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I was browsing Wikipedia the other day, as one does when bored, and came across an... interesting link. I guess long hair is a clear sign of capitalist decadence! Also, I did a mental "what the?" when I read their reasoning for opposing long hair. Surely long hair requires just as much nutrients as short hair? Maybe even less, as you don't need to use up energy cutting it!
I'll just say I'm glad I live in the West. Pressure from family may be tough at times, but it's still easier to handle than being arrested.
An almost ridiculously clear case of the conformist mindset. If people are actually allowed to look the way they want [gasp!], then that might lead to people actually thinking for themselves!!! Doesn't the absolute horror of it give you chills?!?! [insert sound of dripping sarcasm]
I find it interesting that they would argue that long hair takes nutrients from the rest of the body in order to grow. Anybody with the smallest ammount of common sense would know that it's going to grow, regardless of the length. But what would you expect from a society that depends on conformity? It's just another way for their government to show dominance. Sort of like an article I read on here awhile back about men's hair in the corporate world in the West. The article suggested it was a sort of dominance/subservience mentality. But yes I am quite glad to live in an area where we can choose to look how we want, even if it is often seen as rebellious.
I've seen that before, ridiculous. Kim Jong-Il is one sick little man. He got so mad when he was watching soccer and noticed some of the players with rather long hair and immediately made a law against it.
North Korea, from everything I've heard is one of the darkest places to exist on the planet.
If ever there was a country that needed be be nuked...
Paul
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I agree, Paul. He is a nut case. Also he and his country is in the dark literally and figuratively. (see photo)
Scott
I've got that picture as a desktop "wall paper" on one of my computers. Click the image for the full size version.
- Oren
You would think that South Korea is an island if you look at that picture.
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A Linus Longhair
It's a carbon-offset goldmine! LOL.
Oh bite me, it was a joke.
Paul
Eric
Are your barrettes pink or yellow?
Paul
They're red, to match someone's neck!
Eric
Oh, thought of something else to say did you? Don't you just hate when that happens? You know, think of something better after you've already spoken? Sucks huh?
So I'm a redneck? Maybe because I'm from ALABAMA? We all know just being anywhere from the south makes you a Redneck by itself. Though some may consider that in itself to be prejudice.
(But lets be clear on that often misused word;
prej·u·dice (prµj“…-d¹s) n. 1.a. An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts.)
Maybe it's because of my rather bitter sense of humor in suggesting we bomb North Korea because of it's horrid leadership. Lots of non-rednecks might jokingly pop off something similar. Nobody likes North Korea.
Lets define Redneck;
red·neck (rµd“nµk”) n. Offensive. Slang. 1. One who is regarded as having a provincial, conservative, often bigoted sociopolitical attitude.
I am not conservative. I'm "left" on almost every debated topic except guns. There I lean to the far right. I'm not a bigot either, I just don't like wimps.
Paul
Out of the racist frying pan, into the sexist oven. :)
Me? Nah, I'm a feminist. :)
Soon my wife will be making the same or more than me and I'll be happy to share the load. She just graduated to be a teacher.
My wife took the pic by the way, I must be doing something right to be allowed such a long leash. This was my birthday lunch last year.
Mr. Eric didn't seen to realize he could have twisted it into something "sexist" I guess. Maybe he was too fired up over his beloved North Korea to think straight.
Paul
Hey, why didn't you tell me you were sexist??? LOL.
**Nuke away** (by the way, this is a joke. I do not wish for N. Korea to be bombed because of all the innocent people that live there).
Oh sweet, I'm the worst of the worst! I can't remember... do women even have heads?
Lol, I'm so glad you put that disclaimer behind the JOKE just in case someone might not "get it".
"I'm just so offended by all the harsh language and violence on this board I don't know if I can go on... oh god, I'm fainting!"
Looks like we have alot in common. I do often have something better to say after I say something. Seems to happen quite often. I like being able to think better.
Concerning North Korea, I don't like the government there at all. I'm sure that if I meet some of the people there, I would find several friends, so I take issue with your comment that: "Nobody likes North Korea" I don't think "bombing" innocent civilians will solve anything, though, and suggesting a nuclear attack on them I happen to think is quite offensive. I happen to also believe that people have a right to bear arms, particularly when it comes to forming a militia.
I, too do not like "wimps", I also do not like "bullies". I also do not like the use of crude vulgarities in public forums, where children can be present.
And as for your comments about the South and Alabama, my mother's family is from Forest City, Arkansas, so don't assume I have any bigoted notions about Southern people.
Your problems with gender identification concerning the way people wear their hair are quite foolish, and hypocritical, seeing that you, yourself would often be taken as female by someone looking at your back. They wouldn't be able to see your manly beard, and identify your proper gender.
This bulletin board had higher standards of politness in the past, and it is regretful that crudity has become the norm.
Frankly, I really don't give a rats A** what offends you and we have nothing in common.
First you condemn for for a joke about nuking North Korea then you call me; a "redneck", a "bully", "offensive", crude", "foolish" and finally a "hypocrite". The only thing I said about you is to "insinuate" that you're a wimp. I think that puts you way ahead in the "hypocrite" department. And you see yourself as polite? Lol!
Before I write in the rest of what I'm thinking, I have some questions;
1 What crude vulgarities are you talking about? I didn't cuss at all, I just asked you what color your barrettes are. Again, no sense of humor.
2 I'm a Bully? You started it.
3 And what do you know about this bulletin board? I've been here over a year and don't remember seeing you at all until this month. It's "Men's Long Hair Hyperboard". "Men" implies adult, mature, grown up. You don't know your butt from a hole in the ground.
You should have know what I said was a joke but you were dim to get it... or are you? Really I think you've been waiting for a chance. You didn't like what I said about barrettes (and you did press me to elaborate).
The only reason you put up that post (about barrettes) in the first place is to get some negative comment about them so you'd know who to go after. Hi. (Wave)
Yeah, that's right, I'm sick of self righteous narcissists like yourself. Your one of those people who stand on a pedestal and look down your nose at everyone else. Did you notice no one else was offended by my joke, only you. And here you are still, riding it into the ground. Jeeze, you really are a wimp.
And by the way, smart boy, my best friend in high school was half Korean. He thinks we should nuke them too.
Paul
They can be any color you want them to be. Why don't you come over to my house and put them in for me ?
Eric
Where do you live?
Paul
Boston, Massachusetts. If you're ever going to be around the area, look me up and we'll have a great time.
No, I'll have a good time.
BTW, that's an invitation, absolves fault in most states.
Paul
as a jellyfish. Your hair grows at the same rate whether you cut it or not, which means it requires the same nutrients if kept short or long.
He is a total idiot if he thinks that this can possibly be true. He isn't even smart enough to feed his own people. Many there are starving, and N. Korea is in the dark at night due to limited electricity production.
Scott
It reminds me of that hilarious movie "Team America - World Police"... At the end of the movie Kim Jong Il is revealed to be a cockroach-like alien who escapes in a spaceship when things go bad for him. The Madagascar hissing roach that "played" that part had certainly more brains than Kim...
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A Linux Longhair
..Such a funny movie, this just reminds me that I need to watch it again soon.. :D
More than 20 years ago I was living in a country whose "beloved leader" wanted to transform that country in another North Korea.
In the summer of 1971 the Romanian Communist Party secretary general Nicolae Ceausescu visited China - ruled at that time by Chairman Mao - and North Korea, which was ruled by Kim Il Sung, the father of the current leader. A few weeks later, during a party convention, he announced a set of measures for the "improvement of ideology and propaganda work" inspired by what he saw in China and N.Korea. In short it amounted to a "cultural revolution" a la Chinese.
Among the measures taken by Ceausescu were the shunning of most elements of Western "decadent" culture - modern pop and rock music was banished from the radio and TV and the wearing of some clothing items, especially jeans, was outright banned.
Men who chose to let their hair grow were often harassed by the police and forced to cut their hair by the party secretaries at their workplace. Schools had very strict policies as well - boys were not allowed to have hair longer than 5 cm (2 inches) and uniforms were mandatory, in some school districts even after the school hours. Beards were banned in may jurisdictions by the local authorities.
In the summer of 1974 I had graduated high school and I finally was able to grow my hair longer. I was chased several times by police while riding my bicycle in and around Bucharest. That summer's score: police - 0 inches of my hair, me - 2 squad cars (one stalled in 2 ft of water and mud under a railroad overpass and another one stuck in a ditch hidden by weeds) and 4 very p****d policemen...
A few years later I was harassed at my workplace by the party secretary. They wanted to get rid of me - until they realized that I was the only person in that division who knew computer programming and I was essential for the projects I was working on. It did help also that I did much of that work on my home-built computer, which would have to go together with me...
During the 1980s I was often harassed by the police, who, among other things, canceled my ID card a couple of times. I managed to get a new one (with long hair in the picture) every time by bribing the clerks who issued these documents at the local police department.
Another relevant episode from that time: during a hike in a remote area in the Southern Carpathians I hitched a ride on a dump truck that was working on a hydroelectric power plant construction site. The driver appreciated my long hair and said that he wished to let his grow as well, but the workplace had a policy banning long hair on men. I asked him what was the reason for this policy in that remote place. He told me that the local authorities didn't want the local people to be exposed to "decadent" influences and they had also banned the construction workers to play pop music on their cassette players or watch foreign (read American and West-European) movies on VCR.
I left that "socialist paradise" in 1988. The following year, on December 22, 1989, Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife were forced to flee by helicopter from the roof of the Romanian Communist Party Central Committee building in Bucharest after several days of popular revolt that started in Timisoara in Western Romania, got out of control and spread to Bucharest and other cities. They were captured a few hours later in a town about 80 miles from Bucharest and executed, after a show trial, on December 25th - I, and many others, would have preferred to see them put through a proper trial and sentenced to life in prison in the same conditions as we lived in during their rule...
I haven't cut my hair since 1987 and I grew a beard after 1988...
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A Linux Longhair
Amazing story man. And we think we put up with a lot over here.
Honesty, I don't know if I could have hung in there.
Salute,
Paul
Great story! Thanks a ton for sharing this.
- Oren
Yep--I read about this a couple of years ago. So much for the workers owning the means of production... ;-P Ol' Kim needs to read up on Eugene Debs!