[kddani]

I guess it is each person's own body, but it bugs the shit out of me that people don't seem to think about what's going to happen down the road. Yeah it's fine to do some of this stuff in college, but what's it going to look like down the road? Like the lower back tattoos- do you know how ugly that's going to be after several kids and as you get older and wider/saggier? Brands seem to mainly be on the arm... which I think is scary because if it gets infected or something, screwing with your arm is a big deal. But it can be covered up in a business environment.

Sorry to you GCers who do it, but the ear stretching thing really annoys me, personally. It's a part of your body that can't be covered up easily, and you're doing something to it that would require surgery to fix. It's not like a piercing, which will pretty much heal itself in most cases, or only leave a small scar. But it's a big, huge hole in your ear. When you get out in the professional world, for most jobs that is not going to be something that's acceptable- a big piece of plastic/pvc/whatever or a big hole in your ear. Rightfully so, because it looks ridiculous, IMO (which I know i'll get attacked for, but it's my opinion). It's not a religious or cultural thing- like some of the tribes in Africa that you would see in National Geographic stretching various parts of their body, etc. In a lot of cases, it's middle class white kids from suburbia doing it, who do it just to be "cool" or "different" (lol, though I usually laugh at most things kids do to be "different" because in reality they're just the same as the others in their group).