Aliens amongst us....

[MarkCDodd]

My youngest wanted her belly button pierced so after we nagged my Trouble N' Strife for months she finally relented.

So I took her and her best friend to the tatoo/piercing parlor yesterday afternoon.

I already find it hard to keep up with young teenagers mode of speech and mannerism.

So when I was sitting in a waiting room full of Goths, Emos and other assorted "trends" I was at a total loss.

My daughter warned me to just sit down and keep quiet and not embarrass her by actually saying anything to anybody.

So I started flicking through some of the magazines in the waiting room and there were photographs of piercing of peoples nether regions.

So I quickly reaplced themagazines and thought I would do some "web surfing" on my mobile phone.

Youngest and her friend were called up for their torture session.

As they were getting stabbed and poked a young girl with more metalwork than Vivian from The Young Ones sat next to me and started asking about the phone, which is a recently released upgrade to her phone.

So I was sitting there chatting away with this young lady when my daughter left the torture chamber and entered the waiting room.

The look of horror on her face when she saw her dad talking to "one of the trendiest girls at school" was classic

All the way home both her and her friend were grilling to about what we were chatting about in case I said something "so embarrasing we would never be able to go back to that school".

When I explained that I told the young girl how to update the Android version on her phone they both decided that was "super nerdy" but acceptable.

[Northern Lass]

how old is she ...dau that is ....

big big mistake
letting them have what the want

I had a 15 year old nag and nag me about belly piercing
finally gave in to her aged 16....

she so regrets it now aged 23

[MarkCDodd]

She is 14.

I have banned any face piercings.

Her best friend comes from one of the most conservative families I know and along with me, they can see no harm in a belly button piercing.

(Her Great Grandad was the longest serving Aussie Primr Minister, Sir Robert Menzies).

My daughter certainly does not get everything she wants.

[SRD]

WARNING - Some may find this post OTT.

As I understand it, one of the main problems with belly piercings is that it can reduce sensitivity there, as some women find stimulation of their belly button nearly as good as stimulation elsewhere this can have the effect of nearly halving available pleasure during love-making. I accept it's difficult to discuss such things with teenage daughters but ought to be taken into consideration when the topic crops up.

[snoopysue]

I had to wait until I was 16 just to get my ears pierced!

Belly button's one thing (your comments noted SRD!), but I draw the line a nose, eyebrow, nipples etc!
Working in a hospital environment, it's important to not only look proffesional, but also not offend our patients by the way we choose to present ourselves!
As for piercings, I work mainly in the MRI unit and as anyone who's ever had an MRI scan will testify, we're a bit paranoid about metal in and on our patients. One young lady having answered no to all questions (including that she didn't have any piercings), asked why it was so important. We told her that worse case scenario (as far as piercings go), that a ring shaped piercing will have a current induced in it and could end up getting very hot and burning. After having done the first part of the scan (about 1 min), she pressed the panic button, and declared that she had a piercing "down there", that she wanted to remove!!!

[Northern Lass]

OMG snoops can you imagine that!

SRD...emm are you sure you are rubbing the right place?
Cos I have spent the last hour rubbing my belly button...had a job finding it under all the flab...
and not a sausage ....

[Antie Em]

OMG snoops can you imagine that!

SRD...emm are you sure you are rubbing the right place?
Cos I have spent the last hour rubbing my belly button...had a job finding it under all the flab...
and not a sausage ....

You're not supposed to find a sausage

[grangers14]

I was going to sat that too Auntie Em!

My youngest daughter is wanting her tummy done and I wont let her, she is 16 in June but I said she couldnt while she lives here
My older daughter, once left home, went and had a few in her ear, nose and tongue along with tatoos!
JJo

[snoopysue]

OMG snoops can you imagine that!
(

In my job we see lots of things we'd rather not!
But don't worry my lips are sealed
We have a fair few who can't get their rings off, and as long as they keep their hands so the ring is in a certain position so we can't induce a current (faradays laws of magnetism etc) then we're okay - it's a bit more difficult with other places!!!
Some people think that as long as the ring's gold then it's okay - but gold's just as good at inducing currents as other metals!

[Rob]

[SRD]

Hmmm, I first had a piercing when I was in my teens, early 70s that was. It was most unusual for a bloke to have an earring in those days, some fishermen and gypsies did, and I think David Bowie had just had his done, but for me it was the music, at the time I was very much into Rock'n'Roll, and some of the Teddy Boys of my acquaintance (especially the older ones who dated back to the original days of the Teds in the late 40s in the days after the razor gangs) had a single ring with a cross hanging from it, so I thought - "Why Not?", (well actually I thought "So how can get one up on those snotty greasers that I'm hanging around with who think I'm too posh to be a real greaser?" - but that's another story) which sort of explains why I was standing in a queue in Selfridges in Oxford Street in my lunch hour discussing with the middle-aged lady who was to perform the service, whether the two even younger girls than me, who were almost hysterical with excitement and fear about the forthcoming 'operation,' were going to be able to sit still long enough for her to actually do the deed. After a lecture on keeping my ears clean (honestly, who did she think she was kidding, I was a teenage lad ) and a few seconds of sitting still with a very cold ear, I was able to return to work with my brand new sleeper hidden by my long hair, but it wasn't long before it was noticed, I was working in a design studio at the time and, in the '70s, those boys could really take the wee. When I moved to a more 'respectable' ad agency I was asked to remove it (can you imagine it nowadays, an ad exec being asked to remove their earring? ) so that was that.
My parents, though suffering mixed feelings between aghast and highly amused, admitted that I was old enough to know my own mind but it didn't stop them from banning my younger brother from having his ear pierced until he was 18 and 'responsible' for himself. It didn't stop him though, he used to do his own every weekend before going out, using a needle, a cork and an icecube.

NL: I've had two girlfriends who have had the 'benefit' of an extremely sensitive tummy button. Oddly enough both of them thought they were the only ones with that particular 'gift', it transpires that it really isn't uncommon (try googling but be careful where you click). It was one of those who first told me of the 'dangers' of piercings in that region, apparently appendectomies and caesarians can have the same disastrous effects.

[MarkCDodd]

So its really an "ON/OFF" button?

I had a good chuckle when my 16yo niece turned up at a family get together with a new stud in her tongue and her boyfriend Jack.

When my mum asked why she had it done I suggested that it was to keep Jack happy. This confused mum terribly till somebody sat down and explained its "benifits" to her.

The look of shock on her face and then the frosty look she gave my niece was classic

[Rob]

Interesting memories SRD. Where you from the London region?
Where's Wiltshire ? Isn't that the land of The Troggs?

[SRD]

I was born and bred in NW Kent, spent a few years in Devon, then back to NW Kent, spent time in the Medway towns, also in Surrey (both the Middlesex bit and the Kent/Surrey borders) and have moved to furthest Wiltshire on the Dorset/Somerset borders. And yes the Troggs did come from here, at least, from Swindon.

Odd - I'm full of tales and trivia; friends call me 'The Bard', but my more formal timeline memory is awful, I can't recall things like the year my mother died, or the year my siblings were born and such stuff, I have to look them up. It's probably too much beer flowed under the bridge, although I was useless at Kims Game when I was in the Wolf Cubs and I don't think I was drinking beer in those days.

[Rob]

Well let's hope you tell us a few more of your tales!!
You were a Wolf Cub? What was Kims Game?