceptable. That's just in my experience, though. I know someone who has two of them and works in a record label and is very, very nice and very good at her job.

    Despite being a big fan, seeing people with only one side done annoys me.

    To the trivial annoyance thread.


  • #74
    thegreatgonzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭thegreatgonzo


    I saw the last 10 mins of it last night, one of them has a goat.


  • #75
    Nodferatu
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    that's the kind of narrow minded judgemental catholic kind of thing to say now isn't it OP? do you view people with tattoo's the same way?


  • #76
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,713 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Nodferatu wrote: »
    that's the kind of narrow minded judgemental catholic kind of thing to say now isn't it OP? do you view people with tattoo's the same way?


    You wouldn't be so narrow minded and judgemental to view all catholics the same way though yourself now, would you? ;)


  • #77
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Kovu wrote: »
    I would never get a facial tattoo for example, however I do not think piercings and visible tattoos should hinder the job selection process in any way.

    Shouldn't but probably does.


  • #78
    petes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    I see no problem with them, I don't like them myself but surely it's ability over everything else even though I know it's not.

    You're judged on your appearance as soon as you meet a potential employer and if they don't like them it's highly unlikely you'll get the job but then again it depends on the job. So many variables!

    I have six piercings in one ear and I work in an office. They have no issue with them. I have tattoos but only one that would be visible if say I wore a t-shirt (we have specific t-shirt we can wear) so I wear a shirt.


  • #79
    darkpagandeath
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    We all know what the op means, People on the dole should be euthanized after 2 months having not found a job.


  • #80
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,214 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Id say they stink, a gaping sore kept open like that especially ears where the skin tends to be more moist and oily and cuts take an age to heal. I was in the Natural History Museum in London a few weeks ago paying 12 quid or something for a slice of cake and a cup of tea and I came to the end to pay and there was a guy on the till who'd obviously been told to remove his for work, they were flapping around like dead skin on a burn victim with wet red holes in the middle of them, turned my stomach, didn't even want the food after paying for it.


  • #81
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Thargor wrote: »
    Id say they stink, a gaping sore kept open like that especially ears where the skin tends to be more moist and oily and cuts take an age to heal. I was in the Natural History Museum in London a few weeks ago paying 12 quid or something for a slice of cake and a cup of tea and I came to the end to pay and there was a guy on the till who'd obviously been told to remove his for work, they were flapping around like dead skin on a burn victim with wet red holes in the middle of them, turned my stomach, didn't even want the food after paying for it.

    That's how they make their money.

    Those ear hole things would be handy for the 1 euro coin for the shopping trolley


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  • #82
    darkpagandeath
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    Thargor wrote: »
    Id say they stink, a gaping sore kept open like that especially ears where the skin tends to be more moist and oily and cuts take an age to heal. I was in the Natural History Museum in London a few weeks ago paying 12 quid or something for a slice of cake and a cup of tea and I came to the end to pay and there was a guy on the till who'd obviously been told to remove his for work, they were flapping around like dead skin on a burn victim with wet red holes in the middle of them, turned my stomach, didn't even want the food after paying for it.

    You mean just like an incredibly spotty teenager. :D


  • #83
    AmyPL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭AmyPL


    A stretched earlobe is nothing like an gaping open sore... if it is you're doing stretching wrong, very wrong!

    I used to have half inch lobes, and a few piercings... they only (slightly) hindered my job hunt when I was looking for part time hours in college. Retail can be snootier about appearance than the IT industry, it turns out.


  • #84
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,876 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    @Nodferatu
    I'm a catholic and I have half a dozen intimate piercings. So just hold your fire, Undead One.


  • #85
    AgileMyth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭AgileMyth


    AmyPL wrote: »
    A stretched earlobe is nothing like an gaping open sore... if it is you're doing stretching wrong, very wrong!

    I used to have half inch lobes, and a few piercings... they only (slightly) hindered my job hunt when I was looking for part time hours in college. Retail can be snootier about appearance than the IT industry, it turns out.
    You're facing the public when working in retail, of course appearance will be important. Don't see why it would matter in IT at all.


  • #86
    liz lemoncello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭liz lemoncello


    AmyPL wrote: »
    A stretched earlobe is nothing like an gaping open sore... if it is you're doing stretching wrong, very wrong!

    I used to have half inch lobes,.

    Amy, I was surprised at the "gaping open sore" comment as I assumed they were actually stretched gradually. Is that how it works?


  • #87
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    ^^
    You're supposed to go up by 1-2mm at a time, depending on ear elasticity; everyone differs there. Some eejits go up by loads at a time or else get their ears punched :(
    Also if a persons stretches smell then they're not looking after them properly, allowing bacteria to grow and fester (bleugh)
    I use silicone tunnels as they let the skin 'breathe' better.


  • #88
    OneOfThem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭OneOfThem


    Seen a lad on the luas with one in each side of his nose. Not small ones either. That was an experience.


  • #89
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,188 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Kovu wrote: »
    ^^
    You're supposed to go up by 1-2mm at a time, depending on ear elasticity; everyone differs there. Some eejits go up by loads at a time or else get their ears punched :(
    Also if a persons stretches smell then they're not looking after them properly, allowing bacteria to grow and fester (bleugh)
    I use silicone tunnels as they let the skin 'breathe' better.



    Like toe jam for the ears.


  • #90
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    kneemos wrote: »
    Like toe jam for the ears.

    *puts down toast*


    :(


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  • #91
    The Sidewards Man
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    Another two holes to stick your tool into when the hole gets to the right size.


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