Baldness

There are many ways to deal with losing your hair as displayed by the typical male.

1. The Comb Over - as displayed at my current work site by one of the newer academic staff, every afternoon he arrives at 4pm to buy the same items, opening the door with his long hair flowing down the left side of his face, while the hair on the right is distinctly shorter. Shortly followed by the reflexive shoving of the long bits across the shiny hairfree part at the front of his head in an attempt to pray that we don't notice.

2. The Homer. As displayed by yet another civvie on camp, this one a member of staff with the maintainence companies. Although Homer combs his hair across his head to create the style is recreated by the man who has at most 10 strands of hair, combed directly forward from the rear of his head, and then firmly gelled in place...as though we wouldn't notice that there are no more than 10 strands. And this from a man who boasts that he has his clothes hand made at the finest tailors...but seems to be confused by the concept of a dentist - and does not wear these expensive tailored clothes to work sticking to cheap jeans and primark t-shirts.

3.a. The Military cut, a number 2 all over, in the hope that they never need remove the beret and reveal the parts lacking in hair.

3.b. The Military Bald and proud. As worn by an AGC SSgt at the current site, in his words, the hair fell out and I'm lazy so I get it shaved off and forget until the fabric stops slipping.

Although MrHalf as yet has a full head of hair my favoured style is by far 3.b.  -the confidence to admit that you have hair loss is it has to be said something of a turn on for me - of previous partners two were totally bald while an third maintained a 'bald' style. Style 2, stinks of desperation and an inability to let go of the past, and style 1 quite honestly makes me want to puke - you try visualising a man above you in bed with almost flowing locks on one side of his face while the other has near no hair without at the same time seeing a sweaty overweight horror! 3.a. on the other hand is the usual way men seem to deal with hair loss, cut it short and carry on as normal.

Thank god the military frown upon the old favourite of the mullet in not only their own staff but their civilians too.