Septum Piercing: Classic or Dud?

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Y'know... the nose ring that runs between nostrils. I already have my mind made up, but I'm curious. Maybe I'm just an old fogey.

― JM, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh it looks stupid, especially if they have a ring through it, looks like a bull. Wouldn't it inhibit one's breathing? I'm turning into my dad, oh well.

― james e l, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's not being a dad, that's being sensible. The only thing I'd want to remove from my nose if I had a cold would be one of those monstrous boogers. (You know - the really tough ones that make your eyes tear up? Oh, but it's so satisfying...) And if you have allergies, you're just asking for trouble.

The way I see if, if there's any sort of liquid passing through or near flesh that could be pierced, you don't pierce it. Maybe tongues could be an exception, but, then, I AM my dad, so the only thing I pierce is my finger on our crappy stapler.

― David Raposa, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whenever I see someone with one, I am tempted to put a chain through it and harness them to a plough. But, to each their own, I suppose.

― masonic boom, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's pretty ugly. The girl in the new Linkin Park video has one, and I always think, she'd be so much prettier without two lines of snot hanging out her nose.

That's the best video ever, officially, incidentally. The angry guy who comes and talks really makes the song, that's the best thing I've ever seen.

― Ally, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The angry guy? I like that as a resume credit.

"Played angry guy in nu-metal video..."

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Does anyone remember Jane Child? She had the most ridiculous chain that ran from her nose to her ear. I have to believe someone tried to yank it out at some point.

Septum piercing? Dud. Ugly and impractical. Not that other piercings are practical, but at least you wouldn't have snot running into your jewelry.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You'd totally know what I meant if you saw it. He's the dark haired guy who like speaks. It's fantastic. I don't know exactly what he says cos we're always too busy laughing our ass off, but it's something about confidence.

― Ally, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jane Child, Jesus H. Was that ever bland or what? I remember the 'sensitive' shots of the video as she leaned over the mixer board in frustration.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Don't wanna fall in love
Your love cuts like a knife
You make the knife feel good
I'll fight you 'til the end"

She didn't have any issues. Oh no, not at all.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

God, Jane Child, she was just one big "don't", wasn't she? The idiotic nose chain, the ass-length plaits, the fucking gloves with the fingers cut off! It's like she took every retarded mod prim/club kid look from the Eighties and jumbled them all together to make one big monster fashion victim. Only years too late.

Personally, I thought Rachel Bolan did the nose chain thing better.

― Arthur, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i say dud, but i've got me willie pierced, so my opinion ain't worth much.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Madre de dios!

― JM, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What if your septum just falls out through drug use? Does that count?

― tarden, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I liked my normal nose piercing. I could fiddle with it in tutorials and make tutors think I was picking my nose. And having a cold with it made no difference (to disappoint all those 'funny' people that think snot oozes through the hole).

However having a cold right now the thought of piercing my poor septum makes me cringe. Does anyone have any remedies for nasal soreness other than Vaseline and Savlon?

― Emma, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The talky guy in the Linkin' Park song says "Without a sense of confidence / I’m convinced there's just too much pressure to take"...

― james e l, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What if your septum just falls out [...]?

If my septum fell out, I think I would be traumatized for the rest of my life. Particularly if it fell into my soup during dinner. Or, even worse, if you sneezed and, when you took your hands away from your face...

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thank you James! That guy is my favorite person ever.

― Ally, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That septum falling out thing happened to the main cokehead in Status Quo. He said his nose fell out out and he realised he might have a drug problem. So it was back to booze. Also, various Stevie Nicks rumours that, erm [lapses into tastelessness], she hadda insert coke anally through a straw after HER nose fell out. Anyway, question at hand, dud. As are those piercings people get above their lip. Why would anyone wanna put a BOLT in their head? Since when's Frankenstein been a fashion plate? Plus rings through the lip, those are crap. Tongue and nip piercings = sexy, tho'.

― AP, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also, various Stevie Nicks rumours that, erm [lapses into tastelessness], she hadda insert coke anally through a straw after HER nose fell out.

The essence of addiction right there, folks!

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six months pass...

I dunno, man. I thought, and still think, that Jane Child was (and is) amazingly fucking hot. I loved her hair and clothing, and fucking worship her nosechain. She took an ancient practice of adornment and made it incredibly sexy, in her own way, in modern times. On the right girl, I find a chain attached to a beautiful piercing to be impossibly hot, albeit very far removed from the norm of what is the conventional aesthetic. I wish that more people wore them. (especially beautiful girls...) Don't forget; not so long ago, people were shocked by Barbara Eden's navel on TV and it was censored. Even ten years ago, a woman with a tattoo was cause for remark. Jane was pushing the boundaries of beauty fifteen years ago, and is still doing so, as well as being a bona fide musical prodigy. And by the way; for the uninformed, nose jewelery does not interfere with the normal breathing/function/health of the airways or nasal passages no more than earrings obstruct hearing.

― , Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

they really are quite classic. looking like a little bull can be charming.

plus, there isn't any extra bother when runny noses come 'round.

but what can i say, i've had mine for near a year now. i'm attached.

― nancy b., Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

like OW that would hurt. getting my nose (left nostril) pierced hurt enough.

― katie, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wimp! Getting mine pierced didn't hurt at all!

― Emma, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i am no longer afeared of childbirth, now that i've had it done.

OW is right.

― nancy b., Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I would HOPE that earrings don't interfere with your hearing - if they do, I'd give your local lawyer a little ringy-ring (on the phone, that is).

― David Raposa, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

I really cant believe that this is a bunch of people who would pride themselves on having an intelligent enough input to put on here but would rather see the light of it from this society. Body modification is an artform. It is like the same make up that you apply to your face because it makes you "better looking". It is like when you shave, cut or dye your hair, buy those "cute new shoes". Body modification is not what we just do for the hell of it..it is what we do for a purpose. Why does it matter whether i have a thick piece of steel in the center of my nose. Because you dont you think that it is negative? Can you people go beyond the look and go into the meaning?
For me it means that i have power over myself. I earn where i am in my life. I dont get there because i wear the best clothes, i dont get there because i look the best for the job. I get there because i earn it. I am an intelligent enough person. These are the things that matter. Should i talk about breast implants, tummy tucks, face lifts, or dental work? It is in the same ball field. If you are so narrow minded that you can only judge it on its looks, rather than where it came from, what i means to the person. or what it represents, than you have no need for freedom of speech. You have no need to voice a one sided opinion without learning the facts. What you think and what is real are two diffrent things.
Dont get me wrong, there are people out there who do it for the attention, there are people out there who do it to make there parents upset, or because of midlife crisis. But what you dont realize is that they are far and few. If you saw me, you wouldnt know that i owned a business, you wouldnt know what i have accomplished in my life, you would just go "omg got..look at all the rings in his face, look how huge his ear piercings are". Grow up...and think about this the next time you say "i need to put on my make up before i leave".

― Zack june, Saturday, 8 November 2003 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, well whatever. Dud!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 November 2003 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"Why does it matter whether i have a thick piece of steel in the center of my nose."

This is my new favorite sentence of all time.

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Saturday, 8 November 2003 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Should i talk about breast implants, tummy tucks, face lifts, or dental work? It is in the same ball field."

Considered in this way, it sounds absolutely asinine! Nice work!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 8 November 2003 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

It appears as though you kids don't get out much.

― pierced person, Saturday, 17 January 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Septum and labret piercings never look good on anyone.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 17 January 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

screw off miloauckerman. i have my labret pierced and in fact im gettin my septum done tomorrow. your just stating your stupid opinion that obviously doesnt matter to anyone else so why are you posting it on the internet you moron. ive seen beautiful women with septum and labret piercings. facial piercings bring out a feature to make them stand out better.which could actually make you look more attractive,believe it or not. but i suggest you keep your hole shut cause you dont matter in this world.

― courtney, Monday, 14 June 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

septum piercings are pretty much the sexiest. rawr.

― lola cherry cola (roflcakes), Saturday, 1 July 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://img333.imageshack.us/img333/4999/1752237kl.jpg

― a.b. (alanbanana), Saturday, 1 July 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Septum piercings are fucking horrible. kthxbye

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 23 December 2007 12:43 (seventeen years ago)

excellent googler rants on this thread

― gershy, Sunday, 23 December 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago)

Yes, I lolled.

Then I carried on hating septum rings.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 23 December 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago)

courtney not otm

― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 23 December 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago)

Facial piercing does draw attention to the nose in the sense of "OMG that person's got a stupid-looking pig-ring through their nose".

― The blue-green world is drenched with horse gore, Sunday, 23 December 2007 19:12 (seventeen years ago)

I know three or four people who've gotten new nostril studs lately. Horrible, unconscious '90s nostalgia or collective insanity?

― milo z, Sunday, 23 December 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago)

I'm not anti-piercing per se, nostril ones can look nice, but a ring through the septum is fucking ridiculous, yes.

― chap, Sunday, 23 December 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah I quite like nose-studs.

― The blue-green world is drenched with horse gore, Sunday, 23 December 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago)

this is a very funny thread.

― the next grozart, Sunday, 23 December 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago)

Do ridic piercings make you angry or is that putting the cart before the horse?

― The blue-green world is drenched with horse gore, Sunday, 23 December 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago)

piercings, spiky gelled hair, tribal tatts, snowboard, combat pants, skate shoes, oakley shades, goatee, minidisc player, bitchin' 'tude....

let's roll!

― pc user, Sunday, 23 December 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

This is still my greatest unexamined prejudice I think: if I see a septum piercing, I think "you are a tremendous cock".

― Vanessa del Rio Ferdinand (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 March 2009 15:43 (sixteen years ago)

ditto

― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Saturday, 28 March 2009 15:44 (sixteen years ago)

I know several people who have it and who are quite nice. (Can girls even be called "cocks"?) A lot of my friends are (ex-)punks and hippies, I guess that explains it.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 28 March 2009 16:01 (sixteen years ago)

I guess my inexamined prejudice is that, I think people who judge other people based on their piercings are conservatives.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 28 March 2009 16:03 (sixteen years ago)

It's okay T, you just got back, I'm gonna let that one slide.

― Vanessa del Rio Ferdinand (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 March 2009 16:04 (sixteen years ago)

Septum piercings are so last decade. All the kids are getting their septums deviated now.

― I seldom pass on tea now. (libcrypt), Saturday, 28 March 2009 16:06 (sixteen years ago)

Any kind of piercing makes a statement. In the case of the septum, it's saying "I am a right cock".

― Vanessa del Rio Ferdinand (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 March 2009 16:07 (sixteen years ago)

I just get the urge to clip on a leash.

― I seldom pass on tea now. (libcrypt), Saturday, 28 March 2009 16:08 (sixteen years ago)

I feel the need to post this rakish fellow from the neckbeard thread.

http://www.solardeathray.com/images/james.jpg

― Zero Transfats Waller (Oilyrags), Saturday, 28 March 2009 16:12 (sixteen years ago)

To be fair in that pic he's trying to draw attention away from the beard.

― Vanessa del Rio Ferdinand (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 March 2009 16:13 (sixteen years ago)

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