EP.04｜Are you a hole puncher? Or the one who insists on not punching holes?

Apr 23, 2021

Piercing and piercing is a culture that is very addictive and can easily spread to friends and classmates around. In middle school, as long as a classmate in the class had an ear piercing, it was very easy to attract the attention of the classmates. Even, around the third year of the country, people who had pierced ears seemed to be addicted to it and began to develop other parts of the body...

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(00:00) [Opening song_Opening remarks_Ladies first]

This is komoto's podcast

(00:11) [Opening music_About?]

Hey~ Hello everyone~ I'm Xiaoben, how are you doing these days?

Recently, I suddenly thought of ear piercing. Now it seems that piercing is not a patent for girls, and there are not a few people who see boys wearing rings on the road. But the people who have never had a piercing also account for the majority of the proportion. From the student days to now, there will be at least one or two friends around who have never had their ears pierced.

You who are listening to this episode now, have you punched a hole through the ring? Are there piercing rings anywhere else on the body besides ear piercings? In fact, Xiaoyi once played 7 holes, let's sell it here first, and then we will continue to chat slowly.

(00:59) In middle school, ear piercing became popular among classmates.

It was probably in the fifth and sixth grades of elementary school that I learned what ear piercing is. At this stage, 11- and 12-year-old girls are quite mature. I can understand the matter of wearing earrings to some extent because If you love beauty, you can bring some accessories to make yourself more beautiful. Usually, though, only small earrings the size of sesame seeds are worn.

And these little girls who have pierced ears in elementary school, they don't get pierced ears voluntarily. I heard it all said that when I was a child, the kindergarten mother took it to pierce, otherwise the mother would help her daughter pierce at home. It sounds super scary. How can a mother help her daughter pierce her ears at home? But there are people who have ear piercings like this...

When I was promoted to National 1, I would find that piercings became popular among the students, and it was easy for classmates to influence each other. As long as a classmate in the class had ear piercings, other girls would be curious to ask about the piercing. classmates, asked her questions such as "Will it hurt to punch a hole?" "Where did you punch it?" "How long will it take to recover?"

At the beginning of piercing, we will start with the basic model, that is, the earlobes of the left and right ears, because here is just a reasonable place to pierce, which is a position that most people can accept. A safe zone where parents will not be overly frightened even if they are seen by parents.

(2:26) The first time Xiaoben had his ears pierced was when he was 14 years old in middle school.

Almost to the second year of the country, people who pioneered to get ear piercings will start to develop other places, such as small ears, ear bones, ear sockets, etc., basically they are still pierced in the ears. within this range.

At that time, I asked my classmates who had pierced ears to take me there; I still remember that it was on Zhongzheng Road in front of Taoyuan Railway Station (now the rear station), and then, there was a land bank on the opposite side, under the arcade. Ears were pierced there.

At that time, the price of piercing one ear was 150 yuan, and the price of piercing two was 300 yuan, which was limited to the price of piercing in the ear. Should be more expensive, right?!

At that time, the earlobes of the left and right ears were worn, so the clerk would first let me choose their earrings. I could choose the size of the earrings, but I could only choose the size of the sesame. Maybe the machine... that is, the machine that pierces the ears can only eat Earrings this size. The price of the ear piercing already includes the price of the earrings, so there is no additional charge for the earrings.

There was no anesthesia in the preparatory work before the hole was drilled, but the clerk pinched my ears with bare hands until I was completely paralyzed by the pain. I sterilized my left and right earlobes, and then~ Next, the clerk took a hole punch that looked like a hot melt glue gun, and quickly "ㄆㄧㄚ, ㄆㄧㄚ" on both sides of my left and right ears was finished.

After the piercing, the earrings I just picked will be directly on my earlobe. The piercing process is quite fast. Where it takes time, um... It should make my ears red, painful, and numb. of that process.

In my impression, piercing the ear is not painful, but pinching the ear is really painful, the kind of pain that is paralyzing. The follow-up treatment after ear piercing is to try not to touch the water, and then sleep on your back and avoid sleeping on your side. It will take about two weeks, and you can touch the water and change to the size you like. Earrings too.

(04:36) Everyone starts hitting other parts of the body.

In the third country, ear piercing seems to be an addiction. Those with ears pierced all the way seem to be unable to satisfy their desire to continue piercing. You will find that everyone starts to make holes in other parts of the body, such as eyebrow rings, nose rings, lip rings, tongue rings, and arm rings. to the place.

As for myself~ I made two more holes on the ear bone of my left ear, but the wound of the ear bone is not easy to take care of. For example, when washing my hair and combing my hair, it is easy to hook the position of the ear bone. After two or three months, the wound has not been healed, and it will bleed every now and then, and will... and several times the ear will swell to the point where it looks like the mushroom on the enoki mushroom (please ignore the sound of hitting the microphone ), and even stinky things and tissue fluid flow out.

In the end, it was during the summer vacation of graduating from high school that I decided to remove both earrings, because it was really troublesome to take care of those two wounds all the time. That's why I decided to give up on them. If you want to get earbone pierced recently, I strongly recommend you not to pierce the earbone, because it's really hard to take care of~~~

When I was in high school, I didn't see everyone talking about piercing and piercing. The earrings on my body have been maintained since high school. Maybe I was in a part-time job class at the time, and everyone was busy working and attending classes, and no one was particularly concerned about piercing.

(06:05) In the second high school, another wave of hole-punching culture became popular.

Then, I was promoted to the second college. The second college was in Taipei. This was also the first time I lived away from home. When I first entered the second college, on the first day of school, I met a girl in the classroom. The girl was also from Taoyuan, and they happened to be from the same town, so it was easy for us to catch up. After all, there were common topics to talk about.

We were chatting and chatting, and suddenly we had a few rings. The girl said that she actually had a tongue ring and a belly button ring. I was very surprised at that time, because during the chat, I didn't find out. She has a tongue ring in her tongue (because she has a transparent ring), and I told her to open her mouth to show me, and also look at her belly.

If there are other classmates who observe us next to us, they must think that the two of us are strange.

To be honest, I wanted to have tongue piercings since I was in middle school, because many people in the school had tongue piercings at that time, but everyone was very low-key and replaced the tongue ring with a transparent style, so it was not easy to find. But at the time, I never had the courage to do it.

The girl with the tongue ring and belly button ring, here we will call her Miss M for the time being. Miss M also has a good friend of a girl in our class. They have known each other since high school, and they happen to be in this class, that Let's call her Miss C first.

Miss C ran to get tongue piercing not long after school started. She said that she had been wanting to have tongue piercing for a long time. It's hard to get away from home, so I mustered up the courage to wear a tongue ring. At that time, I accompanied her to fight. I remember that at the moment when Miss C was pierced, the needle punctured the blood vessel in her tongue, and blood kept coming out of her mouth. When the clerk saw it, she was also a little nervous and immediately helped She stops the bleeding.

But it's okay. After about two or three minutes (minutes), the bleeding stopped. When I saw it at the moment, I was really a little scared, because the picture was really frightening. I take this trainee experience of piercing the tongue ring, Lu... as an experience. I still remember that when she finished the fight, she turned into a big tongue and couldn't speak properly. I don't know if it was because of bleeding and wounds.

After that, after having the apprenticeship experience of Miss C, it didn't take long for me to go for a tongue ring. Miss M accompanied me to fight, and they happened to be from Taoyuan. I remember when I was going to have a tongue ring, I was super nervous, but I was looking forward to it. We were wearing a BLACK SHOW on Minquan Road in downtown Taoyuan City. This is a small storefront, but his storefront has been open for a long time. From Guoyi until now, the storefront has not been received. It seems that this store is taking the word-of-mouth route.

I remember that it cost 1,200 yuan for a single call at the time, which sounds expensive, but they all use disposable piercing needles, which are the kind of needles that pierce holes. Based on hygiene considerations, I would rather choose a store that is clean and hygienic. to make a hole. The clerk will ask me to rinse a cup of anesthesia first, it will be cool and cool, and there is no irritating feeling. It will take about 10 minutes to rinse. At this time, the clerk will ask me to pick up the tongue ring first while waiting, and wait for the anesthetic by the way. To play a role, the part of the tongue ring is charged separately ~ about 590 yuan a piece, so the tongue ring + buy that tongue ring is about 2000 yuan ~ this is the price ten years ago.

Well, it's almost time for the anesthesia, the anesthetic will be spit out first, and the clerk will... The clerk will use a fine needle to test my tongue to see if I feel any pain, and you will feel that she is holding something Rub your tongue, but don't feel pain, the anesthetic is working. The clerk would take out a brand new disposable piercing needle, about the length of your index finger, and unpack the new package in front of me. Then, the clerk would ask me to take a deep breath, then look at the ceiling and keep it up. tongue sticking out,

At that moment, I felt my flesh being pierced, but I didn't feel any pain at all. At this time, I glanced down secretly, and saw a piercing needle with an index finger on my tongue. It was parallel to my face. After about three seconds, the clerk replaced the needle with the tongue ring I just picked, and the process of punching the tongue ring was over. Before and after, probably... including gargling and anesthesia, it was completed in about half an hour. Fortunately, I didn't leave a drop of blood this time.

Just like Miss C in front of me, the moment I finished playing, my tongue became a big one, and I couldn't speak properly. After about ten minutes, I felt that my tongue seemed to be swollen. When I looked in the mirror, my tongue was really swollen. It just filled my mouth, so I hurried to the convenience store and bought a jar of unsweetened iced green tea to calm my swollen tongue. During the recovery period, there is no way to eat normally, only liquid food, because the tongue is really swollen, there is no way to eat anything, and you will not want to eat anything. I just hope the wound heals quickly.

After about a month or so, the wound on the tongue will be almost healed, and I can eat and drink hot soup normally. Having a tongue ring seems to give me a sense of confidence. I don’t know why. Tongue ring, there is a feeling of being recognized.

But to be honest, the only inconvenient thing about the tongue ring is that if you eat something like noodles, it is easy to get stuck in half, that is, just a piece of noodles, its center point is hooked to the tongue ring, and the head and tail of the noodles will Run to the throat, and then you will get there, you can't swallow it, and then you have to use that chopstick to save the noodles, don't let it hang in the throat all the time.

(12:08) The navel ring that makes people faint .

Punching is really addictive and contagious~ With Miss M and Miss C, and I all got tongue rings, in our small group of girls, not long after, another girl also ran to play In addition to the tongue ring, in our small circle, there are four girls with tongue rings. It is really easy for classmates to influence each other.

Not long after, I started thinking about getting a belly button ring. I always felt that the belly button ring was nothing, it should be similar to piercing the ear, so I asked Miss M to accompany me back to the shop in Taoyuan to wear it.

Unexpectedly, I actually.. Completely underestimated the incident of piercing the belly button ring Orz

I can't remember the price of a belly button ring, it may be similar to a tongue ring; the clerk will first apply anesthesia around my belly button, and also ask me to pick my favorite belly button ring, and wait for the anesthetic to work. So, then There is also an additional charge for the navel ring, which is similar to the process of the previous tongue ring.

After the anesthesia takes effect, it will take about ten minutes or so. When the time is almost up, the clerk will use a fine needle to rub my belly button to see if it will still... If there will be any pain, then confirm After the pain was gone, the piercing work of punching holes began.

The clerk also took out a brand-new disposable piercing needle, the same as the needle for the tongue ring, and the same length as the index finger of the finger. The clerk opened the new package in front of me, and then the clerk asked me to deeply. I took a breath and looked straight ahead. At that time, I was standing. The clerk started to count down 3, 2, 1. When I called "1", I felt something passing through my belly button. I looked down subconsciously, the moment I saw my belly button, my feet were soft and my eyes were blank. Then (sorry~ Xiao Poyin) Miss M and the clerk immediately helped me to the chair next to me After a minute or so, I regained my senses. By the time I recovered, the clerk had already replaced the long needle with the belly button ring I had just selected.

The clerk asked me to sit and rest for a while, so that I would not pass out again, and then I started chatting with me, telling me that many people will faint when they get a belly button ring, because the belly button ring is very close to the belly button. The upper acupuncture point, called the "water point", basically wears the navel ring, which will damage the acupuncture point to some extent, so the probability of fainting is quite high. Those who are relatively weak are also prone to dizziness, like those who stay up late and don't sleep. This is basically saying me~ The second major is the kind that plays until dawn almost every day.

After a short rest, we left. I didn't feel any discomfort when I went out. I only felt a little tightness in my belly button. It hurts~ I won't~ It's an acceptable level.

But in fact, the recovery period of the belly button ring is quite fast. It will be less painful in about two weeks, and the belly button ring can also be removed and cleaned. Then, if you hear about a friend who wants to wear a belly button ring in this episode, remember to bring another friend with you, so as not to faint when the ring is pierced, and the store owner doesn't know what to do.

Well~ If we talk about the disadvantage of the navel ring, it should be that it is easy to get stuck on the navel ring when wearing high-waisted trousers. For example, high-waisted jeans and skirts are more popular now, and they will get stuck on the upper edge of the trousers if they are not careful. but it won't hurt, it's just that it's a little uncomfortable.

*still belly button ring, by the way, check out the denim shorts I bought last year :D

(15:47) After the test of time, only four rings remain.

Now, there are only four rings left on the body, that is, the left and right earlobes of the basic style are retained, as well as ear socket rings and belly button rings. By the way~ I didn't mention the ear socket ring just now. The ear socket ring was also made when I was in the second college. The time point of the ring was probably around the middle of the tongue ring and the navel ring.

The ear socket ring on the left ear is probably the most painful ring to pierce. For me, I think this position is the most painful. The moment of the piercing is really painful, but it is obviously already on anesthesia. It's still very painful, maybe the anesthesia is not fully working.

The care after piercing is not very good, because wearing a helmet, combing and washing hair is easy to get caught and get this position, no matter it is the moment of piercing, and the care after piercing, It was very uncomfortable, and I remember that it took a month or two to recover.

It may also be because of this~ So, the ear socket ring of the left ear has been kept, after all, he used to be so painful~ How could it be so easy to let him close it?

As for the tongue ring, I will probably only keep it for about a year or two, because it is not very convenient to eat, and because ~ because of this tongue ring ~ makes my tongue a bit big (the main reason), even after it is healed, it is still a bit big. Maybe it was just stuck at the position of a vocal point, so the speech sounded a bit... well... that kind of "stinky milk (Taiwanese)" kind of feeling.

Probably not long after I was admitted to the second skill, I decided to remove the tongue ring, um... I found my previous photos, only found a photo with a tongue ring, then I will take this A photo is placed on this side of the square.

(17:34) Seriously admire people who have never had their ears pierced.

To be honest, I think people who have never played a hole since they were young are very powerful, which means that they are not easily influenced by their friends. Although they all say that it is because they are afraid of pain and trouble, I still seriously admire them. These people who have never had their ears pierced. After all, earrings now have the kind of accessories with ear clips, and wearing earrings is not only the patent of people who have pierced ears.

Ear piercings and piercings feel like a kind of culture. Of course, there are also people who pierce and put piercings in some mysterious positions. The most important thing is that if you really decide to pierce, you must carefully choose a piercing store, and choose a store with disposable needles. It is a wise choice to pierce a hole, or it is also good to go to the hospital for piercing.

(18:23) [Ending song _ちょっと rest (break)]

Ear piercing can really talk a lot, especially after experiencing the period of piercing addiction, the highest record is that I have had 7 holes on my body, but in fact, I am still relatively small~ The number of piercing holes on my body is still relatively small. When I was a student, I also saw that kind of people with more than a dozen holes and a dozen rings, so I was still a small case.

Then~ how many rings are left on you? You can share your piercing story with Xiaoben~

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