That's a demonstration piece. You do it, show it off, take pictures, and take it out again within an hour or two. I've seen a girl get that done laced right up her back, like a corset.
And painful, uh, yeah. It's piercings. Lots of them.
> It's all well and good until you get caught on something as you walk by.
...how on earth do you expect her to do that? "Hey, I have metal and cord lying flat against the side of my body, pardon me as I throw my arms into the air and jump up so I can successfully slam myself into a nearby coatrack?"
You're more likely to catch an earring on a filing cabinet drawer than you are to catch that lacing and piercing on something. But hey, earrings are attaining the status of common or generic, and are thus generally exempt from Expressing One's Individuality commentary, despite the piercing guns and the difficulty in keeping them sterile and the keloiding and the infections.
(Why yes, I do have a soft spot for people who go to some effort to look the way they want to. And yes, that is aside from thinking that it's absolutely gorgeous.)
There are ways to main or injure yourself in most people's everyday environment, and at least as many ways to do the same thing to your clothing. I once had to take a half-day off of work because I nearly ripped half of my slacks off by catching them on a nice, safe, round *doorknob*.
But I'm sure if she stands perfectly still in the middle of an otherwise empty and unpopulated room, then she's as safe as you assert.
(And yes, I think that piercings, including earrings, are both silly and unattractive. The human form is interesting enough on its own without needing to add form-over-function additions to it.)
*raised eyebrow* My assertion? You mean the one that says it's very unlikely she'll catch it on anything (especially since as theweaselking points out, it's likely a performance piece and will be there for a couple of hours)? Or the one that says you're more likely to catch a dangling bit of metal that swings around away from the body on something than you are to catch rings lying flat and lacing doing the same on something?
Neither of those require an empty and unpopulated room; neither of these require standing perfectly still. I mean, think of it in the context of your example--you've managed to not rip your slacks half off *without* meeting those requirements, right? You've in fact managed to go whole hours--perhaps even, dare I say, whole *days*--without catching a loop on something and tearing something apart?
It's like that. Only probably easier, since even if you do manage to catch it on something, you clue in before you're standing there with half your clothing (half your flesh?) peeling away from itself.
(Your opinion on piercings is duly noted. Thank you for sharing it, and thus Expressing Your Individuality [tm].)
Having seen enough "performance pieces" like this wandering around downtown Portland to deem them unremarkable, color me skeptical that this is necessarily just a one-night's fancy.
Furthermore the frequency or likelihood of a wardrobe malfunction is not nearly as important as the potential consequences. Besides, the thing you snag on is not always a stationary object. Colliding with someone and getting hooked onto something would be a nightmare of blood and pain and scarring.
And my parenthetical was merely a parallel of your parenthetical. No need to get snarky about it. And it wasn't really an expression of my individuality considering I'm sure that my unease about the matter is fairly widespread and commonplace.
> Furthermore the frequency or likelihood of a wardrobe malfunction is not > nearly as important as the potential consequences.
No, but it *is* relevant if you're suggesting that she'd need to stand perfectly still in the middle of an otherwise empty and unpopulated room to avoid a malfunction.
> Colliding with someone and getting hooked onto something would be a > nightmare of blood and pain and scarring.
A survivable car accident is a nightmare of blood and pain and scarring. A yanked surface piercing is a bad case of tears as you contemplate how long it took you to get the damn thing in and healed, how hard it will be to get it replaced, and blood and scarring rather less than what you could expect from slicing through a bagel and into your hand.
> And it wasn't really an expression of my individuality considering I'm > sure that my unease about the matter is fairly widespread and commonplace.
...but if you consider her to be Expressing Her Individuality [tm] even though you've seen enough pieces like that to deem them unremarkable[1], why can't you be said to be Expressing Your Individuality [tm] even though you're expressing a view which you think is fairly wideheld and commonplace? --- [1] You've seen *ring* surface piercings--which hers clearly are if you look at the pulling of the skin--as permanent wear? Not just slave rings attached to fully healed surface bars? And these are commonplace enough to be unremarkable? Good god, Portland must be full of incredibly brilliant piercers who are regularly doing surface piercings in all the ridiculous ways and *still* trumping the body's natural healing process and preventing rejections.
Dammit, I can't make Google turn up any indication of that. How frustrating.
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Date: 2006-07-18 03:02 am (UTC)No strike that. It looks awful and painful and like it's a really bad idea.
But hey, at least she's Expressing Her Individuality [tm].
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Date: 2006-07-18 12:11 pm (UTC)And painful, uh, yeah. It's piercings. Lots of them.
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Date: 2006-07-18 02:57 pm (UTC)...how on earth do you expect her to do that? "Hey, I have metal and cord lying flat against the side of my body, pardon me as I throw my arms into the air and jump up so I can successfully slam myself into a nearby coatrack?"
You're more likely to catch an earring on a filing cabinet drawer than you are to catch that lacing and piercing on something. But hey, earrings are attaining the status of common or generic, and are thus generally exempt from Expressing One's Individuality commentary, despite the piercing guns and the difficulty in keeping them sterile and the keloiding and the infections.
(Why yes, I do have a soft spot for people who go to some effort to look the way they want to. And yes, that is aside from thinking that it's absolutely gorgeous.)
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Date: 2006-07-19 04:08 am (UTC)But I'm sure if she stands perfectly still in the middle of an otherwise empty and unpopulated room, then she's as safe as you assert.
(And yes, I think that piercings, including earrings, are both silly and unattractive. The human form is interesting enough on its own without needing to add form-over-function additions to it.)
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Date: 2006-07-19 06:27 am (UTC)Neither of those require an empty and unpopulated room; neither of these require standing perfectly still. I mean, think of it in the context of your example--you've managed to not rip your slacks half off *without* meeting those requirements, right? You've in fact managed to go whole hours--perhaps even, dare I say, whole *days*--without catching a loop on something and tearing something apart?
It's like that. Only probably easier, since even if you do manage to catch it on something, you clue in before you're standing there with half your clothing (half your flesh?) peeling away from itself.
(Your opinion on piercings is duly noted. Thank you for sharing it, and thus Expressing Your Individuality [tm].)
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Date: 2006-07-20 03:11 am (UTC)Furthermore the frequency or likelihood of a wardrobe malfunction is not nearly as important as the potential consequences. Besides, the thing you snag on is not always a stationary object. Colliding with someone and getting hooked onto something would be a nightmare of blood and pain and scarring.
And my parenthetical was merely a parallel of your parenthetical. No need to get snarky about it. And it wasn't really an expression of my individuality considering I'm sure that my unease about the matter is fairly widespread and commonplace.
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Date: 2006-07-20 04:47 am (UTC)> nearly as important as the potential consequences.
No, but it *is* relevant if you're suggesting that she'd need to stand perfectly still in the middle of an otherwise empty and unpopulated room to avoid a malfunction.
> Colliding with someone and getting hooked onto something would be a
> nightmare of blood and pain and scarring.
A survivable car accident is a nightmare of blood and pain and scarring. A yanked surface piercing is a bad case of tears as you contemplate how long it took you to get the damn thing in and healed, how hard it will be to get it replaced, and blood and scarring rather less than what you could expect from slicing through a bagel and into your hand.
> And it wasn't really an expression of my individuality considering I'm
> sure that my unease about the matter is fairly widespread and commonplace.
...but if you consider her to be Expressing Her Individuality [tm] even though you've seen enough pieces like that to deem them unremarkable[1], why can't you be said to be Expressing Your Individuality [tm] even though you're expressing a view which you think is fairly wideheld and commonplace?
---
[1] You've seen *ring* surface piercings--which hers clearly are if you look at the pulling of the skin--as permanent wear? Not just slave rings attached to fully healed surface bars? And these are commonplace enough to be unremarkable? Good god, Portland must be full of incredibly brilliant piercers who are regularly doing surface piercings in all the ridiculous ways and *still* trumping the body's natural healing process and preventing rejections.
Dammit, I can't make Google turn up any indication of that. How frustrating.
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