Comments on: Do Your Ears Feel Lucky, Punk?!

By: Rj Richard

Rj Richard — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 05:19:00 +0000

I have long earlobes and I do not wear earrings. What does it imply?

By: derp

derp — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:42:00 +0000

I never thought of it as a blessing. I always thought I looked weird, to be honest.

By: Viet

Viet — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:02:00 +0000

Actually, I didn’t include this, but Buddha was believed to be born with naturally large earlobes. They were just stretched larger with his weighted ear rings.

But really, take the line with a grain of salt as it was meant as a sarcastic remark (and this includes the “misuse” of the term, because I know how riled up people who stretched their ears get) :)

By: Viet

Viet — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:58:00 +0000

The term is correct as it is being used as a verb. Like you said and what I’m fully aware of, as a noun it is a measurement. But as a verb, the action of gauging the ear is correct.

By: Veinlash

Veinlash — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:51:00 +0000

Fix the post man. Ear ‘gauging’ is an incorrect term, as a “guage” defines a measurement. I’m also displeased that my ears at at 1″ and that it does not count, however, since the Buddha himself (or herself) used weighted ear rings, I’m sure ear stretching would count.

By: Argos

Argos — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:54:00 +0000

Funny enough, I actually learned about this from the body modification community a while back. Also, like the article you wrote about the swastika in Japan, a lot of the more spiritual people in the body mod community have swastikas tattooed on them, in the original sense of the swastika.

Also, if I might take a second to be anal and correct you, they’re not called ear gauges, as “gauge” is a measurement. So a person with stretched earlobes would have them at a specific gauge, and the jewelry they wear in them are plugs, also at the appropriate gauge so that they fit.