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Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

i'd certainly rather have gray hair in high school than be balding in high school like a guy i knew. if nothing else it gives you a good excuse and starting point to dye it weird colors

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PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan


Same luckily I have a luscious mane

A Wheezy Steampunk
Jul 16, 2006

High School Grads Eligible!

Sagebrush posted:

i'd certainly rather have gray hair in high school than be balding in high school like a guy i knew. if nothing else it gives you a good excuse and starting point to dye it weird colors

absolutely, i had a friend in college who was balding and it seems like the worst

turning silver at 22 is a blessing by comparison

Pulcinella
Feb 15, 2019

Sagebrush posted:

i'd certainly rather have gray hair in high school than be balding in high school like a guy i knew. if nothing else it gives you a good excuse and starting point to dye it weird colors

This was basically my grandfather. Went bald in high school but then did the Patrick Stewart thing where it didn’t look like he aged for 40 years.

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



I can speak from firsthand experience that I’d rather have my red hair turn white than to have fallen out, but I at least didn’t try to fool anyone and just shave my head now

god going white instead of bald at 23 would have ruled

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

a medium-format picture of beeftweeter staring silently at the camera, a quizzical expression on his face
sometimes my beard randomly grows red and blonde hairs (my hair is dark brown). shits weird

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band
cls: gonna lose my 630-day duolingo streak. meh, i think i'm okay with that

also cls: boy i wish i still had hair

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


Don't have any freezes left?

PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan


I lost a 700+ day Duolingo streak and then never did it again

PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan


I finished all of the German lessons and just got bored with repeating the "decaying" ones

Fortaleza
Feb 21, 2008

Signed up for German class at the local community college that starts right after my job ends but it got cancelled :<

Now I can either sign up for in-person level 1 which I'm not sure I'd learn much or remote-only Level 2/3 which I'm sure I wouldn't learn much because I hate remote poo poo

Eeyo
Aug 29, 2004

i'm pretty socially awkward/nervous so i would have hated becoming a professor. like the thought of teaching being a significant portion of my duties is, frankly, terrifying.

i hope you become a fancy professor mr. nice (if you want that)

the thing that intimidated me the most was that i was at a decent grad school for my field, but when i looked at the professors it was all princeton grads or yale grads or whatever so i always got the feeling i had no chance given the numbers. the colleagues i know who did become professors ended up at smaller schools without grad programs and were teaching more basic courses while doing research on the side. probably easier to get a spot at compared to a big public institution but idk how difficult that is. at least one is tenured though.

KidDynamite
Feb 11, 2005

Beeftweeter posted:

sometimes my beard randomly grows red and blonde hairs (my hair is dark brown). shits weird

that's the pigment cells in the folicle dying. greys are coming.

A Wheezy Steampunk
Jul 16, 2006

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Beeftweeter posted:

sometimes my beard randomly grows red and blonde hairs (my hair is dark brown). shits weird

i'm starting to get a cluster of bright white hairs in my dark beard, i'll trim them a little shorter when i'm trimming the rest of my beard but i'm running out of energy to care

A Wheezy Steampunk
Jul 16, 2006

High School Grads Eligible!

Eeyo posted:

i'm pretty socially awkward/nervous so i would have hated becoming a professor. like the thought of teaching being a significant portion of my duties is, frankly, terrifying.

i hope you become a fancy professor mr. nice (if you want that)

the thing that intimidated me the most was that i was at a decent grad school for my field, but when i looked at the professors it was all princeton grads or yale grads or whatever so i always got the feeling i had no chance given the numbers. the colleagues i know who did become professors ended up at smaller schools without grad programs and were teaching more basic courses while doing research on the side. probably easier to get a spot at compared to a big public institution but idk how difficult that is. at least one is tenured though.

i like teaching, but i don't want to grade anything, so i'm well suited to my current career in libraries

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

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KidDynamite posted:

that's the pigment cells in the folicle dying. greys are coming.

i don't doubt it, but its been happening literally as long as i've been able to grow one lol

always figured it was because my mom is blonde, as is my brother :shrug:

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



KidDynamite posted:

that's the pigment cells in the folicle dying. greys are coming.

I thought it just meant you were Scottish

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

The Fool posted:

Don't have any freezes left?

i have no idea. i just feel sick as poo poo and unmotivated as hell. i don't care to do the various tasks in legends of idleon, gems of war, or duolingo. i also haven't done the nyt crossword

dioxazine
Oct 14, 2004

PokeJoe posted:

Same luckily I have a luscious mane

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


cjs: bash sucks

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

CPColin posted:

lol if you don't have Enrique build your woodsshack for you

lol if you dont build your cabin in the woods with your own hands

CPColin
Sep 9, 2003

Big ol' smile.

rotor posted:

lol if you dont build your Enrique in the woods with your own hands

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome
gosh dang it colin

dioxazine
Oct 14, 2004

hand-crafted artisanal woods are a special circle of hell

PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan


I want to build a cabin in the woods by hand

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

PokeJoe posted:

I want to build a cabin in the woods by hand

you should do it, its great, deffo one of the highlights of the last 10 years for me.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Eeyo posted:

i'm pretty socially awkward/nervous so i would have hated becoming a professor. like the thought of teaching being a significant portion of my duties is, frankly, terrifying.

when i was younger there was nothing i hated more than giving presentations. i was extremely quiet and socially awkward and hated getting haircuts because it meant people would notice me the next day. i would have panic attacks and flop around and moan when once a year we had to give a speech in english class. public speaking was the worst torture imaginable.

now i have a job where i give presentations 4-6 hours a day 4 days a week and it's great. public speaking fires me up and i love being the center of attention. i will talk for as long as you let me about any subject you like. sometimes my friends in tech are freaking out about a presentation they have to give and i'm like lol, just give me your slides an hour beforehand and i'll do it for you, idgaf.

point is it's a skill you can develop and become comfortable doing, if you want to.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

i'm starting to get a cluster of bright white hairs in my dark beard, i'll trim them a little shorter when i'm trimming the rest of my beard but i'm running out of energy to care

the first white hairs i got were a white patch on one side of my beard, which looked weird, but now i have the same patch on both sides and i look like dr strange or something so it's cool.

PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan


rotor posted:

you should do it, its great, deffo one of the highlights of the last 10 years for me.

what do you do with the cabin now

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

i started going grey in grad school (of course)

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

PokeJoe posted:

what do you do with the cabin now

less than id like

i usually spend a weekend a month up there, just hangin out away from the screens. Prune back some trees, spray the poison oak, stuff like that.

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

bump_fn posted:

i started going grey in grad school (of course)

i started going grey when i had kids. Didnt start losing my hair until 4-5 years ago tho.

A Wheezy Steampunk
Jul 16, 2006

High School Grads Eligible!

Sagebrush posted:

the first white hairs i got were a white patch on one side of my beard, which looked weird, but now i have the same patch on both sides and i look like dr strange or something so it's cool.

that's cool, i would be fine with that happening to me

Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


c hobby s I am incompetent and can’t do electronics for poo poo

cjs I didn’t miss my day job lol

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Pollyanna posted:

c hobby s I am incompetent and can’t do electronics for poo poo

yeah same. Its really frustrating. I think electronics are super cool but like volts and amps and poo poo just slide off my brain, i find the subject very difficult, even basic poo poo.

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005




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Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


my bugbear is soldering and loving up soldering, I keep screwing myself over trying to fix my mistakes

hbag
Feb 13, 2021

mods?

Video Nasty
Jun 17, 2003

hbag posted:

does your wife know you call her "mrs nasty"

yes and it's our wedding birthday on Thursday :3:

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CPColin
Sep 9, 2003

Big ol' smile.
One time I picked up a soldering iron in a pencil grip from the wrong end and that made for a fun week of note-taking at school

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