• MintyFresh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      2 days ago

      I did just that when I finally accepted I was balding, and in time would become bald. It was glorious! I had a luxuriant mane! I should have been in shampoo or “I can’t believe it’s not butter” commercials.

      • Feyr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        My wife doesn’t get it. I’m in my 40s. I let my hair grow because soon it will be all gone!

        It’s below my shoulder now, unfortunately curly so it’s a huge mess. But it’s MINE!

    • LongLive@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      I thought about it.
      I have a few unsolved issues.

      1. Moderately warm weather leads to sweat.
      2. (unverified) Long hair shouldn’t be washed often / it is difficult to wash it and dry it.
      3. Longer hair on the floor, bedding.
      4. Obscures vision.
      5. Flamable.
      6. Requires daily brushing to prevent knots.
      • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        1. Put your hair up, you can also have your hair cut person (whatever they’re called) layer your hair. It isn’t a big deal, I live in Florida and if I can tolerate it in the middle of summer, you shouldn’t have any issues

        2. Depends on your hair type and skin. My partner washes her hair once a week, I was mine every other day. If your point of reference is short hair, then yes, it is harder to wash and dry. But it isn’t a big deal, even for my ADHD ass.

        3. True. And in your laundry and ass crack too. Idk how it gets in my ass crack but it does.

        4. Wear your hair up or back when you need it out of your face.

        5. Don’t set your hair on fire? That’s just a problem in general, not even a long hair thing.

        6. I brush my hair before I put it up for work and before I go to bed. Takes less than 5 minutes out of my day. E: I’ll also brush it if I’m wearing it down and I want it to look nice while going out. Even with that it’s still a miniscule amount of time

        • kofe@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          I rarely brush mine aside from maybe once a month or so before washing, which I do once a week. I’m not the most active, though. If I have it down when outside with lots of wind or something it might get tangled, but that’s a good sign for a trim for me, too

      • Zidane@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        21·
        2 days ago

        Did long hair below the shoulders for 5ish years. Absolute fucking nightmare. Granted I was/am clinically depressed and severely 80HD so I put off the hair cutting until I thought I should donate it and just kept it for a while. I would fairly often rip out hairs which probably accelerated some hair loss/thining.

        All this to say don’t do it unless you have a set time limit or length goal.

    • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Been there, done that, got the T-shirt that says “fuck that never again” and have enjoyed my undercut for several years so far

  • wolfrasin@lemm.eeEnglish
    171·
    2 days ago

    Undercut keeps the wolves happy. Crows are cool but they give shit advice

  • Net_Runner :~$@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    I’m really glad this two wolves joke from the federated timeline 7 years ago is still raging on for some reason

    • kofe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      They almost always look great except when they don’t

      I’ve tried so many times. Got it right once or twice but something usually goes horribly wrong. Ive given up in favor of the mermaid hair cuz it adds insulation when its cold and I’ll toss it up in a bun when its hot

    • Deceptichum@quokk.auOPEnglish
      15·
      2 days ago

      Here’s the thing. You said “Crows and Jackdaws are the same.”

      Is it in the same family? Yes. No one’s arguing that.

      As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.

      If you’re saying “crow family” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.

      So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people “call the black ones crows?” Let’s get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.

      Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that’s not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you’d call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don’t.

      It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?

      • Apepollo11@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        2 days ago

        I’m admit the term always used to baffle me too.

        As a kid I could infer a lot of Americisms from the context, but it took me ages to pin down what ‘bangs’ were. The fact that it’s plural is the weirdest part.

        ‘Fringe’ makes sense - you have fringed curtains, fringed jackets, etc. ‘Bangs’ seems like such an odd thing to call it - is each hair a bang?

        • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          1 day ago

          It’s probably related to the term bangtail which I guess is a thing with horses and other livestock where they trim the tail hair straight across for reasons. Delving further into speculation it could have picked up the pluralization along a “those women with their bang cuts” > “their bangs” sort of route. I dunno man, language is weird.

          Here’s another haircut example: the mohawk, also called a mohican in the UK and presumably other places, is a recognizable style independently named after two different indigenous American tribes that didn’t wear their hair like that. America picked it up from the film Drums Along the Mohawk and the UK got it from The Last of the Mohicans a few decades later.