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Written by Per Vognsen on 2025-01-09 at 23:57

When I grew up in the 80s and early 90s, the Danish stereotype about Germans is that they had mullets. I wonder how many mullet-related national stereotypes exist nowadays. I was reminded of this because I just heard that Brazilians apparently say this about Argentinians.

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Written by Fabian Giesen on 2025-01-10 at 00:38

@pervognsen from personal experience, for the late 80s and early 90s, and talking about Germans in their mid-late 20s and early 30s, you were probably right

which is not super Germany-specific AFAICT

also shoulder pads, but that's even less specific

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Written by Per Vognsen on 2025-01-10 at 00:45

@rygorous Just did a search for "Bundesligahår" (one of the standard slang terms for mullets) and was not disappointed.

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Written by Per Vognsen on 2025-01-10 at 00:51

@rygorous Although https://ordnet.dk/ddo/ordbog?query=bundesligah%C3%A5r says that term is first attested in 1995 whereas to @ahfrom's point "svenskerhår" apparently goes back to at least 1984.

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Written by Steve Canon on 2025-01-10 at 00:58

@pervognsen @rygorous @ahfrom in American English, we have “Tennessee Tophat” for a regional mullet stereotype.

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Written by Steve Canon on 2025-01-10 at 01:00

@pervognsen @rygorous @ahfrom in Canadian French, it’s a coupe Longueuil.

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Written by Steve Canon on 2025-01-10 at 01:04

@pervognsen @rygorous @ahfrom I think the standard name in Canadian English (@fclc?) is “hockey hair,” the moral equivalent of Bundesligahår?

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Written by Per Vognsen on 2025-01-10 at 01:05

@steve @rygorous @ahfrom @fclc I believe that's also one of the standard slang terms for it in Swedish, which is another hockey-playing country. Just did a quick search based on the hockey country thing and apparently similar terms also exist in Norwegian and Finnish.

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Written by Steve Canon on 2025-01-10 at 01:08

@pervognsen @rygorous @ahfrom @fclc definitely also used in hockey-playing parts of the USA. But anywhere south of ~42 degrees north in the USA, I would not really expect it to be understood.

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Written by Maciej Sinilo on 2025-01-10 at 01:16

@steve @pervognsen @rygorous @ahfrom @fclc it was called Czech football player hair in Poland for some reason (even though there were definitely local players sporting it too...) . I guess young Jagr combined Czech&hockey nicely: http://images.performgroup.com/di/library/omnisport/f7/58/jaromir-jagr-100515-usnews-getty-ftr_jzxg1pdurp2t16mumt7nco8db.jpg?t=963087848

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Written by Steve Canon on 2025-01-10 at 01:36

@msinilo @pervognsen @rygorous @ahfrom @fclc as a sufficiently old American, “Czech football hair” makes me expect the wild and crazy guys from SNL (though, in fairness, I believe they are canonically Slovak brain surgeons, which is presumably why they lack mullets).

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