What do think when you see a scar?

[HuckleB]

Poll question: What do think when you see a scar?

You know, I was just wondering. For now, I'll keep my thoughts to myself.

:)

[HuckleB]

1. Damn. I should have come up with something about a "knee jerker,"

what with all the knee surgeries the Freepers must get.

:)

[southpaw]

2. Scarification = mutilation

I tend to question the sanity of those who wear deliberate scars.

[HuckleB]

3. You mean, like, people who have had surgery?

[southpaw]

4. Yeah... fuckin' looneys, man!

Of course not! Read my post. "deliberate" scarification is not the same as bearing a surgical scar or a scar from an accident...

Peope actually cut their skin to create ornamental scarring, similar to tattooing, akin to piercing...

key word "deliberate"

[HuckleB]

5. Hmm. Surgery isn't deliberate?

Sorry, but I just had to point that out.

So, what's your opinion of plastic surgery?

[Bertha Venation]

7. pair the two words in southpaw's post and keep them paired

"DELIBERATE SCARIFICATION"

[HuckleB]

8. Yeah.

That isn't a part of surgery?

[Bertha Venation]

9. You are still missing the point, I fear.

Deliberate scarification means cutting oneself for the sole purpose of gaining scars.

And no, with advances in healing, scars resulting from surgery aren't necessarily a fact of life.

[HuckleB]

10. Advances in healing?

Well, there are advances in surgery, which mean that many surgeries no longer need the type of large incisions they once did. But the body still heals itself the old fashioned way.

And, uh, yeah, I got that point a long time ago. That's why I wondered about his opinion of plastic surgery, or even elective surgery of any kind. How about braces? Are they any different than "deliberate scarification" or getting a tattoo?

:)

[Bertha Venation]

6. "time to put on my bra and shirt"

I've got a whopper right down the middle. So much for cleavage.

[southpaw]

12. Yo! BV's got my back!

Thanks for helping clarify my point while I was indisposed, Bertha! :hug:

I have no problem with plastic surgery. As with most things, it can be done for questionable reasons or taken too far. (see Jacko)

Braces? Don't get the connection to scarification. Corrective orthodontics and cutting your skin to produce ornamental scars ain't even the same thing. Ain't no fuckin' ballpark neither.

[Bertha Venation]

13. checkout clerk back home routinely scarred his huge forearms

Nearly every time I was in his checkout lane, he had his arms wrapped in gauze.

The one time I saw him without gauze, I saw the ornamental scars, and asked him "why?" He said it was a tribal thing.

Okay. :shrug:

[southpaw]

14. Was he native American?

African... Australian Aborigine?

I'd want to know what tribe he belongs to?

Remember the 70's commercial for Mazola margerine? The attractive native American looking girl in the corn field: "My people call it maize."

I wonder if she was talking about her people at the ad agency or her people at the actor's union. :shrug:

[Bertha Venation]

17. To be honest, all I got was that he was from "down under" -- I thnk

he was patronizing me, which would be fair since I probably overstepped by asking him a personal question. So I would imagine aborignal of Aus or NZ.

I think the Mazola chicky was talking about her people Marlon and Littlefeather. tee hee

[HuckleB]

16. Call me confused.

Plastic surgury is ok, but scarring for decoration is not? And, sorry, but most braces are not necessary for a "correction." They are for the look of the smile. And you're right. It's no picnic, which another reason why...

I don't see a difference.

[Heyo]

11. When I see one......

... I might say... "well, Cory Hart.. you really did it this time... wearing your sunglasses at night... nice going!"

:dunce:

Heyo

[supernova]

15. Tattoos are for wimps!

Being the proud owner of several scars myself, I enjoy them and am proud I survived.

[Bertha Venation]

18. Me too. Proud I survived? Yes. Enjoy them? Not me.

Not judging. It's cool to enjoy them. I kinda like the one on my inner left wrist (from heart-lung machine) -- it makes people wonder if I've attempted suicide. But the one from my throat to my belly bothers me. With my genese, my bosoms would've ended up at my knees with age, anyway. But I'm so young for it to have happened already. :(

On the other hand, I'd much rather have saggy bosoms and cleavage you could plant corn in than be dead. :bounce: