i have no idea what my piercing is called

just an interesting little story:

a woman came into blockbuster the other day. she had a rook (or a daith

Some people just want to be pretty. Is there something wrong with that?

I bet she could tell you all about it, Like how long the needle took to push through. how long it hurt. How long it took for it to seem healed.

What's in a name? Would not an Amp by any other name hurt just as much?

Not to mention the piercings that have perhaps 12 different names depending on where you heard of it first. I for one have no problem with someone that just says I told the piercer I wanted the ring to go here, and the piercer made it happen. Nothing wrong with that at all.

Heh, I did that when I went to get my rook done. I walked in and said, 'I want a piercing right here' and I pointed to my rook. I mean, how many people actually know what all of the parts of the ear are called? We were talking while he was piercing it and I asked him what that part of the ear was called. He told me that it was a rook. <shrugs> It's not THAT hard to ask a piercer what they're piercing. IMHO, it kinda makes the piercee look like a dumbass if they don't know the name of what they've got pierced.

Puck

'Lord, what fools these mortals be!'

Oddly enough I do believe the junior piercer is correct in this case though I think Nie buhr is only one word I could be wrong it happens. Especially since most people I know if asking for a rook would expect a needle to go through the ear and not the bridge of their nose. I think once the clamps went on an informed piercee might even say something, like 'Uh, hey, Watcha doin? I think ya missed.'

My point is that the individual piercee may have known that they got an ear or perhaps a Cart piercing and that was good enough for them. Not too many people would answer that they got the 'sticky outtie thing on the side of thier head' pierced. Though we have had a few posters that could qualify for that catagory.

would you feel the same about someone who had a tattoo of a chinese phrase on their back, not knowing that what it actually said was 'town harlot'? that they just got it cos it looked so cool?

david StickNeedlesInMe at aol dot com

You've got a methodist coloring book, and you color really well. But don't color outside the lines, or God will send ya to hell.

bear, of forbidden fruit, who has three or four, says that it's called an earl.

david StickNeedlesInMe at aol dot com

You've got a methodist coloring book, and you color really well. But don't color outside the lines, or God will send ya to hell.

It's called a BRIDGE PIERCING. If you want to call it anything else you're using a local name that not everyone will know. Most piercings outside of the really basic ones (tongue, navel, etc.) have a bunch of names, some more sensible than others.

Shannon

Also sprach David Gartner:

it's just not the same!!! for example, when i went to keith to get my magic cross, i just said: 'i want one going up and down and the other going side to side. i need crosshairs 'cos i have a hard time aiming 'cos i'm usually so drunk. like now.' and he said 'oh yeah, you want an ampallang and and apadravya.' then we did a few shots of tequila and he pierced me while 20/20 filmed it, but everyone crucified him for that......i'm still not sure why......

anyways, i just thought i'd post cos i haven't in a while...... =-P

Is there a piercing that means 'town harlot'? Or anything similar? I thought we were done with that 'left ear means you're gay' crap.