Being SLY!

[Timmay]

OK ...dotn think I am nuts here or anything...but when someone asks me what does being SLY really mean....actually I dont know what to tell them exactly.  So what do you all tell others.  I have nothign against those who do the body hair trimming and all...but if that is the true meanign of being sly as in shaving your whole body....and if that isnt my style....am I still SLY?  Just trying to get a grip on things here....jsut making sure I know what Im talkin about when doing things.  If that doesnt make any sense at all...then jsut disregard this whole topic lol
Tim

[PBurke]

damn good topic timm. i think "SLY" will be different for everyone. for me SLY is about a positive, and very confident attitude. what it means to you will be personal.  wow this could get really deep. i am curious too. what does SLY mean to you guys?

[YOSP]

I would agree with the confidence theme...the way you carry yourself with your "BOLD" head.

"SLY" also means to me, being a victim of MPB, working with what you were given and being proud of it, making the choice to go all the way instead of having the horseshoe look, and retiring the "piece".

 

[Timmay]

Well...I havent really said what Sly means to me.  To me Sly means having the ability to do things on your own actions. Not because some one else does it.  Having the ability to be able to walk into a crowd and to know that you will be noticed and having the confidence to talk to those who question yoru actions. A lady this past friday at a pizza joint put it pretty plain and clear..." To be able to have the confidence that you will look good no matter what you do to yourself...and being able to walk into friends and family and holding ground on what you believe"  Sly is being Sly enough to come in low under people and then feeling liek you are on top!

[Sgt. Pate]

Well, there was this creed posted by one of our members that I though really went a long way in defining "SLY" for me...

Quote:

I refuse to be told what is or is not universally attractive.
I will instead determine for myself what I will look like and seek out others who will accept, appreciate and love me, as me, for me.

I refuse to be SOLD attractiveness.
I will instead choose the products and services that suit my purposes and work well for me.

I refuse to be shamed or guilted by the media into changing my looks.
I will instead find the body, hair, clothing style that best suits me and makes me most comfortable.

I refuse to cling to or chase my inevitably fading youth.
I will instead embrace my age and enjoy the wisdom each year brings.

I refuse to be made uncomfortable by other people.
I will instead luxuriate in the comfort I find within my own skin and will enjoy and draw confidence from the frustration my comfort causes those who would change me.

I refuse to let the superficial judgments of others affect me.
I will instead draw confidence from my knowledge of myself and show that to others.

I refuse to accept the labels of society and the individuals that live within it.
I will instead set my own standards for myself and choose who's opinions I will listen to based on my respect for them.

This is my line in the sand. I am an individual. I am my own person.

Accept me, respect me and I'll do the same for you.

Otherwise     

I am far to busy being SLY to be troubled by your narrow minded low self worth.

End Quote

[SLYinKC]

Being comfortable and confident in your own skin!!!

[Tyler]

I think you are all correct in your interpretation of Sly.  When I called the site "Sly Bald Guys" I was looking at the "playfully mischievous; roguish" meaning of the word Sly.  But, it really is doing what makes YOU feel the most confident about YOURSELF in regards to shaving your head and dealing with your MPB by NOT covering it up.

[shyslyguy]

I think sly is definitely an attitude of mind.

Vash's creed says it brilliantly but Sgt. Pete said it really well in another thread too :

" "Bald" is something that happens to you. "SLY" is someone you become! "

It's a self-acceptance thing: an acceptance of the cards you've been dealt & a determination to make the best of it regardless.

You are sly when you not only accept your mpb but positively own it & celebrate it! 

[Paul]

I think sly is definitely an attitude of mind.  "SLY" is someone you become![/b] "

Sly is definitely a matter of personal confidence and pride in how you carry yourself as a bald guy.  Just because you shave your head does not make you sly.   There are guys who shave because the feel they have no choice..The sly guy has made a conscious choice to shave and to wear that gleaming dome as a badge of pride; not inevitability.  Being sly is being totally, completely comfortable being YOU.

[Tyler]

I think sly is definitely an attitude of mind.

Vash's creed says it brilliantly but Sgt. Pete said it really well in another thread too :

" "Bald" is something that happens to you. "SLY" is someone you become! "

It's a self-acceptance thing: an acceptance of the cards you've been dealt & a determination to make the best of it regardless.

You are sly when you not only accept your mpb but positively own it & celebrate it! 

Well said!!

[BALDANDRE]

" "Bald" is something that happens to you. "SLY" is someone you become! "

My sentiments EXACTLY and that goes for BBC and MPB dudes a like!

[Bald_freak]

I use to worry about what people thought of me when I was younger. When I stopped giving a flying F@#!, I noticed I started to get more possitive attention from people. Especially the Lay Days.

[BaldBen]

OK ...dotn think I am nuts here or anything...but when someone asks me what does being SLY really mean....actually I dont know what to tell them exactly. 

You don't owe anyone an explanation!

Who really gives a F@#%!! Stop concerning yourself with what other people think. Life is too damn short to worry about such things.

Being SLY is being true to yourself. That's it, dude!!

[SlyGI]

What does being Sly mean to me. That is tough. For me being sly is a symbol. I had the MPB working on the top of my head and a horseshoe of hair around the sides and back. I was very fearful of shaving my horseshoe because I have a HUGE scar on the left side of my head. It looks like Freddie Kruger or someone took an ax to me. So I guess it's about becoming "me" with worts and all, as an example to myself to be the best I can be; not for anyone else but just for me.

So I decided to say what the hey and go all the way, now I'm totally working the sly look-- I shave every day. So for me, to explain my symbol, I would have to paraphrase Rudyard Kipling:

"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be 'SLY' my son!"

[wpruitt]

Great poem SlyGI - It has always been one of my favorites (written by the poet laurate of the British Empire).