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

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

We experienced it on Sunday in Newcastle of course, perhaps it's the same in most places. Perhaps society has gone downhill in the last five years. Perhaps I need to learn to carry myself better myself...

[marston.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry to hear you had a bad experience. I've come to count you as a dear friend so it hurts me to think you suffered this. Maybe its a persistent problem everywhere or maybe this whole financial instability has people scared and lashing out once again.

Either way, hold your pink head high, try not to let them bother you. How many of them went to the world's best University and had a book published, eh? :)

[marston.livejournal.com]

In fact, perhaps their inability to find Kevin Keegan was the source of their frustraton :)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

You might be right with the Kevin Keegan thing - these people tend to take these things far too seriously.

In my line of work I deal with idiots too, those who have no courage on their own but in a group they suddenly become hard men (or who become the world's biggest show off behind the safety of a computer keyboard). I don't have time for them and they certainly don't bother me - I'm not going to change who I am to suit in with their skewed definition of social conformity. My general view now is that unless they actually know me, any catcalls are not personal and therefore I am not fussed about them. As you say, I have achieved more in my life so far than any of them will ever achieve so in the end, I am the winner. Also, in doing what they do, they show themselves up to be who they are - brain dead morons with little or no prospects of self-betterment. In a way, that's tremendously sad.

It's interesting really, I was on BBC local radio earlier talking about racism and homophobia in football and I brought up this very incident in Newcastle on Sunday. I am starting to find it increasingly frustrating the amount of racist and homophobic comments that are being promulgated in the media and amongst normal folk I come across on a day to day basis. Indeed, it's starting to get to me a bit.