# Gray hair, sure, but like this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 26, 2000, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gray-hair-sure-but-like-this/9343 "2000-03-26T22:34:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gray-hair-sure-but-like-this/9343/21 "2000-03-29T06:00:00Z")
**Al** , I probably should have provided this link in my first post: [Cecil on the Black Irish](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_077.html) **Lor** , I know how you feel - I started coloring my hair when I hit 30, but I got sick of it and quit at 40. Everyone tells me it looks great silver, but I occasionally have my doubts. Mean Girl at our local supermarket offered me the Senior Citizen’s Discount. ---
**Author:** ![KalEl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/839c29/32.png) [@KalEl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KalEl)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gray-hair-sure-but-like-this/9343/22 "2000-03-28T22:32:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Bucky: > \*\* KalEl, my suspicion is that you have been exposed to plaid kryptonite. > > Bucky > \*\* Bucky, you’re right. Between that and the red suns, a guy can’t go anywhere anymore. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gray-hair-sure-but-like-this/9343/23 "2000-03-28T23:04:00Z")
I also have graying spots on my scalp (I’m 41, BTW). There’s a fairly prominent patch of it on the top of my head, slightly off center to the right and back a bit from the hairline. I’m also graying in bits around the temples and all around the back. The rest of my hair is a fairly uniform brown. I like my gray hair (it runs in my family, as I can’t remember my dad with anything but silver hair). I think it’s distinguished-looking, and I don’t dread it at all, especially since I’m not losing my hair (and ain’t likely to, at my age). What really bothers me, for some reason, is my gray whiskers. I don’t have facial hair, but when I’m feeling indolent of a weekend, I don’t shave. And I’ve got a LOT of white whiskers! Not gray, white! Almost transluscent! It weirds me out and I dunno why. * * * The Dave-Guy “Since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?” J.H. Marx ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gray-hair-sure-but-like-this/9343/24 "2000-03-29T01:44:00Z")
I’m 35 and only get a single grey hair every now and then. They do not bother me. What bothers me is the fantastic rate at which the hair on top of my head is thinning out. In my humble opinion, grey hair is better than no hair. ---
**Author:** ![Nanno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nanno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanno)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gray-hair-sure-but-like-this/9343/25 "2000-03-29T02:37:00Z")
## I started to get a lot of grey hair about the same time that I started going to church again, my friend said that she noticed that young people who where very involved in her church had grey hair. So I stopped praying!! whatever ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gray-hair-sure-but-like-this/9343/26 "2000-03-29T15:26:00Z")
Im blond & as most blonds do, they don’t get a lot of grey until much later in life for some reason or other. ---
**Author:** ![writefetus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9de053/32.png) [@writefetus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/writefetus)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gray-hair-sure-but-like-this/9343/27 "2000-03-29T15:35:00Z")
…not to hijack this thread, but here is a like to lotsa info on the Black Irish and other related groups [http://www.geocities.com/mikenassau/](http://www.geocities.com/mikenassau/) this seems to be a name applied to an old east coast mixed race group related, if not identical,to the Melungeons,Brass ankles and Lumbee [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gray-hair-sure-but-like-this/9343.md?page=1)