A few of us in the pub this week having a laugh at us men and the daft things we have to do when the time comes around and were getting no younger, can't say im having one or had one yet but our mate is looking into dyeing his already going bald hair!
Do men dye there hair really?
He's off for the chest waxing & spent a fortune on clothes ideal for a teenager, He's 41 well we take the urine like hell out of him all in good fun but he's serious are you the same or similar?
What do you do?
The car is next as he's split from the misses last year the sports car is next we know it.!!
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I have used Just For Men to colour my hair once a month for the last 7 years, i look old enough without having grey hair as well !
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I have sympathy with this chap, he's possibly looking for a new lady in his life and given that image and looks (and apparent wealth) are now far more important than the person inside then he's doing what he has to do to attract.
The irony being that a woman worth having will want him for the right reasons, not the image.
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I've had a couple of pals in the past who've used hair dyes/rugs/etc/
Not me, I've just slobbed down. Started thinning years ago and gone whiteish as well.
Don't give hairdressers any of my cash....SWMBO cuts mine on the patio with a No2 blade in the trimmer. Big advantage is I can accidentally get a couple of bosoms rubbed against me.
Clothes....got a couple of nicer bits from M & S but mostly live in polo shirts and jeans.
Cars...no....not really any interest in modern cars....certainly not out to impress anybody, they can take it or leave it.
Drives her mad, of course, and I'll make the effort if we go out but not much in the wardrobe to go at.
Can't remember havingt a crisis at all.....life's too short.
Ted
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Big advantage is I can accidentally get a couple of bosoms
>> rubbed against me.
Yep get me grey clumps trimmed by swmbo in similar close contact.
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Is that all you geezers can think about ~ bosoms!
I've cut my own hair for nigh on 15 years now (and I still can't cut the back straight)
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Have a friend who dyes his hair - he stopped for a while but his (now ex) girlfriend said it was like going out with a pensioner and made him start again.
I have little left, so a quick all over with the clippers keeps me maintained. As others have said getting the Mrs to do it can add an element of excitement to an otherwise mundane event!
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I have little left, so a quick all over with the clippers keeps me maintained. As others have said getting the Mrs to do it can add an element of excitement to an otherwise mundane event! Yes even better on a cold day.!!!!
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I won't dye my hair, my dad at the age of 86 still has the black hair of his youth (thinning though) - My only concession to looks has been a reduction in my stomach, mainly for bad health preventative reasons.
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having seen my elders as a kid sloop brylcream on their heads to the extreme
ive always let nature take its course with myself
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>> having seen my elders as a kid sloop brylcream on their heads to the extreme
>> ive always let nature take its course with myself
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When I was a Teddy Boy in the 1950s I always put Brylcreem on my hair to hold it in place.
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>> I won't dye my hair, my dad at the age of 86 still has the
>> black hair of his youth (thinning though) - My only concession to looks has been
>> a reduction in my stomach, mainly for bad health preventative reasons.
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And a new love of your life!!!
Best.....M
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>> I've cut my own hair for nigh on 15 years now (and I still can't
>> cut the back straight)
Poodle parlour....perhaps /
Ted
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Last time I had my remaining hair cut was by my daughter's and granddaughters' amusing gay hairdresser. I happened to visit needing a haircut while they were faffing around keeping him waiting. He did a quick job and offered to do it free but I insisted and gave him a tenner - well below his real price I'm sure.
Of course mid-life crisis is not even on the horizon yet - I'm still quite young - but I did say I'd quite like a nice turquoise or lemon yellow or orange streak on some of my premature white hairs. He giggled and thought it was an OK idea, but the women screamed the place down at the very idea and he was putty in their hands, the wimp. So, sorry, but I don't have an easily detected label.
Don't get the idea I look respectable though. That would be moral death.
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>>SWMBO cuts mine on the patio with a No2 blade in the trimmer.
Fond memories of when the roles were reversed (she wouldn't let me near her head though).
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Well, at 30 ive given up on my image now - lets call it freestyle :-)
This year my hair has started to thin at the front more noticeably but I keep it long on top so it doesnt show really. Its also just started going grey round the edges. I care not. This weekend, my mum bought me a flat cap at a steam rally. Apparently it suits me rather well.
I live in £4 Matalan joggers and Tesco Value T-shirts these days and some Catapiller boots which are in their 16th year, just hanging in there.
My mid-life crisis may never happen, ive just stopped caring about what people think. Its only when you care that you have to go to so much effort to please others for rather superficial reasons.
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Where's Zero when you need him to jeer at people's mullets?
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What a pain. Just lost a post to the timelapse thing.
What it said in effect is that dress codes in ordinary life are laughable, and that if it isn't a fancy dress ball in this vale of tears it damn well ought to be.
Yes, that just about covers it.
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Started shaving the old 'nads last year. Number one all over. Wifey loves it. She says I look younger and I get more treats at bedtime than I used to.
Well everyone in the porn industry does it, I thought what the hell...
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You've all made my early morning reading this thread:)
I cut Ian's hair on the patio too and now I know why he keeps leaning the wrong way!
Don't you all realise we do look inside at a man? It's his mind and morals that matter to us, not what we see.
A comfortable man makes us feel comfortable too and all those insecurities women hide so well fade into the distance.
Having said that, I had my midlife crisis at 34yrs old when I decided to change a safe career and company car for being a lorry driver!
There was a sense of urgency that kept telling me to do it now or I never would do.
And Ted...... you look lovely, I can vouch for that!:)
Pat
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>> And Ted...... you look lovely, I can vouch for that!:)
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I'm inclinedv to agree with you there Pat.
I think you had your Claret Goggles on though !
My valet thinks otherwise !
A Lidl dandy !
Ted
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Started shaving the old 'nads last year. Number one all over. Wifey loves it.
Nak sack and crack is what you want alledgedly.! what ever that is......................!
Our mate seems to be enjoying his little self doing all this or maybe he genuinly thinks he has to?, still why not he's happy.
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>>dress codes in ordinary life are laughable, and that if it isn't a fancy dress ball in this vale of tears it damn well ought to be<<
Powerful words Sire!
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I'm 36 and am actually quite looking forward to my mid-life crisis. I'll not be trading in Mrs Badwolf for a younger model as she does everything a younger model could do, but infinitely better, but I think that a sporty car might be in order. I'll have to be careful not to dress like a fool though. Nice clothes look odd on me - rather like I've nicked them or are wearing them for somebody else.
Having said that, I've started wearing long-sleeved shirts and smart jeans or chinos when I'm not at work and actually enjoy looking fairly smart. Mrs Badwolf says that she prefers me to dress like that rather than in scruffy jeans and a t-shirt so if it earns me more brownie points then that's got to be a good thing. I do have trouble redeeming them though - apparently they're only valid for a certain amount of time and she never tells me what that is :-)
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As an aside, is anybody surprised that midlifecrisis hasn't posted on this thread yet? :-)
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>> As an aside, is anybody surprised that midlifecrisis hasn't posted on this thread yet? :-)
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You called! I've been having one for years, but I'm actually enjoying it now. I've recently been with my old mates to see China Crisis, OMD, ABC and I'm off to see AHA in London in October. I even saw Rick Astley supporting Peter Kay a few weeks ago :). All real music that still sounds great (and I can remember all the words, so my memory is OK!)
The 80's have never looked so good. :)
(I can still run a good few miles at a fair lick as well....so fast it seems to blow my hair off!)
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" I even saw Rick Astley "
Never cared for him first time round, I found his voice to be "put on" or affected. But his recent tune is an absolute stonker, a really great pop song and I've seen him doing a couple of interviews where he comes over as a top chap.
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>> Rick Astley supporting Peter Kay
Hell's teeth. I vaguely remember the name Rick Astley, and now I've looked him up I vaguely remember one of his songs. The other one I don't recognise, have vaguely looked him up, and *still* don't recognise, he looks like some sort of pudgy-faced "popular" TV presenter. If R.A. was "supporting", that must mean he's second fiddle to a nonentity. Cripes.
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"The other one I don't recognise"
And you're not missing anything. Dreary comedic social commentary along the lines of - if you're from Bolton, you won't know what garlic bread is - and more of the same. Gets on my nerves.
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I know a song that'll get on yer nerves
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>> Well, at 30 ive given up on my image now - lets call it freestyle
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Don't worry Stu, you'll always be 29 to us...
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And no ones even mentioned going out and buying a motorbike.
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Midlife crisis No.2 - I did the motorbike thing, took lessons over 8 weeks, passed the test and bought a Triumph Street Triple R and love it.
Midlife crisis No.1 - Ford Mustang Muscle car V8 and heavily modified :-) love it too.
Plenty of hair but no hair dye though the ladies like the salt and pepper look ;)
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No MLC thoughts yet....aged 51.
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nor me
you make life what it is
no point in looking back in anger or regret
for the last 4 weeks someone i have known for many years has died
ages from 54 to 28 and in between
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Jumped out of an aeroplane for my fortieth - spent the next six weeks in plaster. ;>(
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Nasty people the Crabs - forget to tell you needed a parachute ?!
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>> Nasty people the Crabs - forget to tell you needed a parachute ?!
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Well that's defence cuts for you! ;>)
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Rick Astley will be presenting a new Sunday show on Magic FM starting in two weeks time!
Oh and my mid life crisis..........a 20 year old BMW 325i, a big very non-pc V8, and my new partner. Two of the three still with me ;)
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Aged 50 I
sold the computer business and trained to be a swimming teacher
bought a motorbike
became a gardener to fund the swimming teacher thing
grew my hair to halfway down my back
stopped drinking beer by the gallon
through it all Mrs H was there for me, smiling radiantly, with scissors concealed about her person, waiting to pounce.
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>>stopped drinking beer by the gallon
I understand the rest, but that seems a bit drastic......
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I'm having a nearing end of life crisis!
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My clothes "fashion" drives my missus and kids mad!
I have a pair of jeans -why would I want two? If I wanted ones with rips in them I would rip them, not buy them that way.
I have a few T shirts that I wear over and over.
When I come in from work, the work trousers come off and if I am just pottering about the house, then the joggers will go on. But no need to change my work shirt - saves me from getting a T shirt dirty as well!
But I will need to go on a diet as soon as I get back, really seriously unfit (although did manage 40 miles cycle on the Camel Trail the other day) but at Center Parcs I regularly found myself out of breath in the swim area. Partly in my defence was hay fever wheeziness but even so, gave me a bit of a wake up call!
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I have a black T shirt, bought at the NEC motorcycle show with the legend thereupon..............' If women were extinct, man would have to domesticate some other dumb animal '
I have not, as yet, been allowed to wear it !
Ted
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Do all men have a midlife crisis? - Skip
