Buffy: He ran away, right? Giles: Sort of, more. turned and swept out majestically, I suppose. Said I didn't concern him. Buffy: So a mythic triumph over a completely indifferent foe? Giles: Well, I'm not dead or unconscious, so I say bravo for me.

'Same Time, Same Place'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Jan 17, 2012 11:27:20 am PST #16819 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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?


JenP - Jan 17, 2012 11:46:44 am PST #16820 of 30001

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!!


JenP - Jan 17, 2012 11:46:45 am PST #16821 of 30001

Jesse - Jan 17, 2012 11:55:26 am PST #16822 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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.


Kate P. - Jan 17, 2012 11:58:45 am PST #16823 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

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?)


§ ita § - Jan 17, 2012 12:07:16 pm PST #16824 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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?


meara - Jan 17, 2012 12:11:39 pm PST #16825 of 30001

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


Amy - Jan 17, 2012 12:19:15 pm PST #16826 of 30001
Because books.

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


Kate P. - Jan 17, 2012 12:21:21 pm PST #16827 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

I thought navel piercings were fairly prone to infection, and tongue rings too.


§ ita § - Jan 17, 2012 12:22:56 pm PST #16828 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Human mouths are supposed to be pretty nasty, but I always figured nostrils were worse. Never really thought about a well-maintained navel.

Well, no, actually well-maintained navels are pretty much the only sort I try to think of.