Remember long hair before short hair came into style?

It's going back to long again, but I remember a time when buzz cuts were rare.

We all used to end up sitting in a circle then, but that's another thing . . . precious memories though,

Today, men with shorter hair tend to be republican. Look at GOP congressmen. All the same style: short with a perfect part on the left side and blooped over to the right. Democrat: longer, sometimes shaggy, and rarely a part on the left side. Dem men tend to let their gray hair show, while pubs dye their hair like crazy (ironic since Saddam was such a glaring example of a dye-freak).
Women: shorter, "butchier" hair is favored by lots of dem women, while GOP/rightie women have the "christian-post 1982 look - longer, curlier & styled.
Hope this isn't too much of a generalization.

so much as which hand is dominant. Right handed men (and women who part their hair on one side) tend to part their hair on the left, while the lefties part it on the right. Needless to say there are many more left-sided parts than right-sided parts.

About 85-92% of the population is right handed.

barber. The one who cuts evangelists' hair or used car salesmen.

Howya been, NoSheep? Remember me? :hi:

Lasher

The part is really a comb-over to try and hide the bald spot

I would look rather stupid with short hair since my jawline is wide. But I don't have the Aqua-netted Christian poof either. LOL!

It seemed like 1978-'79 everyone sort of snapped back. There was the drug testing thing and the phony family values posturing of the GOP.

I got the sense that folks wanted to LOOK like a 'straight', kinda respectable, establishment, non-threatening stuff.. That could have been because I was trying so hard to NOT look 'straight'.

There was the new wave and punk thing going on which generated a lot of shorter styles.

But, I looked around and there were no little huddles of folks lighting up which used to be where I got my 'culture'. We were stoned, but we were peaceful, communal teens who loved nature as much as we loved out trusty woods and our fields. Anyone remember field parties where we would take over a field at a dance or event and you could see dozens of little circles light up everytime someone lit up? Not much of that these days. Or is there?

Seemed like there was a push from the conservatives in power in the '80's to brush us off as 'moonies' and losers. I guess it was hard for the next generations to maintain the rebellion we all exercised then. We got so much freedom from pushing the limits.

It has been curious and mostly wonderful to see the long hair come back, although I'm sure there are plenty of reasons which don't mesh with my own experiences . . . and have nothing at all to do with politics.

here's me now (what a mess!):






BTW, I posted this in the wrong forum by mistake. It needs to be in the lounge where I intended it to go before I crashed.

I cant remember if he was "stay the course" or "cut and run."
LOL

Every aspect of your personality, whether it's the way you dress or which hand you use to scratch your ass is inherently political, and if you happen to do it wrong, you're out of the party.

Not that youd care about that, richie. :P

that was in, like, the stone age, right?

:7

BTW, I wear mine pretty tight (I take it down with a #2) and it parts on the left.

No part at all.

And I don't care what any asswipe would-be fashion critic has to say about it... I miss my mullet.

Here's a couple of pics I just took of myself on the webcam.






:hi:

Back then lots of the Republics had crew cuts or flat tops. Many of us young Democrats were 'long hairs' to them. They even preached in church that it was wrong for a man to have long hair or a beard - and the preacher would be standing right beside a picture of Jesus.

Some of the older folks disapproved of the way I looked but the chicks was diggin' me!

Peace, it's still a good idea. :hippie:

Have been since 2004.I find that it is a great freeper detector.For some reason it tends to annoy them so I keep it long.
As far as I am concerned,anyone with a short buzz cut is probably either a Nazi skinhead piece of shit or a religious wack-a-doodle.Both groups can eat shit as far as I'm concerned.

Some one posted what sounds like a quote from a movie or something the other day that went sorta like this:"long hair is my cosmic radar detector.It allows me to pick-up bad vibes.It also explains why bald guys are so uptight."
This is not an exact quote as posted but it covers the gest of it.

As an added bonus,the girls sure like running their hands thru it. :P :evilgrin:


PEACE :hippie:

Freeps are so latent...it arouses them. That's what it is, they can't deal with that shit, everything has to be completely controlled.

So many women love long hair on men. I hope other guys will take your direction and let their's grow too.

First time I changed my hair style since about 1966.

I'm diggin' it. :smoke:

A crew cut? Hmmm...

I'll see if I can steal a pic with a digital camera for ya. :hi:

In the meantime, here's an artist's rendering:

:D

I like the artist's rendering, too, BTW - it's hot. ;)

My goatee is about 4 inches long. :D

Total drug-crazed hippy freak!

People I hardly know touching me.... :scared:

Nothing political. Whenever my wife starts complaining I look like an insane mountain man (and I do sometimes) then I cut my hair, #3 for my face, #9 for everything else.

Ah, those were the days. Once I retire, I'm going to look like Forrest Gump near the end of his running period.

I'd love to be able to afford a haircut, but I can't right now. So I'm hair-farming.

I want some laws enacted now, that you can't be a musician without having your hair at least at your shoulders. It's one thing that hinders me from getting into bands that are playing today, the hair is all short. It's like, nooo...put down the black dye and the product and just let it grow!

and it grew and grew, down to my ass at one point, since then it's gone short, long, short, long. Bald for basic, then long again when they tossed my ass.
Now, I'm keeping it short for my wife she says it's like kissing a woman when my hair is long, if I had my way it'd be back to my shoulders anyway.

"like kissing a woman"?

dude, I'm sorry.

He fell asleep in class the other day. He said our class was like "the Navy, except without all the brainwashing." He smells like cigarettes.

*shakes head* Not really sure where I'm going with this...

In Jr. High at this very religious school I went to the adults talked on and on about how long hair was...um, sinful or something. Didn't matter that Jesus' painting on the walls had long brown hair. What I don't get is young guys with a head full of nice healthy hair would want to shave it off bald.

In Jr. High at this very religious school I went to the adults talked on and on about how long hair was...um, sinful or something. Didn't matter that Jesus' painting on the walls had long brown hair. What I don't get is young guys with a head full of nice healthy hair would want to shave it off bald.

Even his eyelashes are really long.

My dad said that once, when he was in grammar school, the principal threw him against a wall for not getting a haircut. :wtf:

Long eyelashes....la de da! Yes, I can relate what happened to your dad. I knew guys from my high school days who'd be called girls because of their long hair. Did you ever see the (old!!) movie, "Hair" and Treat Williams' beautiful long dark hair. I bet your dad will remember it.

I haven't had a haircut since January. It's in that stage where it's a pain to deal with so I wear a cap most of the time, but I've grown it out a couple of times before and know that it eventually gets better. I may get it trimmed on the bottom eventually (all the layers are different lengths because I'm growing it out from a short cut) because I'll be looking for a new job in January, but I'm hoping I'll be able to hold on and make it long hair again. I really like having long hair (It's as if I don't feel like myself w/o it; silly as that is, since I went the first seventeen years, in addition to a couple of years recently, w/o it!) and I wish it was more common, too. I certainly understand the short hair urge, mostly for the convenience of dealing with it, but I think long hair can help to communicate so much more about yourself.

Growing it out this time (the first time I grew it was six years ago) I notice more (mostly young or young-ish) guys with shaggy or longish hair than I did the first time, but true long hair is still a definite rarity. The first time I grew it out (2000-2001) I think must have been about the worst time for a guy to grow his hair out since the early sixties! That was when all the guys who had had sort-of long, parted down the middle haircuts traded them in for those short, spiky "boy band" 'do's. I swear I was the only guy in my graduating class who didn't have that particular 'do; it was pretty surreal! Anyway, I have no idea why I started rambling about this. I do find how hairstyles relate to the society of a time and whatnot pretty interesting. I know many say their hair isn't trying to communicate anything (and I have said the same at different times myself) but I do think it's interesting how certain looks really do seem to correspond with certain eras in terms of their politics, societal ways, and whatnot.

'80s

There was this dominate generation who had rules about such things. We completely broke these folks down. My own father would come home from work, take off his suit and tie, and put on another suit and tie to go shopping. By the end of the '70s though, he was actually wearing blue jeans and a sweater in public. We upset their world, cheated. They were pissed. It felt good to piss them off. So many things that had been sacrosanct for centuries were challenged from behind our long hair. Certainly the Vietnam war (before my teenage years), there were the ERA, and No Nukes rallies. Earth Day. Our music was a rebellion, flowing from behind our long hair. Maybe it was Jesus-like; biblical. Or maybe it harkened back to the colonial era of revolution and the birth of our democracy. But, we certainly felt empowered by our differences with the 'establishment'. And we really did use those terms which seem like cliche's today. Our peace sign and our long hair weren't just abstract symbols, they represented a commitment to a different lifestyle, a different reality or awareness. We truly believed we would achieve some separate and different reality. Maybe we did. Things are certainly different. More expressive. More reactive. And, we certainly have a choice of lifestyles which are not challenged from as many quarters as we had to contend with back then. We seemed freer back then, I suppose, because we, and the world, were so naive about the impact of our pushing of boundries. I don't think we ever imagined so much diversity that would eventually develop behind long haired folks. There are so many different motivations behind so many issues and concerns.

I started growing my hair about 10 years ago after our company sentout a memo saying we could wear long hair in a ponytail. I was due for a haircut, so, I pulled what I had together and it formed this tiny clump that I was able to fasten a rubberband to. Before I cut it, folks called me sir. Almost everyone I encountered. Now almost everyone calls me dude, or man. I couldn't be happier with my long hair. It is still a statement, and a rebellion of sorts. I can't really qualify why without becoming too critical and too general about other choices. But, I'm definitely letting my freak flag fly for a reason. It feels right . . . for me, now.

and since I part it on the side if I let it go too long between cuts (I should get it cut every two weeks) it looks like some sort of straighthaired white boy fro. Like big 70's guy hair.

then there's the fact that the top of my hair thinned over the years I've been growing it.

I do remember the parted fro. I had a pick at one point. The photographs!!! The Horror!!!!