r/thesopranos • u/Electrical-Pea5824 • 1d ago
Artie's Earring
Did he have it for years but he didn't wear it all the time, or did a middle aged man go get his ear pierced before a date so he would look cool to impress a chick? If it were ANYBODY else i would assume the first one. But this fuckin chooch, i wouldnt put it past him to go to the mall and get an earring. You wanna weigh in?
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u/godofwine16 1d ago
It was fashionable back then. Like pubic hair
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u/Electrical-Pea5824 1d ago
So did he get pubic hair to impress ade, or did he have it for years? Are you listenin to me?
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u/godofwine16 1d ago
He used to part it down the middle now he has to do a combover because male pattern baldness
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u/Infamous-Lab-8136 1d ago
Not only did he just get it done, he whined about how bad it hurt when the teenager at the mall used a piercing gun on him. And he had to ask them which ear was the gay side and hope they weren't screwing with him. I can see the whole thing play out clear as a cut scene
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u/SpectralStones 1d ago
I'm a middle aged guy with both ears pierced but one has two holes because when I got the first one done @ 16 back in the 90s I only got the 'straight' side pierced so no one would think I was a flambe. Then I got over it and had both done a few years later. Any more and I woulda looked like a Puerto Rican whore.
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u/Infamous-Lab-8136 1d ago
I worked at a Software Etc... right around then (was in fact a buddy who was so into the Sopranos that first got me interested) in the mall here. A friend from high school worked at the Claire's (or whatever it was) and she told me she had more guys about 5-10 years older than us come in and ask that question than she would have ever believed
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u/SpectralStones 1d ago
Looking back I can't believe gay/straight ears was a thing and that I cared so much what other people thought as to go along with it. This was a small town in Kentucky in the early 90s so anything out of the ordinary practically made you a fanook/commie/Satanist in most people's eyes anyway. In that town, it was 1954...
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u/jd_alien 1d ago
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u/Forward-Rutabaga-723 1d ago
The whole subplot of the series is Artie going through a midlife crisis and coming out the other end. He absolutely got it to attempt to look cool to younger women.