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On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:35:23 GMT
Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

> > So have I. As a child I read some books by explorers of foreign 
> > cultures, and I remember a picture of some people who had holed
> > their ears and then inserted larger and larger discs in the hole.  
> 
> Ditto for the lower lip.

Whereas in Our Modern Age, we have...um, people tanning their nuts and
smashing themselves in the face with hammers.

Fashion is fundamentally insane.