Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about....

[TANGODANCER]

My dad died at 52. What bit of hair he had was grey and whispy. My Brother ( eighteen months younger than me) has always had light hair and not much of it left. I've not only got a full head of hair at nearly 75, but it's also still dark. Got plenty grey in the beard but none at all in my hair. I've waited patiently to be a Gere or Clooney but it never happened. Pity I didn't get the teeth to match though. Too late to bother now.

[thebish]

I always said I dont mind being bald, but I promised myself I'd never get bald and fat. It's not a good look.

I don't remember you being bald, Bobo... it wasnt that long ago that i took this snap of you in Putney...

[Bruce Rioja]

I always said I dont mind being bald, but I promised myself I'd never get bald and fat. It's not a good look.

Yeah, but at least we're not as tight as a gnat's chaff, eh?

[LeverEnd]

Started losing mine in my early 30s, no bother just started cutting it really short. The mrs frowns though at any suggestion of me doing a proper head shave, so just clippers without the guard every few weeks works well. I had curly hair so no interest from me in any restorer!

Same here. I'm quite happy with it, jokes apart. I wouldn't want to have to bother with haircut and styling and grooming and all that shite again.

[Dujon]

On a vanity scale of 1 to 10 I'm probably at level 0. I couldn't give a toss. I am what I am. Unlike TANGO I am well and truly grey; almost to the point of silver or white. At the same time my hair has always been 'fine' and remains so although it has over the years thinned. Why on earth someone would shave their head to 'disguise' their natural hirsuteness is beyond me.

[Gary the Enfield]

Started losing mine in my early 30s, no bother just started cutting it really short. The mrs frowns though at any suggestion of me doing a proper head shave, so just clippers without the guard every few weeks works well. I had curly hair so no interest from me in any restorer!

As GtE's photos on the other thread demonstrates, grey hair can look pretty smart with a braces combination . Wont be long, i suspect, before the little I have left goes grey. Meh

Ooh thanks.

[Gooner Girl]

Funny isn't it, how it's far more acceptable for men to be grey then it is women. You even have men seen as sex symbols that are bald/grey/both - George Clooney, Richard Gere, Jude Law etc. I can't think of many, if any grey haired female celebrities considered attractive.

Personally I can think of far bigger turn offs in a man then grey hair or baldness but it does look better short.

Mr GG has a fine head of hair but at 45 the grey is now starting to show through. I don't tease him about it. Much.

[Gary the Enfield]

Funny isn't it, how it's far more acceptable for men to be grey then it is women. You even have men seen as sex symbols that are bald/grey/both - George Clooney, Richard Gere, Jude Law etc. I can't think of many, if any grey haired female celebrities considered attractive.

Personally I can think of far bigger turn offs in a man then grey hair or baldness but it does look better short.

Mr GG has a fine head of hair but at 45 the grey is now starting to show through. I don't tease him about it. Much.

AHEM!

[Gooner Girl]

Funny isn't it, how it's far more acceptable for men to be grey then it is women. You even have men seen as sex symbols that are bald/grey/both - George Clooney, Richard Gere, Jude Law, GtE etc. I can't think of many, if any grey haired female celebrities considered attractive.

Personally I can think of far bigger turn offs in a man then grey hair or baldness but it does look better short.

Mr GG has a fine head of hair but at 45 the grey is now starting to show through. I don't tease him about it. Much.

AHEM!

Better?!

[Gary the Enfield]

Funny isn't it, how it's far more acceptable for men to be grey then it is women. You even have men seen as sex symbols that are bald/grey/both - George Clooney, Richard Gere, Jude Law, GtE etc. I can't think of many, if any grey haired female celebrities considered attractive.

Personally I can think of far bigger turn offs in a man then grey hair or baldness but it does look better short.

Mr GG has a fine head of hair but at 45 the grey is now starting to show through. I don't tease him about it. Much.

AHEM!

Better?!

Better.

[Gooner Girl]

Funny isn't it, how it's far more acceptable for men to be grey then it is women. You even have men seen as sex symbols that are bald/grey/both - George Clooney, Richard Gere, Jude Law, GtE etc. I can't think of many, if any grey haired female celebrities considered attractive.

Personally I can think of far bigger turn offs in a man then grey hair or baldness but it does look better short.

Mr GG has a fine head of hair but at 45 the grey is now starting to show through. I don't tease him about it. Much.

AHEM!

Better?!

Better.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Greyness doesn't bother me. My hair is thinning quite a lot these days which is annoying. Although most people would say I have a full head of hair, I live under a hotter and more visible sun that Lancashire and it detects thinness. This means I have to start wearing hats and I have never liked hats.

My geneticist friends tell me that you get "hair" genes from your mother's father - so initially it is his hair that determines you more than dad. However, Androgenic alopecia, which affects three quarters of men to some degree, also stems from environmental factors. Personally I blame Windscale.

Is your geneticist friend a witch doctor? because that is tosh. Like all genes you get them from either side. Some of the genes associated with male hair patterns are autosomal dominant and because they lie on the Y chromosome cannot in fact come from your mother's father for similar reasons that your mitochondrial DNA cannot come from your father (unless your mother is transgendered in a genetic way having the rare condition of triplosomatic XXY).

[Montreal Wanderer]

Greyness doesn't bother me. My hair is thinning quite a lot these days which is annoying. Although most people would say I have a full head of hair, I live under a hotter and more visible sun that Lancashire and it detects thinness. This means I have to start wearing hats and I have never liked hats.

My geneticist friends tell me that you get "hair" genes from your mother's father - so initially it is his hair that determines you more than dad. However, Androgenic alopecia, which affects three quarters of men to some degree, also stems from environmental factors. Personally I blame Windscale.

Is your geneticist friend a witch doctor? because that is tosh. Like all genes you get them from either side. Some of the genes associated with male hair patterns are autosomal dominant and because they lie on the Y chromosome cannot in fact come from your mother's father for similar reasons that your mitochondrial DNA cannot come from your father (unless your mother is transgendered in a genetic way having the rare condition of triplosomatic XXY).

I'm afraid I only speak English and French.

Witch doctors? No, university professors though one is indeed transgendered. However, some scientific studies suggest it does come through Mother or your maternal grandfather. Now I never said all male baldness stems this way, nor do I know enough about it to mount any sort or argument. Possibly the sources I quoted are tosh and my academic colleagues quoting superstition instead of science. I just passed on what people wiser than I am had said. If I was misinformed I apologize.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Greyness doesn't bother me. My hair is thinning quite a lot these days which is annoying. Although most people would say I have a full head of hair, I live under a hotter and more visible sun that Lancashire and it detects thinness. This means I have to start wearing hats and I have never liked hats.

My geneticist friends tell me that you get "hair" genes from your mother's father - so initially it is his hair that determines you more than dad. However, Androgenic alopecia, which affects three quarters of men to some degree, also stems from environmental factors. Personally I blame Windscale.

Is your geneticist friend a witch doctor? because that is tosh. Like all genes you get them from either side. Some of the genes associated with male hair patterns are autosomal dominant and because they lie on the Y chromosome cannot in fact come from your mother's father for similar reasons that your mitochondrial DNA cannot come from your father (unless your mother is transgendered in a genetic way having the rare condition of triplosomatic XXY).

I'm afraid I only speak English and French.

Witch doctors? No, university professors though one is indeed transgendered. However, some scientific studies suggest it does come through Mother or your maternal grandfather. Now I never said all male baldness stems this way, nor do I know enough about it to mount any sort or argument. Possibly the sources I quoted are tosh and my academic colleagues quoting superstition instead of science. I just passed on what people wiser than I am had said. If I was misinformed I apologize.

No need for noses to be disjointed. Firstly they aren't wiser than you. Secondly, I know of no genetic mechanism that transfer information through a maternal grandfather without it being equally possible through a maternal grandmother. Genetic mechanisms can be sexually biased like the Y chromosome which is passed from father to son and mitochondrial DNA which is passed solely from the mother in all circumstances. But from a male through a female as a rule contravenes all genetical mechanisms I know of. I was a biochemist in a previous life JSL.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Greyness doesn't bother me. My hair is thinning quite a lot these days which is annoying. Although most people would say I have a full head of hair, I live under a hotter and more visible sun that Lancashire and it detects thinness. This means I have to start wearing hats and I have never liked hats.

My geneticist friends tell me that you get "hair" genes from your mother's father - so initially it is his hair that determines you more than dad. However, Androgenic alopecia, which affects three quarters of men to some degree, also stems from environmental factors. Personally I blame Windscale.

Is your geneticist friend a witch doctor? because that is tosh. Like all genes you get them from either side. Some of the genes associated with male hair patterns are autosomal dominant and because they lie on the Y chromosome cannot in fact come from your mother's father for similar reasons that your mitochondrial DNA cannot come from your father (unless your mother is transgendered in a genetic way having the rare condition of triplosomatic XXY).

I'm afraid I only speak English and French.

Witch doctors? No, university professors though one is indeed transgendered. However, some scientific studies suggest it does come through Mother or your maternal grandfather. Now I never said all male baldness stems this way, nor do I know enough about it to mount any sort or argument. Possibly the sources I quoted are tosh and my academic colleagues quoting superstition instead of science. I just passed on what people wiser than I am had said. If I was misinformed I apologize.

No need for noses to be disjointed. Firstly they aren't wiser than you. Secondly, I know of no genetic mechanism that transfer information through a maternal grandfather without it being equally possible through a maternal grandmother. Genetic mechanisms can be sexually biased like the Y chromosome which is passed from father to son and mitochondrial DNA which is passed solely from the mother in all circumstances. But from a male through a female as a rule contravenes all genetical mechanisms I know of. I was a biochemist in a previous life JSL.

Not at all disjointed as I have no personal knowledge of the subject. I just gave my sources with apologies if they were mistaken. Perhaps it was an old and discarded theory they were quoting and more recent research has rejected that theory.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Yep I read your link. It isn't wrong, but it isn't correct to interpret it as a predictor. As it says itself, there's a little more to it than that. At best, to put it bluntly, to look at the state of your grandfather's pate gives an indicator of the probability of you being bald... About 57/43, which is better than stochastic chance but little more than a random guess

[Bruce Rioja]

Didn't know where to put this so here will have to do. What's this about, Monty? It's a bit of a rum do.

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[Montreal Wanderer]

Didn't know where to put this so here will have to do. What's this about, Monty? It's a bit of a rum do.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 89353.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Somewhat American I fear. It just came on the news this morning. The RCMP are the police for those provinces which don't have provincial police (basically all but Ontario and Quebec) although I expect Moncton might have a municipal force. We don't know much. He was home-schooled by his parents, disliked authority and had recently lost his job for attitude problems. There are a lot of woods round that area. He might be hard to find if he had planned it well.

[Il Pirate]

Didn't know where to put this so here will have to do. What's this about, Monty? It's a bit of a rum do.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 89353.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Somewhat American I fear. It just came on the news this morning. The RCMP are the police for those provinces which don't have provincial police (basically all but Ontario and Quebec) although I expect Moncton might have a municipal force. We don't know much. He was home-schooled by his parents, disliked authority and had recently lost his job for attitude problems. There are a lot of woods round that area. He might be hard to find if he had planned it well.

My eldest spent about 12 months working in Moncton once, before moving to Montreal. He said the most exciting thing to ever happen there was seeing one car overtaking another.....................

[Montreal Wanderer]

Didn't know where to put this so here will have to do. What's this about, Monty? It's a bit of a rum do.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 89353.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Somewhat American I fear. It just came on the news this morning. The RCMP are the police for those provinces which don't have provincial police (basically all but Ontario and Quebec) although I expect Moncton might have a municipal force. We don't know much. He was home-schooled by his parents, disliked authority and had recently lost his job for attitude problems. There are a lot of woods round that area. He might be hard to find if he had planned it well.

My eldest spent about 12 months working in Moncton once, before moving to Montreal. He said the most exciting thing to ever happen there was seeing one car overtaking another.....................

New Brunswick is the only legally bilingual province in Canada. Moncton is the principal city in the predominantly French (Acadian) part. It is not an exciting city and I usually bypass it on the R-Can. They still have located him.