No Monopoly on Silliness

ChrisM · Post by **ChrisM** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:42 pm

Well my brothers, I am pleased to see that the USA does not have a monopoly of Fashion Foolishness.

A couple of weeks ago I was left head-shaking when I found that the Washington Post had devoted..oh, it was really only a column-inch or so, but that was too much...to give credence to a cry that Men on the Metro (tube) Green Line are Wearing Their Trousers Too Short. Apparently somebody had - gasp - trousers that were a full inch or so above their shoes. Shock and awe!

But the balance is now level as I read my morning British press:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6453165.stm

Apparently a gent has parted his hair on the right for many years, and has recently switched to parting it on the left. Oh my Gosh! Has he lost his compass? Does this foreshadow a change in all his thinking? Is it some strange sexual claim or affirmation? (I'm not making these interpretations up - merely exaggerating them. Read the article for yourself.)

Ah me.

How silly.

Isn't it wonderful that we live in a society where we can worry about hair partings, or mens trouser length, or -shock-and-awe- men that might wear SKIRTS?!

<sigh>

I am reminded of The Amazing Wonko. Can I move outside the asylum some day?

All the best,

Chris

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:17 pm

I like the quote on the BBC story: "I was always led to believe that real men put their partings on the right hand side".

I've always wondered what makes a man 'real'

I part my hair on the left side and wear a skirt. Wonder what the media would make of that

Charlie

Departed Member · Post by **Departed Member** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:09 pm

Hair partings? Is it 'significant' whether you are left or right-handed as to how you part your hair, I wonder? I was brought up (in the good old days!) that a (real!) lad must part their hair on the left. How sad are these quasi-journalists.....................?

skirttron · Post by **skirttron** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:44 pm

Some people, I fear, find it very hard to think outside the small universe they grew up in. Such people will swear blind that their mother was the world's best cook and their home village the hub around which the world turns. I do hope "green" taxes on air travel do not make this worse than it already is. Long live globalisation: it is the main antidote to Deliverance-style boondock thinking.

Zorba · Post by **Zorba** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:58 pm

Hmmm.... I don't part my hair...

cessna152towser · Post by **cessna152towser** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:26 pm

I part my hair to my left, which is to your right if you're facing me. So does it really matter which way you part your hair? I think not.

ChristopherJ · Post by **ChristopherJ** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:43 am

I'm rapidly running out of hair to part!

Oh to be 22 again!

Post by **Milfmog** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:44 am

It makes no difference which side I part my hair, an hour or so later it will be lying with the natural parting on the left and nothing short of superglue (or a pair of clippers) will change that.

I can't say I've ever noticed my gender changing as my hair gets blown around though

Have fun,

Ian.

AndrewH · Post by **AndrewH** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:13 am

Milfmog wrote:It makes no difference which side I part my hair, an hour or so later it will be lying with the natural parting on the left and nothing short of superglue (or a pair of clippers) will change that.

Ian.

Quite. Those men with hair remaining will have a natural parting, just like they will be naturally left or right handed.

It may be that there is a distinctly larger number of men whose hair naturally parts on the right (like in the UK there are a greater number of righthanded people) - but insisting on a righthand parting is like my lefthanded wife being forced to right with her right hand at school!

Kilted_John · Post by **Kilted_John** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:25 pm

Can't remember when I last parted my hair. It's currently lower-back length and usually worn tied back.

-J

howard h · Post by **howard h** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:10 am

My hair's all but disappeared.

trainman · Post by **trainman** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:34 am

I haven't parted my hair since I had to start tying it back for work... But it parts on whatever side it wants to while I'm asleep!