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| Minnesota Woman Shorns Hair to Protest Global Warming |
| 2009-12-19 |
| Very few womyn could pull this and look good. My eldest niece could and did. My lovely bride could but hasn't. Unfortunately for Ms. Prentice, she ain't one of them. Way to take one for the team. An Edina woman in Copenhagen for the U.N. climate conference as part of a youth group joined 30 others in shaving their heads outside the conference center on Friday, the last scheduled day of the gathering. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #27 Dear Skunky Glins****, doing your bit to support the local economy. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-12-19 23:25 |
| #26 The local barber left town. Rather than drive for 40 minutes looking for a haircut, I went down to the barn and used the horse clippers, on myself. Beard, head, upperlip. Wife thinks I'm nuts. Barber moved back into town this fall, so I'm spending the ten buck again. Clippers were giving quite the razor burn. |
| Posted by: Skunky Glins**** 2009-12-19 21:05 |
| #25 I shave my head as well, albeit not for Global Warming. It's a lifestyle choice. Going out for the evening and wanna look great? Five minutes in the shower, and I'm groomed and ready. Buy a blow dryer or strop that bowling ball in two seconds? Tough decision, huh? One may shear their hair so it is shorn but one does not "shorn" their hair. Oh, an it's women, not womyn. Thanks for the tip. It did look strange when I pressed the submit button, but then again I knew I could rely on you to point out what was not to me an obvious flaw in my grammer. |
| Posted by: badanov 2009-12-19 18:15 |
| #24 Just another greentard. Nothing to see. Move along (and keep the snickering quiet please). |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-12-19 17:14 |
| #23 Are we sure that's female? |
| Posted by: tipover 2009-12-19 15:56 |
| #22 I shaved my head for global warming as well. Too much hair makes me sweat under the nomex when hauling off snapped branches and putting out electric line fires. Shaved too, so my mask will fit for the odd chimney incident. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2009-12-19 15:28 |
| #21 "One may shear their hair so it is shorn but one does not "shorn" their hair." If there's any pedantry to be delivered here, that's my job, Varmint. I'm the official Rantburg Pedant. So give it a rest. Also, please remember that not everyone who posts here speaks English as a first language - or gives a rat's patootie. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-12-19 15:07 |
| #20 Sadly that's now a Presidential level resume. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-12-19 14:11 |
| #19 Mike, she can't be more than 30, 35 years old. She doesn't even have her Masters Degree in a useless subject yet. Give her a chance ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-12-19 13:44 |
| #18 I suppose using sheep shears is easier than pulling her hair out, but not as dramatic. |
| Posted by: Muggsy Glink 2009-12-19 13:10 |
| #17 Womyn is a dreadful feminist invention modifying the word for their sex so that it does not appear to derive from the word for the other sex, IIRC it's also used almost exclusively in the lesbian community when referring to one another, not that there's anything wrong with that. Also noticed that Ms Prentice' CV is a touch thin on...like...real work. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2009-12-19 12:49 |
| #16 JohnQC---Back to yer room. That was NOT a nice thought. /[LOL] |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-12-19 12:47 |
| #15 Why not just go nekkid and really get into the protest? Oh, never mind! |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-12-19 11:49 |
| #14 The resume in #5 is the emptiest I've seen in a long time. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2009-12-19 11:10 |
| #13 Synthetic wool lined Pickelhaube no doubt |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-12-19 10:12 |
| #12 Hope she gets a good hat. Frostbite is a nasty thing. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2009-12-19 10:08 |
| #11 "We refuse to agree to this treaty, and nothing you say will make us change our minds. My instructions from my government are absolute." "Excellency, there are thirty people out in front of the building shaving their heads." "Damn. They've got us dead to rights. Hand me my Bic ballpoint." |
| Posted by: Mike 2009-12-19 09:34 |
| #10 http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/4696/parrot450we1.jpg |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-12-19 09:31 |
| #9 Womyn is a dreadful feminist invention modifying the word for their sex so that it does not appear to derive from the word for the other sex, Varmint Glunter7711. Badanov is using it sarcastically, I'm sure. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-12-19 09:15 |
| #8 Oh, an it's women, not womyn. Based on her resume, Varmint, I'm pretty sure it's "womyn", since "women" has that evil, phallocentric and oppressive word "men" in it. Surely you've gotten the memo? ;) |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-12-19 09:10 |
| #7 One may shear their hair so it is shorn but one does not "shorn" their hair. Oh, an it's women, not womyn. |
| Posted by: Varmint Glunter7711 2009-12-19 08:48 |
| #6 At first glance she looks like Larry Flynt Larry is "messaging" all attendees of the Climate Change Conference in his photograph, especially the U.S. Delegation - Al Gore |
| Posted by: Pancho Pholuth3490 2009-12-19 08:36 |
| #5 A Georgetown grad, Germanophile, media expert, Sociocultural Anthropologist and now skinhead. Promising (but a bit frightening) future that. Valida Prentice’s Summary Marketing & communications project manager with knowledge of the wind industry. Experienced in desktop publishing, logo design, and writing & editing for external communications. Particularly adept in new media marketing: website design, utilizing social networking & media-sharing sites, and blogging for business. Valida Prentice’s Specialties: Writing, editing, layout design, HTML/CSS, web design, Drupal CMS Valida Prentice’s Experience Agents of Change Youth Delegate SustainUS (Non-Profit; Environmental Services industry) July 2009 — Present (6 months) Member of the Agents of Change youth delegation to the UNFCCC COP-15 in Copenhagen. Main role pre-COP is to work out policy positions and media strategies with policy working group and communications working group, respectively. Main role at COP is to liaison between policy, communications, and grassroots actions working groups and to work on media production. Valida Prentice’s Education Freie Universität Berlin MA , Environmental Management , 2009 — 2011 (expected) The George Washington University BA , International Affairs , 2004 — 2007 Graduated with Special Honors, Summa cum Laude Thesis: "The C40 and Sub-State-Level International Cooperation on Climate Change Mitigation" Minors in German Language & Literature and Sociocultural Anthropology Received Citation of Outstanding Academic Achievement Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Green GW, Delta Phi Alpha, German Club, Phi Eta Sigma |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-12-19 08:10 |
| #4 I hope she plans on knitting a shirt from all that hair. I hear it's damn cold at the Warming Conference. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-12-19 07:13 |
| #3 Maybe it was a last ditch effort to get rid of lice once and for all? (I mean, look at her picture. I've seen that look before. You think she would be happy about her little protest, but she looks like she is just waiting for this bad haircut to grow out so her normal stylist can fix it.) |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-12-19 07:03 |
| #2 Was she protest global warming during the blizzard or before? |
| Posted by: Scott R 2009-12-19 05:12 |
| #1 Words fail. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-12-19 04:49 |
