My fellow slapheads...

[sandyRoe]

Would you consider 'baldism' a hate crime? I admit I've never gave it much thought...

http://news.uk.msn.co...-2dac6c4f9fde&_nwpt=1

[Joaf]

He's starting to look like Cliff Michelmore!! Am I showing my age?

[sandyRoe]

Rooney? But the only places I have hair now are my arm pits and...
No. Perhaps we'd better not go there

[mrs_overall]

Joaf, I am shocked! Do a Rooney?
Are you suggesting our much loved Sandy should visit a middle aged prostitute?

[Joaf]

the back of your hands or on your palms?

[sandyRoe]

Eyebrows.

[sandyRoe]

Who could forget Michelmore, Two way family favourites?

[DTCwordfan]

this one for the forward cover

http://www.styleite.c...10/05/DonaldTrump.jpg

[whiskeryron]

I think this would be an improvement ttp://tinypic.com/r/ae00ew/5

W Ron.

[whiskeryron]

Try again
http://tinypic.com/r/ae00ew/5

[mrs_overall]

lol Ron. Poor Sandy would look like Cousin It from the Addams family in that!

[whiskeryron]

I suggest that he wear it with the hair hanging down the front with adjustment to enable vision.

W Ron.

[sandyRoe]

LOL. Mrs O, it could only be an improvement.

[bravejordy]

I've always said that if I go completely bald I'm going to get little rabbits tattooed all over my head cos from a distance they look like hares! ;)

[daffy654]

I quite like bald men.

[Psybbo]

I find bald men really sexy.

[DTCwordfan]

I quite like bald women, well may be not on top......

Are we past the 9pm watershed?

[vulcan]

The local Headmaster used to do a comb over and where there wasn't enough to comb, he would add pencil lines. He thought it was all write !!
On a philosophical note, when you're bald you know the sound of snowflakes landing.

[andy-hughes]

Hair loss means different things to different people.

This is a time when being bald has never mattered less. Most men who have lost / are losing their hair head down to the barber's and get a Number One. It looks neat, and gives an impression of confidence because you are not trying to fool anyone - which singularly fails anyway.

But - for some men, the loss of their hair is devastating, and they suffer serious lack of esteem and confidence because of it. For some of them, the delusion of a comb-over works because they really hope that people think they have hair, even though they don't.

Such men fail to realise that they are actually drawing attention to their hair loss, and their inability to accept it, and further fail to realise that people really don't care.

My hair loss is a constant source of teasing for two of my sons-in-law who both have full heads of hair, and who tease me mercilessly to the delight of their wives, and indeed mine! That's fine, I am not sensitive about my hair loss, although neither am I thrilled about it either! I accept it, and I have a Number One every week. My other son-in-law is approachng forty, and wears his hair shoulder length, even though he has lost most of the hair on top - it's not a good look, but each to their own.

So I think 'baldism' is a matter of perception - if you hate being bald and are sensitive, then strangers can upset you, but if like me, you really don't care, then you are immune to insults.

So is 'baldism' a hate crime? For some people yes. Let's remember, the legislation regarding bullying in the workplace emphises the perception of the receiving party, not the issuing party, so to defend yourself by saying you 'didn't mean it' cuts no ice at all.

I think people should be nice to other peeople, and apply a little sensitivity to areas where people feel insecure.