I would guess that it's more because there are three people in the shot and they are all young women, and two of those young women look slightly different than the OP wants them to look (one has dyed hair and one has a scarf).
Youth parliament, model UN, all those places, they have always been great places to meet smart girls. Just wish teenage me had just a little more game.
Literally these people think freedom of expression equals with buying Levis jeans and Adidas shoes, because they heard they were hard to come by in the Soviet Bloc.
i like saying that history doesn't repeat, it rhymes...
but bloody hell, this is literally the exact same thing we get every single generation
"those young people, completely indecent, just look at the way they dress! their hair! the music they listen to! this technology they use! what will become of them. When i was young i was perfectly obedient and listened to my elders." you could attritbute that sentence to any era of human history and you'll be correct, literally all the way back to the beginning of written history this rings true
Socrates complained about how the youths depend on paper and books too much. And since then little has changed but the exact thing the olds complain about
IDK, you could make a pretty good argument that we have way too many sheep nowadays. The "smeagels" are kind of useless without herds of sheep who follow them.
I lived in Wales for a year a few years back. Actually colored hair was way more common over there when I was there. Even in older adults.
Had teachers with pink hair in their 60s.
Tattoos also more common. I recall one of the professors lookee like a Goth girl. She also gave me mediocre grades on everything I submitted to her. 😅
Septum piercing. Always wore black. And long jet black hair. She also told us how to pirate research papers and textbooks on day one. In a power point.
Idk. The culture there was just more chill about alternative style. At least while I was there.
maybe it's Wales, maybe it's just academia. smart people are usually capable of figuring out that self expression no matter how eccentric is harmless and simply brings colour to the world
Surely. But I'm still in academia. My most recent university was in Chicago. People there are more clean cut. Few alternative looking grad students but not professors. Professors all look like standard teacher types. Clean cut.
Only knew of one other grad student with a visible tattoo on her wrist.
I had a face piercing (Monroe). She has a side nose ring. Can't think of anyone else with either.
Maybe it's just that culture at that university.
Swansea was just really different to me.
Also something funny about Wales.
So here (,until the last few years) Starbucks was pretty popular, wouldn't you say,,?
Like the hip young people. The career go getters. The hipsters.
All hanging around starbucks.
But not in Wales.
Costa coffee was their hip coffee chain.
Starbucks was like. .. idk how to phrase this without sounding shallow. But I'll try.
Rough people hung out at Starbucks.
Like. People who looked like drug addicts.
Always outside chain smoking.
Rough people. The 2 am Denny's crowd. You know.
Starbucks was so disliked, that small Starbucks , like the one inside a university building and one at a museum I visited, tried to hide their brand so people wouldn't know it was starbucks until you got your cup. No apron logo. No racks with cups. No logos on anything anywhere. Except the to-go cups.
I'm 100% serious.
Local people always said that Starbucks coffee was shite.
I remember taking a video of the goings on to send it to a friend to show how much they tried to hide they were a star bucks. Cause this was like peak star bucks popularity time (2017-2018).
It's essentially a model parliament, but one that gets contact with the actual government. Under-18s fight for election and hold debates in the same manner as the House of Commons
No, I have absolutely no idea how this makes it "woke" beyond that some people just use the word to mean "thing I don't like"
He probably spent most of last month hanging flags upside down on lamp posts, and calling himself patriotic, it's the sort of thing people like him do. Everyone else calls him a prat
The funny thing is that the Union Jack is not quite symmetrical. You can hang it upside down, but it takes a very trained eye to see it’s upside down.
That’s part of why ships fly a solid red flag with a Union Jack quarter, so it’s readily apparent when they are in distress.
Never mind getting the Union Jack the right way up, at least some of those dumb fucks managed to paint the Danish flag on a roundabout because they forgot what the English one looks like
It doesn't matter what she said, they hate her for her appearance. Plus there's nothing more dangerous than a young person engaged in politics like this.
I used to be a part of the UK Youth Parliament, and whilst there were a decent number of Tories, I never met someone who was a part of UKIP. The young people who support UKIP/Reform are a completelt different archetype
Just watched through the latest UK youth parliament session, they seem to be Member from Essex, and they talked about the cost of the environment and how money doesn't get us shit, great shit! https://www.youtube.com/live/5qnNCoiYmKE?t=7838
There's a specific hair color I refer to as "mental health red". Every girl I've talked to that has had it, was, uh, off in some way. It's a REALLY shiny, fake red, not a natural tone at all. Also common after break ups.
People with dyed hair in general though? Can't say I agree.
I see the only common factor here is you. I have had many interactions with people sportingbright hair colours, including reds, and they were quite reasonable people.
Cool, but at least one of them completely admitted she's got a lot of issues (nonviolent, so we were pretty good friends until we fell out of contact) and another was actually very violent - against me and at least one other former partner I know about - and SHE was the one who told me about it, not the victim. We were kind of a thing for a bit, but eventually the sex wasn't worth the constant gaslighting and attacks.
Then there was one who said she'd dyed her hair "mental breakdown red", but I never got to know her well enough to figure out how much of it was a joke. There was a "this is a joke, but like all jokes, it's not completely out of thin air" energy about it.
Truth be told, I know one girl who has a similar hair colour and seems completely sane. Don't know her too well, kinda stopped talking after school and she was pretty introverted back then, but she's been rocking it as her style for a few decades now. The common thing between the others is that they all did theirs after some traumatic event, which is where I got the hypothesis that radically changing one's appearance might be a trauma response - hence my nickname for it: mental health red.
Life itself is nothing more than a collection of anecdotes. Outside of math and philosophy, all our knowledge is based on anecdotal/empirical evidence. And in terms of psychology in particular, "everyone", "always", "never" and "nobody" aren't really terms you should use. I never said everyone with red hair is insane or something, I just said a large amount of people with bright red dyed hair seem to have issues. It's a red flag to keep out for.
Now the question is, how deeply did you know all the people sporting bright hair colours, and can you be sure for real that most of them had no traumas they were dealing with? Someone being "reasonable" doesn't mean they're healthy. Nor does having mental health issues mean you have to be unreasonable or even unpleasant.
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Rhaedas@fedia.io · 141 pts · 280d
Internal monologue: "I'm scared of them because they are cooler than me, and maybe even smarter."
lemmyng@piefed.ca · 67 pts · 280d
Maybe smarter? The average one brain cell orange cat is smarter than this guy.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 28 pts · 280d
Keep in mind, it's his words in his head. Of course he thinks HE is smart.
Cavemanfreak@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 279d
I think you got that wrong, the leading theory is that the orange cats all share one brain cell. Still would be true though.
Drusas@fedia.io · 85 pts · 280d
I would guess that it's more because there are three people in the shot and they are all young women, and two of those young women look slightly different than the OP wants them to look (one has dyed hair and one has a scarf).
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 279d
Y CANT THEY B MORE LIKE THAT NICE MRS THATCHER???! 🤬🤬🤬
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 279d
Are you, by chance, the new Prime Minister of Japan?
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 279d
Could also be that he thinks what they're saying is insane or something
janus2@lemmy.zip · 64 pts · 280d
god forbid the children have style
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 44 pts · 280d
Youth parliament, model UN, all those places, they have always been great places to meet smart girls. Just wish teenage me had just a little more game.
toofpic@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 280d
Theater.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 279d
IME theater is often where the cute (but often vapid / overly ambitious in a bad way) girls are (some smart ones behind the scenes tho)
lauha@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 279d
If you replace "woke" with "human rights", you understand what these people are talking about.
These people hate basic human right.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 279d
They hate freedom of expression and want everyone to live how they demand.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
Literally these people think freedom of expression equals with buying Levis jeans and Adidas shoes, because they heard they were hard to come by in the Soviet Bloc.
lauha@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
Free speech is just one humen right they hate. They also hate based on gender, color of the skin, being poor, religion and even basic decency
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 38 pts · 279d
shneancy@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 279d
i like saying that history doesn't repeat, it rhymes...
but bloody hell, this is literally the exact same thing we get every single generation
"those young people, completely indecent, just look at the way they dress! their hair! the music they listen to! this technology they use! what will become of them. When i was young i was perfectly obedient and listened to my elders." you could attritbute that sentence to any era of human history and you'll be correct, literally all the way back to the beginning of written history this rings true
Socrates complained about how the youths depend on paper and books too much. And since then little has changed but the exact thing the olds complain about
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 37 pts · 280d
Why woke when you can sleep like sheep?
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 280d
Sheep are fine. You wouldn't want to be one, but those who are, can serve a purpose. It's the smeagels like this guy that are the problem.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 4 pts · 280d
IDK, you could make a pretty good argument that we have way too many sheep nowadays. The "smeagels" are kind of useless without herds of sheep who follow them.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 279d
What kind of absolute fucking loser forges their entire identity around not liking other people's fashion choices?
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 279d
The type of authoritarian who loses his shit over dyed hair and demands it be illegal
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 278d
Gamers
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 279d
Dyed hair... ankh... fashion conscious business attire...
I for one welcome our new Goth representation in government. We need more of this.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 30 pts · 279d
Psych: "Ok so you're here because *checks notes* digestive on twitter didn't like the outfit you wore at the Youth parliament."
Girl: "Yes."
Psych: "Well that's not an illness so..."
Charlie Simp: "STOP RIGHT THERE, I SENT HER HERE SO YOU CAN FIX HER!"
Psych: "Fix her?"
Charlie Simp: "MAKE HER NORMAL!!!"
Psych: "Normal how."
Simp: "Make her look and act like how I demand people do! You know, long hair, normal make up, normal fashion..."
Psych: "So remove all individuality from her?"
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 279d
Psych: you want a session here?
Noobnarski@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 279d
Maybe he has had all individuality removed and now he cannot understand why anyone would have it.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 279d
I think the issue is that young lady with the headscarf. The poster is just trying to pretend it’s about hair colour, but it’s about skin colour
mr_account@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 280d
Tweet by Charlie Simp, huh?🤔
echodot@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 279d
Great insights there from "Charlie Simp"
Obviously in training to suck up to Farage and his ilk. Fortunately I've never heard of him before so he's obviously not very good at it.
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 280d
I fucking love seeing women with partially dyed hair. YOU GO GIRL!
daannii@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 279d
I lived in Wales for a year a few years back. Actually colored hair was way more common over there when I was there. Even in older adults.
Had teachers with pink hair in their 60s.
Tattoos also more common. I recall one of the professors lookee like a Goth girl. She also gave me mediocre grades on everything I submitted to her. 😅
Septum piercing. Always wore black. And long jet black hair. She also told us how to pirate research papers and textbooks on day one. In a power point.
Idk. The culture there was just more chill about alternative style. At least while I was there.
I was in Swansea.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 9 pts · 279d
Should've domned her instead
shneancy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 279d
maybe it's Wales, maybe it's just academia. smart people are usually capable of figuring out that self expression no matter how eccentric is harmless and simply brings colour to the world
daannii@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 278d
Surely. But I'm still in academia. My most recent university was in Chicago. People there are more clean cut. Few alternative looking grad students but not professors. Professors all look like standard teacher types. Clean cut.
Only knew of one other grad student with a visible tattoo on her wrist.
I had a face piercing (Monroe). She has a side nose ring. Can't think of anyone else with either.
Maybe it's just that culture at that university. Swansea was just really different to me.
Also something funny about Wales.
So here (,until the last few years) Starbucks was pretty popular, wouldn't you say,,?
Like the hip young people. The career go getters. The hipsters. All hanging around starbucks. But not in Wales.
Costa coffee was their hip coffee chain. Starbucks was like. .. idk how to phrase this without sounding shallow. But I'll try.
Rough people hung out at Starbucks.
Like. People who looked like drug addicts. Always outside chain smoking. Rough people. The 2 am Denny's crowd. You know.
Starbucks was so disliked, that small Starbucks , like the one inside a university building and one at a museum I visited, tried to hide their brand so people wouldn't know it was starbucks until you got your cup. No apron logo. No racks with cups. No logos on anything anywhere. Except the to-go cups.
I'm 100% serious.
Local people always said that Starbucks coffee was shite.
I remember taking a video of the goings on to send it to a friend to show how much they tried to hide they were a star bucks. Cause this was like peak star bucks popularity time (2017-2018).
Tetragrade@leminal.space · 14 pts · 279d
Drip too hard
riskable@programming.dev · 13 pts · 279d
A normal person sees cool hair but a conservative is only seeing red.
BipolarSilence@lemmy.cafe · 12 pts · 279d
I wish I could pull this look off
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 279d
I bet you can!
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 279d
Honestly, everybody can, just go for it!
hansolo@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 280d
Says some incel cosplaying a dusty old wanker that thought both David Bowie and Elton John were cool AF.
recklessengagement@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 279d
That necklace is cool
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 279d
Everything is cool
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 279d
Ankh if you love that necklace!
pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 278d
Why are they always so terrified of hair dye?
vrek@programming.dev · 8 pts · 280d
I know very little of UK politics, what is that group for/against?
Skua@kbin.earth · 21 pts · 280d
It's essentially a model parliament, but one that gets contact with the actual government. Under-18s fight for election and hold debates in the same manner as the House of Commons
No, I have absolutely no idea how this makes it "woke" beyond that some people just use the word to mean "thing I don't like"
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 15 pts · 280d
Fascists don't like democracy, probably. Especially not for women and minorities.
vrek@programming.dev · -4 pts · 280d
I'm not really against but I think instead we should just ban anyone over 60 from voting...
echodot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 279d
Pretty sure he's just some edgy teenager.
He probably spent most of last month hanging flags upside down on lamp posts, and calling himself patriotic, it's the sort of thing people like him do. Everyone else calls him a prat
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 279d
The funny thing is that the Union Jack is not quite symmetrical. You can hang it upside down, but it takes a very trained eye to see it’s upside down.
That’s part of why ships fly a solid red flag with a Union Jack quarter, so it’s readily apparent when they are in distress.
Skua@kbin.earth · 7 pts · 279d
Never mind getting the Union Jack the right way up, at least some of those dumb fucks managed to paint the Danish flag on a roundabout because they forgot what the English one looks like
GiveOver@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 279d
The point is: the people hanging them on lampposts don't know that, hence half of them being upside down.
To be fair, as somebody who has put flags on lampposts, it's slightly difficult to coordinate the flag orientation when you're at the top of a ladder.
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 279d
I’m sorry it looks like I misunderstood your comment.
Over here people put flags upside down on purpose, so that was my frame of reference.
🪜 🇬🇧
GiveOver@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 279d
No worries, here's some context on the lamppost thing if you're interested
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx271162ee3o
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 279d
Why? Its just a picture, what did she say?
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 279d
It doesn't matter what she said, they hate her for her appearance. Plus there's nothing more dangerous than a young person engaged in politics like this.
I used to be a part of the UK Youth Parliament, and whilst there were a decent number of Tories, I never met someone who was a part of UKIP. The young people who support UKIP/Reform are a completelt different archetype
Tja@programming.dev · -2 pts · 279d
Other than the title of the post, which might or might not be made up, how do we know they hate her for her appearance?
lena@gregtech.eu · 9 pts · 279d
they talked about climate change and how the people in power don't do anything to stop it iirc
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 279d
She isn't wrong there
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 279d
Anyone have the speech that person made that has the tweeter so mad?
Karjalan@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 279d
I'm summarising, but I bet it went along the lines of
You know... Real sick shit
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 279d
Taleya@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 279d
Charlie Simp needs a nap
disaster2life@leminal.space · 3 pts · 278d
Just watched through the latest UK youth parliament session, they seem to be Member from Essex, and they talked about the cost of the environment and how money doesn't get us shit, great shit! https://www.youtube.com/live/5qnNCoiYmKE?t=7838
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 279d
Puts a celery leaf under their poppy, I understood that reference
owsei@programming.dev · 2 pts · 278d
ELI5 👉👈
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 278d
Doctor Who
waterbird@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 279d
Etlaris@lemdro.id · -13 pts · 279d
moopet@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 279d
wat
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · -2 pts · 279d
There's a specific hair color I refer to as "mental health red". Every girl I've talked to that has had it, was, uh, off in some way. It's a REALLY shiny, fake red, not a natural tone at all. Also common after break ups.
People with dyed hair in general though? Can't say I agree.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 279d
I see the only common factor here is you. I have had many interactions with people sportingbright hair colours, including reds, and they were quite reasonable people.
I would look inwards if I were you.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 279d
Cool, but at least one of them completely admitted she's got a lot of issues (nonviolent, so we were pretty good friends until we fell out of contact) and another was actually very violent - against me and at least one other former partner I know about - and SHE was the one who told me about it, not the victim. We were kind of a thing for a bit, but eventually the sex wasn't worth the constant gaslighting and attacks.
Then there was one who said she'd dyed her hair "mental breakdown red", but I never got to know her well enough to figure out how much of it was a joke. There was a "this is a joke, but like all jokes, it's not completely out of thin air" energy about it.
Truth be told, I know one girl who has a similar hair colour and seems completely sane. Don't know her too well, kinda stopped talking after school and she was pretty introverted back then, but she's been rocking it as her style for a few decades now. The common thing between the others is that they all did theirs after some traumatic event, which is where I got the hypothesis that radically changing one's appearance might be a trauma response - hence my nickname for it: mental health red.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 279d
Cool a few anecdotes.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 278d
Life itself is nothing more than a collection of anecdotes. Outside of math and philosophy, all our knowledge is based on anecdotal/empirical evidence. And in terms of psychology in particular, "everyone", "always", "never" and "nobody" aren't really terms you should use. I never said everyone with red hair is insane or something, I just said a large amount of people with bright red dyed hair seem to have issues. It's a red flag to keep out for.
Now the question is, how deeply did you know all the people sporting bright hair colours, and can you be sure for real that most of them had no traumas they were dealing with? Someone being "reasonable" doesn't mean they're healthy. Nor does having mental health issues mean you have to be unreasonable or even unpleasant.
Lazylazycat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
What are you even on about, nearly everyone woman has dyed her hair at some point?