All this is a perfect example of the notorious AoS thread drift!
All this is a perfect example of the notorious AoS thread drift!
Barry
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I know, I've seen the pic you posted... And I'm glad you've got an honest wife. Mine would do the same, and frequently does!
I just don't know how some folk can go around looking so ridiculous, with laugh-out-loud hairstyles, especially when they're on TV! I'd rather be completely bald than look like a tool. Mind you, I've often found that 'boffins' display little concern for their personal appearance.
Science teachers at schools were notoriously always the worst dressers!
Marco.
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The 'long-haired genius' look probably started with Einstein. Genius and eccentricity often go hand-in-hand; so that some are so preoccupied with their mental activities they pay no regard to their appearance, or have no real interest in what they eat of drink. Scientists tend to be the worse in that regard, but some philosophers can be just as bad.
Barry
....and often tend to be single - that's the other crucial factor!
IME, many single men 'of a certain age', regardless of being 'boffins' or not, care little about their appearance, almost as if they've lost their self-esteem/self-respect. You always dressed well and took care of your appearance even when you were single, but I bet you'd agree that Happy has still been influential now in how you look
In terms of long hair, some guys can carry it off really well (in a ponytail) *IF*, and it's a BIG IF, they have thick, clean, shiny hair, and are under the age of 40. If those crucial boxes aren't ticked, however, then they can end up looking as stupid as the 'Friar Tuck' brigade!
Marco.
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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I think it pre-dated Einstein by several decades. 'Long-haired' musicians, for example Liszt, and artists, were a staple joke of Punch cartoons in the 1880s/1890s. See, for example:
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illu...aurier/88.html
https://punch.photoshelter.com/image/I0000SioAnNExd1k
Academics often dress scruffily so that no-one can mistake them for administrators.
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