guys with one earring

you really need another thread to tell you that you're lol90s?

Ed Bradley represent

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can't make a blanket judgement on guys with oh fuck it LOL 90s

not even harrison fucking ford can pull this off
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i did this. i wish there was such a thing as ear-putty to caulk up the hole.

Totally <3 so long as it's a hoop.

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I still have one! Always forget about it.

Eyebrow piercings are more LOL 90's, though. Right guys?!?! *covers scar*

I think I considered an eyebrow piercing for about a second, and then went "okay no"

lol piercings. why dont you just get a tribal tattoo already.

a super cool look for super cool dudes.

I got one in Venice Beach when I was 16. The scar still haunts me. Oh well, at least it wasn't an alien head tattoo or something.

I am a huge fan of the long slender shiny earring Tom petty, Dylan, etc wore in the late 80s.

if it wasn't for the fact that I can't think of any picture I want permanently on my skin, I'd have like five bazillion tattoos

my left ear was pierced but it's almost healed up over time

Oh, I can open it up for you in no time.

if it wasn't for the fact that I can't think of any picture I want permanently on my skin, I'd have like five bazillion tattoos

that's a lot dude.

So I had three piercings in my left ear: two in the lobe, and one up top in the cartilage. The cartilage one never healed, and one day two years after I had it done, I woke up with a gigantic throbbing. I had a ring in it, and somehow the cartilage had gotten so infected that it crawled up OVER AND AROUND the fucking ring, basically encasing it in swollen purple grossness. I went to a health center, where the nurse aspirated the shit out of it, and foul stinking liquid poured out of my ear and into my shoulder, and we took turns cutting the hoop with a pair of pliers and removing the ring in like 4 pieces. Never put it back in, never will pierce anything again.

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Never EVER pierce anything? Wink wink nudge nudge.

I honestly have very little problem with one earring. Those ear plugs make me shudder. The other day there was this guy who had GIGANTIC ones. I think you could use it as a basket ball hoop and play a game. What the fuck is up with that? (I am obviously a very boring middle class woman, I know.)

BTW I have a *pistol* to make ear piercings. Anyone want to be a victim? I have never done it.

Ha, happened to me too. Was this awful Celtic ring thing. Oozing puss all prom night.

this is actually kind of cool (for somebody else)

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I am seriously bummed that I can't find any slender crystal earring pics of bob and Tom. Oh well, it's there in the bragovich petty doc..

There was a bit character in uhmmm.. The Facts Of Life?? That had the long earring. Some mid late-80s sitcom, anyway. I think it was a common accessory for cronies/thugs in 80s films.

Dan why would you do this to yourself? I think we all know how this is going to end. That said you somehow manage to pull of this and a goatee really nicely and I mean that 100% sincerely. Not many men could do that. Not many at all.

My 67 year old fat, grey, bow-legged German dad told me recently he wants a diamond stud. I fully support him in this.

BTW I have a *pistol* to make ear piercings. Anyone want to be a victim? I have never done it.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, August 10, 2011 6:50 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You should never get anything pierced with a gun. That's a recipe for disaster and situations just like Remy's.

LoL I just realized that I have 11 holes in my ears. I had two in the cartilage on each ear, three in one lobe and two in the other. I also have my tragus and conch done on my right ear. Those two and one of the extra holes plus the normal reg ones are the only ones I wear earrings in anymore though.

i did this. i wish there was such a thing as ear-putty to caulk up the hole.

― smells like PENGUINS (remy bean), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:05

maybe you can talk to my son, he really wants piercing (& tattoos). thought about showing his this thread for about a millisecond "BTW dad I read all your noise board posts..."

let's be real: guys with two earrings aren't way cooler or anything

Gucci mane begs to differ

Dan why would you do this to yourself? I think we all know how this is going to end. That said you somehow manage to pull of this and a goatee really nicely and I mean that 100% sincerely. Not many men could do that. Not many at all.

i would like to throw my support behind this comment

xx-post Not all piercings are disasters. Most of the 11 I mentioned are mostly closed up to the point where you can't even tell I ever had them.

If he ever does get anything done make sure it's at a reputable place and not at a piercing pagoda in the mall or anything.

thanks! there used to be a place in greenwich village w/sign reading "ears pierced - with or without pain"

yeah! I let a little Chinese lady with an umbrella pierce my cartilage with a bone needle. So I mean I guess I got off easy.

I am a huge fan of the long slender shiny earring Tom petty, Dylan, etc wore in the late 80s.

― lol is not enough (blank), Wednesday, August 10, 2011 6:40 PM

hope they disinfected it..

There was a bit character in uhmmm.. The Facts Of Life?? That had the long earring. Some mid late-80s sitcom, anyway. I think it was a common accessory for cronies/thugs in 80s films.

you might be thinking of Nick, Mallory's boyfriend on Family Ties

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Yessss. Thank you!

eyyyyyyyy!

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i still have a hole in my left ear. it's closed but it'll probably never go away.

my mom paid for the piercing on my 16th birthday.

feel like i just learned something really personal about you

look nobody died or anything, it was just an earring

i have one earring . . . . i mean i think it would look weirder on me if i had 2

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It'll be interesting in 20 years when this gen of kids who have all done that ridic stretched lobe thing get sick of it, and there's a bunch of OAPs walkin around with 10 inches of saggy earlobe dangling around their jawlines.

horrible.

u don't like my plugz :(

is laser earlobe rejuvenation a thing yet, because I'm sure it will be, in time.

how creepy is it that michael jordan is still wearing that LONE, GOLD HOOP EARRING?

wk: haha yes I was thinking that too.

Actually they just cut off extra skin, open both sides of the hole surgically, and stiche the two sides together. I've met people who have had it done. Also know a few with plugs right now.

Makes sense I guess! Also reminds me I know a young lady who had similar surgical work done on the top of her ear cartlidge... to give her pointy elf ears :/

lol Amon

The only way this works is if:

- you have dark skin
- you have longish hair to serve as a contrasty backdrop
- you are jason statham

i still have the piercing, obv

I remember as a teenager being told that for a man, having one earring was a mark of homosexuality. I'm not sure what two earrings on a man were meant to signify.

No, no, no. If you wear one earring on your right ear it means you are a homosexual. If you wear it on the left it is a sign that you are a grit.

There's a guy on my bus who still has one hoop earring. He looks like he's between 35 and 40 and otherwise dresses very well.

It'll be interesting in 20 years four years ago when this gen of kids who have all done that ridic stretched lobe thing get sick of it, and there's a bunch of OAPs walkin around with 10 inches of saggy earlobe dangling around their jawlines.
--Rameses Street (Trayce)

Always cracks me up. "So, you liked Cave In, huh?"

It's totally this weird generational thing cuz when I was in HS from 94-98 it was strictly one ear. I still have a little hole from my single left ear earring.

Then when I hit lollege it was hxc double ear stretchy bullshit on dudes and "ooh what gauge is that" and I was all "lol no way"

My point is, that single ear holes are the sign that u are OLD SCHOOL and prolly won a Motley Crüe mirror at a state fair once

I'll win that Motley Crüe mirror if it fucking kills me!

I won a Transformers mirror.

Cool!

I'll win that Motley Crüe mirror if it fucking kills me!

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lol, 90s. I can understand the dudes doing it to be blinged out but how can I forget when boomers were doing it in the 90s as an effort to be hip?

Does Bourdain still rock the one earring?

I think he does! A tiny hoop, left ear if the web is to be trusted

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No, no, no. If you wear one earring on your right ear it means you are a homosexual. If you wear it on the left it is a sign that you are a grit.

when i was growing up some kids maintained that the opposite held true in Britain and in California.

also lol at op's-- ed bradley was the first person that came to my mind

Left was straight when I was a kid.

(From which I can naturally deduce that Chuck, up there, wasn't banging his daddy's boyfriend)

gonna go out on a limb and say getting an earring has always been coded as kind of ... swishy ... in these new england parts. i had three, so you know.

In my freshman year, lots of guys in my dorm were getting the left earring. I guess that means the correct answer is "lol 90s". Mine has healed over long ago - you can't tell anything was ever there.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080110090712AANHJ9N

How come on everybody else, a septum piercing looked so freaking cool, but when I finally got one, people kept discretely informing me that I "had something up there".

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I'm sorry but the whole "right ear, right queer" thing hardly applies any longer. It's a retarded reasoning that hardly anyone believes anymore.

And it never applied to cartilage piercings or girls to begin with, just lobes and men.

most reasonable yahoo answer ever?

I remember as a teenager being told that for a man, having one earring was a mark of homosexuality. I'm not sure what two earrings on a man were meant to signify.

― The New Dirty Vicar, Thursday, August 11, 2011 1:03 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No, no, no. If you wear one earring on your right ear it means you are a homosexual. If you wear it on the left it is a sign that you are a grit.

― jon/via/chia/pet 2.0 (kkvgz), Thursday, August 11, 2011 1:32 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

in the UK im pretty sure 'left' signified gay. but either way, one or the other did. i could probably google it but who has the time?

mind you, left from whose point of view?

in the UK im pretty sure 'left' signified gay. but either way, one or the other did. i could probably google it but who has the time?

i am quite sure it was right, i used to have one, so i should know (i got it as a nineties kid, and wasn't aware of those cultural implications, but i am stubborn and will not admit any mistake, took me 7 years of being called a fag on the street (say once a month) before I decided I had enough of it.

just in time i guess, i'd never realized it, but indeed, you never see those anymore.

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http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071211231930AA6GrSG

in canada, it's complicated

anyway its comeback is imminent right, the eighties revival is slowly fading, nineties will be back in fashion in about 3 years, I guess.

in canada, it's complicated

― Johnmau5 (history mayne), Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:09 AM

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i'm sorry dan but i must choose "earrings on men are a sign of Satan's handiwork."

still have a little hole on the left (lol) earlobe.

this sort of thing makes me grateful my mom at one point had the authority to just say 'no'

Yes I mean otherwise you'd be some kind of freak fit only for laughing at

How come on everybody else, a septum piercing looked so freaking cool, but when I finally got one, people kept discretely informing me that I "had something up there".

I met a friend's wife once, and she had a pierced tongue, and I could not stop thinking of that bit in Pulp Fiction.

Lol at guys with earrings.you old.

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Am I the only dude who copped to still having an earring (well, a hoop) here? Yeesh!

I have one (diamond stud)! It's rad!

I think people could still potentially get away with either of those styles, to an extent.

morelike gays with one earring

got my ear pierced in the back of the auto parts store i was working at. my supervisor advised me on the cleaning regimen. shockingly, it got infected. i remember being in agony pulling the fucker out during study hall.
i fiddle with my eyebrow piercing scar as a nervous habit.

Am I the only dude who copped to still having an earring (well, a hoop) here? Yeesh!

I've still got one. Had two, but one fell out. Have also taken to cutting my own hair. I'm on some sort of downward slope here.

Where is the "dan fucking perry!" option?

Would vote for DJP every time

I still have earring holes but havent worn any in years. The holes never closed over though?! Also I had a pierced eyebrow for about 2 months in 2001, til the skin grew over it and it fell off ;_;

My nose ring seems determined to become a parasitic twin, on the other hand.

As far as the 'left/right ear = gay' thing goes I remember reading (in some folklore journal I think) that there was no consistency. They mapped the l/r throughout the UK, and towns just a couple of miles apart had a different answer, as did kids a few years apart within the same community. I think left was the most common though, probably because of historic negativity associated with left.

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I have spent some time reflecting on this and yes, this look is awesome

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oh like that isn't awesome

miss you ed bradley :(

wasn't claiming it to be un-awesome!

I had earrings (plain steel hoops) for a little over a decade - roughly '94 or '95 (can't remember exactly) till about 2006-2007. Took 'em out one day, still have 'em in a jewelry box somewhere.

i had coupla hoops for several months in '92. a gf pierced them using the time-honored alcohol, ice, and a sewing needle method. looked pretty good iirc and even healed up just fine, but don't think i could quite pull them off in my old age

saw thread title, thought of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epEaNNBMcmo

Still have a hoop in each ear, at 51.

Hadn't thought about one way or another for an age, until this thread.

hoop earrings on men are THE WORST

Generally OTM.

An important question that has gone neglected in this thread is which is worse: both ears or just one.

Actually I don't know why i said generally; I can't think of a single instance where a hoop earning didn't detract from a man's appearance.

Though that's not to say that, as a child of the 90's, I didn't think it was pretty much the coolest thing you could have. How badly the 8 year old me yearning for at least one earring.

http://bumpshack.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/mr-clean.jpg

One ear, three earrings.

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Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Up next: "Guys with One Ball."

read the poll option as "earrings on men are a sign of Satriani's handiwork" for a sec just now

BTW, i don't get the lol '90s thing: is it a 'merikun only timeline? cos guys - skinheads etc. - were wearing one and two earrings here (UK and Irl)from the early '70s

Up next: "Guys with One Ball."

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I said "lol 90s" because I got my earring in the 90s

also because, you know, lol 90s

for me it's lol 90s because it was the LAST time it was common/socially acceptable, not that it was the FIRST time

I'm not mocking any one of you, but wearing a single earring is like a man wearing a ponytail: Daring to be different in a used-up fashion that very few can pull off.

I used to wear a ponytail a long time ago, but never pierced anything.

you should have pierced your ponytail; you could have been a style trailblazer

hoop earrings on men look great if you have a raffish mane of longish hair, i.e. this guy:

http://www.thecheapchick.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/viggo_awesome1.jpg

Shoulda pierced my brain for that.

xp

I think of one-earring as more of an 80s thing.

http://www.mydotcomistaken.com/blog_graphic_upload/thompson_twins.jpg

why do they look so surprised

it's like the photographer said "btw, do you guys realize you're The Thompson Twins? *snap*"

except the guy on the right who was caught mid-ponder

"dude all the way on your left, you know he's black right?"

Like the hiccups, I thought I had gotten "Hold Me Now" out of my head after a rough weekend. Guess not.

LIES LIES LIES YEAH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-436Qxw6Nks

eek

lol 1590s
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