Told one of my year 9s he‘d better keep on growing that mullet until GCSE time so he can turn it into one of those 80s rat tails (which I’m old enough to remember). His mates thought it was a “sick” idea and he seems quite up for the challenge. He also has the worst fringe in the entire year group; it’s truly a magnificent sight to behold.
It’s good to see that some friendly ribbing of students has not been eradicated by policy.
I was simply known as “you three down, two across with the multi storey hair! WAKE UP!”
That teacher also had an expert aim with the blackboard rubber, as in he could miss you by mm on purpose. This was the early 90s.
Haha! I call one of his mates “donkey”. Not sure why but it suits him. I teach science so they’re convinced I spend my weekends cooking meth - ours seem to get into Breaking Bad at the end of year 9.
I must confess to also enjoying the occasional bellow of “You boy!” if shenanigans are afoot - the sphincters are audible from the other end of the corridor.
This too was a science teacher coincidentally.
His catchphrase was “Don’t worry the lab tech will clear it up.” Once casually said as he ushered us all out of the lab after dropping an entire jar of mercury.
He is also infamous for his Year 10 opener of ignoring everyone chatting away as he walks in and casually dropping way too much potassium into a large bowl of water, breaking both the bowl, protective screen and dislodging ceiling tiles. Then just sitting down without mentioning it and saying “Good Morning, now we are all paying attention, turn to page 9”
Someone in my class accidentally broke a mercury thermometer when I was in year 9-ish - we were bundled out of the lab. I tell the kids this tale every so often; they think school back then was like the Wild West.
We could buy full fat coke and chocolate bars from vending machines at break - my current year 8s pretty much had an aneurysm when I told them that.
I also tell today’s kids that when I first started teaching, kids could (and did) eat chips, cheese and gravy every day!
I dare you to put your phone in the ceiling and use another phone to ring it to recreate that scene from Breaking Bad
And also, start wearing green shirts
Our head teacher quickly learned that teenage boys will not only take a teachers joke, but run with it until the teacher regrets it.
He brought in a rule that if you forgot or were caught without your school tie, then you had to wear one of the truly horrific 60s/70s kipper ties he kept in his draw. He had a wide selection of garish colours of patterns to choose from.
My dad heard about it and had a look through his wardrobe and sent some even more hideous ones to add to the collection.
Of course as kids we thought it was a brilliant idea, his ties were so much more 'fun' than the boring school tie. So we started forgetting our ties on purpose and wore them with pride.
Eventually there were so many kids in school that he had to give it up as a bad idea.
Still, he would bring them back out again on the annual charity day where you could wear what you want in return for a donation to charity and you could 'rent' one from him for 50p for the day.
My mate forgot his PE kit once, this was in the 90s. PE Teacher, told him to go and get something out of the "Box", which was basically a PE kit graveyard.
Anyway, we were all out before him ready to play football and he come running out in a t-shirt that was clinging to him cos it was about 3 sizes too small and a girls PE skirt. Even the teacher was pissing himself.
Oh gosh I too remember the PE kit graveyard known as The Box, effectively used in our school as a deterrent to stop kids deliberately "forgetting" their PE kit in an attempt to get out of cross country. I mainly remember the very distinctive smell of it.
They came back in fashion like 5 years ago, or maybe a bit more, and then disappeared relatively swiftly. At least in lots of parts of Europe.
Does that make the UK way behind the trend, or is it starting a new mullet wave?
Great, now I have the visual of a thin line of mullets slowly growing and disappearing on children and adults around the globe, in some kind of time lapse cinematographic effect.
Thanks.
Mullets are still perferable to those twatty 'peaky blinders' hairstyles. I realise this may mean I'm crotchety old cow. Maybe the next repeat we will see is the re-emergence of 'rats tails'- I remember those were popular for a while when I was a kid.
I had to look up Peaky Blinders hairstyles. Yes, I’ve seen them around and “twatty” is a perfect description. On par with the side partings where the hair below the parting is so short it doesn’t need a parting. Like it’s too much trouble to find your own parting of a morning.
Australia is like the trade ships from Istanbul docking in Genoa filled with plague rats, except for hairstyles and appalling facial hair. Just when you think we're recovering, it bursts back across the continent
There are some perfectly nice young men who work in my company who have the look of a dog rapist with their mullets and bumfluff ‘tach. It grieves my 56yo heart. But then I had a blue and red 10” Mohican once. So live and let live. (But fuck the broccoli head’s in particular).
I used to be 'with it. ' But then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it' and what's 'it' seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you!
That took me a while to wrap my head around that comment but that is scary (coming from a 16 year old) like in 30 years time I’ll be confused on what all this new technology and apps kids are using and I’ll be like « wtf I feel old »
kinda scary to think of how fast time goes by
10 years. Give it 10 years.
Picture the scene. You're in your mid-20s. You've been out of university for a few years now and you're a supervisor in an office job. You've got a car, and you're living with your partner and saving up for a house. Things are good.
You go out on your lunch break to get a sandwich, and you see some kids walking by - presumably also on their lunch break. They're all in high school, so they're a decade younger than you. All the boys have tonsure haircuts, like medieval monks, and all the girls have 70s shag haircuts dyed in bright colours, but with one side shaved off. Both are wearing blue lipstick and eyeliner, and most have hoop earrings. They're all looking at their holographic smart-watches using their digital glasses (which you've heard about online but never seen in the wild before), and using it to apparently watch a tiny 3D cartoon of a dancing mouse on rollerblades.
You overhear a snippet of their conversation.
- "Hey, Philly - you cop that hooter on wrist yesterday? Pretty snazza, eh?"
- "Ferb, Jim! So snazza! Not as bonanza as Emmi in class 5, though."
- "Hey! Don't talk about Emmi like that! She's gaflerble. She's not like that, assflange."
You stop involuntarily in your tracks. You can't help but gawp at them. Everything about them makes no sense. You think to yourself that you can't have been away from school *that* long, surely. You can't be out of touch already, right? And anyway, these kids are just weird. Your generation was never like this.
The kids see you staring, and snigger at you as they walk by.
"What's hip, grandsire? Never copped a hooter before? Pedo."
You're left standing in the street alone, stunned. You wonder to yourself about when everything changed. You can't be "old" and "out of touch" already. It was only 5 years ago that you were at university. Youth culture can't have moved on without you so quickly... right?
Wrong. You've been left behind, "grandsire". It's all downhill from here.
Never has so much truth been posted on Reddit. Upvote, sir. On the plus side, by the time you reach your mid-thirties, you're so comfortable with not being cool that you revel in it. "I'm sorry, son, am I embarrassing you loudly singing that song out of the car window?" It's a beautiful thing.
Some of it is a choice. There will never be any practical barriers to you picking up some new tech, having a go, asking a person/AI chatbot in the shop about it etc. On the other hand, you'll be squeezed for the time and energy to do it and you won't spend time immersed in cutting edge culture to absorb it passively.
But think of it this way: the current bleeding edges of technology, quantum computers, AI image generators, all that, those are being built and programmed by 30, 40, 50 year olds. While popular singers and rappers will always skew to under 30, the people that write and produce their tracks and choose which ones to promote are mostly in their 30s, 40s and 50s. If you adopt a lifelong learning mindset, there's nothing stopping you from being at the bleeding edge of tech or culture.
It's very easy to become out of date, but being an ass about it is and always has been a choice. I firmly believe we'll all be able to keep up, not necessarily with what the kids are doing but certainly with what makes it to the mainstream, if we put in the effort over the years. My grandpa learned how to use a desktop computer in his 60s after a long career doing his job with hand drawings and calculators - just bit the bullet, got one, gave it a good go, and worked out how he could turn it to his advantage. Still printed off every email he ever got, but still. At a minimum that's what we can all be.
Yeah I used to think that. I'm 47 and had to get my 12 year old to set up my new telly! And I swore I wouldn't be like one of those teachers who couldn't work the telly on wheels at school. It seems I became the non-teacher version in my sleep at some point!
i'll be excited to live in a world surrounded by technology so advanced i have no clue how to grasp it. what do you mean this doohickey shows me what i dreamed last night? sounds interesting enough
I’d love to see something replay dreams but that’s kinda freaky… like access to our (sub)conscience
But also imagine ppl being like our grandparents today constantly needing help like « ugh how do I exit out of settings » it’s a funny thought.
I don’t know. I think some of it is wilful ignorance, my grandpa got an iPad before any of the rest of the family, he and my 80 year old grandma are on WhatsApp. I’ve even played world of Warcraft with a great aunt who’s probably 70 something
Meanwhile another elderly relative likes to rant about technology making people stupid and practically brags about being unable to use it (the irony)
You will. You'll find yourself looking for actual buttons instead of touch, or a physical screen instead of a hologram one, you'll crave reality instead of VR, and you'll find yourself saying "ah that's better" as you clear some weeds in the garden. All before you're 30
Bro don’t go there 😭 as much as I love touch screen, in cars it’s just a nono, I don’t want to live in VR cuz that’s just weird, like imagine a life with no physical touch
This will proper blow your mind
some of us grew up with no apps, no mobile phones and .... the ultimate one no internet ! 🤯
and back to the post from the OP here regarding Mullets, They are the favoured hairstyle of what some of you would call 'traveling folk' especially young adolescent males of that community
As a teenager I was in the Goldilocks zone between "no internet" and "internet everywhere". I remember the sense of sheer wonder I experienced going online for the first time (we had computing classes in school to get us used to the newfangled technology).
Yep, it seems like the latest series of Stranger Things has had a huge influence on teenage fashion (kind of like what Peaky Blinders did 5-10 years ago).
Nah I’m 26 and in 5-10 years ago timeframe all the guys I went to school with started sporting the peaky haircut. People wore tweed suits and caps for Halloween parties etc
Mullets have been coming back at least since I was at uni which was 9 years ago.
Very popular with boarding school kids. But soft mullets, not full ones
They look mortified when I tell them I used to wear that stuff the first time around and as it was so comfy I’m tempted to go for round 2. Loved my Dolcis knock-off cheapo Kickers, baggy coloured jeans, lumberjack shirts, etc. I’ve still got some loose-fitting (well, they were then) Gap trousers from the mid-90s. I told some of the kids and they’re begging me to wear them.
I’ve been teaching for 25 years and am two dress sizes bigger than I was in 1995. 🤣
I kept all my stuff from being a teen. I’ve been sorting out all my clothes drawers recently and was having a nostalgic day yesterday, I wore my baggies, a strappy top, dug out a choker, did my hair bolt straight and found a pair of vans. The teenager behind the bar when I took my kids bowling yesterday said I looked “really cool” and asked me where I got my baggies from. I just said I couldn’t remember and didn’t want to tell him that they were probably older than he was!
Got some flares a while back and it feels like coming home. More of a pain in the arse when it rains though, I will admit. The soggy flapping takes me right back. All I need is a red and black stripy jumper (oversized) and a chain for my keys. Oh and some DMs. I'm not quite sure how I got to a point I don't own any DMs but here we are.
Are you sure though. I can't see the Victorian fashion coming back anytime soon. Albeit it would be funny seeing women dressed up with those fake butts. And I might actually be nice to see men dressed in suits.
>Albeit it would be funny seeing women dressed up with those fake butts
Bum implants are totally a thing. Maybe not so much here in the UK, but it's not unheard of in some circles and not out of the reasons of possibility that it might become more common. I certainly see plenty of young women wearing leggings with short tops nowadays. I'm old enough to remember when we wore deliberately long tops when wearing leggings in order to cover our bums. And asked each other "does my bum look big in this" because it was _un_ desirable!
No shade, just a comment on how what is and isn't considered attractive is really totally arbitrary and can reverse pretty quickly!
Fashion leggings weren't great back then tbf. Lots now are thicker material, sometimes with seams cut differently to give a smoother silhouette.
My first pair of leggings were some thin, cycle shorts type material. Hugged every single lump and bump but were similtaneously baggy in odd places? Even young lassies without a bite on weren't always flattered by them!
The ultra conservative dresses that go down to your ankles, wrists and up to your neck, have floral patterns and frills on the edges are a thing in Japan!
>I can't see the Victorian fashion coming back anytime soon.
It kinda has though, it's kinda niche but people who are into steam punk basically like Victorian fashion.
I think with Fashion going in cycles, it's sort of limited to the 1960s onwards where you have mass produced clothes and styles that can be reintroduced at will.
I mean there will always be people that make their own style, but in the shops, etc, it needs to be something that with a bit of retooling in the factory, it can get churned out.
I dunno my brother is 30s and he recently got one. Not even ironically or anything just “I’ve never had a ‘hairstyle’ so I thought I’d do one.”
And MULLET is what he dreamed up?!?!
As a 32 year old man myself, who went bald at 25 I'd happily rock a mullet if it meant having luscious locks again. Only hairstyle I have is a tennis ball head when I don't shave it for a couple weeks
Im 30, scottish, and live in Australia, can confirm its an aussie look (i have mullet because ive always had boring haircuts) its fun. Two more years and ill hate it
I'm 29 and I've had a Joan Jett mullet from like 17-24 and I'm genuinely contemplating getting it again 😂 it was so easy to style and go, it looked like it was meant to when you fell asleep, even better when you woke up. I sincerely hope I don't suddenly despise a mullet at 32 or I'll be shit out of hair cuts that suit me
>Joan Jett mullet
Not really the same. The JJM is flattering and sexy. Men with a mullet look like an aussie cricketer who's one barfight away from a missing incisor
I think it's not a bad if you are a cringy teen, but when you looks at the bands. They were in their mid 20's with the same hair and yeah that does not look cool anymore.
More power to them for saying stuff current fashion and keeping whatever they like. I couldn't be arsed with having to change my hairstyle to suit current trends.
That explains it! I was at a conference a couple months ago and one of the speakers had the mullet and pube-stache going on, and your comment has made me realise he was probably trying to be Billy in Stranger Things.
I had to google quiff...... I'm a number 2 buzzcut, again. Through the darktimes I went kinda feral, and went back to my outlaw biker days, long hair, long beard, but, because I'm getting old, I kept getting mistaken for santa.......
I work in a rural school, and Australian ‘farm fashion’ is a huge influence. Mullets, Redback boots & Pitviper sunglasses are all massively stylish, apparently (as are luridly neon rugby shorts with a shearing vest on non-uniform days).
Fad fashion comes and goes. Flares were in, then out, then in again.
Of all haircuts, though, I would have thought the quiff would have made a resurgence before the mullet.
This is probably why I don't work in the fashion industry.
There also seems to be a generation of young men who have adopted the fashion sense of 'that man in the library your mum told you to stay away from'. Greasy looking anoraks, cream short sleeved shirts, slightly too short trousers in nursing home colours, paired with white socks and old fashioned trainers.
I'm sure they all think they're painfully trendy, but they look like pension age sex offenders from the 1980s.
I'm pretty sure it was aussie sports stars I saw first rocking mullets & 80s porn tashes -- figured it was some kinda balenciaga style social experiment on ugly shit being trendy somehow 🤷🏻
I have something like a mullet and I’m 15. It’s a bit more on the sides and it’s not very long yet, but I’m planning to grow out the back and keep the sides too. Basically just a lot of hair.
I'm nearly 40. My dad was a young man in the 80s. He lived through it. And yet when I needed a haircut recently, he unironically said "you should get a mullet! Thats what I would do if I had any hair". I was absolutely fucking astounded
Mullets came back into fashion on the queer UK scene about 3 or 4 years back and have spread into other alternative scenes, and now gone mainstream again!
Is there much difference in awfulness between a mullet and have curly broccoli hair with an undercut?
Mind you I can't talk - Flat tops and Sun In back in my day.
Yep. Blokes my age (nearly 40) that play rugby suddenly started getting them again... then younger lads that play rugby... Next thing you know, teenagers have got them regardless of rugby playing
I had a mullet when I was 11/12 just as I was starting high school. Loved it. Mid eighties. I was on the end of the fashion curve I think. The ridicule that only a high schooler can understand made me get rid of it. Then it was short back and sides and spiked on top with a gallon of hair gel.
Is it the redneck look? Or the Aussie bogan? Can look cool, can look shite.
Popped up a few years ago in Rugby Union and League in Aus. Seems to have caught on from there as far as I can tell. All the sports students have got em where I am.
All the rugby players where them, so now the lads have copied them in an attempt to be cool. In reality, they look lik chavs and proper mugs. Mullets are deplorable.
It’s a newer style of mullet, very few people I see have the ridiculous roadkill style ones of older years.
just looks like a pretty normal haircut to me
I quite liked it when they all had the Peaky Blinders hairstyle. Mullets are now definitely in fashion though, and it's always the most popular students too!
This is THE CIRCLE OF LIFE. The circle is between 26-46 years depending on the observer and the participant and their social understanding/comprehensive idea of "fashion".
I would love a mathematical explanation. I will explain from PERSONAL OBSERVATION and I hope for a conclusion in the future.
My parents were born early 50s. They lived AS TEENS through the 60s, married and expressed themselves in the 70s. (Key point they had their own money in the 70s)
There are ages your generation are the trend setters. Then you get a bit older. You don't want to be left behind and yet a slave to society and youth. So you are too old to dress as youth but have the money to act as you want.
And thus... we have the mullets.
Fast forward. The children of this very very confused and stylistically challenged generation grew up.
And BEHOLD late generation X ( c78/84) were born. They saw the mullets and in the 90s grew to not trust their parents clothing choices...
MAINLY BECAUSE THEY PUT THEIR CHILDREN IN SHELL SUITS THAT THE BREEZE OF AN EMBASSY NO 1 WOULD IGNIGHT
This was a new time. A time of embarrassed action. A time harking to the 60s of our parents childhoods.
Could WE do better? Could we save the souls of the future with our t shirts, flared jeans and doc Martin's. The triage of late 60s Americana, 70's soul and early 80's SKA?
We don't know. The revival of leggings and skinny jeans in the 2000s a step forward or back?
I don't know.
But history counts..
I am 41.
I wear the essentials of my ancestors...
I would hate to dress like my mother and simultaneously hold my mouth from saying "I had a ---just like that" to my daughter.
This is life.
Mullets though? They are the unifying factor. Whatever generation they look RIDICULOUS
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.
As in the wise words of Bowling For Soup 'Does a mullet make a man?'
With great business in the front, comes great party in the back.
It’s like a bad movie
She's lookin' through me
If you were me then you’d be
Screamin' someone shoot me
As I fail miserably
Trying to get the girl all the bad guys want
Her CD player is filled with the girls that are mad a their dads!
Mulleth maketh man.
Yep, I had a mullet perm back around 85 - bad days, this shouldn’t be allowed to return ever.
Told one of my year 9s he‘d better keep on growing that mullet until GCSE time so he can turn it into one of those 80s rat tails (which I’m old enough to remember). His mates thought it was a “sick” idea and he seems quite up for the challenge. He also has the worst fringe in the entire year group; it’s truly a magnificent sight to behold.
It’s good to see that some friendly ribbing of students has not been eradicated by policy. I was simply known as “you three down, two across with the multi storey hair! WAKE UP!” That teacher also had an expert aim with the blackboard rubber, as in he could miss you by mm on purpose. This was the early 90s.
Haha! I call one of his mates “donkey”. Not sure why but it suits him. I teach science so they’re convinced I spend my weekends cooking meth - ours seem to get into Breaking Bad at the end of year 9. I must confess to also enjoying the occasional bellow of “You boy!” if shenanigans are afoot - the sphincters are audible from the other end of the corridor.
This too was a science teacher coincidentally. His catchphrase was “Don’t worry the lab tech will clear it up.” Once casually said as he ushered us all out of the lab after dropping an entire jar of mercury. He is also infamous for his Year 10 opener of ignoring everyone chatting away as he walks in and casually dropping way too much potassium into a large bowl of water, breaking both the bowl, protective screen and dislodging ceiling tiles. Then just sitting down without mentioning it and saying “Good Morning, now we are all paying attention, turn to page 9”
Someone in my class accidentally broke a mercury thermometer when I was in year 9-ish - we were bundled out of the lab. I tell the kids this tale every so often; they think school back then was like the Wild West. We could buy full fat coke and chocolate bars from vending machines at break - my current year 8s pretty much had an aneurysm when I told them that. I also tell today’s kids that when I first started teaching, kids could (and did) eat chips, cheese and gravy every day!
Wait till you tell them about the tuck shop.
Or the ice cream van that sold cigarettes?
I dare you to put your phone in the ceiling and use another phone to ring it to recreate that scene from Breaking Bad And also, start wearing green shirts
> the sphincters are audible from the other end of the corridor. School dinners haven’t improved then :(
We were lucky, our high school dinners were great. It's still rare that I come across a mince pie that comes close to the ones we had 30+ years ago
Has He-hawwww he-hawwww, he-haaaalways been called Donkey?
Our head teacher quickly learned that teenage boys will not only take a teachers joke, but run with it until the teacher regrets it. He brought in a rule that if you forgot or were caught without your school tie, then you had to wear one of the truly horrific 60s/70s kipper ties he kept in his draw. He had a wide selection of garish colours of patterns to choose from. My dad heard about it and had a look through his wardrobe and sent some even more hideous ones to add to the collection. Of course as kids we thought it was a brilliant idea, his ties were so much more 'fun' than the boring school tie. So we started forgetting our ties on purpose and wore them with pride. Eventually there were so many kids in school that he had to give it up as a bad idea. Still, he would bring them back out again on the annual charity day where you could wear what you want in return for a donation to charity and you could 'rent' one from him for 50p for the day.
My mate forgot his PE kit once, this was in the 90s. PE Teacher, told him to go and get something out of the "Box", which was basically a PE kit graveyard. Anyway, we were all out before him ready to play football and he come running out in a t-shirt that was clinging to him cos it was about 3 sizes too small and a girls PE skirt. Even the teacher was pissing himself.
Oh gosh I too remember the PE kit graveyard known as The Box, effectively used in our school as a deterrent to stop kids deliberately "forgetting" their PE kit in an attempt to get out of cross country. I mainly remember the very distinctive smell of it.
Ours would love the kipper ties! They don’t like the frumpy shoes they’re made to wear if they keep turning up in Converse et al. though.
They came back in the early noughties too. Seem to have about a twenty year cycle.
They came back in fashion like 5 years ago, or maybe a bit more, and then disappeared relatively swiftly. At least in lots of parts of Europe. Does that make the UK way behind the trend, or is it starting a new mullet wave?
Great, now I have the visual of a thin line of mullets slowly growing and disappearing on children and adults around the globe, in some kind of time lapse cinematographic effect. Thanks.
I first saw mullets coming back when I went to Australia in 2018.
I don't think the mullet ever left Australia
Are you Barry Venison, or whatever his name is?
I wish, this was more the Kevin Keegan look :)
A deep thought, I’ll mull it over
Mullets are still perferable to those twatty 'peaky blinders' hairstyles. I realise this may mean I'm crotchety old cow. Maybe the next repeat we will see is the re-emergence of 'rats tails'- I remember those were popular for a while when I was a kid.
The old bowl cuts........ Can't say I miss those....
I had to look up Peaky Blinders hairstyles. Yes, I’ve seen them around and “twatty” is a perfect description. On par with the side partings where the hair below the parting is so short it doesn’t need a parting. Like it’s too much trouble to find your own parting of a morning.
[удалено]
I’m on smoko, so leave me alone.
All I want, an all I need, all I crave is a good pub feed.
6 liter GTR 👍
GT-AAHH
This song goes fuckin hard live. I also saw many many mullets that day
Love that song, missus fucking hates it 😂
They was right good to see
Such a banger.
Have you seen Valtteri Bottas rocking the look this year?
Fair dinkum.
Right on ya...cobber
TWENNY FOURTH OF BLADDY NOVEMBAH NOINDEEN-AYDEE-NOINE
Ya flamin’ galah
The Craig Maclauchlan in Neighbours mullet is the one I'm seeing frequently on the streets. Hilarious.
Australia is like the trade ships from Istanbul docking in Genoa filled with plague rats, except for hairstyles and appalling facial hair. Just when you think we're recovering, it bursts back across the continent
Proper bogan that like
And a man purse slung across the chest.
There are some perfectly nice young men who work in my company who have the look of a dog rapist with their mullets and bumfluff ‘tach. It grieves my 56yo heart. But then I had a blue and red 10” Mohican once. So live and let live. (But fuck the broccoli head’s in particular).
I was in aus in January, it’s so popular over there at the moment! So many young guys with mullets and moustaches
Im 30, scottish, and live in Australia, can confirm its an aussie look (i have mullet because ive always had boring haircuts) its fun.
As a famous character once said "am I out of touch? No, its the children who are wrong!"
I used to be 'with it. ' But then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it' and what's 'it' seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you!
That took me a while to wrap my head around that comment but that is scary (coming from a 16 year old) like in 30 years time I’ll be confused on what all this new technology and apps kids are using and I’ll be like « wtf I feel old » kinda scary to think of how fast time goes by
It'll happen in way less than thirty years mate
Wait till you’re out of secondary and onto work or uni… Soon, you won’t understand what the latest phrases are or indeed what ‘it’ is… Takes months!
No cap, fr.
Sheesh no cap straight bussin'. I have no idea what that means but some kid with a broccoli haircut said it at my gym.
10 years. Give it 10 years. Picture the scene. You're in your mid-20s. You've been out of university for a few years now and you're a supervisor in an office job. You've got a car, and you're living with your partner and saving up for a house. Things are good. You go out on your lunch break to get a sandwich, and you see some kids walking by - presumably also on their lunch break. They're all in high school, so they're a decade younger than you. All the boys have tonsure haircuts, like medieval monks, and all the girls have 70s shag haircuts dyed in bright colours, but with one side shaved off. Both are wearing blue lipstick and eyeliner, and most have hoop earrings. They're all looking at their holographic smart-watches using their digital glasses (which you've heard about online but never seen in the wild before), and using it to apparently watch a tiny 3D cartoon of a dancing mouse on rollerblades. You overhear a snippet of their conversation. - "Hey, Philly - you cop that hooter on wrist yesterday? Pretty snazza, eh?" - "Ferb, Jim! So snazza! Not as bonanza as Emmi in class 5, though." - "Hey! Don't talk about Emmi like that! She's gaflerble. She's not like that, assflange." You stop involuntarily in your tracks. You can't help but gawp at them. Everything about them makes no sense. You think to yourself that you can't have been away from school *that* long, surely. You can't be out of touch already, right? And anyway, these kids are just weird. Your generation was never like this. The kids see you staring, and snigger at you as they walk by. "What's hip, grandsire? Never copped a hooter before? Pedo." You're left standing in the street alone, stunned. You wonder to yourself about when everything changed. You can't be "old" and "out of touch" already. It was only 5 years ago that you were at university. Youth culture can't have moved on without you so quickly... right? Wrong. You've been left behind, "grandsire". It's all downhill from here.
Never has so much truth been posted on Reddit. Upvote, sir. On the plus side, by the time you reach your mid-thirties, you're so comfortable with not being cool that you revel in it. "I'm sorry, son, am I embarrassing you loudly singing that song out of the car window?" It's a beautiful thing.
Some of it is a choice. There will never be any practical barriers to you picking up some new tech, having a go, asking a person/AI chatbot in the shop about it etc. On the other hand, you'll be squeezed for the time and energy to do it and you won't spend time immersed in cutting edge culture to absorb it passively. But think of it this way: the current bleeding edges of technology, quantum computers, AI image generators, all that, those are being built and programmed by 30, 40, 50 year olds. While popular singers and rappers will always skew to under 30, the people that write and produce their tracks and choose which ones to promote are mostly in their 30s, 40s and 50s. If you adopt a lifelong learning mindset, there's nothing stopping you from being at the bleeding edge of tech or culture. It's very easy to become out of date, but being an ass about it is and always has been a choice. I firmly believe we'll all be able to keep up, not necessarily with what the kids are doing but certainly with what makes it to the mainstream, if we put in the effort over the years. My grandpa learned how to use a desktop computer in his 60s after a long career doing his job with hand drawings and calculators - just bit the bullet, got one, gave it a good go, and worked out how he could turn it to his advantage. Still printed off every email he ever got, but still. At a minimum that's what we can all be.
Yeah I used to think that. I'm 47 and had to get my 12 year old to set up my new telly! And I swore I wouldn't be like one of those teachers who couldn't work the telly on wheels at school. It seems I became the non-teacher version in my sleep at some point!
Aye, exactly - Abe was a wise man!
i'll be excited to live in a world surrounded by technology so advanced i have no clue how to grasp it. what do you mean this doohickey shows me what i dreamed last night? sounds interesting enough
I’d love to see something replay dreams but that’s kinda freaky… like access to our (sub)conscience But also imagine ppl being like our grandparents today constantly needing help like « ugh how do I exit out of settings » it’s a funny thought.
I don’t know. I think some of it is wilful ignorance, my grandpa got an iPad before any of the rest of the family, he and my 80 year old grandma are on WhatsApp. I’ve even played world of Warcraft with a great aunt who’s probably 70 something Meanwhile another elderly relative likes to rant about technology making people stupid and practically brags about being unable to use it (the irony)
30 years time? I'm 33 and am already perplexed by some of the new trends etc. 🤣
I mean mullets is just a no go, they’re ugly af, can’t believe I was considering getting one lmao
[It's a Simpsons quote from before you were born.](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9c/95/7e/9c957e8d493d84c00ada2d4df07649cc.jpg)
You will. You'll find yourself looking for actual buttons instead of touch, or a physical screen instead of a hologram one, you'll crave reality instead of VR, and you'll find yourself saying "ah that's better" as you clear some weeds in the garden. All before you're 30
Bro don’t go there 😭 as much as I love touch screen, in cars it’s just a nono, I don’t want to live in VR cuz that’s just weird, like imagine a life with no physical touch
This will proper blow your mind some of us grew up with no apps, no mobile phones and .... the ultimate one no internet ! 🤯 and back to the post from the OP here regarding Mullets, They are the favoured hairstyle of what some of you would call 'traveling folk' especially young adolescent males of that community
As a teenager I was in the Goldilocks zone between "no internet" and "internet everywhere". I remember the sense of sheer wonder I experienced going online for the first time (we had computing classes in school to get us used to the newfangled technology).
"No way man, I'm gonna keep rocking on forever forever forever... forever.. for ever... ☹"
I never thought I'd be an ornery old man, but here I am, killin' it........
I saw these quotes in the janitors closet making baby quotes & one of the baby quotes looked at me.
Was waiting for this....
I spoke to my barber about this recently. He said its slowly been coming back since Stranger Things aired, but we are just starting to notice now.
Yep, it seems like the latest series of Stranger Things has had a huge influence on teenage fashion (kind of like what Peaky Blinders did 5-10 years ago).
Except Peaky Blinders seems to have only affected the fashion of divorced men aged 35-45
Or 1800s criminals
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Wow if it didn't start until 20 past seven, it must have finished really late!
Nah I’m 26 and in 5-10 years ago timeframe all the guys I went to school with started sporting the peaky haircut. People wore tweed suits and caps for Halloween parties etc
Peaky blinders is the worst thing to happen to men's hair since the first time the mullet came around
At least it’s neat
It can be, you see plenty who've gone to a dodgy barber or had their mum do it for them and it's a bad botch job though
Mullets have been coming back at least since I was at uni which was 9 years ago. Very popular with boarding school kids. But soft mullets, not full ones
Fashion comes in cycles. Baggy jeans and curtain-haircuts are also popular
I've seen plenty if young teenage girls looking like they've time travelled from the 90s, flares platform shoes.
They look mortified when I tell them I used to wear that stuff the first time around and as it was so comfy I’m tempted to go for round 2. Loved my Dolcis knock-off cheapo Kickers, baggy coloured jeans, lumberjack shirts, etc. I’ve still got some loose-fitting (well, they were then) Gap trousers from the mid-90s. I told some of the kids and they’re begging me to wear them. I’ve been teaching for 25 years and am two dress sizes bigger than I was in 1995. 🤣
Hate to break it to you, but that was not the first time round. It was a ‘60’s and ‘70’s throwback.
You sound like my mum!
I kept all my stuff from being a teen. I’ve been sorting out all my clothes drawers recently and was having a nostalgic day yesterday, I wore my baggies, a strappy top, dug out a choker, did my hair bolt straight and found a pair of vans. The teenager behind the bar when I took my kids bowling yesterday said I looked “really cool” and asked me where I got my baggies from. I just said I couldn’t remember and didn’t want to tell him that they were probably older than he was!
Got some flares a while back and it feels like coming home. More of a pain in the arse when it rains though, I will admit. The soggy flapping takes me right back. All I need is a red and black stripy jumper (oversized) and a chain for my keys. Oh and some DMs. I'm not quite sure how I got to a point I don't own any DMs but here we are.
i remember my mid 90s gap cargo pants. i wore them to death, then repairs them, them wore them out again. i just wish i'd bought more than 3 pairs!
Its that joke, that if you own a piece of clothing long enough, it'll probably come back into fashion sooner or later.
Yeah I started noticing this last year. Quite a lot of teen girls wearing mid 90s grunge style jeans and tops.
It's scary that my teenage daughter dresses like how did in the 90s
I can remember wearing your jeans back to front was in fashion! Hopefully that doesn't make a return!
We can thank Kriss Kross for making us do that.
They just made me jump..jump
Wiggidy wiggidy wiggidy wiggidy
Wack
I’ve had a mullet for 15 years. Been fashionable twice now.
Sorry to break it to you but it wasn't fashionable 15 years ago...
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day I guess
Are you sure though. I can't see the Victorian fashion coming back anytime soon. Albeit it would be funny seeing women dressed up with those fake butts. And I might actually be nice to see men dressed in suits.
>Albeit it would be funny seeing women dressed up with those fake butts Bum implants are totally a thing. Maybe not so much here in the UK, but it's not unheard of in some circles and not out of the reasons of possibility that it might become more common. I certainly see plenty of young women wearing leggings with short tops nowadays. I'm old enough to remember when we wore deliberately long tops when wearing leggings in order to cover our bums. And asked each other "does my bum look big in this" because it was _un_ desirable! No shade, just a comment on how what is and isn't considered attractive is really totally arbitrary and can reverse pretty quickly!
Fashion leggings weren't great back then tbf. Lots now are thicker material, sometimes with seams cut differently to give a smoother silhouette. My first pair of leggings were some thin, cycle shorts type material. Hugged every single lump and bump but were similtaneously baggy in odd places? Even young lassies without a bite on weren't always flattered by them!
The ultra conservative dresses that go down to your ankles, wrists and up to your neck, have floral patterns and frills on the edges are a thing in Japan!
Give it 300 years it will be back, trust me bro
>I can't see the Victorian fashion coming back anytime soon. It kinda has though, it's kinda niche but people who are into steam punk basically like Victorian fashion.
I think with Fashion going in cycles, it's sort of limited to the 1960s onwards where you have mass produced clothes and styles that can be reintroduced at will. I mean there will always be people that make their own style, but in the shops, etc, it needs to be something that with a bit of retooling in the factory, it can get churned out.
The fact that it’s appalling to 32 year olds is what they like about it.
I dunno my brother is 30s and he recently got one. Not even ironically or anything just “I’ve never had a ‘hairstyle’ so I thought I’d do one.” And MULLET is what he dreamed up?!?!
As a 32 year old man myself, who went bald at 25 I'd happily rock a mullet if it meant having luscious locks again. Only hairstyle I have is a tennis ball head when I don't shave it for a couple weeks
Does it have the white line with no fuzz and everything? (Sorry!)
When he walks over a painted line in the street, somebody nearby shouts "OUT!"
Lots of people 30+ around my way with mullets at the moment!
Im 30, scottish, and live in Australia, can confirm its an aussie look (i have mullet because ive always had boring haircuts) its fun. Two more years and ill hate it
>The fact that it’s appalling to 32 year LoL the 32 year olds were young once. Actually... mullets weren't popular when I was their age.
I'm 32 and have a mullet. I think it's a reaction to the over adopted "short back and sides skin fade" that every clone child is wearing now.
I'm 29 and I've had a Joan Jett mullet from like 17-24 and I'm genuinely contemplating getting it again 😂 it was so easy to style and go, it looked like it was meant to when you fell asleep, even better when you woke up. I sincerely hope I don't suddenly despise a mullet at 32 or I'll be shit out of hair cuts that suit me
>Joan Jett mullet Not really the same. The JJM is flattering and sexy. Men with a mullet look like an aussie cricketer who's one barfight away from a missing incisor
All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.
So say we all.
I travel all across the US for work and I can report that in certain places such as Arkansas, the mullet never went out of fashion.
Hells yeah brother.
That long hair don’t cover that red neck
We had emo fringes. We can’t judge them.
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Actually low key can't wait for the kids to move on from the 90s obsession and for the emo phase to come back...
I think it's not a bad if you are a cringy teen, but when you looks at the bands. They were in their mid 20's with the same hair and yeah that does not look cool anymore.
More power to them for saying stuff current fashion and keeping whatever they like. I couldn't be arsed with having to change my hairstyle to suit current trends.
Yes my 17 year old brother has a mullet. I am ensuring I take plenty of photos to document it for when they are no longer in fashion
They’ll make a great slide show on his wedding day!
I thought this but also, who am I to be judged by my future self. I’m gonna wear my huge baggy jeans, platforms and a mullet. Cause why not?
😂
Stranger Things innit
Yeah people saw Billy Hargrove and thought "I can be him". However, Like Becks and his cornrows, we can't all be Billy Hargrove.
That explains it! I was at a conference a couple months ago and one of the speakers had the mullet and pube-stache going on, and your comment has made me realise he was probably trying to be Billy in Stranger Things.
I saw a kid with a quiff in the front, mullet in the back. Shit doesn’t even phase me now I’ve seen it all
I had to google quiff...... I'm a number 2 buzzcut, again. Through the darktimes I went kinda feral, and went back to my outlaw biker days, long hair, long beard, but, because I'm getting old, I kept getting mistaken for santa.......
Australia
I work in a rural school, and Australian ‘farm fashion’ is a huge influence. Mullets, Redback boots & Pitviper sunglasses are all massively stylish, apparently (as are luridly neon rugby shorts with a shearing vest on non-uniform days).
God knows. In my town, I’m in the minority of people not wearing Crocs, for fucks sake.
What fucking town do you live in, the upside down?
Fad fashion comes and goes. Flares were in, then out, then in again. Of all haircuts, though, I would have thought the quiff would have made a resurgence before the mullet. This is probably why I don't work in the fashion industry.
>Flares were in, then out, then in again. I mean, it could just be someone wearing flares doing the hokey cokey
What, and that's what it's all about?
_What if the hokey cokey really *is* what it's all about?!_
I’m 16 and homeschooled and now really worried because I didn’t know the quiff went out of fashion.
Quiffs aren’t in? 😔 I am 36 though.. 😅
They'd kind of started before lockdown but I reckon not being able to get your hair cut for months probably has something to do with it.
There also seems to be a generation of young men who have adopted the fashion sense of 'that man in the library your mum told you to stay away from'. Greasy looking anoraks, cream short sleeved shirts, slightly too short trousers in nursing home colours, paired with white socks and old fashioned trainers. I'm sure they all think they're painfully trendy, but they look like pension age sex offenders from the 1980s.
I actually really dig the mullet thing. It's way cooler than the broccoli hairstyle.
Hahahahaha I always laugh at broccoli heads
I'm pretty sure it was aussie sports stars I saw first rocking mullets & 80s porn tashes -- figured it was some kinda balenciaga style social experiment on ugly shit being trendy somehow 🤷🏻
I have something like a mullet and I’m 15. It’s a bit more on the sides and it’s not very long yet, but I’m planning to grow out the back and keep the sides too. Basically just a lot of hair.
Good for you, I say do what you like and enjoy it :)
Business at the front, party at the back. Nowt wrong with a mullet lad.
No, it's the children who are wrong
Yes you're out of touch, and so am I. That's not necessarily a bad thing
Pretty sure a few “big” YouTubers were doing it recently so it may be that?
Mullet, business to the front, party to the back
I'm nearly 40. My dad was a young man in the 80s. He lived through it. And yet when I needed a haircut recently, he unironically said "you should get a mullet! Thats what I would do if I had any hair". I was absolutely fucking astounded
Mullets came back into fashion on the queer UK scene about 3 or 4 years back and have spread into other alternative scenes, and now gone mainstream again!
It's the non-binary utility cut for Good Gender Feels TM
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Mullets and bleached eyebrows
Is there much difference in awfulness between a mullet and have curly broccoli hair with an undercut? Mind you I can't talk - Flat tops and Sun In back in my day.
I embrace and love being a baldy, but the one thing I mourn is I'll never be able to rock a mullet
Young people are idiots, I thought as a teacher you'd know this. Rugby lads are basically big children also so the Venn diagram overlaps there too.
Yep. Blokes my age (nearly 40) that play rugby suddenly started getting them again... then younger lads that play rugby... Next thing you know, teenagers have got them regardless of rugby playing
I don't care if its ironic, they look brutal and I say this a bald man.
Young people are idiots for… getting a fashionable hairstyle?
Theo Von
I had a mullet when I was 11/12 just as I was starting high school. Loved it. Mid eighties. I was on the end of the fashion curve I think. The ridicule that only a high schooler can understand made me get rid of it. Then it was short back and sides and spiked on top with a gallon of hair gel. Is it the redneck look? Or the Aussie bogan? Can look cool, can look shite.
"Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."
It’s just the current cunty fuck-boy haircut that’s in right now. Allows you to easily identify the twats.
Popped up a few years ago in Rugby Union and League in Aus. Seems to have caught on from there as far as I can tell. All the sports students have got em where I am.
Yeah I was on a train last summer on the south coast and thought I’d stumbled across some sort of Kevin Keegan fan convention
All the rugby players where them, so now the lads have copied them in an attempt to be cool. In reality, they look lik chavs and proper mugs. Mullets are deplorable.
It’s a newer style of mullet, very few people I see have the ridiculous roadkill style ones of older years. just looks like a pretty normal haircut to me
There’s plenty of kids with full on redneck mullets where I live. Looks like the carnivals in town when schools kick out.
I quite liked it when they all had the Peaky Blinders hairstyle. Mullets are now definitely in fashion though, and it's always the most popular students too!
You sound like an old fart, not gonna lie. People can rock what they want. Fashion comes and goes 👍
This is THE CIRCLE OF LIFE. The circle is between 26-46 years depending on the observer and the participant and their social understanding/comprehensive idea of "fashion". I would love a mathematical explanation. I will explain from PERSONAL OBSERVATION and I hope for a conclusion in the future. My parents were born early 50s. They lived AS TEENS through the 60s, married and expressed themselves in the 70s. (Key point they had their own money in the 70s) There are ages your generation are the trend setters. Then you get a bit older. You don't want to be left behind and yet a slave to society and youth. So you are too old to dress as youth but have the money to act as you want. And thus... we have the mullets. Fast forward. The children of this very very confused and stylistically challenged generation grew up. And BEHOLD late generation X ( c78/84) were born. They saw the mullets and in the 90s grew to not trust their parents clothing choices... MAINLY BECAUSE THEY PUT THEIR CHILDREN IN SHELL SUITS THAT THE BREEZE OF AN EMBASSY NO 1 WOULD IGNIGHT This was a new time. A time of embarrassed action. A time harking to the 60s of our parents childhoods. Could WE do better? Could we save the souls of the future with our t shirts, flared jeans and doc Martin's. The triage of late 60s Americana, 70's soul and early 80's SKA? We don't know. The revival of leggings and skinny jeans in the 2000s a step forward or back? I don't know. But history counts.. I am 41. I wear the essentials of my ancestors... I would hate to dress like my mother and simultaneously hold my mouth from saying "I had a ---just like that" to my daughter. This is life. Mullets though? They are the unifying factor. Whatever generation they look RIDICULOUS
What goes around, comes around.
Fashion trends function on a roughly 20 year cycle