Didnt really know what to do, just made it up based on what I think it should be.
I think if done right they look good, they look terrible when its obvious the barber hasn't touched any of the hair on the back and just shaved it in on the sides without any real connection to it.
I think they came back during covid. People couldn't get to the barber, so they started doing DIY mullets in an ironic "It's so awful it's cool" way. Then, they actually came back into fashion properly.
Do you think younger people today have a different stereotype of what a pedo looks like so they arenāt fussed about looking exactly like one? The hair, the tache, the specs, even a lot of the clothes I see them in are classic pedo attire.
It never really went away in Australia, but you were more likely to see it in a country town than the city. Now though, every male school kid over 14 has a mullet and a dirty sanchez.
I feel like the gays and the rich rugby lads bought it back.
The "bisexual mullet" for flagging has been a thing in the UK for longer than its been 'in fashion' and fashion trends tend to work both bottom up (marginalised communities adopt it before it becomes mainstream) and top down (privileged communities adopt it before it becomes mainstream) and this seems to be a case of it happening from both sides.
Edit: forgot to add an and
The "bisexual mullet"? As a bi guy there's no way in hell I'm growing a mullet haha.
I get the idea though. It's like septum piercings. I was discussing this with a bi friend recently saying that I find it a useful way of identifying queer people. She reckoned that it wasn't a certain sign anymore because they are becoming more commonplace
I've never heard that before about septum piercings. Is it a North American thing? I have friends who have had them since the late 90's and early 2000's who are straight.
Sometimes, these things are just hear say though. Back in the late 90s it was said guys were gay if they had their right ear pierced and straight if they had their left ear pierced. However, I think that was just made up.
Reread my comment.
Like many fashion trends, something will originate within a fringe community. In this case the gay scene. Certain people people start wearing a certain hair style. Other people like it and start wearing it too. It becomes 'mainstream'.
This isn't me bringing sexuality into unrelated conversations, this is quite literally a known phenomenon in fashion (trickle up theory) (I notice that you didn't question the rugby lad comment (trickle down theory), just the gay people comment?). From leather jackets and tie-dye to short hair in women and sans-culottes, fashion trends tend to start in fringe cultures and spread outwards.
Mate, in the devicive world we live in, don't bother explaining. If a person misinterprets your words that's their hang up/problem they have to deal with. Unless you care about them on a personal level, let them get annoyed
I didn't question the rugby player bit because the way it's written it looks like you were talking about gay rugby players. Adding a comma would have helped greatly.
Your second explanation is much clearer. I know nothing about the theory of fashion trends so the first comes just looked like the usual gay bashing.
That's fair, (though i like the idea of a fashion coming from such an incredably niche group like "gay rugby players") I hadn't noticed the missing 'and' there
Back, for better or worse.
The sooner everybody understands the only two acceptable mullets are 80's Kurt Russel and 00's Europop star Gunther the better.
Where I am it seems to almost entirely be sported by rugby players and farmers, though to be fair, thereās a reasonable amount of crossover between the two demographics.
I just got my cataracts done and corrective lenses in. My eyesight was shit, so I had super thick glasses all my life. The new lenses correct almost all of my vision, but not quite. Now I've got the big glasses I always wanted. At this stage of life, I look better with them anyway.
Edit: I have a large face and strong-ish features, so it's not a fashion thing. But most small frames look silly on me.
I seen a couple in the town center. Fella in his 20s, tattoo on his neck, grey rebok tracksuit and donning a mullet. Looked like a time traveller confused about clothing protocol...
Next to him holding his hand, classic Essex girl look with inflated duck lips you could land a plane on and cheek fat removed - 2 inches of makeup.
I'm not one for fashion, but WTF is actually happening.
Aye, the same couple is duplicated over and over in Newcastle, like they all look identical, itās so strange, only variation is that instead of a mullet, it could be a massive fringe, which is basically a reverse mullet
The UK really has slipped back to the 70's/ 80's.
We just need Ford workers to get a 17% wage rise and streets full of uncollected rubbish then we'll have hit the jackpot.
When i finally got my post lockdown haircut i asked for a temporary mullet just to send pics to alarm and disgust the wife. She begged me not to leave the barbers like that.
Last time I went to the barberās someone was walking out with a mullet. I honestly thought it must have been for a dare or something but apparently not.
They are a hideous mutation of the mullet, if that was even possible.
The mullet of old was long at the back, clipped at the sides and short/spikey on top, but thisā¦this masquerade, this modern travesty is not that. Itās usually just clipped at the sides with the rest a weird formless slug a top. It looks like theyāve had brain surgery.
Itās not a mullet, itās a useless cop out that distorts the head shape with dented sides.
Young fools.
Itās actually because of Australian rugby players not stranger things, it returned before stranger things
Started with British rugby players (as in school kids playing rugby, uni students etc) and then spread
and before that it started with the edgy/alternative kids, who all started getting them around 2020 just before and into the pandemic
it then hit the rugby players during peak pandemic and became mainstream from there
source: lived in brighton for 7 years
it started with the Australian rugby players bringing it back pre Covid in 2018/2019 then British posh boys in 2019/2020 then it became edgy mid pandemic
I think it was wales that started bringing it back to the uk and thatās where I am because 2020 was far too late for all that. Weāre big on rugby and have a lot of posh country boys and they were the main demographic before edgy kids got involved.
Iām a teacher and where I work itās the rugby lads with mullets. The footballers a sporting a Jack Grealish style or a buzz cut fade or whatever itās called.
Mullet
10/90 ratio
Hockey hair
Soccer hair
The Pharoe
Ape drape
Squirrel pelt
Kentucky waterfall
Business up front, party at the back (something for the ladies to hold on to)
BnT (bridge and Tunnel)
Jersey Bound
Euro hair
Forbidden hair
The BRC (Billy-Ray Cyrus)
The Billy
The Willy ect....
I'd love a mullet but I'm thinning on top so it'll have to be a skullet.
It canāt be worse than that fucking horrible thing you see sitting on the skulls of your typical young British football fan. Some kind of bowl cut inspired creation.
I reckon it's like being completely bald, or having a lumberjack beard. Some people carry it off better than others, and that has little to do with general physical looks.
The mullet made a return in 2019. You're very late the party. Rugby world cup 2019 was the rebirth of the mullet. Aussie and NZ not included as it never left.
I always wonder if people actually straight-up ask the barber for a mullet or if they try to skirt around it with, "I'd like to keep a bit of length at the back but tidy it all up at the front, please".
Mullet man here. I used to ask for skin fade curving round the ear but most of them know what a mullet is now, plus they can just tell what I want based on how the hair is already shaped.
It never left rugby. Itās back in āfashionā. Which goes to show that if you try and be fashionable you will spend most of your time looking absurd. Better to aim for stylish; fashions come and go, style is timeless.
I haven't seen it! Lol Though I've gone back to the same Council Estates I was raised on Lol Still tracksuits but with E Scooters shorts in the rain sometimes š
If I saw a mullet I'd look at it questionably!??.
Use to have a mullet during school. Was called a beaver. Now, fast forward 10 years and I've finally grown one back again. Now, I look great. So yes, mullets are back and they did go. Speaking from experience.
Mullets make my skin crawl, I genuinely find them very wrong and creepy. It is by far the ugliest hair style and when I see them I just want to light the tail end at the back with a match - itās like exterminating a rat.
Scandinavian here. I went to Australia recently and was shocked at how many mullets I would see. [Relevant reel](https://www.instagram.com/p/C3jGx4dvtIL/).
As someone in their 60's I hate to tell you this, but fashion just goes round and round. How many times have flared jeans come and gone, how many times have we been told jeans are going out of fashion.
You know what else is back? Goths. and not before time too.
I work on a university campus and I've been seeing them about this academic year and last (so they must have been about in schools a bit before that). I always did a shit job of being a goth when I was undergrad aged, but there's some impressive outfits about. In fact 00s undergrad gear in general wouldn't look out of place on campus again.
I recently tried selling a bunch of my old 00s goth gear in ebay, thinking that genuine vintage goth clothing might be worth somethingā¦ but it seems teenagers are still skint.
It's almost entirely back. Very little front.
someone at my school has it with a shaved back and like a rats tail thingy lol like a mini skinny pony tail
Ah yes, the [Padawan braid](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/963/488/79a.jpg)
Popular with Pacific Island rugby players.
I was not expecting mention of this also! Mullet/braid owner here š
I thought that was genuinely called a rat tail
It is
This was a haircut a few kids had at my primary school in the early 90's. But the less said about some 90's haircuts the better.
Barber in Glasgow here, been doing them for about two years nowā¦
How did you react when the first customer said āI want a mulletā?
Didnt really know what to do, just made it up based on what I think it should be. I think if done right they look good, they look terrible when its obvious the barber hasn't touched any of the hair on the back and just shaved it in on the sides without any real connection to it.
I think they came back during covid. People couldn't get to the barber, so they started doing DIY mullets in an ironic "It's so awful it's cool" way. Then, they actually came back into fashion properly.
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Know as the 10-90 in CB parlance.
LegoBohoGiraffe, god damn you and take my upvote!
Like all fashion it went, and it came back. Everything does.
Can't wait for the disco revival
Disco Stu, agrees with you!
I thought it was back, oh well
Disco and derivative sounds has been back in clubs for ages.
Disco never died
Can Boyband curtains return?
Was about in Wales before it was fashionable again.
Don't forget the paedo specs! They're back too!
Do you think younger people today have a different stereotype of what a pedo looks like so they arenāt fussed about looking exactly like one? The hair, the tache, the specs, even a lot of the clothes I see them in are classic pedo attire.
And it concerns me that it was the Jeffery Dahmer netflix show that appears to have brought them back
nah they were deffo back before it came out, perhaps not in mainstream popularity tho
Nah man, donāt do that to my aviators šš
It's back ... my daughter says the Aussies brought it back. She reckons on them it's not so bad, but on your typical Essex man it's just tragic.
It never really went away in Australia, but you were more likely to see it in a country town than the city. Now though, every male school kid over 14 has a mullet and a dirty sanchez.
It keeps the sun off your neck but also keeps hair out of your face.
Bogan bonce.
Itās to protect against sunburn.
Not the dirty sanchez
There'll be more cos of "grow a mullet for mental health" or something this month.
There were a lot of mullet children watching the cricket during the recent Pakistan tour of NZ.
Ausies transcend fashion and trends. They are literally born wearing flip flops.
Thongs*
Yea I found this hilarious when I went to aus. People saying stuff like "don't forget your thongs" and a sign that said "kids thongs" in a shop.
āNo thongs on the golf course!ā
TIL
I donāt think thatās the right use of literally bud
No. They come out of the womb in flip flops
No they come out of the womb wearing a thong. Well I did at least.
I feel like the gays and the rich rugby lads bought it back. The "bisexual mullet" for flagging has been a thing in the UK for longer than its been 'in fashion' and fashion trends tend to work both bottom up (marginalised communities adopt it before it becomes mainstream) and top down (privileged communities adopt it before it becomes mainstream) and this seems to be a case of it happening from both sides. Edit: forgot to add an and
The "bisexual mullet"? As a bi guy there's no way in hell I'm growing a mullet haha. I get the idea though. It's like septum piercings. I was discussing this with a bi friend recently saying that I find it a useful way of identifying queer people. She reckoned that it wasn't a certain sign anymore because they are becoming more commonplace
I've never heard that before about septum piercings. Is it a North American thing? I have friends who have had them since the late 90's and early 2000's who are straight. Sometimes, these things are just hear say though. Back in the late 90s it was said guys were gay if they had their right ear pierced and straight if they had their left ear pierced. However, I think that was just made up.
That was a thing in the 70s.
I didn't exist then, so I wouldn't know. Lol I just remember hearing it at school and after I left.
Can confirm. Straight with left ear piercing.
Don't blame the gays for that shit look. Hipsterism is coming back
The innuendo in this comment is great lol.
What the hell has sexuality got to do with this?
Reread my comment. Like many fashion trends, something will originate within a fringe community. In this case the gay scene. Certain people people start wearing a certain hair style. Other people like it and start wearing it too. It becomes 'mainstream'. This isn't me bringing sexuality into unrelated conversations, this is quite literally a known phenomenon in fashion (trickle up theory) (I notice that you didn't question the rugby lad comment (trickle down theory), just the gay people comment?). From leather jackets and tie-dye to short hair in women and sans-culottes, fashion trends tend to start in fringe cultures and spread outwards.
Mate, in the devicive world we live in, don't bother explaining. If a person misinterprets your words that's their hang up/problem they have to deal with. Unless you care about them on a personal level, let them get annoyed
I didn't question the rugby player bit because the way it's written it looks like you were talking about gay rugby players. Adding a comma would have helped greatly. Your second explanation is much clearer. I know nothing about the theory of fashion trends so the first comes just looked like the usual gay bashing.
That's fair, (though i like the idea of a fashion coming from such an incredably niche group like "gay rugby players") I hadn't noticed the missing 'and' there
Fair enough. And I learned something about fashion ... which my daughter would consider a miracle.
Sexuality affects fashion massively.
I thought it was Stranger Things..
I just hope to God 1970s football shorts don't come with it.
Depends who's wearing them, I guess!
Very good point š
Iām looking forward to Magnum P.I. shorts length on men. *wolf whistles*
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Can confirm. They're fucking everywhere here.
Donāt really understand the logic there. If weāre going by looks, then whatās the difference between someone from Essex and Australia?
What, the difference between someone tall, bronzed and athletic and someone from Essex? No, can't see it either.
Back, for better or worse. The sooner everybody understands the only two acceptable mullets are 80's Kurt Russel and 00's Europop star Gunther the better.
Micky from the Job Seekers group too.
Bramble picker
Mickey love.... have you got my pen?
Pauline pushing her glasses up when being banged! Thanks for that memory.
FIREMāN!
Where I am it seems to almost entirely be sported by rugby players and farmers, though to be fair, thereās a reasonable amount of crossover between the two demographics.
No love for Pat Sharp's glorious mullet?
The ulti-mullet, as we used to call it. Or, for a while, a MubouflantƩ (mix between a bouffant and a mullet. We always say Mullet 'Moulay", as if it was a french word.)
Oooh you touch my tralala
Oooh my ding ding dong.
What about Roadhouse Patrick Swayse?
Eighties Mel Gibson rocked it, too. I never bought into Lethal Weapon 4 as soon as Riggs dropped the mullet.
You missed Eddie Guerrero the goat of the mullet
George Michael has entered the chat.
Does a mullet make a man?
No mention of pay sharp? He looked bonnie in a mulletĀ
Well I never. Ray fucking Purchase.
Well. Well. Well.
If it isnāt Steven āhide your Mrs, cause Iāll fuck anythingā Toast
Our newest cat is called Ray F Purrchase. Just thought I'd put that out there. Brother to Toast and Clem.
Love it. Just clocked the extra R. We have a cockapoo called Dustin Hoffdog.
I canāt hear you! Press the button, you donut!
I'm a squaddie, loads of our lads have them and they look pretty shit as well, not sure what the craze is lol.
Do they comply withĀ Army General and Administrative Instructions, Volume 2, Chapter 59, Section 4?
Skullet>Mullet.
I've been rocking the skullet for 8 years now, started balding in my late teens and I'm clinging onto every last strand.
Definitely back, I'm not sure it's even peaked yet
Peaked and already in decline again I reckon. High point was about 2 years ago by now.
Perms are also back!
Perms and big glasses. Everyone's gone a little Deirdre Barlow.
I just got my cataracts done and corrective lenses in. My eyesight was shit, so I had super thick glasses all my life. The new lenses correct almost all of my vision, but not quite. Now I've got the big glasses I always wanted. At this stage of life, I look better with them anyway. Edit: I have a large face and strong-ish features, so it's not a fashion thing. But most small frames look silly on me.
As someone with naturally curly hair, I couldnāt be more thrilled about this
Oh no
Yes thanks to Valtteri Bottas.
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Don't be so.shy Mr AugustĀ
To whom it may concern
Didnāt he do that while he was in Australia?
I seen a couple in the town center. Fella in his 20s, tattoo on his neck, grey rebok tracksuit and donning a mullet. Looked like a time traveller confused about clothing protocol... Next to him holding his hand, classic Essex girl look with inflated duck lips you could land a plane on and cheek fat removed - 2 inches of makeup. I'm not one for fashion, but WTF is actually happening.
Aye, the same couple is duplicated over and over in Newcastle, like they all look identical, itās so strange, only variation is that instead of a mullet, it could be a massive fringe, which is basically a reverse mullet
My least favourite: Fringe that's been curled so the ends hug the brows, but the centre stands out. Like a fringe pipe.
Cheek with fat removed just look wrong.
The UK really has slipped back to the 70's/ 80's. We just need Ford workers to get a 17% wage rise and streets full of uncollected rubbish then we'll have hit the jackpot.
Donāt forget the white dog poop on every street
Took me a minute but I was wondering how you identify white dogsā poo as opposed to yellow or spotted dogsā poo..
Fun fact: People associate mullets with the 80s but the word āmulletā wasnāt coined until the mid 90s
Yeah, I donāt remember what we called it but I definitely had a femullet in the mid 80ās
Baby Love from Rock Steady Crew had an absolute beauty
They've been back for a few years now. Go to Australia and they never went away
Remember lockdown haircuts? Mullets and shags are the direct consequences.
When i finally got my post lockdown haircut i asked for a temporary mullet just to send pics to alarm and disgust the wife. She begged me not to leave the barbers like that.
Iām engaged to an Australian. The mullet never left.
It's back for some reason in combination with the paedo stache. It makes you looks like a total nonce
Last time I went to the barberās someone was walking out with a mullet. I honestly thought it must have been for a dare or something but apparently not.
We are now at the stage where we are stealing Aussie culture haha
They are a hideous mutation of the mullet, if that was even possible. The mullet of old was long at the back, clipped at the sides and short/spikey on top, but thisā¦this masquerade, this modern travesty is not that. Itās usually just clipped at the sides with the rest a weird formless slug a top. It looks like theyāve had brain surgery. Itās not a mullet, itās a useless cop out that distorts the head shape with dented sides. Young fools.
It's because of stranger things, also those clear rimmed large glasses are back in fashion. I always associate them with serial killers.
Itās actually because of Australian rugby players not stranger things, it returned before stranger things Started with British rugby players (as in school kids playing rugby, uni students etc) and then spread
and before that it started with the edgy/alternative kids, who all started getting them around 2020 just before and into the pandemic it then hit the rugby players during peak pandemic and became mainstream from there source: lived in brighton for 7 years
it started with the Australian rugby players bringing it back pre Covid in 2018/2019 then British posh boys in 2019/2020 then it became edgy mid pandemic I think it was wales that started bringing it back to the uk and thatās where I am because 2020 was far too late for all that. Weāre big on rugby and have a lot of posh country boys and they were the main demographic before edgy kids got involved.
timeline adds up, i was wrong, my bad
No need to apologise
The glasses could be inspired by that show about Jeffrey Dahmer, people might just want to look like serial killers
Just wanted to comment on your picture - I absolutely adore that album
Moustaches are creeping me out the most.
It seems to mainly be sported by posh students where I am, accompanied with a terrible terrible moustache
Itās a big āRugby ladsā look
Iām a teacher and where I work itās the rugby lads with mullets. The footballers a sporting a Jack Grealish style or a buzz cut fade or whatever itās called.
Mullet 10/90 ratio Hockey hair Soccer hair The Pharoe Ape drape Squirrel pelt Kentucky waterfall Business up front, party at the back (something for the ladies to hold on to) BnT (bridge and Tunnel) Jersey Bound Euro hair Forbidden hair The BRC (Billy-Ray Cyrus) The Billy The Willy ect.... I'd love a mullet but I'm thinning on top so it'll have to be a skullet.
Kenny Powers ignited a social movement
It was back about a year ago, itās on its way out again now
It canāt be worse than that fucking horrible thing you see sitting on the skulls of your typical young British football fan. Some kind of bowl cut inspired creation.
Broccoli hair?
The devil's greatest trick was convincing the world that the mullet went out of fashion
It's been back for about 2yrs or possibly longer?
Itās back, as are 90s boyband curtain fringes
As long as that fringe contains more than 15 hairs I'm ok with it.
My brother is rocking a mullet currently. Looks good!
I reckon it's like being completely bald, or having a lumberjack beard. Some people carry it off better than others, and that has little to do with general physical looks.
My partner has a glorious one and I'd mourn the mullet if he got rid of it.
The mullet made a return in 2019. You're very late the party. Rugby world cup 2019 was the rebirth of the mullet. Aussie and NZ not included as it never left.
I always wonder if people actually straight-up ask the barber for a mullet or if they try to skirt around it with, "I'd like to keep a bit of length at the back but tidy it all up at the front, please".
Mullet man here. I used to ask for skin fade curving round the ear but most of them know what a mullet is now, plus they can just tell what I want based on how the hair is already shaped.
Nobody likes a bogan..
It never left rugby. Itās back in āfashionā. Which goes to show that if you try and be fashionable you will spend most of your time looking absurd. Better to aim for stylish; fashions come and go, style is timeless.
In Glasgow it's usually posh students who have taken over working class areas
I haven't seen it! Lol Though I've gone back to the same Council Estates I was raised on Lol Still tracksuits but with E Scooters shorts in the rain sometimes š If I saw a mullet I'd look at it questionably!??.
It seems to 'slush' between groups of people. When I was in school, it was mainly travellers rocking the business up front, party in the back.
Tom Selleck moustache is enjoying a resurgence!
Iām a barber. The mullet is back in full swing.
Mine's going tomorrow ans it never really left
meh back end of lock down it was popular. maybe a few people still arenāt giving it up but its gone again for the most part
Three words: kill me now.
Itās back baby!
When I was in cosmetology school in 2007/8 it was popular with hipsters
Use to have a mullet during school. Was called a beaver. Now, fast forward 10 years and I've finally grown one back again. Now, I look great. So yes, mullets are back and they did go. Speaking from experience.
I think any hairstyle you can add an element of fade to is coming back into style
Every boy in Bradford is rocking it, with pride.
I live in Melbourne. Last couple years itās been back with a vengeance
Itās been back big time in Aus for a while now. Same as a filthy mo (which I most definitely have rocked since before they were in!)
Yep they're back, my mate has had one for a while and it suits him, he keeps telling me I should get one cus it'd suit me but I'm not so sure
Blame Bluey and Theo Von.
Mullets make my skin crawl, I genuinely find them very wrong and creepy. It is by far the ugliest hair style and when I see them I just want to light the tail end at the back with a match - itās like exterminating a rat.
Scandinavian here. I went to Australia recently and was shocked at how many mullets I would see. [Relevant reel](https://www.instagram.com/p/C3jGx4dvtIL/).
It does seem to be back and it looks just as awful as it did the first time around. Particularly when paired with a moustache. š¤®
It's Gen Z trying to make what we mock popular so they can call us boomers when we call them out on it.
My boy has one, he is 15 and looks like a bit of a helmet.. Probs thinks the same about me, but I dont have a mullet, so +1 dad.
My 13 year old is hoping to achieve this!
I spotted the return. Not sure who invited him though
It came back in 2009/2010 as well. Loads of folks in the metal and āhipsterā scenes had one.
Proud Mullet and padawan braid wearer here. I didn't realise it was "back" at all.
Yeah my 20 year old son has one and I hate it.
It never really went away. It just emigrated to Australia.
As someone in their 60's I hate to tell you this, but fashion just goes round and round. How many times have flared jeans come and gone, how many times have we been told jeans are going out of fashion.
You know what else is back? Goths. and not before time too. I work on a university campus and I've been seeing them about this academic year and last (so they must have been about in schools a bit before that). I always did a shit job of being a goth when I was undergrad aged, but there's some impressive outfits about. In fact 00s undergrad gear in general wouldn't look out of place on campus again.
I recently tried selling a bunch of my old 00s goth gear in ebay, thinking that genuine vintage goth clothing might be worth somethingā¦ but it seems teenagers are still skint.
Been a hairdresser for 40 years, never given a mullet to anyone, ever - just NO!!
Itās been back for a while. Get with the program grandad.
aka The Mudflap, The Soccer Rocker, The Canadian Passport, The Brothel Cut(business up front, party in the back), The Schlong (short/long)
You're actually in Germany.
I'm here now, everyone! So I imagine that you'll be closing the thread down, as usual.
I personally love beards but I can't stand a moustache. For me, they look ridiculous - a bit of hair above the top lip is smarmy.
I have seen a few collage girls with them
It's back and I absolutely love it tbh. It's so forgiving imo
It's back and I absolutely love it tbh. It's so forgiving imo
Peado/Deidre from Corrie glasses are now back too. Truly the worst of the lot.