will probably be happy to do something nice for one

Up to and including getting the weirdos out of their store? Because I can think of a number of mothers (sadly) who are so dicey on the subject that would be an issue for them. Including mine own, probably, even though her ears are pierced four times.

The elderly lady that visited us on Christmas day was *outraged* at her niece's nose piercing. My sister is sitting there with a navel piercing--I've had two unsuccessful navel piercing and a successful-but-subsequently removed nipple piercing--and we're both nodding very understandingly. "Could have been even worse," said my sister. "Maybe she was pierced...you know...where you couldn't see..."

And then she waved at my tits, thereby dispelling the labial implications.

But she made sure to come back to that explicitly later.

Elderly lady was also in a translucent top (nice bra, grandmother) and almost-sheer leggings, so you know. She *knows*.

He's not even in IT!

Who knows what geekery lurks in the heart of men?

Thanks, everyone! I hope the baby appreciates the cheers. I realize that he will come *some day*, and i"m glad this isn't my first because I would be dying, but still, I'm ready to not be pregnant.

The elderly lady that visited us on Christmas day was *outraged* at her niece's nose piercing.

My brother the doctor has convinced my sister that almost any other kind of (non-genital) piercing is preferable to a nose piercing, from a medical safety perspective. I suspect my niece will have to wait until she's out of college and no longer getting any support from her mother before she gets one.

Who knows what geekery lurks in the heart of men?

I'd say that you can't just allegorize into Mordor, but that would be stretching it way too thin.

Okay, I'm watching Revenge in the off season. The ads are killing me, but I'm way too behind to catch up without illegal means and/or the DVD.

I had most of my ear piercing at Claire's or their equivalent.

Oh yeah, all of the ones I've gotten were with a gun, but I now understand that to be bad.

I pierced my nose myself with a kit you had to buy, because apparently there was no body piercing place in Harvard Square in those days?

Totally late to the ita and JAR FaceBook party, but not one bit less OMG!!! than if I had been on time. Love!!

I pierced my nose myself

I don't think I'd have had the cojones for that. The doing it myself part. Or maybe at all, but definitely not doing it myself.

ETA: Come on, baby of Stephanie!!

I don't think I'd have had the cojones for that. The doing it myself part. Or maybe at all, but definitely not doing it myself.

What the kit was, was a plastic holder with one of those starter earrings in it, and you had to squeeze the thing hard enough to break a piece of plastic, which meant you were squeezing hard enough to get it through the nose. I didn't do a very good job and still have a scar, ftr.

My brother the doctor has convinced my sister that almost any other kind of (non-genital) piercing is preferable to a nose piercing, from a medical safety perspective. I suspect my niece will have to wait until she's out of college and no longer getting any support from her mother before she gets one.

Huh, that surprises me. First, I guess, just because they seem so common, and secondly, because I have one and have never had any problem with it. And I even had it done in India, under what I suspect were less than entirely sanitary conditions! (On the other hand, I figured, if any country has figured out how to do nose piercing right, it's got to be India, right?)