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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-09-2004, 06:21 PM:

Here you go, folks. Only cool people can have studs in their eyeballs.[av=s]

From da BBC

Fears raised over 'eye jewellery'
Studs are inserted under local anaesthetic
A new technique which allows jewellery to be inserted into the eye could be dangerous and should be avoided, say British ophthalmic experts.

The procedure to insert a tiny platinum jewel stud into the eyeball has been performed in The Netherlands.

The technique is harmless and carries no side effects, say its Dutch pioneers.

But UK eye specialists disagree and say it could be dangerous and may cause scarring and bleeding.

Specially developed jewellery is inserted into the eye's mucous membrane under a local anaesthetic eye drop, at a cost of about £330 (or 330 lbs in the US).

It involves inserting a 3.5mm-wide piece of platinum - that the eye will accept - and includes designs such as a glittering half-moon or heart.

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 04-09-2004, 06:50 PM:

I always make fun of people that have jewlery in their chin or cheeks. These people are just asking for a nice infection like Ken now has from meeting that pig.

Once I saw a guy with so may rings in his mouth that he HAD to look like a shower head when he tried to take a drink!
People are just sooooo stupid sometimes !
Mark

Posted by Nate Lehrke (Member # 1460) on 04-10-2004, 05:40 AM:

What happens when you move your pupil over the heart? Do you see the heart or can't you see at all in that spot? I demand someone here does it so I know the answers!

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 04-10-2004, 10:11 AM:

Um...it's attached to the eyeball and moves with it. Thus it is impossible to get in the way of the pupil.

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 04-10-2004, 12:06 PM:

Anyone with body piercings may want to avoid watching "The Punisher" when it opens next week. [Eek!]

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 04-10-2004, 12:16 PM:

Steve just gave me an idea--a cornea piercing shoppe. Hmmm....

Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 04-10-2004, 03:36 PM:

quote:
at a cost of about £330 (or 330 lbs in the US)

Well at least we know it isnt $330 british.

Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 04-10-2004, 07:33 PM:

It's bad enough when you have an eyelash in your eye....
I can't imagine how annoying this would feel. [Eek!]

You can pierce everything else(which i'm all for [thumbsup]

); this was the last place on the body that hadn't been tried.

danny

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-10-2004, 08:07 PM:

What the heck is wrong with people? This is about as attractive as those nose studs that look like the person just finished blowing their nose and left a chunk of snot on the side of their nose.

Danny, I've never seen piercings coupling toes together, or a big loop through a testicle or perhaps a rod through the neck. [Razz]

Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 04-10-2004, 09:46 PM:

If I can get a picture of it, I have a friend who had his head pierced. Well not through the skull, but rather had a series of piercings in his scalp all the way around to resemble the thorns that jesus wore to his death.

Is he deranged? WEll he does love hockey, so I have to say... yes.

Ciao

Dave

Posted by Jon Miller (Member # 163) on 04-10-2004, 10:06 PM:

Regarding the whole body-piercing thing...masochism just knows no boundaries! [Smile]

Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 04-11-2004, 04:39 AM:

...not yet anyway Brad. I can't post pictures of pink bits with metal through them on here, sooooo you may be getting some email. [evil]

danny

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-11-2004, 05:22 AM:

Anyone who has their genitals pierced is a moron. Boy or girl! Same goes with tattooed genitals![av=j]

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-11-2004, 05:44 AM:

Oh PULEEZE! Yous are a bunch of pussies!

Many of you have seen my tattoos, my rings and studs, and even those in my "private" areas!

As many of yous know I have eyebrow rings & studs, nose rings & studs, ear rings & studs, etc... and a Prince Albert... but that's on a different thread.

Here is a pic of my best bud... I had to stop flying to Dallas with him cuz it was hell everytime we went thru the metal detector... I was embarrassed!

But! I think this is REALLY pushing it! YUK!

>>> Phil

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 04-11-2004, 08:50 AM:

quote:
Fears raised over 'eye jewellery'

That's exactly what they want you to do. It's all for attention. There are even "body modification" morons out there, who chop off their fingers to get a rise out of people.

Completely ignore people who do stuff like this - to the point of invisibility. If they happen to jump in front of you, just look through them like they're not there.

Then, when they realize no one is hearing (or reacting to) their "statement", they'll feel stupid. After they realize they've damaged themselves for nothing, their real problem may manifest itself and they might get help. [Big Grin]

Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 04-11-2004, 02:08 PM:

quote:
Then, when they realize no one is hearing (or reacting to) their "statement", they'll feel stupid. After they realize they've damaged themselves for nothing, their real problem may manifest itself and they might get help.

Tell that to your wife the next time she gets a new pair of earings.
Sure, a few may do it for shock value, but to make a blanket statement like that is absurd and just not true. Also, many people will get a tattoo or piercing in places not seen by the public; they do it for themselves and their own pleasure.

I swear, this forum is being overtaken by coots. Come on people, get with it. Your sons and daughters may very well have tongue studs you don't know about, for the [sex]

... ha!

danny

Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 04-11-2004, 02:24 PM:

I dont have any piercing and I never will. I am way too cool to conform with the rest of the non conformists. I'm too cool for that.

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 04-11-2004, 06:36 PM:

I had an eyebrow piercing and I loved it. As eyebrow piercings do, it closed up. I would have gotten it done again but I never could because of work...hmmmmm. I think it's quite accepted in cosmetogoly school, maybe I'll get it again! [Big Grin]

Like Dan said, not everyone does it for shock value. Personally I have a crooked nose (yup [Smile]

), the eyebrow piercing always offset it and made it not as noticable. When I had it I got many compliments saying I looked better from the young and old alike. There is no show in that, I just personally liked it. People have the right to do anything they want with their own bodies, if they want to mutilate it then go ahead! I think the most piercings at once I ever had was 12. 11 on my ears and one in my eyebrow. Now I just have 2, the regular ear piercings...

Posted by Emma Tomiak (Member # 1862) on 04-11-2004, 09:54 PM:

I beat you, Rachel!
I have 13! [Big Grin]

Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 04-11-2004, 10:35 PM:

Well it looks like piercings are really about the competition.

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 04-11-2004, 10:50 PM:

No, if they were about competition I wouldn't have let all mine close! [Big Grin]

I just liked them and it got to the point where it was either piercings or a good paying job...I picked the job.

Although I do have to say the eyeball piercing in WAY too much for me! I also am not to fond of nose piercings, I'd be too afraid I'd rip it out blowing my nose.

Emma, one of my friends back in Massachuetts had 134 piercings a year ago (he probably has more now), 31 were on his face, 2 on his wee wee. [uhoh]

He looked more like a machine then a man! THAT was too many for me. Nice guy though...

Posted by Carl Martin (Member # 1146) on 04-12-2004, 07:45 AM:

tattoos and piercings... i'm not into it. of course everyone has a right to do it, but i don't respect the motives behind "body modification".

nor do i like makeup. and don't get me started on fake tits. i have no use for shaving, though i suppose some might.

i think "body acceptance" is a lot healthier, though more difficult when the opposite is celebrated so much.

self-expression does not require that one's self be the canvas. hell, in the case of tattooing, one is usually paying for the privilege of being someone else's canvas. so that's not what it's about.

is it about self-empowerment? maybe so, but i think we ought to be able to achieve this "on the inside" without carrying the culturally determined signifiers on our persons. otherwise it starts as self-deception.

to gain the respect of others? by exploiting their propensity to judge based on appearances.

no, i can't respect that.

one should first decide what is true, good, and utile. then let these qualities be the basis of beauty. beauty is a promise. if we strive for beauty itself but disregard its basis then we are chasing a chimera, which promises nothing.

carl

Posted by Emma Tomiak (Member # 1862) on 04-12-2004, 10:31 PM:

I didn't get my piercings for the sole purpose of competing with anyone. Sure, it's fun to joke around and see who is "winning" with the most piercings (as I did above), but thats not what it's all about.
I got pierced because I like piercings. Not all piercings, mind you, but most.
Lots of people don't like them and thats cool. But I think mine look pretty. [Razz]

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-13-2004, 12:02 AM:

Along with all the gobbly-gook, Carl said:

quote:
i think "body acceptance" is a lot healthier...

So "assuming" you believe what you say... where's your ID pic? [Razz]

>>> Phil

Posted by Carl Martin (Member # 1146) on 04-13-2004, 06:24 AM:

dang! it's around here somewhere....

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 04-14-2004, 11:20 PM:

quote:
Tell that to your wife the next time she gets a new pair of earings.
Sure, a few may do it for shock value, but to make a blanket statement like that is absurd and just not true.

It's not absurd at all. Dan, why the hell else would someone chop their friggin' finger off on purpose, or risk damage to their eyes!? I fail to see the relationship between that and wearing an earring.

quote:
beauty is a promise.

Along these lines, I think it's universally recognized that one of the main characteristics of beauty (or, rather, what we perceive as beauty) is symmetry. Draw your own conclusions. Tawk amongst yuhselves..

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 04-15-2004, 10:15 AM:

So, I should get a piercing on both eyebrows? But that would look funny...

Posted by Zach McQuaid (Member # 613) on 04-19-2004, 11:51 PM:

I saw a girl today and I told her she had a crumb on her bottom lip...NOPE!! It was a new piercing [Embarrassed]

with some band-aid covering it up so her employer wouldn't yell at her for having a visible "facial" piercing!! [Roll Eyes]

Posted by Steven Privett (Member # 718) on 04-20-2004, 12:22 AM:

My guess is, if we ever saw a pic of Carl, we would find out he has had more body modification than Michael Jackson.
Actually I saw him not too long ago and took a picture. [Wink]

Thats him on the right.....or is it the left. hmmm, which one is you again Carl? [evil]

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-20-2004, 03:00 AM:

WHA???!!!!! Who does that guy on the left think he is? Geeeez! I mean does he think he is TOO GOOD to tattoo his entire tomach area? That fucknut![av=i] And that guy on the right.... what the hell? Is his face too great to be fully tattooed as well? What an ass-hat.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-20-2004, 03:16 AM:

Joe, you POS! Stop picking on my buds!

BTW: Am I banned from this tread as well? I've lost track...

>>> Phil