# The trashiest thing you have ever seen **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 26, 2011, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038 "2011-03-26T05:06:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/221 "2011-04-05T01:51:17Z")
Wow I’d be pissed as hell if they did that to my kid, and I’d take the earrings out ASAP so the holes could heal. Jesus! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/222 "2011-04-05T02:14:01Z")
The Nuns in the ROI have a Hell of a lot more to answer for than just pierced ears of even 1/10th of the stories about [The Laundries](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_asylum) are true. ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/223 "2011-04-05T03:04:35Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > Wow I’d be pissed as hell if they did that to my kid, and I’d take the earrings out ASAP so the holes could heal. Jesus! I 'spose you’d take the nails out of Jesus (on the shiny crucifix) so the holes could heal too. Baby Girl! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/224 "2011-04-05T07:13:32Z")
> [@Septima](#): > > **Nava** , why was your friend carrying her birth certificate instead of her passport if she had that problem a lot? She carried several documents (the passport, the BC and some other stuff); there were places which asked for the passport first, places which asked for the BC first, places which asked for her green card and would threaten with la migra when she tried to explain that she didn’t have one on account of being American (duh), places which asked for the passport and then the BC, places which after asking for them claimed they were fake, places where the Moron On Duty claimed you can’t be a US citizen if you place of birth is listed as “Colombia” (either after seeing the passport, after seeing the BC or both)… ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/225 "2011-04-05T07:21:40Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > The “Jesus crucifix” comment was me. I thought (oh noes) that a cross without Jesus on it could also be called a crucifix. > > Actually I didn’t think, I just assumed. And we all know what that means! I’ve explained the difference to more than one person who was supposed to be Christian, or even Catholic; it’s a distinction very few people make. Then again, I’ve also had to explain to a theoretical Catholic how did I recognize that neon sign in a Costa Rican restaurant as being [Our Lady of Guadalupe](http://www.google.es/images?q=nuestra+se%C3%B1ora+de+guadalupe&biw=1020&bih=581) (which may even be more recognizable than Michelangelo’s Pieta). That Lupita wasn’t trashy because it went well with the rest of the very-tiki decor, but it certainly would have been pretty trashy in other places. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/226 "2011-04-05T07:28:53Z")
> [@IaMoDiNaRy](#): > > Don’t want to offend anyone here. Remember this is my own personal opinion but I’ve always thought that getting a baby’s ears pierced is trashy… and cruel. > > I grew up in Mississippi and only saw this done in the rural areas … the mother’s of these babies were usually wearing tube tops, dirty hair and had about 2 teeth. Actually piercing the ears of baby girls within days of birth is fairly common in Latin American countries, for all socioeconomic groups. I had my ears pierced (with my mother’s consent) when I was about 5 days old, and no one thought twice about it. I kept taking the earring out of one ear, so my mom ended up taking both earrings out and the piercings healed closed. I had them re-pierced as my 18th birthday present, because I wanted to wear fancy earrings to my senior banquet. When I had my daughter, my mom was shocked when I told her I’d let my daughter decide when she wanted her ears pierced - she waited till she was 7 (I think - not sure at the moment because I’m sleepy). BTW, I’m not offended - it’s a cultural thing, and I’m too tired to get upset about cultural differences at the moment. Off to bed. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/227 "2011-04-05T07:30:48Z")
When I grow up, I wanna have the ability to tie back my sequential posts… sorry! Previous Pit thread about [piercing the ears of infants](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=435058). There’s places where it’s unusual and places where it’s standard: isn’t diversity _fun_? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/228 "2011-04-05T14:48:28Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > When I grow up, I wanna have the ability to tie back my sequential posts… sorry! > > Previous Pit thread about [piercing the ears of infants](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=435058). There’s places where it’s unusual and places where it’s standard: isn’t diversity _fun_? It’s the “places where the parents aren’t asked” that gets to me. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/229 "2011-04-05T15:39:25Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > A mother feeding her baby a blue lollipop. Kid couldn’t have been older than four months. Took me about five minutes to pick my jaw up off the floor. I used to work with a woman who would drop a peppermint candy in the bottom of a baby bottle of water to feed her kid. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/230 "2011-04-05T15:44:21Z")
Not content with the trashy Diana ‘b’ Dodi statue in Harrods, Mr Fayed has now erected a truly hideous statue of Michael Jackson outside Fulham FC in London. > **[Fulham's awful Michael Jackson statue is very Al Fayed](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/apr/04/michael-jackson-statue-al-fayed)** > > The new statue of Michael Jackson outside Fulham FC's ground fits right in with the Mohamed Al Fayed's taste for all things golden and glitzy ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/231 "2011-04-05T15:45:56Z")
A friend of mine used to pump breast milk and leave it with her mother in law while she watched the baby during the day while my friend worked. She also left cloth diapers with her. She found out later (she showed up early one day) that the mother in law (who was from Mexico) had been a) dumping out the breast milk and feeding the baby sugar water instead and b) pouring water on the cloth diapers so they’d seem used, but keeping the kid in disposable diapers all day long. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/232 "2011-04-05T15:54:23Z")
I can actually totally understand the diaper thing, even if it is obnoxious. I have never heard of Mexicans having a problem with breast milk, though. I would be furious. And I’ve heard of very young children getting their ears pierced in my culture too, (Hindu, Indian) but not as prevalent as it seems to be in Latino cultures. I only really know because my mother was insistent I not have my ears pierced until I asked for it (which I did round age 7 or 8). ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/233 "2011-04-05T15:59:24Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > A friend of mine used to pump breast milk and leave it with her mother in law while she watched the baby during the day while my friend worked. She also left cloth diapers with her. She found out later (she showed up early one day) that the mother in law (who was from Mexico) had been a) dumping out the breast milk and feeding the baby sugar water instead and b) pouring water on the cloth diapers so they’d seem used, but keeping the kid in disposable diapers all day long. WTF? That’s not even trashy; that’s just… evil. I can sort of understand not wanting to deal with the hassle of cloth diapers (although of course, if that’s what the mom wanted and you agreed to it, then tough), but for the love of Mike, why not just give the baby the breast milk?! It’s more work to make up the sugar water - the milk is right there! I have to say, as a mom who’s currently pumping and knows how much work it is, I would have a hard time not getting violent if I found out she’d been _dumping_ it. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/234 "2011-04-05T16:12:20Z")
I know. It made me all stabby when she told me (I had a baby at the time as well, and was pumping myself). ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/235 "2011-04-05T16:19:25Z")
The parents should just be relieved the infant wasn’t a male left in the care of Irish priests. I’m guessing the piercing wouldn’t involve the earlobes. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/236 "2011-04-05T16:28:39Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > This doesn’t even come close to some of the things posted here, but it was pretty jaw-dropping as it drove by… > > A decrepit old pickup truck with a huge pair of antlers attached to the hood by what looked like an entire roll of duct tape. Of course, maybe the duct tape was just holding the front of the car together. That was, of course, Red Green’s truck! ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/237 "2011-04-05T17:43:23Z")
> [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > WTF? That’s not even trashy; that’s just… evil. I can sort of understand not wanting to deal with the hassle of cloth diapers (although of course, if that’s what the mom wanted and you agreed to it, then tough), but for the love of Mike, why not just give the baby the breast milk?! It’s more work to make up the sugar water - the milk is right there! Years ago, there was a decades-long campaign in poor countries by the makers of infant formula (mainly Nestle) to convince mothers that bottle feeding was more ‘sanitary’ and modern than breast feeding. Presumably the remnants of that are still around, especially for women of her generation. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/238 "2011-04-05T21:24:07Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > I want examples of the most outstanding, sterling examples of utter trashiness, and I beseech you, O Dopers, for them. I don’t simply want links to that website of people shopping at Wal-Mart; I need those fleeting, but mind-blowing moments that other rational people disbelieve when you try to tell them about it. > > My entry: > > I was still living in South MS, and with my mother visited a friend-of-a-friend at her trailer. On her wall, this woman had a large photograph of her young son. I invite you to envision this in your mind. > > Her son, aged about eight, had a mullet. And I’m talking a serious fucking mullet. This was a mullet carefully cultivated since birth. Shaved on the sides, long ratty tail behind. The sort of haircut that only a certain kind of people can treasure. > > In the photograph, the boy was wearing his karate gi and aiming a karate kick at the camera. His mother, not satisfied with this, saw fit to photoshop the American flag waving in the background. > > Since that clearly wasn’t classy enough, she had also _photoshopped a bald eagle perching on the boy’s arm_, wings majestically spread. > > I think I actually stopped in the doorway and gawked at this portrait. It was huge too, probably like 3 feet tall. This was her pride and joy. I exchanged a glance with my mother, who likewise was taken aback by this image but in a rare display of restraint, was trying bravely to ignore it. > > I have seen some tasteless things in my day, but that portrait was so far over-the-top that had I not personally witnessed it, I would’ve thought it was some sort of clever parody of trashiness. But no; it was entirely sincere. I’m confused, what is trashy about what you describe? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/239 "2011-04-05T21:39:10Z")
> [@RaftPeople](#): > > I’m confused, what is trashy about what you describe? I assume you are joking. If you aren’t, studies show that 1 in 4 people are just plain trashy. Look around you the next time you are with a few people, if you don’t see one then… ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/240 "2011-04-06T00:03:32Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I assume you are joking. If you aren’t, studies show that 1 in 4 people are just plain trashy. Look around you the next time you are with a few people, if you don’t see one then… When I look around I see 3 people admiring my mullet and American flag/Eagle t-shirt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038.md?page=13)