People who get their babies' ears pierced

[Lady Whistledown]

Ah, a good old fashioned hornets' nest

We moan enough about kids not being allowed to be kids. When I see tiny children with earrings it just makes me think of those hideous American beauty pageants whereby Mom cakes the little girl in make up, styles her hair into a massive beehive and puts her in inappropriately skimpy clothing, and then gets into bitchy fights with the other Moms over whose angel looks more pur-dy.

Either that, or it's just completely chavvy.

 

[Gritt23]

I suppose circumcision is largely done for either religious or health reasons, whereas most people in this country who get their kids pierced are only doing it for cosmetic purposes.

Not sure why, as it looks crap IMHO, but there you go.

What looks crap, pierced ears or circumcised cocks?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

What looks crap, pierced ears or circumcised cocks?

 

[pasty]

A friend of mine runs the body piercing shop in Gardner Street.

She won't pierce anyone under the age of 16 because, she says, it's illegal to do so.

I wish the studio that did my 14 year old (at the time) step daughters belly button piercing was so honest. The thing is, there is no way in this world she looked 16 - she doesn't even look 16 now that she actually is. She was expressly forbidden to have it done by her mother, but the salon accepted the word of someone who "was 18" and did it for her.

 

[defrocked priest]

It's worth considering that a majority of baby boys have the skin from the end of their winkle cut off in a similar fashion.

Far from it. Circumcision is done in a sterile enviroment such as a hospital,or neutering my moggy at the vet, not some backlane tat shoppe.I can't recall any pain from my circumcision and like my cat it was for my own good. This stupid mother is forcing what she calls cosmetic surgery on a defenceless new born, who will feel the pain of not a cut from a scalpel, but the puncture of a spear going through it's flesh. I have to feel for the young one because her parents are obviously fecked in the head.I'll bet the next thing will be a tongue piercing for it's one year birthday and a goth tattoo for it's second. Either way those parents are morally wrong.

 

[csider]

when in spain for new year the local paper had pic's of newborn and other VERY young kids getting peirced up.....very odd.

 

[Dr Q]

Looks f*****g awful on babies ... pikeys!
Do they use special studs/backs to these things, coz babies tend to fiddle or rub their ears etc and potentially these could couse injuries or come off andf be picked up and swallowed?

 

[wehatepalace]

A friend of mine runs the body piercing shop in Gardner Street.

She won't pierce anyone under the age of 16 because, she says, it's illegal to do so.

Not quite true, it is only illegal to pierce the genitals or breasts of someone under 16. Anywhere else on the body there is no age restriction.
Tattoo's 18.

NHS Patient information leaflet - Body piercing

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Looks f*****g awful on babies.
Do they use special studs/backs to these things, coz babies tend to fiddle or rub their ears etc and potentially these could couse injuries or come off andf be picked up and swallowed?

I agree, it does look f***ing awful on babies; & as far as I know they have the same studs that their retarded parents get fired through their bodies. Not that I'm against body piercing or anything - far from it actually. It's just not right, in my mind, for babies to be effectively stapled on the say-so of their parent(s). I mean, for fucks sake!

 

[London Calling]

Ah, a good old fashioned hornets' nest

We moan enough about kids not being allowed to be kids. When I see tiny children with earrings it just makes me think of those hideous American beauty pageants whereby Mom cakes the little girl in make up, styles her hair into a massive beehive and puts her in inappropriately skimpy clothing, and then gets into bitchy fights with the other Moms over whose angel looks more pur-dy.

Either that, or it's just completely chavvy.

and then support their daughters to get silicon implants when they are 12

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Hey... why don't they pierce their noses!

That would be one awesome child!

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Hey... why don't they pierce their noses!

That would be one awesome child!

May as well get 'em branded with the MacRonald Arches on their arse-cheeks whilst they're at it.

 

[Taybha]

Not quite true, it is only illegal to pierce the genitals or breasts of someone under 16. Anywhere else on the body there is no age restriction.
Tattoo's 18.

NHS Patient information leaflet - Body piercing

Totty worked in a tattoo shop and she says that no shop worth its salt would pierce a belly button for anyone without their birth certificate to say they are 16, the reason being these girls are still growing and the actual piercing can "grow out" leaving a dreadful purple scar or the body simply rejects the piercing! It is also unethical to pierce the tongue before the age of 18 in her opinion!

 

[Del Boy]

Grown up men look so stupid with earings it always makes me laugh, most of the time the think they look 'well ard'.

 

[The Large One]

Not quite true, it is only illegal to pierce the genitals or breasts of someone under 16. Anywhere else on the body there is no age restriction.
Tattoo's 18.

NHS Patient information leaflet - Body piercing

Ah, ta.

Well, she still won't pierce anyone under the age of 16.

 

[wehatepalace]

Ah, ta.

Well, she still won't pierce anyone under the age of 16.

I totally agree, I think that it should be Law, it should be the same as tattoo's 18

 

[Gully]

Looks f*****g awful on babies ... pikeys!
Do they use special studs/backs to these things, coz babies tend to fiddle or rub their ears etc and potentially these could couse injuries or come off andf be picked up and swallowed?

Agree totally with that, I know that babies need to have injections to protect them against disease, which can cause them distress...but doing it for purely cosmetic reasons is wrong, wrong, wrong!

 

[wehatepalace]

Totty worked in a tattoo shop and she says that no shop worth its salt would pierce a belly button for anyone without their birth certificate to say they are 16, the reason being these girls are still growing and the actual piercing can "grow out" leaving a dreadful purple scar or the body simply rejects the piercing! It is also unethical to pierce the tongue before the age of 18 in her opinion!

I agree, it is unethical and most shops do set an age limit, but the bottom line is there is no law and the goverment are to blame for this. You can't smoke or drink until you are 18 but it's ok to put a metal bar through your lip/chin/cheek/belly/eye brow at 14 !!!!

 

[Napper]

my main problem with it is it looks f***ing shit + very lower class

 

[Arthur]

Looks f*****g awful on babies ... pikeys!

Agreed, I got on the tube the other morning and there was a woman on there with a push chair, the sprog in said push chair had a massive stud in each ear. I really hope the woman didn't see my facial expression because it must have been one of shocked disgust.

I guess it's the parents choice, but it's not for me.

And earings on blokes