Bureaucratic Kung Fu

[shanmonster]

Today was a day of bureaucratic frustration. I went to the EI office again and stood in a long, slow-moving line. Normally, standing in a queue is a total waste of time. Not this time. I decided to practice my sil nim tao . People gave me strange looks, but I didn't care. Kung fu beats standing in line mentally drooling all over yourself, any day.

Then I biked forever and a day out to the medicare place, and practiced the wing chun hand movements as I peddled.

I guess I'm living the Shaolin Soccer dream.

I'm contemplating getting my right eyebrow pierced. I've been thinking about it for about fifteen years. What say you?

Time for more links:

Bloody Sunday Bush: Someone has too much time on their hands.

Batman Origin Comics: The real story.

Cameroon girls battle 'breast ironing': "The most widely used instrument to flatten the breasts is a wooden pestle, used for pounding tubers in the kitchen. Heated bananas and coconut shells are also used." Jay-ziz.

Nautie: psoridian? This ought to be your next knitting project.

Extreme Instability: Gorgeous storm photography (thanks, doyce).

Kids Plus Paint equal reasonable cause for justifiable homicide.

I have another job interview on Friday, this time for something that sounds horrendous: filling out billing forms for 40 hours a week. I was this close to applying for work at an adult massage parlour today. Lord of money, please help me.

And now I must get ready to pump some fucking iron!

Comments

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

Breast ironing? OW!

I myself am not a fan of the eyebrow piercing because I always think "but what if you got in a fight/caught it on your pillowcase?" But if you've been thinking for 15 years and still really want it, I think you should get it. If you decide you don't like it, you can just take it out. From what I gather it's not a bad scarrer, unless of course it's been caught and pulled. (But I am not a body mod person so could be completely wrong).

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

The way I figure, an eyebrow piercing would be far less problematic than a navel or nipple piercing. Both of those are just plain out for me because of the martial arts. They would definitely be pranged on a somewhat regular basis.

But with the eyebrow, I don't think it would be quite so bad if I had a small bar rather than a hoop.

But it's still all up in the air....

[threemilechild.livejournal.com]

Most of them turn out ok, but it is over an area where tons of nerves for your face fan out -- so the risk is quite small, obviously, but nerve damage to your face seems crappy.

I haven't ever seen anyone with the kind of cauliflower looking crap that can happen with a cartilege piercing gone wrong, but many people who've taken out an eyebrow piercing are left with a noticeable chunk missing out of their eyebrow.

That said, if you're pretty sure you want to keep it, the risks of damage are small, and they really do look interesting.

Do you have your tongue pierced?

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I don't get scars very easily, so I think I'd be fine that way.

My tongue isn't pierced for a couple of reasons. First of all, I'm a fidgeter, and people who constantly fidget with their tongue piercings look just plain gross. I'd be one of those people.

Secondly, I value my teeth. I've heard too many bad stories about oral piercings wreaking havoc on dental work.

So no thanks....

Breast Ironing

[sageincave.livejournal.com]

Dear God, I am so glad I didn't grow up in Cameroon.

ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow

Re: Breast Ironing

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

You and me both!

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

Why not get the piercing on the left? What do you
have against sinistrality, damn you?!

And would your duties be in reception, or in happy
endings?

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I already have a nose piercing on the left. My right eyebrow also seems to have very few pain receptors, for some bizarre reason. That's why I think it would be a perfect spot.

I have no idea what my duties would be if I were to take an adult massage parlour job. I suspect they'd include full frontal massage. Considering I'm not a touchy-feely person to begin with, this sounds like a terrible job for me. And besides: EUGH!

[doyce.livejournal.com]

You can always take the ring out during kung fu. There's lot's of girls and guys in my kids' karate class that have various piercings. It's sort of a ritual taking them off and putting them back on before and after class. One girl in there is a tattooed suicide girl-pin cushion. She takes 15 minutes or so to take all her metal off before class and put it back on after.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Not until it's healed, I can't. Until then, it stays put. And navel piercings can take a year or more to heal, depending.

[daughty.livejournal.com]

I am contemplating getting my navel pierced. If you have been thinking about your eyebrow for fifteen years, it is likely you are not going to regret it, eh?

That breast ironing thing is so awful. I haven't heard of it before.