h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Oh dear!!I unsubscribed(by mistake).Going to have a peek at the new pictures now.

I've read through about 60 posts on this thread this afternoon, and we seem to have got back to hair again!

Mine is thick with a natural curl and does what it pleases. It looks a lot better since I stopped trying to style it.. I spent years trying to dry it straight and smooth, but since I gave in to the curl, I'm a lot happier with it. I have some layers cut into, otherwise I look like I've got a lampshade on my head. After washing and conditioning, I just squirt it with Boots own brand curl reviver and roughly dry it upside down using a hair dryer with a diffuser. I never dry it completely otherwise it goes frizzy.

I think that very few people are really happy with their hair.

Having trouble keeping up here - with both gallery and conversation.

Noggin

I thought I would just report in on a little research I carried out today.

After applying root lift spray this morning after washing my hair, we went down to the coast and I wore a sunhat for most of the afternoon. After taking it off and quick shooshge with my fingers it was still bouncy

Moi, 1989, with my friend Krys' baby, Dylan. I look like someone from Breakfast Club....
http://public.fotki.com/Mudhooks/my_stuff/my_shady_past/growed_up/anneke_1989a.html

This is Dylan, now: http://public.fotki.com/Mudhooks/family_friends_pets/krys_and_the_kids/dylan-1.html

Gosh they grow up fast, don't they Mudhooks? Or is that just us getting old?


Blackberry Cat is now in the gallery.

az

<> is missing the word fast at the end.


And now Master B and Jamie are in the gallery.


az

There does seem a definite tendency for (male) hootooers to have beards, doesn't there? Is there a psychology thesis in this, do you think?

Noggin

The beard tendency seems to be for male hootoo members *of a certain age*. I guess it makes sense that one would get tired of shaving after so many years . . .



az

Pre-empting my dissenting response by 3 minutes...

RF

Regarding beards, I was generally much hairier in my student days than I am now. I'm sure I have a photobooth shot somewhere of me at age 19 looking like a Taliban recruit.

These days I tend to be clean-shaven at least once a week, though I often don't shave on long summer caving holidays, hence the underground pictures. (I find that shaving less than 24 hours before long caving trips can lead to a spotty jaw and neck as a result of mud and sweat on the helmet chinstrap, and having even a little hair also takes some of the sting out of chilly draughts.)

I have noticed, while watching those "makeover" shows, that the men who are dispensing the grooming tips on how to look clean, polished, etc, usually look as if they have come in off the range after two months of driving cattle through hard country, and not even bothered to brush their hair, let alone shower and shave....

Mmmm...beardy men and capricorns...

(I'm a self-hating capricorn myself, but I've never met another capricorn I didn't like !)

I don't know why everyone keeps going on about their hair though...everyone has lovely hair...most of my best pictures are against dark backgrounds so you can't see my evil frizz !

I have hair that's somewhere between curly and wavy, can't put anything in it, can't blow dry it (unless I have an hour or so to spare) so I usually just put it up and hide it under a bandana until it dries...which can take a while...

hey, now, I actually talk about more than hair!

well, okay, yes. I am a bit obsessive...

On the bright side, whenever I am aorund girls for any period of time the topic of conversation inevitably sways to hair or ...

...in which case I'm more than happy to talk about hair !

> mmmmmmmmmmm wotimeizzit? Cripes, time to view the transit of venus, if the clouds thin out a bit. Mmmmornin you'all.

Beardy men. Speaking as one of the hirsute hootooer males "of a certain age," ( and aren't a lot of us " of a certain age?") I've been cleanish-shaven for many a long year, until my new significant other said my chin was too scratchy ( unless absolutely freshly shaved, and even then....). So a significant smooch left her chin looking like it had just been sandpapered, never mind more sensitive areas....hence the wee beard.

The late great humourist ( and musical cartoonist ) Gerard Hoffnung's theory was that his hair was migrating inwards, away from his head, and emerging more profusely via regions further south. Compensation? Thesis material there perhaps. But Male Pattern Baldness is anyway a sign of high testosterone levels ( so my psych prof medical friend tells me...and he should know, he's been egg-bald since age 21!) so...compensating for what?

Cheers,

Chaiwallah

Perhaps it's an age thing, tanzen. When women get to my age they are happy enough if their 's are still remotely in the right place, so they are not usually a topic of conversation.

As for my *hair* I'm not so much obsessed as resigned. The bane of my existence. Though I don't understand what I've read here recently about adding stuff to roots to 'lift' one's hair from one's scalp - this seems to be what I am always trying to get my *hair* not to do.

I wonder what guys talk about, besides beards.

az

Buenos días Chai! Simulpost there.

<<( and aren't a lot of us " of a certain age?")>>

Well, it did seem for awhile that practically everyone in the photo gallery was either under 20 or over 40. Now the gap is being filled in a bit more.


az

ps
how can you watch the transit of Venus without burning your eyeballs out?

I love beardy men, even though I don't know hardly any, there will always be a place in my heart for beardy men !!

I spent a great deal of the last few years in the company of mostly men...so they would talk about sport (and my eyes would glaze over) or we'd talk about , music, and the stuff they wanted to "get off their chests" but couldn't talk to the other boys about !

So the last year or so, hanging out with more girls (though still a lot of boys) the conversations have taken me totally by suprise...as far as I'm concerned the less time I have to think about them the better !

And hair conversations always do my head in...my hair is evil and frizzy and impossible...and I have no way of knowing how to fix it...so all I can do is plait it and hope for the best

Just looked that very question up on h2g2, surprise surprise. Apparently, you have to make a pinhole in one piece of card, and then project the image onto another piece of card held behind the first one. Apparently you shouldn't even use sunglasses or an old piece of black photographic slide film celluloid.

Hey Az, you're up bright and early carita.

As to what beardy blokes talk about? Haven't a clue...Beardy Recumbentman and his beardy brother are cycling up the coast of Sweden to the Arctic Circle on their two recumbent bikes, so they're probably talking about that. R'man and I frequently talk about h2g2. My nominally bearded son Murrough and I talk about the divine wee Leah ( now just coming up to five months old already!!!)