Man, as a whole, thrives off of attention.
Certain people, however, take this obscene desire and make it worse than it really should be. =/

Wow... just wow. It really shouldn't come as a surprise anymore, but I still cannot believe that people can be so stupid.[:-boggled]

I usually don't cringe easily but holy cow.

Especially the nipple one. :/

ouch, that's just crazy..
i can't believe people would do that to themselves..

*points to comment*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcAlpSoIEu0

lolz, I hate people who convince their friends that what they are doing is 'safe' when it is really dangerous, and can affect the rest of their lives.

Dude, I'm not even going to click on the links. I have a friend who is complaining about stretching her ears hurting, and she won't listen to a word I tell her about the subject. We both started out with gunned piercings, and started stretching at about the same time. While she is at 6g now, I am only at a 10. Why? Because I'm being patient and letting them heal. She's just been dead stretching too, never even bought a taper. Seriously, wow. I'm just going to point and laugh when she has mangled masses for lobes and I have nice fat healthy ones. I'm just tired of trying to help and being ignored, you know?

Sometimes, I just think that people are stupid.

I dead stretched to an 8g, but thats just 'cause my ears are crazy and like to self stretch themselves. You can't save everyone, laurel, at least you know that you tried. =/ It IS frustraiting though, but when they have icky lobes, and you have beautiful, healthy, happy lobes, you can sit back and smile to yourself. ^_^;