Oh Bill, getting the SW robots' names wrong to show how cool you are is so 2004. I think it's dirty!
I got them wrong? Did i? Sorry only ever watched it once when i was a child. Yeah McGann, you and your Deaf Star and chewybacko! Bet you never even saw The Dirty Dozen?
Here's a trivia quiz: i dont know how many of the Dirty dozen had tattoos, but how many of the Dirty Dozen survived at the end of the film?
See, here's the thing with me about the tattoos & piercings deal (and you can all take the 2X4's to me if you want--I respect the differing opinions):
Body coloring in other parts of the world is usually a deeply personal, spiritual aspect of many different cultures--it's legitimately ingrained into those people's lives. When I see folks in first world countries using these forms of body enhancement, it's usually either rebelling against the restraints of western standards of appearance, or it's superficially appropriating aspects of those other cultures when they feel marginalized from their own. Much of it just comes off like posing. And that's fine, it's just that the problem with pushing this particular envelope is that in attempting to carve out some individual identity for themselves, they still end up looking like a zillion other people.
And that's why I think it's a fundamentally dumb and juvenile practice. Just like little kids who draw and write stuff on the walls in the house. Hey, they're just expressing themselves, right? Don't be so judgemental.
And that's why I think it's a fundamentally dumb and juvenile practice. Just like little kids who draw and write stuff on the walls in the house. Hey, they're just expressing themselves, right? Don't be so judgemental.
That's a good point. Even though, as a youngster, it is generally considered naughty to deface a wall at home, you'd never even think to write on your own self. It isn't something that comes naturally. Getting 'ta-ooood' is something that, I tend to think, is auto-suggested by external cues. So it isn't an expression of freedom of will. Rather, it is a knee-jerk reaction to the appearance of some stratum of community conformity.
The other day i saw an ambulance driver with plastic rings - about an inch in diameter - inside his ear lobes. So the earlobes were stretched. They were like shower curtain rings - not as earrings like Del Griffith's money maker in Planes Trains, but inserted inside the lobe. I mean, come on? Thats gotta be agony apart looking plain freaky?
Speaking of agony, have you ever seen a Prince Albert piercing? I can't imagine doing that.