Any "gaugers" on the Dis? Please help me understand..

[kristilew]

the idea behind putting very large holes into your earlobes.

There seems to be a whole subset of young men (20s or so) who are into this. The look involves multiple piercings, tatoos, lots of black clothes, and huge rings in the earlobes to create a large hole. It's obviously not an "individuality" thing, as every guy I've seen do this seems to be reading from the same manual.

So what's the deal? Is there a statement behind it? Have you thought about how your ears will look when you're fifty? Is it uncomfortable to have your heavy earlobes flapping against your neck?

These are all things I wondered as I enjoyed lunch in a restaurant that employs many of our local gaugers.

 

[dodukes]

Yeah I wonder too because holes that big arent going to close up in the future. To each their own I guess.

 

[okeydokey]

Honestly, some are so big I can't even look at them or I get nauseous.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

OK, I had to look up gauging your ear in google images. ICK! One picture has a guy with a cell phone in his "ear gauge".

I have not really noticed that much here, although I am sure it is around.

 

[GoofyforDisney3]

I would like to understand this too. Saw a guy the other day that had "holes" so big you could have put your fist thru it. I'm all for each his own and all that but it just is a little bizarre to me to want to do that.

Another question I have to is, if you are a girl that dates a guy with holes like that, does it make him more attractive the larger the holes are?

 

[Mermaid02]

I don't get it either. When you stop wearing those things, you are going to have massive holes in your ears- ick.

 

[scrapquitler]

I don't get it either, but hey, if they like it, good for them. Personally, I think it looks bad.

I did hear John Tesh talking about it on the radio a few weeks ago...he said that this is a growing trend but that some of these people are realizng that they don't want these huge earlobes permanently, and looking to plastic surgeons to 'fix' their earlobes back to normal, at a cost of something like $1000-$2000 per earlobe.

 

[luvsJack]

here on campus, I see it quite a bit and its not just the guys. I have asked why and the answer is always the same "I just like the way it looks". Some do tell me they won't go beyond a certain size because it won't grow back; others do not seem to care about that.

I guess at their age you don't think much about what you will look like at 50. I can't help but at what the nursing homes are going to look like in 50-60 years.


Isn't there one of the Imagineers that is always being interviewed that has a guage in his ear lobe? Maybe its just a long earring.

I don't really think it looks all that bad as long as the earring/guage is in the ear.

 

[MELSMICE]

I wonder about it also. I don't find it appealing at all!

 

[SC Minnie]

i don't get it either. Yeah, it may look cool when you are 20 but not so much at 30 when you are trying to get a 'real' job.

 

[Tiggeroo]

I have many students who do this. It bothers me a good deal. They don't know what their future holds or where they will need to seek work. It's a decision that shouldn't be made until you are certain you are in a career where it is acceptable and you know it is a stable job. I don't care what other people do but allowing your minor child to make such a body altering decision, and you need to sign permission amazes me.

 

[Pakey]

My 30 year old son has them; about the size of a dime maybe. He's had them for about 10 years now and I'd gladly pay the money myself if he'd go get them fixed.

 

[Magpie]

i don't get it either. Yeah, it may look cool when you are 20 but not so much at 30 when you are trying to get a 'real' job.

I doubt that'll matter half as much as you might think.

After all, it wasn't so long ago when folks were telling young men with earrings and young women with tattoos that they wouldn't be able to get a "real" job, either. Now there's rich 50 year old guys with ponytails, tattoos and earrings in the highest levels of the public service and the IT industry (I know a few!).

I have one 40-something year old friend who has gauges in his ears. He's had them for almost a decade now. He works for a security company. I've never asked him why. I figure "urban tribal" is a look he likes, obviously. It doesn't change my regard for him in the slightest.

Each to his own. If somebody get tired of their gauges, they'll save up a few thousand and get their ears fixed. Even at one or two thousand dollars an ear, it's not THAT expensive. Less than that big-**** TV and game system, anyway.

 

[usnuzuloose]

I have thought about this for a while. I see people work as cashiers with these as well as peircings. I think it looks terrible. And as a lady I would not want that look in my WEDDING PICTURES!! YUCK! Corrina

 

[luvsJack]

I doubt that'll matter half as much as you might think.

After all, it wasn't so long ago when folks were telling young men with earrings and young women with tattoos that they wouldn't be able to get a "real" job, either. Now there's rich 50 year old guys with ponytails, tattoos and earrings in the highest levels of the public service and the IT industry (I know a few!).

this is very true. There are many, many employers that do not think twice about most of this stuff anymore.

 

[sorcerormickey]

Isn't there one of the Imagineers that is always being interviewed that has a guage in his ear lobe? Maybe its just a long earring.
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Joe Rohde? It is just a VERY LARGE earring.

 

[helloirishkitty]

One of the pharmacists I work with has them, and they are BIG. They severely creep me out and I often wonder how any of our patients take him seriously.

 

[Rora]

Honestly, some are so big I can't even look at them or I get nauseous.

All gauges make me feel nauseous, no matter how small.

I will never understand this trend.

 

[mumom95]

Yeah, I don't get it either. I can't even look at some of them. But to each their own.

Although, I do wonder if in 50 years what gravity is going to have done to these holes. Are we going to have a bunch of 70 something year old men with their earlobes hanging down around their shoulder. Or maybe it won't affect it at all.

 

[JLTraveling]

Don't know why it bothers anyone...it's not your ears. I don't have them myself, because it's just something I never got into, but a lot of my friends do. I'm a 34-year-old female with a lucrative writing career, and my friends with gauge piercings run the gamut from bartenders to service personnel to IT. Hasn't hurt their prospects at all

As others have pointed out, things change. Long hair on men, tattoos and body piercings on everyone...these were going to "ruin" kids' future careers too...until the boss had them too. Same with gauge piercings. They've been popular for about ten years now. In another ten, they'll be just as mainstream in all levels of society.