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[Piercings] Posted a thing on Facebook about how tattoo parlors are better places to get piercings than mall kiosks, and my aunt - the Catholic one who was a cheerleader in high school and who got completely blitzed only once in my life, when my cousin got a tattoo -
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popped in to tell me she and her sisters used to just use a needle and a potato
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:| And I'm just like "Well okay I will never be as hardcore as you apparently."
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secret punk rocker aunt
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...and then I remembered she does own a motorcycle....
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SECRET PUNK ROCKER AUNT
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I wonder if she just got bored being a housewife after a while and went "Eh fuck it"
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I admit, knowing nothing about homemade tattoos, that I cannot imagine the function of the potato
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You put it behind your ear and when you stab the needle through the lobe, the potato catches it.
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IDK how it arose that potatoes were the go-to implement here but that's how my grandfather did his ear.
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bc they were something p. much everyone had and cheap if I'm not mistaken
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(Oh it protects your neck, I didn't add. That's why it "catches" the needle)
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I mean that makes sense
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So you hold a bit of raw potato behind your earlobe, poke the needle through, switch out the potato for a piece of ice if you're in any pain, then thread the earring through as you slide the needle out.
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and the only way to sterilize needles back then btw was with a lighter so that's fun
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yup!
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but fun fact that wasn't really hot enough to sterilize insofar as hep c as that's a heat-resistant thing
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and some other blood borne pathogens as well that I can't remember
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Annnnnd millennials worry about their kids riding their bikes without helmets 
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Guys my family survived through plagues, wars, traveling across oceans, more wars, and piercing their own ears with unsterilized needles just so I could sit here today and talk to you all from a precariously situated papasan chair inside the nuclear blast zone of DC.
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look around look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now~
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i just cracked up at the last bit.
miles you ass
man they did that in the 90s remake of the parent trap
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i love this
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MY MOM GOT HERS DONE WITH LIKE
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Ice
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Wait millennials have kids? I thought we only had dogs
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and service ferrets.
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And a grudge against napkins
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I don't remember what kind of napkins, I'm a bad millennial
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(Apparently it's paper napkins, but I'm not a fan of cloth napkins either)
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millennials don't have kids. only avocado toast
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my mom and aunt used the same method
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my mom, who will ask like 5 times if you've washed your hands ARE YOU SURE YOU WASHED YOUR HANDS before you eat anything at all
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it's hilarious to me
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tbh I'm' a little worried about my cats riding bikes without helmets, but I'm also not nearly baller enough to let someone pierce my ear with a needle
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a friend tried to prick my finger once for a droplet of blood. it didn't go well
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(in the "I cried a little and he took pity on me and gave up" direction)
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oh for PIERCING. YES. somehow I got distracted by the mention of tattoos and was really struggling to figure out how a potato would figure into a tattoo
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oh you rub the potato on your tattoo under a full moon and then bury it in the yard
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keeps infection away
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seems legit.
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I read it on the internet and snopes didn't refute it so it must be true
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lmao