What country are you from?

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Originally posted by amuse
*bites tongue and inserts 0 gauge barbell in new hole

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Sorry, i can't follow what you mean!

could you make yourself clear? I'm sorry for my poor English.

"biting one's tongue" is a phrase used to denote someone shutting herself / himself up. earrings are generally of an 18 gauge thickness (the post); body piercings are usually larger - say 14 for bellies. needles for blood draws are smaller - usually 21 to 23 gauge in thickness. a zero guage is enormous - perhaps a centimeter or so. i metaphorically punctured an big hole in my tongue trying to shut myself up.
don't worry about your english. i have a hard time with idiomatic expressions in spanish! there are too many languages in the world to be able to get them all perfectly. your english sounds fine.

To amuse:
Thank you so much for your explanation. This time i understand what you mean. It sounds very funny. It's a wonderful matephor.

But still there is an another question

Why is 23 gauge smaller than 18 gauge?

I think maybe we have different ways of measurement. In China We usually use centimeter or meter as standard measurement unit. So I've never heard gauge before and therefor can't understand what it means. Sorry for that!!

a gauge is a term normally used for piercing instuments and weapons, it has other uses but they are rarely used

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Originally posted by amuse
*bites tongue and inserts 0 gauge barbell in new hole

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*Does the same and stands blocking the poster on her wall.*

sunny,
i don't know why a 23 is a smaller than guage than a 22. i have always accepted that information. but i can tell you, as a diabetic, it's a lot nicer to give multiple injections daily with a 30 guage syringe than a 28! (though with my many piercings, pain seems a moot point...) and i always tell people to draw my blood with a 23 not a 21 gauge needle, with my small veins it saves both of us time.

New zealand.

I've been thinking of going to university in New Zealand, got any recomendations I could look into?

NZ is soooo awsome. I always wanted to go there, but now that its been overpopularified by LotR, its lost its draw for me.

but kik, you can see the actual sites where it was filmed, you can truly become one with the hobbits!

or the Ring. ;)

Just like ever other NZ tourist in the last three years. yay

I think it would be cool to meet a hobbit, there som small that if you offended them and they started getting mouthy you could lock them in a suitcase the same way James Bond di to that midget in the man with the golden gun.

The scenery there is nice, but that would be fun.

What's worse than a hobbit stuffed in one of Stan's suitcases?

A hobbit stuffed into many different suitcases.

LOL That was a good one!

No! No dead baby jokes! even when disguised as hobbit murder. ...Wait, "even?"...uhh....damnit you know what I mean.