1. Life is too short for self-inflicted pain.I'd say it's too short to let a little pain get in the way of something you want. Neither is less valid.
No holes or tattoos, ever, for two reasons:
1. Life is too short for self-inflicted pain.
As for women with piercings/tats ... I just wonder why they would spoil their natural beauty.
No holes or tattoos, ever, for two reasons:
1. Life is too short for self-inflicted pain.
As a tattooed and pierced person who had/has issues with self-inflicted pain, I think you're concentrating on the wrong aspect of the modification.
I wonder what else she'll get pierced!
To a first approximation, keep it above the waist.There goes the dream of a Claire with pierced toe webbing...
As far as I'm concerned, you've got one body; don't mess with it.Aye: Piercings, tattoos, foreign chemicals, starvation ... just messing things up.
BR's prediction: Claire will hold Marten's hand for comfort during the procedure.
And break his thumb in an overreaction to the pain - it'll be funny because it isn't us.
Well, what else was she going to hold?BR's prediction: Claire will hold Marten's hand for comfort during the procedure.
And break his thumb in an overreaction to the pain - it'll be funny because it isn't us.
I got it half right - which of course also means I got it half wrong...
A teddy, duh. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CompletelyMissingThePoint)
Metal + flesh = pain
The same concept applies to bullets and swords.
No, if the body is a Temple, tattoos, piercings and other body mods are like spray-painting graffiti on the walls and putting pink flamingoes on the lawn.
Depending on your perspective - they may also be considered the equivalent of tasteful frescos and mosaics, with topiaries and statues.Of course, there is art and there is art.
[They] reached a bridge that would not have been out of place back in the city.1
1Apart, that is, from the line of artistically naked ladies along its parapets. They were holding urns; urns is art.
Well said. It's all in the "eye of the beholder".Or in this case, the eyebrow.
As has been said elsewhere, very few reputable tattoo artists or piercers will work on someone who is drunk. I'm all in favor of people choosing not to have body mods if they don't want to - but it is none of anyone else's business if someone wants to get a tattoo or piercing that someone else doesn't approve of. It's almost the only behavior which doesn't in any way harm anyone else at all (the only possible exception to this is if someone gets extremely offensive slogans or symbols tattooed onto them).The large number of drunken tattoo stories out there doesn't really make that point comforting. No one I can recall here has said anything close to disapproving meddling. Most human behaviors affect no one else most of the time.
be sure you never want to try to get an office job if you are going to do some of the crazier gauges or tattoos on the hands/neck/face.I don't have any tattoos and at the moment I don't have any piercings (I did in college and may again as soon as Friday), but other than smallish stretched ears (which can be disguised) I don't plan on getting any other piercings or any tattoos that can't be covered by clothing for that exact reason. I wouldn't tell anyone else not to, though.
I would have thought that a forum that tries to be as accepting as this one wouldn't be so judgmental towards a person choosing to get tattoos and piercings.Me too, actually, especially since our host has both. I come from a cultural background that is quite hostile to body mods generally (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,28415.msg1120275/topicseen.html#msg1120275), but I think it's best not to condemn other people's choices in this. In the interests of full disclosure, I suppose I should say that I have "vanilla" pierced ears (I don't know the correct term for one small hole in each ear-lobe), but I don't remember any particular emotional reaction to the piercing, other than satisfaction that I could wear a wider range of earrings.
I would have thought that a forum that tries to be as accepting as this one wouldn't be so judgmental towards a person choosing to get tattoos and piercings.
be sure you never want to try to get an office job if you are going to do some of the crazier gauges or tattoos on the hands/neck/face.
I don't have enough vitriol to respond to this at the moment, but seriously, this line (which is regularly an excuse to be an asshole, intentional or not) needs to fall in the ditch of dead and forgotten things.
Basically, do you really think anyone who gets visible mods is not aware of the very real societal side effects?
. So yeah, just be sure you never want to try to get an office job if you are going to do some of the crazier gauges or tattoos on the hands/neck/face.
As has been said elsewhere, very few reputable tattoo artists or piercers will work on someone who is drunk. I'm all in favor of people choosing not to have body mods if they don't want to - but it is none of anyone else's business if someone wants to get a tattoo or piercing that someone else doesn't approve of. It's almost the only behavior which doesn't in any way harm anyone else at all (the only possible exception to this is if someone gets extremely offensive slogans or symbols tattooed onto them).The large number of drunken tattoo stories out there doesn't really make that point comforting. No one I can recall here has said anything close to disapproving meddling. Most human behaviors affect no one else most of the time.
I mean it sincerely when I say that while I am well aware the intent coming from you is not meant to be condescending, intent doesn't make as much difference as you might like.
. So yeah, just be sure you never want to try to get an office job if you are going to do some of the crazier gauges or tattoos on the hands/neck/face.
False, I have plenty of ink, I hold an office job with a highly respectable international business. Our president commented on my shoulder piece last time he was in country. He thought it looked cool and wanted to know what the text meant.
I think part of the reason you've been called out even though there have been some vile opinions, is you're the only one who actually told people what they should not do with their own body. It was closely phrased that way, at least.
While no one has directly said this is the case, rather than the point being, "Don't get tattoos because you'll be judged on then and possibly discriminated against in the workplace." should it not be, "Don't judge people on their appearance."? Not getting modifications will not make people more tolerant of them.
Never.
Re: piercings & shit (late again...)But gold is not ferromagnetic. :?
I have a small gold hoop that I got in my left ear in 1988. I think I've removed it briefly... three times? For job interviews. It went back in after I got the job. Oh, yeah, and an MRI last year. Don't want anything torn out... damn, that's 25 years now.
Doesn't change the fact that, after losing my main job last year at the age of 50, my father's only job seeking advice was to look at me and tell me to "lose the god-damned earring". :roll: (yeah, he was 79 at the time...)
Any conductor can have eddy currents.Excellent post timing. It is Léon Foucault (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Foucault)'s birthday today.
But gold is not ferromagnetic. :?
Why is Hanners blonde?
It was from dunking her head into a bucket of hydrogen peroxide to clean all 10 piercings at once...
I don't have any tattoos or piercings. I think they're almost always cool and/or sexy as hell on others though, but I just can't go through with it myself. I can't think of a way I could do it and still feel genuine about it. Maybe it's my age. And it's too late to start now as I get an eczema flare up at the least irritation.
The closest thing I've come to being prejudiced was one time a few months ago when I started to get offended when I saw a cop with full on sleeve tattoos. I started to say "Back when I was your age, just having those damn near made probable cause, kid" then I thought better of it.
What a strange way for my father's red neck to catch up to me.
No comic tonight due to Jeph's back woes. I've had that experience and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Hope he feels better soon.Seen it in my dad. Not cool even at second-hand experience. All the best and take it easy, Jeph!
add Padma to that list.
I wonder how many new avatars will come from this.At least two, thus far...
Love your new custom title, dude.
Paul - how you do that?
Just point to where its explained elsewhere - don't want to blargle up the thread more than normal.
My avatar is a call to a routine on my server* that delivers a random image from a list of over20250 - so each time you refresh it, it changes, and each person may be seeing a different one at the same time; it is meant to confuse or intrigue, depending on your nature.
* For the technically minded, this is done by the following lines in my Apache config:
RewriteMap AviFile rnd:C:/WebPages/cassland.org/html/images/Avatars/AviList.txt
RewriteRule /images/QCavi.jpg /images/Avatars/${AviFile:QClist}.jpg
Like a disease (http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1145).Probably the hardest disease ever to catch.
Welcome!
nobody's died, I don't thinkSara was eaten by an allosaur (I suppose it's theoretically possible she somehow survived), wheelchair guy (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1350) probably got blown up (though Tortura survived, so he might have as well), and Randy was killed by Yelling Bird at least 132 512 times (but Randy is eternal, so that doesn't really count).
Sara was eaten by an allosaurThis isn't canon (canon meaning actually in or at least mentioned in the strip).
Got a list of those backside images? I could probably set up a script on my site to do that.
I'd say the cast list (http://www.questionablecontent.net/cast.php) qualifies as canon as well. (And, upon further review, it confirms that she did not survive.)Sara was eaten by an allosaurThis isn't canon (canon meaning actually in or at least mentioned in the strip).
But they wouldn't be canon.Got a list of those backside images? I could probably set up a script on my site to do that.
turn off safesearch and you'll see plenty of backside images
Next week I go into the studio to begin recording the Deathmøle album! I am tremendously excited. See you Monday!
I've been wondering... whose backside is your current avatar, and which comic is it from?But they wouldn't be canon.Got a list of those backside images? I could probably set up a script on my site to do that.
turn off safesearch and you'll see plenty of backside images
I've been wondering... whose backside is your current avatar, and which comic is it from?
I know I am not setting a good example by doubleposting, but my mobile sucks for editing text. You don't have to tell us now, but the Relate forum always has an open ear.Like a disease (http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1145).Probably the hardest disease ever to catch.
Welcome!
Why? She handled it well.
Yeah, for it to be truly canon it has to have been in the comic and not as a guest strip.
On his tumblr (http://jephjacques.com) Jeph answered one of my questions (http://jephjacques.com/post/10973725252/qa-dump-06) about whether the cast twitter accounts (https://twitter.com/jephjacques/lists/qccast) were canon and he replied that they were, but only to the extent that they don't conflict with the comic itself.
Basically, if tomorrow he decides to make a comic with Sara in it, eating cereal or something (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2407), the comic takes precedence and complaining that he's retconning her is bad form.
IIRC, the crises were an attempt to fix the canon.What's the difference between "fix" and "change"?
Boy, Claire's a bit... self-centered?... over this ear piercing thing, isn't she?
I've been wondering... whose backside is your current avatar, and which comic is it from?But they wouldn't be canon.Got a list of those backside images? I could probably set up a script on my site to do that.
turn off safesearch and you'll see plenty of backside images
Like a disease (http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1145).Probably the hardest disease ever to catch.
Welcome!
I'm sticking with mine. There are not enough GOM images in the comic to warrant a server script...
And I knew that was Faye.
How did I know that was Faye?
It was a pretty big thing for Claire, so you have to give her points for that.
really feelin this new arc but it seems like Faye's level of pride/sense of achievement is not really commensurate with having been named the mid-late-20s assistant manager of her best friend's coffee shop, where she's been working for ~5 years
fetal hedgehog position
Ah, you didn't bite. I couldn't find GOM, so I thought you'd query FBR -- female bottom recognition.I'm sticking with mine. There are not enough GOM images in the comic to warrant a server script...
And I knew that was Faye.
How did I know that was Faye?
Because like many guys, you have excellent FBR. I think you've remarked on it yourself.
fetal hedgehog position
That registers very high on the pithy/insightful scale. In three words, you summed up Faye's personality for the first 1600 strips or so.
My hat's off to you.
(http://myco-tek.org/images/smilies/hats_off.gif)
That's true. Regardless of whether it's a phobia of some sort, or just a fear of change, it takes a GREAT deal to overcome that.It was a pretty big thing for Claire, so you have to give her points for that.
Overcoming a fear is after all one of the most difficult things there is, no matter what it's a fear of.
I sussed it out. GOM is old from this forum - Grumpy Old Man.
Right, Reiver? :-D
You'd be hard put to find UBMEOD, too! But I'll let you try before I tell you :-P
You'd be hard put to find UBMEOD, too! But I'll let you try before I tell you :-PWhen I first started here, I used to read this as ubermod, as in a moderator who can smite you without warning (hey, I didn't know the local memes at the time). It took some reading to find
ubermod(Considers making this my custom title, realizes it's kind of redundant)
I thought pwhodges was the Übermod.He's the god warrior. He outranks the Übermod(s).
Don't you have to have three characters in that crate to send to the Sandwich Islands? I thought that was a requirement.
And a cup of the soup, please.
I wonder why Chinese? Delivery Man (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=761) didn't catch on.He went home to Hebei (pron. Huh-bay (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Zh-Hebei.ogg)), and works in his Dad's briquette business now.
I'll take a half sandwich, thank you.
And a cup of the soup, please.