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[ewx]

[Poll #1023651]

FTAOD I was thinking of intentional cosmetic modifications, but feel free to tell me about your neural jacks, consensual alien parasites, nanotech imune system upgrades, etc.

Comments

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

Contemplating body modification, are we? |-)

I counted my ear piercings as one, btw. Also, does this mean we're going to get pictures of NWS piercings now? ;)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

The subject arose on IRC and it seemed like a good one for a poll...

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

Bah, I shall be gutted if I'm the only one with NWS mods, but I get the feeling I won't be. ;)

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I've also counted my ear piercings that way - 4 holes, 2 sets of piercings.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

My actual tattoo is worksafe, but I certainly wouldn't show it to anyone at work. It shows in a swimsuit or short shorts, but I wouldn't be wearing those at work...

I suppose it's geeky because of its origin (Discworld) but definitions of geeky vary.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

I counted my ear piercings as one, btw.

How many holes do you have pierced in each ear?

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

Only one in each, for I am a wimp. ;)

(Not wimpy enough to back out of the NWS piercing, but still...)

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Ah, well I've wimped out of getting my tragus pierced for ages now, so I'm sure we're just as wimpy. (It would make wearing earphones hard.)

I've got 5 piercings in each ear, but they aren't symmetrical, so I'd find it very odd to describe those as one piercing.

[lnr]

Yeah, I've three in one and two in the other, one of the latter being in the top rather than the lobe. I'm counting each of those separately, regardless of when they were done.

To me it seems odd to count one-in-each-ear as one piercing, particularly given this doesn't then distinguish from people who have only had one ear pierced.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I was pierced on two occasions, and wear either one or two pairs of earrings, so it seems odd to me to think of them as four separate holes, since they don't have four separate identities, unlike, say, one set of ear piercings, a nose, a belly button, and something NSFW, which I'd think of as four, not five.

It may be moot anyway for me, since I haven't tried putting earrings into the second set in about two years now...

[lnr]

I see what you mean. Mind you even when I only had one in each ear I didn't always wear earrings as pairs. Not least as a result of losing one of a favourite pair and not wanting to stop wearing the other occasionally.

[simont]

getting my tragus pierced

An odd thing I notice about body piercing is that more than any other phenomenon in the world it causes me to learn the names of body parts I hadn't previously known. It's just caused me to look up "tragus" on Wikipedia, and it was another person talking about piercings a couple of years ago who caused me to look up where one's septum might be. Piercers and piercees seem to be the only people (other than, I must presume, those in the medical profession) with a serious need to identify such bits of the body with more precision and efficiency than "that bobbly bit at the front of your ear" :-)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Personally, I count each hole as a piercing - so I've got one. (Otherwise, there'd be no distinction between one in each ear, and a single ear.)

I can see an argument that a simple ear piercing isn't quite as ... committed ... as a Prince Albert. Perhaps we should have a weighting table.

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

Is it true there once existed a shop window ad saying "Ears pierced while you wait" ?

[hotbadgerdeluxe.livejournal.com]

There was a stall on Truro market that said that.

[tla]

I have two holes in one ear and one hole in the other, so I counted them each separately. Seemed to make most sense that way.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

I was assuming ear piercings count as two, as they are two seperate holes.

I had a very small operation to cut the small flap of skin you get in the middle of your upper teeth, and of course have the stick-inna-arm.

[naath.livejournal.com]

I didn't count the stick, but I did count my ears (one in each) as two.

[rmc28]

I counted my pair as 2. There is a second pair of holes, but they closed up some years ago, so I didn't count them.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, is a navel piercing worksafe or not? Probably is because showing it in public isn't going to get me arrested for indecent exposure, but it's not exactly something that would be suitable to display at work.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I'd normally interpret 'work safe' as regarding whether someone might get sacked for having it on their screen. Obviously there's variation in how strict employers are but I'd expect only the very strictest to object to unclothed middles, so I'd say a navel piercing was likely to be work safe.

[lnr]

Oh, I didn't think to count mine as not work-safe. I don't tend to display it at work. But then I don't tend to display it socially. This is more due to fat bellies being considered socially unacceptable in public then to navel piercing in particular.

[songster.livejournal.com]

I've counted plastic surgery for correction of congenital abnormalities (cleft lip and palate) as "some other kind of body modification", though the purpose of it clearly differs from cosmetic adornment.

[lnr]

I was going to count, but then I realised with 3 in one ear alone I didn't really need to bother.

[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

Does a cervical piercing count as work-safe?

Not that I have one, I hasten to add.

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Now that is an extreme mod.

[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I'm fairly certain this link is NOT work safe. http://modblog.bmezine.com/index.php?s=cervical+piercing

[gerald_duck]

I have a scar; that's arguably a negative cosmetic modification, but it's minor and accidental so I didn't include it.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Indeed, I was thinking of things intended for positive cosmetic purposes.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I counted my ears seperately. I might get tattoed at some point, but I'm also considering trying it out with eyeliner first. All WS.

In fact, one of coworkers has a back tattoo which is occasionally visible, and another has a belly button piercing likewise. So they're WS, because I work in a primary school and it's really strict.

[auntysarah.livejournal.com]

I clicked "I have some other kind of body modification", but there is some debate between me and the_local_echo about whether it counts, as it's a "correction" rather than a "modification".

[fanf]

Am I being willfully obtuse by counting shaving, cutting hair, adjusted teeth, etc.?

[lnr]

I think teeth might count, especially if it's something done mostly for cosmetic purposes. Hair and shaving aren't really permanent enough I'd have thought.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

defo.

[j4.livejournal.com]

I now see that other people have counted (presumably a pair of) ear piercings as one. I currently have two pairs of ear piercings (amounting to a total of four holes), but I am planning to get another (single) one on Friday. :)

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

The closest I've got is a pair of corneal upgrades, and very fine they are too!

[sparrowsion]

I guess if songster and auntysarah are taking that position, for consistency's sake I should too.

[kjaneway.livejournal.com]

I had some standard ear piercings, whihc are entirely healed over.

I do fancy a Haida Raven tattooed on the small of my back, though.

[covertmusic.livejournal.com]

Two (permanent) dental crowns, because of an accident. Do those count?

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Total holes, 5; total actual separate piercing events, 4. Still >3 :-) Ambitions for more piercings, 1; tattoos I'd love but will never be able to get because tats squick M completely, 2.

Not having any NWS piercings though. My bits work just fine as is, and I don't trust bits of metal near my nerves.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

I have enough body modifications[0] without adding any for cosmetic purposes ;P

[0] Lots of small unintentional scars and a couple of major better-be-intentional[1] ones
[1] Open heart surgery

[hazyjayne.livejournal.com]

I have some other kind of body modification

Cut marks that were made deliberatly, but have now faded.

I need to get them redone and added to at some point. The problem is in the eyes of the law although you can make holes in people with their consent you cannot make cut marks.

Also, I sometimes have lots of bruises. :)

[keirf.livejournal.com]

If they're consensual are they parasites?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Have you asked them?

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

On behalf of my brother stu_dio, who is hardly ever on lj:
Piercings - yes! Nostril [years ago, maybe healed], both nipples (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stu_dio/330520813/in/set-72157600519767307/), one or possibly both conches (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stu_dio/331754942/in/set-72157600519767307/), tongue IIRC)

Tattoos - three that I'm aware of, one of which is Not Small (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stu_dio/359423808/in/set-72157600519767307/), and one Large (spikey tribal design, just visible in that pic on his shoulder blade - it goes across to the other shoulder, down his back and continues most of the way down one (possibly both) legs.

Other mods, NWSness - well not as far as *I* know ! 8-)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Counted each hole in each ear separately (2 holes per ear). Nothing exciting, I'm afraid!