Derk wrote :

My hair actually kinda looks like that on the sides. Pretty depressing.
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I figured, your description was pretty good.

Turn it into a mohawk.    

EDIT: If questioned by the in-laws, tell them you are remembering the Native Americans. Then chase them on horseback while waving a tomahawk.

Didn't you notice your hair was taking a turn for the worst as the guy was cutting it?

vkimo wrote :

Didn't you notice your hair was taking a turn for the worst as the guy was cutting it?
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Well, if your barber is anything like my old barber, you didn't see the progression of your haircut until much later into it. You faced AWAY from the mirror until he spun you around.

Speaking of barbers, I visited one today. Part of my hair is buzzed, while the other part isn't.

shakin steak wrote :

Derk wrote :


My hair actually kinda looks like that on the sides. Pretty depressing.
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I figured, your description was pretty good.

Turn it into a mohawk.    

EDIT: If questioned by the in-laws, tell them you are remembering the Native Americans. Then chase them on horseback while waving a tomahawk.
-end quote

I would very much love to do this, but I'm a substitute teacher on the side, so I'm not sure a mohawk would bode well for future teaching jobs. But again, I'd love to do it if it were possible. The closest I ever came to a mohawk was in high school. I'd had a bad haircut at that point as well and I decided to 'fix it' myself. So I tried to give myself a mohawk and, yeah, it was bad. I basically had a big 'S' on top of my head.

Vaporman87 wrote :

vkimo wrote :


Didn't you notice your hair was taking a turn for the worst as the guy was cutting it?
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Well, if your barber is anything like my old barber, you didn't see the progression of your haircut until much later into it. You faced AWAY from the mirror until he spun you around.

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Yeah, this is exactly the situation I found myself in. My back was to the mirror for the entirety of the haircut. I didn't think anything of it because I assumed the guy knew what he was doing. He showed me the back of my hair early into it by using a hand mirror and that was basically it. There really wasn't much to look at so I just gave him the standard 'Looks good!' response and sorta drifted back off into space. Then he was done, spun me around, and I saw the mutilation. I will say that I've felt like a jerk since that day due to the fact that, when he asked me if I liked it, I just said, "No. No. Nope."

My better half and I went out to dinner on Wednesday and I noticed two old women staring and laughing in my general direction. I could be wrong, but I just assumed they were laughing at my haircut. I don't blame them. I'd laugh too.

Well getting ready for a 24 hour marathon gaming run for Charity. That's if things still go right.

Derk wrote :

shakin steak wrote :

Derk wrote :



My hair actually kinda looks like that on the sides. Pretty depressing.
-end quote

I figured, your description was pretty good.

Turn it into a mohawk.    

EDIT: If questioned by the in-laws, tell them you are remembering the Native Americans. Then chase them on horseback while waving a tomahawk.
-end quote

I would very much love to do this, but I'm a substitute teacher on the side, so I'm not sure a mohawk would bode well for future teaching jobs. But again, I'd love to do it if it were possible. The closest I ever came to a mohawk was in high school. I'd had a bad haircut at that point as well and I decided to 'fix it' myself. So I tried to give myself a mohawk and, yeah, it was bad. I basically had a big 'S' on top of my head.

Vaporman87 wrote :

vkimo wrote :



Didn't you notice your hair was taking a turn for the worst as the guy was cutting it?
-end quote

Well, if your barber is anything like my old barber, you didn't see the progression of your haircut until much later into it. You faced AWAY from the mirror until he spun you around.

-end quote

Yeah, this is exactly the situation I found myself in. My back was to the mirror for the entirety of the haircut. I didn't think anything of it because I assumed the guy knew what he was doing. He showed me the back of my hair early into it by using a hand mirror and that was basically it. There really wasn't much to look at so I just gave him the standard 'Looks good!' response and sorta drifted back off into space. Then he was done, spun me around, and I saw the mutilation. I will say that I've felt like a jerk since that day due to the fact that, when he asked me if I liked it, I just said, "No. No. Nope."

My better half and I went out to dinner on Wednesday and I noticed two old women staring and laughing in my general direction. I could be wrong, but I just assumed they were laughing at my haircut. I don't blame them. I'd laugh too. -end quote

Now you have to post a picture, just blur your face out. It can't be that bad if a barber was doing it, can it? I know sometimes I feel uncomfortable with a hairstyle but strangers seeing me wouldn't think twice, so it HAS to be bad if someone who doesn't know you thinks so.

I went to this Vietnamese lady one time and I was still undecided. As I was looking through the book for ideas she was already half way into my haircut!

Thankfully my wife is a former cosmetologist with a license, so she never does it wrong. She has done some things I didn't like with it in the past, just to test new styles.

Saw the Robocop remake.

It takes them forever to focus on the title character, but there was a good bit of action.

Still like the old one better.

vkimo wrote :

Derk wrote :

shakin steak wrote :

Derk wrote :




My hair actually kinda looks like that on the sides. Pretty depressing.
-end quote

I figured, your description was pretty good.

Turn it into a mohawk.    

EDIT: If questioned by the in-laws, tell them you are remembering the Native Americans. Then chase them on horseback while waving a tomahawk.
-end quote

I would very much love to do this, but I'm a substitute teacher on the side, so I'm not sure a mohawk would bode well for future teaching jobs. But again, I'd love to do it if it were possible. The closest I ever came to a mohawk was in high school. I'd had a bad haircut at that point as well and I decided to 'fix it' myself. So I tried to give myself a mohawk and, yeah, it was bad. I basically had a big 'S' on top of my head.

Vaporman87 wrote :

vkimo wrote :




Didn't you notice your hair was taking a turn for the worst as the guy was cutting it?
-end quote

Well, if your barber is anything like my old barber, you didn't see the progression of your haircut until much later into it. You faced AWAY from the mirror until he spun you around.

-end quote

Yeah, this is exactly the situation I found myself in. My back was to the mirror for the entirety of the haircut. I didn't think anything of it because I assumed the guy knew what he was doing. He showed me the back of my hair early into it by using a hand mirror and that was basically it. There really wasn't much to look at so I just gave him the standard 'Looks good!' response and sorta drifted back off into space. Then he was done, spun me around, and I saw the mutilation. I will say that I've felt like a jerk since that day due to the fact that, when he asked me if I liked it, I just said, "No. No. Nope."

My better half and I went out to dinner on Wednesday and I noticed two old women staring and laughing in my general direction. I could be wrong, but I just assumed they were laughing at my haircut. I don't blame them. I'd laugh too. -end quote

Now you have to post a picture, just blur your face out. It can't be that bad if a barber was doing it, can it? I know sometimes I feel uncomfortable with a hairstyle but strangers seeing me wouldn't think twice, so it HAS to be bad if someone who doesn't know you thinks so.

I went to this Vietnamese lady one time and I was still undecided. As I was looking through the book for ideas she was already half way into my haircut!

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Google image search 'Forrest Gump'. Minus the receding hairline, that's pretty much what my hair looks like right now. Almost identical.