Posted on 09/08/2020 12:08:46 AM PDT by nickcarraway
While coronavirus lockdowns caused many men across the world to grow their hair longer than usual, none compare with Vietnam’s Nguyen Van Chien who has gone almost 80 years without a trim.
The 92-year-old from the southern Mekong Delta region is the proud owner of 16.4 foot-long dreadlocks, owing to his belief in a faith that prescribes leaving untouched what a person is born with.
“I believe if I cut my hair I will die. I dare not to change anything, not even combing it,” Chien told Reuters in his village about 50 miles west of Ho Chi Minh City.
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/screams internally
Gross
Eeeew, mental illness is very real. If someone cut it he would probably die of nothing other than shock.
“no longer cut, wash or comb”
“It has a life of its own”
I suspect it has its own lifeforms, now.
The man is setting himself up for whiplash. Given a strong wind, that hair will become a sail that will jerk his head around with a fury.
Another religious nutjob. Nothing new here.
Needs a Head & Shoulders sponsorship.
It's lifeforms have their own lifeforms. It's an eco-tourism destination for fleas and lice and microscopic things yet to be discovered.
His religion believes that everything you are born with should never be touched?
that must make for a mighty boring wedding night :-)
Isadora Duncan comes to mind.
My hair apparently heard a calling from somebody else. (Well, I think some of it heard a calling from my a$$ and is trying to reach it via my back.)
I can think of better hobbies.
At least it isn’t the nose hair dude! Or the fingernail guy. Or the federal clerk typist with 5’ nails....
In 1567, he tripped and stumbled over his own beard, breaking his neck and killing himself.
"Sensors picking up life-forms, Captain! Off the scale!"
Regards,
“owing to his belief in a faith that prescribes leaving untouched what a person is born with.”
$$$$$$$$$$
So, in other words, he’s full of shit as well.
Same fears and phobias you see in people who wear a mask all the time and think COVID will kill everyone
That’s just freaking nasty and gross. I dread to think what the foul smell coming off of it must be............
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