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Well folks,
This is the pciture of Matt & Gunnar Nelson at Detroit on June 6, 1999.
The world must be coming to an end.
Charles
Quick (Chin wobble)... Pass the bottle of Jack Daniels... I need a hit bad... No, I think I need to have a cup of tea and a good lie down... GUNNAR! Waddya done to me!
(Chin wobble)... First my boyfriend cuts his hair and now you?!
Quick guys, send some nice (tasteful) pictures of you so I can breathe again!
Help the needy!!
Angee
P.S. Does anyone know of a possible way I could convince my boyfriend (who cut his lumbar-length hair off about a year ago and I still haven't recovered) to grow it again? (Don't say get a grip. I'm trying.)
Dear Angie,
Well, tell him if he does not stop cutting his hair and allow it to grow you will leave him and don't him suggested it or else he will virtually kill me.
Meanwhile enjoy this pics of Gil Ofarim and I hope it works better than a bottle of Jack Daniels.
One slihjt problem though. I believe Gil lives in Sweden and he turns 18 in about a years time he could get called up for military service and ........... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!
Regards
Charles
Gil lives in Germany - Munich, I think.
Yes, I just checked out web sites on him. He was born in Munich and lives there with his family, though I believe almost all countries in continental Europe, including Germany, have military service, though perhaps not so much now.
I also believe that some of these countries allow the person to opt for social service as an alternative.
Anyway, I've seen a TV programme which featured conscripts in the Netherlands and the soldiers looked like hippies -- long hair, peace symbols and so on.
Wouldn't mind serving in the Dutch army.
Regards
Charles
Relax!
He has the option of doing "civil" service i.e. social work instead of military service.
Munich is the capital of Bavaria with lots of longhairs thriving in it.
The Gil Ofarim pics show how handsome and natural looking it is for a boy to have long hair. I can't understand this current trend among the young to cut their hair short.
Dear Gary,
If men and boys were not supposed to have long hair, our hair would simply not grow long due to biological constraints.
I think it comes from the Victorian period. Prior to that great men had long hair -- Isaac Newton, Boyle, Pascal, Einstien and more.
Charles
Charles,
I suppose that the shearing males went through in the Victorian age was related to the association between martial verility and the short hair necessitated by conscription and the battle tactics of that time.
However, today there is no such reason for short hair and I am perplexed by the tenacity by which short hair lives on, especially in the youth. After all, the young Mr. Ofarim shows how great a young man will look with long hair,
Gary
Dear Gary,
That is a British concept of "martial verility." I'm sure Braveheart and the Vikings were a heck of a lot more martially verile than Queen Victoria's shorthaired troops.
BTW. Ancient Chinese general had long hair too -- very long hair.
Charles
It's time we have a new Victorian period, one in which we emulate Victor in Texas!
Great one Bill, Great one. Lets elect Victor Engle as Supreme Hair, while you can be the the Grand Vizier of Hairological Affairs.
Charles
they were never true long hairs they ust grew there hair long for fame and money
I guess you are right and I wonder whether they did so because of Nelson senior?
Charles
If the world is coming to an end because the Nelsons cut their hair, for god sakes, then we're all in MUCH worse trouble than I ever imagined.
But anyway, answer me this: why is it that a man who chooses to grow his hair long -- which honestly takes no actual effort, you just don't cut it -- is thought to be demonstrating the strength of his convictions but the man who chooses to cut off his long hair -- which is a drastic, some would say life-changing decision, as the collective horror and condemnation of the Nelsons indicates -- has no convictions whatsoever? Are we not more than our hair?
On the contrary Devils' Advocate, in the current climate of discrimination against men with longhair as far as employment goes, as well as the trouble required to care for it, keeping longhair requires more conviction than keeping short hair.
In fact, I have sometimes thought that if longhair was totally accepted by society and it becomes mainstream. More longhairs will cut their hair because it means nothing any more.
Charles