Kids and jewlery
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UKBob

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16,277 posts

294 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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My girlfriends 6 year old nephew has just had his ear pierced, and is currently wearning a diamond stud.

Not cool, zero respect to her brother the father, tacky, and out of character as far as the family goes.

Bottom line, its just :rolleyes:

Laying it on thick now, anyone who doesnt share the same feelings would is also a little :rolleyes: imho...

vixpy1

42,699 posts

293 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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Tell him he's a poofta..

andy mac

73,668 posts

284 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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edited cos I read it wrong, and thought it was a wee kid, not a 6 year old, who is old enough to make a scene so as not to have an earing...

>> Edited by andy mac on Monday 15th August 01:14

UKBob

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16,277 posts

294 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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vixpy1 said:
Tell him he's a poofta..

I would, but he's only 6.

He's VERY popular with the ladies though, cool as you like, carrying an attitude the size of a large hot air balloon on his shoulders and is set to become a bit of a wideboy when he grows up, we recon

vixpy1

42,699 posts

293 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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UKBob said:

we recon


Do you do new parts as well?

seafarer

1,278 posts

282 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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I've seen pictures of baby girls with their ears pierced already. It's happened since I was a kid. I still think it's a bizarre practice. I did get my ears pierced as an adult, since those clip earrings are a nuisance, but it doesn't seem quite right at such a young age, especially since they're too young to judge and make reasonable decisions about trends for themselves. Thank God there's an age restriction for tattoos, still (isn't there?), or else it would be that next as apparently the parents don't say no to him.

andy mac

73,668 posts

284 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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I still don't forgive my parents for getting me christened! I had no choice in that matter. i sure wouldn't want them sticking holes in me!

seafarer

1,278 posts

282 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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well, they meant well. I see the christening/baptism thing (whichever your religion calls it) as a promise by the parents to raise the child to be decent. At least it has less to do with looking cool. (at least, for them, I hope it did)

mutt

4,301 posts

259 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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I have a 19 month old little girl who will not be getting her ears peirced until she is at least 16, I've already banned family members from taking her to get it done when she's older. It just looks tacky ... even more so in the current chav-state!

Coco H

4,237 posts

266 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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Personally I dislike pierced ears on children. I had mine done when I was 14. Sadly I disgraced myself later that yera by adding 4 more but at least I choose to do it.

titiany

2,122 posts

261 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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Kids with piercings - horrendous.

I struggle with the concept of peircings at the best of times. Personally I think that if you are supposed to have holes in your ears/other parts of your anatomy then you should have been born with them.


I never wanted my ears pierced as a teenager, and they still remain intact now, but jewellery on kids is just frightful, other than a plastic bracelet or something, of course.

UKBob

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16,277 posts

294 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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vixpy1 said:

UKBob said:

we recon

Do you do new parts as well?
For a price

titiany said:
Kids with piercings - horrendous.

...jewellery on kids is just frightful.
I totally agree I waited till 17 before getting my ear pierced. Actually Im lying, I didnt get it pierced, I simply stood in front of the mirror, aimed, and shoved in the stud

liszt

4,337 posts

299 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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It is just a culture thing.
On the continent precious metal earings are normally a Christening present for girls. It doesn't bother me in the slightest on girls.

Boys is another matter though.

silverback mike

11,293 posts

282 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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liszt said:
It is just a culture thing.
On the continent precious metal earings are normally a Christening present for girls. It doesn't bother me in the slightest on girls.

Boys is another matter though.



I will agree with you on that one, my wife is Portuguese, and as you say, it is a christening present for girls. But not boys. It looks ok over there as most girls have their ears pearced with a stud (not wheel stud ).

Don't like boys with earrings though.

simpo two

92,766 posts

294 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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vixpy1 said:
Tell him he's a poofta..

Gippo more like. Yech.

UKBob

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16,277 posts

294 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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simpo two said:

vixpy1 said:
Tell him he's a poofta..


Gippo more like. Yech.
I cant. He's only 6. We're all respectable folk but the new family he's growing up in has questionable taste, thats for sure.

shadowninja

80,063 posts

311 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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What a chavesty.

MILF

1,209 posts

274 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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To my eternal shame, have a young cousin who I believe is aged about 2.

Already he has a sleeper in his ear, wears a gold neck chain with boxing glove pendant (I kid you not) & sports a tork bangle. HE'S 2 YEARS OLD.

In addition, mother (my aunt) dresses him in adidas trainers (never worked, but can afford branded trainers which he will grow out of in weeks & which are bad for his feet anyway) & buys him numerous baseball caps.

However, not content with dressing him like a chav, she actually christened him Billy Jo. Yes, BILLY JO. So he either ends up as a Country & Western singer (his full name being Billy Jo Chopham, yee hah) or a Porn Star (BJ !!!).

I hope I was adopted as a child.

406

3,636 posts

282 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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simpo two said:

vixpy1 said:
Tell him he's a poofta..


Gippo more like. Yech.



Now now John, are you saying every bloke with an earing is a gyppo? I wear an earing sometimes and I am 55. Does that make me a gyppo? Hang on, I have just sold my house and buying a motorhome to tour Europe in - Perhaps you are right

lord summerisle

8,174 posts

254 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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I worked a summer season at Gullivers World in warrington...

i couldnt believe the number of kids with peircings - especially babes in arms - barely out of the womb with 1 or 2 earrings in each ear - boy or girl.

felt it was akin to child abuse at times when they were that young.