One Earring or Two?

[OverEasy]

If you are walking down the side of the road with a gas can or are in a parking lot with you hood up, if I see you and I don't like the way you look, I'll just keep on driving!
You can look any way you want to look, 'pink spiked mohawk' if you want. Just don't be disappointed if I drive on by.
Hey, the next guy to come along with a 'pink spiked mohawk' will probably stop and help you out.

Remember, you only get one chance at 'making a first impression'.

And just to be honest. If you are standing along side the road in a 3 piece suit next to your new BMW I won't stop for you either, but I'll honk, smile and wave as I go by.

Now, get off my lawn! OE

[anygunanywhere]

There is nothing wrong with living in reality and everyone needs to try it every now and then.

Yes, character matters. Yes, we need to look on the inside. Yes, we should be slow to judge. Rebellious spirits are out there and lots of us share that trait on occasion.

Reality is when you are interviewing for a job and those really rebellious tatoos and piercings keep you from getting a good job. The degree that we try to not conform to society we always wind up conforming to something else and wind up being labeled and possibly discriminated against for our looks.

Perhaps discussions such as these help break down walls.

Anygunanywhere

[FIFTY]

Morphed changes in sexuality to some extent are due in no small part to chemical contamination of the environment. One needs only to look at the increasingly high rate of homosexual activity on the Gulf Coast after the post WWII industrialization, where ninety per cent of the nation's chemical are manufactured. The effects of this pollution on fetal development in the womb, especially from plastics, has very likely contributed to the marked increase in homosexual activity in both sexes in the third and fourth generations of the affected population.

Can you cite a source for this information?

[richbrismith]

I had my left pierced, but haven't worn them in over 10yrs- I guess it something some of us just grow out of. I kinda ghuckle now when I see old guys whereing them- its like they still think they're young-LOL

[nuparadigm]

The question of manliness of earrings kind of reminds me of some of the words to Terry Allen's song, Amarillo Highway:

"Well, I don't wear no Stetson
But I'm willin' to bet, Son
I'm as big a Texan as you are.
There's a girl in my backseat
Asleep in her barefeet
An' my trunk's full of Pearl an' Lonestar"

[casingpoint]

Fifty: No particular sources, just many years reading the news where that subject would manifest itself. Many chemicals appear alter the structure of DNA at the embryonic level in animals and humans. Just my take on the matter as a message board expert. With such low or even non-existant threshold of credibility, I'll never make it onto the pages of Scientific American. That's why I publish here.

[Count]

I had my left pierced, but haven't worn them in over 10yrs- I guess it something some of us just grow out of. I kinda ghuckle now when I see old guys whereing them- its like they still think they're young-LOL

The watch guys are even worse. The young earring guys seem to go for the flashy BLING like in the original post but the old guys usually wear tasteful, understated studs or small hoops. The young watch guys wear a TAG or similar watch in stainless or titanium but a lot of the older watch guys wear gaudy, ostentatious displays that make me wonder why they're overcompensating.

[The Annoyed Man]

Reality is when you are interviewing for a job and those really rebellious tatoos and piercings keep you from getting a good job. The degree that we try to not conform to society we always wind up conforming to something else and wind up being labeled and possibly discriminated against for our looks.

Perhaps discussions such as these help break down walls.

Anygunanywhere

I have no problem with that, and if I were the one doing the hiring, I still might choose the more "straight arrow" looking applicant, if the job is going to involve customer contact, and things like that. But that still doesn't mean that I think the "non-traditional" looking applicant has less personal integrity or strength of character, nor do I have any particular basis on which to question their masculinity - which was directly alluded to in the OP. So sure, there is such a thing as the practical aspects of how we look, and if someone wants to have a pink mohawk and wear a nose ring, they should do it with the certain knowledge that their appearance will necessarily block their access to certain things in life, and not complain about it; but that is no reason for me (or anyone else for that matter) to disrespect that person.

[WildBill]

What do you think about this phenomenon?

Morphed changes in sexuality to some extent are due in no small part to chemical contamination of the environment. One needs only to look at the increasingly high rate of homosexual activity on the Gulf Coast after the post WWII industrialization, where ninety per cent of the nation's chemical are manufactured. The effects of this pollution on fetal development in the womb, especially from plastics, has very likely contributed to the marked increase in homosexual activity in both sexes in the third and fourth generations of the affected population.

This is most definitely not true and I have absolute scientific proof to prove it. All of the scientific research papers and the research that I have read and the scientific research that I have personally performed or performed under my supervision at some of the nation's leading Universities show that chemical contamination of the environment leads to mutations in DNA in the fetal development in the womb that cause testosterone levels to rise to exteme levels in the third and fourth generation of males of the affected population.

One only needs to look at the increasingly high rate of manly activities and stereotypical male behavior that have been occurring with increasing regularity on the Gulf Coast since the industrialization of producing commericial chemical products and plastics in refineries after WWII such as driving pickup trucks, chasing girls, playing sports in high school, watching professional sports on TV, listening to country music, shooting guns, posting things about guns on internet forums, hunting, grilling and smoking meat and meat products, guzzling beer, swilling Crown and Coke, chewing tobacco, spitting into Dr. Pepper bottles, and smoking cigarettes and cigars.
What more proof does one need?

[Bunkins]

Earring's have never made me think twice about anyone. Although the rings that make put a big nasty lookin hole in your ear ( even the little ones ) I cant stand. Mostly because of how it looks, just not right, though doesnt make me think anything negative about the person that has them.. I would however NOT hire someone with ears like that for the whole reason if getting ears caught in machinery..

For some reason I've always wanted a tongue ring, or a bar to be exact. When I'm really focusing on something I tend to suck on my tongue a lot, causing dry mouth and sometimes sores. Always thought that having something else to tinker with would stop that. Gum and sun flower seeds dont work for me. Though with my heath problems and the issues that can come up during the healing process after having your tongue pierced, it wouldnt be in my best interest. I came really close a few times though..


When I was 12 yrs old I had a Mohawk and ponytail, kept it until I was 15.. No real reason, I just liked it. Didnt care what others thought about it, I did it just because.. Though I had a cruel trick played on me, shaved my head when I was 16, grew my hair back in at 17 and the middle was missing Not just a little, all of it, front to the top of my head I kept my head shaved from then on out, had a goatee when I was 16. About a month ago I shaved my goatee off, you talk about a funny feeling, 9 yrs of hair on your face, then all the sudden you have none.. I liked how it made me look younger though ( I looked old for being 25 )..

Things like that dont bother me, I just overlook it.... The only thing I dont care for are tattoo's, on guys I could care less, but not on women. The only time I've considered not hiring someone is if whatever they have done would cause trouble when working around machinery. Even if someone says they wont take a ring off I wont hire them ( every seen what happens to a finger when you short a ring across a battery? ).. Otherwise, how ever they choose to express themselves, even if thats not the reason for it ( doing it just, because ) I dont give it a second thought.

[casingpoint]

This is most definitely not true and I have absolute scientific proof to prove it

Well, you ought to publish it.

A simple Google search yields the following links, among hundreds. God knows what a search of the bona fide scientific data on the subject would reveal.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 55688.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://archive.greenpeace.org/toxics/re ... sfrep.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_o ... 0799014d07" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1641/B581108" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.worldandi.com/public/2001/October/sax.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[mrvmax]

I work with a guy that has "ring" sized holes in his ears, with earrings in them. I know it is hard to picture, but it basically looks like a big hole in his earlobe with a "ring" holding the opening open. It's like the pictures you would see of the tribes in Africa that would put larger and larger rings in their ears. I have seem some weird piercings, but this white dude looked weird.

[dewayneward]

I had been biting my tongue not to respond to the relativistic posts (everyone has their own truth type comments and the do not judge type ones)....

Get real, we all judge and we all think we're right....

examples of refutations:

person 1: "it is not right to judge"

person 2: "what did you just do? you made a judgment"

or

person 1: "Everyone has their own truth, and no one is right"

person 2:" Do you think what you are saying is true?"

Look, we all think we're right and we all judge. I love the one offs and all about the guy with tattoos and earrings that was the most wonderful person in the world, but that is the exception and not the rule.

when I was at a gas station and some guy with a tarantula tattoo on HIS NECK is asking me for money using the ole' my 18 mo old daughter is in a car in some undisclosed location, you better believe I was making judgments by what I was seeing.

I know we have gotten off track from the original post, but it is ridiculous to hear how people "dont judge" and we should see the inner beauty of the person or something.

By some of the posters' logic, if some guy who is wearing earrings and has tattoos is knocking on your door at 1am, you are going to answer it and see if he is selling girl scout cookies or something. He may just be lost or needs a hug or something.

I certainly hope that some of the posters just simply dont believe what they were writing.

[Oldgringo]

dewayneward wrote:

By some of the posters' logic, if some guy who is wearing earrings and has tattoos is knocking on your door at 1am, you are going to answer it and see if he is selling girl scout cookies or something. He may just be lost or needs a hug or something.

[jbirds1210]

By some of the posters' logic, if some guy who is wearing earrings and has tattoos is knocking on your door at 1am, you are going to answer it and see if he is selling girl scout cookies or something. He may just be lost or needs a hug or something.

You have passed judgement and assumed that people with an opinion that differs from yours is dumb. Mmmm girl scout cookies.