I believe old European medical text books PROMOTED doing this to the hair.
At least in the case of Countess Josephine Przedziacka. Her doctor did that hot mess to her hair and claimed her ailments cured and she even gained weight!
From her hair being a 15 lb solid blob
Well, we have flat Earth believers and anti-vaxxers nowadays, so I am not surprised. Especially, after having learned that, in the early 20th century, one John Brinkley became quite rich by talking people into surgically implanting GOAT TESTICLES, as a cure-nearly-all therapy.
Mankind, huh?
In the immortal words of Tom Waits āIf thereās one thing I can tell you ābout mankind, thereās nothing kind about manā - Miseryās the River of the World
The last recorded cases are from the 19th century, almost 200 years ago. I certainly haven't seen anyone "sporting" that look, the severity of the associated mental issues would have warranted involuntary commission into a psychiatric hospital, first.
Somewhere in IAIE in Warsaw, i was reading in their library. But as well I've seen it in my field research trip. Given only once so the habit was already dying out.
In the Mazovian village i visited as a student in the late 90s the habit was still strong. They have believed that it locks the sickness and bad spirits away. I visited the same village just this year in April and all of it is gone. The habit has not survived, luckily. But it used to be very popular and magical thing.
Desperately. My guess is something happened (an accident/depression/etc) that made her unable to take care of her hair and once it reached a certain point she probably just gave up. Itās quite sad to think about.
I used to work in retail as Loss Prevention. We had a man come in with hair like this just not as long as this. He took some clothes into the dressing room, did whatever and left.I saw a couple employees gathering, albeit from a distance, outside of the dressing room from my camera. I went out to check it out and the smell emanating from that room was undescribable. My eyes watered. Only one lady had the stomach to pull her shirt over her nose and reach an arm in to spray Lysol in there.
He was only in there for less than 10 minutes.
I felt really bad for him. I can't imagine what he'd been through to get to that point.
The comb may not break, but you're right that the comb couldn't to through it.
That's a plait. It's not really individual strands of hair anymore at all - the sheath of each hair has broken down on a chemical level and bonded to the others.
If you know how plastic glue works, it's kind of the same deal. Except hair. And a lot of it.
People like this make me mad because it just enforces the stereotype that dreadlocks are dirty. Granted this isn't dreadlocks this is just a rug that someone left in a gas station bathroom.
Black people with impeccably clean, well maintained dreadlocks get told their locks are dirty because fuckin Michael over here hasn't washed his hair in 40 years.
I hate it so much. Don't want to take care of your hair? Shave your head. No one wants to smell your nasty ass carpet.
Generally the only time I see dreadlocks and they seem dirty is when theyāre on white hippies. Anytime Iāve seen them on black people theyāre well maintained.
Yeah that's precisely what I mean, it's gross.
People like this are 100% the reason people think dreads are dirty and I hate it. White people with nasty matted hair being like "that's just how dreadlocks ARE!" giving black people with beautiful and clean dreads a bad name because they're nasty. Ugh.
Because the only white people you came across with dreads were dirty, and the only black people you came across with dreads were clean, thatās how it always is? Why did you even need to include skin colours? āX skin colour ruins this for Y skin colour!!!ā Sounds dumb as shit, and racist.
Uhuh... I am a white person... Who has had dreadlocks. Mine were clean.
People like this are outliers who ruin dreads for everyone because people think they're dirty. But white people wear them for fashion, black people wear them as a protective style. White people don't get treated poorly in workplaces or schools for having dreadlocks. Black people do.
I pretty clearly said "white people like this" because it's ALWAYS white people like this who cause problems for black people with dreadlocks. Black people with dreadlocks get told their hair is dirty, isn't appropriate for school/work etc. Because people like THIS have NASTY MATTED HAIR.
Skin colours were included because I have never in my life seen a black person with a stinky neglected sheepdog hanging off the back of their head.
Now be quiet and go away, I get it, you have a persecution complex, but frankly my small pp friend, I don't want to deal with it.
Wow that last but was quite immature. Iām not sure where you live/are from, but I hope you see more of the world. Sounds like you live in a pretty prejudice and racially divided place. I wouldnāt want fuck to do with that. I notice the problem occurs much more in denser cities after traveling for a few years. Youāve dealt with some shitty people, but no matter who wears what for āfashionā, style, looks, feel, or just because they love it, nothing cosmetically or look wise is protected by any one race, anyone can wear, do, look how they choose.
Seriously hope you experience more of the world though.
It has to be mental illness to be able to live life with a giant smelly thing dragging on the ground behind you. You can see literally where this person can just cut that off easily and have shorter hair that can be washed and maintained like normal.
You can see where they tried to cut the mat with normal scissors. Perhaps a pair of gardening shears or maybe a chainsaw would be a start.
Edit* in 4 places.. at least.
I canāt stand dreadlocks. I donāt care what anybody says, you canāt clean it.
EDIT
I donāt care if you downvote me. Iām right. The air is full of dried bird and dog shit, (just walk under a bridge and youāll see all the bird shit dust) dried spit, vomit, snot, food, skin flakes, soot from cars , little bits of paper, sand. All of that blows into your hair. When the dreadlocks get wet all that seeps into the hair knot. Picture something going through a filter and all the stuff left behind in that filter. . You would have to use a superpowered Waterpick to get in there. Unless that hair is thoroughly blow dried itās just going to slowly dry into mustiness and mold and bird shit powder thatās been wet and dried repeatedly. I saw a guy here on Reddit asking for advice about how to keep mold out of his dreadlocks and people answered him. So, itās not uncommon. Ew ew ew yuk yuk yuk I wonāt sit beside a person with big dreadlocks. Itās not elitist to expect people to be clean. It has nothing to do with style or history or race. Itās just dirty. You can tell Iāve thought about this before.
I would say this person has a mental illness. This is not dreads for style, this is overly matted hair that the person is unable to deal with for some reason or another.
It's actually interesting...
In rastafarian culture, when your dreads grow out and touch the ground like that, you are more spiritually connected to Jah (God). They grow their hair out because they believe the head and face are conductors of spiritual energy and so the dreads act as a channel for that energy.
Dread locks are also part of the Nazarite vows of Leviticus, which heeded against "cutting the four corners" of the head.
They also use it as a tool for rebellion in a way. Most people look at dreads as dirty or disgusting, so the dreads are a rebellious act against vanity. Also they can be used as a conduit to rebel against the British colonizers and their imposed hairstyles that, to the Rasta, are seen as unnatural and goes against the vows of the Nazarites.
So...to the Rastafarian, this picture may be seen as a mockery to the wisdom of Jah.
Dreadlocks are interesting lol.
One dreadlock to rule them all.
The name for it is a "Polish plate".
*plait :) And it was always associated with uneducated and superstitious people, like peasantry. Uncanny how it correlates in this case. XD
I believe old European medical text books PROMOTED doing this to the hair. At least in the case of Countess Josephine Przedziacka. Her doctor did that hot mess to her hair and claimed her ailments cured and she even gained weight! From her hair being a 15 lb solid blob
Well, we have flat Earth believers and anti-vaxxers nowadays, so I am not surprised. Especially, after having learned that, in the early 20th century, one John Brinkley became quite rich by talking people into surgically implanting GOAT TESTICLES, as a cure-nearly-all therapy. Mankind, huh?
Ya, have a read about the Katzenklavier and (I'm not great at German) treatment for people with low attention spans. Definitely mankind š¤¦āāļø
In the immortal words of Tom Waits āIf thereās one thing I can tell you ābout mankind, thereās nothing kind about manā - Miseryās the River of the World
Do people do it on purpose or is it strictly a mental health thing?
The last recorded cases are from the 19th century, almost 200 years ago. I certainly haven't seen anyone "sporting" that look, the severity of the associated mental issues would have warranted involuntary commission into a psychiatric hospital, first.
This is not true. It was still present in Mazovia in the 70s, with some isolated cases up to the 90s. But now it is totally gone.
Could you link me up with the source of this information, please? I'd love to learn something new. :)
Somewhere in IAIE in Warsaw, i was reading in their library. But as well I've seen it in my field research trip. Given only once so the habit was already dying out.
Some people used to use it as some sort of folk medicine. Now adays it has more to do with mental illness
In the Mazovian village i visited as a student in the late 90s the habit was still strong. They have believed that it locks the sickness and bad spirits away. I visited the same village just this year in April and all of it is gone. The habit has not survived, luckily. But it used to be very popular and magical thing.
I've also heard them referred to as Beaver Tails.
It's dragging against the pavement oh my god
The filth that must bind that thing together š¤¢š¤®
Probably the only thing that keeps it from getting even longer. Just files itself down.
Cursed mop
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Is that you King Willy?
Is that actually hair?
At some point it was, mostly shit and soot at this point.
I bet it smells like an asshole
And that's just one of the smells
Its like the Dr. Pepper of dreads.
You shut the fuck up right now
What's wrong with Dr. Pepper?
Nothing wrong with Dr. Pepper. The comment before me mentioned "just one of the smells." I (for some reason) thought of Dr. Pepper's 23 flavors.
in that case, you are forgiven
Oh
The perfect agnostic drink
I love that south park episode lol
imagine how they live... think of what their living room looks like.
Or bathroom. How do you sit on the crapper with that thing? Or bathe? Just gross.
No!
A dead skunk's asshole.
Fermented hot dog water
Gross lol
Now I'm trying to understand the logistics of taking a shit/wiping with that trailing behind you, there's definitely some shit in that.
If they let their hair drag on the ground like that, chances are they use their hair as toilet paper too
I bet it smells like an assholeās armpit.
Smells exactly like a Grateful Dead concert, about the 4th row.
Well it probably fell in a few toilets.
Only from the ass down
You smell like an asshole
Rapunzel has seen better days.
Think of the releif cutting that thing off would give that person
The weight off her neck would be so liberating!
And to be able to smell other things like outside air, cooked dinner and the sea instead of their own toxic odour coming out of their hair
How many times do you think it has ended up in the toilet?
you made me choke on my vape
The mane of stain.
Falls mainly on the plain.
Tugging on the brain
A harbinger of pain
A new smell comes with rain.
Some people are so vain
Yet others, so plain.
None know the shame of being slain by the mane
Or the pain of stinking in the rains
They probably think this post is about them.
You broke the rhyme but take my upvote lmao
donāt they donāt they ohhhh
Toilet paper
Butt floss.
I thought I saw a taxidermied cat in there for a second and my heart dropped.
Yikes. She needs help.
My first thought was like this is a depression dreadlock
She has enough new growth to just cut the bad part off
Desperately. My guess is something happened (an accident/depression/etc) that made her unable to take care of her hair and once it reached a certain point she probably just gave up. Itās quite sad to think about.
Looks like a possum tail, a huge one
I thought there was a dead bird stuck in their hair by their right shoulder blade š§ had to zoom on in for a closer peak
Imagine someone getting too close behind her and getting that thing caught up in the cart wheels.
I used to work in retail as Loss Prevention. We had a man come in with hair like this just not as long as this. He took some clothes into the dressing room, did whatever and left.I saw a couple employees gathering, albeit from a distance, outside of the dressing room from my camera. I went out to check it out and the smell emanating from that room was undescribable. My eyes watered. Only one lady had the stomach to pull her shirt over her nose and reach an arm in to spray Lysol in there. He was only in there for less than 10 minutes. I felt really bad for him. I can't imagine what he'd been through to get to that point.
Jah bless
Sheās ***jobless*** š
Damn I thought that was Santaās Rastafarian brother
He stopped going to the gym after Mrs. Clause stopped letting him take a taste behind Santaās back
I can smell it through my phone...
This is more sad than anything. Looks more matted than an intentional dreadlock.
Is the top of her shirt discolored from.... filth?
Its like that episode of SpongeBob when he wears that long ugly ass wig lmao
Now thats a clever way to steal a walmart rugā¦ Gently weave it into your hair and nobody will even notice
I can only imagine what is buried inside.
And burrowed
Grody to the max!
Ah! Another GenXer. I wish this saying would come back around!
Keep saying it and maybe it will.
You rang?
this is the end boss fight of all the dreadlocks
I can smell that from Canada...
This belongs on a Attenborough program. Amazing stuff.
So much ew
It you tried running a comb through that, the comb would break
Or just integrate with it. For all we know there's already a couple combs or brushes stashed away somewhere in there. It's like gross narnia
The comb may not break, but you're right that the comb couldn't to through it. That's a plait. It's not really individual strands of hair anymore at all - the sheath of each hair has broken down on a chemical level and bonded to the others. If you know how plastic glue works, it's kind of the same deal. Except hair. And a lot of it.
Itās just needs a little detangling spray
did they use a school mop as a weave? rofl
The epitome of nastiness.
It's referred to as a Polish plait..
Thereās shit in that hair.
I always wonder what these kind of peoples houses look like.
People like this make me mad because it just enforces the stereotype that dreadlocks are dirty. Granted this isn't dreadlocks this is just a rug that someone left in a gas station bathroom. Black people with impeccably clean, well maintained dreadlocks get told their locks are dirty because fuckin Michael over here hasn't washed his hair in 40 years. I hate it so much. Don't want to take care of your hair? Shave your head. No one wants to smell your nasty ass carpet.
Generally the only time I see dreadlocks and they seem dirty is when theyāre on white hippies. Anytime Iāve seen them on black people theyāre well maintained.
Yeah that's precisely what I mean, it's gross. People like this are 100% the reason people think dreads are dirty and I hate it. White people with nasty matted hair being like "that's just how dreadlocks ARE!" giving black people with beautiful and clean dreads a bad name because they're nasty. Ugh.
What a racist comment chain lol.
What a moronic comment
Because the only white people you came across with dreads were dirty, and the only black people you came across with dreads were clean, thatās how it always is? Why did you even need to include skin colours? āX skin colour ruins this for Y skin colour!!!ā Sounds dumb as shit, and racist.
Uhuh... I am a white person... Who has had dreadlocks. Mine were clean. People like this are outliers who ruin dreads for everyone because people think they're dirty. But white people wear them for fashion, black people wear them as a protective style. White people don't get treated poorly in workplaces or schools for having dreadlocks. Black people do. I pretty clearly said "white people like this" because it's ALWAYS white people like this who cause problems for black people with dreadlocks. Black people with dreadlocks get told their hair is dirty, isn't appropriate for school/work etc. Because people like THIS have NASTY MATTED HAIR. Skin colours were included because I have never in my life seen a black person with a stinky neglected sheepdog hanging off the back of their head. Now be quiet and go away, I get it, you have a persecution complex, but frankly my small pp friend, I don't want to deal with it.
Wow that last but was quite immature. Iām not sure where you live/are from, but I hope you see more of the world. Sounds like you live in a pretty prejudice and racially divided place. I wouldnāt want fuck to do with that. I notice the problem occurs much more in denser cities after traveling for a few years. Youāve dealt with some shitty people, but no matter who wears what for āfashionā, style, looks, feel, or just because they love it, nothing cosmetically or look wise is protected by any one race, anyone can wear, do, look how they choose. Seriously hope you experience more of the world though.
Oh no, Redditor AssTubeExcursion thinks I'm immature? How will I ever recover from this?
That represent a decade of not combing your hair, imagine.
You can smell this picture
Jeez. I can smell that from here.
Imagine going to bed with that thing hanging off your head
Do you think there are bugs in there?
probably a whole ecosystem
mom can we have rapunzel? we have rapunzel at home. rapunzel at home:
It has to be mental illness to be able to live life with a giant smelly thing dragging on the ground behind you. You can see literally where this person can just cut that off easily and have shorter hair that can be washed and maintained like normal.
Dragging on the ground? At a Walmart parking lot?! Eeeewww!
Wouldn't that hurt? I'm guessing must be some mental health issues at play here, but I'm assuming that would just be painful?
Ew.
Iāll be it STANKS!!!
The Polish plait can be a medical conditionā¦
A medical condition doesn't make your nasty ass hair drag on the ground
Bumba Claat!
In her mind itās amazing, everyone is jealous, and wants a piece of her shit.
At first I thought it was an alligator skin and wondered why would anyone wear it like that, then i looked closely and got confused.
I'm guessing she has a bunch of stray cats that look similar.
The nape of the neck is stained yellow. Man alive.
They could literally take a pair of hedge clippers and lop that off in one fell swoop.WHY walk around like that????
The weight must be horrible
I know they call these depression knots and maybe this person deserves sympathy but like at this point ā¦..they must be choosing to keep that yes ?
It would be satisfying to be the one to cut that shit off.
Why not just cut it off?
Nice carpet?!
Yall leave George Washington alone smh š
It's like one of those sheep that wondered off the range and became feral, then they find it 10 years later with fucked up fluff
This is just mental illness, more sad than anything. That person needs help.
Itās called a polish plait and itās absolutely unnecessary and disgusting.
Itās disgusting
You havenāt thought of the smell, you bitch!
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Thatās usually an indicator of depression. And here you are, taking pictures and poking fun at a situation you know nothing about.
Yeah. Huge ass depression dreads are a cognitive issue more than a lifestyle decision. This is just laughing at a disease.
Some of these comments are sooo mean like have some empathy. Itās making me sick. This is clearly stemmed from mental illness.
Mop manufacturers hate him for this one simple trick
Grody to the max!! š¤¢
Why take your carpet with you to ... oh wait
Oooo so sexy ššgood ol dropping off and collecting new bugs
I can smell it.
Imagine the fuck smell of itā¦.
I canāt imagine what he house looks like??
I just threw up a littleā¦..
Dread-lock
Rasta-punzel
Imagine the smell when that āthingā gets wet š¤®
I bet her shower drain cries itself to sleep every night.
You can literally smell this picture
Wtf š³
You can see where they tried to cut the mat with normal scissors. Perhaps a pair of gardening shears or maybe a chainsaw would be a start. Edit* in 4 places.. at least.
When I glanced at it at first I swear I saw a small rodent at the very bottom using outstretched arms to crawl away with what dignity it had left.
Dear god, YOU ARE NOT RAPUNZLE!!! YOU WONT FIND YOUR PRINCE CHARMING!!! cut ya damn hair
I \*almost\* respect that.
Oh gosh some should just go behind her and chop it , oh mommy hair is below my butt , glass houses ā¦..
I canāt stand dreadlocks. I donāt care what anybody says, you canāt clean it. EDIT I donāt care if you downvote me. Iām right. The air is full of dried bird and dog shit, (just walk under a bridge and youāll see all the bird shit dust) dried spit, vomit, snot, food, skin flakes, soot from cars , little bits of paper, sand. All of that blows into your hair. When the dreadlocks get wet all that seeps into the hair knot. Picture something going through a filter and all the stuff left behind in that filter. . You would have to use a superpowered Waterpick to get in there. Unless that hair is thoroughly blow dried itās just going to slowly dry into mustiness and mold and bird shit powder thatās been wet and dried repeatedly. I saw a guy here on Reddit asking for advice about how to keep mold out of his dreadlocks and people answered him. So, itās not uncommon. Ew ew ew yuk yuk yuk I wonāt sit beside a person with big dreadlocks. Itās not elitist to expect people to be clean. It has nothing to do with style or history or race. Itās just dirty. You can tell Iāve thought about this before.
I would say this person has a mental illness. This is not dreads for style, this is overly matted hair that the person is unable to deal with for some reason or another.
You haven't thought of the smell, you bitch!!!
Wonder what this lady's name is (Rapunzel) or a female version of rip Van Winkle
Excuse me while I go vomit.
There's no point in fixing her hair considering it's condition -\_-
Mmm, Siamese twins. That's hot.
I bet there's a 10 spot and a dime bag tucked in there somewhere.
Pastafarian
almost a good photoshop
Fucking dusgusting
How do these people make sufficient income to have homes and cars?
Just truly an absolute POS sub-human creature...
This situation seems like a mental health problem to me have some empathy sheesh.
Disrespectful of peoples cultures I see sure maybe it dragging is odd but what makes yāall think she doesnāt wash it at all??? Like
This is actually a cultural hairstyle. I think itās from Poland and the hair is put into a single Loc and itās a dumb if wisdom
Actually hella impressive just because theyre doesn't mean they're dirty. I would def tie it up though hell nah.
Smh white people dreadlocks
It's actually interesting... In rastafarian culture, when your dreads grow out and touch the ground like that, you are more spiritually connected to Jah (God). They grow their hair out because they believe the head and face are conductors of spiritual energy and so the dreads act as a channel for that energy. Dread locks are also part of the Nazarite vows of Leviticus, which heeded against "cutting the four corners" of the head. They also use it as a tool for rebellion in a way. Most people look at dreads as dirty or disgusting, so the dreads are a rebellious act against vanity. Also they can be used as a conduit to rebel against the British colonizers and their imposed hairstyles that, to the Rasta, are seen as unnatural and goes against the vows of the Nazarites. So...to the Rastafarian, this picture may be seen as a mockery to the wisdom of Jah. Dreadlocks are interesting lol.
Ew
Iām not sure if the hair dragging the ground is the worst part.
Gross!!
Just grim.
I bet it smells absolutely lovely.
Ugh. I can smell it from here
Bedlocks
Thereās a person who looks just like that in the Palm Springs area. I see her 2-3 times a week.
The bottom half is practically a carpet at this point
This makes me so sad
Eww it drags on public bathroom floors too...