Are all hairdressers deaf?

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Or do they deliberatley not cut your hair the way that you ask them to?

― Jonnie, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hairdressers get a very tough time in these parts. I think they are lovely people. And you men should be going to barbers anyway, not hairdressers. The thing is people often want a style that won't work with their hair type. Maybe by ignoring your request, the hairdresser has in fact made you look better but you are unused to looking this way so get pissed off.

Last night we met a crazy hair fetishist who stole my mate's hair mag (well he left her a pound deposit which he never reclaimed).

― Emma, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh no. They managed to do what I asked'em to. Of course I threatened to cut off their fingers if they didn't. ;-)

― helenfordsdale, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fair point Emma. But barbers can be even worse - if it's not a head they are familiar with they just chop the hell out of it. Besides, there are some scary barbers who just seem to drink all day and then you're expected to let them near your ears with a pair of sharp scissors!

― Jonnie, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aha! I see you are familiar with the drunk old gipper who tends scalp in 'K-STYLE', in my beloved Chorlton. Pensioners rates on a thursday, razir cuts £4.00.

― misterjones, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oooh, he sounds bad. Like mad Bob in Walthamstow Village. He spends more time in the bookies than in his salon (if a barbers is called a salon). My friend who gets his hair cut there also thinks Bob is after him following him being a wee bit too tactile the last time he went and exclaiming "We don't want to make you look toooooo beautiful, eh? (wink) ".

― Jonnie, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't approve of vain men. If you get a crap haircut wear a hat till it grows out (see IN and OUT thread for details of how hats are IN).

― Emma, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think it's being vain. If I went into a shop and asked for a packet of salt and vinegar crisps and they gave me cheese and onion ones I wouldn't really want to pay for them.

― Jonnie, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone who goes by the sobriquet 'MAD BOB' should not be allowed near peple's heads with scissors. And fruity too...

Where in Walthamstow Village did you say he was Jonnie?

― misterjones, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On Orford Road next to the bookies and the Queen's Head/Arms (can never remember which).

― Jonnie, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my hairdresser is mos' def.

― AIEEEEE!!!!!, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I cut my own hair, I find it safer in the long run, mind you I am thinking of growing it at the moment, which could be a mistake.

― chris, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jonnie - in future, get your hair cut at the bookies. When you fancy a gamble, go to the hairdressers.

― Trevor, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Its the Queen's Arms, cos we used to drink in the Queen's Head (Queen's Arse we used to call it) and I was collecting pubs to build a whole queen.

― Pete, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

how far did you get? Queen's knees? Queen's pudenda?

Queen's beard?

― misterjones, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Of course it is vain! Like men using moisturiser! I bet George Clooney doesn't ponce around with all that stuff.

― Emma, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Most hairdressers can't cut the back and sides of peoples heads. fact. They're so used to the electric razor they always fuck up and make it uneven. Actually they always say stuff to me like "do you want it styled like it was when you came in" and I never have any idea how it was styled, generally whichever way the wind blows.

― Ronan, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Should "Kind of how it is, but a bit shorter" be met with the blank stare I usually get (well, used to get)?

― Graham, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate when they hold a length of hair stretched in their hands and say "is that about enough". I mean how the fuck can anyone tell how your whole head will look by that. maybe I'm just dumb.

― Ronan, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One feller at Astor Place Hairstylist, Inc. was so absorbed with The World Cup that he cut my hair without once bothering to ask me how I wanted it done.

― Michael Daddino, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But did you like the result Mike, that's the important thing? and who won the match , obviously.

― chris, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

there's this guy in Manchester on Tib St who goes by the name of Mick The Barber - he caters for a lot of the Northern Quarter types, and he does ONE haircut. A sort of artfully messy crop. Doesn't matter what you ask for, that's what you get.

Emma, you are obviously hankering for a pipe smoking, Kenneth More type who uses Wrights Coal Tar Soap and Old Rope aftershave for when he's entertaining. May I congratulate you on your taste and discernment.

― misterjones, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

George Cloony doesn't ponce around. George Clooney smugs around.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a hairdresser in Chesterfield (or was, it's been a while) called City Styles, the only haircut they could do was a flat-top! Oh the humanity! and why did I keep going back? They even had a special comb, a little like an Afro comb, that had a spirit level in it to ensure the flatness of said flat-top!

― chris, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There was a barber near my old school,in what is becoming an area inhabited by african people, called the Hairport. I always imagined a James Brown like character going in and screaming puns like "ready for takeoff" or "give me the turbulence" or something.

They also had the spirit level for flat tops incidentally.

― Ronan, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There is a world of difference between pipe smokers and blokes who spend longer gazing at themselves in the mirror before going out than I do. Or between Coal Tar soap users and men who glance in every reflective surface they pass and fiddle with their hair. Or between Kenneth More types and men who take so long to get ready for bed anointing themselves with lotions that you lose interest in shagging them / fall asleep.

― Emma, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The match Dan! Who won the match?

― chris, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Emma every girl says that line about not wanting a guy who spends more time getting ready than they do. but I think the ones who look like they don't spend any time actually spend ages looking in the mirror messing up their hair and shaving different parts of their face.

― Ronan, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ronan is clearly just jealous of effortlessly gorgeous men. It's far sexier not to give a shit even if you do look a bit tattier round the edges.

― Emma, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ronan's got a point. It takes a lot of time effort and fudge/bed head related products to look like you've been dragged through a hedge backwards.

― misterjones, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

pah, im not jealous of something that doesnt exist.

― Ronan, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gavin is otm. you've to make a post shower head go from luke skywalker floppyness to er........something else.

― Ronan, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I said, MY HAIRDRESSER IS DEF.

honestly I don't know why I bother.

― help! help!, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gavin and Ronan, presumably you would agree that there are women who look great without having to spend ages faffing about with themselves (OK, maybe not many, but they are out there). So why not men too? Face it you are jealous ha ha.

― Emma, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes I do think that BUT thats not the same as saying they look worse when they do get dressed up. What I'm saying is these guys you speak of who don't try are just good looking enough to get away with trying. Cos they are trying, just in a different way.

I think alot of girls would actually get pissed off by the suggestion that making the effort was a waste of time. I mean for a guy to say it girls hear "you don't look any better than usual despite your effort", rather than "you don't need to try to look nice". At least thats my experience.

And I think "effortlessly goodlooking" is kind of silly. They know exactly what they're doing so it is still sort of contrived. I am dead jealous of any guy who actually doesn't make any effort whatsoever and is still really good looking, but name me one.

― Ronan, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I fear that I am in danger of being labelled a perfumed fop when in reality I am as unkempt a specimen as you could hope to find. I'd like to nip this in the bud right now. Let it be known throughout the land that the only scents I have ever possessd were bought for me by misguided gals who thought that they could add a veneer of civilisation to me. Let it also be known that my hair is as messy and straggly a mop as you will ever see, and the only time it ever looks slightly tidy is when I buzz it all off on a no. 2 setting. SO THERE!

― misterjones, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I sed

My Hairdresser is def

How does he smell?

Bloody Terrible

― ohmysweetjesusfuck, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's clearly way easier to have a well groomed fop than a messy tangle of hair. the line between messy and ridiculous is very fine indeed.

― Ronan, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am not sure if I am still hungover or Ronan is gibbering or both. But I stand by what I say and will fight anyone who disagrees.

― Emma, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I make perfect sense. it is you who are wrong.

― Ronan, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In the unlikely event that I am wrong, I still have the moral high ground for knowing how to punctuate my sentences. 'Thats'? What's that supposed to mean?

― Emma, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes I DIDNT MAKE THE EFFORT to put in the apostrophe.

― Ronan, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

didn't.......and anyway there's nothing immoral about bad grammar. The only high ground you have is the pedantic one. I hope you're very happy with it.

― Ronan, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah yes Ronan I see how you oh so cleverly deliberately reinforced your point with your shoddy grammar. Nice one.

― Emma, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

pah.......picking on grammar=last resort of person losing argument.

― Ronan, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Emma every single time I walk into a pub that you are in I get a ton of grief off you for my unkempt effortless stubble. Now granted aesthetically you are correct on this point but it does make me snort with derisive larffter at your comments in this thread.

― Tom, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh dear, I fear Ronan has fallen into the Emma baiting trap, from which there is no return. Or should they get a room?

On the effortlessly good looking side I would like to offer myself as an example. Oddly I was talking to my barber (who is a lady barber who works in a shop called Barnets - which is why I go there) about this very issue. It appears that her man is vain and spends ages in the shower and doing his hair every day, which is driving her to distraction.

― Pete, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Were you sitting under the curling machine glancing at Womans Weekly while this conversation took place Pete?

― Ronan, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom I am not criticising, merely tracking the waxing and waning of The Beard. Ronan, I was just trying to be constructively critical seeing as how you are learning to be a journalist.

Returning to the discussion, I have woken up next to men who looked pretty great without hours of faffing about with hair gel etc, though I suppose according to your theory they snuck out of bed an hour before I woke up to tart themselves up for my benefit.

― Emma, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well I'll give you the credit of saying you must have found them pretty attractive before waking up next to them. So clearly their initial effort didn't go unnoticed either.

Thanks very much for the constructive criticism, I will mention you after I recieve my first Pulitzer.

― Ronan, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nah, I'm always pissed when I sleep with someone. Hurray for vodka goggles. Maybe the fact that I don't have my lenses in when I wake up is a factor in this.

― Emma, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I believe she was washing my hair whilst said conversation went on. I like the idea of female Barbers because it suggests they made the conscious choice not to go into the hellish world of hairdressing and all the dangerous chemicals involved.

Mine always cuts my hair the way I want it, and as it is a one woman operation you always get the same barber. Italian barber shops are the worst, there is alway some old bloke who you never get, until one day he cuts your hair and really fucks it up.

― Pete, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hang on Pete - you ask them to do your hair like that? Cripes.

― Emma, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I'm bald and rich I'm going to go in and make someone wash my head with shampoo.

― Ronan, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's like a sitcom without commercials. Unless you count the def bit.

Good friend Anni is a hairdresser by trade and does a very good job at it. I have not asked her to trim my hair, though, for she keeps wanting to take off more than is necessary, and I would cry.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

See! That's exactly what I mean!

― Jonnie, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

England lost on penalties. Ha ha.

― Ally C, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

When I'm bald and rich I'm going to go in and make someone wash my head with shampoo.

laughing at your own posts on old threads, CLASSIC.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 7 March 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

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