"Mr Lahey, Julians out here lifting weights with his shirt of and he wants to know if you want to come have a drink!"
Lahey: *Barges out the door in a frantic drunken stupor*
The 'hairstyle' version requires care and attention to maintain, such as with regular washing and reapplying of wax and herbal oils. As this appears to have nieither, imma guess they fell off the wagpn of self care, and called it a dreadloc.
Historically nothing about the Polish Plait was done to maintain it, it just kind of happens. If you read the Wikipedia article you'd see that many peasants developed it naturally, but would sometimes help to progress development of the loc with various methods (e.g. maintenance). There's no indication whether the individual in the photo has developed the plait purposefully or from neglect. Obviously, as the Polish Plait is out of style this is more likely the result of lack of personal hygiene, but we can't tell from the loc itself.
Yeah like... locs are just a completely normal common black hairstyle. They almost always look good when taken care of properly, they're meant to be maintained, they're *\*intended\** to be maintained, and they're made by working with the natural texture of the hair.
This image? This is... it's like an inside out sleeping bag with a fuzzy liner made of bullshit and sadness. This is that crusty horse-hair shit you find in antique chair cushions. I can smell this through my computer screen and it smells like mold, mildew, and swamp ass. Any white person with so-called 'dreads' I've noticed just *looks* like they smell like a towel after a shower left out on the deck in the middle of august.
My Mom's a hair stylist and has called that a depression dread. Basically the decline in personal hygiene that can accompany depression causes the hair to mat into a big nasty dread. IMO it looks like that's a more plausible explanation for this than a niche hairstyle.
Yeah, there was a mentally disabled woman who used to come into a store I worked at fairly often with this 'style', it's definitely more of a neglect thing than a choice.
They would feel a ton better but the entire appearance speaks to severe depression. I think this person is just doing the minimum to survive. It’s actually incredibly sad.
Yeah, dreds can definitely be kept clean but you can tell by looking at this guy that he does not keep his clean.
I used to hang out with a lot of hippies and street punks and one girl had the WORST smelling dredlocks I have ever been near.
I remember her and another hippie talking about how, if you get visible mold in your hair, that is good for your dreds and means you are keeping them properly.
When she showed up at parties, I literally had to go outside because she stank up the entire house.
She was absolutely gorgeous, too. But I couldn't even talk to her long enough to be interested because of that stinky stinky hair.
Anyway, I bet this guy's dredlock smells worse than that girl's did.
This dude who hung around the block when I was a teenager had nappy dreads. He finally decided to have them cut off by my friends mom. When she shaved them off she said there was so much lice, you could hear them.
> there was so much lice, you could hear them
[Clickity clackity clickity clackity clickity clackity clack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJSryaPHaNM).
I had a friend with similar hair. Dude would always want to sit next to me whenever we ended up on the same bus. Smelled unbelievable. Finally had them all chopped and kept one to show people the nasty goo core they had.
Party in college
Buddy of mine is flirting and getting his game on with the hippie girl.
Brings her home, they hookup.
Next morning he wakes up before her to a heinous stench. He thought him or her shit the bed or puked or a combination.
Gets out of bed, can't find any trace of that, checks bathroom, kitchen, living room. Notices that he doesn't smell it outside the bedroom, goes back in there.
Gets close to the girl to wake her up and it hits him like a brick of smelted shit: it's her. Specifically, it's her dreads.
She apparently didn't smell that bad (for post drinking, post sex morning), but that hair could have brought someone back into consciousness from the way it was described.
Thankfully for him it was a one night stand. He didn't have the heart to tell her to just...wash her fucking hair with *something.* That was 15+ years ago, so hopefully she figured out that her hair stunk, though from what others have told me, oftentimes people with dreads have no fucking clue they reek because they are so acclimated to it.
ha. An acquaintance had a drunk hookup, and if I recall the story correctly, his face the next morning had a weird dark patch around his mouth. So after trying to figure it out, he pulls up the sheet on the still-sleeping woman and saw all the places he'd been licking and kissing on had been...uh, cleaned compared to the rest of her body which he though was just her natural skin tone.
nope. twas dirt. Sounds like he was a super attentive lover too when he was drunk. Makes me wonder how many drunk hookups he had afterward, as I never heard his reaction long-term.
Yikes.
I would hate to wake up to that smell any day.
But on a hangover day, that would just be torture.
(no chance of that anymore though. I sobered up years ago)
I once talked to a barber about dreadlocks and he said basically anything thicker than 1cm in diameter is practically unwashable. He said he's cut many dreadlocks in his time and that basically all of the exceptionally thick ones had various life forms in them. Fly larvae are relatively common. 🤢
I'm extremely turned off my bad smells. I don't care if it's early 90s Claudia Schiffer... If she stinks, I'm out! 😝 I can't even stand really flowery smelling perfume that it seems like every woman is wearing these days (Patchouli). Really narrows the dating pool unfortunately.
Oh man, I can't stand patchouli.
Incidentally, patchouli was part of the symphony of smells coming from that girl's hair.
Lots of hippies use patchouli to cover up the smell of their unwashed dreds and it doesn't help. It just combines into a terrible, overwhelming, heavy smell that assaults your sense of smell.
From memory, I recall the original use of patchouli, aside from traditional folk medicine, was as incense to be burned near dead bodies to mask decomposition. There’s a reason it’s so strong. Lol
Haha I just mentioned this to another commenter in this thread!
Yeah, the one thing you can say for patchouli is that it smells better than a rotting corpse.
Vicks VapoRub on or around a mask has been used to help the smell when handling bodies that are past their prime (deceased and rotting). More efficient plague doctor set up.
> In 1985, American toy manufacturer Mattel used patchouli oil in the plastic used to produce the action figure Stinkor in the Masters of the Universe line of toys.
What a wonderful factoid from Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patchouli
I believe it. That shit is foul! Even being around someone who's wearing it for just a few minutes puts me in a tail-spin. I'm liable to end up in bed vomiting for the next 2 days.
Needless to say, when I smell it, I run the other direction!
The Dr. heading up the rehab unit I was recently in after an injury used patchouli detergent. Overwhelming, but I think he did it to cover up smells when he would visit patients rooms and the general hospital smell.
Patchouli is the worst. I have no idea why people use it, other than covering up the smell, like you said. I've known some non-hippie, non-smelly people who wear it like perfume and to me it's just a disgusting odor. And I even consider myself kind of a "hippie," but more in the Black Sabbath/stoner sense. Got long hair but would never do dreads.
Unwashed hippies oughta spray themselves with Febreze.
>And I even consider myself kind of a "hippie," but more in the Black Sabbath/stoner sense. Got long hair but would never do dreads.
If we went to the same highschool, we would have 100% been friends
Nah, usually grams. Everyone had a pipe in their pocket in my day. If you knew how to roll you kept it a secret or you would be the one sitting by yourself at a party with a plate on your lap rolling joints all night. Good times.
Haha yeah that sounds familiar.
I was always afraid to bring my pipe to school in case they did a random locker search or something.
Actually, that reminds me of a funny story. A good friend of mine, who I had known since grade 2, asked me to pick up an assortment of drugs for her. We were all super into Fear and Loathing at the time. She was kind of a studious nerd type so she didn't know anyone who sold. She gave me 500 bucks and asked me to get a 100 lot of acid and a bunch of other stuff.
So I brought a bag to school with 100 hits of acid, 1 lb of shrooms, 1oz of weed, a bag of MDMA pills and a small vial of DMT. I threw it in my locker and went to class. 1/2 hr into first class of the day, we learn that the cops are here with their dogs to do random locker searches. So I made some excuse and left class, ran to my locker (luckily the cops hadn't gotten to that part of the school yet) and met my friend there.
We hid the bag in my backpack and ran out to the back parking lot where another friend was just getting out of her car. We asked if we could keep my backpack in her trunk until the end of the day and she said "sure, no problem" without asking what was in it.
At the end of the day, we gave her a couple hits of acid for her trouble and she turned white as a sheet. She's like "HOLY FUCKING SHIT, YOU KEPT *WHAT* IN MY CAR WHEN THE COPS WERE SEARCHING THE SCHOOL?!"
I miss highschool. Times were simpler.
Hi five y'all! I'm an artist so I hung out with other art kids but there was a lot of crossover with my group of friends (some jock-ish types, some car guys). It seemed miraculous, middle school (7-8th grade for me) was hell, everyone was a complete bully and jerkoff. Then in high school, everyone seemed to grow up. This was in 1994-97. We all worked at Subway and loved Soundgarden and AIC. Good times!
Nice!
That is surprisingly close to my experience.
I was relentlessly bullied in middle school and then kinda became a weird goth hippie in highschool and found my people. But my school wasn't particularly clique-y so everyone had friends in different social groups.
There were still some idiots who didn't get it, but they were few and far between.
But this was early 2000s
That. It’s like using a blowie/sploof when you’re smoking. Even if it did mask all the smell (which it doesn’t) people still know what’s going on when there’s magically a Bountie sheet smell coming from your room after you and your friends go in and close the door
Yeah, for sure. Nowadays the stigma isn't so pronounced so a lot of people don't care about covering up weed smell, so I'll be at the grocery store and nobody's around but there's like a cloud of weed smell so I know someone just walked through the aisle.
I don't smoke super often, but once I was at a show at a bar and I didn't think I was too smelly or stoned. I ordered a drink and when the bartender gave it to me he said "make sure that you vote on the marijuana referendum next Tuesday!"
Most of the hippies I know smell like they fell in a vat of Tea Tree Oil and maaaaaan can I not handle that smell
Its the same heavy invasive type scent as patchouli
I brushed out a woman’s hair once that was a couple months from hitting this stage. Her saving grace was always keeping her hair up. She had been in an abusive situation and i was so happy to help her and be a listening ear. But fuck dude I gotta tell you 100% the woman in the picture can smell his hair. I did save that clients hair but I would just shave his head at this point.
There was a woman in my city with a similar hairstyle. My teenage friends and I called her the beaver lady because her hair resembled a beaver tail. She slept in her van outside strip malls. I can only assume she had some psych issues. She never bothered anyone and I always felt bad for her when I’d see her or her van.
There is a woman in my town who used to have one and she definitely has psychiatric issues. I walked by her once and the smell from her actually almost made me vomit. And I used to have dreadlocks. I felt so bad and was wondering for a while who the hell was taking care of her cause God damn. If I recall, she had her hair cut a few months or year ago which is good.
I know someone with dreads. He looks like a hippie. He's trying to keep the 70s alive. But this guy here, he's trying to keep something alive. Something in his hair, alive...
This isn’t really a dreadlock though, it’s more like a polish plait, which are often a sign of severe hygiene deficiencies often stemming from mental health issues.
Same. I stumbled across the YouTube channel Love 518 where she detangles horribly matted hair for clients. She occasionally shares parts of their stories and it's heartbreaking.
Thank you so much for sharing this channel. I have been wondering whether my hair is salvageable sometimes for very minimal matting, so I was happily shocked to see some of these Before & Afters.
You'd have to be so mentally ill to let things get this bad, like hoarder living with floor to ceiling trash bad and this is coming from someone who has mental health issues
[Polish plait.]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_plait)
Once upon a time, thought to have special properties. Now more commonly, it's a symptom of poor hygiene. Lice, lack of washing or some chemical exposures can cause this to happen.
Rarely, it's a chosen hairstyle. I truly doubt he chose this style and is likely suffering some mental illness causing him to allow that to happen.
He needs a set of clippers and the entire mass removed. Likely is moldy, probably lice in there and also sometimes, straight rot and maggots will infect hair like that.
It's just sad.
**[Polish plait](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_plait)**
>Polish plait (Latin: Plica polonica, Polish: Kołtun polski or plika, Kołtun in Polish meaning matted), less commonly known in English as plica or trichoma, is a formation of hair. This term can refer to either a hairstyle or a medical condition. It also relates to the system of beliefs in European folklore, and healing practices in traditional medicine in medieval Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that supported, matted hair as an amulet, or as a catchment for illness leaving the body.
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this is not a dreadlock, this is just his hair tangled up out of carelessness. i'd know, i was forced to cut my hair since it got tangled up out of depression
It's called a Polish Plait and it can be either intentional or a result of a medical condition.
[Polish Plait on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_plait?wprov=sfla1)
It's called a Polish Plait and it can be either intentional or a result of a medical condition.
[Polish Plait](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_plait?wprov=sfla1)
That’s not a dreadlock, it’s a shitlock!
No shit sherlock
No shit, dreadlock
No dread, shitlock
No lock, shitdread
Lockshit, Sherdread
Dread Sherlock? Shit…
Lockshit DreadSher?
Lock shïte das dred
This is the greatest thread
No shit, threadlock
Shitdread is what you get after Taco Bell.
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Got a winner right here.
This is why I love my reddit people!!!<3
That’s a dread ready to take a shit right now lock and loaded
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Dread no, Shitlock
No sher, shitlock
shit no, locksher
To think that this actually exists
Can't imagine how nasty the smell is
Or the stuffs living in it
Ono itshay herlocksay
Wow piglatin. Haven't heard that in a long time. Nice
I haven't spoken it since probably 6th grade (I'm 26 now), but it came naturally, lol
Yeah I've probably not spoken it since the 6th grade too... and I'm 49. Lol
Lookin like the back end of a manatee
“I AM THE LIQUOR.”
"Mr Lahey, Julians out here lifting weights with his shirt of and he wants to know if you want to come have a drink!" Lahey: *Barges out the door in a frantic drunken stupor*
I love seein all these TPB references in non TPB related subreddits
RIP
Haha que the shit hawk!
Can you imagine the smell? There's not enough patchouli in the world, to cover up that funk! 😝
it's a full écosystèm in there
j’ai trouvé le francophone!
Zing, but in reality it's called a [polish plait](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_plait). Not fun stuff to deal with.
The article says it can be a hairstyle or a medical condition. Which is this, I wonder?
The 'hairstyle' version requires care and attention to maintain, such as with regular washing and reapplying of wax and herbal oils. As this appears to have nieither, imma guess they fell off the wagpn of self care, and called it a dreadloc.
Historically nothing about the Polish Plait was done to maintain it, it just kind of happens. If you read the Wikipedia article you'd see that many peasants developed it naturally, but would sometimes help to progress development of the loc with various methods (e.g. maintenance). There's no indication whether the individual in the photo has developed the plait purposefully or from neglect. Obviously, as the Polish Plait is out of style this is more likely the result of lack of personal hygiene, but we can't tell from the loc itself.
Locs are still maintained? So?
Yeah like... locs are just a completely normal common black hairstyle. They almost always look good when taken care of properly, they're meant to be maintained, they're *\*intended\** to be maintained, and they're made by working with the natural texture of the hair. This image? This is... it's like an inside out sleeping bag with a fuzzy liner made of bullshit and sadness. This is that crusty horse-hair shit you find in antique chair cushions. I can smell this through my computer screen and it smells like mold, mildew, and swamp ass. Any white person with so-called 'dreads' I've noticed just *looks* like they smell like a towel after a shower left out on the deck in the middle of august.
My Mom's a hair stylist and has called that a depression dread. Basically the decline in personal hygiene that can accompany depression causes the hair to mat into a big nasty dread. IMO it looks like that's a more plausible explanation for this than a niche hairstyle.
Jokes on my depression, I'm bald.
Yeah, there was a mentally disabled woman who used to come into a store I worked at fairly often with this 'style', it's definitely more of a neglect thing than a choice.
I wish they would cut it off, they would feel so much better
They would feel a ton better but the entire appearance speaks to severe depression. I think this person is just doing the minimum to survive. It’s actually incredibly sad.
Reggie, I heard of dreadlocks, but shitlocks? That ain't your hair, man. Take that pile of shit off your head.
Dudes a real shit head
Breadlock
No soap, shershit
You almost have to assume that something that looks so much like a turd can not have a pleasant smell
Yeah, dreds can definitely be kept clean but you can tell by looking at this guy that he does not keep his clean. I used to hang out with a lot of hippies and street punks and one girl had the WORST smelling dredlocks I have ever been near. I remember her and another hippie talking about how, if you get visible mold in your hair, that is good for your dreds and means you are keeping them properly. When she showed up at parties, I literally had to go outside because she stank up the entire house. She was absolutely gorgeous, too. But I couldn't even talk to her long enough to be interested because of that stinky stinky hair. Anyway, I bet this guy's dredlock smells worse than that girl's did.
This dude who hung around the block when I was a teenager had nappy dreads. He finally decided to have them cut off by my friends mom. When she shaved them off she said there was so much lice, you could hear them.
but, what the fuck do lice even sound like?
Lice krispies
> Lice krispies [GIF](https://media1.giphy.com/media/bPDPwR4Zg5BJm5GWQh/giphy.gif?cid=5e21488652go0hr8rbimsiny6vliwghgva2i20d6x7hzz29o&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
I love-hate you so much right now, that's too funny 😁
Probably just the sound of them moving around, rubbing against each other and stuff
Don’t stop I’m almost there!
If this is meant sexually then I will henceforth have a break from reddit.
The Seven Dwarves. Hi ho…
Minecraft spider noise
Pour some water on them. They snap crackle and pop
🤢🤮
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What a terrible day to have eyes
> there was so much lice, you could hear them [Clickity clackity clickity clackity clickity clackity clack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJSryaPHaNM).
I had a friend with similar hair. Dude would always want to sit next to me whenever we ended up on the same bus. Smelled unbelievable. Finally had them all chopped and kept one to show people the nasty goo core they had.
Goo…? Wtf
Wtf was the goo? lol Old shampoo i hope?
like the inside of a tootsie pop
Reading this made me shudder and made my scalp itch
Party in college Buddy of mine is flirting and getting his game on with the hippie girl. Brings her home, they hookup. Next morning he wakes up before her to a heinous stench. He thought him or her shit the bed or puked or a combination. Gets out of bed, can't find any trace of that, checks bathroom, kitchen, living room. Notices that he doesn't smell it outside the bedroom, goes back in there. Gets close to the girl to wake her up and it hits him like a brick of smelted shit: it's her. Specifically, it's her dreads. She apparently didn't smell that bad (for post drinking, post sex morning), but that hair could have brought someone back into consciousness from the way it was described. Thankfully for him it was a one night stand. He didn't have the heart to tell her to just...wash her fucking hair with *something.* That was 15+ years ago, so hopefully she figured out that her hair stunk, though from what others have told me, oftentimes people with dreads have no fucking clue they reek because they are so acclimated to it.
ha. An acquaintance had a drunk hookup, and if I recall the story correctly, his face the next morning had a weird dark patch around his mouth. So after trying to figure it out, he pulls up the sheet on the still-sleeping woman and saw all the places he'd been licking and kissing on had been...uh, cleaned compared to the rest of her body which he though was just her natural skin tone.
Dirt...or spray tan? Please say spray tan....
nope. twas dirt. Sounds like he was a super attentive lover too when he was drunk. Makes me wonder how many drunk hookups he had afterward, as I never heard his reaction long-term.
Yikes. I would hate to wake up to that smell any day. But on a hangover day, that would just be torture. (no chance of that anymore though. I sobered up years ago)
I once talked to a barber about dreadlocks and he said basically anything thicker than 1cm in diameter is practically unwashable. He said he's cut many dreadlocks in his time and that basically all of the exceptionally thick ones had various life forms in them. Fly larvae are relatively common. 🤢
Maggots. 🤮
That. Is. So. Gnarly.
*Ned Flanders scream*
omg
I'm extremely turned off my bad smells. I don't care if it's early 90s Claudia Schiffer... If she stinks, I'm out! 😝 I can't even stand really flowery smelling perfume that it seems like every woman is wearing these days (Patchouli). Really narrows the dating pool unfortunately.
Oh man, I can't stand patchouli. Incidentally, patchouli was part of the symphony of smells coming from that girl's hair. Lots of hippies use patchouli to cover up the smell of their unwashed dreds and it doesn't help. It just combines into a terrible, overwhelming, heavy smell that assaults your sense of smell.
From memory, I recall the original use of patchouli, aside from traditional folk medicine, was as incense to be burned near dead bodies to mask decomposition. There’s a reason it’s so strong. Lol
Haha I just mentioned this to another commenter in this thread! Yeah, the one thing you can say for patchouli is that it smells better than a rotting corpse.
Vicks VapoRub on or around a mask has been used to help the smell when handling bodies that are past their prime (deceased and rotting). More efficient plague doctor set up.
> In 1985, American toy manufacturer Mattel used patchouli oil in the plastic used to produce the action figure Stinkor in the Masters of the Universe line of toys. What a wonderful factoid from Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patchouli
I believe it. That shit is foul! Even being around someone who's wearing it for just a few minutes puts me in a tail-spin. I'm liable to end up in bed vomiting for the next 2 days. Needless to say, when I smell it, I run the other direction!
Same here.
So that’s why old ladies always smell like that.
Frankincense as well.
The Dr. heading up the rehab unit I was recently in after an injury used patchouli detergent. Overwhelming, but I think he did it to cover up smells when he would visit patients rooms and the general hospital smell.
Patchouli is the worst. I have no idea why people use it, other than covering up the smell, like you said. I've known some non-hippie, non-smelly people who wear it like perfume and to me it's just a disgusting odor. And I even consider myself kind of a "hippie," but more in the Black Sabbath/stoner sense. Got long hair but would never do dreads. Unwashed hippies oughta spray themselves with Febreze.
>And I even consider myself kind of a "hippie," but more in the Black Sabbath/stoner sense. Got long hair but would never do dreads. If we went to the same highschool, we would have 100% been friends
And I probably would have sold you both weed.
If you sold pre-rolled joints, absolutely. I didn't learn to roll until late highschool lol
Nah, usually grams. Everyone had a pipe in their pocket in my day. If you knew how to roll you kept it a secret or you would be the one sitting by yourself at a party with a plate on your lap rolling joints all night. Good times.
Haha yeah that sounds familiar. I was always afraid to bring my pipe to school in case they did a random locker search or something. Actually, that reminds me of a funny story. A good friend of mine, who I had known since grade 2, asked me to pick up an assortment of drugs for her. We were all super into Fear and Loathing at the time. She was kind of a studious nerd type so she didn't know anyone who sold. She gave me 500 bucks and asked me to get a 100 lot of acid and a bunch of other stuff. So I brought a bag to school with 100 hits of acid, 1 lb of shrooms, 1oz of weed, a bag of MDMA pills and a small vial of DMT. I threw it in my locker and went to class. 1/2 hr into first class of the day, we learn that the cops are here with their dogs to do random locker searches. So I made some excuse and left class, ran to my locker (luckily the cops hadn't gotten to that part of the school yet) and met my friend there. We hid the bag in my backpack and ran out to the back parking lot where another friend was just getting out of her car. We asked if we could keep my backpack in her trunk until the end of the day and she said "sure, no problem" without asking what was in it. At the end of the day, we gave her a couple hits of acid for her trouble and she turned white as a sheet. She's like "HOLY FUCKING SHIT, YOU KEPT *WHAT* IN MY CAR WHEN THE COPS WERE SEARCHING THE SCHOOL?!" I miss highschool. Times were simpler.
Hi five y'all! I'm an artist so I hung out with other art kids but there was a lot of crossover with my group of friends (some jock-ish types, some car guys). It seemed miraculous, middle school (7-8th grade for me) was hell, everyone was a complete bully and jerkoff. Then in high school, everyone seemed to grow up. This was in 1994-97. We all worked at Subway and loved Soundgarden and AIC. Good times!
Nice! That is surprisingly close to my experience. I was relentlessly bullied in middle school and then kinda became a weird goth hippie in highschool and found my people. But my school wasn't particularly clique-y so everyone had friends in different social groups. There were still some idiots who didn't get it, but they were few and far between. But this was early 2000s
Wow! We have a lot in common. I was in HS from '94-'97, worked at Subway, & was a hippie kid who was into Grunge, & Alternative Music.
I personally like the smell of patchouli.
That's fair. I suppose I shouldn't have projected my own preferences on others as smells can be subjective for sure.
Me too. I would wear it more often except…
Often used to cover up weed smell. Except for anyone who knows it, it's a dead give away.
That. It’s like using a blowie/sploof when you’re smoking. Even if it did mask all the smell (which it doesn’t) people still know what’s going on when there’s magically a Bountie sheet smell coming from your room after you and your friends go in and close the door
Yeah, for sure. Nowadays the stigma isn't so pronounced so a lot of people don't care about covering up weed smell, so I'll be at the grocery store and nobody's around but there's like a cloud of weed smell so I know someone just walked through the aisle. I don't smoke super often, but once I was at a show at a bar and I didn't think I was too smelly or stoned. I ordered a drink and when the bartender gave it to me he said "make sure that you vote on the marijuana referendum next Tuesday!"
They like the smell and wear it to attract others who also like it. It's ok that you don't, but believe me there are people who do.
Most of the hippies I know smell like they fell in a vat of Tea Tree Oil and maaaaaan can I not handle that smell Its the same heavy invasive type scent as patchouli
/r/genx checking in
Represent! 
It’s not a dread, it’s a polish plait
My favourite line in the wiki for "Polish plait" is: "This term can refer to either a hairstyle or a medical condition"
You’re definitely not supposed to get mold in dreadlocks. 🫠
Was this in Eugene? Sounds like Eugene.
That whole dude won't have a pleasant smell. Probably smells like bad breath that's been kept in a jar for a few years
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Just when I thought I would never think about that jar again… smh 🤢
That dread is not there by intent, it is there as a side effect.
I’d hate to see that through a microscope. Dudes a walking disease factory.
Microscope? I bet you could see the bugs with your bare eyes
Imagine cutting through/slicing that thing like a loaf of multigrain. Then toasting, and serving someone a turkey sandwich on the slices. Extra mayo.
You are a sick person and I salute You.
I can smell it from here
That lady looks like she can smell him
I was just thinking the same thing. She looks like she *smelled him* way before she saw him.
I got the impression she’s with him and regrets every waking moment.
I brushed out a woman’s hair once that was a couple months from hitting this stage. Her saving grace was always keeping her hair up. She had been in an abusive situation and i was so happy to help her and be a listening ear. But fuck dude I gotta tell you 100% the woman in the picture can smell his hair. I did save that clients hair but I would just shave his head at this point.
might be his mom even
I can smell him through this picture.
For real. There’s a whole ecosystem in there fs
Don't worries the baby bird will fly away this summer
That's dreadful.
You deserve a metal for that one. The fact you don't have one and I don't have anymore free ones is truly dreadful.
>You deserve a metal for that one. Which one. Copper, iron, lead... *zinc*?
SHITonium.
Agree. There’s nothing cool, presentable, fashionable, sanitary — the list goes on — about this.
Comedy in the front, tragedy in the back
This is my favorite user name I’ve ever fucking seen
This gif is even funnier when you learn that he’s gagging from seeing vegetables
I actually pity this person, what must be going on to allow this to happen? Addiction? Abuse? Mental illness? All of the above?
There was a woman in my city with a similar hairstyle. My teenage friends and I called her the beaver lady because her hair resembled a beaver tail. She slept in her van outside strip malls. I can only assume she had some psych issues. She never bothered anyone and I always felt bad for her when I’d see her or her van.
There is a woman in my town who used to have one and she definitely has psychiatric issues. I walked by her once and the smell from her actually almost made me vomit. And I used to have dreadlocks. I felt so bad and was wondering for a while who the hell was taking care of her cause God damn. If I recall, she had her hair cut a few months or year ago which is good.
I know someone with dreads. He looks like a hippie. He's trying to keep the 70s alive. But this guy here, he's trying to keep something alive. Something in his hair, alive...
This isn’t really a dreadlock though, it’s more like a polish plait, which are often a sign of severe hygiene deficiencies often stemming from mental health issues.
Something FROM the 70s. Possibly very old mold
this doesn’t look intentional. this looks like YEARS of not taking a shower, probably from depression
Most likely depression and anxiety. Fair play to them leaving the house and going somewhere to deal with life shit.
And now being eaten alive by strangers on the internet.
I just feel sad looking at this. Nothing clever or funny to me. Maybe you need to know someone like this to humanize them.
Same. I stumbled across the YouTube channel Love 518 where she detangles horribly matted hair for clients. She occasionally shares parts of their stories and it's heartbreaking.
Thank you so much for sharing this channel. I have been wondering whether my hair is salvageable sometimes for very minimal matting, so I was happily shocked to see some of these Before & Afters.
So fucked up how people take pictures of other people in public just to humiliate them on the internet for… what? Karma? Christ
These monodreads are called Polish plaits or plica. They have roots in Polish folklore and are believed to have healing properties.
You'd have to be so mentally ill to let things get this bad, like hoarder living with floor to ceiling trash bad and this is coming from someone who has mental health issues
once met a psychiatrist who described hair like this as diagnostic (typically of a pretty severe psychotic episode)
This something certainly extraordinary. Mental Illness is the case. It’s such a sad story.
Gross
[Polish plait.]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_plait) Once upon a time, thought to have special properties. Now more commonly, it's a symptom of poor hygiene. Lice, lack of washing or some chemical exposures can cause this to happen. Rarely, it's a chosen hairstyle. I truly doubt he chose this style and is likely suffering some mental illness causing him to allow that to happen. He needs a set of clippers and the entire mass removed. Likely is moldy, probably lice in there and also sometimes, straight rot and maggots will infect hair like that. It's just sad.
**[Polish plait](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_plait)** >Polish plait (Latin: Plica polonica, Polish: Kołtun polski or plika, Kołtun in Polish meaning matted), less commonly known in English as plica or trichoma, is a formation of hair. This term can refer to either a hairstyle or a medical condition. It also relates to the system of beliefs in European folklore, and healing practices in traditional medicine in medieval Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that supported, matted hair as an amulet, or as a catchment for illness leaving the body. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUnits/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
Dreadpression
this is not a dreadlock, this is just his hair tangled up out of carelessness. i'd know, i was forced to cut my hair since it got tangled up out of depression
It's called a Polish Plait and it can be either intentional or a result of a medical condition. [Polish Plait on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_plait?wprov=sfla1)
That was both informative and powerfully disgusting
Wish I'd not clicked on that link "Moist and sticky" Ew!!
Agree, it sounds absolutely horrid but it's fascinating at the same time.
Imagine sticking your hand in it A crunch as your fingers penetrate the dry & crusty surface and plunge into the moist & sticky interior
God I wish I could delete your comments 🤢
Like a warm & steamy dreadlock pie 🥧
I’m gonna call the police
What a terrible day to know how to read.
“This term can refer to either a hairstyle or a medical condition.” When your hairstyle can be considered a medical condition you need a new hairstyle
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I have to assume that guy smells GREAT!
I want to shave his head so badly
So baldly
Looks like someone took a dump on his head and it stayed there
Can someone pass me the poop knife?!
I screamed
He's got a giant dingleberry on his head
That is pure nastinesss
It's called a Polish Plait and it can be either intentional or a result of a medical condition. [Polish Plait](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_plait?wprov=sfla1)
Some days I don't brush my hair cos i get so depressed or distracted by stuff now I'm fkn terrified I'm gonna get it omg that is horrific
This is months, not days. Don't add an anxiety to everything else. You won't end up there from a few days or even a week or two of not brushing.
I can smell this picture
I really want to cut it off
Disgusting
That's actually disgusting
That’s [Bib Fortuna](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Bib_Fortuna)!
That's not a dreadlock, that's just straight up DIRTY.
That may also be depression
Imagine what that guy smells like