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Body piercers 'suffer in silence'
BBC ^ | 25 February, 2005

Posted on 02/24/2005 8:11:44 PM PST by traumer

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To: traumer
I have body piercings and haven't ever had any medical problems, infections, nothing.

The key is to properly care for them after they are done.

61 posted on 02/25/2005 7:22:39 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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To: Lockbar; Bella_Bru; StoneColdGOP

There are far more pierced and tattooed conservatives than many people would imagine.


62 posted on 02/25/2005 7:24:37 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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To: Paleo Conservative
The "culture" of piercing could not exist without antibiotics.

Piercing has been around for many thousands of years. How many years has antibiotics been around?

63 posted on 02/25/2005 7:25:28 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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To: vetvetdoug
God made holes where they were needed and none where they weren't. Form meets function. I don't understand the piercing phenomenon

Damn all those women and their earrings! Its just not right!

64 posted on 02/25/2005 7:26:25 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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To: CurlyDave

TMI! TMI! No they don't!

;-)


65 posted on 02/25/2005 7:27:51 AM PST by FreedomPoster (This space intentionally blank)
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To: I_dmc
This raises a question. What is it about women with piercings that some men find so fascinating, you think?

Why do some men like blondes? Red heads? Legs, butt, breasts, etc...

66 posted on 02/25/2005 7:29:58 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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To: Phantom Lord
Piercing has been around for many thousands of years.

Not like this.


67 posted on 02/25/2005 7:30:49 AM PST by Paleo Conservative (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!)
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To: gas_dr

I read that those piercings are, however, far safer than things such as breast implants.


68 posted on 02/25/2005 7:37:56 AM PST by Dante3
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To: Paleo Conservative

While her appearance is quite shocking and the piercings seem extreme, the piercings themselves are individually pretty minor. Its the abundent number.


69 posted on 02/25/2005 7:42:31 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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To: nmh
We saw this show the other night I think it was on the DISCOVERY CHANNEL where people have plastic surgery and tattoos so they look like animals. THere was a guy, he's called the CAT MAN...my God, he looks like a freeking cat. He even has these fiber like whiskers that he sews into his face.

Here, I found a picture. OH my, they say he lives here in San Diego!

'Tiger man' wants fur graft

A San Diego computer programmer who has spent £100,000 on tattoos and plastic surgery to turn himself into a 'tiger' wants a fur graft.

Dennis Smith is tattooed from head to toe with orange and black stripes and his teeth have been filed to needle point.

He has also had latex whiskers implanted and surgery to his lips so he has a permanent snarl. He now wants a surgeon to graft tiger fur on to his skin, like a perma-wig.

Mr Smith, who has changed his name by deed poll to Cat Man, said: "I have a collection of old tiger pelts from the days of hunting. I want these grafted on to me. It will cost another $100,000 but will be worth it.

"When I have the coat of a tiger, I feel I will have reached my goal in life."

His fingernails have been crafted into sharp talons while his hands have tattooed markings like a tiger's paws. He says he feels like a tiger.

The short back-and-sides he sported at the University Of California has been replaced with a long orange mane. He has also swapped his glasses for green contact lenses.

He holds down a £80,000-a-year computer programming job which enables him to fund the surgery, the Daily Record reports.

He admitted: "Of course people stare at me when I walk down the street but that's the effect I desire. For so long I have equated myself with the tiger that I decided to change myself into one.

"It's the real me. So many men cross-dress without their partners knowing, or dress up and play cowboys or Civil War soldiers at weekends. Me, I'm a tiger all the time and I love it. I had my first tattoos done 20 years ago around my eyes and now my whole body is one pastiche of stripes and shading. I am really proud of it all."

70 posted on 02/25/2005 7:42:45 AM PST by Hildy
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To: traumer

I love my belly button piercing!


71 posted on 02/25/2005 7:43:06 AM PST by rintense
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To: FreedomCalls

How would you like your daughter to bring one of those home from a date??????


72 posted on 02/25/2005 8:00:12 AM PST by SweetCaroline (I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me...Philippians 4:13)
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To: Hildy

On that show, did they give an reasons as to "Why?" Are most of them done by underground plastic surgeons in someone's basement?


73 posted on 02/25/2005 9:28:17 AM PST by Dante3
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To: SweetCaroline
How would you like your daughter to bring one of those home from a date??????

I'd shott them at the door, then call animal control to come and take away the body. I would tell them I didn't recognize them as human.

74 posted on 02/25/2005 10:37:09 AM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: Marauder

I'm with you. What motivates a person to stick a needle through their hoo-ha and dangle something from it? Belly-buttons--fine, they aren't serving much of a purpose...neither are ear lobes. But the "intimate" parts actually do have specific reasons for existing. Piercing this is about as stupid as piercing, say, my eyeball. Could it mess up my eyeball? Uh, yeah! Should I do it? Hmmmmmmm. I'll have to think about it...that's a tough one.


75 posted on 02/25/2005 10:42:15 AM PST by I'm ALL Right! (Welcome to my addiction.)
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To: traumer

Seems to me that it is just common sense to never, never use the words "pierced" and "genitals" in the same sentence.


76 posted on 02/25/2005 10:45:24 AM PST by ladtx ( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
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To: traumer

Not for the condom.


77 posted on 02/25/2005 10:47:16 AM PST by Old Professer (As truth and fiction blend in the Mixmaster of History almost any sauce can be made palatable.)
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To: FreedomCalls

Sounds good to me!!!


78 posted on 02/25/2005 10:56:50 AM PST by SweetCaroline (I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me...Philippians 4:13)
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79 posted on 02/25/2005 12:33:02 PM PST by paleocon patriarch ("Never attribute to a conspiracy that which can be explained by incompetence.")
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To: SweetCaroline
How would you like your daughter to bring one of those home from a date??????

I think I'd shoot it and mount it up on the wall as my space alien trophy.

80 posted on 02/25/2005 12:51:17 PM PST by Centurion2000 (Nations do not survive by setting examples for others. Nations survive by making examples of others)
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