German soldiers allowed to keep mullets

ananova ^ | 6/20/05 | staff

[pissant]

German soldiers will be allowed to sport mullets and ponytails after a court ruled army hair regulations were unconstitutional.

The ruling came after an 18-year-old soldier was locked up in a cell and fined £100 when he refused to chop off his 10-inch ponytail.

The teenaged recruit only agreed to let army barbers cut his hair when faced with three weeks in solitary confinement, but made a formal complaint at the same time.

The military court in Munich ruled in favour of the soldier and argued the varying rules for male and female recruits were "unconstitutional" and "incomprehensible".

It said forcing male soldiers to cut their long hair went against their rights as individuals.

[pissant]

I'm guessing Farrah-Fawcett hair is OK too. Zoinks!

[cowboyway]

varying rules for male and female recruits were "unconstitutional" and "incomprehensible"

I guess this also means communal showers, toilets, barracks, etc.

Another question is, why should women soldiers be allowed to sport long hair?

[pissant]

Where?

[cowboyway]

Anywhere. Especially there.

[pissant]

LOL. You can be the inspector!

[dfwgator]

Now if Germany invades Europe, they'll win because their enemies would keel over from laughter.

[pissant]

Do you think blow dryers and curling irons will be standard issue now? LOL

[dfwgator]

Well this sure ain't your grandfather's German Army. (Which frankly isn't a bad thing).

[Red Badger]

Anybody who wears a mullet must be brave. They actually think they look good..........

[Little Ray]

There was nothing wrong with the Wehrmacht and the General Staff - just something wrong with gub'mint givin' em marching orders!

[Dashing Dasher]

Are female soldiers allowed to "sport" long hair!?

Oh - and varying rules doesn't mean communal. But you clearly have issues with women in the military - or maybe women in general.

Is that the "cowboyway"?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

This kind of mullet?

[dfwgator]

There was nothing wrong with the Wehrmacht and the General Staff - just something wrong with gub'mint givin' em marching orders!

Don't buy into that myth. The Wehrmacht had plenty of complicity in atrocities, especially on the Eastern front.

[Millee]

Oh No!! It's catching on in Iraq too! Eeeek!

[Tijeras_Slim]

I guess their tanks will be the ones with the Lynyrd Skynyrd bumper stickers.

[PzLdr]

Really? Read the Commas Order and the Commando order issued over Field Marshal Keitel's signature [concededly ignored by some some German commanders, such as Rommel]. Or try the Orders of the day issued in Russia by Reichenau or Manstein. Read the minutes of the conference where Hitler told his senior commanders that the war in the East would be fought with the gloves off, and with no regard to the rules and usages of war. Note any commander raising objections? How about the working relationship the various Army Commanders had with the Einsatzgruppen?

The German Army got away with one after the war. They blamed all the mistakes on Hitler, and all the atrocities on the SS. Not quite the truth.

[cowboyway]

Are female soldiers allowed to "sport" long hair!?

Obviously. Didn't you read the post?

The military court in Munich ruled in favour of the soldier and argued the varying rules for male and female recruits were "unconstitutional" and "incomprehensible".

Oh - and varying rules doesn't mean communal.

It certainly does. I'll bet there is more privacy in the womens quarters. That falls under 'varying' rules.

But you clearly have issues with women in the military - or maybe women in general.

Here we go, the personal attack. A former(current) liberal, I presume.

[pissant]

Germany is a basket case!

[Dashing Dasher]

The Mullet Family

[pissant]

Yes, the lovely plumage looks so dandy!

[pissant]

I like that mullet!

[pissant]

OMG. What a find. ROFL!

[pissant]

LOL. Balding mullets = skullets

[Millee]

Oh my Gawd!! I bet that family alone keeps an extra person employed at the Aqua Net factory!

[Dashing Dasher]

Here we go, the personal attack.

personal attack? What are you talking about - I didn't say a word about your mullet.

A former(current) liberal, I presume.

Nope .... just someone sick of you cavemen dissing women all the time.

Oh - and varying rules doesn't mean communal. //// It certainly does. I'll bet there is more privacy in the womens quarters. That falls under 'varying' rules.

If all you want is more privacy in your quarters, just ask. It doesn't mean they have to be communal. Separate but equal.. isn't that the term!?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

They are real good smoked over loblolly bay coals!

[Michael81Dus]

Pissant is wrong on this.

GERMAN SOLDIERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO KEEP THEIR PONYTAILS OR MULLETS!!!!

The court held that women and men shall be treated equally, and that it´s not constitutional that women may keep 10 inches long ponytails! Therefore, I conclude that the Minister will order women to cut off their long hair.

Don´t expect German soldiers to become long-haired hippies!

[cowboyway]

just someone sick of you cavemen dissing women all the time.

Sorry, mam, but if you want to run with the big dogs, you gotta piss in the high bushes.

ugh, ugh (beats chest)

[Dashing Dasher]

[Little Ray]

Nazis atrocities, Commies atrocities, what's to choose? War is a dirty business. Even the Western Allies were not entirely clean. It doesn't bother me much - if your hands are "clean," you're probably not fighting it hard enough. Its one of the things that bothers me about how we conduct the war in the Iraq - war crimes trials are for the losers. Why do we keep acting like losers?

The Wehrmacht fought well, often against overwhelming odds, despite being hamstrung by stupidity (like the lack of winter gear at the start of the Russian campaign, or the delay to the same caused by mopping up the Italian fiasco in the Balkans, or switching objectives in the middle of it...). That is MY measure of a good army. If they had managed to win, they would have been a great army.

[cowboyway]

Where's the hat and boots?

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

I think all new recruits should have to have very short hair. Once they reach a certain rank, the rules could be relaxed a little.

[carolinacrazy]

I believe they should allow long hair strictly for training purposes. It is rumored that Euro armies are experts at "girl fight tactics" like flail slapping, shin kicking and hair pulling.

This can only aid in the ease of training.

[Dashing Dasher]

[cowboyway]

That doesn't count. That's from my WWF days.

[sharktrager]

Why would they want to keep mullets?

Damned If I Know

[EX52D]

Oh my...giddy-up! ;)

[Dashing Dasher]

That's the "Naked Cowboy" and his two cavemen escorts.

Only in NY - I hope.

[pissant]

Yum. sounds good to me!

[pissant]

You mean Ananova is wrong? It cannot be! ;o)

[pissant]

Agreed. No ponytails though! ;o)

[Finger Monkey]

I had Farrah hair in the eighties.

Two frickin' hours.

Girls are so dumb sometimes.

[pissant]

The ladies like them???

[sharktrager]

They have trailer parks in Germany?

Damned If I Know

[pissant]

You missed it by a decade, toots.

[pissant]

Yep, overpriced trailers, just like their cars. ;o)

[Finger Monkey]

I was too young in the 70's to care about my hair.

[pissant]

If you are going to have long hair, then Farrah hair is pretttty sexy. ;o)

[Dashing Dasher]

If you are going to have long hair, then Farrah hair is pretttty sexy. ;o)

Not on a guy!

[pissant]

LOL. True enough. David and Shawn Cassidy were too close for comfort!