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  • 20-08-2013 4:53am
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    Festy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭


    Why is it that most blokes seem to have one now a days ? Is it a jersey shore thing or some other nonsense TV show that's given them the idea or what ? :confused:


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    Hasmunch
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭Hasmunch


    Because most blokes are going bald (without grace)


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    #3
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,249 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Did you not get the memo? We're all doing it!

    For the craic, like.


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    Hasmunch
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭Hasmunch


    endacl wrote: »
    Did you not get the memo? We're all doing it!

    For the craic, like.

    I thought OP meant a comb-over on their head not arse!!


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    #5
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,249 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Hasmunch wrote: »
    I thought OP meant a comb-over on their head not arse!!
    Can't comb your arse over. The parting's pretty much fixed in place.

    :D


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    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    Someone on TV done it and now they seem to think it's a good look it seems..

    Balding men everywhere are rejoicing that the comb over is now in fashion.
    It's going to be one of those things that people are cringing at in a few years looking back at pictures of themselves I think..I think you tend to see the same kind of person doing it, wearing chinos and a generic t shirt


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    kneemos
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    Can't say I've noticed.Always thought bald was kinda a cool look though in fairness.


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,249 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    kneemos wrote: »
    Can't say I've noticed.Always thought bald was kinda a cool look though in fairness.
    Cool in the summer. Feckin' freezin' in the winter if you don't have a hat.


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    #9
    Duck's hoop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭Duck's hoop


    If it's the 'combover fade' yer on about, it's just the very trendy haircut du jour. bit like the Hoxton fin a few years back, it has reached epidemic proportions. Pretty much every single chung fla I see has it.

    Like for the fin, I think David Beckham is responsible.


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    speedboatchase
    Registered Users Posts: 5,779 ✭✭✭speedboatchase


    You mean the current trend for Mad Men-style quiffs etc? Looks pretty cool, I think, although not the Gareth Bale chavvy variety.


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    danniemcq
    Registered Users Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    Still better than the old fashioned combovers where 3 strands of hair would try and cover an acre of bald head.

    Case and point

    http://www.cavemancircus.com/wp-content/uploads/images/2012/november/comb_overs/comb_overs_3.jpg


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    WesternZulu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,936 ✭✭✭WesternZulu


    Jackie Healy-Rae has been rocking that look for that years!


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    Freddy Smelly
    Registered Users Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Freddy Smelly


    there is a guy at work with a friar tuck hair style... i thought that style went out of fashion in the 1500's


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    BeerWolf
    Registered Users Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Psh, comb overs... Friar haircut is where it's at!

    e.g. :

    Link

    Awesome


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    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,000 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Festy wrote: »
    Why is it that most blokes seem to have one now a days ? Is it a jersey shore thing or some other nonsense TV show that's given them the idea or what ? :confused:

    Do they?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    reminds me of this classic ad.




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    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    this is how it should be done

    http://jammytoast.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/H-TerryNutkins.jpg


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    #18
    Festy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭Festy


    mango salsa wrote: »
    Do they?

    Yes they do.It's pretty popular atm with blokes in their 20's.


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    #19
    shleedance
    Registered Users Posts: 240 ✭✭shleedance


    I shave my hair off because I can't be arsed with useless trends. Same with fashion or anything vanity-related. I'm too utilitarian for my own good.


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    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    I started doing it few months ago.
    Basically ran out of ideas to do with me hair.
    If I just leave it the way it is with small bit of gel I look like a skanger.
    If I spike it I look like a oul lad going thru midlife crisis


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    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    dodderangler wrote: »
    I started doing it few months ago.
    Basically ran out of ideas to do with me hair.
    If I just leave it the way it is with small bit of gel I look like a skanger.
    If I spike it I look like a oul lad going thru midlife crisis

    So you comb it over like you're going bald? Tis an interesting approach I gotta say!


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