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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby rainbowbanana on Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:50 pm

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rainbowbanana wrote:so today, i went into walmart (cause its got fun, cheap stuff :) ) and i had my black chunky install with my undercut. i love it so much! but this dude comes up to me out of nowhere and runs his hand through my hair and says "what the **** is this?" i was sooooooo pissed. its one thing to ask something about my hair or insult it (im used to it). but a completely different thing to TOUCH me. i was highly upset. :evil: he better be glad im not ghetto enough to pull out a straight razor and cut him. :lol: but instead i just pushed his hand out of my hair and said "what the hell are you doing!? dont touch my head! dont touch ME! now get out of my face!" and stormed off. but im ok now. when i look back on it, i think it was kind of funny. especially the way he shrunk back when i started yelling at him. :D

:shock: HOW RUDE!!!

I would have slapped him. I don't understand why people think just because you're crazy or alternative looking (I'm not calling you crazy by the way :lol: ) you want people to touch you...it's ridiculous!


it was really upsetting. i know, right!? :lol: i hate when people invade my private space when i would never dare to enter theirs. its almost like a lack of respect they have for you as a person just because you look a bit different than the rest of the crowd.
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby fangbanger on Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:41 pm

Oh My God! :evil:
Over the years I've had many people shout stuff at me in the street, from passing cars, out bedroom windows...but loads of people are complimentary about it and funnily enough, I get more positive comments when my red is washed out.

Once I was walking home in the summer from work and some White Van Man with his beer gut out shouts “Does the curtain match the carpet?".
Some Chav in his crappy Fiesta shouted “What happened to your hair!!".
The favourite though is " GOTH!! ", as loud as they can shout it and from as far away as possible, you know, so I can't smack 'em!

I don't even consider myself a Goth and I'm sure if there were a real assessment for that sort of thing, I'd be a poor one.

I really don't get it. I get stared at a lot too, like proper not looking away.
I know this sounds sad, but when I'm in Town I don't make eye contact with anyone, and often don't look at anyone at all, just because I feel like if I looked they would be looking straight back at me.

I often get people trying to secretly, tell the other people that they're with to "have a look at her!", and this annoys me the most because they are so blatant; like they think that my hair makes me deaf!

I'm sure I'll have some new ones over the weekend, I'll try and remember any catchy ones lol :lol:
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby Mal on Sun Feb 07, 2010 7:15 am

fangbanger wrote:I often get people trying to secretly, tell the other people that they're with to "have a look at her!", and this annoys me the most because they are so blatant; like they think that my hair makes me deaf!


IAWTC!
I hate it when I have people do that, you see a friend whisper to another then they turn around quickly, you stare and they turn away quickly. So un-sly!
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby Mal on Sun Feb 07, 2010 7:15 am

fangbanger wrote:I often get people trying to secretly, tell the other people that they're with to "have a look at her!", and this annoys me the most because they are so blatant; like they think that my hair makes me deaf!


IAWTC!
I hate it when I have people do that, you see a friend whisper to another then they turn around quickly, so I just stare and smile like this :twisted: . So un-sly!
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby ScarletLady on Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:53 am

Mal wrote:
fangbanger wrote:I often get people trying to secretly, tell the other people that they're with to "have a look at her!", and this annoys me the most because they are so blatant; like they think that my hair makes me deaf!


IAWTC!
I hate it when I have people do that, you see a friend whisper to another then they turn around quickly, so I just stare and smile like this :twisted: . So un-sly!

:lol: I'd love to be able to smile like that if the situation called for it!

I had some girl stare at me for my whole 45 minute train journey the oter day and i've just got bleached white hair! i'd just had it cut and it's looking really fab (this was last week) even if I do say so myself and I was on the train on the way to work and she just sat there giving me evil looks the whole time...I thought it was hilarious :lol:

but at the same time I just wanted to say WHAT?????
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby runningwithlola on Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:50 am

Today a little old lady sat down next to me on the bus, and as she did, she crossed herself.

My husband said he almost peed himself trying not to laugh.
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby ShadowThrone on Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:22 am

runningwithlola wrote:Today a little old lady sat down next to me on the bus, and as she did, she crossed herself.

My husband said he almost peed himself trying not to laugh.


Haha! Oh dear that did make me lol. What the hell did she think you were gonna do... :lol:

I've always found little old ladies either have a great reaction to mad hair, or a similar one to that!
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby fangbanger on Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:09 am

runningwithlola wrote:Today a little old lady sat down next to me on the bus, and as she did, she crossed herself.

My husband said he almost peed himself trying not to laugh.


OMG!!!!!!! LMAO! Sooo Naive!
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby ScarletLady on Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:05 pm

runningwithlola wrote:Today a little old lady sat down next to me on the bus, and as she did, she crossed herself.

My husband said he almost peed himself trying not to laugh.

I'd have started speaking in tongues or going on about fire and brimstone or something :lol: :twisted:

that's too funny :D
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby rainbowbanana on Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:41 pm

runningwithlola wrote:Today a little old lady sat down next to me on the bus, and as she did, she crossed herself.

My husband said he almost peed himself trying not to laugh.


that hilarious! i cant believe some people are still that naive and judgemental! :lol:
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby NaturalistDesigns on Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:37 pm

fangbanger wrote:Once I was walking home in the summer from work and some White Van Man with his beer gut out shouts “Does the curtain match the carpet?".
Some Chav in his crappy Fiesta shouted “What happened to your hair!!".
The favourite though is " GOTH!! ", as loud as they can shout it and from as far away as possible, you know, so I can't smack 'em!


To the White Van; "Why yes, yes it does"

Chav: "I dyed it, what happened to yours?"

To the randomers (more commonly known as Chavs): Shout back "Chav" :)

It's what I do and it seems to work
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby CirqueMachine on Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:18 pm

Girls behind me: "Dreads are disgusting. So unnatural..."
Me: "So what tree did you pluck your GHDs from?"
GBM: "..."
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby fangbanger on Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:41 am

NaturalistDesigns wrote:
fangbanger wrote:Once I was walking home in the summer from work and some White Van Man with his beer gut out shouts “Does the curtain match the carpet?".
Some Chav in his crappy Fiesta shouted “What happened to your hair!!".
The favourite though is " GOTH!! ", as loud as they can shout it and from as far away as possible, you know, so I can't smack 'em!


To the White Van; "Why yes, yes it does"

Chav: "I dyed it, what happened to yours?"

To the randomers (more commonly known as Chavs): Shout back "Chav" :)

It's what I do and it seems to work


As nice as it is to shout stuff back; it has back-fired before and we've had to physically defend ourselves.

One year, during the Football, it was England verses .....someone; my husband and I went to go buy Ice Cream from the shop.
On the corner of the row of shops is a Pub that shows the football... So walking, walking and then suddenly some of the Football yobs are shouting stuff, so I give them the one finger salute and go merrily along into shop.
When we come out of the shop, a few have congregated outside and immediately throw food and stuff at us. At this point I was really scared and just grabbed hold of Wes ( The Husband ) and tried to walk away as quickly as possible but one of them grabs Wes' hair ( long black sexy pony tail ) and starts to say derogatory sh*t about him, insinuating that he was a woman and women are only good for one thing....
At this point we are right by the pub, and there are, what seems like hundreds of them! One of them starts to say some shit about us and I just flip... I dropped the bag of Ice Cream on the floor, run up to the B*****d and punch him right in his face, he did react as if he were going to smack me back but he didn't.... I was hysterical by now because I knew that it was the worse thing to have done.

Wes had called the Police in this time and had started to drag me away.

I remember, as soon as we got out of sight, to safety, I just dropped to the floor and cried and screamed. I was so scared.

You have to be really careful because you don't know what people are capable of and for all you know, they could be ex prison convicts, crazed drug addicts, knife carriers.... you don't know.

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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby fangbanger on Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:43 am

CirqueMachine wrote:Girls behind me: "Dreads are disgusting. So unnatural..."
Me: "So what tree did you pluck your GHDs from?"
GBM: "..."


Love this BTW!!!!!!! lol
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby ShadowThrone on Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:45 am

That sort of thing has happened to me. I started to try and ignore it, even if it took all the strength I got muster. After I got physically assaulted the second time, I figured it was for the best. Sucks though because I have a massive sense of injustice when this shit happens, and I hate not being able to defend myself :(
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby ScarletLady on Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:52 pm

ShadowThrone wrote:That sort of thing has happened to me. I started to try and ignore it, even if it took all the strength I got muster. After I got physically assaulted the second time, I figured it was for the best. Sucks though because I have a massive sense of injustice when this shit happens, and I hate not being able to defend myself :(

Dan, unfortunately from growing up on a London council estate and having to be quite hard from a young age, can be a bit hot headed and protective sometimes and I know full well if anyone said anything derogatory to me about my appearance (or anything else) while we were out he'd probably whack them in the face...

Luckily it hasn't happened yet :roll:

@Fangbanger - I'm so sorry that happened to you, that sounds really scary. I know it wasn't the right thing to do but more power to you for sticking up for yourself! It's a shame we live in a world where we have to be scared to do just that.
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby fangbanger on Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:47 pm

To Scarletlady

I grew up in Croydon (still live in Croydon) and I get the most sh*t when I'm in town or going to work, so I know exactly what you mean when you talk of London Council Estates!! :roll:

My Husband is more hot headed then what I am, but I won't let him go off, even if he wants to; I just stay firmly attached to his arm! lol

I don't know what was going through my head that day; I suppose I just wanted to protect my Husband! lol

I wouldn't wish what happened on anybody; and I would definitely try and help if I saw anything similar happening!

To ShadowThrone

I know its silly to say this, but atleast this happens to other people aswell... None of my friends have ever had this sort of thing happen to them, and people often don't believe me when I tell the tale. :?
Makes me feel better knowing that its not me thats the problem, just everyone else! :!:
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby ShadowThrone on Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:07 pm

ScarletLady wrote:
ShadowThrone wrote:That sort of thing has happened to me. I started to try and ignore it, even if it took all the strength I got muster. After I got physically assaulted the second time, I figured it was for the best. Sucks though because I have a massive sense of injustice when this shit happens, and I hate not being able to defend myself :(

Dan, unfortunately from growing up on a London council estate and having to be quite hard from a young age, can be a bit hot headed and protective sometimes and I know full well if anyone said anything derogatory to me about my appearance (or anything else) while we were out he'd probably whack them in the face...

Luckily it hasn't happened yet :roll:

@Fangbanger - I'm so sorry that happened to you, that sounds really scary. I know it wasn't the right thing to do but more power to you for sticking up for yourself! It's a shame we live in a world where we have to be scared to do just that.


I'm like that too, so its very hard for me to keep a lid on it. I'd rather that than something even worse happening though :(

Oh well, I escaped! :lol:
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby ScarletLady on Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:45 pm

@Fangbanger - didn't know you were a Croydon lass :)
I go through croydon every day to go to work. I work in Epsom and live in Deptford (it's right near Lewisham in south east london). I'm from Essex originally but moved here when I met Dan :)
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby ShadowThrone on Fri Feb 12, 2010 3:27 pm

Ahh the joys of Croydon! :lol:

I used to go there when I was younger, to a dive called the Cartoon. I also grew up in SE London-ish for most of the time. When I moved to North I would have hardly any abuse and comments. Who knows what that's all about. Its not an issue in Norway. At all. Anyone I tell is shocked and outraged things like that go on. And just to add, I have never had that crap when I have been with my OH/Male friend. Just when I'm alone, which says it all of the mentality of these idiots. Oh well, I have had some lovely comments from unexpected sources too :)
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby fangbanger on Fri Feb 12, 2010 3:45 pm

ShadowThrone wrote:Ahh the joys of Croydon! :lol:

I used to go there when I was younger, to a dive called the Cartoon. I also grew up in SE London-ish for most of the time. When I moved to North I would have hardly any abuse and comments. Who knows what that's all about. Its not an issue in Norway. At all. Anyone I tell is shocked and outraged things like that go on. And just to add, I have never had that crap when I have been with my OH/Male friend. Just when I'm alone, which says it all of the mentality of these idiots. Oh well, I have had some lovely comments from unexpected sources too :)


Its just such a shame that I focus on the bad stuff, and forget the good stuff.

Some people have been totally in awe of my hair and shake my hand, and give me the thumbs up for being so brave and say that they wish they had the courage etc.

I had a man come up to me in Sainsbury's once, and I dunno if he was " all there " but he came over, shook my hand and said " I've never met one of you in real life before".
I dunno what he meant but he seemed very happy to have met me :lol:
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby ScarletLady on Fri Feb 12, 2010 3:47 pm

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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby M1ssBehaved on Fri Feb 12, 2010 8:36 pm

fangbanger wrote:" but he came over, shook my hand and said " I've never met one of you in real life before".


Haha thats awesome! :lol:

I've never had any nasty comments. Mostly just 'Chur is that real?' when I'm down the pub, but I always get asked if my real hair is real as well. Maybe I should start saying that my real hair is fake and that my fake dreads are real. I dunno :D
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby Miffy on Mon Feb 15, 2010 1:39 pm

I só hate it when people touch my hair or dreads without asking..

Every year, a week before carnival, there's a big ball in our city for the revealing of the new city prince and this year the whole revealing thing had to be BIG, so they hired Hans Klok, a famous illusionist, to do the thing. Ergo: the place was packed and during the show there were just too many people in a small area. (and don't you just hate that everyone seems to be touching you and rubbing against you..)
Anywayz, I wore my new woolies and felt a couple of girls behind me touching them and tugging them, while discussing about how they were attached to my hair (people always seem to conclude they are 'knotted' in..). At one point I was só fed up that I pulled my head forward to make them let go of my dreads, turned around, and loudly asked: "So, what kind of cheap, ugly wig is THIS?!", and yanked the (natural) hair of the girl right behind me. She got mad at me for yanking her hair, so I asked her why she was pulling my hair then, if she was able to obviously come to the conclusion that my dreads were attached to my real hair. Didn't see her again for the rest of the evening :mrgreen:

Last year at the same ball people were even tugging on my pink, natural hair, thinking it was a wig. I mean, even if it WERE a wig, why would that be an invitation to pull it? Or even touch it?
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Re: comments about your hair by the general public

Postby Lilinth on Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:11 pm

today a woman stopped me in a shop and asked about what my hair was made of, how it was installed, etc. :D
i gave her the address of this site so maybe she'll pop up on here at some point
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