tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post6929793782171578534..comments2024-01-28T00:20:40.933-08:00Comments on Agoraphilia: What's Comb Over You?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-6519040466504545452009-04-22T18:19:00.000-07:002009-04-22T18:19:00.000-07:00what a neat post. I myself am thinning and have no...what a neat post. I myself am thinning and have noticed a serious acceleration since beginning 1L year. I started out with a messy look, then began parting it and that part has been moving perilously closer to the edge month to month. <br />Oh dear, the angst men go through over something as silly as hair.law studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-17090898200451531072007-12-19T21:12:00.000-08:002007-12-19T21:12:00.000-08:00Here's a great perspective on the great and myster...Here's a great perspective on the great and mysterious issue of <A HREF="http://hair-loss-is-awesome.com/hair-loss-library/male-hair/" REL="nofollow" TITLE="male hair loss">male hair loss</A> - info that guys themselves type into search engines! WEIRD and funny stuff in all these pages. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-32868587811460922952007-07-03T11:44:00.000-07:002007-07-03T11:44:00.000-07:00It seems to me you would have to factor in the bar...It seems to me you would have to factor in the barber in this process. The sorites paradox would have to affect the barber too. He would presumably have to cut the hair differently as the bald spot grew, unless he was intentionally cutting the hair with a combover because that is how he thinks his customer would be happy with it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-16737293889331768632007-03-13T12:23:00.000-07:002007-03-13T12:23:00.000-07:00Sourcreamus -- Hey, that makes a lot of sense. I ...Sourcreamus -- Hey, that makes a lot of sense. I figured inertia had to be involved once the comb-over entered the too-obvious-to-deny zone, but I hadn't seen its relevance in the process of getting there.<BR/><BR/>Anon of March 11 -- Fortunately, I have no aspirations toward being a great spiritual leader.Glen Whitmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01425907466575991113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-8606490217206405682007-03-12T08:55:00.000-07:002007-03-12T08:55:00.000-07:00I used to have a comb over and the theory is mostl...I used to have a comb over and the theory is mostly right. One thing left out is that a comb over is a natural progression from having parted hair. Everyone who has parted hair combs hair from one side to the other. If the hair in the middle falls out then you get a combover without ever deciding to. Inertia is one of the powerful forces in the universe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-15436414904129547292007-03-11T18:11:00.000-07:002007-03-11T18:11:00.000-07:00Consider a great spiritual leader. Would he have w...Consider a great spiritual leader. Would he have written this blog post?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-82130304118570033142007-03-11T12:11:00.000-07:002007-03-11T12:11:00.000-07:00It seems to me that the point where you can no lon...It seems to me that the point where you can no longer have a symmetrical haircut (because the combed-over hair must be longer than the hair in the corresponding location on the opposite side) would be the tipping point. But I admit I don't know much about men's haircuts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-75874804715451399622007-03-10T22:56:00.000-08:002007-03-10T22:56:00.000-08:00I think your theory is correct, but only to a poin...I think your theory is correct, but only to a point. It pretty much explains the way I ended up with a combover for a while--as my hair thinned, I kept moving the part, and it wasn't until my barber actually said "combover" that I realized what I had done.<BR/><BR/>But all it took was hearing the word "combover" that led me to instruct my barber to cut the extra drapery, and I've been explicitly bald ever since. And this was after only about six months of combing over.<BR/><BR/>I've got to think that virtually everyone who has had a combover for any reasonable period of time (say, a year or more) has also had the realization that he is obviously a bald man with a combover. There's simply no way to avoid it. Those who continue to comb over after this realization are not deceiving themselves into believing that they have hair, or into believing that anyone else believes that they do have hair. They have simply decided that their combovers look better than their bald heads.<BR/><BR/>It sounds silly, since combovers generally look bad. But bald heads often look bad, too, especially if your complexion is light. In addition, a combover looks different from a bald head. It should not be surprising that many people would rather look bad from having a combover than look bad from having a bald head. You do look a bit more like your pre-baldness self; you don't look the same, but it is closer.<BR/><BR/>It's the Ockham's Razor answer: Why do people look like that? Because they want to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-18046512070575993422007-03-10T15:07:00.000-08:002007-03-10T15:07:00.000-08:00The boiling frog is an urban legend.The boiling frog is an <A HREF="http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp" REL="nofollow">urban legend.</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-77605596872421982312007-03-09T10:15:00.000-08:002007-03-09T10:15:00.000-08:00Also, consider the frog placed into boiling water ...Also, consider the frog placed into boiling water and the frog placed into water which is then gradually brought to a boil.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com