Who's the judge?

[panicman]

You should have picked out a few of his tattoos and told him you know a shop where they might not have botched them so bad. Go on to tell him that one or two of them are alright, but you feel very bad about the most prominent one, which looks more like something a 3 year old did. Make sure you seem genuinely concerned.

See how he takes some unsolicited opinions about his choices.
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[luckystiff]

don't lump all us heavily tattooed folks in that bunch folks. i have about 60% full body coverage and that ass clown would have been escorted off my property pretty quick. oh and those huge "gauged" ears are my biggest point of anger. i've honestly considered carrying a small razor knife and solving that shit with a quick flick.
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[pb_foots]

So let me get this straight. You have chosen to walk around looking like the illustrated man, but you get angry to the point of wanting to attack someone for stretching their ear lobes out like some Ubangi witch doctor?

Glass houses, my brother.

FWIW, I don't mind the tats, but I can't stand the thin skin some people with them have. You want to put interesting crap all over you, I'm gonna look. They're not as interesting as boobs, but if I'm bored on line at the bank, I'm staring.

[luckystiff]

no glass house. maybe it's that every person i've ever met with heavily gauged ears were dumbass attention whores that match the drop in the op is talking about perfectly. hell i'll be quite honest and say the popularity of tattoos now actually annoys me a bit. but it's a strange world for most of us that have been involved in it for 20+ years. seeing kids start by getting hands,necks,faces, etc tattooed before they are sleeved. some as first or second tattoos. kids gettting outlines over 70% of their body but not a finished tattoo on them. it leads me to beleive that the better percentage of them are doing it 80% for shock value alone. those same guy/girls are usually the same ones that you can stick your fist through their gauged ears.

i also find it disturbing the shops that are gauging kids ears at 12,13,14 years old. it's been 10+ years since i worked in a shop but when i did we didn't even allow anyone under 16 to enter the building. and then the list of piercings a 16/17 year old could get was about 3 long. no gauging, exotic, multiple piercings on anyone under 18. yeah we knew they were just going to leave and go 1/2mi down the road to the sketchy shop who would do it but that was their business. i ran into a kid not long ago that at 17 his ears are already gauged close to 3".

oh and i can put on long sleeves and pants and strangers would be none the wiser. kinda had to hide a pice of drain pipe hanging from your ear hole.
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[VOLKSWAGNUT]

Yep...^.... prime example = this jackass idea below...

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[cdennisg]

[busdaddy]

[utahclaimjumper]

The really stupid part is the turkey with the worst tat's and piercings bitchin about not being able to get a job or a date.>>>Dan

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[cdennisg]

[pyrOman]

[luckystiff]

[Westy Steve]

When I meet people with those ear gauges or crazy piercings that border on "gross", I try like hell not to look like I care. That drives them crazy. It's a desperate cry of attention, and not giving them attention rattles them.
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