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To dislike someone largely based on their hair?

48 replies

HereHairFear · 22/04/2008 18:55

Ok so I realise that this sounds unreasonable instantly.

But you don't understand.

This woman has hair like you see in american films when someone shows their yearbook photo.

It's a short mullet, long over the ears, with a kind of frosted highlighting that means it has no actual colour - they've picked non colour for the tint, over a kind of mouse, so the effect is not colour, but a kind of a texture. The texture of everything that was wrong and bad about the 80's.

When I see her hair I feel fear. And she wears her hair with stone washed jeans for casual, and a shiny grey skirt suit for work.

Does she not see? it's 2008 for shits sake!

And I realise that this makes me an unbearably bad person, but really, if you could see, you'd know. You'd feel it too, I know you would.

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newgirl · 22/04/2008 20:16

she obviously wanted it badly in the 80s and now has it

the only answer is to move to london

HereHairFear · 22/04/2008 20:44

Yes. Maybe that will happen soon. I'll see her one more time at the school gates, something inside will just click and i'll run home to put the house on the market.

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Ilovenutella · 22/04/2008 20:53

London is an option - there are other places I could suggest but fear mobbing over MN. LOL when I needed it most. YANBU I would run for cover if I saw hair like that....... Does she have a mirror?

HereHairFear · 22/04/2008 22:01

Absolutely, she's immaculate. She wears very neatly applied makeup. her hair is rigid with hairspray. She just has no idea what this century could look like for her.

I think I also hate her for making my dd cry for shouting at her when she ate her chips with her fingers.

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FluffyMummy123 · 23/04/2008 12:24

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FluffyMummy123 · 23/04/2008 12:25

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Boco · 23/04/2008 12:25

bloody knew it.

FluffyMummy123 · 23/04/2008 12:26

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CatIsSleepy · 23/04/2008 12:28

LOL @ 'frosted freak show of a head'
you are being eminently R
mullets are unforgiveable

scampadoodle · 23/04/2008 12:33

YANBU (but then, I'm also extremely shallow )

Moving to London wouldn't help as here we have people so fashion-forward that they look ridiculous. There is a very stern-looking woman comes to our local playground who has a short fringed crop with trailing bits at the back - sort of 1980s-intellectual-eco-lesbian-feminist - & one of her sons has the same hairstyle! She's probably a lovely woman but her hair irritates/intimidates me.

Boco · 23/04/2008 12:37

I've told dp about her a few times and he just thought I was being silly, then he picked dd up from her house and he saw, and he was outraged. He came home and ranted about it which made me happy. We had a happy half an hour discussing the fact that it does not have a colour, only a texture.

cyteen · 23/04/2008 12:37

I got the Withnail and I reference, and it made me very jealous indeed

This woman sounds like my old boss - a cast iron megabitch with a mullet that would put Billy Ray Cyrus to shame. She was eventually sacked for shagging a City trader on the floor of the bar we all worked in, so perhaps after such a shaming incident she moved to the middle of nowhere to rebuild her mullet life?

Anyway, YABU to hate her based purely on her hair. Mockery, pity and scorn, however, are fine

FluffyMummy123 · 23/04/2008 13:18

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WendyWeber · 23/04/2008 13:22

Ooooh, am so pleased, I did not get the Withnail ref but knew it was you, Boco - do I get a prize? [proud smile]

(Or is spotting you like shooting fish in a barrel? [crestfallen])

PrimulaVeris · 23/04/2008 13:28

I know that I should draw myself up to full height and lecture on the Right Of A Woman to wear her hair how she likes, and your shallow judgement

But reading your posts - pmsl!

YANBU

Boco · 23/04/2008 13:36

No, jodhpur woman had long thick wild hair for riding horses with. This is business hair. For making calls and answering enquiries with.

DyeNasty · 23/04/2008 13:41

Jealousy is so unattractive in a lady.

Boco · 23/04/2008 13:50

Wendy i'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing really.

I may be mildly jealous of the steely glare and jutting chin, but NO WAY of the frosted mullet. No thank you.

DyeNasty · 23/04/2008 13:57

Don't fight it, darling. I would be happy to re-style you.

With a few tweaks and lots of frosting, you really could be quite pretty.

WaynettaSlob · 23/04/2008 13:59

I have got the image of a Jackie cover lady in my head, kind of Olivie NJ gone meets the one with the crap hair form Grease....

Boco · 23/04/2008 14:14

I'm scared of you dyenasty.

Waynetta you've got it. Or like someone who watched Working Girl a lot and decided that Melanie Griffiths had cracked.

Boco · 23/04/2008 14:14

..it. Cracked it. Not just cracked.

DyeNasty · 23/04/2008 15:50

Oh Boco, sweetie, I wouldn't hurt a fly.

Unless it got caught in my hairspray, of course.

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