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Mother Nature Strikes Again--From JERI

 

Happy Tuesday, Fair Readers! I regret to inform you that the stomach bug that has plagued John is now in its fourth day. He can't sit at his desk, so I am taking over for the day.

This is likely just a bug from Hell, but I would like to point out that we have been eating really well, with lots of fresh, (thoroughly washed) and wonderfully prepared vegetables of all types lately...it's clear that he is being punished for forsaking the fast food industry.

I will be truthful...I'm not in a baseball state of mind right now, so this JERI'S BIG, HUGE QUESTION O' THE DAY will be more off-topic than usual. I will think up something baseballish later in the day.

FOR NOW.....In order to create a sense of suspense and drama I am putting the BIG, HUGE QUESTION O' THE DAY after the jump. Trust me, you will totally be glad you jumped.

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Here it is: Today we are going to discuss a blight on the human landscape of our culture: the faux-hawk.

Every where I go I see at least one or two alledged rebels sporting a faux-hawk. This is the hair style created by men with a full head of hair who swoop and gel the sides upwards into a center pointy ridge, where it looks like a mohawk but doesn't require shaving of the sides of the head.

Let me be the first to say that I don't care for the actual mohawk as a hairstyle either, but I absolutely respect those who wear it. That is a commitment to your look. It tells the world 'Hell yes, I'm wearing my hair like this...what are you going to do about it, Bitch?!?' I'm sure there is other stuff implied by the style about being a rebel, an individual, whatever. The actual statement is not the point. The point is that when you wear a mohawk, you are absolutely committed to whatever the statement is.

The statement that a faux-hawk makes? 'Shit! I want to be cool, but I don't want to upset my Grandma!' OR, 'I didn't have time to comb my hair today'. Either way, it seems like a cop-out.

SO....The QUESTION: HairDO or HairDON'T? Any other trendy looks that  make you cringe?

The point of all of this is basically to cause silly debate, although I will admit that the faux-hawk really bugs me a lot. If you wear one, I'd say it's time to commit. Mohawk your hair or don't. No half-way hair-dos. Now, dear reader, If YOU happen to sport a faux-hawk, let me say one last thing...this missive is really about everyone else's faux-hawk...yours is totally cool.

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Faux-hawks

Girls with faux-hawks, hell yes. Guys, no. Both girls and guys can rock the full mohawk.

I’m still waiting for mustaches to make their way back to MLB. Clay Zavada needs some support.

by Kelric on Apr 27, 2025 11:49 AM EDT reply actions

Faux-Faux Hawk?

I guess, I may be guilty of the occasional Faux-Faux Hawk. I usually wear a Mets hat. But when the cap comes off, and I go out, I usually take my average length hair and flip up the front and push the sides to the middle, creating a Faux-Faux Hawk. I don’t think its a full faux because it doesn’t come to a sharp point, but resembles a small mountain ridge (yeah, I just said that).

The reason why I do it is pretty simple. 1. I can’t keep my hair too short because my ears are on the large side. 2. There aren’t many other styles that work for me. 3. I look sexy (or at least my girl friend thinks so)

Though mostly, I stick with the cap.

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by JDSussman on Apr 27, 2025 12:00 PM EDT reply actions

Faux hawks are annoying because they are so non-committal, but what I really hate is the Mr. Heat Miser hairdo (think Pauly on Jersey Shore). It’s that one where you spike everything up until you look like the character from the old stop motion xmas special. It’s basically the hairstyle people with faux hawks graduate to, I think.

by Cormican on Apr 27, 2025 12:11 PM EDT reply actions

The Heat Miser 'Do...

HAHAHAHAHA

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by mssickels on Apr 27, 2025 12:13 PM EDT reply actions

This feels weird...

When’s John coming back?

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by Mets2k9 on Apr 27, 2025 12:15 PM EDT reply actions

NEVER!!!!!!!!

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by John Sickels on Apr 27, 2025 1:41 PM EDT up reply actions

Riiiiiiiiiight

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by ThomasG on Apr 27, 2025 4:43 PM EDT up reply actions

There is a guy at work

who styles his hair in professional faux hawk. It is bizarre. He has very short hair then combs/gels/whatever it into a pointy ridge along the top of his head. He is a finance guy in a very conservative Fortune 500 headquarters. It is just a little weird. Especially when he is wearing a suit.

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by ColoradoOwl on Apr 27, 2025 12:28 PM EDT reply actions

Hair dont's

I didn’t know this ‘look’ had its own name, but now I do. It’s definitely the worst male hairdo this side of the mullet.

by JohnSeal on Apr 27, 2025 12:40 PM EDT reply actions

The Faux-hawk needs to go away

its almost as bad as the mullet

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by WVPiratesfan on Apr 27, 2025 1:59 PM EDT reply actions

I like this hair style....

Sometimes, I am walking around in public and I see a group of guys. You know, that 2 out of every 5 guys is a douche, and sometimes it’s hard to figure out which ones. This hairstyle keeps the guessing to a minimum. Not every douche pops his three collars and wears a lot of spray tan, so the faux hawk helps. So does the Heat Miser (never knew the name before reading this thread). Now, when I see that group of guys, I can easily spot the conformist douche instantly so I know who to avoid.

I just started a new job about a month ago in community corrections, and on my first day I found a co-worker who wears a faux faux hawk (keeps a fade on the sides, and the long hair in the hawk) and I was trying to figure out if I wanted to walk out the first day or give the job a chance. Economy prevailed and I stayed.

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by Boxkutter on Apr 27, 2025 2:13 PM EDT reply actions

The Comb-Over owns the Faux-Hawk

The Comb-Over screams, “I know I’m really an old fart, but I don’t want my testicles to know. They still think we have a shot with the hot co-ed at the gym. I just hope she doesn’t want to go swimming.”

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by eatboudin on Apr 27, 2025 2:23 PM EDT reply actions

+1

lol

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by punto4mvp on Apr 27, 2025 5:38 PM EDT up reply actions

and the beard come over

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by gore51 on Apr 28, 2025 12:37 AM EDT up reply actions

um, ICK

That is disturbing. Wow.

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by mssickels on Apr 28, 2025 10:48 AM EDT up reply actions

it's gonna catch on pretty quick

just watch

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by gore51 on Apr 28, 2025 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions

Faux hawk

I don`t mind the faux-hawk, it’s a little douchy but not overly. Fads or trends I really find ridiculous is what most kids are currently wearing these days.
That last sentence makes me sound like an old guiser who shouts at trees and who farts in public without any regard for others. However I’m 25 years old and find clothing and apparel have changed dramatically over the last decade.
Every look I look seems like a bad 80’s movie. I see boys sporting weaves, women wearing what essentlially look like tights as pants. You can now find pretty much anything in rainbow colour. Sometimes it’s so offensive to the sense I feel like I’ll go blind if I look any longer.
Shoes are another thing, why the hell are girls now walking around in ballet slippers, you might as well be walking around barefoot or in slippers. Speaking of shoes, what’s the deal with high top sneakers that look like they’ve got into a fight with a box of lucky charms, who the hell thinks these shoes look good.
What my ranting amounts to is kids today are tards. They’ve become obsessed with social networking to the point they can’t carry on a conversation with someone in person. Hell, they can’t even dress themselves anymore, they let pop culture do it for them.

Quote the guiser, nevermore

by daman316 on Apr 27, 2025 3:28 PM EDT reply actions

Pobrecito

You’re in for a long run of disappointment, my new friend. Remember Grampa Simpson’s line (from a show that’s no longer cool to quote)? "I used to be with it, but then they went ahead and changed what “it” is!" [Loose paraphrase: I refuse to look up a quote from the most quotable show of all time.]

Every mini-generation (5-yr cohort?) needs its “own” styles to differentiate themselves somehow from everyone else via commerically available products. It’s sad to realize at least some of your favourite stuff and attitudes were part and parcel of the trends for your age cohort, but there you go.

I was lucky: I was just a little too young to get mixed up in the day-glo neon 80s, and flannel suited me very, very well. Still, I was ridiculed for being a rap head in the 80s in a rural, white Canada small town. No age ever really fits that well, but I still like my shizz from 1994, thanks. Let the kids have their fun, too.

by Johnny Tuttle on Apr 28, 2025 8:06 AM EDT up reply actions

I just go with the high and tight Marine cut

so that I am able to highlight my back hair poker out of my coller.

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by fourfingerwoo on Apr 27, 2025 3:37 PM EDT reply actions

Just hitting the heartland?

The faux-hawk was absolutely everywhere in NYC about 7 years ago. Now it’s pretty much confined to the tragically un-hip alterna-frat-boy types. The hipsters have moved on to scraggly hair and beards (better? worse? hard to say).

Seems like every closer in baseball has a mo- or faux-hawk now.

by pooptallica on Apr 27, 2025 3:40 PM EDT reply actions

Faux-Hawk Harrelson

I don’t even want to imagine what Hawk Harrelson would look like with a Faux-Hawk…

STREEETCH!

But nah, I think some people can pull of the faux-hawk, but some people just look like tools

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by punto4mvp on Apr 27, 2025 5:37 PM EDT reply actions

hair

The hairdo I REALLY hate is the shaggy long-ish look that teenage boys are wearing these days. Like Justin Bieber hair. I don’t know if it has a name…it probably does, and I’m just too out of touch to know what it is. It’s everywhere, though, and so ugly…I’m not old (23), and I don’t remember guys my age ever having hair like that growing up.

by BenB on Apr 28, 2025 2:54 AM EDT reply actions

You're too young....

…..but check out your dad’s or uncle’s high school year book from 1981. The shaggy hair style has been around since the 70s: it’s for guys who couldn’t quite commit to either hippy or metal long hair.

by Johnny Tuttle on Apr 28, 2025 8:02 AM EDT up reply actions


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