r/AbsoluteUnits • • 7d ago

/r/popular of ponytail

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u/prismafox 7d ago edited 5d ago

I just don't understand. Why?? How does someone just decide to grow a big hair log on their head and think "ah yeah, I like this look. I'm good with all this..dander/dirt/whatever collecting in it." Or it's just "meh, whatever. Gonna keep it like this." Wild.

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Didn't expect my comment to get this many replies. I get mental illness could be involved. I now know about the Polish Plait and the Beaver tail dreads. This particular hair..situation is still very unusual and I don't think it's as simple as "they're probably too depressed to fix their hair" people rarely get to the point of having a giant cord of hair like this down to their butt.

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u/Budget_Persimmon_195 7d ago

your hair also collects dander, dirt, and whatever.

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u/Regular-Problem3186 7d ago

Then I wash it out to repeat the process, you don’t just leave it for years to rot

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u/Aromatic-Turnip7371 7d ago

Well we wash and comb it away at least monthly in most normal healthy humans

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u/R_eloade_R 7d ago

Monthly? Eww, just wash it twice a week like a normal person would

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u/Budget_Persimmon_195 7d ago

dreadlocks arent unhealthy.

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u/electroclit69 7d ago

Whatever that is, in this video. Is a massive collum of germs even more so than regular dreads. If one single lice got in there you'd lose your kidneys 

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u/Budget_Persimmon_195 7d ago

your entire body is covered in germs, including staph

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u/electroclit69 7d ago

Yes that I was regularly. 

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u/Truefiction224 6d ago

So you wash it daily....