You're going to regret that...

Many tattoos are tribal markings of some kind, even in contemporary cities.
Some are self expressive markings by people who see the body as
a place for that, past the usual things like clothing style and perhaps physical gait.

Some do strike me as a sign of a self destructive mode,

as with the occasional person like the extremely obese young woman who crossed the street in front of my car one day - almost every inch of visible skin tattooed. Yes, she was self expressive, but more must be going on with that, to me, than art play.

I had my ears pierced when I was 30, not because of any residual and/or repressed anger,
but simply because clip earrings HURT so much!

It is much more comfortable to wear earrings now.

Perhaps you shouldn't lump everyone
with a piercing into the same category, David.

My, what a colourful little page that is up there.

I'm impressed by your creativity, everyone.

MARVELLOUS!

Eva wrote:

I had my ears pierced when I was 30, not because of any residual and/or repressed anger,
but simply because clip earrings HURT so much!

It is much more comfortable to wear earrings now.

Perhaps you shouldn't lump everyone
with a piercing into the same category, David.

Yes.
Perhaps I shud not.

I have a hunch that u 'll be safe
from employment discrimination
on the basis of self-mutilation.

David

Lord Ellpus wrote:

My, what a colourful little page that is up there.

I'm impressed by your creativity, everyone.

MARVELLOUS!

I have a shade of green I reserve for groans after reading especially well though out puns. Like this.
I save it for the truely deserving.

OmSigDAVID wrote:

Eva wrote:

I had my ears pierced when I was 30, not because of any residual and/or repressed anger,
but simply because clip earrings HURT so much!

It is much more comfortable to wear earrings now.

Perhaps you shouldn't lump everyone
with a piercing into the same category, David.

Yes.
Perhaps I shud not.

I have a hunch that u 'll be safe
from employment discrimination
on the basis of self-mutilation.

David

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Your hunch would be correct.
I am frequently complimented on my professional appearance...a necessity in public relations.

Wearing conservative yet stylish jewelry, including earrings,

Yes.
I did not mean to imply
anything against jewelry,
nor against earings for ladies.

Quote:

is part of making a good first impression, as you say.
It's comparable to your wearing a conservative, well-tailored, English-cut vested suit.

I wasn't thrilled about getting my ears pierced...
that's why it took me 'til I was 30. But I wasn't willing to continue putting up with constant pain.

No one shud.

Quote:

Try attaching a clothes pin to your earlobe and leaving it there for an 8-10 hour day.

I 'd rather take your word for it.

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Piercing was the only sensible answer.

Good luck with that.

David

Bella Dea wrote:

OmSigDAVID wrote:

Quote:

anyone with enough sense wouldn't bother to hire an arrogant, intolerant ass like yourself...

U think so, huh ?

That did not prove to be true.

When I was still practicing law,
as a trial attorney,
when clients approached me to help them out
with their legal concerns,
thay cared that I 'd get the job done for them SUCCESSFULLY.

Thay paid me hundreds of dollars per hour, for THAT.
Thay did not care about my arrogance nor intolerance.
( In point of fact, thay were eager that I NOT TOLERATE
the abuses of their rights, to which thay had been subjected. )
David

Ah you're in law...that explains it all.

Eva wrote:

...Piercing was the only sensible answer.

Good luck with that.

David

OmSigDAVID wrote:

Eva wrote:

...Piercing was the only sensible answer.

Good luck with that.

David

Thanks...and good luck with those ties!

In case you didn't know, that was a joke.

I believe that I may have been too hard
on people who have tatoos.
Sometimes, my arguments can develop
a momentum that gets too energetic.




Many perfectly honorable people
have had tatoos. Thay r not as
drastic as piercing human flesh
to stuff in jewelry or miscellaneous foreign objects.