I find posers hilarious.
In fact, I don’t really care about them but I saw something on TV the other day that was enough to give me the motivation to blog about posers and posing. Since my recent Tales of a Curly Hair Man section is becoming popular, and building up on my previous hot curly women post, I think today’s post fits in nicely, so I give you:
The (hand) Devil Sign aka Sign of the Horns.
One of the chosen few that can do the Devil Sign with authority
source: wikipedia.com (author: rjforster)
Once a gesture restricted to rock stars and heavy metal hardheads to show their subculture music affiliation, the two finger salute has been bastardized to the point of inciting projectile vomiting in those who can’t stand posers (e.g this curly hair man).
I happened to catch a glimpse of the American X-Factor the other day during my blogging time (damn, I need to switch off the TV when I blog). I am not into those pop shows or any TV shows of the same nature, for that matter: they are engineered to be the same recycled garbage with the sole intention of pimping out some upcoming superstar and fool the public into buying their album for Christmas (instead of downloading it off the internet). Full freaking stop.
Back on track.
It was a repeat episode of the X-Factor and it so happens that it was the turn of this dude, Josh Krajcik (did I spell that right?), who is a decent singer and at least had some singing background prior to being on the show. Not really interested in his story but, anyway, he was singing his selected song and Nicole Scherzinger (did I spell that right too?), who was apparently the mentor to John Krajcik on the show and one of the judges of the X-Factor, was demonstrating her appreciation to her pupil’s song by standing up from her seat, moving about her head as if headbanging, raising her arm displaying the Devil Sign and bouncing up and down as if she was having an orgasm right there on the set (that Hammilton guy must have not been too pleased with his wife’s orgasmic on-stage recreation). She was obviously breaking the etiquette of judges being discreet and not trying to detract attention from the performer, and thought that doing the Devil Sign and headbanging, an expression of nonconformity and “hardcore”, would make her look like the “cool kid on the block” and would suffice to justify her “attention whorism” (first time I use a bad word in my blog!).
Imagine this woman jumping up and down as if having an orgasm doing the Devil Sign. Enough to detract you from anything
My question is, does Mrs. Scherzinger even know what the Devil Sign sign means, or does she even care about it? Has she ever ventured away from her mansion and pampered lifestyle to within a mile of any place that plays heavy metal music? Did she know that she looked like an (hot) epileptic clown doing all that posing rubbish? Me thinks not, though all those teenagers and pseudo-adults that make up the targeted audience for the X-Factor fall for it like they fall for Justin Bieber’s flocking bangs.
These are the only kind of guys allowed to do the Devil Sign on TV
This is your typical headbanger truly representing the Devil Sign.
source: zmescience.com
Now, I am not even a heavy metal fan, I actually think most of that music is rubbish noise (they probably think the same of the music I like too, so no hard feelings, people). However, I do respect those who show passion for what they do and the heavy metal community is one damn passionate crowd. One of my closest friends is a heavy metal dude and upon seeing this aforementioned bastardizing of the Devil Sign, I called him up and we had a laugh at what this sign has come to mean with the likes of Nicole Scherzinger, Avril Lavigne and even Justin Bieber doing the Devil Sign sign on every occasion they find to brainwash their gullible audience.
Poser hand sign (check), clown-like dress (check), prostitute-like make-up (check). Yep, its Avril Lavigne.
At Manly Curls we take our lifestyle content very serious so it is my duty to list here those who can only pull out the Devil Sign while looking cool. You will succeed in your cool mannerisms only if:
1) You are a heavy metal band member.
2) You are a heavy metal fan (and by fan I mean someone who is dedicated to it, not one who thinks Limp Bizkit is heavy metal).
3) You were, at any point in time, a band member of Black Sabbath (then you can use the Devil Sign to even greet people).
4) You are trying to blind a ninja by throwing a fist to his face with the fingers in such a position. Just make sure you do indeed blind him ‘cos those damn ninjas can retaliate effectively and efficiently.
5) You are so devilish that I cannot describe you in words (if you are an EMO, get the hell out of my blo… I mean, you do not fall in this category).
6) You are indicating some dude that you just screwed his girl (this is what it means in Latin countries, so heavy metal fans go easy on the Devil Sign if you go holidaying in Colombia and end up in some dark basement playing poker with cocaine dealers).
If you are not on this list and you pull out the Devil Sign in public, you are not cool but a fool!
If you want to find a way to look cool in public then my advice is to start by being yourself. That means, if you’ve got curly hair, wear those curls with pride (isn’t that the point of Manly Curls or something?) and if you are not lucky enough to have curly hair (me-so-sorry), then wear a hairstyle that you find represents your unique style. And that is only if looking at coolness from the hairstyle angle.
RIP Ronnie James Dio
I know it sounds cliche but “be yourself” (and “water” too, like Bruce Lee, if you get to fight ninjas), not some copy-paste version of some popular dude or dudette who has as much personality as a fried fish finger. I am not claiming my readers are like this, not at all, for Manly Curls readers are a cool bunch who disregard populist crap, but I thought I might as well throw this out in case Nicole reads my blog (if you do, feel free contact me, I can also pull out a British accent like Hammilton does). In all seriousness, I have seen the Devil Sign used by so many posers that watching a hot lady bouncing up and down on TV was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.
And because a coolstorybro would be left half empty without the video of our bronze-bodied hottie jumping up and down in her orgasm-resembling act, I give you the video that gave me the motivation to blog about this (watch from about minute 1:30 onwards).
Now go and spread the word, non-poser people!
All the best.
Rogelio
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