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I get asked sometimes by co-workers or complete strangers "when are you going to get a haircut"? Any of you out there have any good responses to this question?
I either say "someday" or "whenever I feel like it."
Why not retort "When people with no class or manners such as you are entitled to an answer".
I usually respond by sying "The more you bug me about getting my hair cut, the longer I'll grow it".
I say, "As soon as you grow yours long." If they are of average intelligence they say something like, "I'll never grow mine long!". Then I say, "There's your answer."
If they are of above average intelligence, they see the veiled insult and realize I just told them I would never want to look like them, even if it meant cutting my long hair.
kilgore
my response:
just as soon as i figure out which ONE i'm gonna cut.
Why give a answer at all???
I always say "I just got one" this usually embarasses them for not
noticing.They usually get the point.
When are you going to grow your hair long? Oh! A question answered with a question! I asked you first. Well I don't respond to well to questions like that. Maybe if you simply said "I notice you are wearing your hair quite long." I might say: oh yes, I love my long hair, and I don't plan to cut it. Then I've answered your question without feeling that your some kind of an idiot or something.
I usually say "I just did!". They look at me as though I'm out of my mind...then I add "I had a trim just last month!". (All the while, I'm not even communicating on the level of their not approving of my hair! I'm communicating on the level of Long hairs have different definitions of haircuts!). Works!
Just give them a look and walk away. No one would bother asking that question unless they were trying to bait you into an argument.
I usually just say, "When I get tired of it" . Seems like they don't ask the question again.
Aragorn
I work in a store, ringing out customers and such, and I had a 'lady' come up to me and she had the audacity to say, 'I know a nice salon.' I pretended as though I didn't know what she meant and asked "Why would you say that?" She said, as she saw the anger in my eyes, "I thought you might like to get your hair cut" I politely responded to her that I knew a good diet SHE could go on!!!
I was unloading my truck, making a delivery to a golf store, when I was approached by a man who responded, "At first I thought you were a lady unloading that truck until you turned around and I noticed your mustache".
And you say: "And at first I thought you were an idiot . . . and you are."
Chaeya -- Had to get that out!!!! ;o)
Good one Chaeya!
Never!!
I'm not into chopping off body parts.
I usually get mad and tell them to leave my hair alone....
(i'm growing them for 4.5 months)
This is an interresting point as this is obviously something that we all, long hairs, have to deal with in that close minded society.
This is ususaly making me mad and I prefer to say that this is my own personnal taste and that I do not ask you to grow your hair long.
Sometime I add up that quote: "If all men has the same taste, they would all be chassing the same women..."
My typical answers to questions on my hair:
Q: When are you getting a haircut?
A: Never.
Q: Don't you think that you should get a haircut?
A: No.
- Your hair is too long...
- I don't think so.
- You should cut your hair...
- Why? I like it so.
Nick
Just pick out one single strand and say, "Tomorrow I'm getting this one cut".
("When are you getting A HAIR cut" ... get it? Har har!)
Why cut a gift our Lord has given us?
Since you brought our Lord into the discussion, how would understand Paul's statement in 1Corinthians 11:14 "does not even nature itself teach us that it is a shame for a man to have long hair"?
I'm a christian man with long hair and sometimes get this pointed out to me by other christians.
Nature teaches me that if I jump of of high places I will get hurt. Nature teaches me that if I go out all day without a hat I will get sunburn, and if I put my hand in a fire I will get burnt. Nature has not taught me or any other sober man that long hair is shameful. In the Bible or no, this is simply a statement contrary to fact. To have imagined such a lesson from nature, Paul must have been awfully drunk. Too much communion perhaps?
Paul was quite the bigot. Jesus was not. Get yourself a Bible with the words of Jesus in red. If this were important, Jesus would have said something about it. Next time they throw you that line, ask them to show you where it says it in red.
Very well put. And Paul's statement actually goes *against* nature--in most animals, the male is more decorative than the female.
Lyn
The Bible was written by humans and Paul was a human; to err is human, that is because nobody is perfect on this small blue planet.
We have learned through exstensive research that Paul was a victim of Male Pattern Baldness. As a young man he enjoyed long beautiful hair, but by his mid-twenties he was totally bald. Bitter, and jelous he slipped that line of text into 1 corinthians during one of it's many many edits, and rewrites.
Until recently one line of the rosetta stone remained untranslated. In 1997 the famed linguist Dr. Ronald Gobbman was able to translate the partial text, and according to him it is a rather cryptic message that reads, "If I can't have long hair than no one can!!! Mwaaahaaahaaa. Love Paul."
Fargy
Maybe those "Christians" misinterpret the Bible. Counter their interpretation with one that supports freedom to choose one's own hairstyle. The statement could apply to one man who wished to have short hair, therefor felt ashamed to have long hair. ... and someone who wished to have long hair would feel ashamed to have short hair. That statement does not say all men should be ashamed to have long hair.
"When are you going to learn some manners?"
People are so incredibly rude--perhaps pointing out their rudeness will shame them a bit. My husband is both long-haired and handicapped, and we live in the suburbs--he's experienced a lot of mannerlessness.
Lyn
I usually get crap from wanna be playas sometimes. But mostly I get called a hippie, even by some of my TEACHERS!I'm not a hippie I say, I'M DEATH METAL!!! Eventually when my hair gets about 5 inches below nipple length, they will be able to tell I'm death metal and not a hippie. (right now, it's at the bottom of my chin.) IF your hair is long, and you got friends that respect it or even like it a little bit, and you like it, that's all that matters. I can't say much about on the job since I work as a bagger.
"THESE ROOTS WILL ALWAYS REMAIN"
This is a classic. When asked that stupid question, I normally say:
"Need some surplus hair?" It usually works. In the case of the same
idiot asking several times, I revert to either Silence Therapy or a
specialised variant, Spanish Therapy. (silent treatment or to only
use Spanish on them, which has the same result) I'm quite able to do
various linguistic tricks, including superimposing improper accents
of my choice onto Spanish. Aussie is my favourite for this.
People who bug us about hair are lame. Funny that these idiots don't
think of a haircut as a form of surgery. Maybe we should tell people
who ask this to get a sex change job done.