Be Excellent To Each Other

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7431092.stm

For any of the baldies out there, or near-baldies, or thinning baldies, what do your reckon of this? If, as the article suggets, you might be able to eventually replace your bald bits with real hair that doesn't make you look like a twat, would you do it?

As a hair-receding-already-at-age-25 man, I'm not too sure. I don't give much of an arse about losing hair because it's something you can't do anything about. I wonder if I'd change my mind (or head, ho!) if there was something you could do about it.

I suffer from male pattern baldness. I shave my head. It makes me look fearsome! GRRR!

Receding hairlines look great on men. Trufax. I have always wanted to have hair like, for instance, Bob Mortimer. However, my locks stay stubbornly attached to my fully be-haired head.

I'd be sad if I lost my lovely, flowing locks.

I can confirm that this is correct, having received a mugshot over Live yesterday.

He looks like what he is: a bowling ball with fungal problems.

I'd be far more interested in them finding a way for me to painlessly stop hair growing on my cheeks, so I wouldn't have to bother shaving.

I do often wonder what you internet weirdos look like. I tried super-imposing Gaywood's avatar onto his driving licence earlier but I was no better off. All I know for sure is that he must live in Wales, because he has the standard stupid-pointless welsh translation which is an annoying Wales trait that I once suffered.

You're only 25?

There are better pics of me on flickr, e.g.


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Which Welsh translation is this now?

Indeed so, but evidently look older. I was clocked at 'at least 30' the other day by someone. Mildly dissapointing because I've barely abused my body with any drugs or alcohol. Psssh.

That pic is terrifying. I was referring to the translation on the driving licence. Massively pointless. The only way I could get rid of it was to move to England.

Makes you wish you had, now, eh?

EVERYONE who guesses my age guesses 27 to 29. I'm 23!!

However, this does help in picking up the MILFs. Oh yes, indeedy.

No way Chris, snooty moral highground FTW, even if I look like a run-over badger.

Heh.

I went the other way. Booze and food, and look like a young healthy ascetic.

Sort of.

Someone guessed 'early thirties' to me about 10 years ago. Now I actually am in my in early thirties, I probably look 50 now. Although I do have no problems with my hair-growing skills.

I win. People often peg me as 18 or 19.

I'm 26.

You're all woefully off topic already. The question was, would you get your hair cultivated and regrown if viable?

STICK YOUR FINGERS IN MY HOLEZ LOL!

I'm starting to thin on top.

Which is a bit worrying, as I'm a long-haired freak.

So do I have it all cut off and go all short-haired, or do I hope I can somehow pull off the "long hair with little up top" look? It can work, but I fear I may end up looking more like Terry Nutkins than George Carlin.

Right now I'm trying to decide whether to get my hair all cut off or not. My wife likes the long hair and would like me to keep it, even with the thinning hair issue, but I'm just not sure.

It's not really noticeable yet and I always wear a hat when outside, but it's about time I made a decision.

My beard is starting to feature a few too many grey hairs now, too, though none have appeared in my head hair as yet.

No.

See above comment re Bob Mortimer.

No. I achieve the Kerry King look quite admirably.

If viable and on the NHS, possibly. I'm not paying money for vanity hair, though.

I'm an Eggshell blonde. I like the fact that haircare for me entails 5 mins Wahling every week.

I'm used to, and like my appearance, I think I'd look freakish with hair now.

TAKE TWO BOTTLES INTO THE SHOWER, NOT ME

In some ways I wouldn't mind the ability to grow a beard. In other ways, I'm quite happy really, rarely having to shave. And even if I wasn't, I don't think I'd want that treatment anything to do with needles.

I have no problem with baldness though.

I bet you're delighted that nature gave you the looks ideal for picking up MILFs, rather than ones ideal for picking up 19 year olds.

When I was a teenager, people always used to say that I looked older than my actual age. I can only hope this has carried through now that I'm 24, I don't want to look like a young'un.

I had a goatee yesterday, not now though.

I'm not complaining. The clue's in the name.

Nope. I'd just let it run its natural course (down the plughole). It's either that or shave it all off but that really wouldn't suit me as my head looks big enough as it is without me drawing more attention to it.

Mr Dave's ideal lady, yesterday:

I think I look a few years younger than I am (23), but I don't get asked for ID these days, so fuck it.

I have a vision of Dave looking like a little kid now, and of Dimrill looking like a proper serial killer. I'm more of the Patrick Bateman kind. I look generally dashing and exfoliate, but that doesn't mean I won't drop a chainsaw on your head from 3 flights up.

gf likes the stubble that germinates two hours after shaving, and would like to see me with a beard 'at some point', but I suspect I'd look like a twat*.



* yes, even moreso than now.

I suppose you din't see me in last months Edge then... page 113 folks.

I'm 30 now and I might look it these days, I dunno really. My hair receeded a bit when I was in my early 20s (back when I had a ponytail halfway down my back) but doesn't seem to have gotten any worse since then. If it does receed further at some point I will go down the shave-it-off road I think. I'd keep the goatee though. Last time I shaved it off I looked about 12.

Decide for yourself... he has a biscuit.

Hahaha! I'm also 25 and I got I.D'd buying alcohol from Tesco's the other week! And can you guess what else?

I cannot, tell me.

Kitchen Knife

I've done LOADS of drugs!!

As I'm a fat bloke with long hair that's heading towads receding, I can pull off the "roadie for Saxon" look quite well. I think I'll stick with it for now, even if the choice was there.

Also, if it goes any further, it would be impossible to have said treatment without everyone seeing that, one week I was receding and the next week not. Which would frankly make me look a bit of a tool.

Also, a receding hairline give the perfect opportunity to experiment with hats.

I usually get told I look a bit younger than I am (30), until the hat comes off...

I'm 38 and have the same stupidly thin patch of hair on my scalp that I have had since my early twenties.

It's not "comb over" thin but I can get sunburnt on my swede if I'm not careful. I keep thinking about shaving the lot off but am scared my head will be a funny shape.

All heads are funny shapes.

Honestly, if you concentrate on anyone's head hard enough, it's amazing how incongrous they look, the big things sat on top of their stalks. And heads are invariably longer than you think, too. We all basically look like short headed Aliens from Aliens, with flesh.

Just me then? Okey doke.

I've got a mortal fear of going bald because I've got a freakish dent/ bump on the back of my head. I've never seen what it looks like, maybe it wouldn't be as hideous or noticeable as it feels, but I'd rather not find out. Thankfully it seems that baldness in my family starts from the front, but even that's a small relief because I've also got a hard lump of god-knows-what just above my hairline.

I am 30, but often get mistaken for someone merely in my late twenties. My hair is slightly receding, but people often think it is receding heavily. Little do they know, I just have a naturally large forehead (and oh, wasn't THAT fun at school).

It'll bugger off eventually. Not sure what I'll do then.

Yeah, fuck it, I'd have this treatment (I reckon I'll desperately need it in another 10 years), but I would insist that they inject tons of cells into my head so I got loads of mega thick hair, then I could grow back my big long dreads again but this time have twice as many big fat ones! Ooh, and a load into my face as well so I could grow a proper decent ZZ Top style beard, oh yeah!

Most of my exercise books ended up with scribbled cartoons of me as Frankenstein..

Why don't you just buy a mop, let me rub my armpits on it for a year then glue it on? Save you a lot of bother.

Pupil, in 10 years, when the treatment affects everywhere but his head.