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You are here: Home / While We Are Getting Things Off Our Chest

While We Are Getting Things Off Our Chest

by John Cole|  March 25, 20142:35 am| 90 Comments

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I’m starting to go bald. Yay me. My hair used to be really thick, but in the past few months I have noticed it is getting thinner.

Fucking awesome. Maybe I will just go and get the bifocals this week (which I have needed for a while) so this all doesn’t hit at once.

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  1. 1.

    comrade nimrod humperdink

    March 25, 2014 at 2:39 am

    Really? I went from a full head of hair at 17 to totally bald on top at 22. Now it’s just the old #1 clipper head around the sides every couple weeks. Nothing more to be done with it. I was bitter for a while but I had to cope with it rather abruptly, the process didn’t twist the knife by taking 15 years.

  2. 2.

    srv

    March 25, 2014 at 2:40 am

    Went to the doctor for my 50th, and had a whole list to go through with “ailments for the last few years I haven’t bothered bringing up.”

    As I rattled them off, the good doctor said “Nope, can’t do anything about that!”

    So I told him mustard gives me gas and he didn’t know what to say about that one.

  3. 3.

    Liquid

    March 25, 2014 at 2:47 am

    Dear John,

    You used to drive Heavy Armor. Even if you didn’t you did. Run for Office.

    Signed,
    That Bullet

  4. 4.

    David Koch

    March 25, 2014 at 2:48 am

    I think Bryan Cranston looks better without hair.

    In any event, Patrick Stewart and Jason Statham look great bald.

  5. 5.

    Fort Geek

    March 25, 2014 at 2:52 am

    Just turned 46 a few months ago. In the past 2 years I’ve had to start carrying reading glasses around just so I can read my freaking cellphone screen. Without the glasses, my arms are almost too short.

    Then there’s…the hair. Both nostrils, both eyebrows, both ears–including some wiry patches sprouting just above the lobes along the edges. *grumble*

  6. 6.

    comrade nimrod humperdink

    March 25, 2014 at 2:54 am

    @Fort Geek: Yeah THAT’s the thing I’m really not looking forward to. Back and shoulders is sad enough, but when the ear and nose hair gets aggressive I won’t be happy.

  7. 7.

    2liberal

    March 25, 2014 at 3:01 am

    for the glasses get the advanced progressives. I have special computer glasses i use at work where i am at the desk all day for short range, and set of sunglasses set for long range for biking and driving , and progressives with the photo-gray dynamic sunglasses for generic use.

  8. 8.

    Amir Khalid

    March 25, 2014 at 3:07 am

    A friend got himself into selling quack-medicine stuff. You know, that “nutritional supplement”/alt-med crap. It’s a livelihood for him and his missus, so I don’t give him grief about it. He once asked me if I was worried about hair loss. (I’ve been thinning out on top, very gradually, since my mid-30s. The crown of my head is rather thinly covered, but no areas of complete deforestation yet.) I said, “A man should have more serious things to worry about.”

  9. 9.

    Death Panel Truck

    March 25, 2014 at 3:13 am

    I’m taking four blood pressure meds (to be fair, I suffer from chronic glomerulonephritis), so count yer goddamned blessings, Cole. Who the fuck cares about hair after 45? (I’m 51)

  10. 10.

    Karmus

    March 25, 2014 at 3:14 am

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLumAQ-Y7DY

  11. 11.

    ? Martin

    March 25, 2014 at 3:15 am

    I got progressives when I was 19. They’ve held pretty well since then, thankfully, with only minor prescription changes the last 25 years. Still have all my hair, and only a scant bit is grey. My dad was grey at 35, so being 10 years past him really pisses him off. I make sure to point it out at every opportunity.

    @Fort Geek: Yeah, nobody warned me about all that shit. I swear to god I can pull 20 hairs out of my ear every day. You’d think it would take a lot of calories to grow that, but no, I’m still getting fat.

    Fuck old.

  12. 12.

    Death Panel Truck

    March 25, 2014 at 3:22 am

    @Death Panel Truck: I guess I should have mentioned that I have the same hairline I had when I was a senior in high school. IOW, lots of hair. Long, thick, flowing hair. Only a tadbit grayer, that’s all.

  13. 13.

    Fort Geek

    March 25, 2014 at 3:26 am

    @Death Panel Truck: I’m on about as many blood pressure meds, myself. It’s that or go back to the days of 290/150 pressures.

    Don’t really care about losing scalp hair, compared to that.

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    March 25, 2014 at 3:27 am

    I have noticed it is getting thinner

    Who wants fat hair?

    /Henny Youngman

    Should it come to the point you need it, memorize and tuck this away in the brain bank:

    God made very few perfect heads. And the rest he put hair on.

  15. 15.

    Amir Khalid

    March 25, 2014 at 3:34 am

    While We Are Getting Things Off Our Chest

    Are you losing hair there as well?

  16. 16.

    Death Panel Truck

    March 25, 2014 at 3:40 am

    @Fort Geek: My highest reading was 225/140. I had no idea what was wrong with me until I finally saw the doctor who referred me to the nephrologist I’ve been seeing for the past several years. My legs swelled up like tree trunks, but I kept telling my wife nothing was wrong. She finally got through to me, and I owe her my life. My BP is slowly dropping, but it’s been a struggle. My latest lab showed my creatinine level at 1.04. It’s taken years to get it that low.

  17. 17.

    J.Ty

    March 25, 2014 at 3:42 am

    I’m going bald and I’m like 3/5ths your age. It’s really OK. I think I’ll be getting progressive lenses as soon as I get visual insurance & can afford the other half of the eye exam. I don’t have high blood pressure though, so I guess I’m winning the thread.

  18. 18.

    Death Panel Truck

    March 25, 2014 at 3:56 am

    @Fort Geek: I’d trade my high school hairline in an instant for a 120/80 BP reading. I’d sooner be bald than be dead.

  19. 19.

    protothad

    March 25, 2014 at 4:01 am

    My hair has been going grey and thinning for a while now, but the fiance claims she likes it. I assume she is just trying to protect my fragile ego… but then again she has already proved she has strange tastes (she is with me), and she does have a thing for Patrick Stewart.

    When enough of the mop is gone, I am just going to shave the rest off. I will definitely NOT do a comb-over. I will likely give in and get the bifocals soon though.

  20. 20.

    Liquid

    March 25, 2014 at 4:03 am

    As a non sequitur I regret sending my marines to die for some backwater colony.

  21. 21.

    Fort Geek

    March 25, 2014 at 4:09 am

    @Death Panel Truck: I’ve got the same stuff–swollen legs, high creatinine. That’s been an issue since I got rid of one kidney (cancer).

    BP’s under control–120/something. It’s taken most of 4 years to drop it to that, mostly from financial issues. Doctors kept prescribing stuff I couldn’t afford *smirk*. I got Medicare D going a few months ago and went from almost $60/month to about $8 on prescriptions.

  22. 22.

    John Revolta

    March 25, 2014 at 4:23 am

    I see on Newsmax that Michelle Obama is enjoying the opulent Presidential suite in Beijing. Who the Hell does she think she is, amirite?

  23. 23.

    patrick II

    March 25, 2014 at 4:42 am

    @Death Panel Truck:

    “Who the fuck cares about hair”

    That is pretty much what I told my two brothers, both in their 50’s and getting pretty bald. I have, at 65, kept most of my hair. The night after I told them that I had a nightmare in which I was standing in front of a mirror and saw that, to my horror, all of my hair was falling out. I guess I cared about not going bald more than I had admitted to myself.

  24. 24.

    EriktheRed

    March 25, 2014 at 4:47 am

    @2liberal:

    for the glasses get the advanced progressives. I have special computer glasses i use at work where i am at the desk all day for short range, and set of sunglasses set for long range for biking and driving , and progressives with the photo-gray dynamic sunglasses for generic use.

    Just so happens I have an appointment today to get my eyes checked and order me some bi-fokes, too. I will keep this advice in mind.

  25. 25.

    raven

    March 25, 2014 at 5:25 am

    @EriktheRed: My progressives cost $600 a couple of months ago but I keep thinking I need to got back to regular “special computer glasses” for my work.

  26. 26.

    Joseph Nobles

    March 25, 2014 at 5:37 am

    47 here and I’ve been balding in the back for a long while. And boy, those furrows in the front are reaching back for it! Plus it has always been incredibly fine. I don’t even have to blow dry it. I just comb it back and keep moving. I use a little conditioner to keep it from drying fly away.

    Now my younger brother, he’s really going bald. Older brother FTW.

    And I finally got my bifocals last month. After the insurance, they cost over $300, so they’re nice. No line, etc. They work just fine. To tell the truth, I’d already done all the getting used to it by now. The old glasses, I had to tilt my head back and look through the thicker part of the lens to see clearly. So it was definitely time.

  27. 27.

    jomike

    March 25, 2014 at 5:43 am

    @Fort Geek:

    Then there’s…the hair. Both nostrils, both eyebrows, both ears–including some wiry patches sprouting just above the lobes along the edges. *grumble*

    And back hair, woo hoo! My dad’s theory was that we don’t actually lose our hair. It just slides down our bodies.

  28. 28.

    raven

    March 25, 2014 at 5:43 am

    I’ve had a shaved head and goat for 20 years. If I can’t have it like this, fuck it!

  29. 29.

    Fort Geek

    March 25, 2014 at 5:47 am

    @jomike: Hahaha! I had a nurse say that same thing last week about her husband–“He was complaining about going bald and I told him, ‘Honey, you’ve still got your hair, it’s just moving down.’ “

  30. 30.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 25, 2014 at 5:51 am

    John, I’ve been “going bald” for like 30 years now. My brother saw my hairline receding in a very small way and went into the panic mode, thinking ‘ZOMG that’s what my hair is going to look like!”. I still have a pretty full head of hair, admittedly not as thick as it was in my teens and twenties, but still. Of course, the temples are going grey, but I always like the Reed Richards look. I seem to have reached a compromise between my dad’s genes (full head until the day FSM took him away) and my mother’s side (grandfather, uncles, and a few cousins were/are bald/balding.

  31. 31.

    Lavocat

    March 25, 2014 at 6:29 am

    It sucks to get old – but it’s better than the alternative.

  32. 32.

    Schlemizel

    March 25, 2014 at 6:30 am

    @John Revolta:
    Have they used the term “nigress” yet? It only seems logical for newmess.

    Of all the things that have fallen off, broken or are just not right on me my hair is not on that list. I had cataract surgery for both eyes while in my 40s so bifocals are a given, many other things I have mentioned here earlier but in my 60s I still have a full head of hair and it is still mostly the dark brown its always been. I still treat it as mostly an annoyance, while I wash it regularly I have not had it cut in over 6 months I just can’t seem to care.

    I can feel bad for younger guys who lose their hair because it is an emotional blow but I like the comment above “a man should have more important things to worry about”

  33. 33.

    Lavocat

    March 25, 2014 at 6:31 am

    @srv: You have mustard gas!? That shit’s poisonous, you know!

  34. 34.

    EconWatcher

    March 25, 2014 at 6:38 am

    48 here. It’s my body’s increasing inability to heal that gets to me. The kinds of sports injuries that used to put me on the sidelines for a couple of weeks now take months to heal.

  35. 35.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 25, 2014 at 6:40 am

    A little Roquefort anyone? Maybe a nice, sharp, well aged cheddar? I still have some Manchego from Spain I save for those special occasions.

  36. 36.

    JPL

    March 25, 2014 at 6:55 am

    Good Morning! Once again we have a freeze warning for tonight. The local news folk are happy because they can talk about it incessantly.

  37. 37.

    Cassidy

    March 25, 2014 at 7:19 am

    HGH. Any “weight loss” specialist can provide it.

  38. 38.

    Mustang Bobby

    March 25, 2014 at 7:20 am

    I started to lose the hair above my forehead in college forty-plus years ago, and then it just stopped; it hasn’t receded since. Now it’s salt-and-pepper, like my dad who is 87.

    In other news, watching a bunch of middle-aged white guys discussing in-depth their affection for rap and hip-hop on Morning Joe is hilarious.

  39. 39.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 25, 2014 at 7:27 am

    Bernie Madoff’s “secretary” is going to prison:

    “One defendant, Annette Bongiorno, worked for Madoff for 40 years as his secretary and at one point had as much as $50m in her accounts. Bongiorno, 65, had multi-million dollar homes in Long Island and Florida and drive a Mercedes worth $100,000.”

    Right, Sure she didn’t know what was going on.

    I am actually kind of conflicted here. On the one hand they took the life savings from hundreds of people, leaving them destitute. On the other hand, the people they took to the cleaners were 1%s, people who all thought they were above the plebes and just sooooo ‘special’ After all, Bernie only took the ‘best of the best’ for his clients.

  40. 40.

    Ash Can

    March 25, 2014 at 7:40 am

    Let me tell you about menopause…

  41. 41.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 25, 2014 at 7:42 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Actually, a lot of “just plain folks” lost lots of money in the Madoff scam. While he, personally, may have been selective, he had a lot of dollars coming in through “feeder funds” which aggregated the savings of little people. Not everyone could afford the losses – many had their life savings wiped out.

    And to the topic, here just on the far side of 60, I have as much hair as I did in high school, so thick that the woman who cuts my hair always complains that she needs a rake and not a comb. Many of my friends are in various stages of baldness, so I enjoy holding this over them. Balding guys will say “oh, it doesn’t matter,” but I’ve yet to encounter a guy with hair who wishes he were balding.

    Oh, and my cholesterol is under 200, and has been there forever.

  42. 42.

    Botsplainer

    March 25, 2014 at 7:44 am

    I’ve been in progressive lenses for years. No big deal.

    The hair loss sucks, but you get used to it. I just wear a lot of caps on sunny days and in the tropics (the dermatologist yelled at me because she was tired of cutting things off my head).

  43. 43.

    cleek

    March 25, 2014 at 7:48 am

    hair? oh well, i’m letting it go. it’s not like i was doing anything with it anyway.

    arthritis, on the other hand (and the other, other hand) is the worst.

  44. 44.

    Botsplainer

    March 25, 2014 at 7:50 am

    @Cassidy:

    HGH. Any “weight loss” specialist can provide it.

    John would benefit from a round of HCG. I dropped 30 since the new year turned; that was a result of one round of HCG and some testosterone replacement. I’m shooting for another 30 by years’ end, which should include one more round of HCG.

    The shots aren’t so bad with the HCG – it’s the 500 cal a day diet that sucks. Thankfully, the time is limited.

  45. 45.

    debbie

    March 25, 2014 at 7:50 am

    No one’s mentioned Biotin yet?

  46. 46.

    Botsplainer

    March 25, 2014 at 7:54 am

    Costco on glasses, by the way. Nice style collection, great selection on lenses, and pricing is reasonable.

  47. 47.

    Hawes

    March 25, 2014 at 8:00 am

    This is what you get for bad mouthing Phish.

  48. 48.

    donnah

    March 25, 2014 at 8:04 am

    I told my eye doctor I was too young for bifocals at age forty and he laughed and said maybe my eyes were older than the rest of me. My hair turned gray gradually when I was in my forties, too, and I have had it colored ever since. Now I’m fifty-six. I let it all grow out to natural gray a while ago and when a well-meaning waitress asked if I had the senior discount, I made an appointment the next day at the salon. Vanity, pure and simple.

  49. 49.

    WereBear

    March 25, 2014 at 8:06 am

    Whatever you do, don’t touch Propecia. Serious side effects that seem to be permanent.

  50. 50.

    wormtown

    March 25, 2014 at 8:06 am

    @Ash Can: menopause —You are so right!

  51. 51.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 25, 2014 at 8:17 am

    @donnah: I’m not getting grayer, just more blond.

  52. 52.

    Steeplejack

    March 25, 2014 at 8:21 am

    I have had (progressive) bifocals for nine years, no big deal. My hair remains a silver, leonine mane, though cut short these days. There’s probably a thin patch at the crown, but I never look there.

    What I miss, having just turned 62, is being able to sprint. I can still swim very fast—or at least it feels like I’m going fast—but when I’m out for a jog and I try to turn it on I just get that flooring-the-Yugo “yeah, no” feeling. I just had a dream about this a few nights ago: I was back in college and I was racing like the wind.

    Other than that, no big complaints. When something does come up, I find myself wondering “random, out of shape or age-related?”

  53. 53.

    Steeplejack

    March 25, 2014 at 8:23 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I was blond, then went silver-gray about 10-15 years ago. Less of a shock than going from dark hair to gray.

  54. 54.

    mellowjohn

    March 25, 2014 at 8:25 am

    as a friend of mine said recently, “i don’t have breakfast anymore. i have a handful of pills.”

  55. 55.

    raven

    March 25, 2014 at 8:26 am

    @Steeplejack: I can’t run or shoot the hoop anymore but I can’t tell you how glad I am I didn’t have shoulder surgery. I was out of the water for 6 weeks but it seems to have cleared up to the point that I have gone back to every other day in the school. I thought I was finished so I’me really happy.

  56. 56.

    RSA

    March 25, 2014 at 8:28 am

    I started to go gray in my late 20s. In my 40s, I had long hair in a pony tail down to my shoulder blades. This was partly laziness–I couldn’t find time to get my hair cut often enough that I wouldn’t look a lot different (to me, anyway) afterwards. But at 50 I noticed how much white was in my hair, and that I was starting to look like an extra from the Lord of the Rings. So it’s short again. No lack of hair, though. It even seems to grow faster. I never used to have to shave every day, but now…

  57. 57.

    Belafon

    March 25, 2014 at 8:41 am

    I am about 6 months older than you, John. While I will never go bald (based on my hair being like my dad’s), my hair will continue to get thin, and really thin in some places.

    I have also been wearing trifocals for the last decade because I read a lot, work on a computer, and still have to drive.

  58. 58.

    NotMax

    March 25, 2014 at 8:43 am

    Speaking of the pitfalls of getting older, just arose from a lie down to rest the eyes for five minutes – five hours ago.

    The hair sprouting in the ears doesn’t really bother me. Scalp hair is long enough to cover the ears until I feel like dealing with them. It’s having to shave the bridge and tip of the nose which is most annoying. YGMV*.

    *Your Geezerhood May Vary

  59. 59.

    RSA

    March 25, 2014 at 8:55 am

    Also, after almost a year, I’m still getting used to bifocals. They’re progressives. Sometimes I’ll see something weird, like the coffee table or the corner of a wall changing shape, as if I were in the Matrix, and then I’ll realize that I was moving my head and it was just my glasses. Disconcerting.

  60. 60.

    Steeplejack

    March 25, 2014 at 8:58 am

    @raven:

    Swimming is my favorite form of exercise. If I ever hit the lottery I’m putting a lap pool in the backyard at the dream house. Or maybe one of those “endless pool” things.

  61. 61.

    Punchy

    March 25, 2014 at 8:59 am

    Hey look! Another….”accident”

    I’ll be stunned if this doesn’t become the fallback defense of every homicide in 2014. Nobody (white) ever seems to be arrested once the “accident” excuse gets used….

  62. 62.

    Tim I

    March 25, 2014 at 9:17 am

    John, I’m going through the same shit myself, Hairs been falling out like crazy the last couple of months and I’m only like twenty some odd years older than you are.

    I find that mainlining Minozidil really helps. It’s not much of a high, but it keeps the goddamn hair in place.

  63. 63.

    raven

    March 25, 2014 at 9:22 am

    @Steeplejack: Yea, I had managed 200 mile a year for a decade but I may have to settle for 100 now.

  64. 64.

    jake the snake

    March 25, 2014 at 9:29 am

    There is an old saying, “Old age is not for sissies.”

  65. 65.

    randomworker

    March 25, 2014 at 9:59 am

    By the time I got to my late 20s I had seen enough of the world to be able to say, with all sincerity, “if this is all I have to worry about I am pretty damned lucky.”

    I just do the #1 buzz. Pretty convenient. No bad hair days.

  66. 66.

    Paul in KY

    March 25, 2014 at 10:05 am

    @comrade nimrod humperdink: It’s coming :-)

  67. 67.

    Paul in KY

    March 25, 2014 at 10:10 am

    @comrade nimrod humperdink: It’s coming :-)@Villago Delenda Est: You get your mother’s father’s hair (anecdote I’ve been told a few times).

  68. 68.

    Paul in KY

    March 25, 2014 at 10:14 am

    @WereBear: A work friend of mine had a son who used it & had really bad side effects. Messed him up bad for awhile.

  69. 69.

    KXB

    March 25, 2014 at 10:14 am

    I’ve had to wear bifocals since I was a kid, since the lenses in my eye were not situated properly – they would just float around. My hair is thick in the back and sides, but my hairline is fighting a desperate battle.

    Welcome to hell.

  70. 70.

    Paul in KY

    March 25, 2014 at 10:15 am

    @raven: Glad to hear that, raven!

  71. 71.

    chrome agnomen

    March 25, 2014 at 10:18 am

    hey, cole! fuck, man, are you ever not angry any more? except, of course, when you’re having conjugal relations with your pets.

  72. 72.

    muricafukyea

    March 25, 2014 at 10:22 am

    Ah yes I see a few posts down wr0ng way Cole is back to blowing wet kisses to Griftwald and Snowden.

    Funny he forgot to mention that Snowden is hiding if Russia. That bastion of human rights and respecting other countries privacy and sovereignty. Still haven’t heard Snowden critisize Putin for that either.

  73. 73.

    blueskies

    March 25, 2014 at 10:51 am

    @raven: I did and it’s great. Progressives are “good enough” for most vision needs through the day, but if you’re at a computer screen a lot during the day, I highly recommend getting glasses for just that range. Really cuts down on fatigue.

  74. 74.

    blueskies

    March 25, 2014 at 10:53 am

    @EconWatcher: Hahaha! Just wait until the old sports injuries, the ones you thought had healed long ago, start acting up every time the weather changes.

  75. 75.

    Long Tooth

    March 25, 2014 at 11:02 am

    You’re not going bald, your head is just blowing a bubble.

  76. 76.

    Sebastian

    March 25, 2014 at 11:18 am

    This is not 1995. Medicinr has made significant progress in the past 20 years. You can keep your hair if you want to.

    Driving now, I’ll post more later

  77. 77.

    Jack the Second

    March 25, 2014 at 12:15 pm

    So are you going with the comb-over or the pony tail?

  78. 78.

    Stella B.

    March 25, 2014 at 12:22 pm

    Not nomal for a man your age to start losing hair (a women … maybe). Go see your doc. She’ll check your thyroid. Weight loss sometimes causes hair loss, but you are eating protein. Some BP meds cause hair loss too

  79. 79.

    JustRuss

    March 25, 2014 at 12:24 pm

    51 here, and the hairline has been in an orderly retreat for a few years. If I grow it out it’s sort of hides it, but who am I kidding? I’m waiting for the weather to warm up in a few weeks and taking most of it off. Used to have great vision, finally broke down and got reading glasses about 5 years ago. Bothered me a little at the time but meh, such is life.

    One of my best friends, same age, just died from a heart attack. I’ll stick with the hair loss, thanks.

  80. 80.

    Long Tooth

    March 25, 2014 at 12:37 pm

    @Sebastian: George Castanza: “I think this [a toupee] looks pretty good”. Seinfeld: “No, no it doesn’t”.

    I went to work at a place where two friends were so practiced at insulting each other that it took a while before I figured out that they were friends. Once one said to the other (who was balding), “Ah, go rub some more cow shit into your scalp to grow some hair” in a tone of voice that actually had me wondering if they hated each others guts. Turned out they were a comedy team.

  81. 81.

    wasabi gasp

    March 25, 2014 at 12:50 pm

    http://i.imgur.com/XdvI8RD.jpg

  82. 82.

    Ben Cisco

    March 25, 2014 at 12:58 pm

    Still have my hair, but I’ve worn it so short since my AF days it’s not of much consequence anyway. Knees are creaky (ever listen to Rice Krispies when the milk goes on? Yeah, like THAT). Back’s OK since the L-5 cleanup, and I finally gave in to bifocals (glasses and contacts, yay!) a few years back.

    But as Lavocat (and my father) said…

  83. 83.

    Elizabelle

    March 25, 2014 at 1:17 pm

    In deference to my fantasy that everyone on Balloon Juice looks like a movie star (even a Harvey Keitel type) — because they’re so smart and snarky — I refuse to read this thread.

    Nose hair, ear hair, no hair, all the rest — TMI.

    Carry on, GQ types.

  84. 84.

    zeecube

    March 25, 2014 at 2:43 pm

    Consider yourself lucky. Think about all the savings from having to buy hair products and getting a decent haircut every month.

  85. 85.

    rea

    March 25, 2014 at 2:55 pm

    In my old age, I’m getting hairier and hairier–got to trim my eyebrows regularly, ear hair is a problem, can hardly breathe sometimes for nose hair, and I swear, the always thick mop on my head is getting thicker. I wouldn’t mind a little hair loss . . .

  86. 86.

    horse dave

    March 25, 2014 at 3:03 pm

    Just turned 50,

    I’ve never needed any form of eye wear until 45. Now reading glasses are just a part of my life.

    Hair has been receding/thinning since around 40. I’d cut it short but my face and cranium shape don’t work with real short hair.

    For me the worst are the injuries that don’t completely heal and the old injuries that have resurfaced. Plantar fasciitis for 5 years, old nerve damage in my wrist, and this week tendonitis in my elbow.
    I have a small horse farm (hobby) that exacerbates these maladies. If I had any sense I’d sell and move but the dogs really like their farm-life.

  87. 87.

    Donut

    March 25, 2014 at 9:13 pm

    I’m 42. I am Armenian in ancestry. Since puberty I have been covered with body hair.

    I come from a long line of men with bad eyes, so I have worn glasses, I shit you not, for 40 years.

    Those of you feeling sorry for yourselves about your hair growth or wearing glasses in your 40s can all shut. the. fuck. up. Seriously. Find some other shit to complain about. You know nothing. I’ve had hair and glasses on my body for-fucking-ever, you babies. Deal with it.

  88. 88.

    Ruckus

    March 25, 2014 at 10:19 pm

    It’s just hair. Just because it doesn’t grow on top any more doesn’t mean it doesn’t grow. And as many have said that should be the least of your worries. Have a heart attack, have to bury everyone else in your immediate family. That gets your attention.
    Hair is little stuff. I can live without hair on my head. Besides it just turns gray and/or white anyway. I just compensate with a full beard.
    One last parting shot. It doesn’t get any better. Every 10 yrs you add? That hill of life that you are starting to ski down, that son of bitch gets steeper and steeper. At some point you’ll be wondering where the time went, let alone where your hair is.

  89. 89.

    Ruckus

    March 25, 2014 at 10:26 pm

    @Donut:
    Glasses at 12, and I’ve got my Medicare card. Glasses, hard contacts, soft contacts, disposable contacts. Then about 18 yrs ago I got laser surgery. Best thing I ever did. But yeah, I’ve been called 4 eyes, blind man, whatever.
    Now on the hair front, had a friend in HS who could grow a full, and I mean full beard in about 3 weeks. The summer he was 16 he went with his dad to someplace in Nevada. They stopped in a place for lunch and they carded his dad. And served him without even asking because of his full beard and overall hairy nature. He laughed about it for years.

  90. 90.

    JR in WV

    March 25, 2014 at 11:45 pm

    Finally gave up, got the Mrs J R to buzz my head just the other day. First hair cut since the early 1990s, had a thin pony tail in back, mostly bald.

    Still have the full beard, did trim it back, kinda the annual spring shear. 62 now, might as well act it…

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