Tongue Piercings - wafth fat all abouff

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 08:40

Tongue piercings 'can cause damage to teeth'



Piercings have also been associated with haemorrhages, infections, trauma to the gums and, in the worst cases, brain abscesses.



BBC



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10892773



So what possible benefits, apart from the ensuing speech impediment, do you think tongue piercing bestows on the wearer?



I know I'm an old fogey and don't understand the young's need to be different... but there's different and then there's daft....

Jefferson


Joined: 17/05/2010
Posts: 360

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 09:25

As another old fogey I couldn't agree more. Maybe it's a cry for attention! I'm sure some non fogey will put us right.

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 09:57

Come on guys didn't you do things in your youth that your parents disagreed with, just to be different e.g. long hair crazy clothes tattoos!



Crickey I remember my dad having a fit when I was going out with false eyelashes on and a skirt that left nothing to the imagination!



Chris

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 10:04

I would like to make a suggestion:



Get your tongue pierced....and ask your wife about the benefits......(this is meant as 'tongue in cheek')



;)





DD

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 10:18

Long hair, crazy clothes are not quite in the same league as permanent impairment of some physical aspect of your body... The long-term effects of tongue piercing are simply not worth the risk and for what? I have a niece who has one and she used to have a lovely speaking voice - not any longer, now she has a lisp and it sounds awful.



I may be square but tattoos were never on the list of things I felt inclined to have... maybe because even then, in the sixties and seventies, the greyish green blemishes of age-faded tattoos were in evidence amongst the older generations - so it would hardly seem rebellious.



'Look mum, I look just like my pal's grandpa'



No thanks...



"going out with false eyelashes on and a skirt that left nothing to the imagination!"



some still are.... mutton dressed up as curtains.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 11:52

Apart from being a fashion statement I think it's meant to give pleasure.

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 12:27

Bill,



Do you mean 'pleffur'....

essexdan


Joined: 29/07/2009
Posts: 70

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 12:39

Had the lot, crazy hair, crazy cloths, tattoo , earrings, tongue piercings & facial piercings.....



Hair ended up in the hoover, cloths now M&S, tattoo still there, earrings gone, tongue piercing dissapeared with a kebeb ( didnt fancy retrieving it in the mornng ), facial piercings all gone .....must be getting old



With regards the tongue, my teeth & gums are fine, speech was unaffected & girl friend was sad that I swallowed it !!!! and I think my brain is in tact.

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 12:53

Dear DaisyDukes,



Can you 'confirm' the benefits.... ?



I don't want to go through the pain - for nothing ;)

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 12:58

daisy dukes/msg 4: 'Get your tongue pierced....and ask your wife about the benefits......(* this is meant as 'tongue in cheek')'



* No it's not - and YOU know it!



For the curious and 'uninitiated', there are oodles of websites that'll tell you about the REAL benefits!



One of the REAL benefits is beautifully extolled by our favourite Australian bard:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wye1VXbBwey

jimmykibris


Joined: 20/07/2010
Posts: 151

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 13:07

daisy i heard that one as well never had the pleasure though .

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 14:13

Gavin. Is that what they call it? )