Everyone in China Is Wearing Plastic Plants on Their Heads and Nobody Knows Why

yahoo ^ | Oct. 7, 2015 | Jilhan Forbes

[bgill]

Hip college students and grown folks alike are scratching their clover-laden heads wondering who got the idea to walk around with Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Secret Garden sprouting from their tresses. “I think this comes more from Western culture,” one student told the Times. “It’s fun, but I guess it’s also about protecting the environment, to show that you care about nature,” a peddler of the green headgear offered (which is interesting considering the country is one of the biggest polluters of out planet).

But probably the best explanation came from a 24-year-old medical student, who best sums up how the trend caught on: “When I first saw them, I thought, ‘that’s strange,’ but everyone was wearing them… I thought it was fun and entertaining, so I also put one on, too.”

[csvset]

Oh, plants. I read it as pants. Never mind.

[ClearCase_guy]

“What a shocking bad hat!”
— The Madness of Crowds

[CARDINALRULES]

I see that it was pants. But it had been fixed before I saw it so mine was my eyes and brain that messed it up.

[huldah1776]

Plastic Pants...LOL so did I! I used to be an excellent reader until I got arthritis. Maybe I should put pants on my head before I go to bed.

[uglybiker]

Reminds me of zombie ants.

[Celtic Conservative]

“Le chapeau des jardins.”

There, now it has a chic, trendy name too.

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[Hot Tabasco]

I want one! In fact, at only $.79, I’ll get one for all the guys I play softball with...they’ll love them too!

[Kirkwood]

[diplomatic_immunity]

With my eyesight going South quicker than a Syracuse retiree I could have sworn this article stated that everyone in Chinas was wearing plastic PANTS on their heads.

Actually, that would only be a tad bit more bizarre.

Cue the Idiocracy screenshots:

[Demiurge2]

Or “tree-panning.”

[Mr. Jeeves]

China is quickly catching up to Japan in the “Weird S—t Department.”

Probably an inevitable result of repressive Confucian cultures - weird stuff just naturally springs up as a backlash. :)

[WKUHilltopper]

LOL! I first thought the headline said “plastic PANTS”.

[Ingtar]

I read it that way as well; that was a confusing image.

[BykrBayb]

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s cure.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

I hope the Chinese government remembers the still mysterious passing of the chupattis.

[muir_redwoods]

This is way better than what I first thought it read; something about plastic pants.

[TalonDJ]

‘nuf said.

[JimRed]

Cute and harmless.

[Jamestown1630]

When I’ve seen some of the things that people will pay money for, it’s a wonder to me that any person can’t find a way to profit from *something*. There seems to be a ‘niche’ for just about anything one might dream up to offer.

-JT

[Califreak]

Plants on head retarded.