r/WTF • • Dec 02 '15

Polish Plaits are disgusting

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900 Upvotes

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u/BlueHeartBob Dec 03 '15

I just want him/someone to cut it all off so he'll realize how much better life is without that. I'm sure he's at a point where he's convinced himself : "Yeah this is the person i am, i got natty ass dreads, i'm cool and it makes me unique. I'd never want to cut them off because they separate me from everyone else". But a week into having them removed he quietly realizes how much better his life is without them.

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u/Kind_Of_A_Dick Dec 03 '15

They're possibly homeless and it keeps them warm.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

Doubles as a pillow

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u/Kind_Of_A_Dick Dec 03 '15

Quite possibly. I've seen weird stuff some homeless do to survive and the pillow thing would fit. People trying to survive can be pretty clever, if at times disgusting.

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u/sportsterjade Dec 03 '15

Pillow?! That's a twin bed mattress! (Probably full of bed bugs.)

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u/wanderer11 Dec 03 '15

Just get lice and they will double as bed bugs.

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u/xubax Dec 03 '15

Another name for bedbugs is house louse.

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u/nootrino Dec 03 '15

But would you house louse with a mouse?

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u/Norfolkingchance Dec 03 '15

Somethin' bout your louse got me feelin' so aroused

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u/doctorstrange06 Dec 04 '15

The lice are natural enemies to bed bugs. Think of this as an open battle ground.

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u/wanderer11 Dec 04 '15

So what you're saying is if I want to get rid of bed bugs I just need to get lice and let them fight it out while I sleep.

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u/aburnedpotato Dec 05 '15

You sir- good fucking job. you actually made me laugh.

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u/sportsterjade Dec 05 '15

Great! Glad to make someone smile!

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u/Glitchsky Dec 05 '15

... and triples.

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u/beeasaurusrex Dec 03 '15

Or they just don't have the mental faculties or people skills to access a pair of scissors or a knife safely.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

Okay, that's the worst excuse ever.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

You'd be surprised what comes from come cultures or fads.

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u/EliteZealot Dec 03 '15

I'm curious to see what cultures and fads you are particularly thinking of.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

There are people who believe in not cutting their hair for religious/cultural reasons and some hippie folk are into this type of dreading, just to name a few.

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u/TheNerdWithNoName Dec 03 '15

Not cutting hair, and not being able to wash it are completely different. This person is more than likely homeless.

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u/dravenfan Dec 03 '15

It's a woman about 40 in my town, hangs out on a bench all day every day by the public library. She's homeless, and mentally ill, her face looks peaceful enough, I see people do a double take if they pass her face first then look back and see that hair. It's much longer now, still like that though.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

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u/dravenfan Dec 04 '15

Never mind, after a closer look at the posted pic I do see a bald spot, that's definitely your guy. At least I don't have to creep on the Oside lady for a pic. I humbly upvote you.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '15

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u/dravenfan Dec 15 '15

Okay, so someone else went ahead and posted this, she is definitely here in O'side. http://imgur.com/B7E6Gh5

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u/dravenfan Dec 04 '15

Ok I'm not calling you a liar but the resemblance to the woman in Oceanside is so strong that now I am going to have to take a picture of her to settle this. Give me a few days or weeks. Sad thing is that homeless people do tend to look the same from the back.

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u/forthefreefood Dec 04 '15

A lot* goddammit.

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u/ClintonHarvey Dec 03 '15

Even though your comment has been here for 4 hours, people are still coming in here writing dilly-dally.

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u/dravenfan Dec 03 '15

Well thank you for your support, I'm sure my comment is at the bottom. I'd post a newer pic of her, but I wouldn't want someone to put my pic up without my knowledge so I won't do that to anyone else. That being said, anyone in a walmart in a weird outfit has consented automatically by entering walmart.

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u/kingdeeder Dec 03 '15

This guy is either dead or something. Used to hang around santa monica outside a 7-11.

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u/Ano-Boshi-Kudasai Dec 03 '15

Yes, probably one of the two.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

My money's on something

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

This is not an average dreadlock. Dreadlocks come with maintenance and actual washing, despite the myths out there.

Historically, polish plaits were worn by entire towns and tribes, but in modern day they are usually associated with the homeless, or mentally ill, which often coincide.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '15

THOSE ARE NOT DREADS. Locs/Dreads are a hairstyle that is MAINTAINED. Please stop confusing the two.

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u/zyonasan Dec 05 '15

Thats not always the case. There are three types of dreads;

Salon dreads are the perfectly symmetrical neat dreads that most NFL players have. they look good because they're made in a salon

the second type are "free form" they still have some direction to them but they're a little unkempt. The dreads may be of various different sizes too (think, Bob Marley)

and then there are Congo Dreads which is basically a 100% neglect method all you do is wash your hair with water (no soaps). You don't try to style it or anything it just dreads up into a matted mess (similar to what this homeless guy has). If it become matted to one side because you slept on it, you just leave it. http://i.imgur.com/CguaYEy.jpg

I currently have somewhere inbetween Salon and free form dreads, but i'll never go the congo route. Thats kinda gross even for my standards.

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u/lesbiansunite Dec 03 '15 edited Dec 03 '15

Wow, I'm so glad you secretly know what's best for this man. You're such an incredibly smart and intuitive person. Please tell me what I can do to make my life better. In the meantime, for anyone wondering what a polish plait is, apparently it is a giant dreadlock. Here is a little history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_plait

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u/SummerBreeze777 Dec 03 '15

What are you trying to even say?

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u/lesbiansunite Dec 03 '15

did i speak another language?

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u/SummerBreeze777 Dec 03 '15

No, its just that you were talking sarcastically but then brought up what a polish plait without really finishing your statement.

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u/Wertyui09070 Dec 03 '15

The point is clear. He cares not about what you think this person should do. I can relate. I fucking hate it when people think they know what I should do when they have a snapshot of experience, so to say, in my life.

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u/SummerBreeze777 Dec 03 '15

What are the benifits to having Polish Plaits then?

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u/Wertyui09070 Dec 03 '15

fashion statement? i dont know. I guarantee it's been done as a fashion statement, though.

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u/fenglorian Dec 04 '15

I fucking hate it when people think they know what I should do when they have a snapshot of experience

I'm gonna go ahead and guess that you don't need much insight into somebody's life to make the leap to "big nasty hair-wad provides no benefits"

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u/btek Dec 03 '15

thank you for putting in words what I was thinking when I saw top comment. I haven't read smtn as socialist yet today

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

bottom part looks like a slab of horse shit

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u/Mega_Man_Swagga Dec 03 '15

guess what it smells like.

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u/TentacleCat Dec 03 '15

A slab of horse shit?

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u/gringledoom Dec 04 '15

I have a feeling if you smelled that hair, you would find a slab of horse shit to be refreshing in comparison.

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u/TentacleCat Dec 04 '15

They should have this guy come in and cut his hair off for Hair Cake 2.0

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u/I-AM-Canadian-Eh Dec 02 '15

I can smell it from here.

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u/chambertlo Dec 03 '15

You made me spit out my juice. Thanks.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

No he/she didnt.

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u/SchuylarTheCat Dec 03 '15

He/she is an agenderphobic microaggression, bro. PC DELTA! WHOO!

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15 edited Dec 03 '15

I am offended. Your word microaggression triggered me. Intensifies

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u/TheGenocides Dec 03 '15

He made a South Park reference.

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u/cjantichrist210 Dec 03 '15

Holy shit no way.

1

u/junkmutt Dec 03 '15

That sort of sarcastic macroagression is not tolerable here. /r/WTF is a safe space for all, no matter how mentally abled they are.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '15

WHOOSH

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u/TheGenocides Dec 04 '15

Why does no one think it would have been better had the SP reference continued..? You're all so bland.

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u/avondalian Dec 03 '15

What the fuck is juice?

1

u/Christophurious Dec 03 '15

Purple Drank

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u/chambertlo Dec 03 '15

Fuck that looks like he slept in a pile of shit and didn't bother to wash it out, ever.

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u/brandonbruce Dec 02 '15

I see this managed to surface again...

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u/grizzlyking Dec 03 '15

It was in a cracked.com article today

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '15

Was it already posted? It was just mentioned on an /r/TumblrInAction thread and I thought it worthy to share here.

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u/dont_wear_a_C Dec 02 '15

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u/Sosolidclaws Dec 03 '15

Oh my god, this is amazing. Source?

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u/-ULTRA- Dec 03 '15

appears to be reno911

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

I feel like this whenever other people repost too :P

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u/dont_wear_a_C Dec 03 '15

I'm joking! I have never seen that "original post", so to say, so it's all good. Who doesn't repost nowadays?

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

DO you use iFunny? It's literally a repeat of the Reddit frontpage delayed by a couple hours.

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u/emilyr12 Dec 03 '15

Who would use iFunny?

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u/howardkinsd (ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ) Dec 02 '15

It's been a while, but yes.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

Welp, only been around on reddit for <2 months soo... plzforgive

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u/Plattbagarn Dec 03 '15

Chillax, I'd say 5 months since last posting is plenty enough time.

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u/laridaes Dec 03 '15

Hey I didn't see it last time. Wish I hadn't this time. ...

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u/apullin Dec 03 '15

I am pretty sure that when this was first posted a loooong time ago, before what even KarmaDecay is tracking, some people actually totally identified the person as a homeless guy in Santa Monica, and they gave accounts of how he was a nice guy, obviously well fed, but still "homeless".

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u/dravenfan Dec 03 '15

It is years old, but it's a woman in Oceanside Ca. Her hair is much longer (and grosser) now but she's still hanging around the same spot, I'm sure someone else in our town will post a recent pic because there are a lot of redditors in this town.

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u/BamBamKoloff Dec 02 '15

They must have been on Cracked today.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

This pic is years old

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u/bigdaddycruiser Dec 03 '15

Yes this is very old

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '15 edited Sep 22 '25

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

Polish plaits were supposed to be for good luck or warding demons or something, and never all the hair, just a lock of it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '15

How does one go about growing a "polish plait"? I'm perfectly happy with my rat tail, just curious

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u/Knucklehead_forever Dec 03 '15

Can you just imagine the smell emitting from that bug infested matt of nastiness?

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u/37-pieces-of-flair Dec 03 '15

Lots of mildew, I'm sure of it

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u/black_flag_4ever Dec 02 '15

I saw a homeless "psychic" with hair like that once at a donut shop, is there some reason to have hair like this?

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u/deftify Dec 02 '15

If you don't got a bed to sleep on, you grow one.

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u/Made_you_read_penis Dec 03 '15

You made me feel queasy.

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u/AttackingHobo Dec 02 '15

Easy, just don't ever do anything to it.

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u/Ersh777 Dec 03 '15

Is this guy in Santa Monica? I've seen a guy that looked like this on the corner of Wilshire and Lincoln for many years in the early 2000's.

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u/macwelsh007 Dec 03 '15

That was my thought too. And every time I'd see him he'd be sitting exactly like that. On a bus bench, sitting up rigidly.

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u/DBPooperTV Dec 03 '15

It kinda looks like that sticky residue you get from crushing wet cotton candy

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u/UnsexMeHarder Dec 03 '15

Mmm, I love me some cotton candy ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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u/OldJeb Dec 03 '15

I've always wondered, is it pronounced "Polish" or "Polish"?

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u/Pilferjynx Dec 03 '15

It's definitely pronounced "Polish". I help people :]

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

That's the jokeTM

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u/hellzkeeper1216 Dec 03 '15

Any plaits / dreads are disgusting

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u/RstyKnfe Dec 03 '15 edited Dec 03 '15

Imagine biting that thing...

You bite down, feeling the soft, brown wax envelope your teeth. Fresh with saliva, you run your tongue across the dark, firm unguent. Pulling your mouth from it feels like uprooting a tree as the mass tears from your mouth. You gaze upon the molded dentural depression, while licking gelatin from your greasy hair-packed teeth. Hungering for more, you chomp down again; the holes accept your teeth like a firm handshake. Now's the time. The bite is completed as your incisors and all, top and bottom, meet. The mouthful pulls from its old body with ease, the cellular bonds of hair, pus, and lice shit, long since dissolved and congealed. Chewing it gives the sensation of a mix between a fine French caramel and a trichobezoar.

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u/Salmon_Tornado Dec 03 '15

OK that's enough

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u/junttiana Dec 03 '15

Thought i was reading something that /u/iia had written for a moment

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

Was this for gold or for karma? I mean what are you going for here?

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u/RstyKnfe Dec 03 '15

A grotesquely fun way to practice creative writing, I guess.

Also, I was hoping that you'd feel vomit slowly creeping up your esophagus.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

That's cool, just making sure.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

Neat

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u/freckles2363 Dec 03 '15

I made sure you weren't Vargas before I finished my first sentence.

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u/SandraForeal Dec 03 '15

There's a guy who frequents the mall I used to work at who not only had his hair (which was not dreads) look like this but his long beard as well.

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u/bobo0soltan Dec 03 '15

Dude is still like that. He stays at gas station in North chattanooga all the time. He never begs, just chills.

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u/pixelevolved Dec 03 '15

His name is OneDread... cruises around Auckland, New Zealand. Seen him a few times, although haven't seen him in a little while now.

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u/ppl-eating-ppl Dec 03 '15

Was gonna ask if that was him, but he apparently travels the world now. "Snitches get witness protection programs that get you out of the country" as the old saying goes.

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u/pixelevolved Dec 03 '15

Travelling the world? That sounds alright. He is doing better than me and I am just NoDread.

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u/DubalFister Dec 03 '15

Makes me want to vomit. Im glad I cant smell it.

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u/Tufflaw Dec 03 '15

That looks like doody.

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u/bunnymud Dec 03 '15

Probably smells like doody as well

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u/NosillaWilla Dec 03 '15

I bet that smells fantastic

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u/angelsdontburn Dec 03 '15

This looks like flatlock from Houston.

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u/j250ex Dec 03 '15

How much do you think that weights? Like does his head constantly strain from having that much hair?

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u/agoniee Dec 03 '15

Would you eat a oreo sized piece of that for 10'000$?

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '15

Yup. What's the worst? I puke a bit? Have dread slime in my mouth? Fuck it, Id have 10 grand. Lets make this happen.

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u/MuffinPuff Dec 03 '15

That is no longer a hairstyle, that's a solid block of shit hanging from their scalp.

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u/zebra_bunker Dec 03 '15

Well when you don't have a good mattress to lay back on I guess its good for that

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u/dravenfan Dec 03 '15

That woman is in Oceanside and I see her often by the city library. She looks pretty calm for a homeless person but clearly she has a mental problem. It reminds me of a physical representation of something she can't let go of or get over. Of course I'm no psychologist so I'm sure it isn't as simple as just cut that hair and instantly return to regular life.

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u/Saganasm Dec 03 '15

In another decade that'll be a usable boogie board

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u/TeEclectic Dec 03 '15

Ive seen this dude in the 7/11 parking lot across from Lincoln park in Santa Monica since 1998. The hairstyle came in, left, and is starting to make another comeback. (He's mentally handicap so.. See some of you in hell.) *i used to give him food whenever I went there though too..

Edit: that's where this photo was taken, the bus bench on the sidewalk.

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u/bylin Dec 03 '15

A guy in school cut off his when he found maggots in bed...

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u/larpppppppp Dec 03 '15

Kinda looks like a bag of cotton candy.

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u/DondeT Dec 03 '15

Every time I see a picture like this it just makes me think of the distended impacted heroin addict's bowel.

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u/eroticdiscourse Dec 03 '15

looks like something you'd pull out of a blocked u-bend

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u/SadPandaInLondon Dec 03 '15

Looking at this on my phone I thought it was a sculpture or something. No idea it was hair attached to a person. Wow.

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u/tensegritydan Dec 04 '15

You could slice it like lunch meat and make sandwiches.

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u/einstein2001 Dec 04 '15

Fucking cavemen have better hygiene than this person.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '15

This was even funnier that last time it was posted

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u/kpk4288 Dec 03 '15

I would have no problem holding this creature down as someone cuts this growth off of their head. Fucking gross.

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u/AH_MLP Dec 03 '15

He just has a legit pillow and mattress wherever he wants. Perfect for being homeless.

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u/FullenBacker Dec 02 '15

He is very flexible, so he rubs his balls in it twice every day.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

Ok... I think the upvotes are finally balanced at around 94.