Great Gents Haircut in ED - about time (Lounged)

[James]

I should start a workshop for unreconstructed men to drag them into the modern age. Try it boys. You might get a girlfriend (or boyfriend).

[*Bob*]

You can't polish a turd, James, even if you spend ?30-?40 on polish - whilst tediously cool music plays on a stereo.

[Jeremy]

James Wrote:

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> I should start a workshop for unreconstructed men

> to drag them into the modern age. Try it boys. You

> might get a girlfriend (or boyfriend).

It would make a great TV show.

Oh, hang on...

[woofmarkthedog]

James Wrote:

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> Given the number of women and men who try to chat

> me up, I don't think I suffer from any such

> conditions Bob. But then, if nobody looks at you

> at all, why bother to spend money on a haircut?

> You could spend it on pies instead.

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James

I'm soooooo thinking of going over to the other side too....."Yeah I am" & it sounds like you swing between the two, so can you take me. Or are you not going that way........yet?

Cheeky pie monkey.... you sound like the "chatty type" so you can use my "dictaphone" any time you like!

W**F

[James]

Woof - I will deal with you later. You sound fantastic.

Bob - don't be so hard on yourself! I'm sure you'd scrub up ok with a decent haircut. Maybe a bit of moisturiser? I have a picture of you in my head and it looks like a cross between John McCririck and Sir Rhodes Boyson. PLEASE post a pic, I'm dying to know if I'm right.

[woofmarkthedog]

James Wrote:

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> Oh dear me Bob, come out of the dark ages please!

> Do you wear deodorant? Do you wash your clothes? I

> do hope so. For the sake of any women in your

> life.

>

> Oh and (you wouldn't know this, as you don't pay

> for decent haircuts) but the effect lasts much

> longer than half a day.

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*Bob*

Hard for you to admit but this is why your wife threw you out & you now live in a bed sit.....isn't it!

Sorry to have to remind you mate.

W**F

[*Bob*]

It's too late for me, James.

I'm just an ugly, single, bald loser with halitosis, wending my way towards the grave.

[James]

It's never too late Woof! We will have him looking like George Clooney and out of that bedsit in no time.

Meanwhile...

That's enough about Bob, let's talk about US

[*Bob*]

Thank God I've got work to keep my life interesting!

I'm currently working on a new series called 'What Gay Men Waste Their Money On, Pointlessly'

Fascinating stuff.

[woofmarkthedog]

James Wrote:

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> It's never too late Woof! We will have him looking

> like George Clooney and out of that bedsit in no

> time.

>

> Meanwhile...

>

> That's enough about Bob, let's talk about US

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Jane

Once "we" get *Bob* sorted I quite fancy that bed hair look or the wedgie.

Can you do both?

Is it hard?

W**F

[Maurice]

May I just plug Camberwell for our large number of barbers. Where else can you get a cut and, at the same time, transfer money to any number of foreign lands? Do come visit.

[Mick Mac]

No thanks Maurice. Cut throat razors and offers of money transfers in the same shop don't make me feel comfortable.

[woofmarkthedog]

Maurice Wrote:

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> May I just plug Camberwell for our large number of

> barbers. Where else can you get a cut and, at the

> same time, transfer money to any number of foreign

> lands? Do come visit.

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Many of the residence in the "shadier" area of Camberwellgreen could do with a haircut Maurice, yes indeed!

However I don't think it's their lifestyle priority really.

Thank goodness there is a hilly divide between us all.

W**f

[carter39]

James Wrote:

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> Woof - I will deal with you later. You sound

> fantastic.

>

> Bob - don't be so hard on yourself! I'm sure you'd

> scrub up ok with a decent haircut. Maybe a bit of

> moisturiser? I have a picture of you in my head

> and it looks like a cross between John McCririck

> and Sir Rhodes Boyson. PLEASE post a pic, I'm

> dying to know if I'm right.

James, do you have any idea how mincey you're coming across?

[BigED]

I nearly always go to the barber down at the end of Barry Road, more or less opposite the Clock House. A tenner for a basic cut, proper cut-throat razor to tidy up your neck, no superfluous chit-chat but conversation if you want it, free beer in the fridge if you want it. oh, and they do a decent job of cutting my hair too.

And if anyone works around Victoria, the barber on Page Street near the Regency Cafe is about ?8 or ?9 for a reasonable haircut with even less time spent discussing the weather.

[*Bob*]

But GUYS, how can it be a proper haircut unless you have a ten minute chat about it before the cut starts, everyone in the salon has at least one unusual piercing, funky art hangs on the walls and the music is Very Cool?

Jeez.

[*Bob*]

I mean, come on.. None of the hairdressers in the area even have any Japanese staff, if you can believe that!

[lenk]

Rose and Crown in Covent Garden.

Rick is a bona fide ED-ite and gives the best haircut in London.

[DaveR]

*Bob*, there's no point in carrying on this sterile dispute. We all agree that a "haircut" is a humble product, for which a fee of ?10 is perfectly adequate, and ?15 verging on the princely.

James, on his missions 'up West' (or, curiously, 'down East'), is clearly is search of a "hairstyle", which is another thing entirely. For such a beast ?30 or ?40 may indeed be appropriate. Happily, as a gentleman of modesty and discretion, I have never been in need of such frivolity, and so cannot comment.

[Muley]

The Clipper- OK, but pricey. And what was that pish about being open 'til 7pm on Thursdays? Twice I left work early to make it back for 6.30ish, both times closed. Meh!

Jazzes- only been once, but pretty good haircut- ?12.

BUT, you can't beat a proper Turkish barber who'll take a blazing torch to your lugs to singe off that embarrassing sprouting ear hair, do a cut throat razor wet shave, not bother with extraneous conversation, and address you as 'sir' at the end of it. Then you know you've been properly served, as a Gentleman ought to be!

[Keef]

You get what you pay for I'm afraid. We do live in a democracy though, so you are welcome to have bad hair if you choose. I choose to look handsome.

You're on great form this thread James... I do hope I'm right in thinking you're just messing.

I once spent ?60 on my hair, in my younger days, when I had all sorts of bright red, copper, and black bits in it. I then remembered that I am a bloke.

Basically, I just want hair that I can scruff up in 2 seconds and forget about.

[*Bob*]

Didn't your wife refuse to marry you unless you got proper haircut, Keef?

[Ted Max]

All this concern for one's appearance is very common.

[HonaloochieB]

Haircut Sir? at the bottom of Tulse Hill is a trad barber. I used to go there when I was foolish and vain enough to have hair.

It was once featured in The Face as being the best place in London to get an authentic flat top and DA.

Make of that what you will.

[James]

>>I once spent ?60 on my hair, in my younger days, when I had all sorts of bright red, copper, and black bits in it. I then remembered that I am a bloke

That sounds fabulous. But why did you give up your dashing hairsyle? Why should women have the monopoly on flamboyance?

Let's not forget that before those silly repressed Victorians made us dress down, men preened and posed at least as much as women. Look to the animal kingdom - the female duck is drab but the drake is fagulous. So go forth and be dandy. Invest in your hair. It's in our genes.