Mostly Apolitical Thread for Discussing/Venting our Rational/Irrational COVID-19 Fears and Experiences in 2020

We just did self isolation movie night with some friends. Using google hangouts and Netflix. The new Netflix mark wahlberg movie is really fucking stupid, even by the standard of Marky Mark movies.

heh, i see our management is now referring to the company-wide 20% pay cut as a "20% hair cut"

basically we all got a bowl cut, and not even a good bowl cut

Heh, a friend let his kids give him a mohawk. My kids have been asking to dye my beard, but I'm going to save that for a rainy day. Or, at the rate we're going, for a day that's not rainy.

the only thing worse than pay cuts is your company deciding to use a "cute" euphemism for it

Just feeling a tremendous wave of relief at finally hearing from Fandango. These are difficult times, and as things improve they fully intend to provide the same great service I've become accustomed to.

Whew.

one of my main complaints right now personally is that I did not get a haircut before all this went down so 2020 will be super shaggy

The Defected Virtual Festival, currently live-streaming on FB, is making my afternoon: https://www.facebook.com/DefectedRecords/videos/636324983813473/?v=636324983813473

i have clippers at home and plan to shave my head today or tomorrow
xp

Most on-brand thing ever: in the absence of holding services, the pastor from our local U-U church (we're not members, but we have a lot of friends there) just posted a video of him strumming an acoustic guitar and singing "With or Without You."

without bass guitar that shit just ain't boss

group texts are how i keep in touch with people during normal times -- i welcome them!

neanderthal -- so fun to see you (i had no idea what you looked like) and your voice is indeed truly something else but why the crotch cam?! :D someone get this guy a tripod or a chair!

i would like to see more people -- maybe this is the time i finally get over making videos of myself playing drums. who cares at this point right?

I also need a fucking haircut, which is being exacerbated by my horrified realisation that presumably due to stress/grief as well as advancing middle age, that I'm going fucking bald round my crown and it looks really awful with longer hair (probably will look awful with short hair too, but at least then nobody would think I'm trying to cover it up or something)

Haha thank you LL. So in many moves i decided to get very light in possessions and actually chucked my only "inside" chair. I should probably dig up the beach chair i have next time.

Btw yes pls make vids people. I'm always curious what posters sound like.

A drum vid would rule LL

CP, balding is ok, you just need a set of clippers, saves money on going to the hairdresser, also I always hated going anyway.

LOL @ everyone shaving their heads while I, who's done this pretty regularly for the past two decades, have apparently just said 'eff it' and decided to see what male pattern baldness has left me to work with.

Mohawk imo

Old Punk Lunch

Btw yes pls make vids people. I'm always curious what posters sound like.

Thinking when I last went to the hairdresser and it was almost certainly 2006, I had to learn how to say "I want a shaved head, please shave all my hair off" in Chinese. They still managed to get it wrong, somehow.

I would have to settle for the Keith Flint reverse mohawk, I'm afraid, but perhaps the time has come.

maybe it would cheer everybody up if we all sang “Imagine” and someone spliced it together...
― beard papa, Friday, March 20, 2020 10:44 AM bookmarkflaglink

That might be the coolest idea

not imagine, maybe we could do "balloon"

I gave myself a reverse mohawk the day before yesterday to anticipate the ultimate course of my balding-on-top. It is not everything I hoped for.

CP, balding is ok, you just need a set of clippers, saves money on going to the hairdresser, also I always hated going anyway.

trouble is I hate having short hair (I know I may not have a choice about this at some point) so I don't actually want to shave it off, just trim it a few inches... but I guess it's not like anyone is actually seeing it now anyway, it looks OKish from the front so video calls are OK

also unrelated to videos but related to humans getting along -- gotta admit that i am enjoying the gentle "wtf who cares pandemic" release from social norms and inhibitions. this time of year people tend to get so...irritable? and complaining about other people had reached a real pitch before this went down (thinking of the political sniping mostly). i am enjoying some relief from it!

i would consider shaving my head but we are trying to learn how to teach online and i don't want to scare my students. they already think I'm weird enough.

xxp You could do the reverse mohawk AKA Keith Flint Hair as suggested above?

I have vowed for many years to proudly rock my baldness when it arrives. i.e. refuse to shave head all the way down as per today's standard...but now with this experiment I'm realizing that may not be possible.

Looking more Bozo the clown than Ed Harris atm.

a girl at my high school shaved her hair, we thought it was cool but my grandma saw her once and went on about it for years, she thought it was a sign of a dangerous mental breakdown for some reason

we've been cutting each other's hair for the last 3 years? It's not that difficult once you get used to it and is always a surprise at the end.

I was thinking about using this isolation to grow out all my white hair. I am pretty sure it's going to look ridiculous.

always a surprise in the end

https://i.ibb.co/tQwKb0c/NINTCHDBPICT000516508802.jpg

easier to cut one's own hair if the hair is abundant and manageable/longer
cutting my own hair has only led to undesirable ramona quimby looks and tears

I once got a little loopy and gave myself bangs that looked like eddie munster's widows peak for laughs. But then I ha to use bobby pins for awhile to pin back the tiny bits of hair.

I want to keep using gel, dammit

I've really been savoring dumping Suavecito pomade on my few remaining wisps of hair lately. Going for that bald man pompadour!

only because I trust this will be less searchable in future days tham on WDYLL

covid head

https://i.imgur.com/3MO1oNh.jpg

where are you that you're in front of a lost tefillin/talit notice?

in my office, I found that in the trash many years ago

omg that made me lol
thank you

I'm a firestarter, careful firestarter

In the years after America fell, only scraps of the internet will remain. This thread will be one of them.

People will conclude that Hadrian was our President.

xxp yes this is what I'm afraid of

(you rock that look btw!)

Rightfully so.

xxp

really?!

I can't venture out into the kitchen w/o peals of laughter. But this is my future goddamnit

they say that laughter is the best medicine

I mean this is what i look like rn and my hair is going to only get worse

https://i.ibb.co/nPrSyFN/IMG-20200320-111802.jpg