I think that I am not the only person who will be glad when the time comes for it to not be fashionable to pierce every conceivable part of the body. Earrings I can handle and perhaps the occasional tiny gem on the side of the nose, but I get turned off completely when I am served by a very attractive young thing in a store and she has shards of metal protruding from parts of her face that should only be reserved for less armor-like purposes. And then she gets annoyed because you are looking at her with revulsion or worse yet you are trying to totally not look at her. I saw a picture today of a woman who purportedly had around 1200 pieces of crap protruding from various dermatalogical surfaces and from the look of it most of it was in her head. I can only imagine where the rest of it is. I think if she ever removed all her hardware she probably would instantly lose about 30 pounds and would whistle when she walked from all those perforations. The only consolation with piercings is that if you remove them they heal. But once you get a tattoo they tend to be a bit more permanent, which is a whole 'nother rant!

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