bald guys that have given up on life

[HairPieceMan]

so i see a lot of bald guys who have appeared to have given up on the streets.

some of these guys have NW6 grown out horshoes, dark rimmed glasses and green anoraks.

it's like they have given up on life and become the stereotype "creepy bald guy" that is stalking your daughter at night.

do you think those people were once normal people that functioned in society before they went bald, then they went bald and gave up?

 

[LooseItAll]

do you think those people were once normal people that functioned in society before they went bald, then they went bald and gave up?

No way. Baldness can just be the final trigger that causes a person to give up. I don't think it can be the main reason.

You can see it on this forum. Most of the nolifers here didn't have a life prior to hairloss

 

[kejan]

How about instead of judging people you actually start living life?
You have your wig, so why not go out and get those 8/9 out of 10 chics.

I've never seen a bald guy like your description. If I'm being honest, the older balding men that I see with the grownout horse shoes are usually quite jovial and fun to speak to. Many of them seem to be light-hearted, can poke fan at themselves and have a story or two to tell.

How do you know they aint judging you? What if you put your wig on wrong one day and they notice it looking odd.

 

[HairPieceMan]

you need to look harder, well here in UK i do see NW6 grown out horshoes and glasses wiht some dodgy dress code, in the streets, its not hard to see a good 10 of them if i walk down the streets for an hour.

i just dont see how someone coudl be bald and then grow out horshoe (in this day and age) and then stick on glasses at the same time, and THEN pick out creepy anorak dress code.

im not saying its wrong, its just a bit wierd that's all that someone woudl do all 3 (horshoe,glasses,dress code), i mean i could have grown out my hair and then wore glasses at the same time, then a pedo like outfit, but i knew that would have been destructive.

i mean what if billy corgan grew out a thick horshoe, dark rimmed glasses, and started dressing all creepy liek (in a bad way), peoplr would wonder why he's going soo far to look as creepy as possible.

 

[Primo]

Shouldn't this article be aimed at the OP himself?

Also what do you mean by "creepy anorak clothes"? Are you referring to the standard, normal kind of clothes that most 40yr old + men wear (not just Nw6/7s) or is this some kind of new sub-genre, Norwood-only dress style that you've discovered? Please elaborate for us HPM, I'm actually quite curious ...

 

[Primo]

Is this what you mean? :dunno: :laugh:

Like how normal old folks are supposed to dress?

 

[uncomfortable man]

You can see it on this forum. Most of the nolifers here didn't have a life prior to hairloss

And you would know this how?


Yeah, I've seen guys my own age who are just as bald as me out in public walking around holding hands with women twenty years their senior. And these were not attractive women.... and they were not their mothers. Fuckin sad.

 

[HairPieceMan]

yes primo, liek that.


except the guy is a NW6, with dark rimmed glasses...perhaps 30s

i understand that it is normal attire, but there is no escuse to clean up the dirty toilet seat, get a tan, and dress a little better and loose the glassses.

and htis applies to 35 or 40 year olds.

wearing glasses + horshoe is just asking for social trouble, who is your idol, george contanza?

honeslty bald + glassses? i mean contacts are really good and practical, but its basically a life saver or those who are bald and need glasses, i woulndt step out the door bald and glasses. youd gegt soo much sh*t form people.

UCMan is right, us bald 25 year olds need to aim for 40 year olds who are half as attractive as we would have had as guys with hair, the truth is out, and ifa guy who is bald with witha hot girl she is using him for something.

also midle aged (40-65) men aren't "old folks", i fully plan to look totally awesome at 45 and dress well, being 45 doesnt give you an exucse to be horshoering and anorak guy with glasses.

also i see some statham people to (nw5 beard compensator buzzed down to a #1, maybe some shades handy to be a shades negator), thats really funny, most of them look quite good, however old they are 25/30/35/40.

however the creepy pedo stereotype is out there.

 

[uncomfortable man]

TBH I think you are being a little unfair by holding middle age men to your own twenty something standards HPM. These men know their place and are firmly grounded in it. Any attempts to try and look younger or more attractive might as well garnish even more negative attention as in "Who is he trying to kid?" type comments.

There is a point where you just have to let it go and accept your fate.

For me that will be when I am forty four and dying of lung cancer in the hospital.

 

[CaptainForehead]

Hey, I wear glasses :dunno:

I have some problems with contacts which make it impractical to wear them for long periods of time.

Its funny though, out here there are lots of bald guys, but not many bald+beard.
And apparently I can scare the crap out of women with my bald beard look (even with glasses). It has happpened many times, I will be waiting for the elevator, and some woman in coming down the elevator, she isnt expecting to see anyone when the door opens, she sees me, sharp intake of breath and clutches her heart in fear when the door opens.

I guess the badass persona I have been developing in my mind is working :woot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ModernHugoStrange.jpg

 

[Primo]

also midle aged (40-65) men aren't "old folks", i fully plan to look totally awesome at 45 and dress well, being 45 doesnt give you an exucse to be horshoering and anorak guy with glasses.

I agree with you on the dressing well and appropriately for your age point, however there also comes an age in life where sporting a fashionable NW1 style actually attracts negative attention and mockery from people of all ages...

This guy is actually 47, despite having the hair of an 18year old and he also happens to be the Mayor or London

The thing is his hairstyle looks f*cking ridiculous for a man his age and even if he swept it all back to reveal a perfect Norwood! hairline it would still look creepy, because how many men pushing 50 have hair like that? Even if it is real or some incredibly good piece, everybody thinks it looks fake and totally odd. Socially unacceptable as HPM would say

Even my sister (who incidently has so far only dated guys with hair) saw this guy on tv the other night and was like "he needs to grow the f*ck up and sort that stupid hairstyle out. Start acting his age, etc etc"

...so I think there's definitely an argument for growing old gracefully rather than looking like a juvenile freak at the age of 47.... unless you plan on being one of those 40+ dudes who enjoys creeping on 18yr old girls in the club every week

Look at Jack Nicholson and Chris Bauer aka Sabotka (The Wire) they rock the horsehoe well in a distinguished way, sure they couldn't get away with that at 30 obviously, but at 45+ it looks perfectly natural and it would look worse if they buzzed it.

 

[HairPieceMan]

yes but i disagree, statham and willis are in 40s and have buzz down style

its not as if 20 and 30 somethign aggresive male pattern baldness people try to do statham and willis (who are in their 40s anyway), then as they are 40/50 they can be grown out horshoe liek the peopl you mention.

london of mayor hair is stupid, its a stupid style, but you can have a full head of hair as a middle aged man, i see that stuff all the time looks totally normal.

check al pachino, that guy started wearing wigs in his 50s, it just looks liek he has good genes now in his movies after godfather 3, and looks a lot better for it, it's nto out of the ordinary, in fact i have uncles that are 50 and have a full head of youthful hair and just looks normal and age apppropiate, no signs of any hairloss, not even any natural thinning.

when i saw these guys in their 50s lookign liek their in their 40s i didnt think there was anythign wrong with that, i wasnt expecting them to have

1. bald spots
2. heavy recession
3. thinnign cronws.
4. FULL BLOWN HORSHOES

at all, i just thought they look normal and natural to have a full head of hair as middle aged men.

 

[AnberlinFan84]

Primo that guy in your post looks like an idiot LOL

 

[uncomfortable man]

It's not the fact that he has hair at that age that makes him look ridiculous, it's the way he wears it. If he brushed it back and maybe neatly parted it he would be fine. It just looks like a shuffled bail of sun bleached hay the way it is now.

 

[kejan]

He has cultivated his image to be a loveable buffon. I think that's a huge reason in him winning the Mayor of London race.

He's seen on TV as a bit of a posh, but dim-nice guy who is bumbling about on TV making gaffs and jokes. His hair just adds to that, it looks like it is fairly unkept and its just part of the image he presents to the media e.g ''Oh god! What's he going to do next?''.

I don't live in London so I don't know well/bad he's done as a Mayor but I'd guess that a good number of votes came from people who thought that he came across as a plum so lets vote him in for a laugh.
There's bound to be clips on youtube of his gaffs and interviews. Just search 'Boris Johnson'.

As for being a NW1 at 40-50. There are tons of folk who have strong hair. My neighbour is 78 and he has a slick-back NW1. I even joked with him that his brown chinos, cardigan and hairstyle is back in fashion and he was setting the trend.

The guys tht you mention have 'given up on life. I don't think they hae done that but they have probably accepted that their hair is not going to get any better. Many of them probably don't care what others think either, they'll have mortgages, wife, kids, job etc other worries more important than how Joe Public perceives them on the high street.

I'm 28 and I'm trying to maintain my hair and of course I have an issue with going bald after all I post on here, but even the last year or so. When I began balding, I was anxious and nervous about how people would view me with my hair but as I've gotten older, yes I still try to look reasonably good but I'm slowly beginning to care less about what others think and what/how I feel about myself.
I also started balding at 21-22 and out of my close friends, I felt it very much a s they all seemed to have thick NW1s ad were all in good shape but roll on 7 years, some of them have lost hair or it has thinned out, many are out of shape and in general are aging, maybe tha's my bitter side but when I seen myself balding before I seen it as un-fair and now I see others around my age having similar issues, it seems to have softened the blow, a bit.

 

[CaptainForehead]

There isa bald guy in the place I work. Grown out horseshoe. Short. Fat with a belly. Mustache. Non stylish glasses. :dunno:

 

[Joe-1991]

You can see it on this forum. Most of the nolifers here didn't have a life prior to hairloss

And you would know this how?


Yeah, I've seen guys my own age who are just as bald as me out in public walking around holding hands with women twenty years their senior. And these were not attractive women.... and they were not their mothers. Fuckin sad.

I have seen loads of those guys too. With full heads of hair.

 

[bigentries]

I have seen loads of those guys too. With full heads of hair.

Nah, according to many around here, all NW1's are sleeping with hot women.
It doesn't matter that you only need to go to a Golden Corral to see the parade of fatties with guys who still wear mullets

The most ironic thing is that the same people complaining seem to have better luck dating women than I've ever had, and I'm still far from having a horseshoe :thumbdown2:

 

[Pacman]

He has cultivated his image to be a loveable buffon. I think that's a huge reason in him winning the Mayor of London race.

He's seen on TV as a bit of a posh, but dim-nice guy who is bumbling about on TV making gaffs and jokes. His hair just adds to that, it looks like it is fairly unkept and its just part of the image he presents to the media e.g ''Oh god! What's he going to do next?''.

I don't live in London so I don't know well/bad he's done as a Mayor but I'd guess that a good number of votes came from people who thought that he came across as a plum so lets vote him in for a laugh.
There's bound to be clips on youtube of his gaffs and interviews. Just search 'Boris Johnson'.

As for being a NW1 at 40-50. There are tons of folk who have strong hair. My neighbour is 78 and he has a slick-back NW1. I even joked with him that his brown chinos, cardigan and hairstyle is back in fashion and he was setting the trend.

The guys tht you mention have 'given up on life. I don't think they hae done that but they have probably accepted that their hair is not going to get any better. Many of them probably don't care what others think either, they'll have mortgages, wife, kids, job etc other worries more important than how Joe Public perceives them on the high street.

I'm 28 and I'm trying to maintain my hair and of course I have an issue with going bald after all I post on here, but even the last year or so. When I began balding, I was anxious and nervous about how people would view me with my hair but as I've gotten older, yes I still try to look reasonably good but I'm slowly beginning to care less about what others think and what/how I feel about myself.
I also started balding at 21-22 and out of my close friends, I felt it very much a s they all seemed to have thick NW1s ad were all in good shape but roll on 7 years, some of them have lost hair or it has thinned out, many are out of shape and in general are aging, maybe tha's my bitter side but when I seen myself balding before I seen it as un-fair and now I see others around my age having similar issues, it seems to have softened the blow, a bit.

Yeah I guess this is the crux of it. As we get older, after experience after experience, after relationships and lots of casual sex and general life experience, I guess eventually people get tired of chasing that perfect look. You begin to say f*** it. Not that is necessarily a good thing. But yeah, thats what appears to happen a lot. And I guess with bald(ing) guys like us, that process may happen sooner. Once your 40 odd, your bald, I doubt wearing the most stylish outfit becomes as important as it did when you were in your 20's.

Caucasians have it the worst though. Even white guys with slightly olive skin look a lot better bald.

 

[LooseItAll]

Time to buy a fish supper :sobbing: