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12 June 2006
Hair Crimes: the mofohawk→[More:]
At the gym last week, I spotted a guy with a wide mohawk cut, which he'd combed up into a fauxhawk. He was swaggering around with a bluetooth in his ear looking very "universal soldier". ick
Does anyone really need one of those bluetooth ear-pieces? Off of a trading floor and outside your cubicle, I mean?
Seriously? Isn't wearing one a punchable offense? Double-punching if it's in a darkened area so the damned blinking blue LED keeps flashing in my peripheral vision?
Unfortunately (well, fortunately, I mean), California is close to passing a law that would require motorists use hands-free devices while driving. Which I'm all for.
I love my Bluetooth headset! No neckpains from trying to hold a phone between my shoulder and my ear. Because, really, who has time to keep their hands free?
Lately I've been wondering why Blonder Tongue doesn't make Bluetooth devices for consumers? Seems like a wasted marketing opportunity: Blonder Tongue Bluetooth makes you a powerful Mr. Potatohead.
It is impossible for someone to have both a mohawk and a fauxhawk. The only difference between the two is that someone with a mohawk has completely shaved sides and someone with a fauxhawk still has hair on the sides.
The WORST MeFi FPP I ever made was about Blonder Tongue. It was just less than 4 years ago. I was going through some serious shit in my real life at the time and I was just trying to be silly. MetaFilter's Front Page is no place to just be silly (but MetaChat's Front Page, YAHOOEY!!!). I know better now, but "Blonder Tongue Bluetooth" still tickles my funnybone.
You people suck. I bought a bluetooth capable phone although I have not picked up the headset. Probably will not until winter when I am not buying gardening crap.
I'm with Cap'n. Was disgusted by the presence of a lumpy, jiggly, thick-o geek setting up the network last week. Genderless creature of no discernable good qualities, save its ability to plug together a network. Ugh. It was a living stereotype.
It is impossible for someone to have both a mohawk and a fauxhawk.
What if the person is locked in a box with a barber and a radioactive nucleus, and if the nucleus decays the barber gives him a mohawk, if not the barber gives him a fauxhawk?
My Jabra Blueteeth ear thingy is fantastic! I make it vibrate when a call comes in. Use it in the car. And, because I don't have to constantly batter others with my personal phone banter, i never, never use it outside the car unless i am on a long long call to friends while laying on the couch.
If I ever do get a headset, it'll be BT. But no way in hell would I be caught in public wearing it. Home, office, or driving only.
It's kind of like removing your hat when you sit down to lunch. Old-school etiquette. When in public, don't snap your gum, stare at strangers, or wear a BT headset. My grammammy taught me that.
Damn! I had a fauxhawk in '81. Working a conservative high end restaurant by day- hair shorter than Ronald Reagan's. 20 minutes on the dance floor, sweep it up into a cocks comb- ahhhooooo! Loved that hair. Shouldn't it be in style again?
I'd like to try a social experiment, wherein I'd hand out BT headsets to the crazy homeless people who hang out on the bus mall talking to themselves, and then observe them for a couple days to see if people treat them differently.
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