You could move to Austin and get lobe gauges and only eat from food trucks.
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In my early twenties I had both ears pierced and almost went the lobe gauge route and this is the choice of body modification that I am most pleased I didn't adopt. I love my tattoos and I will get more of them but thank goodness I did not get lobe gauges. My wife married me with tattoos and both ears pierced and for some reason she is upset our daughter has her nose pierced and got two tattoos her first year in college. I am smart enough not to point out the weirdness in my wife's stance here.
The ear gauges don’t grow fully back, I assume. My wife had a few piercings of the 90s girl variety and she still has the little puncture hole scars.
I just imagine someone with ear gauges trying to move through thick brush and getting their ear lobes caught on things. Definitely an impractical urban body modification. You could never be on any sort of survival show.
Maybe once every year or so I will be giving a lecture or at dinner with some Physicians and one of the neonatologists will quietly point out that they can see that I had my ears pierced and they will share that they did too or have hidden tattoos. Everyone I work with recognizes that we are nerds but this is our opportunity to feel like King of the dorks.
Not that I don't believe it, but, if they are using BMI as the criteria, overweight for someone who is 5' 9" is 165 pounds. Also, years ago, when that one woman claimed that "French women don't get fat", I wanted to ask her how many cigarettes she smoked every day. There are trade offs.
I had my ears pierced as a teenager then I went through a period where I rarely wore earrings and the holes closed up. I had them pierced again in my early 20s and, since it was trendy at the time, I had one them pierced again so that I could wear 3 earrings, often none of them matching. Then I went through another period where I rarely wore earrings and the holes closed up. If you pinch my earlobes, you can feel the scars from the previous piercings but I don't if you can tell by looking at them. I'll have to check with a mirror. I think even back then, I probably had the nickel allergy, as both prolonged periods of not wearing earrings was brought on by finding that most earrings made my ears feel itchy. It just got worse over time. I cannot wear any jewelry with nickel in it (no, not even 24 ct gold). You know how some people can't be on an airplane if they are serving peanuts? If I spend time in contact with a metal alloy containing even trace amounts of nickel, I will react. I have had allergic reactions to the metallic thread in a pair of sandals. I have allergic reactions to black and dark green nylon socks because of the amount of nickel in the dye.
No piercings or tattoos here. Never held any interest for me.
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hey, there was no mention of BMI, I know all about that issue... I'm just repeating what the article had to say...I do think it's safe to say, however, that the traditionally lean French are becoming less so. Eating tacos as described in this article is certainly a contributing factor, the popularity of these things is pretty remarkable.
Roasted a few turkey breasts and carved them up for lunch sammies with leftover guacamole and cheese.