Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 05, 2016

Good to see Rat got a job at SeaWorld.

Great! Now he has handles that will make it easier for us to throw him away!

how did that fit?!?!?!?!

“Fa love Pa.”

Woah! Doesn’t that hurt?

To all of those people who does it to their ears, please STOP!!! There’s nothing COOL about it, it is just CREEPY! Unless you are pledging an alliance to a tribe or something!

Agree with Ricardo Flores about the CREEPY part. I think it looks ridiculous, but then I’m an old fart who also thinks tattoos and most piercings are also ridiculous and creepy. Every generation finds something (it’s never new, just recycled) to distinguish themselves from the one before. Nobody wants to look like their parents. But in the end, we all do.

People do this to get a reaction. And boy, are they getting one here today. Also, I don’t know about millions. It’s rare to see around here, at least.

I substitute teach and one of the HS kids is doing it now to his ears. I told him that why he is at it, “Why not do your lips?” and encouraged him to go to the library and look through some old National Geographic magazines for inspiration. It’s creepy alright….add in some facial and neck tattoos and you can be assured of a bright future.

Can we put a padlock with a chain in Rat’s gauges to lock him down?

Tis a shame that when one is young that you do not realize the pain you will go through just to stay alive as you age and that you do not have to create it.

Everyone has a tat or piercing or some other form of self mutilation, kids. Be a real individualistic rebel.. Try ritual suicide! That’ll show ’em!

If millions of people jumped off the bridge, would you do it too?

Can I have tats with that?

God, to be honest, I dislike that sort of jewelry.

Apparently there’s a swimming pool under the table :)

yeah, I’ve seen this crap for over a decade now since high school. It’s the WORST type of ear piercing

Two centuries ago, South American tribesmen were stretching their ear lobes with bigger and bigger cork pieces until they had holes maybe six inches wide.

It seems that we are finally catching up with South American tribesmen.

my friends all have tattoos and/or piercings, so I am the different one with nothing outlandish done to me. Except that I wear a watch.

I’ve never seen this in real life, only seen pictures, but maybe it’s not that common in small New England towns. Strangely, though, I have no desire to rebel in this way.Although in this weather, with bugs flying around, it would be kind of fun to to have some kind of electric bug zapper that gets them if they try to fly through the ear hoop.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

I think you should not do anything to yourself that if done by someone else would be a felony.

Don’t make you look like a rebel. Just make you look stupid.

That dolphin is so sweet!

xxx

saw a piercing where he inserted a large round glass disk, you could see his teeth, jaw, etc.have so wanted to unsee that ever since

What do you do with the big holes when the fashion changes?

Rat, I fail to see the porpoise of it.

Lol

Imprison Rat for cruelty to dolphins! And for general stupidity….

Rat, you’re such an overachiever.

@S RBut, wonder if he did that to his ears on porpoise?

And for all the hipsters who do that to their ears to be different… You aren’t. You are just like all of the other dumasses who do the same thing. And they look stupid too.

That is not weird, not insane, not any of that. That is an apocalypse waiting to happen