Recaption this (or explain it to me!)

May 14, 2003 | dayslate-dollarshort

[daylate-dollarshort]

I posted this to another thread yesterday and can't for the life of me, get it out of my mind. What was this kid thinking about? Recaption it if you can (I'm about speechless) or, in the alternative tell me what is going on in the minds of kids today??

James Keen, a 19-year-old from Scottsville, Ky., shows off his spilt tongue at his home Wednesday, May 7, 2003. James got his tongue split in December by a piercer after a surgeon declined to do it for him. He says the piercer used a scalpel heated by a blow torch and no anesthetic. Some say the practice, still relatively uncommon but edging up in popularity, is nothing short of mutilation. Lawmakers in Illinois are considering regulations that would all but outlaw it. (AP Photo/Joe Imel)

[daylate-dollarshort]

Fur' cryin out loud....that website made me see the light....NOT!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...until I find out how women potentially feel about it...

I just knew somebody was going to go there.

[Not A Snowbird]

"Futurists say that in 10 to 15 years your grand kids will go to a doctor to have genetically modified horns implanted in their foreheads that will even change color as their mood changes."

Can we get that now, so I know when my teenage daughter is in her "say a word to me and I'll rip your head off" mood?

[weegee]

They are already implanting horns and other bumps under the scalp. This is a surgical procedure. Is it being done legally or is it a part of the underground economy?

Have people had infections and died from backalley mutilators? Surgeons may be required to perform such voluntary mutilations at some point. It is a mental illness, whether they want to admit it or not. For some it is scarification and cutting and pain that they are after, for others they feel too "normal", "clean cut", or want attention.

[Paul Atreides]

Tongue-splitting ban slices its way through Legislature
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | May 1, 2003 | BRYAN SMITH


Posted on 05/01/2003 5:16 AM CDT by sarcasm


Lawmakers have been known to split hairs.

Splitting tongues, they're not so crazy about.

So David Miller, the state representative from Calumet City and a practicing dentist, is serious when he talks about recent legislation he's introduced.

Miller, a Democrat, is sponsoring a bill that would all but ban what has become the latest craze in "body modification"--slicing the tongue in half to create a reptilian appearance.

It's a practice akin to body piercings and tattoos. But detractors like Miller say it carries risks of infection and even death if not performed by licensed medical people and surgeons.

That's why Miller wants to ensure that only physicians perform the procedure, and for sound medical reasons.

If properly done the procedure isn't necessarily harmful, he acknowledges. Still, it's a trend he'd rather not see catch on.

"You know how fads are," he said. "You just never know what's going to happen. We just thought we'd be pro-active."

According to a Web site devoted to the practice, as well as other procedures such as body piercings and tattoos, tongue splitting is the "central bifurcation of the tongue, so as to achieve a 'forked tongue' appearance."

Some people have split their tongue by getting a large number of tongue piercings, stretching them, and then cutting between them, said Shannon Larratt, who runs www.bmezine.com, and had his own tongue split in 1997.

Others have turned to oral surgeons or tattoo parlors. An Albany, N.Y., doctor did his, Larratt said, and he encourages those who want their tongues split to seek a surgeon, too.

But many medical professionals highly discourage the practice.

Among the risks are striking an artery or the tongue becoming so swollen the patient can't breathe. Massive tongue hemorrhage, edema, abscess formation, tetanus and nerve damage are other reported complications, doctors say.

Larratt doesn't deny those risks. In fact, he said, the danger of people seeking poorly done "back alley" jobs are precisely why it should be legal.

"A lot of these laws are worded in ways that make it very difficult for a doctor to do it," he said. "What that means is that the qualified practitioners and doctors don't want to risk losing their licenses. So the only people left doing it are hacks that shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

The bill, also endorsed by state Sen. James T. Meeks and similar to legislation in Michigan, has passed the Senate Judiciary Committee and now awaits consideration by the full Senate.

"There's really no reason someone should be splitting his or her tongue," Meeks said. "We are simply trying to keep people from hurting themselves."

Larratt sees it differently. "We don't question a person if they want to go in and get just about every other procedure," he said. "Why target this one in such an extreme fashion?"

[azhenfud]

Memorable and Applicable Quotes from
Forrest Gump (1994)


Mrs. Gump: "You have to do the best with what God gave you."

Forrest Gump: "What's my destiny, Mama?"

Mrs. Gump: "You're just gonna have to figure that out for yourself."

Forrest Gump: "Stupid is as stupid does."

[renosathug]

How is he going to eat an ice cream cone with that tongue?

Easy. He'll wrap one part of the tongue around the cone, to hold it, while the other part licks.

[weegee]

Before Simpson's creator Matt Groening's comic panel "Life in Hell" became the Akbar & Jeff Repeated Panel comic strip, Matt drew a panel that had 2 elderly men seated at a retirement home. They are covered in tattoos and pierces (including many on the head).

One of the men says to the other, "I see you were stupid in the nineties too!"

[weegee]

An equal opportunity member of the Clinton kneepad brigade?

[PLOM...NOT!]

....their parents obviously did not..

The parents gave him the $500 to pay for the mutilation according to my front page newspaper article on this. A surgeon refused to perform the procedure, so he had it done by a local body piercer.

[WSGilcrest]

This oughta get that picture out of your mind:

[weegee]

Women would probably prefer the cutting of the tendon that restrains the tongue, like this guy had done:

[AngryJawa]

"There was a show on TLC or the Discovery Channel a few weeks ago about a guy that wanted to be a cat."

That moron and some other idiot with a forked tongue were on the Halloween freak episode of "Russian Roulette" on the Gameshow Network. Looking at them, I'm ashamed to say, made me wish they were playing the "original" version of the game. As far as the kid in the picture, I figure that a look like that is good for 3-4 beatings a week. What an a$$hat.

[Not A Snowbird]

"The parents gave him the $500 to pay for the mutilation"

Where is the line forming to smack the parents around? I want a shot.

Idiots like this with parents like this are a challenge for those of us trying to hold our kids to some kind of reasonable behavior standard. If I hear "but Roxy's mom let her have her (fill in the blank) pierced" one more time I'm going to throw up.

[Destructor]

Probably the same reason that Gen X girls got those studs in the tongues. Supposed to make oral sex better.

[evets]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/05/13/tongue.splitting.ap/index.html

[Ciexyz]

This is a "sex" thing, right? He did he so he could be better at....oh, never mind.

[aruanan]

What was this kid thinking about?

There is NOTHING going on in this kid's head.

[CyberAnt]

This only points to one thing: an emptiness within.

This can only be filled by Jesus!

No one has to agree with me - this is just my personal opinion!

[Hildy]

It's just another example of how far young people have to go to "think" they are different. It's very sad.