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Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings

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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: kendall
Date: 24 May 01 - 08:04 PM

When Thomas Jefferson wanted to make a statement, he wrote the Declaration of Independence, when Abraham Lincoln wanted to make a statement, he wrote the Gettysburg Address, when FDR wanted to make a statement, he gave his "Day of Infamy" speech. My nephew wears baggy pants, green hair, and a face full of schrapnel. Sigh.


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: CarolC
Date: 24 May 01 - 08:07 PM

When my son wants to make a statement, he makes a movie. (Cool!)


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: alison
Date: 24 May 01 - 09:02 PM

OK.. I want to know........ how do you get your back pierced? (someone mentioned it further up the thread).....

somehow I'm getting this vision of someone using it to hang you from a coat peg........

and as for the tongue piercings...... they are supposed to be great for....... well you know....... *grin*.....

maybe one of the fellas can comment....lol...

slainte

alison


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: DougR
Date: 24 May 01 - 09:44 PM

Alison! I'm shocked! You couldn't be referring to er ...well ...you know ...uh ...gulp ...er ...? Are you? :>)

DougR


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Bill D
Date: 24 May 01 - 10:14 PM

I suspect 'that' is like water beds..it sounds exotic, but gets boring and humdrum...(mostly is the 'idea' of it, I'm guessing...if I want to introduce interesting sensations, there are LOTS of ways that dont involve danger and infections


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: alison
Date: 24 May 01 - 10:28 PM

HEY!!!! I like my waterbed!!!!!

but I ain't getting my tongue pierced for anyone..... lol.....

slainte

alison


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Bill D
Date: 24 May 01 - 10:46 PM

I liked MY waterbed for 10-12 years..now it is work..(to get in & out of!)...and piercings? You saw my pic, alison..I don't need more adornment to scare the multitudes!*wink*


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 May 01 - 11:06 PM

I got "Personal Adornments" aplenty. I got scars everydamnwhere. From assorted racing accidents I've been sliced, gouged, broken, and burned. From the damn sailboats I have assorted scars from top to bottom and a 6 inch one up my back from surgery that was a result of catching a blow from a boom in the small of the back, and that one damn near drowned me. Then of late, I've been hacked upon and punctured as needed to repair my heart which is the result of my misspent youth. Plus, I'm about to pick up a couple of small holes to continue the repair.

Why the fuck would I want a tattoo?

Spaw


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Peg
Date: 24 May 01 - 11:16 PM

Tongue piercings are one of the most septic-prone piercings out there; even more than belly buttons. I knew one woman whose tongue piercing got so infected the swelling started to close around the piercing; but to remove the stud would have mneant the flesh woudl seal in the infection and make it worse; she suffered for weeks...our mouths are NOT clean places and that is why lip and tongue piercings are kind of nasty...

Ironically enough, genital piercings are far les prone to infections; urination is one reason they are what is called "self-cleansing" (this is a piercing term), as opposed to other areas where one must clean the piercing repeatedly to prevent infection.

I was engaged to a guy with several genital piercings. He later got a tongue piercing.

(shrug) Nothing special about it either way. There's metal where there wasn't any before. But no new super-powers. I think he thought the added attention might get him more sexual attention; perhaps it did. But I don't think piercings in and of themselves enhance sexual performance or pleasure.

Not in my experience anyway. Though I do like nipple piercings on men.


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Bill D
Date: 24 May 01 - 11:23 PM

*ouch*...my mind just conjures up images of some dissatisfied lady YANKING one...no thanks...


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Bill D
Date: 24 May 01 - 11:25 PM

ummm...spaw...you could just color all the scars with different color magic markers....neat effect, huh?


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 May 01 - 11:45 PM

It's 1942 and my Dad and his friend are going off to war. His friend's father took them to the railroad depot and as they waited for the train, not much was said. Dad had said his goodbye's at home amidst the usual "Be carefuls and Come home safely" type advice. His friend's Dad said nothing, but as they prepared to board the train, he finally spoke:

"Ernie?"
"Yeah Dad?
"There's somethin' I need to say to you."
"Okay Dad....."
"Son, I should've told you this before....."
"Yes Dad?"
"Boy, whatever you do....Don't get tattooed."

Spaw


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 May 01 - 11:52 PM

Spaw, When someone yells "Coming About', you're supposed to duck. Now just maybe some creative type could design around your scars - a map of the world with rivers and capital cities, maybe...


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: mmm
Date: 24 May 01 - 11:58 PM

My kids , the older ones have piercings and tatoos, and their hair has been different interesting shades, I dont really mind it , its not something i would do , would look rather silly on me. I look at it this way my Mom couldn't understand the way I dressed when i was younger so i don't see as this is really any different, just that I am not as freaked out by it as my mom was by the things I wore and did . mmm


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 May 01 - 12:06 AM

Yeah Sins....and when the clevis on the vang snaps you yell, "Aw shit...AAAHHHGGGGHHHH!!!"

Spaw


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 May 01 - 12:20 AM

Spaw. I've alway said if they had to crack me open for heart surgery, I would get a zipper tattooed on the scar afterwards!

I had a friend who was born in Japan while her parents were working over there. She used to joke about having "Made in Japan" tattooed on the bottom of her foot.

Peg, interesting what you say about piercings. If one has each nipple pierced, one can have a lot of fun, wearing a necklace which dissappears into a plunging neckline. Leaves a lot to pique the imagination. No, mine aren't. I did one myself and it hurt so much I took it out and let it close. Likewise, if one has genital piercings, one can have a lot of fun going without undies and attaching some teeny-tiny bells to the rings. Drives people nuts trying to figure out where the ringing is coming from!:->

Not everyone gets tattoos as a sign of rebellion or whatever. A lot of people get them just because it feels good and they consider it art and/or they do it as a spiritual thing. My son has three which he designed himself. My oldest daughter is saving her money for one. Our youngest got her belly done, but had such an allergic reaction to the metal, even the hypo-allergenic, that she had to take it out. It was scary as she got a horribel infection around it, even being as careful as she was.

When I met Rog he had 3 roses on his right shoulder. He told me as an engineer he could never wear a wedding ring, too dangerous, but that when he found the right person, he would get their name tattooed under the roses. THAT to him was a permanent way of making a commitment and is why he has had my name, Kathleen, on his shoulder lo the many years.:-)

kat


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Metchosin
Date: 25 May 01 - 12:35 AM

As far as unusual adornments, nope, most of them are fairly usual for a woman of my age and compexion: freckles and stretch marks. At 5'2" one can't always go from 115lbs. to 167lbs. in the span of nine months, twice, and come back again unscathed. I don't display them publicly, but I do cherish them.


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 May 01 - 12:38 AM

Katmyluv, that's a sweet story, but I can't help but think if he'd had "Gertrude" tattooed there it would've made a lot funnier ending!

Spaw


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Justa Picker
Date: 25 May 01 - 12:49 AM

I once considered a "genital" tattoo that would have read:

Caution: Objects May Appear Larger Than They Seem

...but figured I'd never live it down. :-)


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 May 01 - 12:52 AM

Yeah JP, but to get it all on, they'd have had to start on your stomach!

Spaw


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Justa Picker
Date: 25 May 01 - 12:54 AM

LOL


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Metchosin
Date: 25 May 01 - 01:04 AM

Sort of reminds me of the old joke about the young novice nurse who returned to the nursing station, quite nonplussed, after giving a bath to an older gentleman and noticed he had his nickname "Shorty", tatooed on his penis. One of the more experienced nurses thought that hard to believe and decided to check it out herself. She returned half an hour later somewhat dishevelled and amazed, sat down and somewhat breathlessly said, "It doesn't say Shorty, it says Shorty's Bar and Grill, Shrevesport, Louisiana.


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 May 01 - 01:11 AM

Yeah Mets...but what's the other one where it looks like Wendy but is actually some long phrase beginning with WE and ending with NDY? I suppose I could make one up, but it was funny the way it was.

Spaw


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: mousethief
Date: 25 May 01 - 01:22 AM

CarolC, you had a pet rat? You rock. I had a pet rat named Izzy about 3 years ago and she was awesome. I never tried to smuggle her into a movie theatre, though. But I was like the Pied Piper when I took her to the park on her leash. All the kids crowded 'round me and their mothers stood 20 feet back and yelled, "I'll be right here when you're done looking!"

Alex


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Metchosin
Date: 25 May 01 - 01:27 AM

Sorry don't know that one Spaw, but I'm sure, given your prodigous capabilities, you could do just as well.*BG*


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 25 May 01 - 02:13 AM

A British tourist is on vacation and goes into the bathroom (loo). He is standing at the urinal when a dread-locked islander walks up next to him and begins to pee. The Englishman glances over, smiles, and says "I hope you don't find this improper, but I couldn't help noticing you have a "W" and a "Y" tattooed on your member. I also have these letters tattooed. When fully extended, it reads "Wendy", my wife's name. Are you also married to a Wendy?"

"Ah no, mon. When fully extended mine reads "Welcome to Barbados! Have a nice day!"

Anyway, tattoos are associated in my mind with Navy Veterans of World War 2, and always looked like something that needed to be scrubbed off. However, it does strike me as an amazing marketing achievement that so many half-wits choose to have the Harley-Davidson logo tattooed on their bodies. Body piercing, I believe, has little to do with beautification or individualism, and a hell of a lot to do with low self-regard and mortification of the flesh. Every person I see with rivets and knobs sticking out of their faces seems to be saying "Look at Me, for God's sake! Can't you see I'm in pain!"


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: CarolC
Date: 25 May 01 - 03:43 AM

Yeah, mousethief, I had several back in the early 1970s when I still lived with my parents. My first and favorite was Simon. He's the one I took to the movies.

I used to let him run free around the house some of the time, and he would come when I called him. At night, he used to like to go check on everybody while they were sleeping and then he'd come and beg food from me to take to his nest.


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 25 May 01 - 03:48 AM

One earing. Thinking of an anchor tatoo on one arm and a celtic band tatooed around the other. Any truth in the rumour that the bands were to show how far you can push your arm up a cows bum???

I like waterbeds as well. But never ever ever get one pierced...;-)

I think I have mentioned it somewhere before but in the window of the tatooists at Whitby it says words to the effect "The difference between people with tatooes and without is that the ones with never take offence at the ones without."

Cheers

DtG


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 May 01 - 04:17 AM

Why did I know I could count on you Leej?

Spaw


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: GUEST,Joe
Date: 25 May 01 - 04:22 AM

Hello Well myself I have four tattoos and you can't see any of them when I wear a t-shirt All of them have a personal meaning to me. I could literally be covered with tattoos since my friend is a tattoo artist,but I learned after having my first tattoo covered up you really need to know what you want where you want it and why. I have no piercings and don't really care to have any. I have wanted a tattoo ever since I was 7 I got my first one at the age of 20. Tattoos are not for everyone It is a personal choice as with anything else and if you are thinking about getting one get all the facts and know for damn sure what you want and how you want it. I have also found getting other tats and trying to get them to blend together later is a pain if you don't have a plan worked out.I can also say I'M NOT A TRENDY ASSHOLE DO WHAT I WANT DO WHAT I FEEL LIKE(OFFSPRING).Hey Cat some people get tattoos to show where they've been or to reflect a little of themselves,like when sailors sail the seven seas they would pierce there ear as a symbol but all the scars you have shown what you been thru and what type of person you are(tough as nails).I do know a women who got tats though to cover up scars she recieved in a car wreck.Metchosin Well you might find this strange but I find stretch marks from giving birth to be very attractive.


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Lyndi-loo
Date: 25 May 01 - 04:22 AM

On the bosom of sweet Abigail
Was tatooed the price of her tail
and on her behind
For the use of the blind
Was the same information in Braille


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: kendall
Date: 25 May 01 - 07:23 AM

My wife and I had a water bed, it didn't help, in fact, I called it THE DEAD SEA.

Bill, the way to avoid dissatisfied women is, make sure they are SATISFIED!


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: jeffp
Date: 25 May 01 - 09:18 AM

Two other variations on the tattooed peter joke:

Puny -> Punxsutawney

TINY -> TICONDEROGA, NY

For myself, one earring, not tattoos.

jeffp


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Kim C
Date: 25 May 01 - 09:49 AM

Yes, pet rats and battle scars count.

My tattoos are for fun. When I want to make a statement, I write a song. :-)


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Les from Hull
Date: 25 May 01 - 10:18 AM

I don't know how true this is but one tradition of sailors and gold earrings is supposed to relate to having enough gold available to pay for the cost of a proper funeral of the washed-up body of a drowned sailor.

Les (not tattooed or pierced at all)


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Kim C
Date: 25 May 01 - 10:49 AM

Hey Les, I heard that, but I also heard another one... that some of the sailors, having been to the Far East, were acquainted with the principles of acupuncture. Supposedly there is a pressure point in the earlobe that when manipulated properly can ward off a headache. Thus they could sorta tug on that earring to ease the pain. I don't know.


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Lyndi-loo
Date: 25 May 01 - 10:53 AM

I'd have thought a mere headache wouldn't have bothered them after having been flogged and keelhauled. I don't suppose acupuncture could take away the pain of that

LL (who's a great believer in the power of acupuncture)


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Kim C
Date: 25 May 01 - 11:20 AM

The crew of the Bounty was documented as having been "heavily tatowed." I don't know about their piercings, though.


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Les from Hull
Date: 25 May 01 - 11:26 AM

Tattooing was always a nautical thing. Coming as I do from a seaport town, I recognised that the first thing that young lads back home from their first trip to sea (either deep-sea fishing or merchant ships) was to get a tattoo.


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Kim C
Date: 25 May 01 - 11:44 AM

There's documentation for tattoo artists in the Union Army during the Civil War. 'Course they didn't have eletric needles back then... also I read that in the mid 19-th century, tattoos were a fad among the European royals.


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: GUEST,Leprechaun
Date: 25 May 01 - 11:49 AM

I find tattoos quite useful. I can't count the number of time people have lied to me about their names, and then I figure out who they are based on their tattoos. Then off to jail they go!


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Bill D
Date: 25 May 01 - 11:57 AM

....just reading and noting that "tattoo" must be one of the more frequently misspelled words around. I chat online with someone who HAS tattoos, and seems to have a mental block against putting in the 2nd 't'.... one interesting 'spelling checker' is a search engine. I searched on 'tattoo' and got 566,088 hits...but still got 50,136 on 'tatoo'.

(in my mind, 'tatoo' would be pronounced TAYtoo)

ok, carry on...don't mind the nit picker


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Kim C
Date: 25 May 01 - 12:04 PM

Bad spellers of the world, UNTIE!


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Bill D
Date: 25 May 01 - 12:18 PM

(I used to actually possess a pamphlet on population with a rubber-stamped label by the "Untied Wichita ZPG".)


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Biskit
Date: 25 May 01 - 05:02 PM

Half Wit!!??L EJ I'd match you wit for wit anyday mate! as for my Harley Tattoo If I had to explain,...you still wouldn't understand. Peace, Biskit


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: DougR
Date: 25 May 01 - 05:17 PM

As a guy, kat, I can imagine it would be a lot of fun looking for the source of the ringing! :>)

DougR


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 May 01 - 05:34 PM

I am sure it would be, DougeR! Just the thought of it puts a big smile on my face! :->


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Ruthie A
Date: 25 May 01 - 05:49 PM

Another story I heard about pirates and hoop earrings was that they believed they would improve their eyesight. I'm currently trying to convince my parents that a few more piercings would mean they wouldn't have to buy glasses or contact lenses for me ever again. It's not working.

Ruthie


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: Amergin
Date: 25 May 01 - 05:53 PM

let me see...i have both ears pierced...and a tattoo of a smiley face on the back of my hand...between the thumb and the forefinger....


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Subject: RE: Sorta BS: Tattoos & Piercings
From: GUEST,John Gray/Australia
Date: 25 May 01 - 07:57 PM

When the sailor was asked, why he married the fat, tattooed, lady he replied ; she gives me warmth in the winter, shade in the summer, and moving pictures all year round.

Back in 64 I was 16 year old sailor on a carrier that pulled into Hong Kong. Us young blokes all trooped up to Pinkies, the most famous tattoo artist in the world, to get the obligatory tattoo. Almost like a rite of passage for Australian sailors of the time. We had to wait whilst he pierced a woman's ear. We had enough beer in us to say hey - lets get an ear ring instead of a tattoo. This in a time when male piercings were unheard of. We thought we were the coolest things on the planet but our captain didn't. He was horrified to find several of his young sailors sporting ear rings. He was pretty astute though. His ruling came down that unless we could prove we had Gypsy blood in us within 48 hours we had to take them out. Well, we hadn't received any advice as to maintaining the hygiene of the piercing so in two days they were mightily infected and, as they were too painful to touch, we fronted up to the sickbay to have them removed. The doctor took one look and said; self-inflicted wound, pissoff. We ended up in the shipwright's shop with a plumber cutting out the ear rings with a pair of side cutters. Now that was a lesson that impacted on us, and I still didn't get the tattoo. All this knowledge was to no avail when the lady in my life became attracted to piercings, at the age of 48! Well Kat, the down south bells are a lot of fun and yes, the tinkling does leave some with furrowed brows.

JG/ F.M.E.


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