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stretched ears & getting a job
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I needs a job.
I haves da stetched ears.

recommendations?


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[quote]RogerRabbit said:
Ah, that explains it.  Typical know-it-all noob.  We get a few thousand just like you register here every year.  They try a few grows, fail miserably and then after a few months or one bad trip, go back to sniffing glue, never to be seen again.

We have a basic pf tek that's idiot proof enough for noobs to get fucked up with their friends. 

Mycologists on the other hand grow for the love of growing.  They want to experiment with various species, substrates, and fruiting environments. They'll move on to isolate strains, attempt hybridization, and in general treat cultivation as an artform, rather than a chore that must be performed as a means to an end.  They'll work twice as hard for a ten percent gain, just for the love of perfection.  These are the ones who will isolate strains, not the dumb fucks who treat mushrooms as a drug, or even worse, a pathogen, as if mushrooms cause disease.
RR [/quote]

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: TheBandit]
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you mean your lobes are guaged?

get one of those skin colored plugs, a buddy of mine does that


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: TheBandit]
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shouldn't have disgraced your body like that, and should have thought about the ramifications of doing so before you did it?


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Deltron3030]
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It doesn't matter you won't get a job anyways with the economy like this.


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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't
think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an
experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely
physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and
reality, so we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.:flowerchild:

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Deltron3030]
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not everywhere really seems to care... just look around, i had my ears gauged up to an inch for awhile and managed to find jobs fairly easily.. albeit my hair is capable of covering my ears when i want it to.


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Deltron3030]
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Deltron3030 said:
shouldn't have disgraced your body like that, and should have thought about the ramifications of doing so before you did it?


lick my taint. "disgraced my body". i simply provided myself with how i wanted my body to look.
would you discriminate against a transsexual because a woman felt that she was meant to be born a man.

fuck you, and your mother, you ignorant fuck.


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[quote]RogerRabbit said:
Ah, that explains it.  Typical know-it-all noob.  We get a few thousand just like you register here every year.  They try a few grows, fail miserably and then after a few months or one bad trip, go back to sniffing glue, never to be seen again.

We have a basic pf tek that's idiot proof enough for noobs to get fucked up with their friends. 

Mycologists on the other hand grow for the love of growing.  They want to experiment with various species, substrates, and fruiting environments. They'll move on to isolate strains, attempt hybridization, and in general treat cultivation as an artform, rather than a chore that must be performed as a means to an end.  They'll work twice as hard for a ten percent gain, just for the love of perfection.  These are the ones who will isolate strains, not the dumb fucks who treat mushrooms as a drug, or even worse, a pathogen, as if mushrooms cause disease.
RR [/quote]

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Deltron3030]
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Deltron3030 said:
shouldn't have disgraced your body like that, and should have thought about the ramifications of doing so before you did it?


:facepalm:

Jesus. Some people make the world so boring.

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: twighead]
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twighead said:
not everywhere really seems to care... just look around, i had my ears gauged up to an inch for awhile and managed to find jobs fairly easily.. albeit my hair is capable of covering my ears when i want it to.


yeah, i was thinking something along the lines of customer service or the likes. idk, anywhere thats pretty much "behind the scenes"


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[quote]RogerRabbit said:
Ah, that explains it.  Typical know-it-all noob.  We get a few thousand just like you register here every year.  They try a few grows, fail miserably and then after a few months or one bad trip, go back to sniffing glue, never to be seen again.

We have a basic pf tek that's idiot proof enough for noobs to get fucked up with their friends. 

Mycologists on the other hand grow for the love of growing.  They want to experiment with various species, substrates, and fruiting environments. They'll move on to isolate strains, attempt hybridization, and in general treat cultivation as an artform, rather than a chore that must be performed as a means to an end.  They'll work twice as hard for a ten percent gain, just for the love of perfection.  These are the ones who will isolate strains, not the dumb fucks who treat mushrooms as a drug, or even worse, a pathogen, as if mushrooms cause disease.
RR [/quote]

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: livelovelaugho9]
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livelovelaugho9 said:
It doesn't matter you won't get a job anyways with the economy like this.


no shit...im having a tough time.


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[quote]RogerRabbit said:
Ah, that explains it.  Typical know-it-all noob.  We get a few thousand just like you register here every year.  They try a few grows, fail miserably and then after a few months or one bad trip, go back to sniffing glue, never to be seen again.

We have a basic pf tek that's idiot proof enough for noobs to get fucked up with their friends. 

Mycologists on the other hand grow for the love of growing.  They want to experiment with various species, substrates, and fruiting environments. They'll move on to isolate strains, attempt hybridization, and in general treat cultivation as an artform, rather than a chore that must be performed as a means to an end.  They'll work twice as hard for a ten percent gain, just for the love of perfection.  These are the ones who will isolate strains, not the dumb fucks who treat mushrooms as a drug, or even worse, a pathogen, as if mushrooms cause disease.
RR [/quote]

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: TheBandit]
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TheBandit said:
I needs a job.
I haves da stetched ears.

recommendations?



Whole Foods.  Its practically a requirement that you have weird piercings or tattoos to get hired.


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FAMM.ORG             

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: GabbaDj]
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GabbaDj said:
TheBandit said:
I needs a job.
I haves da stetched ears.

recommendations?



Whole Foods.  Its practically a requirement that you have weird piercings or tattoos to get hired.


hm...nice one.


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[quote]RogerRabbit said:
Ah, that explains it.  Typical know-it-all noob.  We get a few thousand just like you register here every year.  They try a few grows, fail miserably and then after a few months or one bad trip, go back to sniffing glue, never to be seen again.

We have a basic pf tek that's idiot proof enough for noobs to get fucked up with their friends. 

Mycologists on the other hand grow for the love of growing.  They want to experiment with various species, substrates, and fruiting environments. They'll move on to isolate strains, attempt hybridization, and in general treat cultivation as an artform, rather than a chore that must be performed as a means to an end.  They'll work twice as hard for a ten percent gain, just for the love of perfection.  These are the ones who will isolate strains, not the dumb fucks who treat mushrooms as a drug, or even worse, a pathogen, as if mushrooms cause disease.
RR [/quote]

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: GabbaDj]
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GabbaDj said:
TheBandit said:
I needs a job.
I haves da stetched ears.

recommendations?



Whole Foods.  Its practically a requirement that you have weird piercings or tattoos to get hired.


Definitely. Warehouse food distribution. If your in shape and can run around lugging cases of shit everywhere your good. They pay great too if your fast.

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: I_was_the_walrus]
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How big are they? If your at 00 or smaller you could just take em out. If they are bigger you could take em out and cover the hole with liquid latex lol.

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Wilde Beast]
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liquid latex. sounds safe.


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[quote]RogerRabbit said:
Ah, that explains it.  Typical know-it-all noob.  We get a few thousand just like you register here every year.  They try a few grows, fail miserably and then after a few months or one bad trip, go back to sniffing glue, never to be seen again.

We have a basic pf tek that's idiot proof enough for noobs to get fucked up with their friends. 

Mycologists on the other hand grow for the love of growing.  They want to experiment with various species, substrates, and fruiting environments. They'll move on to isolate strains, attempt hybridization, and in general treat cultivation as an artform, rather than a chore that must be performed as a means to an end.  They'll work twice as hard for a ten percent gain, just for the love of perfection.  These are the ones who will isolate strains, not the dumb fucks who treat mushrooms as a drug, or even worse, a pathogen, as if mushrooms cause disease.
RR [/quote]

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: TheBandit]
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TheBandit said:
lick my taint. "disgraced my body". i simply provided myself with how i wanted my body to look.
would you discriminate against a transsexual because a woman felt that she was meant to be born a man.

fuck you, and your mother, you ignorant fuck.


TheBandit said:
yeah, i was thinking something along the lines of customer service or the likes.


:lol:


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: CosmicFool]
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:smilingpuppy:


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[quote]RogerRabbit said:
Ah, that explains it.  Typical know-it-all noob.  We get a few thousand just like you register here every year.  They try a few grows, fail miserably and then after a few months or one bad trip, go back to sniffing glue, never to be seen again.

We have a basic pf tek that's idiot proof enough for noobs to get fucked up with their friends. 

Mycologists on the other hand grow for the love of growing.  They want to experiment with various species, substrates, and fruiting environments. They'll move on to isolate strains, attempt hybridization, and in general treat cultivation as an artform, rather than a chore that must be performed as a means to an end.  They'll work twice as hard for a ten percent gain, just for the love of perfection.  These are the ones who will isolate strains, not the dumb fucks who treat mushrooms as a drug, or even worse, a pathogen, as if mushrooms cause disease.
RR [/quote]

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: CosmicFool]
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apply at blockbuster. I once saw a girl working in blockbuster with those nasty gouged holes in her ears they call "earrings".


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knock a hoe out this dimension, continue my ascension
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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Envix]
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im at 00g and i work retail

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Envix]
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Envix said:
apply at blockbuster. I once saw a girl working in blockbuster with those nasty gouged holes in her ears they call "earrings".


gauges never bother me much but I've gone to subway and seen a worker w/ them.  :puke:

stay away from food service if you have a gaping hole of any kind.


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: TheBandit]
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I can't get a job because I have slightly too long of hair.

No, it does not go past my neck at all.


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Morgenstern]
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Think of it this way:  You may have limited your job choices, but at least you're an individual, like all the other people with stretched ears.


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...the whole experience is (and is as) a profound piece of knowledge.  It is an indellible experience; it is forever known.  I have known myself in a way I doubt I would have ever occurred except as it did.

Smith, P.  Bull. Menninger Clinic (1959) 23:20-27; p. 27.

...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely.

Osmond, H.  Annals, NY Acad Science (1957) 66:418-434; p.436

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: TheBandit]
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I stretched my ears for a few months, never got too large.

One thing about them that is insane, the smell! OMFG. They should bottle the grime that builds up around the spacer as like a torture device.

It smells so bad it's nearly enjoyable.

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Chubba]
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I don't know where you live but I've seen a lot of people with gauged ears have no trouble finding jobs unless they're above a 00 or something ridiculous like that. But then again, you can always get a job at Hot Topic!:laugh:

But yeah, I took my gauges out years ago because so many people started doing it, I still have my other piercings though, I can just take them out while I'm working so it's all good.

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: badchad]
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badchad said:
Think of it this way:  You may have limited your job choices, but at least you're an individual, like all the other people with stretched ears.


:ilold:

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Morgenstern]
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If your gauges are holding you back, take them out?  Sometimes you just have to conform to the way everyone else is to get ahead.  On the other hand, if you took out your gauges, either they will grow back together (if the gauges were smaller) or they won't.  :goodluck:

On a side note, what's with all the angry people in this thread?!  :confused:


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"plus they atually think jambands are good or sumthing, so they clearly know absolutely nothing about music, clearly lol" -Bassfreak

Edited by All We Perceive (10/26/09 06:32 PM)

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: TheBandit]
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Try Starbucks.

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: All We Perceive]
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All We Perceive said:
If your gauges are holding you back, take them out?  Sometimes you just have to conform to the way everyone else is to get ahead.  On the other hand, if you took out your gauges, either they will grow back together (if the gauges were smaller) or they won't.  :goodluck:

On a side note, what's with all the angry people in this thread?!  :confused:


people hate themselves so they try to make everyone else feel as bad as they do.


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I close my eyes and seize it
I clench my fists and beat it
I light my torch and burn it
I am the beast I worship....

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Chubba]
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Chubba said:
I stretched my ears for a few months, never got too large.

One thing about them that is insane, the smell! OMFG. They should bottle the grime that builds up around the spacer as like a torture device.

It smells so bad it's nearly enjoyable.


So fucking clean them. I have 9/16th in, I work as a stock boy at a pharmacy. Most places will not care as long as you are not working with food. My brother just got a job at Party City and he has 11/16ths in.


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Rocker232]
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they definitely shouldnt stink.


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I close my eyes and seize it
I clench my fists and beat it
I light my torch and burn it
I am the beast I worship....

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Rocker232]
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Quote:
So fucking clean them.


My ears have been closed up for ~4 years, so it's something way in the past.

The ear grime sure does stink though, it's just dead cells building up in between your lobe and the spacer.

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: TheBandit]
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TheBandit said:
I needs a job.
I haves da stetched ears.

recommendations?


Hot topic?

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: CosmicFool]
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beyond about a quarter inch is repulsive, and I am fully prepared to stick a finger through and pull that bitch right in half if you ever start a fight.


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: blujay]
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entrepreneurship has flexible commandments.

telemarketing should get you good start up cash. boring but the pay is usually decent for the work it is.

Edited by Amber Trichome (10/26/09 07:26 PM)

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Amber Trichome]
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thanks guys!
oh, and to the person that said they stink...clean them at least once a day, and use organic body jewelry, that REALLY helps.


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[quote]RogerRabbit said:
Ah, that explains it.  Typical know-it-all noob.  We get a few thousand just like you register here every year.  They try a few grows, fail miserably and then after a few months or one bad trip, go back to sniffing glue, never to be seen again.

We have a basic pf tek that's idiot proof enough for noobs to get fucked up with their friends. 

Mycologists on the other hand grow for the love of growing.  They want to experiment with various species, substrates, and fruiting environments. They'll move on to isolate strains, attempt hybridization, and in general treat cultivation as an artform, rather than a chore that must be performed as a means to an end.  They'll work twice as hard for a ten percent gain, just for the love of perfection.  These are the ones who will isolate strains, not the dumb fucks who treat mushrooms as a drug, or even worse, a pathogen, as if mushrooms cause disease.
RR [/quote]

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: TheBandit]
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TheBandit said:
i simply provided myself with how i wanted my body to look.



Nevertheless, you probably look like a freak now. Good luck finding a job. You should apply at your local porn store as splooge mopper.

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: TheBandit]
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UPS. Especially this time of the season coming up very soon, it's pretty easy to land a job with them.


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: TheBandit]
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Try some bars see if they need any staff, if its a metal or rock joint then your piercings will probaly enhance your chances lol :thumbup:


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: samba_lightning]
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dude gauged ears are no big deal i remember i was the only one at a hiring fair that got hired, and i have 00


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: samba_lightning]
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I'm a professional Body Piercer, and it's not gaugeing your ears. Gauge is the unit of measurement of the jewelry. You have to stretch your ear to get the gauge in, but anyway. I have 1 3/16 ears, I know quite a few people that have large lobes and have jobs. Also if you're ever interested in closing them that can be done. Let me know I can point you to the right direction.


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"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."- Bill Hicks

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: TheBandit]
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Ear stretching... :lol:

You could try a job as an African bushwoman, but you may need to stretch your neck and put plates in your lips too.

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Modified_Evolution]
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Modified_Evolution said:
I'm a professional Body Piercer, and it's not gaugeing your ears. Gauge is the unit of measurement of the jewelry. You have to stretch your ear to get the gauge in, but anyway. I have 1 3/16 ears, I know quite a few people that have large lobes and have jobs. Also if you're ever interested in closing them that can be done. Let me know I can point you to the right direction.


Gauging is slang for stretching, being a licensed piercer I would think you'd know that.

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Dudeyourgone]
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Dudeyourgone said:
im at 00g and i work retail


I'm at the same gauge. Take them out when you go interview for jobs. I wear mine at my job now because they can't make you take them out at most places anymore, instead they have to be clear or flesh colored.


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~The Cultivators Motherload~

"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein

"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."-Dalai Lama

Live long and prosper.


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Kada]
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Kada said:
Dudeyourgone said:
im at 00g and i work retail


I'm at the same gauge. Take them out when you go interview for jobs. I wear mine at my job now because they can't make you take them out at most places anymore, instead they have to be clear or flesh colored.


I'm confused. 00 is pretty small I don't see why you would ever have a problem with that. Girls wear pearl earrings that are similar in size.


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Kada]
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Kada said:
Dudeyourgone said:
im at 00g and i work retail


Take them out when you go interview for jobs.


Why? at that size they can clearly see the holes in your ears, it's not the same as taking out a lip or nose ring lol.

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Kada]
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Yes it's SLANG just that, it's not the proper term however. Saying gauging to a piercer just makes yourself look retarded. It will get you laughed at, either when you leave or in your face. Either way call it what it is. YOU CAN'T VERB A NOUN!

Main Entry: 1gauge
Variant(s): also gage \ˈgāj\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English gauge, from Anglo-French
Date: 15th century

1 a : a measurement (as of linear dimension) according to some standard or system: as (1) : the distance between the rails of a railroad (2) : the size of a shotgun barrel's inner diameter nominally expressed as the number of lead balls each just fitting that diameter required to make a pound <a 12-gauge shotgun> (3) : the thickness of a thin material (as sheet metal or plastic film) (4) : the diameter of a slender object (as wire or a hypodermic needle) (5) : the fineness of a knitted fabric expressed by the number of loops per unit width b : dimensions, size c : measure 1 <surveys are a gauge of public sentiment>
2 : an instrument for or a means of measuring or testing: as a : an instrument for measuring a dimension or for testing mechanical accuracy b : an instrument with a graduated scale or dial for measuring or indicating quantity
3 : relative position of a ship with reference to another ship and the wind
4 : a function introduced into a field equation to produce a convenient form of the equation but having no observable physical consequences


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"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."- Bill Hicks

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: TheBandit]
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TheBandit said:
I needs a job.
I haves da stetched ears.

recommendations?


Try going to all the movie and commercial castings for elves.  :confused3:


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All this time I've loved you
And never known your face
All this time I've missed you
And searched this human race
Here is true peace
Here my heart knows calm
Safe in your soul
Bathed in your sighs
:bunnyhug: :yinyang2:

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Modified_Evolution]
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Modified_Evolution said:
Yes it's SLANG just that, it's not the proper term however. Saying gauging to a piercer just makes yourself look retarded. It will get you laughed at, either when you leave or in your face. Either way call it what it is. YOU CAN'T VERB A NOUN!

Main Entry: 1gauge
Variant(s): also gage \ˈgāj\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English gauge, from Anglo-French
Date: 15th century

1 a : a measurement (as of linear dimension) according to some standard or system: as (1) : the distance between the rails of a railroad (2) : the size of a shotgun barrel's inner diameter nominally expressed as the number of lead balls each just fitting that diameter required to make a pound <a 12-gauge shotgun> (3) : the thickness of a thin material (as sheet metal or plastic film) (4) : the diameter of a slender object (as wire or a hypodermic needle) (5) : the fineness of a knitted fabric expressed by the number of loops per unit width b : dimensions, size c : measure 1 <surveys are a gauge of public sentiment>
2 : an instrument for or a means of measuring or testing: as a : an instrument for measuring a dimension or for testing mechanical accuracy b : an instrument with a graduated scale or dial for measuring or indicating quantity
3 : relative position of a ship with reference to another ship and the wind
4 : a function introduced into a field equation to produce a convenient form of the equation but having no observable physical consequences


Funny, I know piercers who use the term interchangeably. Get off zee high horse dude.


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: MushroomTrip]
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It's slang, of course it isn't a proper term. :lol:
Whenever someone asks me about gauging their ears, I don't laugh, that would make me look stupid if anything. I just tell them what size tapers they should go from and that's it. Many pierces use both terms so I don't really know what you're talking about.

I'm glad you went to whatever dictionary site you used then copy and pasted all of the definitions to prove that a slang definition wouldn't be in there.

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: MedullaOblangata]
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Yeah know arguing on the internet is like winning a medal in the special Olympics, even if you win. You're still a retard, so in a way we're both right. Personally I try to educate the public. No high horse at all, most people I correct are glad I do so. It helps them find what their looking for easier. Of course doing it in a way thats non-egotistical. It all comes up to the person. In fact I myself at one time called it gauging until one day I was corrected about it. From a veteran of over 18 years in the industry. Which in all honesty I respect his opinion far more then I do someone on a internet forum. (not to be a dick, just stating facts)


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Modified_Evolution]
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"Yeah know arguing on the internet is like winning a medal in the special Olympics, even if you win. You're still a retard."

This phrase is so old and overused it's not even funny anymore.

I'm not even arguing, I don't care what you call it but to say other people are wrong by using a slang term is just stupid. It doesn't really matter how long the person who "corrected" you was in the business for, especially since 18 years ago it wasn't as big a fad as it is nowadays so I could understand why he didn't understand today's slang.

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Modified_Evolution]
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Modified_Evolution said:
Yeah know arguing on the internet is like winning a medal in the special Olympics, even if you win. You're still a retard, so in a way we're both right. Personally I try to educate the public. No high horse at all, most people I correct are glad I do so. It helps them find what their looking for easier. Of course doing it in a way thats non-egotistical. It all comes up to the person. In fact I myself at one time called it gauging until one day I was corrected about it. From a veteran of over 18 years in the industry. Which in all honesty I respect his opinion far more then I do someone on a internet forum. (not to be a dick, just stating facts)


i believe i knows you in the real life.


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[quote]RogerRabbit said:
Ah, that explains it.  Typical know-it-all noob.  We get a few thousand just like you register here every year.  They try a few grows, fail miserably and then after a few months or one bad trip, go back to sniffing glue, never to be seen again.

We have a basic pf tek that's idiot proof enough for noobs to get fucked up with their friends. 

Mycologists on the other hand grow for the love of growing.  They want to experiment with various species, substrates, and fruiting environments. They'll move on to isolate strains, attempt hybridization, and in general treat cultivation as an artform, rather than a chore that must be performed as a means to an end.  They'll work twice as hard for a ten percent gain, just for the love of perfection.  These are the ones who will isolate strains, not the dumb fucks who treat mushrooms as a drug, or even worse, a pathogen, as if mushrooms cause disease.
RR [/quote]

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: TheBandit]
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Very good chance you live in milwaukee?


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: TheBandit]
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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Epigallo]
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bradley said:



:thumbup:
Or...

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: MedullaOblangata]
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MedullaOblangata said:
Kada said:
Dudeyourgone said:
im at 00g and i work retail


Take them out when you go interview for jobs.


Why? at that size they can clearly see the holes in your ears, it's not the same as taking out a lip or nose ring lol.


Mine kind of squeeze shut after about 20 minutes and look pretty normal. You can barley see the hole when they are out.


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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein

"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."-Dalai Lama

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Epigallo]
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on a more serious note, you could check out some companies that let you take customer service calls from home - there are a lot out there,  although I don't know any specific names.

freelance?
manual labor?

not sure what you're looking for.

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Kada]
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Kada said:
MedullaOblangata said:
Kada said:
Dudeyourgone said:
im at 00g and i work retail


Take them out when you go interview for jobs.


Why? at that size they can clearly see the holes in your ears, it's not the same as taking out a lip or nose ring lol.


Mine kind of squeeze shut after about 20 minutes and look pretty normal. You can barley see the hole when they are out.


Really? One of my friends decided to take out his 00's and even for a few weeks I could see straight through his earlobe lol.

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: MedullaOblangata]
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Oh wow. Did he rip them when he stretched them? I let mine slowly adjust to larger gauges at a time. If you cut them or rip them they do have a harder time growing closed at all.


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~The Cultivators Motherload~

"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein

"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."-Dalai Lama

Live long and prosper.


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Kada]
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I'm pretty sure he did actually, he didn't mind the pain so he went from like a 16-8 and then from that to a 2 and then 0 to 00. That's probably why then lol.

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: MedullaOblangata]
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My advice would be to just keep looking, you will find something eventually. You should have seen all of the applications I filled out back when my ears were at 2 1/4 inches :lol:
But unfortunately I can't say that it worked out, I simply went into work for myself and eventually took everything out.


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: MedullaOblangata]
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Yeah that's the cheap way to get gauged ears. You gotta do it right or you fuck your shit up.


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~The Cultivators Motherload~

"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein

"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."-Dalai Lama

Live long and prosper.


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Modified_Evolution]
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Modified_Evolution said:
YOU CAN'T VERB A NOUN!




It's both... silly.

• GAUGE (noun)
  The noun GAUGE has 5 senses:
1. a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
2. accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
3. the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
4. the thickness of wire
5. diameter of a tube or gun barrel
  Familiarity information: GAUGE used as a noun is common.

• GAUGE (verb)
  The verb GAUGE has 6 senses:
1. judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
2. rub to a uniform size
3. determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation
4. measure precisely and against a standard
5. adapt to a specified measurement
6. mix in specific proportions
  Familiarity information: GAUGE used as a verb is common.

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: RoosterCogburn]
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Too-sha!

I still stand by however that you sound retarded when used in that context.


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Modified_Evolution]
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Modified_Evolution said:
Too-sha!

I still stand by however that you sound retarded when used in that context.


I always find myself laughing when someone asks me "what size are your guages?"
Especially when I respond, "2 1/4 inches" and they ask again, "uhhh...what gauge is that?" :lol:


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: satyr]
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Damn 2 1/4, major props on reaching that! I feel weak, mines only 1 3/16, going to be 1 1/4 soon hopefully though. Slower the better though.


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"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."- Bill Hicks

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Modified_Evolution]
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This website tells you what size you have.

00 gauge actually means 3/8

http://www.steelnavel.com/reference.asp


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~The Cultivators Motherload~

"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein

"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."-Dalai Lama

Live long and prosper.


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Modified_Evolution]
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I cringe when I hear people use the term 'gauging'. I'm not that much of an asshole to correct them, but that's beside the point of this thread.

My ears have been over an inch since I was 15, so I feel your pain in the job search. A lot of jobs I took my plugs out and that was that, but the past 2 jobs I've been lucky and was allowed to keep them in. I'm the hardest working person you'll ever meet, and just because I have tattoos and stretched lobes doesn't mean Im a low life scum bag like a lot of people think about with people who have mods.

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Modified_Evolution]
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Modified_Evolution said:
Damn 2 1/4, major props on reaching that! I feel weak, mines only 1 3/16, going to be 1 1/4 soon hopefully though. Slower the better though.


Thanks, but don't feel bad; I've taken mine out for the past year, yours are larger than mine now :tongue:
But yeah, stretching is not something to rush, I've seen too many horrifying mistakes from people trying to be competitive and "gauge"(:lol:) as quickly as possible.
Kids come into the shop sometimes thinking they are special because their lobes are now bigger than mine, then I stick my ring finger through my nose to reveal my 7/8" septum. Booya! :lol:


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: satyr]
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Yeah I can't count the times how many kids asked me how long it took to get this big. I tell them 5 years, they flip out then say. Dude it only took me 3 months to get to an inch and half. I look and they're lobes are all sorts of fucked up, blew out, and nasty! Hell I even had one kid come in with necrosis in his lobes. That was gross. 7/8 septum, damn a good friend of mine as 9/16 I thought that was big. You've got him beat, hell mines only a 2ga! I'm wondering if you're by chance on BME at all?


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"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."- Bill Hicks

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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: Modified_Evolution]
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Modified_Evolution said:
Yeah I can't count the times how many kids asked me how long it took to get this big. I tell them 5 years, they flip out then say. Dude it only took me 3 months to get to an inch and half. I look and they're lobes are all sorts of fucked up, blew out, and nasty! Hell I even had one kid come in with necrosis in his lobes. That was gross. 7/8 septum, damn a good friend of mine as 9/16 I thought that was big. You've got him beat, hell mines only a 2ga! I'm wondering if you're by chance on BME at all?


I had an iam account a while back, made and sold plugs on their for a while until I started pursuing other endeavors.


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: TheBandit]
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TheBandit said:
I needs a job.
I haves da stetched ears.

recommendations?


:lmao: :rofl:


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Re: stretched ears & getting a job [Re: satyr]
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satyr said:
Modified_Evolution said:
Yeah I can't count the times how many kids asked me how long it took to get this big. I tell them 5 years, they flip out then say. Dude it only took me 3 months to get to an inch and half. I look and they're lobes are all sorts of fucked up, blew out, and nasty! Hell I even had one kid come in with necrosis in his lobes. That was gross. 7/8 septum, damn a good friend of mine as 9/16 I thought that was big. You've got him beat, hell mines only a 2ga! I'm wondering if you're by chance on BME at all?


I had an iam account a while back, made and sold plugs on their for a while until I started pursuing other endeavors.



Nice if you still make them, I'm always in the market for some nice custom stuff.


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