Syrups & Comb-overs
02 February 2007, 02:00 PM
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Syrups & Comb-overs
Just watching the news and there's a chap being interviewed who is obviously wearing a wig - his hair is grey around his ears but black, thick and wavy on top (he's elderly). I understand women wearing them due to alopecia (sp?) or drug treatments, but otherwise ...
Do you know anyone who wears a wig? And comb-overs - what's that all about?
It blows horizontal like a windsock in the breeze and has to be pasted down with hairspray. It's obviously a comb-over so why why why???? Top example - Donald Trump. His is more of a comb-forward-then-flick-back affair. (Sorry don't know how to insert piccie - someone help pse
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Do you know anyone who wears a wig? And comb-overs - what's that all about?
It blows horizontal like a windsock in the breeze and has to be pasted down with hairspray. It's obviously a comb-over so why why why???? Top example - Donald Trump. His is more of a comb-forward-then-flick-back affair. (Sorry don't know how to insert piccie - someone help pse)
02 February 2007, 02:13 PM
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there a guy at top of my street (Mr Chicken LOL) who wears a wig and i't looks ridiculous!
made a big thing about it DEFINATELY being his own hair despite not changing shape, style or colour for the past 15 years
i'm grey already (at 24) and have no problems with it
made a big thing about it DEFINATELY being his own hair despite not changing shape, style or colour for the past 15 years
i'm grey already (at 24) and have no problems with it
02 February 2007, 02:40 PM
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I agree that if it looks ridiculous, then what's the point?!
BUT (going a bit off topic), it annoys me when women take the **** out of blokes who are losing their hair. I've just been on holiday with a few friends and one of my mates has this special shampoo which is meant to stop his hair falling out/thinning. Now, his hair's not too bad anyway - well maybe receding slightly and going a bit thin but still a decent head of hair at 27. Now, the 2 girls were taking the mickey out of him about the fact that he had this shampoo and the fact that he was making any sort of attempt to address something he obviously has a bit of an issue with. It's like they had the opinion "you're going to go bald and you're stupid if you try to do anything about it".
Now if the boot was on the other foot and lots of guys were taking the mickey out of a girl who was say, on diet pills, and we "said you're heavily set anyway, what's the point - deal with it" - then she would be on anti-depressants and in therapy before you could say "weight watchers"!
I just think it's a bit unfair that it seems acceptable to laugh at any blokes suffering from any sort of hair loss.
Jamie
PS. No, I'm NOT going bald!
well, maybe receding VERY slightly.
BUT (going a bit off topic), it annoys me when women take the **** out of blokes who are losing their hair. I've just been on holiday with a few friends and one of my mates has this special shampoo which is meant to stop his hair falling out/thinning. Now, his hair's not too bad anyway - well maybe receding slightly and going a bit thin but still a decent head of hair at 27. Now, the 2 girls were taking the mickey out of him about the fact that he had this shampoo and the fact that he was making any sort of attempt to address something he obviously has a bit of an issue with. It's like they had the opinion "you're going to go bald and you're stupid if you try to do anything about it".
Now if the boot was on the other foot and lots of guys were taking the mickey out of a girl who was say, on diet pills, and we "said you're heavily set anyway, what's the point - deal with it" - then she would be on anti-depressants and in therapy before you could say "weight watchers"!
I just think it's a bit unfair that it seems acceptable to laugh at any blokes suffering from any sort of hair loss.
Jamie
PS. No, I'm NOT going bald!
well, maybe receding VERY slightly.
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Classic memory - in my old company, there was a guy who was like Mr Medallion - he had a big chain round his neck, drove a Supra and had a comb-over. We reckoned he was between 55 and 60, but he would always say he was in his 40's. It was combed from the back up and over the top
Anyway, one day we had a fire drill and it happened to be quite windy - we're all standing outside annd the wind kept lifting his hair up and down - he looked like a teapot!
I laughed so much, I nearly soiled myself
Anyway, one day we had a fire drill and it happened to be quite windy - we're all standing outside annd the wind kept lifting his hair up and down - he looked like a teapot!
I laughed so much, I nearly soiled myself
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Classic memory - in my old company, there was a guy who was like Mr Medallion - he had a big chain round his neck, drove a Supra and had a comb-over. We reckoned he was between 55 and 60, but he would always say he was in his 40's. It was combed from the back up and over the top
Anyway, one day we had a fire drill and it happened to be quite windy - we're all standing outside annd the wind kept lifting his hair up and down - he looked like a teapot!
I laughed so much, I nearly soiled myself
Anyway, one day we had a fire drill and it happened to be quite windy - we're all standing outside annd the wind kept lifting his hair up and down - he looked like a teapot!
I laughed so much, I nearly soiled myself
I am not mocking bald men here, but this cracked me up
02 February 2007, 07:15 PM
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I used to work with a bloke with a syrup, strangely enough his nickname was 'wiggy'. Big tall nasty piece of work.
There was another guy we used to do work for whose nickname was 'wiggers'...short for Wigfield...
If the name wiggers got mentioned in the office, wiggy's ears used to ***** up like a spaniel's after a gunshot
Funniest thing I ever saw was one day on site. Wiggy's syrup was the immovable object. In high winds the fringe section would flap about like a badly tied tarpaulin, but it never revealed the scalp
Until one day...
I used to work with generators, and in most engine rooms there would be a 'fire wire'...a stainless steel wire rope about 1.5mm in diameter that would run across the engines at low level with links that would break in the event of an engine fire...the wire was taught and ran all around the room on pulleys to control weighted fuel valves...usually about 6ft from the floor..
I turned round one day to much cursing from wiggy to see him reversing from a horizontal section of the stainless wire that had just scalped him, he was reversing away from it pushing the syrup back down onto his head that the wire had just ripped off
Another yarn about him came from a guy that worked with him in his previous job, wiggy got an offside puncture one day on the motrorway, and as he was changing the wheel a wagon howled past and the turbulence lifted the syrup clean off his head and down the hard shoulder
and why are they usually an off-ginger colour?
There was another guy we used to do work for whose nickname was 'wiggers'...short for Wigfield...
If the name wiggers got mentioned in the office, wiggy's ears used to ***** up like a spaniel's after a gunshot
Funniest thing I ever saw was one day on site. Wiggy's syrup was the immovable object. In high winds the fringe section would flap about like a badly tied tarpaulin, but it never revealed the scalp
Until one day...
I used to work with generators, and in most engine rooms there would be a 'fire wire'...a stainless steel wire rope about 1.5mm in diameter that would run across the engines at low level with links that would break in the event of an engine fire...the wire was taught and ran all around the room on pulleys to control weighted fuel valves...usually about 6ft from the floor..
I turned round one day to much cursing from wiggy to see him reversing from a horizontal section of the stainless wire that had just scalped him, he was reversing away from it pushing the syrup back down onto his head that the wire had just ripped off
Another yarn about him came from a guy that worked with him in his previous job, wiggy got an offside puncture one day on the motrorway, and as he was changing the wheel a wagon howled past and the turbulence lifted the syrup clean off his head and down the hard shoulder
and why are they usually an off-ginger colour?
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Hides the dirt mybe possibly....
bloke i used work for sometimes /sail with , owns a tiling co., had one -a pretty good one id say but **** just a minuet im pretty sure theres some abnormal coloring going on here - you didnt like to say owt tho...
bloke i used work for sometimes /sail with , owns a tiling co., had one -a pretty good one id say but **** just a minuet im pretty sure theres some abnormal coloring going on here - you didnt like to say owt tho...
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Never been a fan of the comb over, worked with a few of them and asked them why they did it... funny enough, non of them could really say... does it affect them that much....
I was receeding at 16, and by the time i was mid 20's had good signs of male pattern baldness and was limited to a flattop ... by 30 i had it down to a grade 3 by 40 its now on straight clippers. Whats the point, if you havnt got it it aint going to grow back. and the next step will be to bic it, thats if nature doent clear the rest of it out first
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I was receeding at 16, and by the time i was mid 20's had good signs of male pattern baldness and was limited to a flattop ... by 30 i had it down to a grade 3 by 40 its now on straight clippers. Whats the point, if you havnt got it it aint going to grow back
. and the next step will be to bic it, thats if nature doent clear the rest of it out first Mart
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If the name wiggers got mentioned in the office, wiggy's ears used to ***** up like a spaniel's after a gunshot
Funniest thing I ever saw was one day on site. Wiggy's syrup was the immovable object. In high winds the fringe section would flap about like a badly tied tarpaulin, but it never revealed the scalp
Until one day...
I used to work with generators, and in most engine rooms there would be a 'fire wire'...a stainless steel wire rope about 1.5mm in diameter that would run across the engines at low level with links that would break in the event of an engine fire...the wire was taught and ran all around the room on pulleys to control weighted fuel valves...usually about 6ft from the floor..
I turned round one day to much cursing from wiggy to see him reversing from a horizontal section of the stainless wire that had just scalped him, he was reversing away from it pushing the syrup back down onto his head that the wire had just ripped off
Another yarn about him came from a guy that worked with him in his previous job, wiggy got an offside puncture one day on the motrorway, and as he was changing the wheel a wagon howled past and the turbulence lifted the syrup clean off his head and down the hard shoulder.
Funniest thing I ever saw was one day on site. Wiggy's syrup was the immovable object. In high winds the fringe section would flap about like a badly tied tarpaulin, but it never revealed the scalp
Until one day...
I used to work with generators, and in most engine rooms there would be a 'fire wire'...a stainless steel wire rope about 1.5mm in diameter that would run across the engines at low level with links that would break in the event of an engine fire...the wire was taught and ran all around the room on pulleys to control weighted fuel valves...usually about 6ft from the floor..
I turned round one day to much cursing from wiggy to see him reversing from a horizontal section of the stainless wire that had just scalped him, he was reversing away from it pushing the syrup back down onto his head that the wire had just ripped off
Another yarn about him came from a guy that worked with him in his previous job, wiggy got an offside puncture one day on the motrorway, and as he was changing the wheel a wagon howled past and the turbulence lifted the syrup clean off his head and down the hard shoulder.
03 February 2007, 12:40 PM
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Classic memory - in my old company, there was a guy who was like Mr Medallion - he had a big chain round his neck, drove a Supra and had a comb-over. We reckoned he was between 55 and 60, but he would always say he was in his 40's. It was combed from the back up and over the top
Anyway, one day we had a fire drill and it happened to be quite windy - we're all standing outside annd the wind kept lifting his hair up and down - he looked like a teapot!
I laughed so much, I nearly soiled myself
Anyway, one day we had a fire drill and it happened to be quite windy - we're all standing outside annd the wind kept lifting his hair up and down - he looked like a teapot!
I laughed so much, I nearly soiled myself
I've followed in the hereditary way with baldness, Grandad, Dad, now me. Hairdresser told me i was going bald when i was 21, that was it, shaved to a number 1. Now i just bic it every other day and have done with it, no poncy combovers or wigs for me.
If i havent bic'd for more than two days i feel like a tree hugging hippy.
03 February 2007, 04:04 PM
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I've followed in the hereditary way with baldness, Grandad, Dad, now me. Hairdresser told me i was going bald when i was 21, that was it, shaved to a number 1. Now i just bic it every other day and have done with it, no poncy combovers or wigs for me.
If i havent bic'd for more than two days i feel like a tree hugging hippy.
I've followed in the hereditary way with baldness, Grandad, Dad, now me. Hairdresser told me i was going bald when i was 21, that was it, shaved to a number 1. Now i just bic it every other day and have done with it, no poncy combovers or wigs for me.
If i havent bic'd for more than two days i feel like a tree hugging hippy.
You've got a nice egg shaped head tho' Lee
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The one's that get me are the ones that are bold on top and grow it really long/bushy around the side's and leave it so it looks like an egg in a nest.
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