Some people really don’t like ear piercings; mothers especially often get very frustrated by them. My sister’s solution was to buy our mum some expensive earrings so that she would have to get her ears pierced; it was then easy for her to do the same.

I’m all for any kind of ear-related appendage, but I’ve got to say, some thrill me more than others. Here are a couple of rather disturbing demonstrations of what happens when people get a bit too involved in their craft. I’ve never been a fan of these really stretched ears – they look like a loose bit of thread hanging from a jumper and I just want to go and chop them off  but here we see them for what they are – useful storage space for when you run out of cupboards.

Do you want fries with that?

Do you want fries with that?

Image from Just Sick Shit and BME

Water water everywhere, and not a drop to drink

Water water everywhere, and not a drop to drink

Image from Streaming John