On a serious note, have any of my US friends noticed how thick ol Washingtons neck has gotten on the newer quarters? Got rid of his braid too.

28 points

one nation, on god, frfr

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Yeah, people with a more natural haircut are more ridiculous than dudes with powered wigs and whatever dumb fashion GW and the guys in the 1770s had.

Benjamin Franklin had a skullet/mullet and creampied menopausal women.

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16 points

Based Ben

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4 points

Goals

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5 points

Why were the wigs powered?

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To allow atmospheric flight and quick traversal of complex palace interiors

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1 point

And were they steam engine powered? I guess that would explain the paintings where they look like there’s a plume of white smoke around their heads …

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It is what gave them their white colour. Powderless wigs were quite the improvement.

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2 points

They just fall off when unpowered.

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12 points

I see this hair cut on a lot of people.

Are the curls natural?

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20 points

Could be on some but for most, it’s a perm.

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34 points

Haha, oh man, back when I was a kid (around the time of the Russian Revolution), getting a perm would have been social sepukku.

My grandma had a perm, for instance, and slept with rollers in.

That said, this gif is painfully accurate

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13 points

lol you’re not wrong but it’s not any dumber than frosted tips or emo hair.

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7 points

I remember an ad from maybe 15 years ago that had a guy saying to another person “get a perm” and the joke was that it was obviously terrible advice…

Now they’re coming back

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4 points

You were a kid in 1917?

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3 points

My dad has a perm in my parents wedding photos from the 80s. He looks goofy but Jnco jeans were popular when I was a teenager so I can’t really say shit.

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1 point

Edgar’s

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10 points

Can someone explain to me what ‘no cap’ means?

Is it like… no capacity limit… unlimited?

???

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17 points

It means “no lie” in English (Traditional).

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Oh, so, ‘truthfully’ or ‘verily’.

Welp. Sure, ok. Uh…

How… wtf is the etymology on that? I have no clue how cap = lie.

Last time I talked to a Gen Alpha I literally could not understand 70% of what they were saying. I look a bit younger than I actually am so I had to say look I’m in my 30s, talk to me like I’m a boomer.

Then they dropped the lingo, after rolling their eyes and pouting.

Hooooray for being old. And autistic. Now I’m going to pout.

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Haha congrats on being old. As for the origin, ‘cap’ originates from the twitch emote ‘Kappa’ which is used in response to someone lying. It got shortened to ‘Kap’ and got turned into ‘cap’ when it went mainstream.

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8 points

oh my god he’s MEWING

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