The Truth About Hair.

[Searcher08]

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Does that guy have a Swastika on his right foot?

Yes. I'm sure it's the Sanskrit / Hindi orginal symbol (kind of a good luck vibe) rather than Adolf's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

[Searcher08]

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brekin, I believe that we have established a Borg MindHive here at R.I.

[beeline]

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Does that guy have a Swastika on his right foot?

Yes. I'm sure it's the Sanskrit / Hindi orginal symbol (kind of a good luck vibe) rather than Adolf's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

I was gonna say...kind of incongruous on that fellah, he doesn't give off the white-supremacy vibe.

[beeline]

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I should add, in the spirit of the thread, I am the owner of a thick unibrow (unless my girlfriend waxes it, which is sometimes), but there are several strands of unibrow hair that, if left unchecked, will grow to at least 3"-4". I can pull them down from my eyebrow, over my eye, and touch my cheek. People have tried to swat the caterpillars from my forehead.

[brekin]

Searcher08 wrote:

brekin, I believe that we have established a Borg MindHive here at R.I.

Yes, we seem to have a special connection.



beeline wrote:

I should add, in the spirit of the thread, I am the owner of a thick unibrow (unless my girlfriend waxes it, which is sometimes), but there are several strands of unibrow hair that, if left unchecked, will grow to at least 3"-4". I can pull them down from my eyebrow, over my eye, and touch my cheek. People have tried to swat the caterpillars from my forehead.

My hair length has gone up and down. One time after growing it out for two years I went to the Mall to get it cut short to a
Joe Normal cut. A guy walking by stopped when he saw me getting in the chair and said incredulously, "Don't do it Man, you'll lose your power. That's what happened to me." I didn't say anything, just giggled. He shook his head and walked off.

[Searcher08]

Searcher08 wrote:

brekin, I believe that we have established a Borg MindHive here at R.I.

Yes, we seem to have a special connection.



beeline wrote:

I should add, in the spirit of the thread, I am the owner of a thick unibrow (unless my girlfriend waxes it, which is sometimes), but there are several strands of unibrow hair that, if left unchecked, will grow to at least 3"-4". I can pull them down from my eyebrow, over my eye, and touch my cheek. People have tried to swat the caterpillars from my forehead.

My hair length has gone up and down. One time after growing it out for two years I went to the Mall to get it cut short to a
Joe Normal cut. A guy walking by stopped when he saw me getting in the chair and said incredulously, "Don't do it Man, you'll lose your power. That's what happened to me." I didn't say anything, just giggled. He shook his head and walked off.

IN the 70s, I was hitching round California one summer and decided to grow my hair. I had a vision of turning into a Robert Plant style mane, which obviously would have given any air guitar an extra authenticity.

So, after four months....?

Aspires to


Achieves:

[Simulist]

Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) should never have cut his hair.

Very interesting OP.

[Saurian Tail]

Urban legend?

[justdrew]

Long hair annoys me, I don't like how it feels on my neck, yet I've worn it long these last few years. In fact, it's annoying me right now.

try an undercut in the back. best of both worlds.

(no idea how I remembered that )

[Avalon]

I've had hair going up and down in length from shoulders to waist for about 50 years. I've prefered my lovers to have hair rather than not. But I think you're just romanticizing it, and it may even be getting to the Noble Savage point.

[Bruce Dazzling]

Very interesting.

The first thing that came to my mind was the phenomenon of hairs standing on end in times of stress, anxiety, and fight or flight.

Unfortunately for me, people often say I look like this cat:



No Samson-like Native American tracking powers for me...

[AlicetheKurious]

Thanks for posting this, barracuda. I was feeling disturbed at how Egyptian men seem to be sprouting hair all around me, especially beards. Beards were strongly discouraged under the Mubarak regime, and a man could be pulled off the street and beaten just for having one, or at least harassed, by the security forces. Since the revolution some, but not all the new beards are popping up on the faces of religious fundamentalists -- the trend includes many Christians, especially young ones, along with Leftists and Liberals and anarchists, etc..

I have a question, though, that the article doesn't address: what about women who cover up their hair under a scarf or wig?

[Nordic]

One time, when I was a younger man, I had something lined up that was going to be a real life-changer (so I thought). It was a Big Deal.

I'd been growing my hair longer and longer ..... and just before the Big Deal became real, when the train would leave the station and there would be no stopping it .......?

I got my hair cut.

And the deal fell apart. It went away.

Since then I've been quite superstitious about my hair.

I've had some pretty long hair in the past. When I was about 12 or 13, all my male peers grew their hair as long as we could. It was the early 70's. I was living in Germany, on a military base, where plenty of the military brats were, basically, hippies, in a big city (Frankfurt), where there were plenty of hippies. Mine was platinum blond, and glossy and thick. It was beautiful. Occasionally a woman would stop me in the street, stroke my hair, and rave about how beautiful my hair was. I would be horrified. Once some creepy old men at a carnival started accosting my friend and me, coming up to us and stroking our hair, saying something in German. We were horrified. But we kept our hair.

Moving back to the United States, I found myself in a small provincial town in Wisconsin. Nobody there looked like me. I was a freak. I went to a family reunion in Missouri, all farm people. Some old guy walked up to my Dad and said "hey Ralph, those your two daughters there?" They thought I was a girl.

Finally. I decided to cut my hair. And I had the worst year of my life.

Back to the Big Deal, the Project That Would Change Everything. We started over. We nurtured that seedling along. It grew. Finally we got back to the point where it might actually happen again. I did not cut my hair. I made a deal with myself I would not cut my hair until the damn thing was finished. And it happened. We got the funding, we did the deal. I thought I was in the clear.

I cut my hair.

Everything went to shit. A truly evil son of a bitch nearly destroyed everything. He's the only person I've ever actually wanted to kill. He wrecked it, and the thing that Could Have Changed Everything didn't really change much of anything.

I grew my hair again. Looking back, I wasn't doing that badly, but at the time I thought I was failing miserably. I cut my hair. It got worse.

At some point I gave up. I started to look awful with long hair. My hairline pulled back, the hair would still grow but would be scraggly, with no life. People would tell me I looked so much younger when I would cut my hair. That seemed important.

Things went not so well.

Now? I wish I could grow long hair and not look 15 years older than I am. When my hair is short I look five years younger than I am. My vanity does not know what to do.

But I hate long hair. It's a pain in the ass. Except in cold climates, where it's nice to grow it thickly in the back to warm my neck.

Hair.

Why do I want to fuck women with long hair? I have what is very nearly a hair fetish. Long hair on a woman is one of the biggest turn-ons there is. I've found myself watching Wen infomercials late at night because it's all beautiful photography of women with beautiful long hair. And the longer the better, down to the knees is perfect but oh so rare. Down to the ass is absolute heaven. Just yesterday I saw a UCLA girl walking down the street in Westwood with the most perfect ass-long hair. She was unbelievably stunning and would have been without the long hair, but with it she was a damn sex goddess, absolute perfection.

Can I explain this? No.

Hair is a big deal.

[82_28]

Haha. Perhaps, slightly overboard, a touch, but I loved that story, Nordic.

Here's what I've been doing at least the past ten years. I buzz my hair once per year and then just let it grow. Once per year. I am in growth phase right now, as I buzzed it in March.

I was wondering about fingernails today too.

[elfismiles]

Don't forget the Merovingians...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merovingian_dynasty

They were sometimes referred to as the "long-haired kings" (Latin reges criniti) by contemporaries, for their symbolically unshorn hair (traditionally the tribal leader of the Franks wore his hair long, as distinct from the Romans and the tonsured clergy).

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The deposed Merovingian was sent into a monastery, bereft of his symbolic long hair.

I vaguely recall a Fortean Times article which mentioned that they felt their divine power was connected to their long hair.