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?)

almost any other kind of (non-genital) piercing is preferable to a nose piercing

So what are we looking at--ear, nose, nipple, tongue, lip, eyebrow? Yeah, I can see that about noses, they are filtering the junk and leaving it right there, no?

I'm assuming taint is covered by the (edge of the) genital clause?

I'd think tongue is worse-- I've heard it's super bad for your teeth?

I'd like an eyebrow piercing. And some of the not-visible ones, although I'm unsure given my low low pain tolerance.