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capnhowdy 10-20-2004 06:44 PM

I can't really decide whether he took the pedals off to decrease the weight or to keep anyone from riding it.
If this guy really had huge cahones He'd turn the bike loose. Must be what his friend "pulling up the rear" is for.
"Hold on loosely, but don't let her go"......cheese & rice !!!! Please don't let her go...................

capnhowdy 10-20-2004 06:54 PM

One other thing: I'm phishing for an answer to this question-
HOW THE HELL DO YOU PRONOUNCE PHUKET ?????????????

warch 10-20-2004 07:12 PM

No soup for you!

Cane 10-20-2004 07:36 PM

It's About Time!
 
Finally we see what piercing is really all about. I'm tired of these stateside pansies who think piercing is all about a little bit of metal through the eyebrow or the tongue. Back when I was a boy, we were ashamed to show up at school with anything less than a railroad spike through our tongues.

"If I had six divisions of these men, our worries here would be over."

flippant 10-20-2004 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by capnhowdy
One other thing: I'm phishing for an answer to this question-
HOW THE HELL DO YOU PRONOUNCE PHUKET ?????????????



Going to answer in case it's not a rhetorical question/or joke. :confused:

:D Ph in thai sounds more like a B than an F. Sounds just like Bucket *not F...... :D
Ba-ba -ba- Bo,Ching Ching. (phoenetics) That's really really crazy! (more fun to say in thai because it sounds as crazy as it's supposed to mean) onomatopoeia.

xoxoxoBruce 10-20-2004 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by warch
No soup for you!

:lol:


Why aren't they bleeding?

lookout123 10-20-2004 11:09 PM

the last one makes me think of ed norton at the end of fight club.

wolf 10-20-2004 11:49 PM

The bike thing would have been a lot cooler if he had streamers in the spokes, and maybe a baseball card ...

I saw a show on National Geographic channel called "Taboo". There's some Hindu festival where folks ritually pierce themselves, usually with these little trident thingies that are representative of the god who is being honored, as well as with multiple fishhooks in the back, from which fruit offerings are hung. If you don't do the fruit offering to the gods thing (melons, not kumquat sized fruits, incidentally) you can have a family member hang onto cords attached to your hooks and tug on you from time to time as you parade through the town.

According to the practitioners, when you are possessed by the spirits, you don't feel the pain, nor do you bleed.

One of the people focused on in the show was one of the ritual piercers, and his brother, who "lost his faith" about halfway through the several mile walk up the big hill to the temple.

He was hoping that the spirits wouldn't leave him this year.

polar 10-21-2004 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad
See what vegetarianism eventually does to you?? Actually the captions don't explain the ceremony much

Someone told them they weren't getting enough iron.

Syrinx 10-21-2004 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Doodle
:greenface I just lost my cookies! :greenface

And so IotD can now shut down, having fulfilled its intended ultimate goal... ;)

Cyber Wolf 10-21-2004 06:49 AM

I wouldn't be suprised in the least to find out those two guys with the bike and knife piercings use something like safety pins to keep those gaping holes closed so they can eat without the food getting out before they're done with it.

jojomonkeygirl 10-21-2004 07:53 AM

All I can say is....WTF? :eek:

Brown Thrasher 10-21-2004 02:44 PM

No, I"m not a social engineer. However I have studied sociology extensively. Does that mean when a picture of a man in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank strapped to his wheelchair in a V.A. hospital is sitting there smoking a cigarette it is acceptable because our culture taught us it was o.k to smoke.

Or maybe a waitress at your local bar wearing a gas mask to prevent inhaling second hand smoke. I'm sure some in that country smoke and I see many piercings here I just hope we don't reach that extreme. "Live and let Live"

Brown Thrasher 10-21-2004 03:25 PM

I could give you a definition of insanity. However a wise man once wrote.... "Insanity is being old enough to know better but still too young to care." Some think that humility is cumbersome. However, practicing it brings wisdom.

CzinZumerzet 10-21-2004 05:18 PM

Phuket is pronounced FFOOKET. I swear this is true, my brother in law honeymooned there about 5 years ago. And you can guess what tourists call it, and dirty minded postal workers who deliver the holiday postcards, and equally dirty minded small boys running around the house shouting 'FOOKET!! FOOKET!! with imense delight. Behind my town there is a hill named Bleadon, and we used to love saying, as kids, we're going up Bleedin 'ill. Sad parents ... don't try...! :yelsick:


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