i'm going bald

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.

perhaps i can claim to be a rastafarian

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Nothing. Deal with it.

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.

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

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

he's just jewish laurel, jeez

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Statham is like hardly even barely balding at all, gentlemen

Uh, those pictures seem to indicate the opposite.

frasier has other issues

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

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

ha

Kelsey Grammer looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets

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

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

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.

the only one who cares about your balding is yourself tbh

frasier has other issues

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

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

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

you can also go too far in the other direction:

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

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.

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

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!"

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

count your blessings

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.

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.

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

me sporting The Haircut

Hello, would at least smush.

crepey

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.

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.”

Jealousy is an ugly emotion. Take note, children.

i for one approve of laurel's particular preference

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!

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

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.

lol

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