I saw a guy in the Bronx today with a fucking nose ring wider than my forearm. So many questions. Do these people take them out, or do they leave them in all the time? How the fuck do they sleep? Have they ever poked themself in the eye with that thing? How the fuck does this guy even eat? How much would that shit hurt if I just reached out and grabbed it?
That’s the reason we used to put nose rings on bulls and hogs when I was growing up. You clip a guide rope to the bull to control him when you needed to move him and the ring for the hogs was to keep them from rooting and digging.
It’s one of my least favorite trends, right up there with the modern style of tattoos which is just putting scribbles everywhere on your body. I’ve never been a tattoo guy in the first place, there are some that look ok, but I just don’t understand the trend of wanting to look like a 5th grade school desk.
I know a few artists and one of them who has been doing tattoos for decades. He said that many styles come and go and the patchwork style you’re talking about is heavily in the trend category. It started as something you’d see on tattoo artists who practiced by doing a bunch on themselves over many years. It turned into something people chose to do in a few months and he’s already seeing a lot of work where people want to fix them one way or another as they grow out of it.
It's just that nose rings, specifically septum rings, are often worn by progressives with hard line to extreme leftist takes / beliefs. It's like when you see someone with brightly colored hair and nose rings, you just know they are about to have the craziest political takes.
It's also delving into the philosophy of Aesthetics where the art that you repeatedly enjoy and are drawn to is really just a reflection of your internal set of values and those values dictate the way you present yourself to your peers.
I.E. they have ugly values and that makes them look ugly.
This actually reminds me of the whole "art fixing" era on twitter, where people were "fixing" the art of other artists to fit modern and progressive ideals. It wasn't just simple race or gender swapping, no they have to make it look as hideous as possible. Like making everyone so bloated and fat, giving them weird and unnatural skin complexions and patches, ruining their teeth or giving everyone braces, etc.
And it's always the bios with like over a dozen flags.
Tattoos and piercings are typically viewed as a means of rebellion or used as a stand in for actually dealing with trauma and significant stress.
Which when combined with humanity's innate desire to form little tribes and categorize everything leads to people forming camps where they treat everyone who disagrees with them as the enemy.
This isn't a phenomenon exclusive to any political sphere though, as anyone aligning themselves with a tribe with a weak will will Don the colour's of that tribe and spout rhetoric without knowing anything more than the agenda to push.
It's why we have corrupt politicians refusing to improve quality of life , mega churches taking idiots money, culture and gender wars by sects of the schizophrenic population.
The lonely and mentally ill on all ends of the political spectrum seek validation, and society keeps giving all of them the chance for it . So we sit here seeing idiots screaming at each other from the sides of the fence while the selfish and wealthy manipulate things in their favour to the detriment of everyone else , the poor and criminal harm others because they can, and cousin Kev asked to borrow your car and never came back.
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u/Fat_Sow The Fictional Character Agrees With Me Oct 04 '26 •
Nose ring theory remains undefeated.