Sink Pink

[lupestripe]

I've just dyed my hair bright pink again - it needed to be done - the faded candy floss colour just looked awful and unkempt. I was starting to turn into Boris Johnson, just without the right-wing views.

Still, what I have found out today is that Middlesbrough is not the type of town to be walking around as a guy with bright pink hair. I have been shouted at and laughed at by strangers who, under any other circumstance, would just have ignored me. This doesn't particularly bother me as it comes with the territory but WHY does it have to be this way? Surely the colour of my hair is irrelevant to anything. Sometimes I despair.

The other thing I noticed is that all these people were pillioring me from far away - either from the other side of the street or from cars that sped off rather quickly. Quite clearly these intellectually sub-normal people thought they were being witty and intelligent yet quite clearly they were cowards. They remind me of the 14 year old schoolboy who calls people a "wanker" on internet chatrooms behind the safety of his computer screen (and in my line of work, I've had enough of THOSE insults to last me a lifetime).

Still, a girl in Leeds commented on how much she liked my hair plus I have just booked tickets to see one of my favourite German bands, Oomph!, play Frankfurt in November as a special birthday treat (they are playing the evening before my birthday). Indeed it's going to be quite a week - spending my birthday in Frankfurt with Wolfie before returning to Manchester for the meet. Definitely something to look forward to *bounces*

Comments

[rustyfox.livejournal.com]

The only time I've been to Middlesbrough, I ended up being escorted back to the hotel in a police van for my own safety!

I vowed never, ever to return there.

[daisuke-miles.livejournal.com]

show pic of hair! :P

[marston.livejournal.com]

Insults from passing strangers was pretty much part of my everyday life until I moved. Hasn't really happened to me in a while now and I always just assumed that was because of some shift in public consciousness.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

If you're willing to show the unwashed masses such vivid coloration, surely we can be accorded similar pleasure? ^_^

Double points if the attire at the time happens to be of a lycra nature - surely one of modern science's greatest's contributions to comfortable clothing.

[silent-o.livejournal.com]

FWIW, I think pink hair is cute. Wouldn't do it myself, but some guys can pull it off.

-pics?-


Oh, and those 14 year olds behind their computer screens? I eat them for breakfast.(What can I say? Opossums like to eat garbage.)

[fen-ra.livejournal.com]

Don´t worry Lupes, I´m sure your hair rocks socks. Especially if it´s NEON pink.

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Still, what I have found out today is that Middlesbrough is not the type of town to be walking around as a guy with bright pink hair. I have been shouted at and laughed at by strangers who, under any other circumstance, would just have ignored me. This doesn't particularly bother me as it comes with the territory but WHY does it have to be this way? Surely the colour of my hair is irrelevant to anything. Sometimes I despair.

Surely it should be, yes... I don't understand it, either. How small must a mind be and how insecure, anxious and fearful a person to not only think that the colour of your hair makes a difference, but to (verbally) attack you for it?

The mind boggles...

[whitetomger.livejournal.com]

I like your hair and I hope you'll have fun in Germany and look forward to talking to you again soon :3