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*refers Andrea to Breakfast thread* :o)

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oh dear am I sensing a bad hair day, Gabrielle?!! :0)

I experience elation after cutting someone else's hair. The Magistrate didn't accept that as a valid excuse though, more's the pity. Still, I always did want to help in the community...

ok then maybe I'am just a bit strange. I see the philosophical shamanic atoms in everything, even something as simple as a teacup. I must be lost in the realms of fabulous dementia, searching for a reason to live in this season. Cellular mathematical decisions based on hair or lack of. Surreal oil paintings that remind me of things I once knew when I walked the shores of my knowing. Maybe I am a saddo, but I'am glad - oh! Happy in my screen gazing self, that perhaps there is another stargazing mortal who can sense the fecundity of the everyday haiku. I met them once in a dream, they showed me many things. Chiefly how to fix punctures. So I am grateful for that.

Superglue and an extra thick condom. Fold the sheath three times and stick it over the hole. Works every time.

Funky You are right. I have my hair cut (there is not much of it to tell the truth). and I feel I can take on the world. having cut tomorrow. Ralph

I get my hair cut every 3-4 weeks because I have extremely short hair (too short for a girl my auntie anne says). I LOVE getting my hair cut as I get all the goss from my hairdresser and a head massage too! I also love having short hair as most girls I know have long hair! Mind you, funky, I have come out of the hairdressers on a few occassions and reached for the paper bag to stick over my head! :0)

agree sarah... i also have very very short hair. It does not sap my strength at all...it gives me strength....

i bet my hair is shorter!! :0)

bet it isnt :o)))

*brandishes ruler* you measure yours and i will measure mine. No cheating now!

Yay! Girly scrap! Pass me the binoculars and whipped cream :)

*thinks it unwise to say anything about own hair* i took my daughter for her first Real Hairstyle the other day ... she was delighted ... and when she came out she said ... "you wouldn't BELIEVE how much lighter my head feels" ... i once saw Alice Walker speaking and reading at sheffield city hall ... she said something that stuck with me ... about the hair being some kind of expression of self ... and there's a great quote from withnail and i about hair being aerials ...

Fish... tell sarah how short my hair is...about 1/2 "? 1/4"?

I'm a baldy guy, and go in for a number 3 with a number 1 on top. However, when I had a full head of hair, I really had it quite long down the back. I loved it and regret deeply that it's impossible for me to look like that again.

Snap Liana. Well not just now actually - going for a hair cut on Wednesday as my hair is a bit mad just now!! :0)

oh my, this topic brings back memories, and not very pleasant ones at that. My hair has a lot of what in America are called "cowlicks." You would never know it now because it is thinner (*sighs*) than when I was age 0-24 let's say, and falls into place with a simple combing. However, as a kid, the "cowlicks" meant that my hair was sorta "going in many directions at once." This was considered bad. The result was that no matter what I did, it never looked right (according to dear old mom). There was always hair astray. Then going to the barber: very few little kids like to go to the barber because it means sitting still for a few minutes. My problem was different. I knew that when I got home, no matter what, dear old mom would launch into a several days long screeching session about how the barber failed to cut my hair so it would "behave properly." Then the hair styles changed to extremely short (crewcut or shorter) and most of that problem disappeared, except that then the late sixties came along and to be "hip" one had to have very long hair. Not possible in my school: the hair police would expell anyone whose hair was too long. You would be allowed back in when you got it cut. It also had to do with Vietnam, but that's for another thread some day. So I went away to college and finessed the whole issue by not getting a haircut for a year. Bloody well showed them. I had to get it cut short in the summer to "fit in" back home and not get my arsed kicked in (*wonders about definition of home*), but otherwise I think I had about 5 haircuts in 4 years. Then I went into the world of work and just got it cut every few months so I would not look scragglly (sp?). To this day, at age 51, I still only get a haircut once every 3-6 months. It is not a traumatic event, but it certainly is nothing to cause elation. I missed the whole "styling ethos" of the 70s. I just want to get in and out of the barber's as fast as possible, take care of business, and go home.

I had had this feeling that eloquently is described by the author of this thread, when I had my hair cut like Juliet Binoche in the film Bleu of Kierslowfski. I also got the same feeling one time that I changed my hair color. ================================= skydolphin

Perhaps it would be far better to have feathers, don't you think? Tiny ones.

Hmmmm. Sorry for such a downbeat post. I just can't think of anything positive about getting my hair cut, except that it is easier to comb afterwards. :)

to finish fish's thought... Hair are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason why shaven wookies are uptight.

This is an unfair topic for me. I have alopeciea so have no hair internally or externally! I lost it all back in the mid 80s after a ski-ing accident (slight whiplash) added to flu and stress. Ho Hum. There's no doubt I'd like it back but I've grown accustomed to my fate (went to see My Fair Lady this weekend) and live quite happily as a hairless person. Worse things happen at sea. Still, it would be nice to have it back and get that wonderfull feeling of 'looking good' as I come out of the barbers. So, if there is a Sanity Clause all I want for Christmas is my old hair back.

Most hairdressers are evil! They never do what I want, and insist on putting loads of vile smelling sticky goo on my head, leading to a severe scalp inflammation. I end up looking like a tortured Persian and smelling like the vomit of a cat who just drank some cheap perfume! Or is that how I normally appear.........

Man I don't bother going to the hairdressers anymore. I cut my hair myself in the mirror with a pair of scissors and clippers and occasionally some wacky hairdye if I can be arsed. It's loads more fun styling your own hair man. It just happens spontaneously, sometimes it can end up a complete mess, sometimes it can work out alright. But It's better when you can find a willing friend to do it. And body piercing is cool as well, I recently had my lip pierced and love it to bits. I went to a place to get it done, was nervous as hell, but it didn't hurt, was done really fast, you have to spend the next four weeks bathing it in seasalt solution to stop it getting infected. But I enjoyed that part as well. It don't really matter though what you look like. Whether you have hair or no hair. If I was bald I think I might tatoo my head with Celtic artwork or something, I don't know. I actually think bald heads look good. Maybe in the winter I would wear a wacky hat or something to keep warm, but I don't think being bald would bother me that much. Image don't really bother me, just is fun to get into body art, like it's fun to decorate your home. I think I could start getting into body art in a big way. Some of my friends are deeply into it, it's like a whole way of life with them. I think it's great. I know some people who have ultra-violet hairdye that shines in wierd colours under the strobelight at a party, it looks amazing man. May try and get some of that hairdye myself. don't worry Tony, hair aint important anyway, what's the most important thing is who you are inside. That's were the real beauty shines - from the heart and soul. Spirited people can't help but have a presence about them that gives you good vibes. And that's what matters, man you could have the greatest hairstyle in the world and be a complete jerk, personality is what counts. Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God.

I absolutely bloody loathe and detest going to the hairdresser and only go under sufferance when I can't stand it any more... Cut Jesse's hair with one of those clipper thingies (much easier to keep the headlice under control!), although eldest son has the most beautiful long golden locks. Still, he can squash his own headlice... Eeek! Lip pierced! Funk, you are a brave man (don't yer brekkie get caught up in it?). And Phyllis, dear... thought you'd flown south for the winter...

I haven't been to the hairdressers in 30 years. And, yes, it shows. I'm afraid I still wear it long and I cut it myself when it gets in my food. Aging hippy etc etc . . .

i'm pure of heart. AND i've seen God. He kicked the @!#$ out of me.

Eeeeeeeek! Could never have my lip pierced, or my tongue. Nose piercing and tattooing I have bravely dealt with, but lip piercing - don't tell me it didn't hurt, Funky, or I'll call you a liar! You get full marks for bravery from me, mate. My hair is so long that I can now sit on it, I NEED to go to the hairdressers to have about 4 inches off, but the instant any hairdresser catches sight of my hair, they want to scalp me! God forbid I should ever get nits! Eeeeeeek!

I have my tongue pierced too...people are always asking me if I dont get bits stuck in my mouth. *no comment*

Well, Wheetabix was more what I had in mind, Liana...

Old children's rhyme: Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very Fuzzy, Was he? Well, it does make sense.

The whole experience of going to the hairdressers leaves me feeling sick and grieving. I used to spend £60 a month on having my hair cut and dyed various colours....What a fool I was... Now I can't really afford this expense and go twice a year!! heheh...I usually get the same results though! It's nice and all that when you have the pampering and cups of strong coffee, but £60? I hate myself for that...