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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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" :-)
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I counted my ear piercings as one, btw. Also, does this mean we're going to get pictures of NWS piercings now? ;)
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I suppose it's geeky because of its origin (Discworld) but definitions of geeky vary.
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How many holes do you have pierced in each ear?
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(Not wimpy enough to back out of the NWS piercing, but still...)
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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.
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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.
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It may be moot anyway for me, since I haven't tried putting earrings into the second set in about two years now...
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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" :-)
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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.
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