Booby Traps in Provo

[Rot Box]

I'm thinking it was these dudes...

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[glockman]

I want to design a booby trap that catches huge gauged ears and tears them off the empty head they are connected to. I am thinking in 25 years the most common plastic surgery behind booby jobs will be to remove the extra tissue from boobs like this guy.

For some reason I'm craving a glass of milk now.

 

[sixstringsteve]

wow Andrew, that was the best movie clip I've seen in a LONG time. Thank you for making my day.

 

[Zombie]

I want to design a booby trap that catches huge gauged ears and tears them off the empty head they are connected to.

Watch out for cheap pad locks at NPS.
Padlock + huge gauged ears = hours of entertainment.

 

[Cody]

I want to design a booby trap that catches huge gauged ears and tears them off the empty head they are connected to.

This is funny. Some of the most successful, intelligent, educated, traveled, and (perhaps most importantly) least judgmental people I know have large gauges and lots of tattoos.

I think the bottom line is that idiots and dead beats come in all sorts of packages. The only sure-fire way I've found to identify the mentally weak is to inquire about their fondness for baseball. The more fond they are, the less intelligent they are. Direct relationship.

It would be an interesting social case study to follow people who, in their youth, are strong enough to go against the status quo and think/look different than what society tells them they should, and how that mentality impacts their future. I think the self confidence, thick skin (not literally), and the propensity to try things that are a little different would benefit just about anyone in life.

 

[chadschoon]

Cody is 100% right. Except he secretly loves baseball

 

[Spork]

Baseball might suck but you got to question a 4" loop of earlobe and someone tattooing a 3rd eye in the middle of their forehead more than someone wearing a cubs hat.

 

[Tacoma]

It's America's sport, Chad.

 

[DOSS]

Baseball might suck but you got to question a 4" loop of earlobe and someone tattooing a 3rd eye in the middle of their forehead more than someone wearing a cubs hat.

Yeah, the guy wearing the cubs hat is drinking the kooolaid

The tattooed and pierced guy might have some kind of original thought.. not likely but more likely than the koolaid drinker

 

[Cody]

Baseball might suck but you got to question a 4" loop of earlobe and someone tattooing a 3rd eye in the middle of their forehead more than someone wearing a cubs hat.

Head tats are a different story

In some cultures the stretched/elongated ear lobe is a sign of status and beauty. Just sayin...

 

[glockman]

Why is it that someone with tattoos or piercings is always assumed as being a much deeper person than a clean cut individual? I know some alternative looking people that are very intelligent and very good people. I also know 10x as many people who have tattoos and piercings and are total idiots. The majority of people with gauges and tats are idiots imitating others that they think are cool. Don't believe me, go to any maverick and see how many thought provoking conversations you have with the patrons there. I'm not saying you will have 0, just not very many.

Regardless, gauged ears are something 90% of the people will regret in 25 years.

 

[glockman]

In some cultures mutilating The sex organs of little girls is thought to be a good idea too.

Just sayin...

 

[Cody]

I also know 10x as many people who have tattoos and piercings and are total idiots.

So for every 11 idiots you know, 10 of them are tattooed and only one has no tattoos? Either you know a LOT of tattooed and pierced people, or your grasp of statistics is vastly flawed lol.

The majority of people with gauges and tats are idiots imitating others that they think are cool.

And isn't the same thing valid for the rest of society? Behaviors and attitudes are socially constructed. People are force fed what they should or shouldn't do/say/look like from their parents, peers, class mates, teachers, the media etc. etc. Is it the imitation that makes them idiots to you, or the tattoos? I can promise your values are in a major way an imitation of the people you grew up around....and I don't think that makes you an idiot.

Don't believe me, go to any maverick and see how many thought provoking conversations you have with the patrons there. I'm not saying you will have 0, just not very many.

I didn't realize Maverick was the popular hang out for tattooed and pierced people. Odd. I also wouldn't go to a Maverick to find an interesting or thought provoking conversation, but that's just me.

Regardless, gauged ears are something 90% of the people will regret in 25 years.

Really? That sounds an awful lot like an assumption wrapped up in a made up statistic. Is that how you engage in thought provoking conversations? You just make up numbers and statistics and hope nobody knows any better? (for the record, this is exactly what I do 61% of the time).

I'm sure many of them will regret it, but really who cares? It's just an ear. Will that flap of skin kill you? Will it in some way effect your quality of life in your 50's and 60's?

I just find it silly to judge someone based on appearance in just about any situation. You know who doesn't care if you have any tattoos/piercings or not? Tattooed/pierced people lol.

 

[Spork]

Yeah, the guy wearing the cubs hat is drinking the kooolaid

The tattooed and pierced guy might have some kind of original thought.. not likely but more likely than the koolaid drinker

So what about the tattooed pierced guy wearing a Cubs hat?

 

[Tacoma]

I used to work for a tattoo shop in wildest Manhattan back when, and I would say that 94% of the time, 88% of the people I dealt with were more engaging/intelligent/interesting to talk to than 97% of the non-tattooed/pierced people I've dealt with.

Appearance may be useful as a rough indication of a very rough sketch of someone's interests and leanings but by no means is it useful for any kind of definitive judgement. At least that's been my experience.

 

[DOSS]

So what about the tattooed pierced guy wearing a Cubs hat?

Then they would be one of the "not likely" that I referred too.

 

[glockman]

So for every 11 idiots you know, 10 of them are tattooed and only one has no tattoos? Either you know a LOT of tattooed and pierced people, or your grasp of statistics is vastly flawed lol.


I know lots of people and very little about statistics. I tried to use 3 sigma to determine if my process of judging people based on how many tattoos they have or how big their gauges are. All I got was a curve shapped like a boob. I couldn't even manipulate the data to show that my process wasnt OOC.


And isn't the same thing valid for the rest of society? Behaviors and attitudes are socially constructed. People are force fed what they should or shouldn't do/say/look like from their parents, peers, class mates, teachers, the media etc. etc. Is it the imitation that makes them idiots to you, or the tattoos? I can promise your values are in a major way an imitation of the people you grew up around....and I don't think that makes you an idiot.

My values came from the aliens that implanted them in my brain. They (the aliens) are far more advanced than humans so that makes my values superior to all human values.

I didn't realize Maverick was the popular hang out for tattooed and pierced people. Odd.

Your kidding here right? It may not be a place where high class tattooed people who work for Kat von De hang out, but I would guess the majority of people who patronize Maverick have tattoos or piercings. Not a scientifically studied and proven fact, just an observation.


Is that how you engage in thought provoking conversations? You just make up numbers and statistics and hope nobody knows any better?

No, I try not to engage in conversations for fear I will be exposed as having an opinion that matches reality and not some utopian dream world.

I'm sure many of them will regret it, but really who cares? It's just an ear. Will that flap of skin kill you? Will it in some way effect your quality of life in your 50's and 60's?

That flap of skin could kill you. What if it gets caught in the door of the trax train and they get dragged off the platform and get ran over by the train?

It probably won't effect their quality of life. With the rate of acceptance of counterculture in this county, by the time they are in their 50's no one will care what you look like. The way society is now, yes it would effect their ability to lead a normal life as a productive citizen. Fair, maybe not. True, I think so and I'm the one that matters.

I just find it silly to judge someone based on appearance in just about any situation. You know who doesn't care if you have any tattoos/piercings or not? Tattooed/pierced people lol.

You have me here. If my daughter is walking home from school and a nice kid with 3 inch disks in his ears asks her if she want to go to the mountains and see his sweet fort I would be silly to think that would not end well.

True the clean cut jock could take her to prom and try to date rape her just as easily.

 

[Tacoma]

The only rapist I ever knew personally was actually the quarterback for the neighboring school. 3 Sigma FTW!

 

[Zombie]

For the record, I'm tattooed and pierced. I've only padlocked one guy's ear, and I did it cause he was a douchebag, not cause he was gauged.. moment of opportunity I guess.

I do find Cody's discussions both enlightening and highly amusing.

 

[Cody]

Your kidding here right? It may not be a place where high class tattooed people who work for Kat von De hang out, but I would guess the majority of people who patronize Maverick have tattoos or piercings. Not a scientifically studied and proven fact, just an observation.

I'm still not sure what to say about this, or how one gas station vs another seems to attract a certain type of person...especially in an industry almost completely driven my convenience of location. However, after a late night experience at a Maverick last night, the tattooed gentlemen running the register was by my estimation a complete idiot. The other six patrons were not showing any visible body modifications however, which definitely skews the numbers in my direction. Obviously the sample size here is small and any calculated p-value would signify a null hypothesis, so even though it defies all known forms of logic, I'll allow your empirical evidence to trump mine. No intelligent conversations were attempted.

No, I try not to engage in conversations for fear I will be exposed as having an opinion that matches reality and not some utopian dream world.

It probably won't effect their quality of life. With the rate of acceptance of counterculture in this county, by the time they are in their 50's no one will care what you look like. The way society is now, yes it would effect their ability to lead a normal life as a productive citizen. Fair, maybe not. True, I think so and I'm the one that matters.

I think the problem we're running into here is that you are assuming that your version of "reality" and idea of "culture" are universal, when in fact they are not. If you're blindfolded and are given an apple to judge the quality of, and you are fed an orange, you'll probably think that's a pretty shitty apple.

And what makes a productive citizen? Someone who does as you do? I can think of several close friends who are pretty "productive" by most standards--run companies that generate seven figure revenues and employ plenty of people, and from my time working in/around advertising agencies I can think of countless people with tattoos and piercings that have fairly high ranking positions. They seem fairly productive to me, even when applying your set of "universal" standards to them.