10/20/2004: Extreme piercing in Thailand - Page 2

capnhowdy · 10-20-2004, 06:44 PM

I can't really decide whether he took the pedals off to decrease the weight or to keep anyone from riding it.
If this guy really had huge cahones He'd turn the bike loose. Must be what his friend "pulling up the rear" is for.
"Hold on loosely, but don't let her go"......cheese & rice !!!! Please don't let her go...................

capnhowdy · 10-20-2004, 06:54 PM

One other thing: I'm phishing for an answer to this question-
HOW THE HELL DO YOU PRONOUNCE PHUKET ?????????????

warch · 10-20-2004, 07:12 PM

No soup for you!

Cane · 10-20-2004, 07:36 PM

Finally we see what piercing is really all about. I'm tired of these stateside pansies who think piercing is all about a little bit of metal through the eyebrow or the tongue. Back when I was a boy, we were ashamed to show up at school with anything less than a railroad spike through our tongues.

"If I had six divisions of these men, our worries here would be over."

flippant · 10-20-2004, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by capnhowdy

One other thing: I'm phishing for an answer to this question-
HOW THE HELL DO YOU PRONOUNCE PHUKET ?????????????

Going to answer in case it's not a rhetorical question/or joke.

Ph in thai sounds more like a B than an F. Sounds just like Bucket *not F......

Ba-ba -ba- Bo,Ching Ching. (phoenetics) That's really really crazy! (more fun to say in thai because it sounds as crazy as it's supposed to mean) onomatopoeia.

xoxoxoBruce · 10-20-2004, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by warch

No soup for you!

Why aren't they bleeding?

lookout123 · 10-20-2004, 11:09 PM

the last one makes me think of ed norton at the end of fight club.

wolf · 10-20-2004, 11:49 PM

The bike thing would have been a lot cooler if he had streamers in the spokes, and maybe a baseball card ...

I saw a show on National Geographic channel called "Taboo". There's some Hindu festival where folks ritually pierce themselves, usually with these little trident thingies that are representative of the god who is being honored, as well as with multiple fishhooks in the back, from which fruit offerings are hung. If you don't do the fruit offering to the gods thing (melons, not kumquat sized fruits, incidentally) you can have a family member hang onto cords attached to your hooks and tug on you from time to time as you parade through the town.

According to the practitioners, when you are possessed by the spirits, you don't feel the pain, nor do you bleed.

One of the people focused on in the show was one of the ritual piercers, and his brother, who "lost his faith" about halfway through the several mile walk up the big hill to the temple.

He was hoping that the spirits wouldn't leave him this year.

polar · 10-21-2004, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

See what vegetarianism eventually does to you?? Actually the captions don't explain the ceremony much

Someone told them they weren't getting enough iron.

Syrinx · 10-21-2004, 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Doodle

I just lost my cookies!

And so IotD can now shut down, having fulfilled its intended ultimate goal...

Cyber Wolf · 10-21-2004, 06:49 AM

I wouldn't be suprised in the least to find out those two guys with the bike and knife piercings use something like safety pins to keep those gaping holes closed so they can eat without the food getting out before they're done with it.

jojomonkeygirl · 10-21-2004, 07:53 AM

All I can say is....WTF?

Brown Thrasher · 10-21-2004, 02:44 PM

No, I"m not a social engineer. However I have studied sociology extensively. Does that mean when a picture of a man in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank strapped to his wheelchair in a V.A. hospital is sitting there smoking a cigarette it is acceptable because our culture taught us it was o.k to smoke.

Or maybe a waitress at your local bar wearing a gas mask to prevent inhaling second hand smoke. I'm sure some in that country smoke and I see many piercings here I just hope we don't reach that extreme. "Live and let Live"

Brown Thrasher · 10-21-2004, 03:25 PM

I could give you a definition of insanity. However a wise man once wrote.... "Insanity is being old enough to know better but still too young to care." Some think that humility is cumbersome. However, practicing it brings wisdom.

CzinZumerzet · 10-21-2004, 05:18 PM

Phuket is pronounced FFOOKET. I swear this is true, my brother in law honeymooned there about 5 years ago. And you can guess what tourists call it, and dirty minded postal workers who deliver the holiday postcards, and equally dirty minded small boys running around the house shouting 'FOOKET!! FOOKET!! with imense delight. Behind my town there is a hill named Bleadon, and we used to love saying, as kids, we're going up Bleedin 'ill. Sad parents ... don't try...!

10-20-2004, 06:44 PM	#16
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	I can't really decide whether he took the pedals off to decrease the weight or to keep anyone from riding it. If this guy really had huge cahones He'd turn the bike loose. Must be what his friend "pulling up the rear" is for. "Hold on loosely, but don't let her go"......cheese & rice !!!! Please don't let her go................... __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

10-20-2004, 06:54 PM	#17
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	One other thing: I'm phishing for an answer to this question- HOW THE HELL DO YOU PRONOUNCE PHUKET ????????????? __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

10-20-2004, 07:36 PM	#19
Cane Same Rhetoric, Different President Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lake Worth, FL, USA Posts: 9	It's About Time! Finally we see what piercing is really all about. I'm tired of these stateside pansies who think piercing is all about a little bit of metal through the eyebrow or the tongue. Back when I was a boy, we were ashamed to show up at school with anything less than a railroad spike through our tongues. "If I had six divisions of these men, our worries here would be over."

10-20-2004, 11:09 PM	#22
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	the last one makes me think of ed norton at the end of fight club. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

10-20-2004, 11:49 PM	#23
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	The bike thing would have been a lot cooler if he had streamers in the spokes, and maybe a baseball card ... I saw a show on National Geographic channel called "Taboo". There's some Hindu festival where folks ritually pierce themselves, usually with these little trident thingies that are representative of the god who is being honored, as well as with multiple fishhooks in the back, from which fruit offerings are hung. If you don't do the fruit offering to the gods thing (melons, not kumquat sized fruits, incidentally) you can have a family member hang onto cords attached to your hooks and tug on you from time to time as you parade through the town. According to the practitioners, when you are possessed by the spirits, you don't feel the pain, nor do you bleed. One of the people focused on in the show was one of the ritual piercers, and his brother, who "lost his faith" about halfway through the several mile walk up the big hill to the temple. He was hoping that the spirits wouldn't leave him this year. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

10-20-2004, 07:12 PM	#18
warch lurkin old school Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Minnesota Posts: 2,796	No soup for you!

10-21-2004, 06:49 AM	#26
Cyber Wolf As stable as a ring of PU-239 Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: On a huge rock covered in water, highly advanced moss and 7 billion parasites Posts: 1,264	I wouldn't be suprised in the least to find out those two guys with the bike and knife piercings use something like safety pins to keep those gaping holes closed so they can eat without the food getting out before they're done with it. __________________ "I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then getting' upset 'cos they act like people." ~Adam Young, Good Omens "I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out." ~Adam Young, Good Omens

10-21-2004, 07:53 AM	#27
jojomonkeygirl Vivacious Vivisectionist Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: NC Posts: 36	All I can say is....WTF? __________________ "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what a feminist is, I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat" - Rebecca West, 1913

10-21-2004, 02:44 PM	#28
Brown Thrasher self=proclaimed ass looking for truth whatever that means Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: A treehouse Posts: 193	No, I"m not a social engineer. However I have studied sociology extensively. Does that mean when a picture of a man in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank strapped to his wheelchair in a V.A. hospital is sitting there smoking a cigarette it is acceptable because our culture taught us it was o.k to smoke. Or maybe a waitress at your local bar wearing a gas mask to prevent inhaling second hand smoke. I'm sure some in that country smoke and I see many piercings here I just hope we don't reach that extreme. "Live and let Live" __________________ Let it rain, it eases pain.....

10-21-2004, 03:25 PM	#29
Brown Thrasher self=proclaimed ass looking for truth whatever that means Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: A treehouse Posts: 193	I could give you a definition of insanity. However a wise man once wrote.... "Insanity is being old enough to know better but still too young to care." Some think that humility is cumbersome. However, practicing it brings wisdom. __________________ Let it rain, it eases pain.....

10-21-2004, 05:18 PM	#30
CzinZumerzet .....short for Caz Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The West Coast of England Posts: 358	Phuket is pronounced FFOOKET. I swear this is true, my brother in law honeymooned there about 5 years ago. And you can guess what tourists call it, and dirty minded postal workers who deliver the holiday postcards, and equally dirty minded small boys running around the house shouting 'FOOKET!! FOOKET!! with imense delight. Behind my town there is a hill named Bleadon, and we used to love saying, as kids, we're going up Bleedin 'ill. Sad parents ... don't try...! __________________ ..down by the zea zippin' zider

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