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people wearing NY or LA hats when they have never been to NY or LA.
i feel like asking them what it's like in NY or LA? and if they wear those hats because they like the city so much? or if they could point to where the city is located on a map?i have a berlin keirin cafe cap that i was given but i have only worn it a couple of times. (not been there) so i'm also a hypocrite.
just after 9/11 all these people all across america in NYPD or FDNY shirts, sure buddy you where a fire man in New York why did you move to bumblefuck idaho again?
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i've seen a chap around london's famous shoreditch's shoreditch, who in the summer used to wear all white (plimsolls and all) and he had very blonde dreads and a goate. i bet he believes in the matrix.
Sounds like one of the instructors at Circus Space, however his locks are very long not very blonde....
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he's west indian actually, and he has had dreads in the past.
Mine was a political description, I'm aware that he resides in Jamaica. I'm assuming that we all know that 'negroid' African people were enslaved and forcibly moved to the Caribbean over five or six centuries by European shipping owners? So, the Caribbean, North America, Brazil etc is now home to Africans, just as America and Australia and populated by large 'European' communities.
Granted Yellowman's Ital though.
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Whilst i fully support individuality and a persons right to grow dreadlocks and their desire to be judged upon them, I once put this in my blog......
"Hairstyles shouldnt be determined by the colour of your skin, dreads are all too often a style too far for most white peoples hair especially when you have to spend hundreds of pounds trying to get them. To start with, it doesnt matter how much you might enjoy smoking dope and wearing vaguely ethnic clothes and wooden beads - being a scruffy, upper middle class, pseudo hippy from Kent should automatically stop you from trying to adopt the distinctive hairstyle of a Jamaican religious group (where locks aren't just a fashion style, they're a spiritual and religious show of faith to Emperor Haile Selaisse and Jah) even if common sense doesnt. Why style your hair in the manner of what is a largely impoverished third world people then spend your days drinking £5 Chai tea lattes and eating a roasted vegetable foccacia whilst mourning the impending date of expiration of your dreads i.e. when you finish your performance art/world science/dog brushing/cake icing degree and have to go home and live with mummy and daddy again before getting a job at daddys company?
I would also like to point out that you seem to have no knowledge of whatever secret techniques Rastafarians use to keep their locks (and only locks because theres nothing dreadful about them) in that fantastically clean and presentable state their hair looks like long slinky tendrils of locked goodness whereas white persons dreads always look like theyre being held together with spit, lard and glue. There is nearly always a fantastic amount of dandruff trapped in the hair nearest to your greasy scalp too.
Dont even bother to try and justify your dreads on spiritual grounds its a hairstyle that took you a day to get and It must be insulting to people who have taken months and really worked on their locks. After 5 years, most of you with dreads will cut them off and become normal, boring haired, suited white people, while the rest will continue to attempt to link hippie culture with Rastafarian culture, and possibly embarrass true Rastafarians in the process. What kind of message are you sending to the world? You're a peace-loving hippie, yet just like every other privileged white person in the world you feel it is your "Right" to take what you can from other cultures, leaving an empty husk in the wake. surely the fact that you continue to have dreads only shows your condescension."
It was a long time ago and I'm much calmer now.
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i shagged this girl with bleached white dreads, didnt really like getting constantly whipped/beaten with slighly odd smelling lumps of hair.
i think dreads are alright, there seems to be some idea going round that its hard to make/maintain them, thats just bollocks.
ive been to jamaica and the rastas dreads there are terrible. their ethos is zero maintenance, so they tend to have big shiny slabs of hair rather then tendrils.
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Curly hair, especially in warm, humid climates naturally clumps up and turns into locks.
Thats why in places like india, people are obsessed with pouring oil into there hair and profuseley combing it to try keep it straight & knot free.
My parents are from Bangladesh. The Bengal region has a rich literary, spiritual & artistic culture.
An aspect of this are the Mystic Baul Singers. Who traditionally reject all possessions and become drifters, creating & spreading witty & meaningful story based folk song across the land. Long hair is also of spiritual importance to them.
Many Bauls of yesteryear came to be respected as saints.
Well anyhow, anyone who becomes a homeless drifter in a place like india also ends up with dreadlocks. Which all 'hardcore' bauls did. So I do feel somehow insulted by the bastardised honky-locks which must offend rastafari much much more.
i think dreads are alright, there seems to be some idea going round that its hard to make/maintain them, thats just bollocks.
Like I said, for hair to knot up it needs to be curly, ideally the tight curls of black people but light curls will work if your in a very hot humid place.
european people in cool climates with completely straight hair really do have to spend years of accumilating flith on their head for it to lock up. Which is gross.
And it looks shit.
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european people in cool climates with completely straight hair really do have to spend years of accumulating filth on their head for it to lock up.
Well that's simply not true.
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Well that's simply not true.
yeah they put wax on it
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i shagged this girl with bleached white dreads
was she a punk from NZ?
did we shag the same girl?
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theres a big hippy subculture in cornwall and i lived on a hippy commune in penzance for 9 months, which was a total laff, and as a result ive seen so many white peoples dreads its not true.
to get dreads you just really backcomb the hair into segments and use beeswax to hold it. after about a week of organising the tendrils and applying beeswax they hold regardless of what hair you have. alot of white people dont really have enough hair to make the dreads thick enough, so alot of people have weaves in thier dreads.
i never fancied having them myself. they get really hot, and i like to swim. dreads get really heavy when wet, people with dreads down to thier arse have alot of trouble swimming cause of all the weight on thier neck. i dread to think what mine would smell like, i mash it all the time on my bike so i get sweaty several times through the day, and i smoke like a northern grandma.
chris- nah, she was from whales and had geese in her garden.
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chris- nah, she was from whales and had geese in her garden.
Your loss it was perty good as far as one night stands go.
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theres a big hippy subculture in cornwall and i lived on a hippy commune in penzance for 9 months, which was a total laff, and as a result ive seen so many white peoples dreads its not true.
to get dreads you just really backcomb the hair into segments and use beeswax to hold it. after about a week of organising the tendrils and applying beeswax they hold regardless of what hair you have. alot of white people dont really have enough hair to make the dreads thick enough, so alot of people have weaves in thier dreads.
i never fancied having them myself. they get really hot, and i like to swim. dreads get really heavy when wet, people with dreads down to thier arse have alot of trouble swimming cause of all the weight on thier neck. i dread to think what mine would smell like, i mash it all the time on my bike so i get sweaty several times through the day, and i smoke like a northern grandma.
chris- nah, she was from whales and had geese in her garden.
I saw them all bouncing around to Baka Beyond at the Acorn.....smelly!
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Winstons right, Richard Cheese, people who grow these fucking things WANT to be judged on them.
But you're right, a note of caution: Ras Tafari is OK by me, whatever shade of skin. Its more the heavy metal dreads-as-hairstyle that cause some distaste.