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Originally Posted by Wongo
Just remember Scott, God giveth and He taketh away.:D :p
Mick (who had plenty of hair when he was 36)
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Originally Posted by Wongo
Just remember Scott, God giveth and He taketh away.:D :p
Mick (who had plenty of hair when he was 36)
…and I am honest too.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Grunt
G'day folks,
Bring on the baldness guys I reckon.
One saves many things when one has a budget to follow so to speak.
Just don't let ya missus talk ya into gettin ya hair on any part of ur body, waxed.
Yeah, it takes a while to grow back but if ya don't like pain, absolutely don't do it and it isn't a bloke thing to do i reckon. It's these times when the missus can get ya back too.
Even with one of those diy electronic gizmo's that cut hair, don't let the missus use it either as they sometimes have strange ideas for a haircut where one can't see her style on the back of ya noggin.
The old man always says..... ya can't have hair and brains too mate.
This is why i keep it bald :U
Someone gave me a set of electric clippers when their dog carked it. I use them to cut my own hair. The ex swmbo does the hairline at the back of my scone. I do a number 1 every 3 months. Come on baldness.... :2tsup:
Been a number 1 guy for over ten years now. One day I'll sit down and add up how much I've saved on shampoo and hair cuts.
I reckon hat-hair looks sillier than a bald head any day :p
Fortunately I don't have to worry about such issues.
Bald as a badger and I don't give a rats. It gets me out of the house faster and down to the shed (shed site at this stage). If only I could find a short cut to brushing the teeth and washing the dial I could be out even quicker.
I like to make fun of my baldness.
I was checking in at Sydney airport one evening and my comb fell out of my pocket when I took out my wallet to get my licence out. A kind serious type of business bloke drew my attention to the dropped comb. I thanked him from the bottom of my heart and remarked that I would be lost without my comb! The poor bloke was lost for words and other people around were intrigued.:wink:
Hopefully it made their wait in the queue a bit more pleasant.
I used to go to an Italian barber in Burwood. I once asked him when he was going to start giving me a discount for having less hair to cut, he told me he was going to start charging a finder's fee. :U
What if you're not :-Quote:
Originally Posted by Groggy
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Originally Posted by Groggy
Or worse still, no one else is comfortable with who you are.:oo: :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
Mick
Grandpa was bald, Dad's got a full head of hair, I'm going bald (okay, am bald), I reckon my son'll have a full head of hair. It's in the genes and it skips a generation.
I can't go skinhead because I've got three or four horrid, red lumps on me bonce (had 'em all me adult life) and skinhead will just scare the horses.
I refuse to do a comb over but after a day under a hat, my flamin' hair always arranges itself to look as though I do :((
I wear a hat all the time to keep the sun off the wee skin cancer in the middle of me head :(
When I ride me pushbike on a sunny day, my scalp gets burnt but in the pattern of the holes in the bike helmet :oo: , a look that's always good for a giggle at my expense.
Richard
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Originally Posted by Daddles
I've been trying to ignore the rampant thinning upstairs but getting a sunburnt scalp twice last summer made it a little hard - hate wearin' hats but might have to go the chrome-dome and cap methinks! :C Bloody grandfather!:~
It's a gene passed down thorough your Grand parents but on your mother's side.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daddles
Both my Grand fathers were bald. But Mum wasn't.:wink:
Don't worry, be happy. I still have enough for the barber to slug me $15. I am not worried about losing hair. I am more concerned that my bum is dissapearing. If I put a pair of pliers or some such tool in my hip pocket I just about lose my dacks. Maybe I need to get a pair of braces and keep wearing my cap. Such is life.
Gumby, see the second post in this thread. It is NOT passed down from your maternal grandfather. Well, it can be but it can equally come from your paternal grandfather or your father.Quote:
It's a gene passed down thorough your Grand parents but on your mother's side.
Both my Grand fathers were bald. But Mum wasn't.:wink:
Describes Gumby to a TQuote:
Or worse still, no one else is comfortable with who you are.:oo: :p
A number two comb through whats left and when they can safly tranplant my back hair to the top of my head I'll go for that :oo: , untill then I'll just have to live with the shiny top...:2tsup:
When the kids asked me what the shiny spot on the top of my head was, I told then it was where their mum used to put her thumb and press real hard - I bought a Wahl 9117 and haven't paid for a haircut since - this helps pay for the child support.
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Neil, ya theivin' mongrel, THAT was my my line, you got it from me and I pinched it from my paternal grandma..... she used to tell my Dad that!Quote:
Originally Posted by ubeaut
I have been shaving my scone for quite a few years, well before it was trendy. I have reasonable amount which keeps trying to emerge but it has a large hole in it at the back and I have a fair acreage of forehead that doesn't get prickly... Would I grow it back? NO WAY! I would look ancient, grey, pathetic and it would itch like crazy!
Mick, maaate, just accept that you have no choice but to get better looking as you get ol, er, um, er, more experienced.:wink:
Comb overs...
My high school principal used to have one of them, polished scone, combed from under his chin all the way over.
We had big trouble controlling ourselves when outside on days with a bit of a corsswind...
To picture this, stand in front of the mirror, put your hand across your head and wiggle your fingers. Sound effects complete the picture.
(He also used to live with his mum, which pretty much says it all for the comb over.)
I don't care myself, I am not going bald. Grey, yes (but keep that quiet, I don't want to encourage the little ^%$^%$... :(( ).
Instead of? :pQuote:
I would look ancient, grey, pathetic ...
My dad and his dad and his dad both had magnificent heads of hair till the day they died. By mum's dad was as bald as and egg...and I'm as bald as an egg! Sometimes I hate genetics! My wife's male relatives are all bald too, so my lads have got no hope.
I would chose a combination of:
hair loss - what have you done/will you do?
<label for="rb_optionnumber_1"><input name="optionnumber" value="1" id="rb_optionnumber_1" type="radio">absolutely nothing, if I pretend it's not happening maybe no-one will notice.</label>
<label for="rb_optionnumber_5"><input name="optionnumber" value="5" id="rb_optionnumber_5" type="radio">I'll get my hair cut shorter to lessen the contrast between the hairy bits and the baldy bits</label>
<label for="rb_optionnumber_8"><input name="optionnumber" value="8" id="rb_optionnumber_8" type="radio">I don't give a rat's ring</label>
I've been getting a number 2/number 1 for years, and it's great. I don't mind paying the barber if I don't have to sweep up. Tried one of the home clipper jobs but it was a pain setting the thing up, sweeping up etc. I get it done once a month or so, or when SWMBO starts saying I look like a toilet-brush (bludy swmbo!)
OK, here's how you give yourself a number 1:
1. Get your clipper and fix the number 1 comb (Zen, this is really easy mate)
2. Stand in front of the bathroom sink, bend down as if you are going to put your face in the bowl.
3. Clip away. Go over the back bits several times to make sure you don't miss any.
4. Turn on tap and flush your cares away.
5. Get in the shower and give your head and shoulders a good hosing down so that you don't get those annoying prickles in your shirt.
Best done before having your daily shower. Clothing not recommended, undies optional :o
See, it's easy and doesn't cost a cent!
This is one case where we don't need photos to prove that it happened.Quote:
Best done before having your daily shower. Clothing not recommended, undies optional :o
Sorry Grunt, didn't mean to put you off your lunch, but it's an important point :wink:
I trim my beard in the shower cubicle before having a shower, much easier than the sink as you don't have to retrieve hair from behind taps etc.
Please warn me if this conversation is going to extend to other shower habits:o
HH.
SilentC, I have a an old landcruiser mirror hung up down at the shed for doing this, that way there is no mess in the bathroom to cause a row with SHMBO.
I give the neighbours a shock standing there with no shirt as they ride past. (I live next to a horse trail)
my old man has had a comb over for as long as I can remember, apperantly by the time they got married. He still does it. I have always sworn to my self I wouldnt do it.
luckilly I havent needed to worry, still have good crop.
Have you ever said anything to him about it?Quote:
Originally Posted by forunna
HH.
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Originally Posted by HappyHammer
It is always the source of great mirth by everyone else becasue whenever he is trying to do something it falls off the side and he curses and flips it back.
we crack up and he curses more. but always polite cursing, he is (was) a teacher/headmaster.
kept Brylcream in business single handed I think.
Grow it while you've got it........
Then when it falls out, shave it off.
Either way, it beats paying for haircuts.:)
Cousin It? :? :D
They say look at your mothers brothers if you want to know how the hair line is going to look.
Panteen, Johnsons, Swarzkof or any other hair product company don't get any of my money, I've got the chrome dome thing happening doesn't worry me in the slightest, found an old passport the other day was over 15 years old had hair in the photo and SWMBO said if I looked like that when we met she would have give me the flick, now she wouldn't have me any other way.:no:
Sorry mate, that doesn't work. All my uncles have full heads of hair except one and his only started to thin in the last 10 years or so. The only baldies in my immediate family are my Dad and one of his uncles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anglewood
I'VE BROKEN MY #2 COMB!:oo: :oo: :oo:
Don't know what I'm going to do now. #3 is far too long, my fluffy bits catch in the breeze and start to think for themselves a day or two after a #3, and I'd catch my death of cold with a #1!
It's sad to be me! :(
What can a poor boy do?
P
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How could you catch your death of cold up in sunny QLD? I've been #1 for years down here and although I've had my share of colds, they're yet to kill me :p
Can you sand your No. 3 comb back to a No. 2 ?
That would be a different kind of sharpening thread. :D
Don't worry Cliff, I've seriously considered that. Might even do it with the #7 yet! :D
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Originally Posted by Grunt
"Not from a gene passed on from an individual's maternal grandfather"
This I would have to disagree with .My maternal grandfather was bald as a coot at around 21 ,but for some hair on the sides and back of his head .Im 52 and have the same symptoms as my maternal grand father but my balding was much later
My paternal grand father went to his grave with a full head of hair and my father shows no sign of balding at age 76.
What gets me is I can grow a full beard in a short time , but my dog (Huskie) sheds more fur when brushed than my missus gets off my haircuts in a year.
Anyway tis a # 2 with a set of clippers for me , and a hat outdoors at all times
I voted for the rats' ring BTW..
I havnt had time to read all 7 pages of posts, but the whole thing seems to require a progressive strategy.
a combover isn't a strategy unles you have some sort of sad comedy act.
one option that has been forgotten for those with a rear crown only hair loss is the pony tail.... grow it long and wear it in a pony tail... but you have to gro the fringe reaaallly long.
Phase 1
Normal hair growth.... fine & beaut:2tsup:
phase 2
Hair thinning a bit...... grow it longer for some extra body
phase 3
thinning and getting obvious.......cut it short... dark hair #1 light hair #2
phase 4
Either you've lost soo much it just not worth it any more, or you have a good shaped head....... buy a top of the range electric shaver & mow it down every day.
My self and a number of mates have the problem in varying degrees
two mates of mine did the ashly & martin thin in their 20's.... cost them heaps and only delayed the inevitable if anything.
Brian... wore a rug for more than 20 years.... he spent good money and it looked real, he even swam in it.... several years ago he had it shaved off
It was the best thing he ever did...... hes got a head like Youl Brunner and he has girls half his age chasing him.... If I had a head like his and could grow a full head of hair, Id' still shave it off.
Tony, ( who has more hair than me) has shaved his for years.....one point he would make is, if you wear a motorcycle helmet you have to shave twice a day or the lining sticks to your head like velcro.. & it can be painfull to get your helmet off.
Ross, is a fitness instructor, so he wears a bandana all the time with the muscle shirt and the funny pants.
I get a #2 on top and #3 on the side....... one day soon I'll go out and buy a top of the range philishave & do the deed.
No matter what a combover isn't an option.
one of the biggest problems is that the sweat forms on your head and beads up into big drops picking up size & speed as it goes & runs straight down into your eyes.
So where do you get good bandana's from.
cheers
Hey, I am already there, I use to comb my hair over the top to try and disguise the fact but one day my son said to me, "Dad. why dont you just cut it real short, it will look much better, I did just that and sure enough I think it does look better than trying to hide the fact.
and I look arount nowadays and see so many young guys with the same style haircut that I got. and I got mine for free.
I havent read all the posts on this topic but probably someone has already mentioned the fact that God made only so many perfect heads when he created man and the rest he put hair on.
Sure if I could have a full head of hair I wold have it in a flash,but it doesnt really worry me, Some things we just have to accept. Guess if I was a young guy it might be different.
I just looked at the poll results, I wonder how many of the guys who voted "I dont give a rats ring" are bald, Just a thought.