Useless Conversation

[WayAbvPar]

Bald is beautiful! I started shaving my head in my late 20s (when I had a full head of hair even). It started as a gag to get into a Mariners game for free, but it was so nice and easy to keep up I kept it that way. Regrew it for a year or two in my late 30s and discovered it was thinning in the back and starting to widow's peak in the front, so off it came for good. I shave it once or twice a week, usually in front of my computer while playing games or surfing the web. Bought a decent electric razor that does the job admirably, and then I touch it up with a disposable head razor after my shower for the day.

[Ard]

I still have all my hair, it's still not grey, and I'm creeping up on 40.  Suck it baldies.   

[Chimpy]

 

[Selby]

Finasteride.  'nuff said.  Or just shave it off and be done with it.

[Ingmar]

Bald is beautiful! I started shaving my head in my late 20s (when I had a full head of hair even). It started as a gag to get into a Mariners game for free, but it was so nice and easy to keep up I kept it that way. Regrew it for a year or two in my late 30s and discovered it was thinning in the back and starting to widow's peak in the front, so off it came for good. I shave it once or twice a week, usually in front of my computer while playing games or surfing the web. Bought a decent electric razor that does the job admirably, and then I touch it up with a disposable head razor after my shower for the day.

That seems like a messy place to shave.

[ghost]

With an electric razor it wouldn't be a big deal.  With a straight razor, yes.

[HaemishM]

I still have all my hair, it's still not grey, and I'm creeping up on 40.  Suck it baldies.   

I'm past 40 and I've just added a mohawk. Suck it, indeed. 

[ghost]

You need to share pictures of that, Haemish.

[HaemishM]

Mohawk happens. That's a selfie that I used for my latest novel - pre-black and white badass-ening.

[ghost]

You need to shave off the handlebar part of your mustache so it's got the mohawk theme on the front, too. 

That's awesome, man.

[HaemishM]

But I like my walrus stache. 

[ghost]

It's awesome, no doubt, but by going the thinner route it will give you more of a "hatchet" look.

Have you considered a color?  Blue, maybe?

[HaemishM]

It took me 20 some-odd years to work up the courage to go mohawk. I don't think I can pull off colors. Also, coloring is more effort than I feel like making.

[ghost]

I did a mohawk in high school.  It was fun.  I wish I could have fun hair now.  With my job it's pretty much a no-go, even if it is a publicity stunt or fundraiser of some sort.  People like their orthodontists to be uptight.

[Signe]

I still have a full head of hair, too!     And, yes, I have shaved the sides off from time to time.  Love the new Haemish look.  And you could pull off some colour.  Maybe highlights or low lights or bits of a colour.  What I do now is colour my hair a nice warm chestnut on the underneath from about the top of the ear down and the rest I just leave it's normal blonde-ish whatever colour and put in chestnut low lights on the top.  I only shaved the sides when it was really long although sometimes I think about it still.

My nephew almost always wears a mohawk and sometimes has a walrus-y face that I love.  Neither of you are as gorgeous as Haemish's wife though! 

Srsly.

[Engels]

I wish an f13 with a bald spot would do a mohawk, so it looks like a interrupted stripe.

[Signe]

That sounds kind of awesome.

Or if you're already completely bald, you could get a water wig!

[Furiously]

I heard that on the BBC while falling asleep last night, my initial reaction was     Second was to wonder just how much cobalt 60 is travelling around in unmarked boxes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident  This one makes me sad.

[Sky]

Ignorance. It's a motherfucker.

[Signe]

I got this advert today:



wtf?  I didn't click the video link because I was scared.  It looks like something Dr. Who would fight or possibly live in. 

[Chimpy]

The label reads "Power4Patriots"?

[Brofellos]

Mohawk happens. That's a selfie that I used for my latest novel - pre-black and white badass-ening.

I think you need more edgy glasses if you're gonna go mowhawk/facial hair. Gotta finish the look.

[Signe]

These:



They're awesome.  I LOVE these!

[WayAbvPar]

I heard that on the BBC while falling asleep last night, my initial reaction was     Second was to wonder just how much cobalt 60 is travelling around in unmarked boxes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident  This one makes me sad.

Wow, that is really sad. Read it right before bed last night and then had stressful radiation dreams all night 

[Trippy]

I swapped out a hard drive and now PlayReady (Windows media DRM system) won't fucking work with Media Center so I can't record premium channels anymore. Fucking Microsoft.

[Rasix]

At times, I think I'm cool with all of the poisonous stuff in Arizona that wants to bite and kill me, then I see a black wasp/hornet like creature the size of a hummingbird and I lose my shit. 

Well, at least I haven't seen a scorpion or rattlesnake in months.

[ghost]

The American southwest is like the Temple of Doom.  When I moved from Kentucky I had no idea.  Then I get to Texas where everything bites or stings or has poison.  It's a little unsettling.

Our first mountain bike trip here my wife fell into a cactus.  I still haven't really been forgiven for that...

[Ingmar]

At times, I think I'm cool with all of the poisonous stuff in Arizona that wants to bite and kill me, then I see a black wasp/hornet like creature the size of a hummingbird and I lose my shit. 

Well, at least I haven't seen a scorpion or rattlesnake in months.

Sounds like a tarantula hawk. Giant insect image spoilered for the squeamish:

[Signe]

Look at the fancy antennae!

Some of the most gigantic crawlies I've ever seen have been in Arizona.  Arizona is a terrible place to live if that sort of thing bothers you.  Or if you want to go outside during the day.

[ghost]

Reminds me of Perdido Street Station, for some reason

[Tale]

Insect search tangent.

New Zealand tree weta draws blood

Also Haemish hair is awesome.

[Trippy]

We do have a separate creepy crawler (okay, spiders) thread.

[ghost]

That's some creepy shit.

[naum]

At times, I think I'm cool with all of the poisonous stuff in Arizona that wants to bite and kill me, then I see a black wasp/hornet like creature the size of a hummingbird and I lose my shit. 

I hate those things. Fortunately, don't see them very often…

All kinds of poisonous/aggressive stuff in Arizona -- killer bees, spiders, rattlesnakes, scorpions, etc.. Most of the scorpion infestation is on the E. side of Valley (Phoenix). And have been informed that once you get them, they're hard to get rid of (immune to most poisons other than other critters).

Used to see a lot of coyotes and coydogs in my neighborhood but no so much as it's starting to get built up (Midwestern University has been slowly expanding and much of the desert/orange groves are nearly all filled in now). Was kind of cool to hear them howling at night.

[Rasix]

I hear coyotes almost every night.  It's almost always the yipping sound of a pack of them going after something.  Also, the howling, which is a much cooler sound. However, I've never seen more than 1 and it's always during the day.  

Scorpion infestations are nasty.  My in-laws neighborhood is particularly bad.  My father-in-law had one sting him in the face when he was sleeping.  They have to put plastic cups over the drains because those little fuckers are Houdini.  Luckily if your house gets treated for termites, the treatment is particularly effective at killing scorpions as well (at least that's what the bug guy says). 

Those mega wasps I see a few times a year.  One almost made it into the house this year.