On 14/10/2014 12:23, James Holsenback wrote:

>
> p-tail here ... couldn't grow it fast enough when I got out of the Navy.

Is that pigtails or ponytail? ;-)

(Just jealous)

> Funny ... I was called a hippie the other day while waiting in line (at
> the grocery) by an impatient fellow. I turned around and said "Hey it's
> Friday after work (and it's hot) ... we all want to go home." Well that
> just jazzed him up more.

What do you expect if you are a hippy?
There is something about men with long hair that gets people's dander up.

> After he had a few more /choice/ words the
> woman ahead of turned around and called him a redneck

I take it, that is offensive where you live?

When I worked in NM it was a given. One of the club, a good ol' boy. :-)


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On 14-10-2014 15:45, Stephen wrote:

>> As you say. Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Klaus Schultze...
>>
>
> Only popular with a certain type of person, in the UK.
>

And not to forget Robert Ashley. It started me on electronic music 
production myself for some time. After that I got interested in Philip 
Glass, Tim Reily, John Adams on the one hand and Arvo Pärt, Alfred 
Schnittke, Witold Lutoslawski, and Simeon ten Holt on the other. But in 
the end, my musical preferences go from Medieval to early Baroque.

Thomas

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Am 14.10.2014 13:58, schrieb Doctor John:
> On 14/10/14 12:31, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>>
>> Any redneck in this community? :-)
>>
>> Thomas
>
> Nah. They're all too busy polishing their guns and learning to read.

One might doubt the latter...

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On 10/14/2014 09:56 AM, Stephen wrote:
> On 14/10/2014 12:23, James Holsenback wrote:
>
>>
>> p-tail here ... couldn't grow it fast enough when I got out of the Navy.
>
> Is that pigtails or ponytail? ;-)

pony ... hell you should see the looks I get when the pony tail comes 
out and I just let my freak flag fly ... LOL "Almost cut my hair" reference

>
> (Just jealous)

don't be ... I'm all gray (beard and hair)

>
>> Funny ... I was called a hippie the other day while waiting in line (at
>> the grocery) by an impatient fellow. I turned around and said "Hey it's
>> Friday after work (and it's hot) ... we all want to go home." Well that
>> just jazzed him up more.
>
> What do you expect if you are a hippy?
> There is something about men with long hair that gets people's dander up.
>
>> After he had a few more /choice/ words the
>> woman ahead of turned around and called him a redneck
>
> I take it, that is offensive where you live?

nope ... not offensive here. it's just how it is! I'm surrounded by 
conservative, religious fanatics. I'm voting purely liberal this 
November for whatever that's worth. The incumbent (30 years) is up 
against a young woman and she's got my vote just on principle. US 
politics (well world politics for that matter) needs more women. ... 
we'd ALL be better off!


>
> When I worked in NM it was a given. One of the club, a good ol' boy. :-)

well good ol' boy denotes less redneck ... most good ol' boys let well 
enough alone (until) there backs are against the wall. then all bet's 
are off

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<yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:

No. I had long hair down to the middle of my back but it became unbearab
le  

during a heat wave about 10 years ago, so I shaved it all off - skinhead
.

After that the baldness started showing and I decided long hair doesn't 
 

look too good on me any more. Now I usually shave my head once a year at
  

the beginning of summer and let it grow for the rest of the year.

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On 14/10/2014 19:59, Nekar Xenos wrote:
> Now I usually shave my head once a year at the beginning of summer and
> let it grow for the rest of the year.

That's called a Tink's * ** haircut. ;-)

* Tinker's !

! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker

** If anyone has been affected by these comments.Please send a self 
addressed envelope to yourself with the nature of the complaint.


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     Stephen

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in news:543d0950$1@news.povray.org Thomas de Groot wrote:
> 
> There were also Hildur Kolbrun Andresdottir, Joanne Simpson, Sonya 
> Roberts, and in the French POV-world: Hélène Dumur.
>
 
& Gail Shaw

short hair, no beard here

Ingo

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On 14/10/2014 22:05, ingo wrote:
> in news:543d0950$1@news.povray.org Thomas de Groot wrote:
>>
>> There were also Hildur Kolbrun Andresdottir, Joanne Simpson, Sonya
>> Roberts, and in the French POV-world: Hélène Dumur.
>>
>
> & Gail Shaw
>
> short hair, no beard here
>

True, but she did carry a katana. So definitely, don't as about the 
beard. :-)


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=?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.

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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/

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