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• #87877
Fantastic.
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• #87878
Outstanding, I'm almost glad I'm basically bald now and don’t have to deal with that shit anymore.
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• #87879
I don't get it.
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• #87880
no salad!
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• #87881
aaaaahhh
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• #87882
cries in bald
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• #87883
What is this 'hair' of which you speak?
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• #87884
+1
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• #87885
I'm no londoner, but I know this Barry
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• #87886
I haven’t been to a hairdressers for about 20 years but this is the first web comic that’s made me slightly laugh for a very long time.
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• #87887
i found it somewhat amusing even though i don't really relate to it. am i alone? love a chat with the barber, even about holidays and all that toot. one guy at my old place in balham told me that if i shaved my baby's head, his hair would come in thicker and faster. he also claimed that his mrs. was doing a special one-year fast-track degree to become a lawyer, and if she did another 6 months she'd be a judge.
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• #87888
to keep up with the banter you had to speak kurdish though
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• #87889
I tip extra for not being spoken too...
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• #87890
But how do you communicate that?
Your finger to the barber's lips - shushushushush -
• #87891
How would you like your haircut sir? In silence. (Was what my grandfather claimed to say)
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• #87892
I DIY but I’m friendly with the local barber so I stop in for a chat when I pass by. Last time I saw him about a month ago he was getting a new bike as his old one was stolen. He was in bed, it’s 3 in the morning and he heard noise, looked out the window and saw two guys had climbed the garden wall and were nicking his bike. He jumped out of bed, grabbed his bbq meat cleaver from the kitchen and chased down the road after them starkers - he’s a 6’3 well built black Jamaican btw. Only gave up the chase when some glass stuck in his foot. He’s always got a good story to tell.
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• #87893
Tell them I'm not a big talker when they start the small talk, if they take the hint they get rewarded and then I seek out said barber next time to reinforce the practice until we both appreciate this unspoken barbershop communion
If it doesn't work, I never return to said barber and walk the long way around to avoid ever having to make eye contact with them again as I pass
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• #87894
How would you like your haircut sir? In silence. (Was what my grandfather claimed to say)
You may or may not believe this but before I got my first job as a mech I trained (and got qualified) as a hairdresser.
I had a few clients that were like this. Often you would pick up on them not wanting to chat pretty quickly but some were just blunt about it. “In silence”, “I don’t want small talk” etc.
I’ve just realised that I’ve had self/wife sustainable haircuts and haven’t set foot in a hairdresser’s or barber’s since leaving that job.
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• #87895
If it doesn't work, I never return to said barber and walk the long way around to avoid ever having to make eye contact with them again as I pass
Same issue with a shoe seller/repair guy in my hood, except to do with shoddy work and misrepresenting certain brands.
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• #87896
Had the same barber for 30 years! We eventually struck up a conversation after about 10 years. Told him him I was a lawyer. His eldest son was at school and wanted to study law. Met the son after he'd passed his exams, he was struggling to get work over here and was reluctant to take a job overseas. Told him it was his decision but an offer of a good job wasn't to be sniffed at. He's extremely comfortably off now living in Dubai. The family love going there for hols.
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• #87897
I'm basically bald now
Its the look everybody wants, but who wore it best?
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• #87898
obviously
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• #87899
I see your Grace and raise you Skin
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• #87900
meh, pretender to the throne
lovely