The Impact of Sly Bald Guys

[Rudiger]

I know SBG is the on-running joke of this forum, and with good reason, but I've always had a more relaxed view on that forum, like it may be kinda laughably pathetic but who is it bothering? If it helps guys who are struggling, even if some are a bit deluded, then why not?

But I was relaxed about it, until now. Just visiting the site today, I can't find one single bit of information on any hair treatment whatsoever, absolutely nothing on hair transplants (which I imagine is probably completely discouraged) I mean, am I not looking hard enough? I get that the site is mainly about embracing the slick look but to me they've gone too far, everyone knows if you have half a chance to save what you have, or re-grow, don't shave it. At least put that option forward, and I don't see that as an option anywhere on the site.

So I guess they pride themselves on being a support for guys who have to shave, but personally I don't know how they live with themselves. I couldn't be happy knowing I'm promoting guys to just give up.

 

[Agustin Araujo]

I've never visited Sly Bald Guys. I never found it logical to be happy with hair issues, specifically when you're lacking those gorgeous strands. Same here h.l., I wouldn't be happy promoting men to give up.

 

[hellouser]

I know SBG is the on-running joke of this forum, and with good reason, but I've always had a more relaxed view on that forum, like it may be kinda laughably pathetic but who is it bothering? If it helps guys who are struggling, even if some are a bit deluded, then why not?

Yes, ignorance is bliss.

 

[Agustin Araujo]

For people with bumps on their heads, baldness is NOT an option, if they want game.

Sly Bald Guys would probably kick me out if I ever showed my scalp. It's sad.

Yep! Not an option. The bald men I find most repulsive are those who keep their horseshoe shaved using a manual razor and walk around with scabs on their head, it's totally uncool.

 

[xetudor]

It's a hivemind website, you can't fight it. This is why I like this forum, you can listen to a lot of opinions and where there are opinions you can find multiple solutions. Giving up is not the best solution for a lot of people.

 

[Rudiger]

Yes, ignorance is bliss.

I still think there's a balance to be struck up though, when my hair was badly thinning at the fringe (I wasn't completely sure this was a "shedding", but had gone on for a few months and I thought I was resigned to the fact that the treatments weren't working and this is just the end, try and maintain what little I have) I convinced myself I had a good head shape when bald, looks great etc. Then I was best man at a wedding, so about a billion photos were taken of me, and the very first one I saw weeks later almost made me puke.

It was a bad angle for diffuse thinning hair, first thing in the morning, eating breakfast at grooms house with the main wedding party, shot from above at the side angle of my head, against some natural light, and I just couldn't look at any more. I told the married couple I checked through them all but couldn't. It was that much of a fall.

But actually by this time the shedding had stopped and things were thickening up again, which took a lot of convincing myself to believe but I had noticed for some weeks that hair was no longer all over my pillow and towel, and you can convince yourself of anything in a bathroom mirror and lighting, but I compared pictures and there was a real difference between then and the wedding. That was obviously a big saving grace that there's hope, I would have been in a real bad way for weeks had I not grown back some hair. I just felt foolish for actually thinking my hair looked GOOD balding, god no, and seeing the truth was a real kick in the balls I hadn't prepared myself for. At least now if/when I lose it, I know it will be ****, and at least I know I'll have to accept this rather than embrace it as a good thing.

The SBG logic is often that it's a GOOD thing, and we're the lucky ones for going bald, god showed us the way to be sly. unk: And then guys wake up to the truth months or years down the line, it could be a photograph, or someone in public making a comment, or liking a girl that the old you could have a realistic chance with, but now she's inexplicably not interested at all! Like, no chance! Wonder why?!

So as always I'd never say baldness is the end for a guy in all ways, and that's important to remember, but it's also not some wonderful new beginning, it's equally important to remember that.

 

[shookwun]

I still think there's a balance to be struck up though, when my hair was badly thinning at the fringe (I wasn't completely sure this was a "shedding", but had gone on for a few months and I thought I was resigned to the fact that the treatments weren't working and this is just the end, try and maintain what little I have) I convinced myself I had a good head shape when bald, looks great etc. Then I was best man at a wedding, so about a billion photos were taken of me, and the very first one I saw weeks later almost made me puke.

It was a bad angle for diffuse thinning hair, first thing in the morning, eating breakfast at grooms house with the main wedding party, shot from above at the side angle of my head, against some natural light, and I just couldn't look at any more. I told the married couple I checked through them all but couldn't. It was that much of a fall.

But actually by this time the shedding had stopped and things were thickening up again, which took a lot of convincing myself to believe but I had noticed for some weeks that hair was no longer all over my pillow and towel, and you can convince yourself of anything in a bathroom mirror and lighting, but I compared pictures and there was a real difference between then and the wedding. That was obviously a big saving grace that there's hope, I would have been in a real bad way for weeks had I not grown back some hair. I just felt foolish for actually thinking my hair looked GOOD balding, god no, and seeing the truth was a real kick in the balls I hadn't prepared myself for. At least now if/when I lose it, I know it will be ****, and at least I know I'll have to accept this rather than embrace it as a good thing.

The SBG logic is often that it's a GOOD thing, and we're the lucky ones for going bald, god showed us the way to be sly. unk: And then guys wake up to the truth months or years down the line, it could be a photograph, or someone in public making a comment, or liking a girl that the old you could have a realistic chance with, but now she's inexplicably not interested at all! Like, no chance! Wonder why?!

So as always I'd never say baldness is the end for a guy in all ways, and that's important to remember, but it's also not some wonderful new beginning, it's equally important to remember that.

4k-HD cameras always give us a nice reality check.

Even toppik administration wont look good when confronted with such detail in video, and photo capture. Look like someone dumped chaulk on your head!

 

[Primo]

For people with bumps on their heads, baldness is NOT an option, if they want game.

I agree with this 100%

It's all very well promoting buzzing or shaving heads if you're in that 5% of guys with flawless, perfectly formed headshapes, but for the other 95% of us, our heads will inevitably look like total *** when shaved.

...The only option you have once your stuck with an ugly *** headshape and no hair, is then is to compensate ll cool j-style, with a completely jacked physique, a clownish array of hats and just generally dressing and acting like a baldy, beefcake badass thug :laugh:... I mean sure, that might be fun and edgy for a while when you're a young baldie perhaps, but what regular non-celebrity, working person wants to be trapped with that look and image for the rest of their entire life??

Having lived through that stage myself, I know I could "endure" and live with it if i had to, but it would be a last resort option, possibly even behind hair pieces lol ( * I swear even very obvious and known wig & hair piece wearers thesedays, both male and female, get more respect and social acceptance from our 2016 instagram generation, than the honest, average looking shaved bald guy who has done what society told him and "accepted it"...)

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personally I don't know how they live with themselves. I couldn't be happy knowing I'm promoting guys to just give up.

I agree they are definitely at the one far end of the spectrum of bald/balding guys, the other extreme delusional end of the spectrum being the impact types whom think we should all just give up on life and jam our thumbs up our asses, while we wallow in constant self-pity and just generally circle jerk over nw1s 24/7, while being as non-proactive about life's problems as is humanly possible.

 

[Notcoolanymore]

"The Impact of Sly Bald Guys" should be a section on this forum. That site has destroyed my life.

 

[shookwun]

"The Impact of Sly Bald Guys" should be a section on this forum. That site has destroyed my life.

[video=youtube;AD-E2B5GfI8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD-E2B5GfI8[/video]

 

[Baldingat188]

Thanks for that vid, book marked.

I strangley feel good about my hair loss now

 

[uncomfortable man]

I think it would be cool if all bald guys would rock combovers and intentionly bad toupes in defiance of societies unsympathetic rubber stamp, one size fits all advice. And the best part would be when they ask why, you could say

"F you, thats why."

 

[blackg]

I think it would be cool if all bald guys would rock combovers and intentionly bad toupes in defiance of societies unsympathetic rubber stamp, one size fits all advice. And the best part would be when they ask why, you could say

"F you, thats why."

I'm cheering from the rooftops, UC man!!! Great post!!!

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"The Impact of Sly Bald Guys" should be a section on this forum. That site has destroyed my life.

Can you tell us a bit more in detail? I'm interested.

 

[Dench57]

Can you tell us a bit more in detail? I'm interested.

Sadly the damage that site has done to me is also something I live with on a daily basis. I'm still recovering from whatever the hell that site did to me. It would be great to have a subforum for us to vent about the Impact of SBG.

 

[Hairloss23]

Sadly the damage that site has done to me is also something I live with on a daily basis. I'm still recovering from whatever the hell that site did to me. It would be great to have a subforum for us to vent about the Impact of SBG.

lmao

"The Impact of Sly Bald Guys" should be a section on this forum. That site has destroyed my life.

NotCoolAnymore it hasn't ruined you're life, IIRC you are like a NW2/2.5, grow a ****ing pair you moron. Everyone on this forum is so ****ing sensitive, maybe we should have an Impact of Sly Bald Guys Subforum just so bellends like you can reside in it all day and the remaining normal people wouldn't have to read your idiotic comments in any other of the subforums.

 

[shookwun]

Sly Bald guy tales 001

I've been on vacation and so very lazy about shaving. I don't think I've shaved in about 10 days. I was at the gym today. I hardly ever talk to anyone at the gym. I mean almost never. Today my ipod died and so I couldn't hide. There was a girl trying to figure out how to switch the height on the seat for the hammer strength incline after I got off. I went back and showed her and we started talking about blah blah. It turns out that we have some 6 degree connection thing - my sister in law went to HS with her. She started talking about going to some club tonight and how I shoudl come along. I took off my hat for a second to wipe off my brow w/o even thinking about it, and her face went pale. She said "Oh. You're bald." Before I knew how to respond she said "They don't allow hats at the club we're going to". I said something like "Oh that's cool. I'm getting too old for the club scene anyway."

 

[buckthorn]

Sadly the damage that site has done to me is also something I live with on a daily basis. I'm still recovering from whatever the hell that site did to me. It would be great to have a subforum for us to vent about the Impact of SBG.

Explanation? isn't it just a site where people are kissing each other's a s s e s for being bald?

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[video=youtube;AD-E2B5GfI8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD-E2B5GfI8[/video]

hahaha... I watched this twice. It is true and a little reassuring that well groomed facial hair does indeed step up your game.

 

[Rudiger]

It's kind of interesting to see how a few of you react so strongly to the idea of this thread, by all means post more quotes direct from SBG, I probably will at some point.

Well there it is, you're insane like us. 7 billion people in the world and we are the only ones crazy enough to post on this stupid forum.

Who's the creepy stalker now? You reply to literally half my posts.

If you openly admit to being completely insane, and then go on to claim everyone around you is insane, would anyone ever count yours as a reliable and trustworthy evaluation of other people's mental health?

My reaction to a photo was by no means rational, but just because I reacted badly, or had a "breakdown" in some small way, it doesn't make me generally insane just because you want everyone to be as nuts as you. Just because I've brought up a story from my past doesn't mean it still haunts me, I've since gone back and revisited all of those wedding photos (not long after I firstly refused to look through them), it would be somewhat irrational or at the very most debatably insane if I still freaked out at the thought of it.

You know what's really insane? Having a phobia of the possibility of bald people getting hair. You should look into that.

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But back on topic, this post almost requires a trigger warning for some, but I just find it cringe:

http://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/index.php?topic=26893.0

The worst part isn't the picture, it's this:

"My workmates have given me a bit of stick, mainly shouts of "Get a haircut!" but as any Aussie knows, we harass and annoy others as a sign of friendship and I give back as good as I get

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Why do I get the impression his idea of "giving back" is mumbling under his breath, going red with embarrassment, trying to smile and then walking away.

The horror.

 

[I.D WALKER]

I've seen this sort of self deceptive coping device before.
It's seeking validation or saving face while still retaining "the nice pal" status.
instead of simply admitting another mate's behavior rattled him and try to adapt to the unpleasant exchange without being branded by your circle a total hot head.
The truth about who we are or how we are perceived in life can change on a dime.
I think certain ingrained social complexes induce us to create pseudo-realities all the time.
Our need to feel we belong pulls at us more strongly than our need for self acceptance.
Rejection is not an easy pill to swallow, it sometimes needs a sickeningly sweet chaser to keep it down.

 

[blackg]

I've seen this sort of self deceptive coping device before.
It's seeking validation or saving face while still retaining "the nice pal" status.
instead of simply admitting another mate's behavior rattled him and try to adapt to the unpleasant exchange without being branded by your circle a total hot head.
The truth about who we are or how we are perceived in life can change on a dime.
I think certain ingrained social complexes induce us to create pseudo-realities all the time.
Our need to feel we belong can pulls at us more strongly than our need for self acceptance.
Rejection is not an easy pill to swallow, it sometimes needs a sickeningly sweet chaser to keep it down.

Man!! Too good, again. The perception you show with regard to social interaction really impresses me.

And your correct. I think so anyway.