Toast From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1763 times:
So today I decided to cut my hair as I hadn't done it in over 2 months and was becoming too shaggy. For the first time in my life, I chose to do it at 9 a.m., an hour when I tend to be half-asleep at the best of times. To make a long story short, I forgot to set my hair clipper to its usual max length. I pulled the machine set at 2 mm all across my skull and nearly died when I realized what I did. Having no choice really, I had to keep the setting and continued cutting, watching with horror the handfuls of my hair falling to the floor.
My head now looks like a dick with glasses. I haven't been this hairless since the Carter administration. My new neo-Nazi appearance is precisely what I didn't need now as I have an upcoming job interview and I need to re-negotiate a bank loan.
I haven't felt this owned since the time my face was painted with indelible ink after a drinking binge at college.
Please share your stories of self-pwnage to make me feel a bit less stupid...
Airlinelover From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 5580 posts, RR: 27 Reply 1, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1764 times:
This thread is worthless without pics..
Lets do some sexy math. We add you, subtract your clothes, divide your legs and multiply
B747forever From United States of America, joined May 2007, 16575 posts, RR: 11 Reply 2, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1735 times:
Quoting Toast (Thread starter): forgot to set my hair clipper to its usual max length. I pulled the machine set at 2 mm all across my skull and nearly died when I realized what I did.
Searpqx From Netherlands, joined Jun 2000, 4343 posts, RR: 12 Reply 3, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1719 times:
I keep my hair buzzed anyway, so I tend to avoid that particular problem, but make up for it when trimming my moustache. I can't grow a beard, but I've had a very full moustache since I was 18. About 3 times a year I don't pay attention to the trimmer setting and shave off half of it before I realize the problem. The only fix is to trim it down to peach fuzz. When I do, for some reason my upper lip seems to swell, and the pale skin under my nose that hasn't seen the full light of day in 25 years dominates my face for about a week.
"The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity"
EWRCabincrew From United States of America, joined May 2006, 5522 posts, RR: 57 Reply 4, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1713 times:
Pictures, Toast. We want pics.
As for short hair...I keep mine cropped short always. It's called low-to-no maintenance.
B747forever From United States of America, joined May 2007, 16575 posts, RR: 11 Reply 9, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1679 times:
Quoting Toast (Reply 7): No way. I can't look in the goddamn mirror, much less aim a camera at my face and share the ignominy with the world.
So you look so horrible that you even cant watch your self in a mirror?? How will you survive this period, until your hair grows out.???
Toast From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1678 times:
Quoting B747forever (Reply 9): How will you survive this period, until your hair grows out.???
What I need now is a length of orange sheet. I've decided to join the Burmese revolution. I'll rather face machine guns than the smart-ass comments of my friends and colleagues.
MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13337 posts, RR: 64 Reply 11, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1661 times:
Quoting Searpqx (Reply 3): I keep my hair buzzed anyway, so I tend to avoid that particular problem, but make up for it when trimming my moustache. I can't grow a beard, but I've had a very full moustache since I was 18. About 3 times a year I don't pay attention to the trimmer setting and shave off half of it before I realize the problem. The only fix is to trim it down to peach fuzz. When I do, for some reason my upper lip seems to swell, and the pale skin under my nose that hasn't seen the full light of day in 25 years dominates my face for about a week.
Happened to me once as well. Without moustache I looked like a friggin school boy. I grew it back within one week though..
Kiwiandrew From New Zealand, joined Jun 2005, 8435 posts, RR: 14 Reply 15, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 1607 times:
Quoting Kieron747 (Reply 8): Quoting Toast (Thread starter):
My head now looks like a dick with glasses.
Cut or uncut?
Signed,
RootsAir
It may be an improvement , I have to say that the idea of hairy Toast is a bit offputting (but I am quite conservative with breakfast - you can serve me up any manner of revolting things late in the day just don't frighten me at breakfast )
My first flirtation with baldness was semi accidental ( a home colour job that went badly wrong , and tough luck those of you who think this post is useless without pics - I have destroyed them all !) but it kind of grew on my - bad choice of words though that may be - having said that November in Belgium is not the time to start experimenting with the exposure of unprecedented amounts of scalp
Moderation in all things ... including moderation ;-)
MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13337 posts, RR: 64 Reply 17, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 1588 times:
I once asked a barber for a crew cut (Militaerschnitt). Unfortunately the bloke was quite old and gave me a Wehrmacht special (longish on top, to be combed back with Brillcreame) and almost shaved along the sides from the tip of the ears down. It was great for a living history display a few weeks later (where I was in the role of a WW2 British soldier), since it was a fitting period haircut, but my colleagues asked if I didn't fancy to trim my moustache that it would just fit under the nose, you know, like a certain Austrian from Braunau.
SkyGirl From United States of America, joined Nov 2007, 451 posts, RR: 4 Reply 18, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 1585 times:
i once died my hair copper in an attempt to go for a more auburn color. and while I was acutally able to pull off the copper look, it doesn't go to well with navy blue. I promptly became a brunette later that afternoon, before my LAX flight.
...Now they face an even greater danger...Tyrannousaurs in F-14's!!
EWRCabincrew From United States of America, joined May 2006, 5522 posts, RR: 57 Reply 19, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 1556 times:
Quoting Toast (Reply 7): I can't look in the goddamn mirror, much less aim a camera at my face and share the ignominy with the world.
Wuss!!! If you put all your vanity into hair (good God, man, priorities!!!), then lock yourself up till it grows back.
It is hair, you know. Just hair.
That and you were the one who brought to our attention....suck it up and take some damn pictures!!!!! Would ya!!!
AGM100 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 5407 posts, RR: 17 Reply 20, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 1527 times:
My barber just screwed me over to .. She forgot to change the clipper head and nailed me with a # 1 right in the front. Ended up shaving it all off, I look like my 2nd week in bootcamp , ya know when it kinda grows out a bit .. .. !! It was kinda funny , she felt so bad she almost cried , luckily for her I dont really care that much about it.
You dig the hole .. I fill the hole . 100% employment !
B747forever From United States of America, joined May 2007, 16575 posts, RR: 11 Reply 21, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 1510 times:
Quoting Toast (Reply 10): I'll rather face machine guns than the smart-ass comments of my friends and colleagues.
Wow, so you look so bad that you can face machine guns rather than your friends. Wow.
NoUFO From Germany, joined Apr 2001, 7796 posts, RR: 13 Reply 22, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 1479 times:
The second last time I went to the barber (that was in May if I recall correctly ), she was in such a bad mood, I was even happier than usual when I left her shop, not noticing that she did only half of her job: One side of my scalp was cut properly, the other one wasn't.
But it did help to brighten her day when I re-appeared the next morning.
Quoting Toast (Thread starter): I pulled the machine set at 2 mm all across my skull and nearly died when I realized what I did. Having no choice really,
Actually yes, you could have joined a Genesis cover band:
MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13337 posts, RR: 64 Reply 23, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 1460 times:
Toast, did you shave your eyebrows as well? There is nothing to make a guy look like a complete t*sser than shaving his eyebrows off. (When I was living in Ireland, the neighbouring house was occupied by a group of South African and British contractors, who would get drunk almost every evening. If a guy passed out in the common sitting room, the others would play jokes on him, like shaving his eyebrows or cutting a swathe through his hair with a clipper. Since I rarely drink, and never to the level where I pass out, it never happened to me, but I have seen several "victims").
28 DavestanKSAN: I did the same exact thing like five years ago. I wanted to buzz my head, but I forgot the top of the clippers, and zzzz oops!!!! Don't worry toast, i
29 Toast: OK, you nosy bastards. Here's a pic, now leave me alone : ...now I wish it would rain down, down on me... I obviously don't have a "before" pic, so th
30 Kieron747: That's one hell of an eye! Are you a Borg? Kieron
31 MD11Engineer: You didn't have to put on the lipstick, didn't you? But try some boot polish, it will make you look better (and don't forget to polish your head with
33 Toast: Fuck, that really does look like lipstick. Shouldn't have fiddled with brightness and contrast... For the first time in my life, I've realized that m
34 Diamond: You'd better lose the facial hair temporarily. It's thicker and darker than what you left on your head.
35 ScarletHarlot: Why the black shirt? Are you in mourning for your lost hair?
36 PlymSpotter: I feel for you Toast, I could never imagine myself with short hair, even if, when thinking about it, I do look worryingly like this; Dan
37 DavestanKSAN: At least you didn't shave your toast pussy. Dave
38 NoUFO: Yeah, I know, as others long enough on theses boards can attest, that's somebody who drives a freight train.
39 LAXspotter: Toast good luck finding a Job That picture looks quite different from yesterday in the self-pic thread....
40 Toast: Ah shit, I forgot to add a disclaimer in the self-pic thread that that isn't actually me. It's just a random guy with great taste in clothing that I
41 EWRCabincrew: That hairstyle is always in style (at least in my mind). I wear that cut every other month.
42 Foppishbum: Well, I embarrassed myself a few quarters ago when I was going to take the final exam. So I pulled an all nighter to study for the exam and by the tim
43 B747forever: Finally a pic. Wow, that looks just amazing. How did you succeed
45 B747forever: " target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn Great for showing us this link.
46 LHMARK: Dude, you're Belgian, which is nearly French Just slap a beret on your head until it grows back!
47 Toast: Update: here are the remarks I had to deal with today: Newsagent: (long look and broad grin) An associate: 'Jesus Christ Almighty, what happened?' A
48 SBBRTech: Imagine the whole lot of shampoo you gonna save from now on.
49 FXramper: This will go down as a classic Anet Self Pwnage Thread! Thanks for sharing!
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