Meaning of HAT HEAD and MESSED UP HAIR - A Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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- So we have this funny phrase in English, hat head.
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Hat head is what happens to your hair
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when you wear a hat for a long time.
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So you can see that I'm wearing a hat,
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and my hair is getting a little bit long,
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so sometimes, when I wear a hat, when I take it off,
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my hair looks funny because I have hat head.
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So again, wearing a hat doesn't mean you have hat head,
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but when you take your hat off,
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if your hair is kind of flattened,
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or your hair is sticking up a little bit,
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we say that you have hat head.
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And we have another related phrase,
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but I don't have a helmet to show you.
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When I had a motorcycle,
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sometimes when I took my helmet off, I had helmet head,
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which means that the helmet flattened my hair
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and made it look funny,
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and that's why I cut my hair really short now,
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because when I had a motorcycle, I cut my hair short
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and I liked it so much that I just kept on doing it.
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And then, how do you describe your hair
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if it just doesn't look the way you like to have it?
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We just say it's messed up.
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Sometimes, you comb your hair or you brush your hair
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to look a certain way,
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and then, when you walk outside, it's really, really windy,
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and then your hair gets messed up.
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That's how we describe
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when your hair doesn't look the way you want it to
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because the wind has messed it up,
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or maybe somebody came along
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and they kind of messed your hair up.
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That's not a very nice thing to do,
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but perhaps your hair got messed up by the wind.
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Perhaps it got messed up by someone else.
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So again, hat head is when your hair is flattened
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or looks funny after you take off a hat,
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so when you wear a hat for a long time,
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it gives you hat head.
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When you take it off, your hair looks funny.
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And when your hair gets blown around by the wind
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or when someone actually touches it,
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sometimes your hair is messed up.
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Anyways, Bob the Canadian here.
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Hope you're having a good day.
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