Should Old Bald Men Shave Their Heads?

[Khandro]

Watching John Higgins tonight ( Champions of Champions snooker. ITV3)                                                                          Oh dear ! He never had much on top but with a shaved head and a ridiculous shiny shirt, attempting to look like a teenager, (which no teenager would ever wear). Should (we) seniors not more readily accept what & who we are ?

Waistcoats (for pocketing chalk ) & bow-ties for tradition & decorum.... please ? 

[douglas9401]

Oh goody, pygmy wrestling's on.

[nailedit]

Retrocop,

Why are YOU judging Andy so sharply?

I have a shaved head by choice. Why do you think it makes me look like a thug?

Do you think that Telly Savalis (who played a policeman) was a thug?

[nailedit]

Retrocop assumes that bald men are thugs.

Might explain my  own situation whereby I got the carp kicked out of me by his colleagues in the back of a police vehicle. 

 

Victorian mentality at its best...

[Atheist]

Nailedit; Don't play the bald card, for goodness sake!

[nailedit]

I'm an overweight middle aged man,  trying to make his way home after been in the pub, But I'm bald and not curly haired like the Bobby's children, therefore hand cuff him because he must be a fascist or something, and kick the living daylights out of him with bodycams off.

You make me sick.

Your profession makes  me sick.

Not because of what you do but because of your judgmental attitudes.

A bald head fgs...

[nailedit]

Atheist,

Khandros post not mine.

[Atheist]

Nailedit; you're at the moment a fat drunk. And you're lashing out at people because you think they might be coppers and at the moment you hate everybody (maybe not your granddaughter).

Get over it, and start treating people as you'd liked to be treated.

Be careful as you go, and don't start arguing with people you meet (especially uniforms).

Hope to hear from you tomorrow.

[nailedit]

You've made an awful lot of assumptions there atheist,  which is exactly my point 

[Atheist]

Nailedit; You told us you are drunk and bald and fat.

I might have made other assumptions about your attitude.

At the moment I am very similar to you. But I don't post here complaining about my misfortune.

Keep your spirits up.

[nailedit]

Arrest a business man with a suit and tie who is coked up to the eyeballs and works in the city (London)

Compare that with a bald headed man from a deprived  council estate in the Midlands who is simply trying to get home)

 

Both are knacke6 but trying to achieve the the same aim.

 

Think the man with the neat hair cut and suit will fair better in court. 

I chose to be bald, never owned a suit in my life, and will be myself. If I get judged for that then so be it!

 

[Atheist]

Nailedit. So be it. Just don't keep feeling sorry for yourself.

[nailedit]

Where have I felt sorry for myself?

Where do do you get this idea from that I feel sorry for myself from?

Is it because I got my head kicked in recently?

Is that feeling sorry for myself?

Or for pointing out that the police get away with assault?

Is that feeling sorry for myself?

Pointing out injustices is not feeling sorry for one's self.

It's an attempt to bring a wider understanding to public attention. 

Because I have a shaved head does not make me a thug as retrocop would have us believe and  (as I've recently encountered been on the end of) doesn't require legalised violence

 

[Atheist]

Anyway, Nailedit. Pax?

My hair started falling out when my career started fizzling out. I gradually went bald and you chose to shave your head. I didn't care what I looked like (not much choice!) and you may have chosen to look like a hard man?

Life is funny, n'est-ce pas?

I hope you keep your spirits up and everything else, including your kindness levels.

[nailedit]

For Funks Sake, I never intended to look like a hard man, that is your interpretation,  not mine!

 

Interesting that you ignore the rest of my post.

[andy-hughes]

Retrocop - // I have my opinions Hughes. //

Indeed you do, and you express them often and volubly, which is your privilege.

That priviledge does not entitle you to address me so rudely.

For the record, I am happy with my user name – ‘andy-hughes’, ‘Andy’ if you wish to be informal, ‘Mister Hughes’ if you wish to be formal, and ‘Hughes’ not at all under any circumstances.

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// That does not entitle you to give us a pompous character assassination of myself or my former calling. //

If you would like to indicate which part of my post constitutes a ‘character assassination’ as your rather hysterically label it, I will be delighted to discuss it with you.

As for your ‘calling’ – do get over yourself. You were a police officer not a Catholic priest, your job was a career choice, not a ‘calling’.

// Next time you visit the dentist ask them to insert wisdom teeth. You clearly do not possess as much as you profess. It's no use getting old if you dont get wise and you at 69 are neither //

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