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Piercings and tatoos aren't something I've found appealing, yet. I might someday, but whatever.

I am, however, planning on freeing my tongue tonight. One of my roommates, a mortician, has a disposable scalpel that's still in the sealed sanitary bag.

Anyone got a link to a site with the guy with the horns?

[ June 30, 2004, 05:08: Message edited by: Loser ]

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Tats, piercings and coral oh my!
No link, it was a magazine article that I just couldn't finish reading, then a few days after that I saw the same guy on t.v. and it was even grosser. I didn't know coral was compatible. I'm sure a simple search on the internet with "body modification" or "coral inserts" would work. On second thought "coral inserts" would probably get you something really nasty from the internet. There is also a Re-Search book called "Modern Primitives" It's already about 8 years old but still very interesting. And its about a 9.5 on the "eeww" factor.

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I have freed my tongue. It was surprizingly easy, but I would recommend that anyone who wants to try it out consider that there are some serious veins running right behind where you'll be cutting.

I got about a half an inch out of it, and the added flexibility was immidiately noticable. You're so well aquainted with the inside of your mouth that a change like that is kind of profound.

[ June 30, 2004, 05:08: Message edited by: Loser ]

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Some people have split their toungues also.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, but that would be hard to hide.

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What do you mean "freed your tongue"?? Never heard of it before...

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Isn't that where you cut that little string thingie that ties your tongue to the bottom of your mouth? Yuck! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

Slick.

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That useless little flap of flesh is called the frenum, I believe.

It's been a goal of mine for years to have it cut, I just decided to do it myself instead of waiting for a local body-mod shop to take care of it, instead of telling me why I shouldn't have it done.

This is my only body-mod, the only one I intend to get, and the only time I have practiced self-surgury/mutiliation.

It's called 'freeing' the tongue because some people have such an overdeveloped frenum that their tongue is said to be 'tied'. Some people start their lives off without any frenum to speak of, I just got rid of mine.

[ June 30, 2004, 05:07: Message edited by: Loser ]

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Tongue freeing: Ow! Doing it yourself? Owowowowowow!

Tongue splitting- cool! Once that's done, can you contrl the two halves of the fork independently? That would be cool.

I've always been intrigued by a shamanistic practice I read about once, I'm sure someone here will be able to tell more: It's that one where you drill a small hole (a few cm) in the top of the skull.
Apparently, allowing all that air to flow across the brain increases the oxygen levels and produces a constant euphoric/ creative high. Apparently. I'm sure it has some serious medical downsides too, and I've no idea awhat the long term effects would be, but in a controlled and sterile environment it would probably be OK for a while at least, and you could always patch it back up with some coral http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Apparently splitting the toungue will not give you any abilities you didnt already have. If you can roll your toungue, or better yet twist it (roll it over), then that shows some extra control of those muscles which can be interesting to play with once its split. But if all you can do is stick it out then thats going to be about it. The one that most people DO have is flatten-it, point-it, flatten-it, point-it. If you practice that with a split toungue you get neat effect. Whats real fun is that if you stick it out "pointed" then its easy to overlook that its not a normal toungue, then spread the forks (flatten it) for the look on their faces.
(no, I dont have one. Ive never needed artificial means to fit in just fine with the strange crowd) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif