Simon: I swear when it's appropriate. Kaylee: Simon, the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate.
'Jaynestown'
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.
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.
§ ita § - Jan 17, 2012 12:24:11 pm PST #16829 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wow. Bad health news about my mother.
Someone set my expectations: white blood count too low for chemo--how bad is that, and what can you do in a week to fix it?
Atropa - Jan 17, 2012 12:25:11 pm PST #16830 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'd think tongue is worse-- I've heard it's super bad for your teeth?
I had a tongue piercing for a while, and I never learned how to avoid banging it against my teeth. Which is why I no longer have a tongue piercing.
I am jonsing for a new tattoo. The next one is the memorial tattoo for Mom.