Pet Peeves

[Carnage]

Coroza gig on Saturday is cancelled.

Illness is rampant among everyone unfortunately. Hope to reschedule for the new year!

I was looking forward to it but it'll do my bank balance some good this time of year. A night of pints at Galway prices plus travel would sting.

[astfgyl]

Actually there's a right fuckin dose going about at the minute. I know two lads personally that had a trip to the hospital because they couldn't breathe. One lad said he went proper blue over it. Both young and fit too. That's a new one on me, even after the whole 2020 lark. Now I was knocking around with both of them and nothing doing so dunno what's the criteria for succumbing but any lad I know that is sick is proper fucking sick

[Ducky]

Barbers. Popped in yesterday to get me hair and beard chopped. Great, nice haircut. Beard looks great too... bar the fact he saw fit to trim my 'tache in a little crescent moon shape about half a centimeter above my lip line. There was zero indication that I was coming from such a cut before, so he basically did that to suit his own whim.

Now it looks like I'm wearing a fucking balaclava, and the skin is already dried and irritated because I haven't clean shaven that part in 6.5 years (mainly because I get dried and irritated skin from clean shaving).

[astfgyl]

Barbers. Popped in yesterday to get me hair and beard chopped. Great, nice haircut. Beard looks great too... bar the fact he saw fit to trim my 'tache in a little crescent moon shape about half a centimeter above my lip line. There was zero indication that I was coming from such a cut before, so he basically did that to suit his own whim.

Now it looks like I'm wearing a fucking balaclava, and the skin is already dried and irritated because I haven't clean shaven that part in 6.5 years (mainly because I get dried and irritated skin from clean shaving).

Lad you won't fucking believe this...

I went to the barber for a trim the other day, never told him to go near the beard and he did the exact same thing to my top lip I looked like a right goon for a few days until it grew down a bit.

Like a balaclava exactly 

[Ducky]

For fucks sake We could be gimps together? Balaclava Boys on tour.

Like I've enough haor left that a clean cut suits me, but I'm increasing erring towards buying a quality clippers and just being done with it so I never have to set foot in a barber shop again (and the older I get the more befuddled the lads working as barbers seem to be when you ask for something that isn't a fade).

[Carnage]

Call yerselves Ní Ceapim.

I haven't been near a barber for decades, bought a clipper and just trim/shave hair and beard myself, when I'm not growing them. The only way to go lads.

[astfgyl]

Had the blade zero once a week for years and never had to think about it but I let it grow for a couple of months a few years back and now the wife asks me not to shave it even though it's thinning out a lot at this stage. I only grow the beard in winter so generally wouldn't be getting that trimmed.

Actually the lad sort of faded it as well and all I wanted was the standard auld fella cut. Might have to go back to the Turkish lad altogether he used to know what to do

[Trev]

Grew my hair long when I was about 15 and stuck with it, so haven't been to the barber in around 25 years. But looking at the way my older brothers are I've got another three or four years until it starts fading fast!

When that happens I'll probably go with a skullet for a while though just to piss off the missus

[Ducky]

Yeah I did the long hair thing from late teens to early 30s. The mop that's there is still to good standing, but let's just say I have a generous forehead

Had it past my shoulders again during lockdown and the state of it with the forehead. Decided to shave it then (because of it really didn't suit it's not like I'd be out on the town) and sure look I've been graced with a reasonably shaped skull. So when the day that comes and I finally say "fuck it" it'll be sound.

Only decided on the beard trim yesterday as I felt lazy, nearly always do it myself. That'll learn me

[mishima]

A lad in work, who is otherwise a decent chap, emails me to ask me to do something and then immediately rings me to tell me he's emailed me.
Drives me up the fucking wall.

To make matters worse, all our physical phones were replaced with Ring Central and headsets. So I have to drop what I'm doing, plug out my earphones, plug in the headset and foother with the program window to answer the cunt and have him tell me something I already know.

[Eoin McLove]

A lad in work, who is otherwise a decent chap, emails me to ask me to do something and then immediately rings me to tell me he's emailed me.
Drives me up the fucking wall.

To make matters worse, all our physical phones were replaced with Ring Central and headsets. So I have to drop what I'm doing, plug out my earphones, plug in the headset and foother with the program window to answer the cunt and have him tell me something I already know.

Did you email him back to say you got his call?

[Mithrandir]

Barbers. Popped in yesterday to get me hair and beard chopped. Great, nice haircut. Beard looks great too... bar the fact he saw fit to trim my 'tache in a little crescent moon shape about half a centimeter above my lip line. There was zero indication that I was coming from such a cut before, so he basically did that to suit his own whim.

Now it looks like I'm wearing a fucking balaclava, and the skin is already dried and irritated because I haven't clean shaven that part in 6.5 years (mainly because I get dried and irritated skin from clean shaving).

Ah man, that happened to me a few years ago and I was absolutely fucking raging so ever since I just tell them to leave the moustache and that I trim it myself. I don't know what the fuck they be thinking.

[Eoin McLove]

Vinyl stickers (or packaging) that doesn't tell you if the record should be played at turtytreeandaturd or 45 

[Ducky]

Barbers. Popped in yesterday to get me hair and beard chopped. Great, nice haircut. Beard looks great too... bar the fact he saw fit to trim my 'tache in a little crescent moon shape about half a centimeter above my lip line. There was zero indication that I was coming from such a cut before, so he basically did that to suit his own whim.

Now it looks like I'm wearing a fucking balaclava, and the skin is already dried and irritated because I haven't clean shaven that part in 6.5 years (mainly because I get dried and irritated skin from clean shaving).

Ah man, that happened to me a few years ago and I was absolutely fucking raging so ever since I just tell them to leave the moustache and that I trim it myself. I don't know what the fuck they be thinking.

It's baffling. Like, I had no indication that my previous cut was like that, and to be frank I can't even remember seeing anyone with it. I also told him nothing fancy and to just trim it back regularly. I've got compliments for it, but the "I don't give a shite about what people think of me" runs both ways - I think I look like a clown, so it doesn't really matter what others think.

It's almost like he didn't want to do a simple trim. I met up with Barry (Bane from the old forum) that evening for a pint - he uses the same barber - and he made the point to me that he can almost feel them trimming by the individual hair. They're absolutely meticulous at their craft, but yeah, you almost have to tell them what you categorically don't want done as much as what you do want done

I'm currently in the "regrowth looks like a line of dirt on me lip" phase

[astfgyl]

I'm just out the gap meself with the balaclava look but I never asked my lad to as much as look at it, he just hacked away as if I had done. I'll be saying it next time. Fuck that like me beard is all out of balance altogether