Originally posted by bubz 
yeah i can't imagine getting my tongue pierced such a thick layer....
my friend said after a meal she can still taste the food on her tongue stud (or whatever you call it). and she speaks with a very slight lisp now.
There's three reasons not to do it, right there!
1 The tounge is one big, thick, astoundingly importand muscle. Driving a metal pike through it with a fat ball on the end impedes the use of the tongue to move food around, not to mention...
2 A stud changes the airflow dynamic and limits the tongue's movement, preventing the studee from executing all phonemes (and hence disabling complete speech capability). Not being able to speak properly isn't as worrying, however, as...
3 The Hygeine Issues. Usually after eating the mouth continues to generate saliva that washes away food particles from your teeth, gums, tongue and throat. With a stud, however, particle (and hence bacterial) buildup occurs
on the surface of the tongue with much greater ease. You must understand that the fibres of the tongue stand up like "a shagpile carpet" (Kruzelnicki, 2003) protecting the taste buds but also trapping food particles (like dust in the fibres of a rug). If saliva is impeded by something (like a tongue stud) it can't get into the crevasses and wash out that food gunk, letting bacteria grow wild. This leads to a) infection and b) halitosis.
Basically, tongue studs make it harder to eat, makes you sound stupid and gives you bad breath. Very attractive!
