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WCDT Strips 3036 - 3040 (31 August to 4 September 2015)
swapna:
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--- Quote from: swapna on 03 Sep 2015, 04:20 ---I can understand that kind of view very well - body mods are always a risk, one way or the other (allergic reaction, hitting a nerve...), for... fashion, more or less. If you exchange your grey shirt for a red one, or getting your hair cut in a practical way, you don't risk infection just for fashion. Yes, fashion - asserting your identity would be a lot different if everybody got modded, and the way people get mods changes over time as well.
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Virtually nothing in life worth having comes without risk. In fact, plenty of things in life that are deemed essential - crossing the street, getting into a car, ever, getting surgery on something non-life threatening - have plenty of risk.
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Yes, but those may be worth it, for some reason. Risking infections or dead nerves just because you want a fashionable piece of metal through a body part isn't worth the risk, for me at least.
--- Quote from: Nepiophage on 03 Sep 2015, 09:31 ---
--- Quote from: swapna on 03 Sep 2015, 04:20 ---Also, when I see a septum piercing, I always think of cows. I can't help myself.
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I've never seen or heard of a cow with a nose ring. Do you mean a bull? Or is it (as I am beginning to suspect) that in the USA "cow" means any bovine regardless of age or sex, not specifically an adult female after her first calf?
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Not a native English speaker. I thought 'cow' was yes, an adult female, but also a colloquial blanket term for cattle.
chaospersonified:
--- Quote from: swapna on 03 Sep 2015, 09:52 --- for me at least.
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And that's the thing.
It's a personal choice and people shouldn't be judged harshly because they like how a nose ring looks, even if you personally believe it looks bovine. You like septum piercings, get one. You don't like them, whatever your reasons, don't. Simple as that.
Personally, I'm a fan, but I'd look like an idiot with one. My face is all wrong, and I'm terrified of needles besides. So I'm right in the middle, got mad respect for anyone who does it, never doing it myself
Thrillho:
I don't much care for the way the word 'fashion' is being used either.
swapna:
--- Quote from: chaospersonified on 03 Sep 2015, 11:07 ---
--- Quote from: swapna on 03 Sep 2015, 09:52 --- for me at least.
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And that's the thing.
It's a personal choice and people shouldn't be judged harshly because they like how a nose ring looks, even if you personally believe it looks bovine. You like septum piercings, get one. You don't like them, whatever your reasons, don't. Simple as that.
Personally, I'm a fan, but I'd look like an idiot with one. My face is all wrong, and I'm terrified of needles besides. So I'm right in the middle, got mad respect for anyone who does it, never doing it myself
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I've never said I don't want others to get them or whatever - that's completely fine, I really don't care. I won't judge anybody for body mods - it's their decision what they want to do with their body. I was just trying to explain my point of view: I don't care to modify my body, except if it has real, measurable benefits. I'd tattoo my body if it was necessary to fight cancer, but I'd never pierce my eyebrow to add another piece of jewellery to my body. I also didn't care much for strawman construction.
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 03 Sep 2015, 11:16 ---I don't much care for the way the word 'fashion' is being used either.
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What word should I use? I was trying to express that it was an aesthetic choice, similar to the choice of getting a certain kind of haircut or wearing certain kinds of clothes. You yourself drew those parallels.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: swapna on 03 Sep 2015, 11:42 ---I'd tattoo my body if it was necessary to fight cancer,
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I have some tattooed marks from my cancer treatment - they were targets for aligning the radiotherapy equipment for each treatment. My first wife hated them because they reminded her of my illness (not, curiously, of my recovery!).
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