Louis Ck On Confidence And Baldness

[hellouser]

He specifically says he'd trade lives with a homeless guy with gorgeous hair. Why? Because he's got CONFIDENCE! And we all know where that comes from; past experience.. which Louie CK has plenty of. He'd just need to take a shower, go to a comedy club and he'd be famous again.

That's confidence.

 

[Patrick_Bateman]

I recall a thread on this forum were people discussing homeless people with full heads of hair. And someone said almost the same thing (might have been Fred).

 

[swingline747]

I love CK, Ive seen him twice in stand up, hate his show though. I think his appearance is part of what makes him work.

I JUST had this discussion with a friend who is fat. He said hed trade my body for his hair. I said I would do it because Im motivated and youre lazy. In a year youd just be fat again and now bald and Id be fit with a great head of hair.

 

[hellouser]

I love CK, Ive seen him twice in stand up, hate his show though. I think his appearance is part of what makes him work.

I JUST had this discussion with a friend who is fat. He said hed trade my body for his hair. I said I would do it because Im motivated and youre lazy. In a year youd just be fat again and now bald and Id be fit with a great head of hair.

I'm 'confident' that you would be able to bounce back because losing weight is factually possible.

 

[pjhair]

I'm 'confident' that you would be able to bounce back because losing weight is factually possible.

I find it surprising that people still compare being fat to being bald when losing fat is possible while growing hair is not.

 

[I.D WALKER]

PJHair, I'm thinking you're onto something there my friend.

 

[pjhair]

PJHair, I'm thinking you're onto something there my friend.

I am onto something called "obvious" lol

 

[I.D WALKER]

You've got a good head on your shoulders so stick with it,
while I slink off and drown my sorrows in the muddy waters of oblivion.

 

[buckthorn]

I love CK, Ive seen him twice in stand up, hate his show though. I think his appearance is part of what makes him work.

I JUST had this discussion with a friend who is fat. He said hed trade my body for his hair. I said I would do it because Im motivated and youre lazy. In a year youd just be fat again and now bald and Id be fit with a great head of hair.

hahaha!

I have a feeling Louis CK could get almost any woman he wants. He has a nice face and as soon as you hear him speak, you almost forget about his baldness. A good example of when someone has so much more to offer, other traits become somewhat "forgivable"

 

[F2005]

I love CK, Ive seen him twice in stand up, hate his show though. I think his appearance is part of what makes him work.

I JUST had this discussion with a friend who is fat. He said hed trade my body for his hair. I said I would do it because Im motivated and youre lazy. In a year youd just be fat again and now bald and Id be fit with a great head of hair.

I've actually had this conversation with a friend of mine too. I said I'd trade my baldness for his fat any day of the week. Why? Because there are viable and proven solutions for losing weight. It can be done, it is done every day by countless numbers of people, and I've even done it myself. If the cure for hair loss was vigorous exercise and a healthy diet, I'd practically have an orgasm.

And ironically I see fat people all the time who are NW1's. Life really can be a kick in the ***.

 

[Roberto_72]

And ironically I see fat people all the time who are NW1's. Life really can be a kick in the ***.

I don't think it is ironical. I think some fat people do not care about weight because they happen to be complimented on good hair.
Just like a perfect body can at times make people give less importance to bad hair, perfect hair can at times make people give less importance to a fat body.

 

[F2005]

I don't think it is ironical. I think some fat people do not care about weight because they happen to be complimented on good hair.
Just like a perfect body can at times make people give less importance to bad hair, perfect hair can at times make people give less importance to a fat body.

Very good points man. There was a time in my life when I was overweight. It wasn't so much that I was fat, but I was a big power-lifter and I did have a gut. Yet it barely impacted me at all, and it certainly did not have an impact on my social life. I knew that it was possible to lose the weight, which I eventually did. Sometimes I do gain weight here and there, but I do not freak out about it at all, because I know that it is possible to lose it as easily as I had gained it. If only it were so simple with hair loss.

And I remember sometimes even joking with friends that I had a little bit of a gut. I am not one of these perfectionists who cannot joke about certain things, and having a bit of a gut really didn't bother me at all. But hair loss is a completely different story, mainly because there is no quick fix for it, and quite honestly no real fix at all for many people.

Sometimes I wish that I could joke about hair loss and I think that guys who have other physical attributes that make them look good can do such a thing. For instance, I was working out at another gym recently and I approached this muscled-up, tatted-up guy with a shaved head, because I thought he had a tattoo of a metal singer on his arm. The tattoo turned out to be something else, but he jokingly replied "I don't have enough hair to be a metalhead." I think he felt secure in joking about his hair loss, because his muscles and his tattoos made him look very masculine, and probably appealing to certain women. I doubt he would've joked like that if he did not have these other physical attributes. I wish that I could get to that stage someday but in the words of poet laureate Ron Keel of the 80s rock band Keel, "it's easier said than done". Most especially for a rocker like myself. Hell, if hair loss didn't majorly f**k up my life, then I wouldn't even be on this forum.

 

[Roberto_72]

The tattoo turned out to be something else, but he jokingly replied "I don't have enough hair to be a metalhead." I think he felt secure in joking about his hair loss, because his muscles and his tattoos made him look very masculine, and probably appealing to certain women. I doubt he would've joked like that if he did not have these other physical attributes. I wish that I could get to that stage someday but in the words of poet laureate Ron Keel of the 80s rock band Keel, "it's easier said than done". Most especially for a rocker like myself. Hell, if hair loss didn't majorly f**k up my life, then I wouldn't even be on this forum.

And yet, his joke hides an uncomfortable truth. What if this guy in his past aspired to be a metal scene protagonist? How easy would it have been?

Once I posed this same question in another post and received the same ol' exception to the rule reply (Judas Priest singer, who however went bald after succeeding).

If you are thinning, your woes are not in any manner limited to women's tastes.

There are hobbies and occupations that do require you look young-ish and have hair.
@k9gatton (hope I am citing the right user) hinted that in his line of work a young age (and look) is preferred and having less hair had at times penalized him. And from what he wrote I do not think he was talking about a career as a Calvin Klein model.

On top of my mind, these sectors indubitably penalize people with less hair:
- Tv journalism
- music, as we said; especially some genres
- acting
- politics (...well)
- most professions that entail relation with the public (ever seen an airplane steward with a comb-over? Or a bald Abercrombie & Fitch shop assistant?)

PS: of course we might say we are not interested in any of these activities, but what if?

 

[Dante92]

I don't think it is ironical. I think some fat people do not care about weight because they happen to be complimented on good hair.
Just like a perfect body can at times make people give less importance to bad hair, perfect hair can at times make people give less importance to a fat body.

This.

If you are thinning, your woes are not in any manner limited to women's tastes.

I've learned this lesson all to well...

 

[Afro_Vacancy]

Confidence is great to have, but you can't just push a button and have more confidence.

 

[shookwun]

I hate seeing people with great hair. What's sucks most is when you have thin hair like myself. Will never be able to have bangs that flow and have good holding characteristics. When I grow mine out they look ratty and don't have that aesthetic sweep.


People with good hair characteristics don't realise how privledged they are. Yes you balding faggots with good hair density are privledged compared to us thin and diffusing sub humans

Thank god I have a handsome face. Would hate to be an 'all hair' type of guy.

 

[Roberto_72]

I hate seeing people with great hair. What's sucks most is when you have thin hair like myself. Will never be able to have bangs that flow and have good holding characteristics. When I grow mine out they look ratty and don't have that aesthetic sweep.


People with good hair characteristics don't realise how privledged they are. Yes you balding faggots with good hair density are privledged compared to us thin and diffusing sub humans

Thank god I have a handsome face. Would hate to be an 'all hair' type of guy.

To add insult to injury, when you speak to someone with good hair, it is evident that many morons are convinced they are somehow entitled to good hair. They are sincerely convinced they have good hair because they are cool, not the other way around.

 

[shookwun]

Yes....

I work with a lot of guys and most look average and even below with hard hats on. Yet when they take it off they suddenly become good looking with there nice hair.


I lol at this whole just have a handsome face and you will be fiNE. Once you loose the frame you are done.


I work with a NW7 40 year old. Strong jaw, blue eyes and a handsome face. Tames off his hard hat and looms like a 4 out of 10 who is someone's grandpa

 

[Afro_Vacancy]

I've never had nice hair in my life -- I grow a Jewfro.

I did get a lot of hair straightening treatments when I was a teenager, that stuff was expensive and difficult to maintain, but I felt like it made me look a lot better.It's the stuff probably made for African American women so that they don't have afros, which stopped being stylish sometime around 1975.

But even a Jewfro is better than being bald.

 

[I.D WALKER]

I'ld love my Jewfro right about now...but if that can't happen, I'ld contentedly settle for an Afro.