On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:49:38 +0200, Cousin Ricky <rickysttATyahooDOTcom>  
wrote:

> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_=27Yadgar=27_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
>> POVers (POVghans?) obviously are mostly beardos... and it seems to me,
>> that among male POVers (ever noticed the almost complete absence of
>> female POVers? I hardly can remember any other "raytraceress" than Gail
>> Shaw...),...
>
> I've noticed that, too.  I wonder why that is.
>
>> longhairs are also strikingly over-represented!
>>
>> So I start a poll: Who of you has hair at least touching the shoulders?
>
> I wish.
>
> When I was a kid, everyone wanted voluminous Afros like the Jackson 5.   
> (And my
> spell checker is balking at "afro," so I look it up at Merriam-Webster,  
> and
> learn for the first time in 51 years that the word is supposed to be
> capitalized!)  But my hair just got too unmanageable if it got too long.
> Decades later, I learned that it takes either a looser hair texture than  
> mine or
> a vatful of chemicals.
>
> I have an aunt and cousins who actually did have such Afros, naturally.
> Nowadays, they both wear their hair short.  Ironically, the son of one  
> of them
> is playing Michael Jackson in a national tour.  I'm sure he could grow  
> an MJ
> Afro if he wanted to, but he doesn't, and wears a wig on stage.
>
> The alternatives for me were braids and dreadlocks.  Either would have  
> caused my
> manly man male dad to flip out.  Violently.  Besides, the only  
> westerners who
> wore dreadlocks in those days were Rastafarians, and their coifs were  
> just plain
> unkempt.  It was not a look that I wanted.
>
> After I moved out on my own, braids became an option, but the damn tape  
> recorder
> kept playing in my head that only the social "others" would wear their  
> hair like
> girls or rebels.  Along with that was the fact that braids are  
> high-maintenance,
> so it's not like I could passive-aggressive myself into non-conformity.   
> Whoopie
> Goldberg showed me that dreadlocks don't have to look like rats' nests,  
> but
> again, keeping them neat requires maintenance.
>
> Now, the question is almost moot, as my hair will no longer grow down to  
> my
> shoulders (although it is still much longer than most men wear theirs).   
> The
> intelligent design proponents in my country need to explain this one to  
> me,
> although I have a sinking feeling they would just throw 1 Corinthians  
> 11:14 back
> at me.  That verse would not explain Yadgar, though.  Or Jesus.  They  
> say that
> youth is wasted on the young.  I sure wasted mine keeping my hair the  
> way other
> people told me it should be.
>
> Every time I see a little boy (or girl) with long hair, I turn green.
>

I like the Woopie style. I even considered going for the Just Jinjer style  
at one stage, but my hair is way too straight for that...

http://www.whatsonincapetown.com/post/review-just-jinjer-dunes/

-- 
-Nekar Xenos-

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