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2018-07-15 Home Front: Culture Wars

Navy OKs Ponytails, Locks and Other Hairstyles for Female Sailors

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-15 12:12|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 "Other Hairstyles".... no foto required here.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-15 12:35|| 2018-07-15 12:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Cool, til your hair and scalp are removed by turning equipment

Posted by Frank G 2018-07-15 13:08|| 2018-07-15 13:08|| Front Page Top

Posted by Jack Chaiter7913 2018-07-15 13:10|| 2018-07-15 13:10|| Front Page Top

#4 What #2) Frank G said... Every experienced that I knew mechanic had their hair *SHORT*. This isn't the Age of Sail people -- short is good around airmasks, flash fires and moving machinery.

Posted by magpie 2018-07-15 13:14|| 2018-07-15 13:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Gah...PIMF ^Every experienced mechanic that I knew... The dumb kid shaved his hair short after he lost a lock of hair and the skin it was attached to one fine morning.

Posted by magpie 2018-07-15 13:16|| 2018-07-15 13:16|| Front Page Top

#6 short is good around ...moving machinery.

I very, very strongly agree. One of my bosses told the story of almost getting her head crushed by a paper roller thingie (I worked on toothpaste once upon a time; the equipment used to make toilet paper is a deep mystery to me) when her waist-long ponytail got caught as she walked through a pilot plant. Fortunately the technician heard her screams and turned off the machine with inches to spare. She had him fetch a pair of scissors, and cut her hair to the nape of her neck before she stepped away from the machine.

In a similar vein, Mr. Wife refused to wear a wedding ring until his job no longer took him into factories. As a youth he’d noticed that too many friends of his steelworker father had only nine fingers, and learnt it was because their wedding rings caught on equipment, tearing off the finger at its root.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-07-15 13:48|| 2018-07-15 13:48|| Front Page Top

#7 I assume this also covers those who "identify" as female sailors?

Posted by Tyranysaurus Ulaise3834 2018-07-15 14:31|| 2018-07-15 14:31|| Front Page Top

#8 tw, the obvious solution then is to not allow female sailors anywhere near dangerous machinery. /sarcasm

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2018-07-15 14:51|| 2018-07-15 14:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Construction safety people would be gobsmacked. I saw a safety video where somebody was pulled into a roller press. To the waist. I s'pose it was quick.

Posted by Bobby 2018-07-15 17:34|| 2018-07-15 17:34|| Front Page Top

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