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Maybe this time the whole thing will get out. I recently acquired some needles knowing before hand only that they were very sharp and sterile packaged. Now that they are before me I see that they are a quarter inch in diameter. They look huge. So does anybody have any suggestions for piercings that can be reasonably attempted with something like these? Male or female anatomy. Elijah —— bgriffin

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> I recently acquired some needles knowing before hand only that > they were very sharp and sterile packaged. Now that they are > before me I see that they are a quarter inch in diameter. > They look huge. > So does anybody have any suggestions for piercings that can be > reasonably attempted with something like these? Male or female > anatomy.

Seriously though, those sound like BIG needles.  Hmm…You could bore a hole through your palm, Christ-like(don’t think you could fit the needle between any bones.:) That really sounds painful. I got it!  You could make a combo nostril/septum/nostril. Big Barbell….             /          O   /     O (Use your imagination…) You could put a hole in your cheek big enought to whistle through…. Tarek Rached. (sorry if i blabber, but I am high from my decision to get my eybrow pierced)

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Do you know the specific gauge?  Brown and Sharpe gauge, that is, which is the system used on body jewelry, except for Silver Anchor’s line… I’ve done piercings with larger-gauged hypodermic needles. Always be sure that the needle is larger in gauge than the jewelry, if not the same thickness. Ardvark Gauges and metric equivalents are in part 5 of the FAQ. —

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>> I recently acquired some needles knowing before hand only that > they were very sharp and sterile packaged. Now that they are > before me I see that they are a quarter inch in diameter.

[Deletia, including a question about what to pierce with these harpoons.]

[Deletia.] >You could put a hole in your cheek big enought to whistle through….

David

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>>> I recently acquired some needles knowing before hand only that >> they were very sharp and sterile packaged. Now that they are >> before me I see that they are a quarter inch in diameter. >[Deletia, including a question about what to pierce with these harpoons.]

I am encouraged to notice this response never made it to my site. Arrrgh. >You could put a hole in your cheek big enought to whistle through….

Sorry, but I think the beard would too well conceal it. From someone else’s post about how to put a 4ga eyelet in a freshly pierced 6ga hole (involving a momentary stretch to 2ga), I am greatly encouraged by the body’s ability to withstand such, ah, torture. So I am currently thinking about about the various pierces that stretch very well. A guiche would be nice, but I don’t think I could so circumsize my behavior to ensure healing. Eli the bearded —— bgriffin

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>But then there are other towns in Texas where they still keep boys out of >school if someone decides their hair is too long.

If you’re talking about the Cantu boy in Mercedes, the point is mute because the child died last summer of leukemia. the story, for those not privileged to have grown up in the Great State, is that a small boy was diagnosed with leukemia, and his father made a _promeza_ to G-d not to cut the child’s hair until the boy was cured. The Mercedes Independent School District tossed the kid (age 5) out of 1st grade, because his long hair didn’t conform to the dress-code. This pissed me off for two reasons. First, the inheirent stupidity of tossing a five-year-old out of school for any dress-code violation. Second, they were protesting that people with long hair were all toruble-makers, despite the fact that I and my cohorts had just stomped their Quiz-Bowl team, and I had a mohawk (and I was the normal looking one). Please pardon this rant, but the Mercedes ISD really pissed me off with this case. scott (also, couldn’t this have been a church/state violation? _pinche_ Mercedes)

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>If you’re talking about the Cantu boy in Mercedes, the point is mute >because the child died last summer of leukemia. >the story, for those not privileged to have grown up in the Great State, >is that a small boy was diagnosed with leukemia, and his father made a >_promeza_ to G-d not to cut the child’s hair until the boy was cured. The >Mercedes Independent School District tossed the kid (age 5) out of 1st >grade, because his long hair didn’t conform to the dress-code.

Didn’t Jeeeee–sus have loooong hair and a beard? — UH School of Library & Info Studies. "Whatever the cost of our   o|<0_0>——* libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant      =^-| |_| | nation." -Walter Cronkite         [R.a.b.bit says: "Think Ink!"]       _} _}

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>Didn’t Jeeeee–sus have loooong hair and a beard?

I hear his skin was on the *dark* side, too… — ‘90 Bianchi Backstreet  ’82 Suzuki GS850GL          Irony is the spice of life. "The revolution will not be televised."

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>>Didn’t Jeeeee–sus have loooong hair and a beard? >I hear his skin was on the *dark* side, too… >– >’90 Bianchi Backstreet  ’82 Suzuki GS850GL          Irony is the spice of life. >"The revolution will not be televised."

A card carrying member of the KKK (who also has a degree in theology and is a preacher) that I used to work with insisted that Jesus had a crew cut. His reasoning was based on the fact that the bible says men should not wear their hair like women. Can you say cultural relativity? Cate

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>>>Didn’t Jeeeee–sus have loooong hair and a beard? >I hear his skin was on the *dark* side, too… >His reasoning was based on the fact that the bible says men >should not wear their hair like women. >Can you say cultural relativity?

Cultural relativity?  What’s that???  And I’ll wear my hair any way I want to.  And the same thing goes for the stuff in my piercings. –scott

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[question about cultural relativity here] Cultural relativity in this case means that when Jesus was around long hair on men was like neckties on yups today. My KKK coworker had not glommed onto the idea that just because it’s socially wierd to him to wear long hair, it may not have been back then. This ignores ideas about men’s rights to wear their hair however they want today, the concept of rights being culturally relative to our society today anyhow. :-) Cate

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Cate states: >Cultural relativity in this case means that when Jesus was around >long hair on men was like neckties on yups today.

Gee, I’ll bet your co-worker freaks whenever he enters a museum and sees artwork from the 17th century.  Very commonplace for men to have long hair, have both ears pierced and dress like a peacock. What is that phrase from that old "Hair" song?   "…  Fine feathers are not proper for the male, when actually…  That is the way things are in most species…" (bowing)      becky      Now I’m gonna listen to that really nasty song on Hair… Sodomy, fellacio…..

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(Catherine Leonard) writes: > A card carrying member of the KKK (who also has a degree in theology and > is a preacher) that I used to work with insisted that Jesus had a crew   cut. > His reasoning was based on the fact that the bible says men > should not wear their hair like women. <snip> > Cate

The Bible also says that Jewish men were not supposed to round the edges   of their hair or harm the edge of their beard.  On top of this, there is a   description of Jesus in a roman document that describes him as having long   chestnut hair and a beard after the fashion of his people.         Besides, look at Sampson, he was ordered by God, not to cut his   hair.  So your KKK friend is clueless, regardless of how many degrees he   has.  ;).                         -Chris

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Chris said: [snip] Your KKK friend…          ^^^^^^ Ohhhh! Veddy skerry! Friend–brrrrrrrr :-) Sheesh–they’ll give anyone a degree now a days  won’t they? Mail order and otherwise ;-) Cate

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>: Chris said: >: [snip] >: Your KKK friend… >:          ^^^^^^ >: Ohhhh! Veddy skerry! Friend–brrrrrrrr >: :-) >: Sheesh–they’ll give anyone a degree now a days  won’t they? >: Mail order and otherwise ;-)

I thought you had to have your brain removed to join the KKK???

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>I thought you had to have your brain removed to join the KKK???

No. Look at people like Hitler and David Duke. they weren’t stupid people. HOWEVER, they did not have a MIND (or the one they had was very small or narrow). Just like humans have hearts but not necessarily a heart–see the difference? Off the subject of bodyart, I know… — UH School of Library & Info Studies. "Whatever the cost of our   o|<0_0>——* libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant      =^-| |_| | nation." -Walter Cronkite         [R.a.b.bit says: "Think Ink!"]       _} _}

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It seems as though a needle that large (.25"=roughly 2ga.) would be extremely prone to severe bleeding. You may as well use a bullet to make the hole, I imagine a fresh hole that size would require stitches. My recommendation is to make a sculpture out of them or something, but I cannot see actually piercing with them. But, then again I could be wrong. Mark Jones- Phoenix

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