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Hair Today........
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monza gorilla
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20 February 2006
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About 20 years ago, in the prime of my manhood, I sported a luxuriant growth of hair on my head, to which I later added an equally luxurious moustache/tea strainer. The beard was considered, but rejected on maintenance grounds.
Fast forward to 2006.
The hair is grey and not so abundant, but that's ok; it makes me look distinguished. Due to an oversight, I ran out of razor blades about 2 weeks ago, so I sprouted some rather fetching designer stubble. Then, I thought, bugger the razor blades and the expense, why not go for the luxuriant growth of yesteryear? So the cultivation began in earnest....................
Fast forward to today.
It has to go. My once luxuriant moustache is ginger!!! Ginger, I tell you!! Could anything be worse?? Oh yes it can: the dashing chin whiskers are a random mixture of black, white and grey. And there are bald patches!! Even my follicles are conspiring against me. And I certainly don't remember that infernal itching. Or the amusement of my so called friends. The nail in the coffin was the innocent comment: "you could try Just For Men". That tipped me over the edge. The thought of looking like, or being thought of in the same breath as, that vacuous cretin in the ads has driven me to buy some blades. The deed will be done this very evening.
So my handsome features will once again be exposed to the glorious british weather. What I do remember is that it'll be bloody cold without the face fur.
Heed this advice, dear readers (especially the female ones). Don't try to relive your youth. You weren't cool or trendy then. Your mind has played an evil trick on you. You looked like a pillock then. And if you're not careful you'll end up looking like an pillock again, but older.
Cheers til next time
Russ
This blog entry was brought to you by excruciating boredom.
Fast forward to 2006.
The hair is grey and not so abundant, but that's ok; it makes me look distinguished. Due to an oversight, I ran out of razor blades about 2 weeks ago, so I sprouted some rather fetching designer stubble. Then, I thought, bugger the razor blades and the expense, why not go for the luxuriant growth of yesteryear? So the cultivation began in earnest....................
Fast forward to today.
It has to go. My once luxuriant moustache is ginger!!! Ginger, I tell you!! Could anything be worse?? Oh yes it can: the dashing chin whiskers are a random mixture of black, white and grey. And there are bald patches!! Even my follicles are conspiring against me. And I certainly don't remember that infernal itching. Or the amusement of my so called friends. The nail in the coffin was the innocent comment: "you could try Just For Men". That tipped me over the edge. The thought of looking like, or being thought of in the same breath as, that vacuous cretin in the ads has driven me to buy some blades. The deed will be done this very evening.
So my handsome features will once again be exposed to the glorious british weather. What I do remember is that it'll be bloody cold without the face fur.
Heed this advice, dear readers (especially the female ones). Don't try to relive your youth. You weren't cool or trendy then. Your mind has played an evil trick on you. You looked like a pillock then. And if you're not careful you'll end up looking like an pillock again, but older.
Cheers til next time
Russ
This blog entry was brought to you by excruciating boredom.
My Hair tales: back in my youth I also had long blond hair bleached even lighter by the sun and just before I joined the Navy it was quite longish, after I got out I grew it long again and added the 'stach and beard.
Fast forword to Summer of 2004
My hair was getting thinner had lots of grey and had changed to more of a dirty blond, but my beard was thick with just a little more grey than blond but after 25+ yrs I never thought to shave it off.
Then I had a little fight with cancer and before starting chemo and radiation I had my head shaved clean and the beard also.......call me Mister Clean
Fast forword to last summer my hair came back brown and curly and as soft as a newborns and the radiation killed my beard, I can go without shaving for 2 weeks before it feels like a 5 o'clock shadow
Oh and I no longer have grey hair
Oh yeah my wife liked the grey said it made me look important
Now I just look like a balding old fart