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« Reply #1230 on: 18:08:15, 01-10-2008 » |
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I feel much the same about chatty hairdressers as I do about chatty cab drivers. I just want them cut my hair or drive the cab and forget the natter. I'm happy to tip for a bit of silence. This may explain why my hair is so long!  I quite agree. Fortunately I've been going to the same barber in Brighton for years, and they now don't bother to chat any more. Perhaps they just think of me as that miserable old bugler who comes in from time to time. On the other hand, like many a man of maturer years, my hairdressing needs are not what they were ... |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #1231 on: 19:22:58, 01-10-2008 » |
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Women are competative too. Some of my friends are very competative.
They will tell you that everything they have is better than what you have: their car is better, their husband is better (much better than anybodies and he loves her so much), her children are better, etc, etc, etc.
I have american friend. I don't see her now, but when we lived close she would tell me how much her husband loves her and how he is afraid something might happen to her. I had a mental picture of him sleeping before the door on a small carpet (like a dog) to protect her if some intruder will be coming. I always found it curious.
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« Reply #1232 on: 19:25:44, 01-10-2008 » |
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I'm afraid all the hairdressers where I go are astonishingly boring. I have to bite my lip to prevent myself from saying "Look, let's be honest here. You don't care whether I'm going on holiday this year any more than I care whether you are or not. If you're not going to say anything interesting then please don't say anything at all."
I remember saying to one in my former life up North...'You are doing GCSEs .. what have you taken? ' The reply was 'I have taken..... and I am hoping for an E and a D.' It sort of says it all really  |
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« Reply #1233 on: 19:27:06, 01-10-2008 » |
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I like to natter.
Not sure about chatty hairdressers though.
If my hairdresser wanted to chat about Star Trek or Stockhausen it might be different.
I need a geeky hairdresser evidently.
Who can also cut my hair without it looking weird the next day, or without scraping my scalp so it's irritable for the next week.
I'm not fussy.
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« Reply #1234 on: 19:30:14, 01-10-2008 » |
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Number 4 blade, in and out in 15 minutes. Just long enough for Nobu (Japanese, gay, hath lithp) to tell me about his weekend exploits, which are usually hair-raising. If I had any hair to raise. |
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« Reply #1235 on: 19:44:09, 01-10-2008 » |
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You should come here for your hair cut, harmony/harmony.
My hairdresser told me how one jazz guitarist put plastic things under the strings on the finger board. May be you can tell him about Stockhausen and take his e-mail to send him his music.
May be you like it to get out of the shop as soon as possible.
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« Reply #1236 on: 19:47:04, 01-10-2008 » |
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I need a hairdresser ...
Who can also cut my hair without it looking weird the next day,
So do I. Alas, I am still searching  Bad hair cut trauma lasts for w-e-e-k-s-!   |
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« Reply #1237 on: 19:52:51, 01-10-2008 » |
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Come here, Morticia. We will find you a Polish lady or a Frenchman to do your hair. Some people I know here go for their hair cut to France.
I think you are doing your hair well yourself.
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« Reply #1238 on: 21:44:54, 01-10-2008 » |
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Number 4 blade ... Is THAT what those numbers are all about?! I never understood or dared to ask. I assumed it was some arcane male code that I had never been indoctrinated into, possibly stemming from the Army or National Service or something. Is number 4 the normal thing to ask for, for normal unobtrusive people like me? Do the numbers go up or down for how much hair you have left afterwards or how much has been taken off? Like shoes or like eggs? And come to think of it, blades in what exactly?  |
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« Reply #1239 on: 21:56:18, 01-10-2008 » |
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Is number 4 the normal thing to ask for, for normal unobtrusive people like me? Do the numbers go up or down for how much hair much hair you have left or how mucj is taken off? George. Now, how mucj [sic] you have 'taken off' is entirely dependent on the number you ask for. (Please also be aware of normal barber code for those things 'for the weekend' which have an alphabetic rather than a numerical categorisation. I prefer 'C'.) 1 is shortest, and I think one could go up to 8, the longest. 4 keeps me just the right side of looking like either David Beckham, circa 1998 or 2006, depending, or Gordon Ramsey at the end of a series run. Suffice to say, number 4 does it for me. (This holds true for Chinese takeaway menus too, as it happens.) |
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« Reply #1240 on: 21:57:45, 01-10-2008 » |
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No 1 is for the shortest haircut, with more hair left as the numbers ascend. The numbers relate to the head on the clippers. (No 2 on head and beard for me) Incidentally, it has become something of a grievance with me that we who are, erm, less generously endowed than we used to be still pay the same as those with a full head of hair. Shouldn't we be entitled to a something like a slapheads' discount? After all, they're quite happy to charge extra for the beard .... Just long enough for Nobu (Japanese, gay, hath lithp) to tell me about his weekend exploits, which are usually hair-raising. If I had any hair to raise. One of the funniest conversations I have ever heard was one of the lads at the barber's I usetelling his colleagues about the appalling horror of how the previous night he had gone to a straight club by mistake. His description of the testosterone-fuelled shenanigans was priceless. |
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« Reply #1241 on: 22:00:23, 01-10-2008 » |
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I do myself, as it were  It's number 7 on my cutter but I don't think I'm using the same units as martle. Still, at least I don't have to talk to the hairdresser |
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« Reply #1242 on: 22:09:23, 01-10-2008 » |
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Please also be aware of normal barber code for those things 'for the weekend' which have an alphabetic rather than a numerical categorisation. I prefer 'C'. Oh Lord, I thought there might be yet more mysteries to unravel. So how does that one work then? 'C' for Cucumber? 'E' for Eel? Thank you, pw. Clarity itself. I might even risk asking for a 5 next time and see what happens. |
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« Reply #1243 on: 22:19:22, 01-10-2008 » |
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Please also be aware of normal barber code for those things 'for the weekend' which have an alphabetic rather than a numerical categorisation. I prefer 'C'. Oh Lord, I thought there might be yet more mysteries to unravel. So how does that one work then? 'C' for Cucumber? 'E' for Eel? George, if it looks like being a very good weekend, ask for the 'K'. That's all I'm saying on the matter.  PW, you're being ripped off! Headmen (only in Brighton  ) will do you for £7, including tweakings, ear and eyebrow trim and gratuitous head massge and a little pat on your bottom as you leave. Western Rd and Waterloo street. Say martle sent you. |
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« Reply #1244 on: 22:23:59, 01-10-2008 » |
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head massge [sic  ] and a little pat on your bottom as you leave. What of? Normandy butter? On the conversation issue, incidentally, I have found that, when faced with the dreaded 'Did you see the match last night?" question, you can actually keep going for some time without having a clue of what you are talking about. A few useful all-purpose useful phrases which will normally gain you several minutes-worth of grace. "They were lucky though" "They missed a couple of opportunities in the second half" "Very defensive though which made it boring from the spectators' point of view" That should normally get you as far as the 'Anything on it?' question by which point you are on the home straight. |
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