>>>>>"Not Fair" by Lily Allen: what do you make of it? It's played on public radio in the UK and elsewhere.
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>>>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUYaosyR4bE
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>>>>You're a fan of Lilly Allen!?
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>>>I knew the song anyway but I just looked at the youtube link. What a rubbish video.
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>>What a rubbish "ditty" singer - with her mockney accent.
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>I had not heard the term mockney before. I like it. Reminds me of one we have here -- you may have it, too -- fauxhawk. That's a mohawk, except the sides of the head aren't shaved, just cut shorter and slicked down. You can switch to a relatively normal looking haircut by combing down the sticking-up part. Emily says a lot of the Hispanic guys at her high school have fauxhawks. Talk about having the notion of making a radical statement but not quite the nerve to do it unequivocally.

All the US kids' right of passage films, Quincy and stuff, back a few decades ago, featured "punks" with this style. Like they'd just got some young actors, slicked their hair up and dressed them in punk clothes. Like in the 70s the actors were too vain to get their hair cut for WW II films, and featured long sideburns and messy hairlines - so anachronistic. As if their hair wouldn't have grown back again.

BTW, in the UK we call the punk 'do a "Mohican".

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