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

[C.Ann]

To each their own - but I will never understand why people feel the need to mutilate their bodies in so many different ways..

 

[kristilew]

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

Well, maybe so. Though I would think that employers who are looking to hire someone who can thing through all possible consequences of an action, and its potential future negative impacts would pass over a gauger. (A job such as lawyer or risk management or corporate development for example. The same jobs that routinely run credit checks on applicants to determine judgement.)

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.

This is what I keep thinking about. My grandmother lived to a ripe old age, and I swear her ears kept on growing. Gravity just pulls on our cartiledge as it is. Why help it along?

But having said that, I do think to each their own. I just don't really get it. Of course, I also don't get why my DD13 and her friends ignore their real jewelry and only want bracelets made out of duck tape.

 

[LuvOrlando]

I have issues with anything the even looks like it could be painful so all that stuff just makes me cringe. I don't think anything negative about the people that do it but I just stare and wonder how long it took to stretch the skin, how much it hurt, how much it hurts when piercing gets caught and then I need to run away so I don't yack

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

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.

I agree - and a recent study came out confirming that things like this matter less and less as far as careers and hiring.

Could it be that we are learning to judge less on appearance and more so on character and ability/talent? I hope so!

I could care less what piercings or whatever a clerk, wait person, receptionist, etc has - or how much black they wear - as long as they are personable, polite, and professional!!!!!!

I said this on the last discussion like this and I will say it again: what if Disney only judged Joe Rhode on his piercings, etc - and not on his considerable talent!?!?!?

 

[mumom95]

Could it be that we are learning to judge less on appearance and more so on character and ability/talent? I hope so!

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But I would argue that appearance can sometimes say something about a persons character.

I don't think this is the case with people who put these holes in their ears. But for people who in general cannot keep themselves clean and somewhat appropriately presentable, I do think that says a lot about their character.

I certainly wouldn't hire a woman who walked into an interview wearing a bikini to be a school teacher. I wouldn't hire someone to be a waiter at a restaurant if their body odor was repulsive to people around. It really doesn't matter how good either of them were at their job.

Whether we like it or not, appearance often time says a lot about a person's character. So I don't think it is that we have stopped judging on appearance, it's more that we still judge on appearance but the judgements aren't as negative as they used to be.

 

[WhateverLolaWants]

Probably for the same reason people wear sweatshirts with pictures of cats traced with puffy paint - they like the look.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

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.

Well, when they are older they can save money on bras. Just toss the girls up into the holes and they will look like Pamela Anderson!

Probably for the same reason people wear sweatshirts with pictures of cats traced with puffy paint - they like the look.

That made me choke!

 

[luvsJack]

Joe Rohde? It is just a VERY LARGE earring.

That's the one! I wasn't sure if it was a guage or a big earring, haven't seen him on one of the Disney shows on the travel channel in awhile.

 

[MM27]

I think they're gross and I would never do that to myself, but I'm a believer in whatever floats your boat. I feel the same way about piercings and tattoos. Not something I would do, but if it makes you happy, why not?

 

[mhsjax]

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.

I actually saw a show the other day, and the guy was stating that he couldn't get a job because of them. He was trying to get a job in the "professional" world. He was told that this was the problem.

He got them fixed, (they looked totally disgusting when the ear ring was taken out) and he got a job not too long after the healing was finished.

I know that if I was hiring for a job such as a banker, or financial advisor or accountant, I wouldn't think about giving them a job, it looks totally unprofessional to me.

then again, I guess it depends on what job you are doing. IT people to me are a little different. Somewhat artist like sometimes. And also where you live, there isn't anyone around here that has them, even the young kids don't. but I live in a really old fashioned little bubble, and I like it that way.

 

[MinnieTink]

A freshman girl at my DDs school has started the process. (helllooo? Is your mother home??!?) anyway it started a conversation with my daughter and I. Though neither of us are exactly offended by this it does look painful and thus sorta brings on the dry heaves in me. We talked about how they would look at 50 or 60 years old. I thought about how all my kids, as babies, used to grab on to my moms gold hoop earrings. We were joking it could be a new baby extreme sport, baby earlobe bungy jumping. Lol....and eewwww!

 

[bumbershoot]

It's obviously not an "individuality" thing, as every guy I've seen do this seems to be reading from the same manual.

OK that really amused me. There's a whole lotta people in my area who do various things, and, ya know, whatever....BUT "reading from the same manual"...

And it reminded me of a dad of one of the girl's in the ballet class before DS's class. He's definitely got a unique-for-the-Y look going on, and the first time I met him he seemed very much "I don't care what others think, I'm ME". Last time I saw him, as DS and I were waiting for his class, and the guy was waiting for his daughter (youngest of 5), I noticed he had a brand new mohawk...so the hair, the piercings, the gauges...and then he sat there for 5 minutes taking "myspace/facebook" type pictures of himself... and that just made me giggle inside, because I see teenage girls doing the same thing, and they are all going for conformity, matchy matchy (and of course the "duck face" expression).... Of course he's allowed to take pictures of himself...but it just cracked me up, because my thoughts about someone who is into all of that is that they don't CARE what others would think, and wouldn't want to take the "facebook" style pic (but would rather be caught by a photographer at their last gig)....

Probably for the same reason people wear sweatshirts with pictures of cats traced with puffy paint - they like the look.

 

[Eeyore5]

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.

Great. Now I have the song "Do Your Ears Hang Low" in my head.

 

[Pixiedust34]

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.




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A freshman girl at my DDs school has started the process. (helllooo? Is your mother home??!?) anyway it started a conversation with my daughter and I. Though neither of us are exactly offended by this it does look painful and thus sorta brings on the dry heaves in me. We talked about how they would look at 50 or 60 years old. I thought about how all my kids, as babies, used to grab on to my moms gold hoop earrings. We were joking it could be a new baby extreme sport, baby earlobe bungy jumping. Lol....and eewwww!

I have the same horrid image of a nursing home full of 80 year olds with sagging ears and stretched out, wrinkly tattoos. They may think they look good now, but eventually gravity hits everyone.

Great. Now I have the song "Do Your Ears Hang Low" in my head.

 

[Mermaid02]

The difference between this and a piercing is that you can take a piercing out- the hole may close or not, but it's not terribly noticeable. These things CHANGE your earlobes and if you decide you're not into that anymore, you now have saggy lobes.

 

[luvmyfam444]

I don't know why...I'm just glad I don't have boys so I hopefully won't have to deal with it!

I did see a show of strictest parents that had a boy on there & the parents made him take them out - the smell of the dying flesh was so bad they had him pu them back in...