Comments on: Cultural Baby Mutilation

By: Fghjk

Fghjk — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:52:00 +0000

if you dont like spanish customs why do you live here? better raise your kid in uk, and dont insult the country were you live saying those stupid things

By: Erik R.

Erik R. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:05:28 +0000

Heh. I’ve never heard that. It’s wonderfully onomatopoeic.

By: Lance

Lance — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:00:15 +0000

No, I think I learned it from an email forward containing photos from a “Chav wedding”. But I hadn’t heard it in a while.

I did learn last week that I’ve lived in the U.S. south my entire life without ever noticing the regionalism “tump over”: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tump

By: Erik R.

Erik R. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:33:46 +0000

Did you just learn that word? You can’t live in the UK without knowing it. I’d never heard it before moving there.

By: Lance

Lance — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:31:08 +0000

Heh. “Chav” is a funny word for a funny thing.

By: Erik R.

Erik R. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:58:04 +0000

For the second go we took her to a pharmacy that has one of the special guns. They were also professional enough to take her into a back room so we didn’t have to witness it.

Thanks.

By: Britta Plum

Britta Plum — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:38:07 +0000

Poor litle baby. Did you bring here to another place the month after or did you gave this nurse another chance to do it right ?
Why haven’t you used a jewelery service ?
They have sharp studs to pierce. I did it to my doughter also nothingh is wrong with piercing a little Babys ears but just pushing a earring trought the ear is barbaric it must have broken your heart I guess.
But anyway now she looks so cute with her earrings congratulations

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:14:23 +0000

Your story is as good an advertisement for the services of a professional piercer as any I’ve heard. Strangely enough, most of the people I know who opt not to pierce their newborn childrens’ ears are professional piercers. The rest of the population seems content to suffer their children to get shoddy work done from incapable nurses, pharmacists, etc. While I’d like to think that we’ve chosen not to pierce Sophia’s ears out of some lofty idealism regarding the sovereignty of the individual respecting his body, etc. the ugly truth is that we were simply unwilling to deal with the logistics of caring for the wounds. I figure that when S. is old enough to care for (and pay for) her own piercings, she’ll get them done. Until then, she probably won’t even miss them. On the other hand, she will have deep-seated gender issues deriving from Spaniards’ incapability to grok the possibility of a girl without pierced ears. It seems they will more easily accept that a little boy might be wearing a pink dress than that a girl have virgin lobes.

By: orangiey

orangiey — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:01:24 +0000

My daughter was born in Madrid and she hasn’t got her ears pierced and the creepy pervert hasn’t poured water over her head either. She can choose these options when she’s older, and YES ‘la familla’ LOVE her, we’re from the UK and it’s seen to be of low class, ie a Chav or with Romany gypsy origins.

By: simon

simon — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:05:25 +0000

Last night I dreamt that I made an unsuccessful and rather messy attempt to pierce my own ears by stabbing them with an oversized tack.
I hold you responsible.