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Old 11 July 2007, 03:11 AM
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Comment: I had heard a rumor of gangs of teenagers who, upon finding a man
old enough to be a Baby Boomer sporting either a pony-tail or a mullet,
would jump him, hold him down, take out hair clippers and give him a buzz
cut. This was supposed to be happening in Los Angeles.
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Old 11 July 2007, 08:54 PM
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I really wish this was true. So I could join.
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Old 11 July 2007, 08:56 PM
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The guys on Jackass frequently sneak up on one another with clippers and gap up their hair. I could see people doing something similar.
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Old 11 July 2007, 10:17 PM
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If it's bald in front it needs to be short in back. They either need an interesting combover or a big getoverit. Mullets, no matter how much hair is up front, need to be gone.
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Old 12 July 2007, 02:49 AM
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I really wish this was true. So I could join.

If it's bald in front it needs to be short in back. They either need an interesting combover or a big getoverit. Mullets, no matter how much hair is up front, need to be gone.

It would be a public service really.
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Old 12 July 2007, 03:16 AM
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Really? You think it is okay to physically assault someone because you don't like the way they wear their hair?
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Old 12 July 2007, 03:22 PM
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Really? You think it is okay to physically assault someone because you don't like the way they wear their hair?
In my imagination, possibly, in RL no hence the .
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My first thought--I kid you not--was whether they asked themselves, "Is this person old enough to have been born prior to 1965?" They vote...

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If there's one thing I hate in modern western culture it is hair fascists. I thought we got over the 'Ohmigodamanwithhairpasthiscollarhesawitch' phase some time in the mid to late 60's.

And people? Unless the members of Wings killed your family, this mullet-rage is unfounded. This, if it's real, is a horrible thing to do to anybody, as bad if not worse than violent assault. (YMMV, but I would take a few kicks over losing my prescious hair any day.)

Why is this 'acceptable'? What would you say if people were mugging people whose faces they didn't like and giving them impromptu nose jobs? What if they were giving black people the Michael Jackson treatment by force?

*Loves her mullet*

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Old 12 July 2007, 06:36 PM
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This thread reminds me of the time we changed "KILL THE MULLET" at a wrestling show. The guy went backstage and told another wrestler that we knew, "Man, I don't know what I did to those guys." It was pretty funny.

Oh, I had one when I was a kid btw.
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If there's one thing I hate in modern western culture it is hair fascists. I thought we got over the 'Ohmigodamanwithhairpasthiscollarhesawitch' phase some time in the mid to late 60's.

And people? Unless the members of Wings killed your family, this mullet-rage is unfounded. This, if it's real, is a horrible thing to do to anybody, as bad if not worse than violent assault. (YMMV, but I would take a few kicks over losing my prescious hair any day.)

Why is this 'acceptable'? What would you say if people were mugging people whose faces they didn't like and giving them impromptu nose jobs? What if they were giving black people the Michael Jackson treatment by force?

*Loves her mullet*

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I'm with you on this. I actually considered refusing the draft and going to jail rather then losing my hair. I didn't, but it's all grown back by now.
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