About them nose rings

[Baroque Brass]

For reasons I cannot comprehend, piercing the cartilage that separates the nostrils and inserting a hoop through it is popular. I find it disgusting, no matter how nice, competent or beautiful the wearer may be. I don’t want anyone with a nose ring handling my food.

I’ve been hit in the nose and it hurts. It hurts a lot. I can’t imagine how the pain one must endure having that hole made can justify wearing something that pig farmers use to keep pigs from rooting. What happens when the wearer has a cold? How do they wipe their nose? Can this accessory be removed and cleaned occasionally? I guess employers can’t tell the employee the ring has to be removed when on the job.

Pardon me, my conservative streak is showing again.

 

[specialk]

but all the cool kids are doing it !!!!

 

[1eyefishing]

It always looks to me like they've got one hanging at first glance.

 

[Batjack]

I like to keep a leash in my back pocket. When I see one of "them" I just go "Psst.. come here.." then click the leash on "it" and treat them like a prize pig at market. Ain't been locked up yet for it.... yet.

 

[snookdoctor]

I think that's where you clip the leash.
Apparently they like to be led.

 

[ol bob]

Had to quit the local post office because the post master has one, couldn't stand to look at her.

 

[leroy]

I dont understand any of the face piercings, studs, etc

 

[RamblinWreck88]

Looks funny to me if I think about it, but I really don't spend that much time worrying about how others look.

One of my coworkers has gotten a nose piercing and several other piercings. My boss had the same reaction as y'all, and still periodically asks him "Why did you do that to yourself?" But he's specializing in a cutting-edge area of computer science, so I reckon his next job won't care either way.

 

[campboy]

I dont understand any of the face piercings, studs, etc

And the stupid ear lobe things

 

[GeorgiaBob]

The more recent generations have a large number of members who play at life and affect strange disfigurements. I have never found tattoos to be attractive or meaningful, yet it appears the majority of people under 40 have at least one. We cannot even mention here on GON some of the places males and females have pierced their bodies and attached pieces of metal, plastic, or bone!
Yuck!

 

[mallardsx2]

It would be the first thing I would grab in a street fight. lol

 

[NE GA Pappy]

It would be the first thing I would grab in a street fight. lol

don't you know it... and twist it real hard, then jerk

 

[JustUs4All]

Every time I see one of those single nostril piercings I am struck by a question. When the piercing victim has a cold and blows its nose will snot bubbles be produced?

 

[SarahFair]

They don't bother me, but don't mind if that's what I'm staring at when talking to you

 

[Pig Predator]

People have been piercing their noses, ears and getting tattoos for thousands of years. I don't think the "trend" is going away any time soon.

 

[gobbleinwoods]

People have been piercing their noses, ears and getting tattoos for thousands of years. I don't think the "trend" is going away any time soon.

But think about what cultures have done it for 1000's of years. Those doing it now must want to be, I better stop now!

 

[Nicodemus]

But think about what cultures have done it for 1000's of years. Those doing it now must want to be, I better stop now!

Right offhand, the Vikings, Celts, and most of the eastern Native American tribes.

 

[gobbleinwoods]

Right offhand, the Vikings, Celts, and most of the eastern Native American tribes.

I was thinking more of the Maasai, Zulu, Bushman, and Samburu

 

[tree cutter 08]

Just goes to show people's been stupid since the beginning of time

 

[NCHillbilly]

I was thinking more of the Maasai, Zulu, Bushman, and Samburu

Most of which are pretty cool people, IMO.

I don't want any piercings myself, but they don't really bother me.

I do find it funny that probably every one of our wives has holes poked in her earlobes with metal rings stuck through them, and that's fine and normal, but if you put one through any other body part, it's suddenly abnormal and disgusting? Poking holes in your ears and sticking metal in them is no less strange than poking a hole in your nose and sticking metal in it, if you think about it.