No more combovers

[macgreggor]

Saw a T-shirt on a very bald man....

"God only gives you so many hormones.
If you want to use your to grow hair..."

Greg

[Juggalotus]

Ya know, men go bald because of excess testosterone.

You're not bald, you're a MAN!

A friend of mine had a bumper sticker that was even better than that:

"I'm not going bald, I'm getting head."

[Bob C]

I'm not there, yet, but I'm on the journey. Both of my grandfathers were bald,, including the one who died at age 50. My thin spot in the back and my receding hairline are marching, slowly but surely, toward each other.

I've already accepted the inevitable and won't try to hide it.

The shaved head is absolutely the new combover. Pretending that bald is your choice is no different than pretending it isn't happening. I won't be doing that look, either. I see myself doing a Jimmy Buffett sort of thing, like the pic below, when the time comes.

[Frog]

...my youngest brother (41 and severely challenged follically) has been toying with a t-shirt idea I tossed out the last time I visited: Solar powered sex machine!

Frog

[Kid Cossack]

I think a man is a man, no matter what he's got on his head and no matter how he's dressed. We come into the world bald and naked and sometimes go out the same way. I used to see my Dad come home from court in a three piece suit and go out to mow the lawn in cut off Levi's with the remnants of sewn in creases, a nylon cord for belt, Docksider's and a Red Man chawin' baccy cap. He was just as real in each outfit, and the same man. We could talk about constitutional law around the fire drinking beer in cut-offs, or tell dirty jokes in the office in suit and tie.

After that, I figured a man was a man (and a woman a woman, boys boys and girls girls and some failures at the whole endeavor) no matter how they were dressed or coiffed.

Me, I've still got plenty of hair, but I like keeping it short anyway. Not boot camp short (them days is gone) but yeah, a good #2 or #3 suits me just fine. A bit chilly in winter . . . but then winter's when we wear hats, right? Nice woolen bonnets?

Lots of things can be pretensions for some people without necessarily that being a general rule. I like hats because they keep the sun and the rain off my brain housing unit, and in part (pretentiously) because they're old fashioned. And ball caps make me look silly. And I can't wear the only "ball cap"-like hat I really like, the USMC utility cover, because it's issue gear.

Say . . . I wonder if I could scare up a decent custom haberdasher to duplicate the basic utility cover in a nice tweed or something . . .

Anyway, this was about doing away with combovers, and my call on the issue is: Way to go. Be yourself. If you're bald, you're bald. When mine starts to go, I'll either shave it all or hit it with the clippers. I'll still be me, and I'll still be wearing a kilt.