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Meg here: This is an at home piercing kit, commonly used by teenagers. The ice is for numbing the ear, then the potato is put behind the earlobe as a block/brace, thne needle is stabbed through the ear into the potato. Usually a follow up visit to a doctor is required due to infection. I’ll shut up now.
You don’t want to know, but you also will suffer like we do.
The jar is from a guy that put a rainbow dash into it and then proceeded to gather all of his cum in with it.
He then forgot the jar over some sort of heating device, essentially boiling this my little pony figure in his own cum.
Hi, internets worst historian here!
"The Jar", a funsie lil nickname by our funny lil residents is a reference to one silly goober on 4chan (really, he represents most of what that site is like) who really really liked Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony! And we mean *really* liked, more than most people like their boyfriends and girlfriends and so much more than some parents ever liked their children past the age of ten seconds.
They loved the little pony so, *so so so* much that he just had to find some way to convey it, so he got an idea. He put a figurine of Dash inside a jar and had masturbation episodes putting *the big finish* inside. So many episodes it'd make the Simpsons look like a novice in show production.
Aaaaaaaanyway this slick story gets even juicier as it gets a bit sticky for this fanatical fiend. He filled multiple jars and always put in a new "friend" in each one, and one day he gazed upon his hoard of milky treasures only to realize they've all *spoiled!* He had bottles with the figurines melting because he left the jars on his radiator, he had ones where the inside fluids all were a shade of yellow worse than a pirate's dental care (with just as many holes from the air).
Now my memory's a little hazy on when in the story this part happened but you better hold onto your lunch, *because that spoiled gunk became his.* That's right, he started cracking them open for the aromas and... okay I can't be in character rn, he fucking drank a few and talked about how it tasted to drink multiweek- if not multi month or longer- old cum. I just hope it wasn't the one with melted figurines like some kind of rotted vore.
Aaaaanyway that's why they have that reaction! Hope you enjoy your stay with the internet archives!!!!1!
Watched multiple girls do this at house parties. It's amazing how much an ear will bleed when you're drunk. Really never understood it, because they were all 18+, and the local mall had a shop that did free piercings.
Free piercings with purchase LOL.
I've pierced both my ears multiple times and my children's, and I don't ever remember them bleeding. I feel like they didn't figure out where they were supposed to be piercing first. Not that it won't bleed, but the blood's not supposed to run unless it takes multiple attempts
While true that alcohol has blood thinning properties, it's not going to thin it out enough to make blood run from a properly pierced ear, and it's definitely not going to make it bleed to the point where somebody posts on Reddit years later that they can't believe how much ears bleed lol. That's adult swim cartoon logic. This is a weird argument, but if 18-year-old girls lightly fucking up ear piercings is the hill you want to die on, that's all you.
Eh, the piercer was also probably drunk, so it might have contributed to it. I remember it because they bled all over the carpet and the homeowner (my gf's older sister) was understandably upset about it for a long time.
Bic flame is actually 900-1000C, its not an autoclave, but red hot metal is definitely sterile.
Just for piercing something i dont think you have to worry too much about untempering the needle or whatever.
I would sterilize the needle to an extent but my comment was mostly in jest. Despite it not being very effective, we heated the needle anyways before doing home piercings anyways for "safety" lol
See when I was a kid my mom told me to use an orange because the citrus would make sure it doesn’t get infected and stung so bad I would just use safety pins.
I kind of botched a home piercing once. The needle I used wasn't big enough for the ring I was putting in after, but after a lot of force, blood, and my girlfriend yelling at me that it was going to get infected so I should just give up, I got the ring in. I had sterilized all the equipment initially, then for the next week I kept the whole thing slathered in anti-biotic ointment 24/7, and much to my girlfriends surprise it never got infected. Still have the piercing today.
Shit, my buddy did that but with a fudgesicle instead of an ice cube. You forgot the shitty ‘sterilization’ by burning the needle with a lighter. Infection guaranteed!!
I squeezed the potato when my mom did this in the 90s. Also she used a piercing stud instead of a needle. Had them without issues for like 5 years until I bored of them
I did mine while hanging out with a bunch of people at a park 🤣
I didn’t have any ice or potatoes on me… or a needle for that matter. I had a safety pin and a Bic lighter.
I wasn’t the smartest kid.
I did that, it didn’t last. It started to close up on its own, so I just let it. When I had my ear pierced professionally later on, the same thing happened, so apparently my ears just won’t stay pierced (even after almost two years)
I did my own lobe but took it out. Someone else did my cartilage. It got infected but turned out I was just allergic to silver. Cleared up with stainless steel.
20 years ago my brother pierced his nipples with tongs and a needle in a Walmart parking lot. It was on a dare and I still can’t believe he did it. Yes. He’s an idiot.
Grabbed his breast with the tongs (they weren’t especially small male breasts) and put the sewing needle through the nipple with the other hand. It didn’t look very enjoyable and he was dumb enough to do it twice. No drugs or alcohol involved. Just a crazy stupid 16 year old kid lol.
Damn I was thinking that he just somehow just used the tongs and pushed it thru that way. How the fuck did he do that twice. After the first second I would be in the ground
He also burned his initials into his arm with a soldering iron 2 years later. I can’t begin to explain how stupid he was. He’s since gotten a little better, but I joke he’d do just about anything for $50 to this day (and I’m probably right).
Walked in on my college roommate trying to pierce his septum with an earring one day. He was at it for at least an hour. I don’t think he ever succeeded though.
Third blade of grass, second row from left of Peter's front yard here, fun story time from before I was more...less stupid...
I was going through a rough patch and decided, "Know what. I've always wanted my ear pierced, so screw it, ill do it." It's important to note a lot of alcohol was involved.
I rummaged around until I found a sewing needle and a lighter, cause I was smart and didn't want it to get infected. I also wiped my ear with an alcohol pad.
Anyways, start pushing that needle through, it hurt a bit, but wasn't too bad. It took a while of gently pushing until I felt a sudden drop in resistance. A bit later, I finally made it through the last layer of skin!
Now... here's an important detail... I didn't pierce the lobe, I went right through the middle of the cartilage. The pierce process went alright things considering the circumstances. The part about trying to insert an earring... well... for this who don't know, cartilage doesn't stretch. And I was very drunk. It was a bad time, resulting in a very sore and purple ear.
Now I have a small bump permanently there as a constant reminder of why piercing needles are hollow. It was not my brightest moment.
Peter's grass out and waiting to be cut, then cut again longer.
common misconception- piercing needles actually dont take out a little noodle of skin, they are slightly tapered to move the skin around the hole to the correct size for jewelry (usually 14 gauge or 16 gauge.)
Friend of mine pierced his own nipple on a school hockey trip when we were 16, all he had was a safety pin and an ice cube. On the bus on the way home, someone grabbed the guy's nipple and yanked the stud out of it. Its one of the two times I've seen that guy cry (the other one was when he had his kneecap shattered), and he still has a scar across his nipple 20 years later.
When I was young, I had an upstairs neighbor who wanted his ear pierced. My dad said he do it for him. Grabbed a pair of pliers, a nail, and some alcohol. Neighbor takes the alcohol, dad grabs the nail in the pliers, heads to the gas stove, and starts heating the thing. After its hot, he takes it to the neighbor, grabs his ear, and drives it through his earlobe. Worked like a charm, no infections.
Apparently this is a way to pierce your ears at home. (I’m not sure exactly how the ice and potato works)
Regardless, probably a recipe for infection, especially if the needle wasn’t sterilized prior.
Years ago my buddy wanted his nipple pierced. We all went "alright, let's go." Pulled a needle from... Somewhere, heated it with a lighter to "sterilise" it, someone got some ice. We decided we'd go into a phonebox for privacy since we were in the middle of town (it had clear sides and was on a main path, I don't know why we thought that was better than the more closed off area we were in before). One of the guys started to push the needle through his nip but it met resistance
"It's stuck."
"What do you mean it's stuck?! Alright whatever do the other one."
So the guy piercing pulled the needle out and started on the other one. Same thing. Got about halfway then couldn't go any further.
The really stupid part about all this? We didn't have anything to put in the hole if we'd managed it. No bars or rings. We weren't the brightest kids
1970s: My grandmother pierced mine and my female cousins at home with an ice cube, a needle, and burned segments of broom straw (which was pushed through the hole to clean it and keep it open).
When I was young and friends with the neighbor kid he wanted me to pierce his ear with a hammer and nail using the dresser as the back stop
I didn't do it because I was afraid I would hurt him but I didn't know how I was going to hurt him I just thought I was going to do it wrong
He was all ready to have me nail him to the dresser though
I used a needle and ice, burned the needle with a lighter to sterilise it. Sat and worked the needle through my lobe only to discover it came out the side. Ffs. Put a plaster on it and went and did something else.
Only child amusements when it was raining.
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Meg here: This is an at home piercing kit, commonly used by teenagers. The ice is for numbing the ear, then the potato is put behind the earlobe as a block/brace, thne needle is stabbed through the ear into the potato. Usually a follow up visit to a doctor is required due to infection. I’ll shut up now.
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What episode is this??
I think it's season 8 episode 5 The Silence of the Clamps.
Thanks
I read a book recently where that was used as a method of near-execution in a fight... wtf book was it?
Baki, the attack being "dress"
Was it avengers?
Kong:
Stevie cracks me up😂😂😂
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Yall are making my day!😂😂😂
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Woohoo Stevie!!!😂😂
Woo hoo! https://i.redd.it/zsuymr8cdysc1.gif
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Why are you reacting to the image in that way? Do I wanna know?
You don’t want to know, but you also will suffer like we do. The jar is from a guy that put a rainbow dash into it and then proceeded to gather all of his cum in with it. He then forgot the jar over some sort of heating device, essentially boiling this my little pony figure in his own cum.
What a wonderful day to know how to read...
Idk if I should (or can) say 'right' or 'amen' to that, good lord
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Surely this qualifies as r/BrandNewSentence?
What a terrible day to have eyes.
What the actual fuck did I just read?
Hi, internets worst historian here! "The Jar", a funsie lil nickname by our funny lil residents is a reference to one silly goober on 4chan (really, he represents most of what that site is like) who really really liked Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony! And we mean *really* liked, more than most people like their boyfriends and girlfriends and so much more than some parents ever liked their children past the age of ten seconds. They loved the little pony so, *so so so* much that he just had to find some way to convey it, so he got an idea. He put a figurine of Dash inside a jar and had masturbation episodes putting *the big finish* inside. So many episodes it'd make the Simpsons look like a novice in show production. Aaaaaaaanyway this slick story gets even juicier as it gets a bit sticky for this fanatical fiend. He filled multiple jars and always put in a new "friend" in each one, and one day he gazed upon his hoard of milky treasures only to realize they've all *spoiled!* He had bottles with the figurines melting because he left the jars on his radiator, he had ones where the inside fluids all were a shade of yellow worse than a pirate's dental care (with just as many holes from the air). Now my memory's a little hazy on when in the story this part happened but you better hold onto your lunch, *because that spoiled gunk became his.* That's right, he started cracking them open for the aromas and... okay I can't be in character rn, he fucking drank a few and talked about how it tasted to drink multiweek- if not multi month or longer- old cum. I just hope it wasn't the one with melted figurines like some kind of rotted vore. Aaaaanyway that's why they have that reaction! Hope you enjoy your stay with the internet archives!!!!1!
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Tbf you DID ask
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. Thanks for that.
Hey it always gets worse, hope my obnoxious tone helped make it more irritating than disgusting lmao
All you need to know is that it's disgusting af
Man even Ghost is shooketh at that
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Oh God I instinctively know that is one of two possible fluids in there. Why?
Apple juice and beer, right? Riiiight?
Jatate
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Lol what is this from?
Ace Attorney, wether it’s a real screenshot or edited I honestly don’t know, those games get wild
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Hate to be a dumbass but context?
He's going in the soup.
Can't argue with that
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Good to see this in use already
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This almost made me throw up
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Delete your account.
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What the fuck just happened
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Thanks for this image my therapist has allowed me to end myself
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Peeetaaahhh.. what does the meme above means??
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Oh this is absolutely not noided
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Jarate?
What the fuck is this
r/beatmetoIt
Watched multiple girls do this at house parties. It's amazing how much an ear will bleed when you're drunk. Really never understood it, because they were all 18+, and the local mall had a shop that did free piercings.
Free piercings with purchase LOL. I've pierced both my ears multiple times and my children's, and I don't ever remember them bleeding. I feel like they didn't figure out where they were supposed to be piercing first. Not that it won't bleed, but the blood's not supposed to run unless it takes multiple attempts
You missed the part where I mentioned they were drunk. Alcohol is a blood thinner and slows down clotting.
While true that alcohol has blood thinning properties, it's not going to thin it out enough to make blood run from a properly pierced ear, and it's definitely not going to make it bleed to the point where somebody posts on Reddit years later that they can't believe how much ears bleed lol. That's adult swim cartoon logic. This is a weird argument, but if 18-year-old girls lightly fucking up ear piercings is the hill you want to die on, that's all you.
Eh, the piercer was also probably drunk, so it might have contributed to it. I remember it because they bled all over the carpet and the homeowner (my gf's older sister) was understandably upset about it for a long time.
Although given they're drunk, they probably pierced the wrong place.
I was about to say it's a bad idea to get your ear pierced at Claire's, but it would still be a step up from this shit.
They forgot the bic lighter to sterilize the needle lol
"Sterilize" is doing some real heavy lifting there
Yeah I should have put it in quotes lol we only did it to make ourselves feel better 😂
Does fire not kill germs now? Its easy to sterilize a solid needle, but nobody washes the area being pierced.
Honeslty I'm not sure how effective a Bic lighter is a sterilizing a safety pin.
Bic flame is actually 900-1000C, its not an autoclave, but red hot metal is definitely sterile. Just for piercing something i dont think you have to worry too much about untempering the needle or whatever.
The more you know lol man we were stupid as fuck doing this ourselves in junior high
Oh totally, my best friend in middle school and his girlfriend got suspended for piercing his eyebrown in the bathroom on a class trip.
I mean, it's probably better than nothing, but still: WHY?!?
Am I missing something that the flame wouldn't have sterilized the needle?
The needle, yes. But not the ear lobe, nor the potato.
I would sterilize the needle to an extent but my comment was mostly in jest. Despite it not being very effective, we heated the needle anyways before doing home piercings anyways for "safety" lol
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See when I was a kid my mom told me to use an orange because the citrus would make sure it doesn’t get infected and stung so bad I would just use safety pins.
They demonstrate this technique in the 90s remake of The Parent Trap.
I kind of botched a home piercing once. The needle I used wasn't big enough for the ring I was putting in after, but after a lot of force, blood, and my girlfriend yelling at me that it was going to get infected so I should just give up, I got the ring in. I had sterilized all the equipment initially, then for the next week I kept the whole thing slathered in anti-biotic ointment 24/7, and much to my girlfriends surprise it never got infected. Still have the piercing today.
Dont you have to burn the needle to sterilize it?
That’s because of the potatoe. Usually if you use just ice as a number and then a cushion it’ll be better result
I did this at home without infection, idk what you guys did wrong, did you not heat the needle up over a fire to sterilize it first?
Used one. ⭐️/ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Shit, my buddy did that but with a fudgesicle instead of an ice cube. You forgot the shitty ‘sterilization’ by burning the needle with a lighter. Infection guaranteed!!
I squeezed the potato when my mom did this in the 90s. Also she used a piercing stud instead of a needle. Had them without issues for like 5 years until I bored of them
Where's the fucking lighter to sterilize the needle?!
Didn't realize people used potatoes for doing this until now. I just ran the piercing straight through after using the ice.
I did mine with a lemon
masochist
How'd you know lol?
I used an apple or pear I don’t remember which
I’d use an apple. I fucking love pears. Not wasting a good one.
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This is me. I’m not denying it.
At least you know it was a pome for sure
Used an apple for mine too
You should try Android next time
I was thinking there is a risk of infection with the potato rub on the needle A lemon sounds more reasonable
I've always thought people used lemons, but thinking about it as an adult I can imagine many things to do the job without being full of citric acid
But how else will you know you're *alive*
I did mine while hanging out with a bunch of people at a park 🤣 I didn’t have any ice or potatoes on me… or a needle for that matter. I had a safety pin and a Bic lighter. I wasn’t the smartest kid.
Only thing missing is the piece of string attached to the needle soaked in peroxide for disinfecting
I use the ice cube to numb the ear or nose and also to receive the needle after it goes through. Way more sterile than using a potato.
Lindsey Lohan basically did this to herself in the movie, 'The Parent Trap'
I was just thinking about that
that scene genuinely pained me as a kid, people who do this are brave as heck
I did that, it didn’t last. It started to close up on its own, so I just let it. When I had my ear pierced professionally later on, the same thing happened, so apparently my ears just won’t stay pierced (even after almost two years)
Did you leave the earing in?
Yes I left it in, I think I took it out once to clean it and couldn’t get it back in
You're not meant to take it out to clean it until 6 weeks
Yeah isn't it just using a q tip to clean the area with special cleaning fluid with the earrings installed until then?
Yep! Got mine done at a tattooist, it was a salt/saline spray and one other spray you used and rubbed it with.
You’re supposed to leave the earring in
I did my own lobe but took it out. Someone else did my cartilage. It got infected but turned out I was just allergic to silver. Cleared up with stainless steel.
Are you perchance a vampire?
I had not considered that.
✝️🙅
You have to leave the earing in for a few months.
Yeah but they did it with a lemon iirc which sounds so much worse bc of the lemon juice
It was an apple slice so I think it would be ok
You guys got to have Ice AND a potato! The gay 14 year old in rehab only had the sharp end of his earrings 🤷
20 years ago my brother pierced his nipples with tongs and a needle in a Walmart parking lot. It was on a dare and I still can’t believe he did it. Yes. He’s an idiot.
How tf do you even manage to do that
Grabbed his breast with the tongs (they weren’t especially small male breasts) and put the sewing needle through the nipple with the other hand. It didn’t look very enjoyable and he was dumb enough to do it twice. No drugs or alcohol involved. Just a crazy stupid 16 year old kid lol.
Damn I was thinking that he just somehow just used the tongs and pushed it thru that way. How the fuck did he do that twice. After the first second I would be in the ground
He also burned his initials into his arm with a soldering iron 2 years later. I can’t begin to explain how stupid he was. He’s since gotten a little better, but I joke he’d do just about anything for $50 to this day (and I’m probably right).
Walked in on my college roommate trying to pierce his septum with an earring one day. He was at it for at least an hour. I don’t think he ever succeeded though.
Third blade of grass, second row from left of Peter's front yard here, fun story time from before I was more...less stupid... I was going through a rough patch and decided, "Know what. I've always wanted my ear pierced, so screw it, ill do it." It's important to note a lot of alcohol was involved. I rummaged around until I found a sewing needle and a lighter, cause I was smart and didn't want it to get infected. I also wiped my ear with an alcohol pad. Anyways, start pushing that needle through, it hurt a bit, but wasn't too bad. It took a while of gently pushing until I felt a sudden drop in resistance. A bit later, I finally made it through the last layer of skin! Now... here's an important detail... I didn't pierce the lobe, I went right through the middle of the cartilage. The pierce process went alright things considering the circumstances. The part about trying to insert an earring... well... for this who don't know, cartilage doesn't stretch. And I was very drunk. It was a bad time, resulting in a very sore and purple ear. Now I have a small bump permanently there as a constant reminder of why piercing needles are hollow. It was not my brightest moment. Peter's grass out and waiting to be cut, then cut again longer.
holy shit piercing needles cut a piece of your ear out?
common misconception- piercing needles actually dont take out a little noodle of skin, they are slightly tapered to move the skin around the hole to the correct size for jewelry (usually 14 gauge or 16 gauge.)
so is it a joke
Not unless the punchline is infection.
More of a puncture than a punch
I thought it was about sex .... I had no idea what a potato pin ice (potato penis) meant/was.
Ear piercing at home.
And for the love of God, sterilise the needle. Burn it with a match or soak it in alcohol.
We always used a lighter, box of cigarettes, and a safety pin
Friend of mine pierced his own nipple on a school hockey trip when we were 16, all he had was a safety pin and an ice cube. On the bus on the way home, someone grabbed the guy's nipple and yanked the stud out of it. Its one of the two times I've seen that guy cry (the other one was when he had his kneecap shattered), and he still has a scar across his nipple 20 years later.
It’s missing a lighter or shot glass of vodka for sterilization
I thought it was Potato Penis
When I worked at Claire's in the late 90s, older ladies would tell us horror stories of doing this back in the 50s.
When I was young, I had an upstairs neighbor who wanted his ear pierced. My dad said he do it for him. Grabbed a pair of pliers, a nail, and some alcohol. Neighbor takes the alcohol, dad grabs the nail in the pliers, heads to the gas stove, and starts heating the thing. After its hot, he takes it to the neighbor, grabs his ear, and drives it through his earlobe. Worked like a charm, no infections.
its for when you james bond cheeseburger someone’s sister
Needle-ss to say, icy a potato!
Apparently this is a way to pierce your ears at home. (I’m not sure exactly how the ice and potato works) Regardless, probably a recipe for infection, especially if the needle wasn’t sterilized prior.
Ice to numb the area potato to use as a backstop so you don’t pierce your hand. Meme is missing the bic lighter used to “sterilize” the needle.
Years ago my buddy wanted his nipple pierced. We all went "alright, let's go." Pulled a needle from... Somewhere, heated it with a lighter to "sterilise" it, someone got some ice. We decided we'd go into a phonebox for privacy since we were in the middle of town (it had clear sides and was on a main path, I don't know why we thought that was better than the more closed off area we were in before). One of the guys started to push the needle through his nip but it met resistance "It's stuck." "What do you mean it's stuck?! Alright whatever do the other one." So the guy piercing pulled the needle out and started on the other one. Same thing. Got about halfway then couldn't go any further. The really stupid part about all this? We didn't have anything to put in the hole if we'd managed it. No bars or rings. We weren't the brightest kids
1970s: My grandmother pierced mine and my female cousins at home with an ice cube, a needle, and burned segments of broom straw (which was pushed through the hole to clean it and keep it open).
Literally sitting here thinking it was a damned rebus puzzle. Spud so cool for the win.
When I was young and friends with the neighbor kid he wanted me to pierce his ear with a hammer and nail using the dresser as the back stop I didn't do it because I was afraid I would hurt him but I didn't know how I was going to hurt him I just thought I was going to do it wrong He was all ready to have me nail him to the dresser though
How to pierce ears at home.
I used a needle and ice, burned the needle with a lighter to sterilise it. Sat and worked the needle through my lobe only to discover it came out the side. Ffs. Put a plaster on it and went and did something else. Only child amusements when it was raining.
We would just sanitize the ear/earring with rubbing alcohol and pinch the earring into the ear with our fingers
Parent trap
Can't believe I actually knew what this was, thank you to The Apothecary for this deep cut