Noticing other Sly Guy's more?

[Daven]

So, when my wife started working for Verizon, we noticed we noticed more Verizon commercials.

the question is easy, once you went sly, did you notice more sly guys?  I was at a lunch today and noticed a sly guy, happens a lot of places I go lately, I notice the guy's who share my barber.  Am I the only one? 

(I might have posted this thread before, due to my M.S. lesions I forget things easy and while typing this thread I am having deja vu, like I did it already, so if I did, sorry- I got lesions).... LOL

[TheSlyBear]

Absolutely.

[Razor X]

I think you may be noticing more sly guys simply because there are more of them nowadays.  I first started noticing back in the mid-90s and every year it seemed like there were more of them.  Noticing that the look was catching on gave me the incentive to try it myself.

[-Doug-]

I call this commonality recognition. Just like when you buy a new car, you notice that model more.

[Razor X]

Didn't you guys notice more sly guys back when you were thinking about shaving?

[Oracle]

I think it's like Razor said.  That a lot more guys are shaving these days now that the look is popular and is more acceptable.  Also like Doug said, I think we look for guys sporting the same look as we do - it confirms that shaved heads are more socially acceptable than they were just a few years ago.

I'm not trying to hyjack your thread, but does it seem like shaved heads are less popular now amoungst the black community than they were in the past?  It just seems that more and more of the black athletes are sporting dread-locks, braids, and extensions than they did in the past!

I'm white with no hope of ever being able to sport dread-locks should that become a popular style for white guys.  What hair I have left could only be styled in a Three Stooges Larry-Style horse-shoe fringe (also called a Bozo fringe), a short bussed toilet-seat fringe, a carefully lacquered comb-over parted from just atop of one ear or the other, or I can wear it in the best style possible for me, a smoothly shaved head!

[marshd1000]

I started to notice sly guys in the mid 90's myself.  I had started to lose hair in the front of my head.  Plus here in Seattle we used to have a Seattle Mariners event called Jay Buhner Buzz Cut Night.  So that brought a lot of attention to shaved heads back then.  It also provided me the great excuse to try out shaving my head.  While I still notice sly guys, it is more of a brief thing since being sly is very common now.  However once in awhile I might say "nice haircut" or someone else might say that to me.  But even that is not common now!  So you could say that sly is very mainstream now!

[baldOUfan]

Saw a lot today too

[skram]

It does seem like more once I started to think about it and then when I started shaving the dome.

However, I do subscribe to the commonality theory as well.

The odd thing is that some of the people I knew with shaved heads seemed to have gone back to a short buzz or clipper cut since I say them last.

[Sir Harry]

Only when they start growing out whatever hair they have left......but in this case it's probably guys like myself who can't shave everyday due to various circumstances....

[Hingatao]

My uncle has been sly for as long as I've known him and he used to be the only sly guy I ever really paid attention to. But, yeah, since going sly myself, I've been noticing them more frequently. Partially because I now have a vested interest in the look and partially because the look has become more popular.

[mrzed]

I call this commonality recognition. Just like when you buy a new car, you notice that model more.

I certainly noticed more BMW's after a tour of the BMW factory in South Carolina. Man they were everywhere.

And now I see the potential of a bald head on almost every man I meet. Wouldn't he look better with a shaved head?

[xabydaddy]

I think it's like Razor said.  That a lot more guys are shaving these days now that the look is popular and is more acceptable.  Also like Doug said, I think we look for guys sporting the same look as we do - it confirms that shaved heads are more socially acceptable than they were just a few years ago.

I'm not trying to hyjack your thread, but does it seem like shaved heads are less popular now amoungst the black community than they were in the past?  It just seems that more and more of the black athletes are sporting dread-locks, braids, and extensions than they did in the past!

I'm white with no hope of ever being able to sport dread-locks should that become a popular style for white guys.  What hair I have left could only be styled in a Three Stooges Larry-Style horse-shoe fringe (also called a Bozo fringe), a short bussed toilet-seat fringe, a carefully lacquered comb-over parted from just atop of one ear or the other, or I can wear it in the best style possible for me, a smoothly shaved head!






I think the Black guys who are sporting the dreads are generally younger. The older guys are embracing their baldness...

[bennett11]

I didn't see many when I first shaved my head in 1980.  I do now though.

[Bilko1]

I didn't really notice many sly guys when I first had my head shaved. A shaved head wasn't all that common here in Scotland back in the early 2000's. It seems to be a lot more common now-a-days, though.