Thread: Earring question for the guys

Hell no!

Hell no. Earrings are gay... Guages are cool

I have both ears pierced.

Originally posted by Metal V Player
I have both ears pierced.

Did you not vote?

Getting my lip and brow done when I go get my tat (bitch is expensive) in a few months.

Originally posted by Metal V Player
I have both ears pierced.

just like big boi of outkast

3 pierces in my left ear.

3 pierces in my right ear.

Did my nose in Israel in 1993.

My tongue in 1998.

Don't wear any of them anymore and I look like a clean-cut boy.

I honestly thought more people would have replied "Yes"

The gay ear thing is so so passé. It got real popular in the 70’s with guys that wanted to emulate the cartoon “French” looking character on the zig-zag brand marijuana wrapping papers. It was a covert marker for “hey I am cool I kinda secretly smoke dope – let’s roll one and have sex”. It also was coincidental to the social experiment at the time when men were exploring their “feminine side” (a’ la Allan Alda and real-men eat quiche etc.). So it also became a marker of a man in touch with his feminine side which clashed with the attempt for a sophisticated macho connotation that the original wave of guys tried to express. The social hijacking was very funny to watch for me personally. Then it just caught on with everyone over the next 10 years because it took on a more general marker to signal that you walked a bit on the wilder side of things – whatever the hell that meant (since it was now so ambiguous). Basically the ambiguity then permitted it to became a trans-generational and social marker that advertises “hey I am in the same club as you – a little naughty and cool like you – but it’s all good”. That’s when it got gay. Then it all got washed out and common since everyone started doing it and no one really liked how the religion got washed out and over general.

Now I routinely see really old guys doing it to act like they re young. The young are annoyed and now don’t want to accept the old farts to the club so many stop wearing them and got into lip piercing and extreme tattoo thing and so on. It’s really pretty entertaining to watch. But at the same time it’s sad to see how trivially minded most people are with their own identities.

Here we go again,
OD

i had 2 in my left and one in my right but higher up. had my nose peicerd and my tongue but now have none. still got the holes in my left thou never really closed up

A hole in each ear, and one in the tounge, but now I dont wear any

lots!

I'm one of the old guys OD is referring to. Hopefully one day I'll find my identy in one of many piercings or tattoos.

I had 1 ear pierced several years ago but that technically isnt a choice on the poll.

Hell no, personally I just like tattoos.

its all about the Abercrombie & Fitch look

clean cut, no piercings, no tattoos !!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by PreMier
Did you not vote?

Forgot to, but I did just now.

Originally posted by oaktownboy just like big boi of outkast

Dont know who that is.

I have 2 in my left ear and 1 in my right. I just pierced them because I wanted to. And I did them myself. When I did it it wasnt even popular. Now all the heavy musicians here in Dallas have them, as well as the footlong Dimebag Darrel goatee. But I just have a "Batista". Cant pull off an Italian double-double breated suit (all I own) with footlong chin whiskers. Well.... not very well anyways.

I used to have both ears pierced and my cartilage pierced. At the time I liked it but I had to take them all out for work, and I now prefer the completely clean cut look.

Originally posted by BigBallaGA
its all about the Abercrombie & Fitch look

clean cut, no piercings, no tattoos !!!!!!!!!

I'm not sure about the A&F reference, but I prefer no piercings and no tattoos on me.

I am sporting the facial hair these days though.

Originally posted by MonStar
I used to have both ears pierced and my cartilage pierced. At the time I liked it but I had to take them all out for work, and I now prefer the completely clean cut look.

^^ Yup - the clean, disease free, fit look is definitely in. There are so few people like this any more it has become the rare exception. Add a little bit of intelligence and education to the mix and you are in the upper 5% of the population. Then you stand out like some kind of supernatural being walking among a crowd of lepers and everyone wants to touch you to see what you are made of.

-OD

I am taking my daughter today to get her's pierced today....was halfway thinking of getting mine done as well...guess I will not

I have no earrings. I have thought about it though.

Originally posted by Pepper
I am taking my daughter today to get her's pierced today....was halfway thinking of getting mine done as well...guess I will not

Good call bud

Originally posted by OceanDude
^^ Yup - the clean, disease free, fit look is definitely in. There are so few people like this any more it has become the rare exception. Add a little bit of intelligence and education to the mix and you are in the upper 5% of the population. Then you stand out like some kind of supernatural being walking among a crowd of lepers and everyone wants to touch you to see what you are made of.

-OD

LOL

I don't wear jewelery.

I have both ears pierced and my belly buttom but I don't wear anything in them anymore...

2holes in left, 1 in right. I haven't worn and earring in a year or so though.

Still have a bar in my tongue though. No tats.

Gee, I almost feel old fasioned. I've got one in the left ear. (Left is right, right is WRONG. ) Also one tattoo on my left upper arm.

Originally posted by ALBOB
Gee, I almost feel old fasioned. I've got one in the left ear. (Left is right, right is WRONG. ) Also one tattoo on my left upper arm.

Wow, with the exception of the tatoo, you ARE Mr. Clean.