Okay, I had never even heard of a "man bun" before Monday's strip, so I was wondering if it was just a Northampton thing. But lots of other people here seem to have strong opinions about them, so I guess it's more widespread than that. (Surprisingly negative opinions, too.) So I just googled for images of it, and found many many many more than I expected. Interesting. I guess if I watched more TV and movies I'd have heard about them before.
Weird thing is, some of the examples look kind of vaguely similar to what I've been doing with my hair. See, due to a number of factors I won't go into detail about, I haven't gotten around to getting my hair cut for, well, probably close to a couple of years now. And it's gotten long. Longer than I've ever had it before, and I spent five years in high school and college trying to grow it long, and it would never get past barely touching my shoulders. Now that I've been completely ignoring it, it's well past my shoulders and down my back. I mean, not way down my back, like Fabio, but down to my shoulder blades at least.
And it's hot. We keep the temperature fairly warm in the house anyway, because my wife and my mother are both very susceptible to cold for differing reasons, and that much hair is a surprisingly good thermal insulator. So my neck and upper back got hot and sweaty, and I started tying it back in a ponytail. But the ponytail still falls far enough down to get my neck hot and sweaty, so I started using the ponytail elastic thingy to tie up the end of the ponytail into something that looks vaguely like a half-hearted bun, just to keep it off my neck.
Is this a man bun??? Am I a completely unknowing example of this thing? I'm sorry, I didn't know!!