• Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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    11 days ago

    I’ve never had hair like that, but the pic seems like a pretty normal haircut I’ve seen from mid-90s through to now

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      11 days ago

      It’s basically just a crew cut…AKA one of the most popular short haircuts of all time!

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      11 days ago

      It’s back bay-bee!

      I’m just waiting for the other early 2000s hair trends to come back. Frosted tips, insane amounts of gel to spike it up, maybe some pukka shell necklaces? Maybe some Hawaiian shirts? Maybe those big ball chains? Converse? Just bring back third wave ska?

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        Absolutely bring back the ska! Tbf, it never really went away, just not in the mainstream anymore.

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          Tbf, it never really went away, just not in the mainstream anymore.

          You can say that about most things people want to bring back.

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        11 days ago

        I’d like to see 50-60 year olds doing up their hair like the Static-X guy.

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          Yeah that one doesn’t fit. Kids have continued buying chucks straight up to modern day. Only difference is the soles appear to have gotten chunkier.

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        Well given that broccoli hair is just another word for the perms from the 80s, just give it 20 years and it’ll be back in again. You could even be ahead of the curve, just give it some new name, christmas cake hair for example if it’s all about frosted tips, and start wearing it in 15 years time. You’ll become famous for “starting” a “new” trend!

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        This was the time when rock stars wore heavy makeup, painted their nails, had long lucious curly hair wore pants that cut off circulation

        Nobody said they were “gay” or “trans”, they were just rock and fucking roll and whatever they wanted

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          I’m sorry but this is erasure of the very real homophobia these glam metal bands experienced as part of later backlash.

          And the guys in Skid Row tell of going out in public in the late eighties with “their hair stacked to the sky” and fighting with rednecks who called them removeds (Konow 296). While I never had to duke it out with anyone because of my long hair (the extent of my glam look), I did have similar experiences in the real world. Once, when with my mom at Huntington House, a now-defunct furniture store, a female sales clerk came up behind us and asked, “Can I help you ladies?” And on another occasion, when looking at clothes at Joslins in the Westminster Mall, a woman approached me from behind while remarking, “What do we have here? A lady looking at men’s pants!”

          Glam Metal and Its Requisite Gender-Bending: Celebrated Until They Suddenly Weren’t | by Ron Baxendale II | Medium - https://ronaldbax2.medium.com/glam-metal-and-its-requisite-gender-bending-celebrated-until-they-suddenly-werent-cf979b24eb4a

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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        11 days ago

        I hear it’s better to burn out than to fade away. I think that’s the anthem of 2025 America.

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          Simon is the first person that came to my mind when I saw this post. Also the way you said UK Inbetweeners made me realize there’s also US version. Even the thought of it sounds terrible and I won’t even bother to check it.

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              Maybe in dramas, you can find more examples but for comedy, the office is the best only example I think. Makes you appreciate the producers even more, considering how tough a job it is.

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              The US version of Ghosts is also much better than the UK version which inspired it.

              They are having a lore more fun with the universe/rules and exploring the Ghosts characters more. If the US version had the UK lead actress instead it’d be perfect

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          I’m bad at faces, but he reminds me of a combination of Mike Birbiglia, Seann William Scott, and Anders Holm. (I had to look up two of those names.)

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          It seems a bit much to me, as well as a bit dated, but not unusual, interesting, or offensive enough that I would look twice if I saw it in person. I agree, it’s not atrocious.

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        I’ve seen that format and keep wondering who that guy is. But I lack terms to look it up and then I forget.

        Who’s that?

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          The other commenter in this thread theoretically answered your question. I’m not familiar with the character, so while they’re probably correct, I can’t make any observations on it. I only know him as the “You guys are getting X?” meme guy.

          I think your original question suggests you are familiar with the meme, but just in case I misinterpreted, here’s a random example.

          Insufficient sleep meme demonstrating you guys are getting X guy

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    What’s wrong with that haircut? It’s neat and looks good and ladies like it. That broccoli cut is just atrocious.

    When I was a kid it was the bowl cut, now that’s a travesty. The haircut in the picture is nice

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    No way, broccoli hair is significantly worse than almost any other hairstyle.

    You couldn’t convince me broccoli hair was not started as a meme to see if people would make themselves look dumb to follow a trend.

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      Yeah, the haircut in OPs picture is normal, if they wanted to show and idiotic haircut it should have been the manbun.

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      I don’t really mind the broccoli cut. There are many far worse follicular atrocities throughout history. Beehives, flat tops, the mullets already mentioned, and many others are worse than broccoli hair IMO.

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        Well, i guess it’s good that some people don’t mind it.
        To me, broccoli hair is quite possibly one of the worst hairstyles to exist. The styles you mentioned are vastly superior, imo.

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      May I remind you of the existence of the one true stupidest haircut ever invented: the mullet. The great equalizer of looking bad. Not one person on the entire planet Earth can wear it well.

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    How about we let people style their hair however the fuck they like. I see all these comments ridiculing different haircuts as if being fucking apes with hair going in slightly different ways at different lengths blabbering on about which way is better wasn’t the ridiculous part.

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      I sometimes wish I had hair so I could change up my looks every now and then. I’m rocking a shiny bald head and have to change up my prescription glasses every now and then for a different look.

      But then again, I only have to shave. Nothing more involved. It’s a very easy to maintain style, this genetic baldness thing.

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    It is the right of younger generations to confuse older gens with their style and older ones to be confused/offended by them. A tale as old as time.

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    Teenagers have had broccoli hair for the past 5 years. It’s boring. Invent a new fad already, I want a new thing to make fun of

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    The Suebian knot, a common hair style 2000 years ago. I'll take the broccoli over that.

    But I'll like the viking hair styles more.

    But I’m just a lazy fuck with a common ponytail because I don’t want to visit a hairdresser every few months.

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      Is that viking hair cut even real or just some invention for movies and TV shows?

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        That’s real. Vikings did a lot of breading and added beads to beards and hair. They also sometimes shaved the sides and had asymmetric haircuts too. We know the hair styles from their graves. The length of hair varied. They let them grow out and cut them when they were long enough. You could do a lot of things with such long hair.

        The viking hair styles you see in the movies are mostly real.

        But vikings did not have dreadlocks. They probably didn’t know about them.
        This is wrong:

        And this is wrong too:

        They also often wore necklaces and wristbands with runes made of silver, iron or wood. Something like this:

        This was to either show your wealth or as an amulet. The futhark (runes) were not just an alphabet they also were magical characters. Each rune had its own special meaning.
        For example ᚠ (fehu, engl. cattle) stood for wealth, abundance and security. You wore that rune if you wanted that. And smiths added runes to tools and weapons to add magical powers to them.