Dirty Hair

Seve OB · 11-05-2022 3:09pm #1

Did you know that the Irish people have the dirtiest hair in the world? It’s a proven fact.

don’t believe me?

just go to any swimming pool in Ireland and it is mandatory to wear swimming hats.

now go anywhere else in the world and see if you have to wear a swimming hat in their pools

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Allinall · 11-05-2022 3:12pm

It's not the dirtiness of the hair that's the problem. It's the looseness.

porkmaster · 11-05-2022 3:14pm

It's just the naturally forming hair gel known as mank.

Jim_Hodge · 11-05-2022 3:15pm

You need to travel more. I've seen caps required in many countries.

L1011 · 11-05-2022 3:16pm

Caps are quite common in other countries, as sometimes are tight fitting swimwear to reduce the amount of hair that might come from, well, not your head.

Allinall · 11-05-2022 3:18pm

The pool I use has a rule "No Petting".

Suppose that's why I never see dogs or cats swimming there.

PsychoPete · 11-05-2022 3:23pm

My missus is a hairdresser and barber, she says mostly young fellas that are the worst for dirty hair

sam t smith · 11-05-2022 3:25pm

Is it true that nits only infect people with clean hair?

thefallingman · 11-05-2022 3:29pm

what about Muslims with big beards do they need beard hats ?

Idle Passerby · 11-05-2022 7:05pm

In Iceland you have to shampoo your pubes and armpits before they'll let you in the pool. And the showers are communal.

Potential-Monke · 11-05-2022 10:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119047135#Comment_119047135

I'm not Muslim (I wouldn't be able to give up pork products), but I do have a big beard. In the few occasions I've gone swimming since having a big beard, no one has ever said anything. But in my defence, I tie it up if I'm going swimming. Mostly because if I didn't I'd look like a wet homeless person. And I can't do the slow mo wet hair flip women do, except backwards. I'll take my eyes out.

But in my extremely limited employment in a barbers (I was 17, I was sweeping floors and got "promoted" to washer), the dirtiest hair were the men who think coming straight from a building site was acceptable. Trying to wash steel out of already wiry hair is not fun.