It’s now a thing.
I was just thinking we are all going to come out of this with either long hair, shaved heads, or with terrible haircuts (except for those rare people who are hunkering down with barbers and stylists).
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I’ve heard a saying: the difference between a bad haircut and a normal one is: 4-6 weeks.
Get your hair clipped now, and give it more time to work the damage out. 😉
I wish I had more hair to worry about.
Not long after we got married I went to “Tony” at his barbershop in the local shopping center.
When my wife got home from work she was horrified “what have you done, joined the Air Force?”
She’s cut my hair ever since. Only recently did I find out that she’d never done it before. She’s pretty good at it now. 42 years of prctice.
Sorry, typo and change to US spelling. “practise”.
US spelling is “practice.” “Practise” is Limey, Canuck, Kiwi, and Oz. As with “labour” and “centre,” all you Commonwealther and Queen botherers are still in thrall to the Frogs after being invaded a millennium ago. We threw that Frenchie spelling crap off in 1776.
Wen ai waz in hai skuul, ai inventad samciq ai koeld Fonetaip, a riispeliq av Iqglix yuuziq ca Qwerty kiibord, aend noet riikwairiq daiakritikal maarks.
I invented Phonetype to demonstrate you could spell English phonetically without making changes in typewriters, printing presses, etc. and, at the same time, create something that looked reasonably esthetic. I think I did it for a junior-year English term paper, but I’ve continued to use it in my books and stories ever since. There’s some allophonic spelling in it (w/wh, the two pronunciations of th) because allophones can be predicted by a regular rule. The most important use I put it two was in the early 1990s electronic version of “Allen & Hanbury’s Athletic Drug Reference,” where I based a sounds-like look feature on it. The built in Soundex() function in most programming languages is badly designed and doesn’t really work, so, given the difficult spelling of drug names, I wrote my own called SoundexB().
There are a lot of youtube channels dedicated to teaching people how to cut their own hair. A little easier for people who want it short on the sides and in the back and a little longer on top.
I don’t need a haircut! I’m just impersonating a mop.
Nowadays you’re supposed to say you’re *identifying* as a mop. Impersonating a mop is a felony in Massachusetts, California, New York and Virginia.
More seriously, I’ve been cutting my own hair with a razor comb for years. Once you get used to it, it’s easy and quick. And steadily easier as my hair slowly goes away. My second wife could cut hair as she’d raised three sons. Other wives, not so much.
Cool. I never knew that existed. I have been cutting my hair with an electric trimmer for a long time, as barbers seem to have become less skillful and more expensive. I don’t enjoy paying someone $20 to push my head back and forth.
I didn’t know razor combs were still around. I used to cut my own hair with one to save money back when I was just out of school, minimum wage, and trying to economize any way I could. I thought the results were satisfactory, but back then I knew little about personal grooming. (It wasn’t until years later, when I read Dick Clark’s book on the subject–yes, that Dick Clark–that I learned what I was doing wrong.) Luckily, a woman I was interested in gave me some pointers, and one of the first things she said was, “Please stop cutting your own hair and get a decent haircut.” But these days, with the apocalypse upon us, who would care?