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Astounded by mullets?

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80skid · 01/11/2023 21:29

I'm on holiday at a very British all inclusive abroad type holiday destination. It's all new to me, I've never had this type of holiday before. I'm astounded by the huge average BMI and lack of clothing of the majority of guests. The entitled poor manners is shameful. One man I was behind in the queue to the bar was aggressive with staff over their lack of understanding of his instruction of "no ice" but the issue was he was too drunk to understand there were 2 bar staff and he thought there was only one. I'm getting used to all of this poor behaviour but what has surprised me the most is the 3 generation family who all have matching mullet hair styles. That's male and female. I've never seen anything like it in real life in the 2000s. AIBU to find this all very unusual?

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AIstolemylunch · 02/11/2023 15:38

Massive in London too. Please be informed that its 'the modern mullet' so a much better cut than the original mullet and not quite such a drastic rectangle shape. Its actually a really good haircut for a teenage boy with curly hair as it keeps a mop under control a bit. Doesn't look quite a s good on dead straight hair imho. On that note, why has that changed? When I was a teenager the odd person had curly hair, now virtually all the teenage boys I see have curly hair, what is that about? Theyre not all getting perms surely?

I actually prefer the modern mullet to the only other apparent alternative of a the skin fade - looks a bit more footballer to me and need redone very other bloody week.

Once they made me belief that sliders and socks were a thing on holiday a few years back, nothing surprised me after that.

Bambooshoot · 02/11/2023 15:36

Everythinghasgonetoshit · 02/11/2023 09:56

What sort of mullets were they? Pat Sharpe? Nimahl? David Hasselhoff?

Do we have to wear a florescent shell suit to complete the look?

This! Are they feathered at the sides? (The horror, the horror!). I think I’d quite enjoy an all inclusive where everyone was fat and drunk. Not saying I’d fit right in, mind . . .

Thatsplentyjack · 02/11/2023 15:28

Think the mullet is really big in Australia at the moment..I have friends there and all the pics they post the guys and kids have mullets. Not sure about anywhere else.

SeaPool · 02/11/2023 15:26

This thread has made me hum Achy Breaky Heart.

Greenpolkadot · 02/11/2023 15:18

I had to Google a picture of a mullett.
My step gs's have these. It's what i call a thug hair cut.

TotalOverhaul · 02/11/2023 14:47

I love a youth with a mullet, they just make me smile especially if combined with a Shirley Temple perm.

@HopAPot - oh so you've met my son? Grin Though the Shirley Temple perm is entirely natural.

SeaPool · 02/11/2023 14:38

They're fashionable aren't they? The edgy vintage shops in Bath have rails of shiny 80s shell suits too OP if you're really eager to get the whole look together for your next all inclusive holiday.

HopAPot · 02/11/2023 14:29

I love a youth with a mullet, they just make me smile especially if combined with a Shirley Temple perm.

20 years time they’ll have a damn good chuckle over the pictures. Sadly the early 2000’s emo bangs that we have to look back on just aren’t quite as fun!

As for the rest, I’ve never noticed that on holiday, you must have chosen the wrong resort.

SleepingStandingUp · 02/11/2023 14:25

Next year op you need to finish with your own sort instead of going all inc going to pull a bit of rough

drickstie · 02/11/2023 14:21

Op reads like this "I went to a British all inclusive abroad type holiday destination and it was full of ghastly working class sorts! So dreadfully fat and uncouth they were that I couldn't possibly just mind my own business and enjoy my slummy hols, I just had to get on mumsnet to publicly judge and shame these people I don't even know, what japes!"

KeepJoggingOn · 02/11/2023 14:18

At last finally after so many years of long flat straight boring hair we have a different hairstyle.

Deathbyfluffy · 02/11/2023 14:16

MissyB1 · 01/11/2023 21:53

Did they travel in shell suits? Do they keep saying “calm down calm down” ? Do they have scouse accents?

I'd rather be a scouser than have your level of mental acuity!

TheHappyCarrot · 02/11/2023 14:15

Just realised AI means all inclusive, makes more sense than artificial intelligent holiday.

creativegoblin · 02/11/2023 14:08

Mullets are v fashionable currently and actually the norm in some Australian suburbs these days. The people there probably judged you in some way.

Elvis1956 · 02/11/2023 14:03

I think the mullet has reappeared for young men at least as some were tired of having to conform to a very rigid look or get bullied. So they just went for it.
Back in the 80s we had teddy boys/rockabillies, punks, skins, new wave, goths, mods, long haired rock fans, girls in the same class at school looking like the human league sat next to a Toyah lookalike. Now kids are scared to be different

Holidayhell22 · 02/11/2023 13:51

I’m all for long hair on men and boys but mullets? No they don’t look good. If you look good with a mullet you would look better with other hair styles. Each to their own I guess.

Fawbs89 · 02/11/2023 12:36

Sounds like your holiday is super fun if you're on MumsNet lol.

RedRobyn2021 · 02/11/2023 12:34

Not*

RedRobyn2021 · 02/11/2023 12:34

Fionaville · 01/11/2023 21:56

Mullets are in. Looking down on people and judging them is out.

Snobbery doesn't really work well, when you are clearly in the same income bracket, to be in the same hotel.

Oh come on, the whole family with the same haircut is in?

Is it really snobbery to be disgusted at the rudeness? I think now

TotalOverhaul · 02/11/2023 12:31

Mullets are very very in. DS works in high fashion and has had one for over a year. They are everywhere now.
@ghostyslovesheets the wolf cut is lovely. I'm tempted myself.

GCAcademic · 02/11/2023 12:29

postcardsfromitaly · 02/11/2023 09:36

Yet another disjointed bot post 😴

"ChatGPT, write a Mumsnet AIBU post as if I were the character Kate from Benidorm".

Sadly, AI doesn't have the gloriously lowbrow wit to replicate the scene with the turd in the swimming pool.

user14699084664 · 02/11/2023 10:23

yep - any self respecting youngster is sporting a mullet, seems to be that or a buzz cut in the rugby playing teenager!

TheYearOfSmallThings · 02/11/2023 10:23

OMG. This thread has just reminded me of a dream I had last night and had fully repressed - I went to get my hair cut and when I looked up, I had been given a full late 80s Mom Mullet. With a bit of a perm at the top bit.

HoppingPavlova · 02/11/2023 10:20

Yep, can confirm the mullet travesty is not just British, it’s worldwide. I honestly thought if there was something we would never have to live through again, it was the mullet. I was wrong. Hopefully it passes quickish.

AmiablePedant · 02/11/2023 10:17

The older people reading and posting here will be well aware that there is nothing new under the sun and that hair and clothing fashions cycle through again and again. I'm old enough to have seen multiple iterations of most styles from the 60's onward. Alas, it always seems to be the more unfortunate ones that reappear multiple times (I'm talking about you, crop tops and hipster jeans). I'm still waiting longingly for lovely pleated calf length skirts from the early 80's (along with well-made, non-baggy jumpers--and elegant shoes and boots that don't make your feet look like boats) to rise from the grave. I'm just grateful that the dread "feather cut" from the early 70's doesn't seem to have reappeared.