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I'm going bald! What shall i do?

― bob Renalids, Monday, 30 September 2002 08:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Try to salvage what you can and throw it in a sack.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 30 September 2002 08:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Too bad it wasn't somebody that deserved it.

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 30 September 2002 09:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I moaned to my (ex-)barber about losing my hair and he told me that I was washing it too much (i.e. every day). He made up some cock & bull story about how I was washing all the grease off my scalp and the hair was dropping out unnecessarily. He said shampoo two or three times a week maximum. I have followed his advice and the hair loss appears to have more or less stopped (certainly it's slowed). I don't think I look any mnore like a greasy-haired yobbo than I did before.

The moral of this story: anyone with a full head of hair is obviously an unclean greaseball and to be avoided.

Alternative explanation, courtesy of an acupunturist: scalp health is related to liver health. I have discounted this theory because I still have some hair.

Best advice I can give: shave your head.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 30 September 2002 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)

bob- send your hair to rainy.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 30 September 2002 09:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Buy clippers and go skinhead.
The weekly vibro-massage may even help prevent further loss.
Embracing your baldness will look so much better than a comb-over.

― Simeon (Simeon), Monday, 30 September 2002 09:26 (twenty-three years ago)

haha i have a full head of hair so tim's theory is disproved oh wait

perhaps i can claim to be a rastafarian

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 30 September 2002 09:31 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, i only wash my hair like twice a week.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 30 September 2002 09:46 (twenty-three years ago)

At least youre not a woman. We are legally bound to have shiny hair. Imagine if you were a woman with a shiny head, a bald one to boot. No dont boot it! but hey thats probly what would happen. oh small mercies that you are blessed as a man with testosterone oh no thats what made you bald in the first place. just get rid of all the hair on your body. it hurts and youd have to maintain it and loofah incase you get ingroaning hair but its worth it. Say no to hair! sometimes! in the right spots. or warts.

― jeskam, Monday, 30 September 2002 11:21 (twenty-three years ago)

saucer of milk table one. I didnt mean to come over all feminazi . sorry for your loss bob.

― jeskam, Monday, 30 September 2002 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Cut closely or shave completely... and fret not, some women (present poster included) think balding = hot.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 30 September 2002 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

welcome to my hell world, bob.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 30 September 2002 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

By Tim's theory, Alan's hair will last forever.

Except it is nonsense, of course - until the last two years, I never washed my hair more than twice a week, and I was going bald. I've been washing it much more often since having a shower at home, and it's not accelerated.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 30 September 2002 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

ewwww, I wash my hair justaboutevery day (never more than two days apart) and I have a full head of very thick hair. It may be gray but it's there (and clean).

― chris (chris), Monday, 30 September 2002 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

nothing wrong with going bald, unless you are a woman as jeskam says.
definately the best option once it gets really bad is to go shave it.
i have never cared whether a man is bald or not as far as attraction goes, it is the comb-over attempt to hide it that is awful!! especially when the wind blows it over the other side and you get that long hangy bit with the bald pate glowing out proudly.

― donna (donna), Monday, 30 September 2002 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

That wanker Bobby Charlton to thread

― chris (chris), Monday, 30 September 2002 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

take comfort from looking at pictures of famous
types in similair situations, say
james dean bradfield in 1994. take a look at him now - exactly the same - still badly receeding, but *nowhere* near bald.
it's a lil known fact that the number of years between the
1st time u think 'holy shit i'm going bald'
and actually being bald is about 16 years.
and - hey- in the words of the esteemed howie b.
'angels go bald too'.

don't worry about it seriously.
you're still beautiful.

― piscesboy, Monday, 30 September 2002 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

here's a handy exercise.. from now on, if you think your signs of aging are munching away at your self-confidence, just look at James Gandolfini... The man isn't exactly a chiselled boy model by any means, but the women thinks he's a bowl of sex.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 30 September 2002 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

that's because he kills people on tv!

if i tried to kill someone in real life i'd be a "murderer"!!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 30 September 2002 23:29 (twenty-three years ago)

"that's because he kills people on tv!"

There's your answer! Don't knock it 'til ya try it. Same for you, bob.

OK seriously though, the above advice is fine and dandy. And anyone who would be immediately turned off by balding is shallow and would be a waste of your time anyway.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 30 September 2002 23:47 (twenty-three years ago)

haha what if that person is yourself brian?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 30 September 2002 23:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I am aware that I'm far more bald than you.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 30 September 2002 23:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The man isn't exactly a chiselled boy model by any means, but the women thinks he's a bowl of sex.

Not all women...Uncle Junior is the hottie on that show.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

brian, that's not what i meant!!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 00:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Most people don't give a stuff about balding men - it only really seems to be music journos and gossip columnists that care all that much. For every person that doesn't find it attractive there's another that does and another that doesn't really care either way.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 00:07 (twenty-three years ago)

You mean if I'm the person who discriminates based on certain physical features or habits?

I realize we all have our weird quirks regarding certain "undesirable" features on our, ahem, targets... which rarely makes one 0% shallow. If I decided not to date a girl because she smoked (and this is entirely possible), and she knew that, I'd hope she'd think I was a shallow twat....

Maybe I'm not sure what your point is, jess.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 00:09 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

I suppose I should be worried about baldness.

― Fatal Beret (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 05:50 (twenty-two years ago)

hush hush.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Shave your damn head, fool.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

still going bald. fatter, too.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 05:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, I'm not bald. Far from it, actually. I have a big head of hair. But it's my destiny, I know it. What can one do to avoid it?

― Fatal Beret (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

kill yourself and remain forever beautiful.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 06:04 (twenty-two years ago)

chop your nads off before you hit puberty

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 06:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Neither of those are really an option right now.

― Fatal Beret (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 06:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I wouldn't be afraid of going bald, only I think I have the wrong sort of head shape for it.

― Fatal Beret (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)

oh i'm sure you could kill yourself if you really made a go of it.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)

you think? That's where decades of medical science have got us to, is it? What a fucking tragedy.

― Fatal Beret (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 06:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i still don't understand how they haven't managed to develop a minoxidil shampoo

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)

it's the same reason why they can send a man to the moon and not make a bumper that wont fall off in two years

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 06:12 (twenty-two years ago)

and what's the deal with orange juice?!

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 06:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i had this enormous bald spot on the back of my head, but the doctor poked me with some cortisone and it all grew back. maybe you balding guys can try that?

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 08:31 (twenty-two years ago)

there will be a cure there will be a cure there will be a cure (say it with me) there will be a cure

― Will (will), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i am scared that the reason the "don't wash yer hair so often" thing works is that the hair is still falling out but is now glued to my head with grease.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

What can one do to avoid it?

Nothing. Deal with it.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

go wiggy! no-one ever hassled Warhol

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

except that crazy solanis woman, but i don't think it had anything to do with the wig

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't worry about it. You're a man. You have a pair of testicles and you have testosterone coarsing through you. This might make you lose your hair. It's okay.

One of the issues at play here is men holding themselves to an idea of attractiveness that's more appropriate for women. If your fears are that your attractiveness is compromised by your hair loss, then it's a good time to learn to appreciate how easy we men have it when it comes to physical attractiveness (and the maintenance of it). With men, what nature has molded you into often means much, much less than how you carry yourself and your taste.

Become more comfortable with your maleness. When you have that, you'll not only make peace with your hair loss, but you may surprised how many more women are sexually compelled to you.

― Kreskin, Sunday, 25 January 2004 05:08 (twenty-two years ago)

you are my new god

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 25 January 2004 05:50 (twenty-two years ago)

BWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAHHHHHHH!!!

― the river fleet, Sunday, 25 January 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

(Then River Fleet goes home and discovers HSA has gone totally bald.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 January 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, at least maybe he'd lose the beard, then!

― the river fleet, Sunday, 25 January 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

No, that's still there and grown out to a magnificient two feet in length.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 January 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

oh my god he's Michael Eavis

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 25 January 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

SO MUCH IS CLEAR.

Glastonbury 2005 -- Spacemen 3 reunion as headliners, along with "Pin the Tail on the Julian" games.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 January 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Errr... WHAT? HSA's ideal Glasto would be more along the lines of Disinf0rmati0n headlining every night. The oscillator tent. National grid powerlines strung all over the Pyramid tent. The SCIENCE!!!! tent. The throw darts at Sc@nner tent...

― the river fleet, Sunday, 25 January 2004 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, yes, but I figured he would be kind and also allow other input from close personal acquaintances.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 January 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The "oh my god, totally dodgy Satanist twunts making experimentalist cack but I have to let them play coz they're my friends" tent.

Oh yes, and the KLF. Sigh. Even better, the KLF vs. Crass Free Jazz Avante Wank Explosion.

― the river fleet, Sunday, 25 January 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

totally dodgy Satanist twunts making experimentalist cack but I have to let them play coz they're my friends

HSA is friends with Mortiis?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 January 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Bwah hah hah! No, more like "He who f@cked nuns and now has joined the church" but enough of that.

― the river fleet, Sunday, 25 January 2004 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

totally dodgy Satanist twunts making experimentalist cack but I have to let them play coz they're my friends

HSA is friends with Mortiis?

Hey, don’t knock Mortiis. With classics like Smell The Witch and Everyone Leaves, whatever he touches becomes golden. I shall reiterate -- all Mortiis makes is uniformly perfect! Don’t bother arguing. I’m right here.

― Charles Hatcher (musenheddo), Sunday, 25 January 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Oh no! I think it might be starting to happen!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

Joooooiiiinnnn uuuuuuuuuusssss....

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

yeh, i have the beginnings of a receding hairline and it's scarey! i do wash my hair very frequently though, due to styling products and stuff.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

Receding is fine. Haven't you ever looked at grown men with low hairlines and thought how creepy they look? A nice diginified bit of recession makes you MORE handsome.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

bah, resigned to it now. on the left hand side I have a huge receding hairline, if I comb my fringe forward I look like this old sweaty art teacher I used to have, big gaping recession in the hairline, so at the moment it's swept a bit to the left, hair from the middle and the right covering the receded part....but time will win out eventually!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

"old sweaty art teacher"

haha, i know the effect you mean.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

Dan you are NOT going bald according to your new pic! Hmph.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

yes, it's sort of where bits of your hair stick to the bare part where it's receded, bits that are from far other regions of your head.

THIS IS WHEN IMPENDING BALDNESS GETS SCARY.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I have looked kind of like a Metalunan my whole life, not just recently.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

Me as a child: http://www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/images/00000072.gif

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

I knew I had to cut my lovely long hair short when there started being a very obvious and depressing gap between the bits at the front and the bits at the side (i.e. the recession has reced too far to both cover and to provide hair of its own). That fateful date was 10 years ago on the 30th July. Sigh.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

You don't actually go bald you know they just change direction and start growing out of your ears and nose.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

Dan you are NOT going bald according to your new pic! Hmph.

I was about to say the same.

I'm a little bit bald: they shaved a bit off to remove a cyst. heh.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Men who take anxious measures to reverse baldness are ONLY HOT TO MORON WOMEN (or moron men). So, if you want to be a moronette-magnet, go ahead and slather yourself with strange chemicals or get implants that look like rows of seedling corn on your head.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

would anyone rather go bald than grey or white?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose really there really is really only one real answer to that really

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

And what would that be?
The Grecian Formula is a moronette-magnet too! ECH.
DON'T DO ANY OF IT!!!!!!
Maybe I'm some kind of old hippie-gone-crusty, but I'm turned off by signs of excessive vanity—too much concern with appearance, meticulous grooming. Give me a balding graying unkempt slob.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'm balding. Going bald was definitely traumatic, but as I get older it bothers me less and less. I guess there are women out there who would never dream of going out with a balding man, but I think it's mostly a confidence issue. If a man is bald but doesn't try to hide it and is obviously comfortable with his appearance, I don't think the baldness will be an automatic turn-off to most women. (or am I just kidding myself?). Also, women in their late 20s/30s tend to be less "lookist" than younger women I think, and the baldness thing doesn't matter so much.

― Revivalist (Revivalist), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I won't mind going grey but I will mind going bald

I don't think anyone would choose to lose hair rather than lose colour of hair

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

i got my first grey hair the other week.

face bothered.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno. I was ready for balding (hasn't come yet, though, not really) I wasn't ready for teh grey. Which is making rapid strides. I found it on my CHEST!

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

would anyone rather go bald than grey or white?
i'm doing all of them, the one's that aren't falling out are going grey.

cheers god!

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

if anything, I'd've thought that'd make you not believe in God

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

It's so nice to have a weird little insight into the physical insecurities of males.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm only worried about going bald and nothing else at all

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

it's not that weird, kate, is it?

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

xpost
Why "weird little insight"? I don't think it's any secret that men don't like to lose their hair.

― Revivalist (Revivalist), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, Enrique, by weird I mean... FREAKING HILARIOUS!! HA HA HA HA HA!

OK, now watch me go bald as punnishment.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

I've had what appears to be a receding hairline since I was very young. It might be moving further back now but I can't say I'm especially worried about it.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Serious answer... no wait, we've been here before. I'm not going to start in on the "when men lose their looks, they can always compensate in other ways of attractiveness, while women are judged on their looks alone, so they consider it far more of a trauma to lose them" thing because it affects different people in different ways.

It just gives me a nice sense of ... balance ... that men can be insecure about their looks, considering what body fascism is inflicted on women on a regular basis.

OK, turnaround isn't always fair play, and body fascism is bad no matter which sex it's applied to.

But it's still satisfying on some level, when some cnut calls you fat, to turn around and go "HA HA HA, BUT YOU'RE GOING BALD!" Not that that ever happens around here, oh no.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

y'all bitches just need to own up to it.

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

just look what you have to look forward to:

1963. sunburn takes a while to heal
-- lauren

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omg 1963 otm. also WHEN YOU ARE BALD YOUR HEAD LOOKS LIEK A CHERRY TOMATO.
god this is gonna be fun when it peels.

-- Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ?

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

men can be insecure about their looks

who knew?!

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

my great-gran was grey at the age of 28, if i remember correctly.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

though not first-hand.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

most men i know are super-insecure about their looks.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Lauren, but you mainly know hipster boys, come on!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

i know. the tyranny of skinny jeans.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

as quoted in the Guardian this weekend:

"Don't hate me because I'm fat
It's because I'm off the smack"

What a poet.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

I have the worst kind of baldness -- in the midst of the bald top, I have two little tufts of hair, where horns would be if I were the devil. I HATE THEM, but can't shave them without starting down a slippery slope of a high-maintenance scalp.

― I will commence to drop a knowledge bomb. (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

psh, I am thinning and receding at the same time

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Not that this has anything to do with anything, but there is a very successful sheep breeder/showman in CA who looks just like you, Jon. I'm always tempted to post pictures of "you" showing your latest winning lamb.

― I will commence to drop a knowledge bomb. (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

that's poetic.

thinning
and or
receding
the heads of which
all eventually go
grey or turn
white when no one
you really like
who likes you
cares anyway

xpost

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

the hair around my temples started fading when I was like 19 and it kind of really freaked me out. A decade later not much has changed, so I suppose it was just a natural maturation process. I wouldn't worry about it 'til girls start staring at your hairline when you're talking to them.

― Will (will), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

kind of = ~~kind of~~

(I may have kept most of my hair, but I'm definitely dumber)

― Will (will), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't worry about it 'til girls start staring at your hairline when you're talking to them.

You can retaliate by staring at their tits when they're talking to you. That way nobody notices the incipient turkey-wattle! A win-win!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Talking of poetic, this sounds like the opening of a song lyric:

in the midst of the bald top,
I have two little tufts of hair,
where horns would be
-- if I were the devil.

"Hairstyle of the Devil Pt II" or something. I could totally hear Momus sing this.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

I have a receeding hairline, and every summer I burn a new line about a centimetre wide. It's like tree rings or something.

― caek (caek), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

You can retaliate by staring at their tits when they're talking to you

But we do that anyway

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

When mine starts to go the way of my siblings, that's when out comes the gun and BLAM!

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

Shoot your barber?

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

Give me a balding graying unkempt slob.

Hi Beth!

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Give me a balding graying unkempt slob.

(smiles and raises hand)

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not greying enough for Beth :(

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

But you're bald enough?

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Silken hair more silken hair fell on her face and no wind was blowin' (she was going bald), silken hair more silken hair lay near her pillbox down at her feet (she'd been on a trip), I peaked in and when I saw she'd lost her hair I thought I would tell her (she was going bald), when she saw her shining forehead didn't stop she swooned to the (really flipped her wig), laughed so hard I blew my mind I blew my cool I blew myself over, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, sha na na, sha na na, sha na na na na na, what a blow....

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

...you're too late mama, ain't nothing upside your head, no more, no more, no no no no no no, upside your head...

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Jim! I am yours!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

i think there should be an accompanying thread called "i think i'm going to grow my hair super long just because it's there"
sayin
but not sayin whether it works or anything,
just that it is. in the world. a thing.

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty gray but do have a full head o' hair (started graying late 20's). I think I'd look like Aleister Crowley if I was bald.

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Saturday, 8 July 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

Curetage works pretty well if you give it a few years. For baldness, not grayness.

Also, Aleister Crowley rules.

― John W. Smoke, Jr. (Uri Frendimein), Saturday, 8 July 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

In the past 6 weeks, my hair has gotten a lot thinner - it's quite a startling difference. I thought it was just that I was going bald like many men do, only very quickly. I've had recession at the temples for some years, but it's been very gradual, and I had quite a lot of hair until recently. The weird thing is that my scalp also hurts, especially if I touch it, though it has a mild burning feeling all the time, and tonight I noticed (in the mirror) that there's a bloody patch on the top of my head. I haven't scratched it or bumped it on anything that I know of. It's not dry or itchy at all. I was originally just going to shave my head if my hair got any more thin (though my best friend was trying very hard to talk me out of it), but now I think I will have to see someone about it. Is this kind of thing familiar to anyone?

― Ricki Belloni (Pangolino 3), Thursday, 13 July 2006 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 19:13 (seventeen years ago)

This has been happening to me for a few years. You know how male cartoon characters are often drawn with the hair inked in using a solid colour, then there's that bit on the temples that's not solid but hatch shaded instead? I can see why that works now...

― snoball, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 19:17 (seventeen years ago)

i stopped spiking up my hair in the front which has made it painfully obvious how much it's been thinning on top

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 19:19 (seventeen years ago)

you need to own that hairline like statham

― fucken cumlord (omar little), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 19:20 (seventeen years ago)

i would almost rather be statham-bald. this is starting to feel like an awkward middle stage.

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 19:36 (seventeen years ago)

eventually, you will have to get The Haircut.

― Lord Iffy Boatrace (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:01 (seventeen years ago)

yeah the awkward middle stage is tough but you should just still try to own it and go for the short haircut now rather than later. i have a friend who is trying the forward sweep long after such a move looks rational, and another guy i know had an even worse one until he eventually gave in and did the right thing.

― fucken cumlord (omar little), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:03 (seventeen years ago)

the good news is after The Haircut, you can just buy a clippers and never pay for a haircut again.

jordan i thought your hair looked vv pretty btw at your show.

― Lord Iffy Boatrace (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:05 (seventeen years ago)

oh thx dude. i don't think i'm out of the game just yet, i only hope that i'll be able to recognize when my time is up.

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:07 (seventeen years ago)

I often wonder how I'm going to feel on the day when I realize that not all of my hair is coming back after I shave my head. I honestly don't know if it will bother me or not; the shaved look has basically been my fallback look since 1993.

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:08 (seventeen years ago)

snoball, like dagwood bumstead?

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

You know how male cartoon characters are often drawn with the hair inked in using a solid colour, then there's that bit on the temples that's not solid but hatch shaded instead?

i thought this meant gray at the temples? do dudes even go bald on the temples first?

― goole, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

the hair thins at the temples, hence the hatching

(xpost) more like this guy
http://www.wellspringwestsussex.org.uk/images/dodger.gif

― snoball, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:33 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, i thought that was supposed to mean reed richards-style graying.

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:34 (seventeen years ago)

i always thought that was indicating gray hair

― fucken cumlord (omar little), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:34 (seventeen years ago)

nobody's hair thins at the temples first, wth? if yr thin there its fucken gone everywhere else

― goole, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:36 (seventeen years ago)

http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb117/gilesschumm/reed-richards-or-ike-turner.jpg

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:36 (seventeen years ago)

Fun fact regarding awkward thinning stages: In my experience there is no way, while cutting hair / shaving, to artificially replicate the completely-bald-on-top / ring-around-the-sides look. It just doesn't work. And that is why I don't get to walk around every few weeks looking like Sherman Hemsley.

― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:40 (seventeen years ago)

I think the main difficulties are as follows: (a) there has to be a naturalistic fade between the bald part and the hair part, which if you don't have it yet is hard to fake, and (b) you have to put that line in a naturalistic position, and while the point where your hair starts thinning might seem like the right line, it likely isn't.

― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:41 (seventeen years ago)

the completely-bald-on-top / ring-around-the-sides look

are you referring to the Picard?

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:48 (seventeen years ago)

Yes, although Picard's sides-ring was usually kept very, very short, so that's not as hard to shoot for. In TV terms, I would like to amuse myself by trying more of a George Jefferson, or at least a Dr. Katz.

― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:54 (seventeen years ago)

you're making a mockery of genuine suffering

― bnw, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:55 (seventeen years ago)

The statham approach

1. get a #1
2. grow a beard
3. get built

― Jarlrmai, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:58 (seventeen years ago)

I am genuinely pretty bald, bnw, I have just chosen not to suffer about it too much

― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 21:12 (seventeen years ago)

I mean basically the reason I would be amused by doing an artificial ring-around-the-sides is that it would be the only thing that would allow me to grow out actual hair for more than three weeks without looking kinda weird

― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 21:13 (seventeen years ago)

i can't picture myself bald

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 21:14 (seventeen years ago)

no one ever does

― fucken cumlord (omar little), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:17 (seventeen years ago)

think the Dalai Lama must've done.

― Pat Phoenix Wright, Messageboard Attorney (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:19 (seventeen years ago)

I'm totally balding and I don't care about it at all. I've accepted it now. Best thing was surrendering and shaving my head some weeks back. Keep it close cropped or you'll just look like douche, in my opinion. I saw a guy at the department of licensing the other day with a totally shaved, bald head with handlebars moustache and goatee. He was hot as hell, and looked pretty young.

― Take The Gothheads Bowling (Bimble), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:44 (seventeen years ago)

:/ is right

― Local Garda, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:46 (seventeen years ago)

xpost

I mean, it was obvious that he was balding which is why he had his head shaved. You know what I mean.

― Take The Gothheads Bowling (Bimble), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:49 (seventeen years ago)

i dunno about The Haircut - an old friend of mine got one and it really didn't look right on him. he may do it again eventually when more comes out but he's let it grow back in and it looks a lot better. yes, there's a bald spot on the back of his head, but the crew-cut look didn't suit him.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 April 2009 17:09 (seventeen years ago)

Transporter 2 was on tv last night. I'm fully in support of the haircut massive.

― guys i need to eliminate this business associate and im really nervous (Laurel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 17:12 (seventeen years ago)

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It doesn't matter. The Haircut is patient. It's like trying to fight the ocean.

― Lord Iffy Boatrace (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 16 April 2009 17:18 (seventeen years ago)

I've never gone shorter than the #4, pussy that I am. Also I wait far too long between each cut.

― turnover is validating, profit is salivating (ledge), Thursday, 16 April 2009 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

i tell you what, when i went the statham route the dating scene got a lot easier.

― fucken cumlord (omar little), Thursday, 16 April 2009 17:21 (seventeen years ago)

does that mean you got the haircut or are you jumpkicking dudes off a moving sportscar now

― goole, Thursday, 16 April 2009 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

i'm being kept alive only thanks to adrenaline and electricity now

― fucken cumlord (omar little), Thursday, 16 April 2009 17:26 (seventeen years ago)

yeah women dig that shit

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 16 April 2009 17:26 (seventeen years ago)

I have 'The Haircut', not sure it suits me entirely but it certainly makes life easier.

― Jarlrmai, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:00 (seventeen years ago)

some dudes can't pull off the shaved head look. i think as long as dudes keep what hair they have very neatly trimmed, keep themselves in good shape, and don't completely avoid sunlight, being partially bald just isn't a big deal.

― slugbaiting (rockapads), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:01 (seventeen years ago)

It's a pretty low blow psychologically herald of death / loss of youth etc etc a lot of people freak out for a bit.

― Jarlrmai, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:04 (seventeen years ago)

can't be as bad as the first time you ask your doctor for a viagra scrip

― slugbaiting (rockapads), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:05 (seventeen years ago)

thanks for that portent!

it certainly made me revaluate the whole 'being in good shape' thing

― Jarlrmai, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:08 (seventeen years ago)

yea i've got a good long ways to go before 'the haircut' will be necessary (right now it actually highlights any thinning hair that i have), but some guys just don't have the best-shaped skull to pull it off as well. not necessarily saying that longer hair is better w/ baldness, it probably isn't. but i wish i had a better head shape to pull off 'the haircut'

― mark cl, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:10 (seventeen years ago)

ditto

― caek, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:12 (seventeen years ago)

my head is too spherical for buzzcut

― caek, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:12 (seventeen years ago)

i give myself a couple of years before I have no choice

― caek, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:12 (seventeen years ago)

but some guys just don't have the best-shaped skull to pull it off as well.

I have a lumpy skull, particularly one bit at the front that I need a bit of hair to cover over.

― snoball, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:18 (seventeen years ago)

...and before anyone posts an image of a Klingon
http://www.coronene.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/klingon1.jpg
...I'm going to do it first - and I don't look like this!

― snoball, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:19 (seventeen years ago)

nah see worf needs 'the haircut'

― mark cl, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:22 (seventeen years ago)

dude's got a big head, it'll work.

― mark cl, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:22 (seventeen years ago)

I don't think there's any one-size-fits-all THE HAIRCUT that solves this problem, really, what with different people being suited by different things -- e.g., here is a guy who would actually look a billion times worse and older if he trimmed down all the hair on the sides:

http://www.nbc.com/30_Rock/images/placeholders/bios/pete.jpg

As for all the fading-of-youth stuff, I dunno, since it's not like there was much of anything in particular I could do with my hair before I started cutting it all off: missing it seems linked to its having once had, like, style possibilities.

― nabisco, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:24 (seventeen years ago)

come on, nabs, you never had the desire to rock a juicy jheri curl

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:25 (seventeen years ago)

ha see i think that guy would look a lot better if he got rid of the curls. the side burns too. he should maybe get a pair of thick frames?

― mark cl, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:26 (seventeen years ago)

i'm definitely one of those who couldn't pull off the all-over buzz. it sucks, too. even though i'm far from 'needing' to do it, i bet it's really liberating.

― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:28 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.robertpicardo.net/holodoc/doctor.jpg

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:29 (seventeen years ago)

haha wow, Dan, I was totally thinking of that guy, actually -- if Scott Adsit cut off the curls, he would wind up looking like that, except his forehead would look gigantic; the hair balances it

also yes, I think I once posted a picture on ILX of how I looked when I was 14 and briefly had like a "loosely relaxed perm" kind of thing going, which to be honest mostly made me look like Vanessa Huxtable

― nabisco, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:31 (seventeen years ago)

so any of you guys into hats at all? my brother went really bald in his mid-20s, and he's always had cool hats.

― mark cl, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:32 (seventeen years ago)

haha for reference:

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v165/128/113/664617641/n664617641_610962_1586.jpg

― nabisco, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:33 (seventeen years ago)

like tweed cap type things xp to myself

― mark cl, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:33 (seventeen years ago)

wow ur a handsome dude nabisco!!

― mark cl, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:33 (seventeen years ago)

oh yeah, that 14-year-old peach-fuzz look was really working out for me, lemme tell you, chicks were all over me

― nabisco, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:34 (seventeen years ago)

they were all like "ooo, nabisco, you're the best Dungeon Master ever, tell me more about the Smiths"

― nabisco, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:35 (seventeen years ago)

xp: I agree w/ mark ... the guy in nabisco's pic's hair just looks a bit sloppy. It has this abject quality - the remaining hair is cut/styled in the same way as when he had a mostly full head of hair and it's remaining in its youthful stage waiting for the rest to magically reappear. The only appealing thing about this guy's hair is he could make jokes about it.

― photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:36 (seventeen years ago)

lololololollll xp

― guys i need to eliminate this business associate and im really nervous (Laurel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:36 (seventeen years ago)

i think pete hornberger is pulling off the giant, bald head look just fine

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:40 (seventeen years ago)

adsit looks better here - just a tad shorter (and i think it was mainly the curls showing below the ears that i didn't like)

http://www.ucbtheatre.com/i/performer/ScottAdsit.jpg

― mark cl, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:41 (seventeen years ago)

if he shaved off his remaining hair and got chunky glasses i imagine he would look like the gay bald dude in sex & the city

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:42 (seventeen years ago)

Could someone post pics of "THE HAIRCUT" ... I'm not sure I know what it is.

― photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:42 (seventeen years ago)

http://img01.picoodle.com/img/img01/4/1/2/cedricvc/f_jasonstatham_41fcc51.jpg

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:43 (seventeen years ago)

xp mark: I wonder if the curls in back aversion is a general aversion to mullet-shaped hair?

― photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:44 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.ugo.com/movies/jason-statham/images/jason-statham.jpg

― fucken cumlord (omar little), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:45 (seventeen years ago)

xp Jordan: I thought so. This has been my boyfriend's haircut for the past 10 years. He's only 36. :\

― photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:46 (seventeen years ago)

the Adsit is very similar to the Costanza

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:46 (seventeen years ago)

Statham is like hardly even barely balding at all, gentlemen

― nabisco, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:46 (seventeen years ago)

Like that's where I am, it's nothing

― nabisco, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:47 (seventeen years ago)

c'mon, if he grew it out i bet it would look pretty bad

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:47 (seventeen years ago)

well yeah, hence his being a thinning-hair short-cut candidate for youngish people here to talk about

but in the grand scale of balding, you know

― nabisco, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:48 (seventeen years ago)

my brother says our genetic makeup is such that if you were a gorilla in our family you would still go bald :(

― bnw, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:49 (seventeen years ago)

he's not bald, but he is 100% balding and therefore THE HAIRCUT

― fucken cumlord (omar little), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:49 (seventeen years ago)

great photo nabisco

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:49 (seventeen years ago)

http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/entertainment/07/10/23_cross_lgl.jpg

The Haircut!

― slugbaiting (rockapads), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:50 (seventeen years ago)

there we go^

― mark cl, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:50 (seventeen years ago)

the haircut works nicely w/ beard of similar length no? then u just use one set of clippers for whole head/face

― mark cl, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:51 (seventeen years ago)

I honestly can't say I've ever seen a bad implementation of The Haircut.

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:51 (seventeen years ago)

http://www2.pictures.fp.zimbio.com/Jason+Statham+Out+Getting+Coffee+P2OOEREZJRBl.jpg

― My Neighbor Toronto (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

i'm also a fan of the upside-down head look (totally clean shaven on top + a beard). sort of maintains the balance.

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

It's going on in the back too, is what I'm trying to say. xp

― My Neighbor Toronto (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:53 (seventeen years ago)

the haircut + scruff of equal length is usually foolproof

― fucken cumlord (omar little), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:53 (seventeen years ago)

dan, mostly i'm scared of looking like moby

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:53 (seventeen years ago)

Oh for the love of god, that man needs to shave.

― guys i need to eliminate this business associate and im really nervous (Laurel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

then u just use one set of clippers for whole head/face

yeah, the idea of doing anything more elaborate than this with one's head seems impossibly distant and/or fussy to me

― nabisco, Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

The straggly salt & pepper beard is molester-levels of gross.

― guys i need to eliminate this business associate and im really nervous (Laurel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:55 (seventeen years ago)

dan, mostly i'm scared of looking like moby

okay this is an understandable fear; have you considered the "eat a fuckload of ribs" method of avoiding this

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:56 (seventeen years ago)

he's just jewish laurel, jeez

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:56 (seventeen years ago)

Also, beard growth on the neck? Fucking take it back to the woods, Kaczynski.

― guys i need to eliminate this business associate and im really nervous (Laurel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:56 (seventeen years ago)

hahahaha okay that is so far away from mountain-man-who-blows-up-academics beard

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

dan i do that regularly, i'm still pretty skinny though. unless you're suggesting that eating meat helps to avoid exuding an intrinistic mobyness.

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

I think shaved heads and baldness are hot, okay? You should all be glad there are women who do. Cut me some slack on the facial hair -- a girl has to have standards.

― guys i need to eliminate this business associate and im really nervous (Laurel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:58 (seventeen years ago)

you may have to add in "wash them down with butter shakes"

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:58 (seventeen years ago)

just here to lol at yall baldies. my hairline is so far forward (I don't suppose that's actually a good thing...) that if I go against the genes and start balding it'll be a few decades before anyone notices. That said, it looks like I'm destined to be completely grey by the time I hit 30...

I think the ring around the sides look can work if it's either real short (the Picard) or a bit crazy. But it's a fine line. Frasier, for example, never got it to quite work either way.

― Ralph, Waldo, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:58 (seventeen years ago)

ftr I'm not balding, I just hate my hair and habitually shave it all off

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:59 (seventeen years ago)

Statham is like hardly even barely balding at all, gentlemen

Uh, those pictures seem to indicate the opposite.

― photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:00 (seventeen years ago)

frasier has other issues

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:01 (seventeen years ago)

tbh i think moby's got a decent look going on

http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/food/08/01/31_moby_lgl.jpg

― mark cl, Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:01 (seventeen years ago)

Kelsey Grammer looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:01 (seventeen years ago)

also, never want to hear guys complaining about going gray. gray hair's awesome!

― mark cl, Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

xp Laurel: I'm with you on the facial hair. Unless it's well groomed, it just looks schlubby.

― photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

Also, beard growth on the neck? Fucking take it back to the woods, Kaczynski.

okay, this is sensible, but here's the thing: if you are just letting scruffy facial hair grow in a "natural" way, you can't exactly break out the razor/clippers and shave up the neck too close to your chin line, because then it becomes something else -- it becomes an actual planned beard -- and what works as scruffy unshavenness does not necessarily work as a delineated intentional beard.

― nabisco, Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

the only one who cares about your balding is yourself tbh

― the most naturally gifted poster of his generation (cozwn), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:03 (seventeen years ago)

frasier has other issues

It's a fine line between Frasier and EMH...

― snoball, Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:03 (seventeen years ago)

xp cozwn: and perhaps your ex-girlfriends from highschool or college

― photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:04 (seventeen years ago)

nabisco OTM there - if you get rid of neck scruff when ur just going for 'natural scruff' it becomes a kind of beard that's totally different, & one that i don't really like

― mark cl, Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:04 (seventeen years ago)

you can also go too far in the other direction:

http://thoreau.eserver.org/large1.gif

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:05 (seventeen years ago)

I found one of my exes that was an asshole on facebook, and he's seriously receding. Had a couple nice minutes of schadenfreude there.

― photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:05 (seventeen years ago)

i think beard on the neck looks fine so long as the rest of the beard is grown in. dudes who can ONLY grow on the neck should not have beards tho

― mark cl, Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:06 (seventeen years ago)

Please, for the love of God, just shave.

nabisco, I'm pretty sure there's a turning point around...I'm going to guess Day 3 for most people? where it goes from being charmingly dishabille to "No, really, I'm not homeless. I have an electric bill right here!"

― guys i need to eliminate this business associate and im really nervous (Laurel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:06 (seventeen years ago)

ha see yea nowadays the thoreau look is just pretty gross imo

― mark cl, Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:06 (seventeen years ago)

oh man, the Neck Hair Dilemma. this is why i stopped rocking the scruff entirely, i never found a way out of this one.

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:07 (seventeen years ago)

i trim the neck part of the beard all the way down

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:08 (seventeen years ago)

Statham's scruff in the pics above is fine, the other two need to shave, neck beard needs to go away.

― photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:09 (seventeen years ago)

i mean, i trim my whole beard with a "3" and then neck and the upper part of my cheeks gets the clippers

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:09 (seventeen years ago)

I will admit that my neck hair is weirdly uneven so there's a little patch on one side that I occasionally shave. But the rest runs wild and free.

I also have to shave a couple of hairs on my cheeks. Looking like a free-spirited, devil-may-care bohemian without looking bad is tough, you know?

― Ralph, Waldo, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:11 (seventeen years ago)

too bad burt_stanton isn't here to weigh in on this. I'm sure he'd have had some great insights.

― photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:12 (seventeen years ago)

balding is only schadenfreude is the dude is a dbag about his lush hair imo

― fucken cumlord (omar little), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:16 (seventeen years ago)

my beard comes in pretty thick all around and i generally have scruff (only shave 2x/week) but there isn't really anything on my neck

― mark cl, Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:18 (seventeen years ago)

count your blessings

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:18 (seventeen years ago)

I spent most of my 20's with no balding but shaving my head, grew it out for one final hurrah, and now I'm in my 30's and back to shaving my head with inevitable baldness looming over me. Fuck it, I've had a good run and made it longer than lots of people I know who were totally bald by 23 or 24.

― joygoat, Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:26 (seventeen years ago)

my neck beard hair goes down about as far as Cross's up there. i shave it with a razor to the jawline. i wish the goatee hadn't become so unacceptable in the late 90s, early 00's. that was kind of the best of both worlds for me. i used to get compliments that i looked like Gordon Freeman.

― slugbaiting (rockapads), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v238/90/103/561985783/n561985783_576150_4245.jpg

me sporting The Haircut

― Jarlrmai, Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:55 (seventeen years ago)

Hello, would at least smush.

― guys i need to eliminate this business associate and im really nervous (Laurel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:57 (seventeen years ago)

crepey

― nabisco, Thursday, 16 April 2009 20:18 (seventeen years ago)

a smush or smushes are people who walk very slowly while in front of people in a small place e.g. a shopping centre walkway.

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Thursday, 16 April 2009 20:19 (seventeen years ago)

Schmutz (also shmuts, (shmŭtz or shmootz) is a Yiddish word of direct German derivation. It can be a noun, a verb, or an adjective.

As in the original German, its use in Yiddish as a noun can designate a range of types of unpleasant substances from any kind of soil such as mud or dust to thick or ground-in dirt such as soot or grass stains. More strongly, and less accurately, it's used to indicate a particularly foul or repulsive matter such as animal waste, or poop, or the fuzzy stuff found growing in the jar way at the back of the fridge. A Jewish comedian once raised schmutz to the exalted status of “dirt that moves.”

As a verb, it can be used literally to describe an action as in, “Five minutes into the party and she schmutzes on herself already,” or it can move into a figurative indication of messing up things in general as in, “I don’t need you to come in here and schmutz things up for me.”

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 16 April 2009 20:20 (seventeen years ago)

Jealousy is an ugly emotion. Take note, children.

― guys i need to eliminate this business associate and im really nervous (Laurel), Thursday, 16 April 2009 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

i for one approve of laurel's particular preference

― fucken cumlord (omar little), Thursday, 16 April 2009 20:26 (seventeen years ago)

totally shaved, bald head with handlebars moustache and goatee.

moley to thread (not that he'd be that bald if he grew it out, probably. and no goatee. but works the bikie rapist mo and shaved head like nobody's business)

everyone dissing Pete Hornberger is mad rong, he wears his baldness with confidence and the way it sits up high on the sides still works wonders. though I admit I agreed with Donaghy re him keeping the toupee cos it made him younger and more confident.

my hairline's been gradually creeping back, but only in a widow's peak stylee, for about five years. (the front is dawdling, getting less neat but not making a bolt for the crown.) and my temples have been collecting salt and pepper since I was 18. I'm going to look fucking awesome when I'm 40!

― Bostin' Legal (sic), Friday, 17 April 2009 12:49 (seventeen years ago)

or, probably, now, if I just grew up and got an adult's office-friendly haircut.

― Bostin' Legal (sic), Friday, 17 April 2009 13:10 (seventeen years ago)

by some miracle i still have a full head @51 (very thin on top) but when I wash GIANT CLUMPS collect in the drain. so it's just a matter of time. what's worse or just as bad is growing geezer-like nose and ear hairs. my wife gave me a little clipper for this on my birthday. uh thanx.

― m coleman, Friday, 17 April 2009 13:22 (seventeen years ago)

lol

― mark cl, Friday, 17 April 2009 13:23 (seventeen years ago)

Let's face it though, she'll look a lot better for it.

― The Unbearable Skegness of Being (NickB), Friday, 17 April 2009 13:26 (seventeen years ago)

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