10/20/2004: Extreme piercing in Thailand
 

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Welcome to Phuket! These gents are ritual vegetarians. See? See what vegetarianism eventually does to you??

Actually the captions don't explain the ceremony much, except to suggest that they are concerned with the moving of evil spirits. These guys believe they are possessed. I find it hard to disagree.

Why do the evil spirits get all the press? Why doesn't anyone think of the good spirits?

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It's really the feather lining that makes this outfit.

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Thanx to madmonkey for the last image. Pfft, I spent like 50 dollars for an appropriate piece of wood to stow my good knives in.

First of all, I wouldn't want to live in Phuket. It's as if no one cares about anything!

I truly and sincerely hope each one of these guys is current on their tetanus shots.

Whew! That last one just makes my stomach flip-flop! :thepain3:

Stupid just seems to ignore any sort of barrier.

Maybe they could have a cable show called "Extreme Religion" and put it on ESPN with the rest of the extreme stupidy going on there.

It shows that different cultures, have different customs. Thank goodness, what would the world be like if all cultures were the same. I think it would most likely be totally insincere and the world would suffer for that. Look at what happens when one society pushes its political ideas on another.

Yeah, but there's still the tetanus issue...

It looks to me like these dudes have a teensy bit too much time on their hands. And there's not only the tetanus issue, don't forget the unattractive facial deformities that will no doubt result from these practices. Yuck.

You can talk about cultural diversity all you want, but when I look at something like this I think about a scene in Se7en.

Insane people do not think they are insane. They think YOU (the sane one, we all suppose) are insane and they will tell you, in minute detail, how insane you are...

...It's always really enlightening to hear this.

That's hilarious dude.

That's because you don't understand social engineering.

In that culture, people believe that that is acceptable because they were told it was acceptable.

In time, a world that was more completely on the same page, as long as it was a good page, would be able to achieve so much more because they wouldn't be so busy fighting each other and spending so much of their life just trying to be different instead of trying to be better.

Neat, that's a Bianchi bike in the famous Celeste green that they have used for so many years!

:greenface I just lost my cookies! :greenface

Bah- ba -ba- bo, ching ching!!

Things would turn really ugly if that fella with the bike through his cheek tripped on something. I also wonder if they have their dinner before the rituals start? Can you picture how many bits of rice and lentils there would be all over the place?
The real fun starts with the post-ritual balloon blowing-up competition....