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Earrings on Men

  • 03-02-2014 10:23am
    #1
    martomcg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭


    So I've been having an on-going arguement with a female co-worker about lads who have both of their ears pierced.

    She feels strongly that it's a very 'knackery' thing to have done.

    I myself have had both of mine pierced for over 5 years now and have never had anyone else comment on them. (I'm 27 by the way)

    So what do people think?

    as a FYI - the ones i wear are small enough black ones

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  • #2
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    A fella with one silver ring his ear (just one ear) gets me wet. Fact.


  • #3
    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    Definitely gives off the carny vibe. You and your co-worker dont work on a ring toss stall by any chance do ya ?


  • #4
    martomcg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭martomcg


    Artful_Badger wrote: »
    Definitely gives off the carny vibe. You and your co-worker dont work on a ring toss stall by any chance do ya ?


    Hahaha no not a 'carney'!

    I work in IT but never wear them to work. Would only be in my free time or when heading out on a night out.


  • #5
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    A fella with one silver ring his ear (just one ear) gets me wet. Fact.

    PM sent.

    OP, I have 1 ear pierced but the only lads I've ever seen with 2 earrings that looked stupid were young fellas with a diamond stud in each. Stop that.


  • #6
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,555 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    i think they're as horrible looking as earings on women.


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  • #7
    Menas
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    I would not worry about it OP. People have different tastes and snobbery levels.


  • #8
    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    Depends what kind.

    Are they long dangly ones?

    Little gold rings?

    Large gold hoops?


    Those horrible ones to open the hole in your ear as large as possible?



    Give us a clue!


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
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    Artful_Badger wrote: »
    Definitely gives off the carny vibe. You and your co-worker dont work on a ring toss stall by any chance do ya ?

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    Homer: [pause] ...It's a ring toss game.
    Chief Wiggum: All right, That's it, I'm shutting this place down.


  • #10
    hedgehog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 317 ✭✭hedgehog2


    Think its an old fashion,I dont get those big holes in the ear wooden ones usually sported with a neck tattoo.
    Two earings used to be a sign a fella was gay by him showing the world but think thats no longer the case now.
    Personally I would never wear one.


  • #11
    martomcg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭martomcg


    JuliusCaesar wrote: »
    Depends what kind.

    Are they long dangly ones?

    Little gold rings?

    Large gold hoops?


    Those horrible ones to open the hole in your ear as large as possible?



    Give us a clue!

    The ones i wear are small enough black square ones!

    Discreet enough and not mad blingy!


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  • #12
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »
    PM sent.

    OP, I have 1 ear pierced but the only lads I've ever seen with 2 earrings that looked stupid were young fellas with a diamond stud in each. Stop that.


    Sometimes you see guys with a few rings in each ear or two massive ones which can also look hot. I'm thinking Blacky O'Connor from Glenroe with earrings. That'd be my cup of tea. Spanish gypsy stylee. Me likey. Like this fella:

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/622363/292107.jpg


  • #13
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    I would say it depends on the type of earring, really.

    The stupid diamons studs can indeed look a bit... well, ethnic, I suppose.

    One or two nice silver earrings however, oh yum! Yes, please :)


  • #14
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    A fella with one silver ring his ear (just one ear) gets me wet. Fact.

    Agreed

    Makes me piss myself laughing top.


  • #15
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    anncoates wrote: »
    Agreed

    Makes me piss myself laughing top.


    You're jealous of their ruggedness.


  • #16
    Dyr
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    jealous of their string of previous convictions more like

    nothing says "I've more form than ladbrokes" quite like an ear ring on a bloke


  • #17
    tin79
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    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    A fella with one silver ring his ear (just one ear) gets me wet. Fact.

    The expression "gets me wet" always makes me shudder. I don't know why I know its a natural physiological process...but it just does. Maybe I yearn for a simpler time....


  • #18
    Green Giant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Green Giant


    Hate earrings, full stop.

    Nothing against those who wear them, however.


  • #19
    Meangadh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    I think the only men that I've ever seen that look good with earrings are Johnny Depp and Bruce Springsteen. But that's probably because they're Johnny Depp and Bruce Springsteen.

    In real life, like on a night out for example, I wouldn't find a man with earrings appealing at all. Just if we're taking initial attraction I mean. And I'm totally repulsed by those expander earrings things, on men or women. Sick.


  • #20
    anncoates
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    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    You're jealous of their ruggedness.

    In the interests of full disclosure, I did have a silver ring in one ear for years but got rid of it in my late 20s. It looks alright on younger guys.

    As a child of the 80s though, I still have nightmares of the proto-traveller look of single fake diamond ear stud and rat-tail haircut combo.


  • #21
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    sparkle sparkle !


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  • #22
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 54,882 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Earrings look alright on men as long as it's not the rings, or anything gold.


  • #23
    Links234
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    No? :confused:

    Seriously though... let it never be said AH is full of judgmental dry sh*tes :p


  • #24
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,037 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    pierced mine with a Mr Freeze and a sewing needle which was the style at the time


  • #25
    Legs.Eleven
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    tin79 wrote: »
    The expression "gets me wet" always makes me shudder. I don't know why I know its a natural physiological process...but it just does. Maybe I yearn for a simpler time....


    Yeah, it's a bit crude alright but I was trying to convey the level of attractiveness for me. Seeing a silver hooped earring on a guy would be the equivalent of a lady revealing her "Devil's Dumplings" (too crude?) in a low-cut top. No idea why.


    "It gets me weak at the knees" then. That better?


  • #26
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    Yeah, it's a bit crude alright but I was trying to convey the level of attractiveness for me. Seeing a silver hooped earring on a guy would be the equivalent of a lady revealing her "Devil's Dumplings" (too crude?) in a low-cut top. No idea why.


    "It gets me weak at the knees" then. That better?

    Just say sploosh and be done with it ;)


  • #27
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    pierced mine with a Mr Freeze and a sewing needle which was the style at the time
    did something similar circa 1998. infection set in rapidly.


  • #28
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    pierced mine with a Mr Freeze and a sewing needle which was the style at the time

    I misread that as a knitting needle initially :)


  • #29
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    Meangadh wrote: »
    I think the only men that I've ever seen that look good with earrings are Johnny Depp and Bruce Springsteen. But that's probably because they're Johnny Depp and Bruce Springsteen.

    In real life, like on a night out for example, I wouldn't find a man with earrings appealing at all. Just if we're taking initial attraction I mean. And I'm totally repulsed by those expander earrings things, on men or women. Sick.


    Did you ever ask a wearer to take theirs off and give it a sniff? You'll never smell anything so bad in your life as that pong.


  • #30
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    Never had my ear pierced, had the eyebrow pierced for a couple of years 15 - 17 though. Haha if I was to get it pierced I'd wear one of those dangly feather ones like Corey Haim in "Lost Boys"!


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  • #31
    Green Giant
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    sparkle sparkle !

    "BART!!!!"


  • #32
    stefan idiot jones
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    If you had your left ear pierced you were hard.

    If you had your right ear pierced you were gay.

    FACT. circa 1982.


  • #33
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    I coach a kids football team, we get all the flashy youngfellas, mullets, pink football boots, earrings, you name it. Some of them even wear odd boots (different brand on either foot)

    The other coach, and myself, decided that anyone with both ears pierced (there's 3) has to train harder to get in the team. They haven't figured out yet why they're the ones being singled out!


  • #34
    Cupcake_Crisis
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    As long as its not a massive fake diamond that could sink a ship it's grand. Or hoops. Those things are just dangerous.


  • #35
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    stefan idiot jones wrote: »
    If you had your left ear pierced you were hard.

    If you had your right ear pierced you were gay.

    FACT. circa 1982.

    And if you had both you were hard for gays :p


  • #36
    stefan idiot jones
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    The Pheasant2 wrote: »
    And if you had both you were hard for gays :p

    That thought process just wasn't around then.


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  • #37
    Meangadh
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    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    Did you ever ask a wearer to take theirs off and give it a sniff? You'll never smell anything so bad in your life as that pong.

    Oh Jesus. I'm already feeling sick today. I think this may push me over the edge :(


  • #38
    gobnaitolunacy
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    They're fine...







    .....if you're dressing up as a pirate.


  • #39
    dyeti
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    I have one earring on my left ear and one earring through my tunnel on the same ear.

    Women with heaps of earrings on both ears are hot.


  • #40
    Cupcake_Crisis
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    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    Did you ever ask a wearer to take theirs off and give it a sniff? You'll never smell anything so bad in your life as that pong.

    You're supposed to clean them!!!!!!!!!!!


  • #41
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »
    You're supposed to clean them!!!!!!!!!!!


    Yeah, this fella obviously didn't. He took great pride in the smell.


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  • #42
    Cupcake_Crisis
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    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    Yeah, this fella obviously didn't. He took great pride in the smell.

    Ah that's mank. I'm hyper sensitive to the cheese pong because I'm always paranoid mine smell.


  • #43
    petes
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    Had my left one pierced with a small silver ring years ago. Have two piercings in my ear but the they aren't earrings!

    I don't really like the look of having an earring in each though!


  • #44
    Legs.Eleven
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    Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »
    Ah that's mank. I'm hyper sensitive to the cheese pong because I'm always paranoid mine smell.


    He used to take it off and stick it up near my nostrils as revenge when we were drunk. We were both smelly students back then though.


  • #45
    Meangadh
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    Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »
    Ah that's mank. I'm hyper sensitive to the cheese pong because I'm always paranoid mine smell.

    Genuine question: What happens if you regret stretching the hole in your earlobes? Like tattoos can be removed but what happens if you want to reverse the stretching?


  • #46
    Meangadh
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    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    He used to take it off and stick it up near my nostrils as revenge when we were drunk. We were both smelly students back then though.

    FFS! Properly heaved there. I can't handle even the thoughts of that :(


  • #47
    Pinch Flat
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    Earrings are knackery on men IMHO, both ears pierced even knackerier. As for one ear pierced with a faux diamond from some cheap jewellery shop, that's off the knacker Richter scale.


  • #48
    J_E
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    I think at times, a single earring looks really nice. Not really my thing overall, but it suits some people.


  • #49
    Cupcake_Crisis
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    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    He used to take it off and stick it up near my nostrils as revenge when we were drunk. We were both smelly students back then though.

    He sounds like a gent! :pac: I'd actually loaf someone for that.
    Meangadh wrote: »
    Genuine question: What happens if you regret stretching the hole in your earlobes? Like tattoos can be removed but what happens if you want to reverse the stretching?

    Up to a certain size they'll shrink back over time, over a certain size and it's most likely lobe reconstruction.


  • #50
    gramar
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    Earrings on men like fine with a casual look but a well-dressed man say with a suit on and an earring just looks odd.


  • #51
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Had the lobe of my left ear peirced as a teenager around the age of 17/18. Only lasted about a month or two as never gave it a chance to heal due to taking it out for a couple of interviews.

    Have thought and spoke about getting my helix periced for the last couple of years, although fear now I'm too old to be getting stuff periced, and how it would be viewed on me.


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