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"You look like a gang-banger... and you are starting to scare my family..." by iPelon on 03 Aug, 2008 20:59
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That was what my wife said to me after she returned from a trip out of the country for her grandmothers funeral. She came back to find me with a bald head. I still left about 1/4" worth of carpet, but was very short compared to what it was when she left. That was almost two years ago. Ever since that day I told her that I would eventually go completely bald. She always fussed every-time I took it down another 1/16 of an inch.
As mentioned in my introduction, I changed the 1/4" blade on my trusty old Wahl clipper to the balding blade and went to town on my dome yesterday. After I got out of the shower, my wife just gave me a glance... but did not say anything. After about an hour she came into the office (where I happened to be lurking in an SBG forum) and proceeded to run her hands through my bald dome. I knew I'd win her over!!!!
I think the baldness grew on her (no pun intended)
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#1 by Bolohead on 03 Aug, 2008 21:14
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That's good to hear, BTW it looks very good on you too.
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#2 by Sgt. Pate on 03 Aug, 2008 21:21
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Welcome to the "Sly Side"!
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#3 by Northernlion on 03 Aug, 2008 22:07
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Hahaha man, that's some crazy comments. I guess it's just people from a different era don't understand!
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#4 by iPelon on 03 Aug, 2008 23:09
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Hahaha man, that's some crazy comments. I guess it's just people from a different era don't understand!
It could be that... but, I did get the looking like a gang-banger line a lot when I first did it a couple years ago from other people. We have a phrase in Southern Cali that goes: "driving while bald". It does not happen as often as it did 10 years ago but every now and then cops will pull-over people for looking like a "gang-banger" or "fitting the profile".
Being bald has become so popular that I rarely hear the "driving while bald" phrase anymore. I feel that it is a matter of how you carry yourself that counts, and presenting yourself like a sly debonair fellow will take you's a long way. We are now getting a different phrase started... "damn, that is one sexy mo-foken bald dude"...... my response, thank---- thank you very much!!!
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#5 by Kojack on 04 Aug, 2008 03:27
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I saw a movie about gang-bangers once.
I think it was called Gangbang Girl IV.
Good stuff.
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#6 by DDDeepdiver on 04 Aug, 2008 04:17
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I thought gangbang girl 2 was better
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#7 by hammerdrill376 on 04 Aug, 2008 04:45
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Welcome aboard man...I once had a preconcieved notion of bald guys with goatees...lol and here I am with that look myself several years later!!
Personally though..I am looking forward to Gang Bang Girl volume 69!! Should be quite interesting
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#8 by iPelon on 04 Aug, 2008 07:38
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I saw a movie about gang-bangers once.
I think it was called Gangbang Girl IV.
Good stuff.
O.K.----- but did you see the un-edited version of Gangbanger Girls??? The chicks were all bald!!! One slyer than the next... now, that was some good watchin'
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#9 by BALDANDRE on 04 Aug, 2008 13:17
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Hahaha man, that's some crazy comments. I guess it's just people from a different era don't understand!
It could be that... but, I did get the looking like a gang-banger line a lot when I first did it a couple years ago from other people. We have a phrase in Southern Cali that goes: "driving while bald". It does not happen as often as it did 10 years ago but every now and then cops will pull-over people for looking like a "gang-banger" or "fitting the profile".
Being bald has become so popular that I rarely hear the "driving while bald" phrase anymore. I feel that it is a matter of how you carry yourself that counts, and presenting yourself like a sly debonair fellow will take you's a long way. We are now getting a different phrase started... "damn, that is one sexy mo-foken bald dude"...... my response, thank---- thank you very much!!!
I hear ya bro..
I'm just moved from So Cali. (Whittier to be exact, yea lot o vatos) and never had a problem..
but I did get nervous sometimes when a car load of bald heads and tatty's drove up next to ya...
and I did get flashed some signs when we drove down an alley near our house once..
but that's Cali for ya!
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#10 by BALDANDRE on 04 Aug, 2008 13:42
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BTW..
my favorite "Vato" is the kid from "Free Willy"..he played the gang banger "Weevil" on Veronica Marz ..
had a killer perfectly smooth BBC dome he wore most of the 3 year run!
Awesome look!
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#11 by Robmeister on 04 Aug, 2008 14:29
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...I still left about 1/4" worth of carpet, but....I told her that I would eventually go completely bald. She always fussed every-time I took it down another 1/16 of an inch.
That's pretty much how it all started with me and my wife, bro !!
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#12 by iPelon on 04 Aug, 2008 14:51
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I hear ya bro..
I'm just moved from So Cali. (Whittier to be exact, yea lot o vatos) and never had a problem..
but I did get nervous sometimes when a car load of bald heads and tatty's drove up next to ya...
and I did get flashed some signs when we drove down an alley near our house once..
but that's Cali for ya!
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Hey brother... I know Whittier fairly well, my cousins lived off of Washington and Sorenson Ave. Don't remember any gangs in that area back then (early to mid 80's). I actually looked forward to going to their house because I lived in South-Central L.A. most of my life and went to Whittier to get away from the "vato locos".
Growing up in South-Central was no pic-nic. At the time, my follicle garden was full, curly and long, but it never distracted the "cholo's" from f#@king with me. Around 1995, I tried straightening my Sheerly Temple curls for a photo shoot (long story) and proceeded to burn the sh*t out of it. My hair was never the same. I sported the Caesar (comb forward look) for years, but after I started to develop (what I call my hairless yarmulke look) and the thinning got worse, I decided to start buzzing it down from a #1 clip, to clip-less, to high and low setting (blade only) and now the straight bald blade.
One day this week I will drive over to Headblade headquarters (I work less than a mile from there.... how cool is that??) and purchase a few things. By Friday I hope to be a TRUE sly dome.
Yeah that Weevil dude sure has a nice dome!! Thanks for reading and have a great Monday!!
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#13 by iPelon on 04 Aug, 2008 14:57
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...I still left about 1/4" worth of carpet, but....I told her that I would eventually go completely bald. She always fussed every-time I took it down another 1/16 of an inch.
That's pretty much how it all started with me and my wife, bro !!
Good job !!!
Thanks for the support Robmeister... as I said to BaldAndre, I hope to be a true "Sly" by Friday. I'm driving over to Headblade headquarters to pick-up some Headslick to get the job done right. Still kinda' stringing my wife along... I want the final transition to be flawless and less of a shock to her. -
#14 by BALDANDRE on 04 Aug, 2008 15:05
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I hear ya bro..
I'm just moved from So Cali. (Whittier to be exact, yea lot o vatos) and never had a problem..
but I did get nervous sometimes when a car load of bald heads and tatty's drove up next to ya...
and I did get flashed some signs when we drove down an alley near our house once..
but that's Cali for ya!
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Hey brother... I know Whittier fairly well, my cousins lived off of Washington and Sorenson Ave. Don't remember any gangs in that area back then (early to mid 80's). I actually looked forward to going to their house because I lived in South-Central L.A. most of my life and went to Whittier to get away from the "vato locos".
Growing up in South-Central was no pic-nic. At the time, my follicle garden was full, curly and long, but it never distracted the "cholo's" from f#@king with me. Around 1995, I tried straightening my Sheerly Temple curls for a photo shoot (long story) and proceeded to burn the sh*t out of it. My hair was never the same. I sported the Caesar (comb forward look) for years, but after I started to develop (what I call my hairless yarmulke look) and the thinning got worse, I decided to start buzzing it down from a #1 clip, to clip-less, to high and low setting (blade only) and now the straight bald blade.
One day this week I will drive over to Headblade headquarters (I work less than a mile from there.... how cool is that??) and purchase a few things. By Friday I hope to be a TRUE sly dome.
Yeah that Weevil dude sure has a nice dome!! Thanks for reading and have a great Monday!!
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Hey my So Cal bald bro..
Ha...I lived on Washington AVE (not street)...you know where the infamous "Jack's" diner (not "Jack's salad bowl") was on Whittier blvd...
our house(s) we're 1/2 a street away!!!
Yea...bro, just west of Greenleaf was full of cholos...but Whittier is a cool place because somehow there is a harmony of all folks living there...maybe because both existed there for a very long time...
my wife grew up in south central...just off the 5/ 710 interchange...
we know that area...Maywood (didn't like hanging out on the street too much with my other bald hispanic bro drinkin' brews for more than a couple hours...cuz you never know who would "drive-by"!
Bro...wait till you're slick..you'll truly feel "pelon"!!!!