Ear gauges, they finally make sense!

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Saw this and now I understand!!

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Haha awesome. I had mine up to 28mm but my daughter kept pulling on them..back down to 12 mm now

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Go Becca! I wish I was that adventurous, I went to 10mm and then back to none.
 
Maybe I was born to soon but those things don't make any sense to me even if you can give your lizard somewhere to hang out !
 
Also, 'ear gauges' is insanely incorrect english.
A gauge is a unit of measurement, or measuring device - may as well call them 'ear tape measures'.
The reason for the confusion is the basic lack of education of kids these days, as up to a certain size(00ga - or 10mm) the jewelry - NOT the ear itself - is measured by gauge. Like sheet steel.
After 00ga, measurements move to either mm or inch fractions. Sadly a lot of people these days are either ignorant, misinformed or just plain stupid and get it wrong.
As a former piercer and a grammar nazi at times it drives me completely insane when people call my ears(which are at 28mm or 1 1/8") 'gauges'. It's usually at that point I stop talking to someone and just walk away...
 
Also, 'ear gauges' is insanely incorrect english.
A gauge is a unit of measurement, or measuring device - may as well call them 'ear tape measures'.
The reason for the confusion is the basic lack of education of kids these days, as up to a certain size(00ga - or 10mm) the jewelry - NOT the ear itself - is measured by gauge. Like sheet steel.
After 00ga, measurements move to either mm or inch fractions. Sadly a lot of people these days are either ignorant, misinformed or just plain stupid and get it wrong.
As a former piercer and a grammar nazi at times it drives me completely insane when people call my ears(which are at 28mm or 1 1/8") 'gauges'. It's usually at that point I stop talking to someone and just walk away...

I just know them as "tunnels" or "stretches", never heard people call them gauges. And yes I do know that gauge is a size measurement. I don't have any myself so maybe I'm not up to date with current generation slang.


Rick
 
I just know them as "tunnels" or "stretches", never heard people call them gauges. And yes I do know that gauge is a size measurement. I don't have any myself so maybe I'm not up to date with current generation slang.


Rick

It's not current generation slang - it's just correct terminology. Tunnels or plugs depending what jewelry worn is widely accepted, as are stretches too even though it just sounds irksome.
 
I just know them as "tunnels" or "stretches", never heard people call them gauges. And yes I do know that gauge is a size measurement. I don't have any myself so maybe I'm not up to date with current generation slang.


Rick

It's not current generation slang - it's just correct terminology. Tunnels or plugs depending what jewelry worn is widely accepted as the right description, as are stretches too even though it just sounds irksome.
 
Well, I might be a too old see why anyone who doesn't come from a culture where "ear gauges" are the tradition would have them , so I still think they just a stupid fad.

I'd love a couple of those little green lizards though (anoles ??).
 
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Well, I might be a too old see why anyone who doesn't come from a culture where "ear gauges" are the tradition and I still think they just a stupid fad.

I've love a couple of those little green lizards though (anoles ??).

Oh well, every generation has their stupid fad, I've had stretched ears since I was 14 (now 21), and I'm planning on going bigger. I don't regret them yet! :D
 
Thankfully it wasn't a Prince Albert:lol:







OOOPPPssss that's a snake piercing not a lizard :oops:
 
Well, I might be a too old see why anyone who doesn't come from a culture where "ear gauges" are the tradition would have them , so I still think they just a stupid fad.

I'd love a couple of those little green lizards though (anoles ??).

Yeah, the 17 years I've had mine for is surely just a fad...
 
8 years. Not as long as some but its not something ill grow out of or anything lol

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I'd still have mine in if I hadn't taken them out to find a job. Don't think current work would mind. Got up to 32mm, could've got a decent snake through there.
 
I have 20mms, and because I work at a mine site, we use isolation locks.

Supervisor offered a carton on anyone who could get a lock in it >.<
 
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