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

cut it yourself! i seriously am amazed that people won't cut their hair themselves. I heard it grows back most of the time.

i did this. it was.... shorter than i intended but pretty easy to get a decent look with just a beard trimmer. close settings around the back and sides, longer settings for the top. a mirror to fix any missed spots. editors i will write this article for 25c a word.

we shaved 1/3 of my head and left the other side long. I call it my dystopian viking/retired cop on the left look.

but we also had two electric shavers and two haircutting scissors here because we are both usually too lazy and cheap to go to hairstylists and we are not too bothered by hair mishaps.

my partner cut my hair. It is very uneven in sections. But it feels better and was fun to do.

I cut my partner’s hair and did a cautious but reasonable job. I used to cut my own hair, until I sort of had to shave it all off and my reprehensible long-distance partner at the time refused to come visit me until it grew back.

social conventions fuck with people's heads and hair and "cleanliness" are a big one. I generally go a year or so between haircuts so this is fine for me but my gal is losing her mind about not getting to see someone.

my hair is still acceptable to me; it's not deteriorating any more than the rest of my appearance is

i want to shave my whole head but then kept questioning my partner if it will feel like having sex with a monk. I think he thinks it's a trick question.

I just want my eyebrows threaded and tinted sometime soon.

I buzzed mine yesterday. I did the math on how long it would take to reach my shoulders again (another year) vs the amount of misery in between and decided fuck it.

Overall excellent choice, highly recommended

xxp

Correct response: "monks are hot!"

My hair sucks right now, but it's not causing me to stew on our God given rights as Americans to go to the fucking barbershop.

yerac you could shave your head and buy a selection of reasonably priced hottt wigs

i couldn't deal with having a fucked up haircut. i'm just going to have to ride this out.

It's only sex with a monk if you go for a tonsure IMO

I'm shaving it this weekend. Like America, it will grow back stronger than ever!!!

I haven’t cut my hair in a few years what’s one more.

i couldn't deal with having a fucked up haircut. i'm just going to have to ride this out.

That's where I am. I've buzzed my hair before and it looked absolutely awful. I do not have the head shape for that. Shaggy is def preferable to what that would look like.

sex with tony shalhoub

xps I already have the wigs! I am prepared for anything.

If I had clippers I’d be up for trying to refresh my undercut

thank you ru paul's drag race.

99 times out of 100, i think women look great with buzzcuts
i would generally buzz my own head during the summer and might speed that up a bit if the weather gets prohibitively hot particularly fast.

i am suddenly remembering Todd Oldham from MTv's House of Style doing a how to cut your own hair segment.

I have had a beard for 10 years. When I bought my current trimmer several years ago it came with a dozen or so little plastic guides of various sizes. I just wanted to trim my beard and there were so many of them and they kept getting in the way in the box, so I threw out all of the guides except the first two sizes I needed. Boy do I feel dumb now.

I'm currently deciding between clipping my hair down (maybe leaving it a little longer on top) and growing it out. I had hair down to my shoulders when I graduated high school in 1990, but shaved it off later that summer. I remember it took 12-18 months to grow, starting from a regular short haircut.

My husband, who started going bald in his late teens and has been shaving it to a number 1 or 2 ever since, has been enjoying feeling v smug during this quarantine.

Feel like somebody earlier in the thread noticed that spam calls had dropped, that still the case? Experiencing the exact opposite here in the last week or so, suddenly cranked up to 10-15 calls per day (doubly annoying since I also have a work cell phone too).

Feel like somebody earlier in the thread noticed that spam calls had dropped, that still the case?

That was me. For a while they stopped completely, but I've gotten a few in the last week or so - no more than 1 or 2 a week, though.

Yesterday I got a spam text from the Trump campaign directing me to some shitass website about Joe Biden's alleged crimes (not sex crimes, all China bullshit) - I replied with 100 middle finger emojis.

haven't noticed a difference either way

Caring for my dad in a cramped apartment while I am single and unable to go on dates and have no room of my own makes me miss being able to wank

when there's a will there's a way

might just take a little sleight of hand

Just came from a harrowing trip to my dentist, seeing patients again for the first time since March. She's ruthlessly hygienic in normal times; today she ordered me to wear plastic eye guards and took my temperature. I waited in my car before the receptionist called and escorted me in. I wore my mask and gloves, the former, of course, not while she poked around -- I felt nude.

plastic eye guards hmm. what they is, google

like a visor but over the eyes thing?

Yeah, very 1986.

xxxp I hear NoFap makes you a god among men

i didn't say I didn't fap. i just had to...uhh...get creative

Dentist: I think I'd be keen not to risk death to sort out other people's tooth pain.

Haircuts: You know to do this yourself *now* rather than wait until the end of working from home, yeah? I know video conferencing ruins this slightly but still ...

Went to the grocery earlier on. For the past month or so, it's been 100% facemasks there, but sometime in the past week I guess a lot of people said fuck it because a good quarter or more of the people there had no masks, were mostly in groups, and acting like they didn't give a fuck about their or anyone else's safety. Not a good development at all.

so the store doesn't prohibit this?

I asked the lady that coordinates the check out lines if they no longer require masks, and she said they still do, but I guess they aren't doing much to stop it. I think as long as the state isn't requiring it, stores feel disempowered to really stop people.

after a grocery worker was shot to death by a customer for trying to enforce mask-wearing in the store I wouldn't be surprised if some stores reconsidered mandatory masks for customers.

Indeed

It's weird living in DeSatan's Florida yet in a county where you're not allowed to enter any enclosed public space w/out'em.

I thought that's what it was like here! It's frustrating because our case numbers have never really gotten out of control, but have just plateaued for weeks without managing to drop significantly. It feels like we were close, but now we're just throwing it away.

My university is trying to reassure employees that if we return to campus in the fall there will be strict policies about wearing masks and following social distancing rules. But all that does is fill us with dread, because we all know what happens when strict policies are put in place that depend on faculty and staff to enforce them... the policies are ignored and the employees get blamed for the failure. It's the same in grocery stores.

Am I correct in thinking you also live in Austin?