Random thoughts that don't warrant a thread

[YGIFS 19450]

Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever seen a woman working in a barber shop.  Weird.  

Lotsa gay dudes in higher-end places though, that was never weird for me.  But I usually just get my cut from my wife, sometimes spring for Supercuts or Bird's Barbershop.  

Although a couple times before Covid, I got these insanely discounted coupons for the Boardroom on Bee Caves Road.  Like a beer, shampoo, cut, and neck rub for just $18+ tip.  One day my "stylist" or "hairdresser" looked like the doppelganger for the pornstar Jessa Rhodes.  And yes, during the wash and the neck rub, it certainly moved.  I don't k now they stayed in business during Covid-19 with the usual package being like $55, but they're still there.  She, sadly, has moved on.

[Underdog 28611]

Is Sportsclips considered a barber shop or are you talking old school barber shop with light pole and everything?   Actually had one buzz my a head a few years ago as the shop owner was out that day.

[WhatTheBuck 28776]

3 hours ago, Underdog said:

Is Sportsclips considered a barber shop or are you talking old school barber shop with light pole and everything?   Actually had one buzz my a head a few years ago as the shop owner was out that day.

It’s a clip joint. 

[Scheiss Meister 8407]

When I was 12 or 13 the barber I went to got a big tittied redhead to come and cut hair with him in his shop.  Her tit massages on the shoulders while she cut hair brought in a huge increase in business.  For a young Scheiss, it was a novel and exciting experience.  Alas, the barber's wife found out about the new partner and forced him to let her go.  Since that time, I have never really liked getting my hair cut.

During Covid I started cutting my own hair.  About a year ago I was checking the top and back with a mirror when I saw what looked like a small tick.  I got my wife to look at it, and it wasn't a tick.  A couple of doctor visits later I had a scar on my head instead of the small stage 0 melanoma.  Make sure that you ask your barber, hairdresser, or whatever you call your hair professional to help keep an eye on your scalp.

[WhatTheBuck 28776]

I got tired of the guy who was cutting my hair and decided I could do just as good a job by myself. I went and bought clippers and a hand held mirror and it turned out I was right. I was paying him $17 for a clipper cut that took 15 minutes. I decided it wasn’t worth paying him $68/hr for his services. That was in Oct. of 2019. Two haircuts later the clippers had paid for themselves and I was ready when the pandemic hit. I haven’t looked back. I use the vacuum cleaner to sweep up the hair. I run the hose over my head and neck and itching is never a problem. I should’ve made the switch years before. 

[Gil Bang 25944]

I like my GF's snatch shaved clean.  At some point in the last dozen years, she told me "if you want it shaved, you can shave it". 

 

So, that's been our weekly routine. 

[NWBuck 8552]

1 hour ago, Gil Bang said:

I like my GF's snatch shaved clean.  At some point in the last dozen years, she told me "if you want it shaved, you can shave it". 

 

So, that's been our weekly routine. 

Might be time for a touch up... She's getting a little stubbly, FWIW. 

[52-80 19150]

all of my haircutters seem like casts in some fucked up comedy. 

first was an very flamboyant gay guy, who was intensely nosey in conversation.  then very sassy black ladies at the supercut.  then an old lady who asked me the same questions over and over again (how old are you; when did you move here), despite my going to her every 3 weeks for some years.  then a high likely closeted dude who just couldnt stop talking about dogs (that he doesnt own), and paris.  etc.

i dont think ive ever had a normal one.

[Prepuce of Doom 21065]

"Describe all the people who have cut your hair in reverse chronological order with as much detail as possible" seems like one of those oddball "intense job interview" questions that seemed popular during the dotcom boom. 

It's an interesting mental exercise. My highlights are a timelessly old 75lb. Korean lady when I lived in Los Angeles (best scalp massage and it's not close) and a spherically rotund black woman who had both a shaved head and a bleached mini-afro at other times from when I lived in NC (very entertaining shit talker, and a distant second in best scalp massage). 

Edited June 25, 2023 by Prepuce of Doom

[closetohumping 17438]

IDK how I feel about this.  Jackass drivers in every city in the world, regardless of race, income level, age, etc.  There are some tight parking lots here in Irvine and you know, some international drivers tend to abide by their own rules, well no rules. 

 

I've never messed with another person's car though there's been moments I've been tempted to do so.

 

Ok, so a buddy of mine was cutoff by a young couple.  He throws up his hands like "wtf."  They laugh and then give him the finger.  When they leave their car, he lobs a full topo chico bottle at their car, doing some damage and drives off.  

[nnm 36360]

6 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

IDK how I feel about this.  Jackass drivers in every city in the world, regardless of race, income level, age, etc.  There are some tight parking lots here in Irvine and you know, some international drivers tend to abide by their own rules, well no rules. 

 

I've never messed with another person's car though there's been moments I've been tempted to do so.

 

Ok, so a buddy of mine was cutoff by a young couple.  He throws up his hands like "wtf."  They laugh and then give him the finger.  When they leave their car, he lobs a full topo chico bottle at their car, doing some damage and drives off.  

[closetohumping 17438]

2 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

"Describe all the people who have cut your hair in reverse chronological order with as much detail as possible" seems like one of those oddball "intense job interview" questions that seemed popular during the dotcom boom. 

It's an interesting mental exercise. My highlights are a timelessly old 75lb. Korean lady when I lived in Los Angeles (best scalp massage and it's not close) and a spherically rotund black woman who had both a shaved head and a bleached mini-afro at other times from when I lived in NC (very entertaining shit talker, and a distant second in best scalp massage). 

I got my haircut at this place off Riverside once.  They didn't have the machine that blows hair off your neck so the "stylist" used her mouth. 

[YGIFS 19450]

Ah, so you've been to 'Trim to Mouth' near 71?  Love that place. 

[Superhero 8828]

6 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

"Describe all the people who have cut your hair in reverse chronological order with as much detail as possible" seems like one of those oddball "intense job interview" questions that seemed popular during the dotcom boom. 

It's an interesting mental exercise. My highlights are a timelessly old 75lb. Korean lady when I lived in Los Angeles (best scalp massage and it's not close) and a spherically rotund black woman who had both a shaved head and a bleached mini-afro at other times from when I lived in NC (very entertaining shit talker, and a distant second in best scalp massage). 

Mine haven’t been that interesting… 

A bunch of crotchety old white guys. A woman on on crutches. A flamboyant Vietnamese-black guy. Lieutenant Ricker at the Wooten. A 30-40 YO Taiwanese woman who would rub her boobs on my teenage arm. My mom.

The last crotchety old guy was the best. Too bad the landlord ended his lease after he had been there for almost 40 years.

 

[mchookem 16327]

CO edibles >> CA edibles

however

CA flower >>>>>>> CO flower

you can tell California's been cultivating a long time

😎

[GoPokes83 2240]

CO edibles >> CA edibles
however
CA flower >>>>>>> CO flower
you can tell California's been cultivating a long time

Pretty sure there’s a whole thread for this info, and the edibles aren’t made locally from the same plants? Why would one be better than the other?

[Guest]

On 6/23/2023 at 9:35 PM, Baboontyme said:

I can't believe what just happened. Out of a fucking Seinfeld episode or something. I took my son and my nephews to Gatlinburg. Our rental is on the side of a mountain. Extremely steep. My nephew (16) has some kind of toe infection. My sister has been on me like no other about making sure he takes his script antibiotics 3x per day. I was texting her some pictures, she asked of course about the meds. I reminded him to take his last dose of the day. They are in the hot tub. The hot tub is located on the "ground" floor on the patio. I am in the kitchen and living room above. There is a patio on this level. It's maybe 9 feet from the balcony railing to where he is. He says drop it to me. I survey the situation. The hot tub is enclosed on 3 sides with floor to patio above patio slats. The open side/entry of the hot tub is not exposed to any area with a regular/low railing for 2 feet. I decided I could put the meds in a Ziploc in case he dropped it and it would float and be fine. I dropped it. Right into his hands. In the hot tub. Bounced off of his hands, and 5 feet diagonally to the left, over the railing and down the mountain. It has been an hour and I am still in disbelief. Photos from earlier for reference. Un fucking real. The photos could not illustrate how unlikely this was any better. 

Posting pictures of shirtless teenage boys in a hot tub on the internet, huh? Yeah, that's not weird.

[Antidean 200]

My father gave my brother and I haircuts when we were growing up. He used the same trimmers on us that he used to trim our horses manes and tails.

His specialty was buzz cuts and the occasional flat top. I don't remember him ever cleaning the trimmer before or after use.

Haven't let a male barber touch my head since then. Only female barbers for me until I die.

 

[thunderlounge 7816]

12 hours ago, GoPokes83 said:

Pretty sure there’s a whole thread for this info, and the edibles aren’t made locally from the same plants? Why would one be better than the other?

There is a thread, yes. 
Same flower? More likely the trim, and popcorn lowers.

Biggest diff is going to be extraction method, resulting concentrate, and recipes.

 

[Rimbo 25919]

Had a toothache this weekend that just kept on getting worse. By 1AM this morning, I was leaving shitty voicemails on my dentist's cell phone, moaning that I didn't think I'd make it the 6 hours until his office opened.

Seriously, this was the second worst pain intensity I'd ever experienced; multiply that by the duration, and you get one miserable fucking Rimbo.

So naturally I end up with an emergency root canal this morning.

You know it's bad when, right after drilling the hole in your tooth, the dentist says "like popping a zit" while necrotic tissue oozes its way out of the hole...

i feel much better now

[Rimbo 25919]

5 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Posting pictures of shirtless teenage boys in a hot tub on the internet, huh? Yeah, that's not weird.

I mean, it wasn't at first, and then you had to go make it that way...

[Rimbo 25919]

On 6/24/2023 at 9:28 PM, Gil Bang said:

I like my GF's snatch shaved clean.  At some point in the last dozen years, she told me "if you want it shaved, you can shave it". 

 

So, that's been our weekly routine. 

I'm hugely in favor of fur, but this is cool.

[tbone_ 14115]

Seems like a fair trade

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Sometimes I think I would like to try ayahuasca, then I take some of my wife’s melatonin to help me sleep and the terrifying and vivid nightmares I have have me second guessing that line of thought. Fucking heart of darkness man.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21898]

So your wife no longer has any meat flaps?

[Scheiss Meister 8407]

7 hours ago, Rimbo said:

Had a toothache this weekend that just kept on getting worse. By 1AM this morning, I was leaving shitty voicemails on my dentist's cell phone, moaning that I didn't think I'd make it the 6 hours until his office opened.

Seriously, this was the second worst pain intensity I'd ever experienced; multiply that by the duration, and you get one miserable fucking Rimbo.

So naturally I end up with an emergency root canal this morning.

You know it's bad when, right after drilling the hole in your tooth, the dentist says "like popping a zit" while necrotic tissue oozes its way out of the hole...

i feel much better now

Damn, I've been there.  I was almost homicidal.  The relief from the novocaine, then the drilling, was exquisite.

The only worse pain that I've ever experienced was a weekend of dry socket after getting both of my lower wisdom teeth removed.  God, I love clove oil and pain killer packing.

[Superhero 8828]

Some random thoughts...

When I sleep, I like to pull the covers up just below my mouth.

If I fall asleep on the couch wearing just a t-shirt and shorts, no matter what the temperature it is in the house, I will wake up shivering violently until I warm up.

[closetohumping 17438]

On 6/24/2023 at 2:40 PM, Underdog said:

Is Sportsclips considered a barber shop or are you talking old school barber shop with light pole and everything?   Actually had one buzz my a head a few years ago as the shop owner was out that day.

Sportsclip is Supercuts with clipper reruns

[HRSchenker 2268]

On 6/16/2023 at 2:17 PM, HRSchenker said:

Friend of mine got murdered in November of 2020. They caught the guy in January of 2021 but he's been locked up in the county jail since then. Haven't heard anything about a trial 

I filed an open records request with the county and they have no scheduled court or hearing dates at all for the case this year. Why would a murder trial be delayed almost 3 years? 

[Hook1997 5354]

[TrashMaster G 17551]

It flat fucking mystifies me that people think nothing of playing their videos on their phones out loud (often at max volume) in public, especially eating establishments. 

Or, even worse, let their little shit kids do the same with video games.

Ear buds and headphones exist and are cheap, you inconsiderate pinheads. 

[Underdog 28611]

40 years ago Joe Delaney was a RB for the Chiefs, Joe didn't know how to swim.  He spotted 3 boys in trouble in a nearby pond and jumped in immediately to rescue them...  He saved one boy, unfortunately he couldn't save the other two or himself.  Hero. 

 

['stache 21802]

I find it astonishing that people used to smoke indoors all the time and it was normal. I smoke cigs sometimes when I’m drinking but during the day it’s gross and makes me sick. I heard one explanation that made sense. When people wore three piece suits and heavy dresses back in the day without air conditioning, people stunk like like crazy indoors when the temp was 90 plus, and smoke smelled better. Other than that, it’s so gross.

[nnm 36360]

8 hours ago, 'stache said:

I find it astonishing that people used to smoke indoors all the time and it was normal. I smoke cigs sometimes when I’m drinking but during the day it’s gross and makes me sick. I heard one explanation that made sense. When people wore three piece suits and heavy dresses back in the day without air conditioning, people stunk like like crazy indoors when the temp was 90 plus, and smoke smelled better. Other than that, it’s so gross.

You have no idea. It was everywhere, summer, winter, 24/7 365. Offices, schools, hospitals, buses, airplanes, submarines. It had nothing to do with body odor. It was just the way it was. 

[tbone_ 14115]

You have no idea. It was everywhere, summer, winter, 24/7 365. Offices, schools, hospitals, buses, airplanes, submarines. It had nothing to do with body odor. It was just the way it was. 

This. Everywhere. No one knew what cleanliness smelled like. I remember how blown away I was the first time I went to a bar where people couldn’t smoke because the law had changed. Crazy shit.

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

Yup. There were no white ceiling tiles in the office. Just that hazy yellow film everywhere.

[gofuckyourself 8209]

The occasional small town dive bar in Texas that allows smoking indoors gives a picture of how it used to be.

I remember going out when smoking was allowed everywhere and you just had to put up with it as a non-smoker. I don't miss that.

[Crapinon 2256]

Right after we got married, my company had a sales promotion for it's dealers and some of us got to go to Hawaii. My wife was terrified of flying and had read that the safest place to be was in the rear of the plane. So we got seats in the last row on a 747, in the smoking section. As soon as we were airborne and the pilot turned off the no smoking sign, the cabin transformed into a 70's bar. Everyone in the cabin lit up at the same time and it looked like a fog had set in.  

[Underdog 28611]

AMD(semiconductor for those not in the know) stopped allowing smoking in their buildings a few months before I started there in late 80s which I thought was odd to begin with given the contamination factor with the cleanroom suits and ICs.  

[thunderlounge 7816]

14 minutes ago, Underdog said:

AMD(semiconductor for those not in the know) stopped allowing smoking in their buildings a few months before I started there in late 80s which I thought was odd to begin with given the contamination factor with the cleanroom suits and ICs.  

I bet that was a neat time to be around all that tech in its infancy, starting to boom. 

Edited June 30, 2023 by thunderlounge

[Underdog 28611]

Was just a lowly Fab Tech who ran wafers and did small time PMs on production tools, AMD was fun, great place to work.  

[locodos 5387]

55 minutes ago, gofuckyourself said:

The occasional small town dive bar in Texas that allows smoking indoors gives a picture of how it used to be.

I remember going out when smoking was allowed everywhere and you just had to put up with it as a non-smoker. I don't miss that.

You ought to try that as an asthmatic.  Fuck smokers, sorry they are addicted, but back in the day they were real assholes about smoking when and wherever they wanted.  As smoking was being restricted in the 80's, I remember being out somewhere that smoking wasn't allowed and a guy asks my father if he minded if they smoked.  My father said actually I do mind, my son has asthma.  The guy pulled out a cigarette and lit it up and indignantly said "I was only asking to be polite!"

 

An yeah smoking flights were a lot of fun.

[YGIFS 19450]

Yeah, both my parents smoked and somehow were only related to, and friends with, people who smoked even more.  Every function we ever went to, it was just people chain smoking all night, mostly indoors.  Looking back, there really was this film/haze on everything.  But I guess everywhere had it so nobody noticed?  And the car, with cloth seats, and that ashtray just brimming with butts (not in a good way).  

I remember in 2005 (IIRC), Austin passed a resolution/law finally outlawing all smoking inside bars and restaurants, no special sections, nothing.  I think it even covered rooftops and patios (though maybe that was phased in later).  And hornfans and whatever the other message board after LFZ imploded, was filled with 20/30-somethings declaring it the death of the Austin bar/music scene.  Bars and restaurants would be going under left and right.  Smoking is part of the nightlife experience, we're all screwed, death of old Austin for the 37th time.  Flash forward 5 years later, then 10 years...we have more bars and restaurants per capita than nearly any city in the United States.  By the end of today, a craft cocktail bar, a wine bar, and 2 seafood restaurants will have opened up. 

 

That smell in your hair on sunday mornings combined with the cat that put all the little socks on your teeth.  I'll never miss that again.

[Brothahorn 10087]

Remember the fun times walking in or out of the building with all the smokers hovering by the door? By the time you make it through the gauntlet, you smelled like you had smoked half a pack.

[nnm 36360]

2 hours ago, Crapinon said:

Right after we got married, my company had a sales promotion for it's dealers and some of us got to go to Hawaii. My wife was terrified of flying and had read that the safest place to be was in the rear of the plane. So we got seats in the last row on a 747, in the smoking section. As soon as we were airborne and the pilot turned off the no smoking sign, the cabin transformed into a 70's bar. Everyone in the cabin lit up at the same time and it looked like a fog had set in.  

I don’t remember who coined the phrase (Carlin, maybe?) that a smoking section in a plane makes as much sense as a peeing section in a swimming pool. 
The smoking section was always in the back. And it was party central back there. My wife smoked and loved to sit in the smoking section because everybody was just having a big party. She never had to pay for her drinks. 
(queue the “I had your wife” jokes here). 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21898]

The last time I remember being on a plane with a smoking section was 1983, and the smoking section was definitely in the front

[Jameslaw121 4448]

2 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

The occasional small town dive bar in Texas that allows smoking indoors gives a picture of how it used to be.

I remember going out when smoking was allowed everywhere and you just had to put up with it as a non-smoker. I don't miss that.

Man. I used to smoke. Thought nothing of going to a local sports bar where everyone was smoking for hours at a time.

Last Christmas, after all the family stuff was done, me and a friend wanted to go have a drink, but the only place that was open was smoking place. I about vomited when I walked in. 

[52-80 19150]

Why is the acronym of french luxury supergroup Moet Hennessey Louis Vuitton LVMH instead of MHLV

[Armybrat 40832]

Very interesting (and long) Wikipedia page about the military brat “subculture”. 
I certainly can relate to most of it, particularly the changing relationships and feelings of not belonging to the civilian society. 
Most Surlyites who are former military brats will probably identify with much of it too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_brat_(U.S._subculture)

[Sandman 3403]

29 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

Very interesting (and long) Wikipedia page about the military brat “subculture”. 
I certainly can relate to most of it, particularly the changing relationships and feelings of not belonging to the civilian society. 
Most Surlyites who are former military brats will probably identify with much of it too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_brat_(U.S._subculture)

A few years ago, I was talking to my kids about growing up in West Germany and how great it was. I decided to plan a trip and jumped online to plot out all the stuff I wanted to show them. Then I got on google maps and discovered that the apartment building I lived in as a kid had been torn down, years ago. They built a hotel there. I was crushed. The trip plans were scrapped. I've decided Thomas Wolfe was right and I can't go home again.