Blokes with long hair:Classic or dud

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No offence to Ned but how come no blokes have long hair anymore. The only people I know with long hair nowadays are metallers and homeless blokes. It was all the rage not so long ago...I dont have long hair by the way...

― Michael, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, indeed. Where have all the blokes with long hair gone? Is it the fear of looking all passe and 80s? I thought the 80s were back, why hasn't long hair come back?

I guess I don't like long, long hair on blokes as much as I like medium length hair on blokes. Long, long, hair, especially in a ponytail, just reminds me of my dad. If it's long enough to get in a ponytail, that ain't right.

Fringes, bowlcuts, pageboys, that hairstyle so favoured by dronerock boys where they grow it down to their shoulders but cut the eyes out like Old English Sheepdogs so they can sort of see (NOT a mullet- the mullet involves cutting the top and sides as well) - all classic.

― masonic boom, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

pony tails and mullets suck the big a-hole (not that there's anything wrong with rimming, but it's an expression ok), but hair ala thurston moore's will always rock.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thurston Moore is the *perfect* example of dronerock boys who look like Old English Sheepdogs. Classic.

― masonic boom, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's so hard to grow your hair long, I get the Shaggy from Scooby Doo look, and then it just stops growing...Anyway, if I did grow my hair long, I'd look like that comedian Ed Burn...

― james e l, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Shaggy from Scooby Doo has possibly the best hairdo in the history of hair... but I would say that, wouldn't I?

― masonic boom, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes Kate, you would. I kind of like the floppy fringe look, but that's not popular anymore either. What is up with men dying their hair platinum blonde? Nine times out of ten it looks fucking ridiculous. Only Guy Pearce can get away with this...and possibly Eminem, I have a feeling he would look even worse with the dark hair. Long hair? Meh. It really depends on the person, some guys look great with long hair and some look horrendous.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The only way you could offend me is if you said it looked bad on me -- and since I've had that hairstyle for a decade now, I sure hope it doesn't! Otherwise I'd cry. *does so anyway* For those who thought I actually was wearing a ponytail (horrors!) in my AICON photo, my smug face and the way my hair normally looks can be found at my homepage, located thusly. Yes, I know the pages in general need a brushup...

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Men with long hair shouldn't be allowed: it's effeminate, disorderly and dangerous when operating heavy machinery or working with chemicals. All real men have decent tidy crops.

― christopher, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All real men have decent tidy crops.

There's a sad joke lurking in here crying to be set free. Since it's a crap amalgamation of farming and S&M, I refuse.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chris, I am SHOCKED and HORRIFIED that you would say such a thing. Especially considering the length of your hair, young man!

And go on, Dan, you know you want to. You won't be happy until you do.

― masonic boom, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't much fancy long hair. Shaggy "British Cuts" as my friend Josh used to call them, I'm down with that. Buzz cuts are good. Corporate hair is boring but better than long hair. Long hair on men just annoys me.

― Ally, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Help help! I have therefore annoyed Ally and by the rules of ILE, where she is the Unquestioned Goddess of All, I will be cast into the Fiery Pit of Perdition. Woe!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You already know I make exception for you, Mr. Raggett.

― Ally, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She might be the Unquestioned Goddess Of All, but here I AM THE LAW! You can get rid of deities by not believing them.

― DG, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I now have an image of you dressed up as Judge Dredd, thanks.

― Ally, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As portrayed by Sylvester Stallone? Eek.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And wouldn't that mean DG has Rob Schneider as his lovably annoying sidekick?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If he's a sidekick, does that mean we can kick him in the sides? Because I could be down with that.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why stop there? The nads are available for pain as well.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Um, because he's an annoyingly loveable sidekick, not an annoyingly loveable nadskick. Although the term "nadskick" is so much more appropriate for those types of characters than "sidekick". That's getting incorporated into the vocabulary.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pah! Not the film thank you, that was rubbish. JD comix = GRATE.

― DG, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stop talking about this films and comics business, and let's get back down to BUSINESS which, in this case, is talking about the correct length and fringiness for mens' hair!!!

― masonic boom, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But I already told everyone the proper way to cut their hair. Let's talk about girls' hair.

― Ally, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Long hair usually looks shit on men, especially in 70s Britain.

However it did make Mike Oldfield look strangely like a pre- raphaelite child, which I like. Of course the music didn't live up to this, so it really was always dud. And I dislike 80s hair-metal even more.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think that men with long hair should be required to wear them in top-knots. That would be so barbarian-chic.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I suppose ageing hippies would henceforth end up looking like standard poodles, which would be amusing.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would probably pay a lot of money to see a procession of hippies that looked like poodles.

Well, okay, I wouldn't. But it would still be funny.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Topknots? You disgusting little man, Dan. In that case, you're required to grow that most horrifying of combinations, the Afromullet.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, come on, Ned, I think you'd look quite fetching with a top-knot. The height of Samuri Style.

― masonic boom, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Who had that, then? New Edition circa 1983, maybe?

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Topknots only belong on kenders. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You'd certainly look better with a top-knot than I'd look with an afro-mullet! Besides which, my wife would rain hot fiery death upon you for even suggesting it.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pass the Soul-Glo.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm digging this whole idea, Dan with the Afro-Mullet and Ned with a topknot. It could be the basis for a sitcom.

― Ally, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But what happened to the box? Will Smith had one. Kid (or Play) had one. Hell, Kid (or Play) had a box cut with an inclined plane!

Given my hair's puffy quality, I could probably try & grow a pseduo 'Fro-Let. I tried a mullet once, back when I was a confused adolescent. Never got past the scraggly rat-tail stage, thank god.

― David Raposa, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I had a variation of the super-high flattop when I was in high school. I wanted to put my hair in dreds, but since I lived in lily- white Minnesota and my parents weren't AT ALL keen on the idea, I never got the necessary info so that I could do it. Sigh.

I also wanted to dye my hair white. Looking at Sisqo now, I'm SO glad I never got around to that.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Robin: Somewhere on Mullets Galore there is a picture of the Afro-mullet. I couldn't find it in the intermittant searching I did at work, though.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wow. Very recently I had long(ish, ish) hair - down to my shoulders. It didn't really suit me, so I had it cut quite short. Ah well, at least I tried it.

My hair is now growing *very swiftly* back to the same bloody 'Shaggy' mop that I've had since I was sodding five. It seems to be my natural hair style, I should realise that now. nothing, but nothing else works for me. God knows I've tried.

― DavidM, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What's a top-knot ?

Growing my hair makes me look like one of the kids on the back of Kiss Alive.

― Patrick, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dan's Handy Guide to Cultivating a Top-Knot:

- Grow your hair out past shoulder-length.
- Hang your head down so that the top of your head is as close to parallel to the ground as you can manage.
- Gather hair into a ponytail that looks like it's coming out of the top of your head.
- Twist ponytail so that you have a rope of hair extending from the top of your head.
- Tie a simple knot with hair that is flush to the top of your skull.
- Whip head back and allow hair rope to unravel, flowing down your back like a medieval god.

One could use a scrunchy, but then you couldn't call it a top-knot as there'd be no knot and it would look extraordinarily 16-year-old-girl-at-the-mall-y.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

BTW Ned, don't think I didn't catch that. :P

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I had faith in you, Dan. ;-) Raistlin *is* me, of course. When I'm at my worst.

To Patrick -- since you mentioned _Kiss Alive_, the way Gene Simmons wears his hair? Topknot.

As for Ally's idea...heh heh heh.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I get my hair cut about twice a year - I just did last week. That means it usually grows down to past the bottoms of my ears. Then I get it cut above my ears and wait another 6 months. Don't really have the gumption or desire to have actual long hair (a la Ned) though.

― Josh, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Monekey's hair rocked

― Geoff, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I have this English Sheepdog haircut of which you speak, but I'm not sure. Would anyone who knows me in real life care to confirm?

― Nick, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick, I think you're perhaps close, although your barnet may be a little neat for the full shaggy dog do. Oh, that sounded bad didn't it?

For myself, I bemoan the passing from fashion of long hair because now one has to be on the look-out for short haired hippies as well as the regular long-haired kind.

― Tim, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick, come and find me at the next Strange Fruit, and I will examine your hair and judge it for shagginess and Old English Sheepdogness. However, I will not be held responsible for any feelings you may experience afterwards of feeling cheap, tawdry or objectified. ;-)

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five years pass...

Ha ha ha ha ha, strangely, he never took me up on that offer.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

Blast from this past, this one.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, random function, you are my friend.

I know that we put your hair up in a bun at a FAP, Ned, but did you ever try a topknot?

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

No, that is pretty much beyond the pale.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

Ned, how about blokes with long sideburns?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

Clearly demons from the rotting underworld.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Obviously you visited Motherwell on your scottish travels then ;)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

Ned, have you ever permed your hair?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

Eurgh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

Quite frankly, blokes hould have long hair to prove that they are warriors; women should have short for exactly the same reason.

ToÃ°ay, to prove my warriordom, my hair is down, and flying free, I have a bike bib with knee high orange socks over the top, I shall strap on knitwear to skip down to the station.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

As I'm sure Chris Lowe would attest: dud.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

But what if you're not a warrior?

Women with short hair, I always associate with the religious caste. Or intellectuals. Same thing.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

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― Zora (Zora), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

xpost:that's why mine always gets long, i can't pretend to SMRAT.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

BBCs Wordhunt - nobody used the word mullet before 1994? Really?

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

Women with short hair, I always associate with the religious caste. Or intellectuals.

It is the same thing, both are associated with the rejection of conventional feminity and therefore also (according to a certain view) all sexuality. If you were feeling charitable you could say the religious motivation might be phrased as "giving up the things of this world" but for women it's the same, at the root. A woman's hair is her crowning glory etc ad Victorian-itum.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to put my finger on, Laurel.

Long hair is associated with sexuality for both sexes. So for a woman to cut off her hair is a rejection. Not sure about males - maybe it's about being Civilised and repressing animal sexuality and warriorhood to have short hair? Who knows.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

maybe it's about being Civilised and repressing animal sexuality and warriorhood to have short hair?

Um, grr, I guess.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

(Though what that says about blokes like Ned and Ed who are just big sugarpussies under all that hair, I'm not sure.)

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

But then there's the "I'm such a sexual tigress that I can be bald and still scorch you when I enter the room" thing.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

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