# A bald guy at my job asked me when am I going to shave off all my hair since my hair is thinning **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 18, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844 "2015-11-18T00:15:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tarrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@tarrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarrel)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/1 "2015-11-18T00:15:38Z")
LOL, that made me chuckle because I guess he needs to feel better about his decision to go bald if I decided to cut off all my hair. My answer to him was “NEVER” since I am secure enough to still keep my hair cut low and stylish which has not hurt me at all when it comes to dating. Plus I am confused why another man would be concerned about another man’s hair which is kind of odd to me. Funny that woman compliment my haircuts and a man has a issue with it.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/2 "2015-11-18T00:18:29Z")
You should have told him you already _have_ shaved off your hair. You could have said, ‘Hey, down below I’m as smooth as a six-year-old boy!’ ---
**Author:** ![tarrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@tarrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarrel)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/3 "2015-11-18T00:22:38Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > You should have told him you already _have_ shaved off your hair. You could have said, ‘Hey, down below I’m as smooth as a six-year-old boy!’ I almost said…“I can’t get down with the Human Light Bulb” look lol ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/4 "2015-11-18T00:32:51Z")
Tell him you heard one of the woman in the office say, in a disparaging way, he looks like a prick with ears.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/5 "2015-11-18T02:03:58Z")
Does he have a goatee? Then you can call him Minge Face. ---
**Author:** ![tarrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@tarrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarrel)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/6 "2015-11-18T02:07:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Does he have a goatee? Then you can call him Minge Face. He has a beard ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/7 "2015-11-18T03:19:39Z")
When I lived in Albuquerque, I spent a summer going door to door raising money for the New Mexico branch of Ralph Nader’s Public Interest Research Group. One of my fellow canvassers had cancer, and when the chemotherapy caused his hair to start falling out, he shaved his head. He said he knocked on one door and did his spiel, and the guy at the door just smirked at him and asked why he shaved his head. He was obviously expecting some sort of rebel, skin-head, smart-ass answer. When told, “I have cancer,” the guy reportedly almost fainted from shock. Did not see that one coming. I think he paid for a large subscription. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/8 "2015-11-18T03:23:38Z")
> [@tarrel](#): > > He has a beard Heh. Of course he does. I did the facial hair thing too when I was, for all intents and purposes, bald. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/9 "2015-11-18T03:37:31Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Heh. Of course he does. > > I did the facial hair thing too when I was, for all intents and purposes, bald. 🙂 I know bald guys who have no facial hair. My dad was just about bald and he never had any facial hair. ---
**Author:** ![tarrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@tarrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarrel)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/10 "2015-11-18T03:40:19Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Heh. Of course he does. > > I did the facial hair thing too when I was, for all intents and purposes, bald. 🙂 Why do you say of course he does? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/11 "2015-11-18T03:50:36Z")
> [@tarrel](#): > > LOL, that made me chuckle because I guess he needs to feel better about his decision to go bald if I decided to cut off all my hair. Or, y’know, he was just trying to make conversation. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/12 "2015-11-18T04:10:22Z")
Hey, chicks just \*looooooooove \*come overs, jus’ sayin’ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tarrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@tarrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarrel)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/13 "2015-11-18T04:23:38Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > Hey, chicks just \*looooooooove \*come overs, jus’ sayin’ 😉 I don’t have a comb over, just thinning in the middle ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/14 "2015-11-18T04:37:19Z")
> [@tarrel](#): > > LOL, that made me chuckle because I guess he needs to feel better about his decision to go bald if I decided to cut off all my hair. My answer to him was “NEVER” since I am secure enough to still keep my hair cut low and stylish which has not hurt me at all when it comes to dating. Plus I am confused why another man would be concerned about another man’s hair which is kind of odd to me. > > Funny that woman compliment my haircuts and a man has a issue with it.:smack: Secure enough? Please. I think some men just don’t like the look of a balding head. I shave my fully-growing hair now because I like it, so I’m fairly certain I’d continue to do so if I ever started to lose any of it. ---
**Author:** ![tarrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@tarrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarrel)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/15 "2015-11-18T04:40:52Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Secure enough? Please. I think some men just don’t like the look of a balding head. I shave my fully-growing hair now because I like it, so I’m fairly certain I’d continue to do so if I ever started to lose any of it. I think it would make him feel better to see another guy with a bald head so he can feel better about his decision lol ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/16 "2015-11-18T05:44:40Z")
Isn’t that the equivalent of saying “you can’t fire me; I quit!” ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/17 "2015-11-18T06:04:43Z")
Like both bald guys and guys with thinning hair can’t be sexy? Pfft. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/18 "2015-11-18T19:28:00Z")
> [@tarrel](#): > > Why do you say of course he does? Because every single balding man I have ever met, if they have not embraced their balding grow facial hair, even if it is solely a mustache, although they usually opt for the combo beard and mustache. Heck, I did it when my balding reached a certain threshold, and kept my facial hair for a few years prior to my two surgeries, so I am no stranger to the practice. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/19 "2015-11-18T19:32:45Z")
I have a full head of hair that I usually shave bald. I wear a pencil mustache and chinstrap beard. You think Ming was merciless? Just you wait!!! I will show you terror in a handful of hair. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bald-guy-at-my-job-asked-me-when-am-i-going-to-shave-off-all-my-hair-since-my-hair-is-thinning/737844/20 "2015-11-19T21:36:44Z")
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