1/24/2005: Eyeglasses piercing

Suggested by Syrinx, here's one I kind of hope doesn't become fashion. These glasses are held on by a piercing through the bridge of this guy's nose.

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Urgh! I'd be too worried about walking into a door or falling over. Still, at least they won't slide down his nose..

This idea is beyond stupid. Not to sound like anyone's mama, but piercing the bridge of your nose is dangerous. Very close to brain tissue and potential for infection is huge. Stupid, stupid, stupid!

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Originally Posted by Beestie Perhaps but at least the glasses make you look smart.

I want to see them in the flip up position.

I'm wating for the first fist fight.

I think they look cool.

I would never get them because they are not practical and I'm a big believer in designing things to work well before even beginning to consider how they look. But these do look good.

This makes me gag. As a person who wears glasses, I question how one would clean them without gouging ones eyeballs out? Or yanking on the lenses too hard and causing more injury. Also, I know a stupid person that had that part of his nose pierced and his body didn't like it. The barbell eventually worked its way through his skin and fell off. Now he has a big ugly scar. Why are people so stupid?!

There was a character in some William Gibson book who had mirrored sunglasses implanted around her eyes. That would be a pretty cool look - for someone other than me.

I don't remember if it got into how she managed tears, eye gunk, and discarded lashes...

I remember the same book. She didn't like people touching her implants because the fingerprints were a pain, and someone ended up going for her implants in a fight. There were an achilles heel.

What's next..
ear-protection holded by piercing.

Not only the dificulty sleeping with them and cleaning them but what about when he comes from the cold outside into a warm room and they fog up?

Or how about showering or swimming with them attached to your face? Doh!

Maybe the implants are actually just the mounting studs like those people with prosthetic faces get. Just clip the glasses on.

So who's the piercing whore that did the job? If there's any professionalism or professional organization in that trade, the person should be outcast. Some things just seem to go too far, and it certainly isn't a tatoo-artist's job to be mucking around with prescription lenses.

I am taking a few moments here to be grateful of two things ...

one, I just plain don't get the whole self-mutilation for the sake of fashion thing. I have my ears pierced only because a friend's wife noticed I didn't have pierced ears and started buying the beer. Ten Pints of German Dark Beer later, I was on a stool in the Piercing Pagoda at Christiana Mall with a bleach blonde Vietnamese child coming at me with a pair of piercing guns.

two, my prescription is so strong I can never have rimless glasses, just on the off chance that I would ever get drunk enough to go back on number one.

I couldn't possibly want to see badly enough to do that to myself. I'd get a seeing eye bimbo or something first.

good things get better, bad things get worse.....ugly things get uglier.

jag 's right. friggin contact lenses, jackass! why not pierce your chest and stick a pen through it? oh, right, you already have a perfectly good pocket protector.....ugly greasy hair havin' no chin, goat faced twerp. He's the next marilyn Manson, I guess?

It's art. About as stupid as much "art" is these days.
btw- Welcome to the Cellar, Buckethead

Is it just me, or have they done a real good job of lining the little connecting bar up to his face? Those lenses are about as pissed as me on new years eve!

A couple things from the linked article. First, he's unable to wear contacts, for whatever reason. He says that he sleeps and showers with the glasses on. No mention of how he cleans them. However, taking them on/off requires getting out a little screwdriver and removing them from his face! About 5-10 mins work - he believes that's comperable to contact lenses. I beg to differ, at least for removal.

If he gets contacts he can use the hole for;

Okay, that's just scary!

I'd bet if that had a plug you could make toast on it!

I'm not uncomfortable with people wanting to express themselves, but damn people, just damn.

I'm sure there would be problems in future with the bar migrating through bone/skin and all the focus problems that would accompany it. I think i'd rather keep shoving them north with a finger.

"But surely you wouldn't hit a guy with glasses,would you?"
Fuckin' A.......Especially one as stupid as this dude.
Someone pierces their johnson.....they are stupid but noone (or hardly anyone) knows.
This guy is wearing a sign....
Reeking of " please; could I get some attention over here?"
I reckon there are pioneers for everything. After all somewhere in a galaxy far, far away, some guy took the first taste of ........well the johnson. YUK!
There are (imo) degrees in idiocy.
To me this guy is not an idiot. Probably couldn't spell it.
He's an (Ithink I may have discovered this word)..... IDOT.
I reckon next we'll have pierced-fixed condoms for pencil dix.
I'll apologize later for this post.......

I just have to stir the pot. my ears are pierced at the very upper part and I wear small curved barbells there. I got tired of having a sore ear from jamming one of those earbud things for the cell phone in my ear. so I put an aligater clip on it and now when I stay on the phone for long periods of time I clip the earbud to my earring.

What could be better than functional as well as decorative.

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Originally Posted by 404Error I'd bet if that had a plug you could make toast on it!

I spend the better part of my day being sure (or trying to) not to pierce, saw, drill, hammer, screw, nail or otherwise perforate my body. It works better when the juices stay inside and the bacteria, sawdust, metal filings etc, stay outside.

Call me old fashioned.

I understand intellectually what it is all about but I don't get it. Despite my sig line.

I could imagine setting the piercing so that rather than having a screw attachment, setting a countersunk magnetic attachment point, so you just click each side of the glasses on or off, and you could have multiple styles but with the same magnetic attachment point. Prescription sunglasses, etc. And if someone punches you they'll just fall off. These countersunk magnets are strong enough to keep sunglasses clipped to the appropriate frames on a speedboat, so I think that would work out quite nicely.

But what if they made you crosseyed, like the Optigrab?

wear one side as an eyepatch to correct the lazy eye. for that matter, this could usher in a new era of anti-symmetry what with wearing mismatched specs...

even better, just embed the magents under the skin..