I’ve been getting some really inquisitive looks from people because my hair is much longer than I normally like it to be. You know, with being scared of getting the plague so I haven’t cut my hair in since february.
clif
Same. I call it being prudent instead of being scared on account of I have a lot of experience at lying to myself.
Psychie
Fear is nothing to be ashamed of, it’s nature’s way of telling us “No, no, no! Don’t do *that* you moron! You could get hurt!”
Wizard
Fear does serve a purpose, but it’s very helpful to distinguish between rational fear and irrational. Can this thing I’m scared of actually hurt me? And if it can, how likely is it? What are the costs and benefits of the actions I take to protect myself?
Wizard
Finally got mine cut about a month ago, for the first time since November. (I was already a little overdue when things shut down.) I normally wear mine long, but I was getting excessively shaggy, even with a few self-administered trims.
StClair
I still don’t dare go in for a “real” cut, but about a month ago I couldn’t take it anymore and took a whack at it myself – trims in front and to the sides, and more in back where it was getting really shaggy.
Alaric
I finally cut my own hair for the first time. It turned out a lot better than I expected.
I’m, uh, nobody’s idea of a Board-of-Health-approved kitchen cleaner, but my kitchen shears are always cleaned right away. What’s with Linda?
Inkyzuzi
The issue isn’t that the scissors are gross because their still bits of raw meat. The issue is that Walky didn’t clean them after cutting his hair and definitely didn’t tell Linda so she won’t know to clean them before she uses them the next time
clif
By the time she uses them the hair bacteria and cooties will have died. It’ll be fine.
Particularly since I won’t be eating there.
Geneseepaws
I wonder if she will notice the trimmings on the floor. Would Walky clean up after himself or not?
Needfuldoer
He probably did it in the mirror over the bathroom sink. Maybe he ran the faucet for a second and rinsed some of the trimmings near the drain.
Linda will blame Sal when she notices.
ruhrow
I mean, if these scissors are only used on meat, anything they touch will be thoroughly heat-sanitized by the time they’re consumed.
Ah, of course. I wasn’t thinking that way. (Of course, I’ve never trimmed my hair with kitchen shears.)
Random832
Well, *he* certainly thinks the scissors are gross [and expects Sal to think that as well] or he wouldn’t have felt the need to reassure Sal that he washed his hands
If you want to theorize for a bit one of the silhouettes from the big group shot kind of looks like it could be Mike, possibly in a new outfit, which would imply he wakes up eventually or did wake up maybe.
Probably tomorrow or the day after when walky and Sal say hey to Joyce? I’m guessing she’s the focal point of all of the character portraits. Or when they’re inside the campus housing proper.
Bicycle Bill
It’s also on the right-hand sidebar under the “Tweets”. Currently showing Joyce, Becky, Dorothy (w/Fuckface on her head), and the Walkerton twins, and they’ve gone from silhouette to full-color pic as they appear in this new storyline.
My theory is he was in a medically induced coma for 2-3 weeks to make sure any intracranial swelling went down and his skeletal/muscular injuries stabilized, and they gradually ramped up physical therapy for him since then.
They probably buzzed all his hair off (at least around the primary injury) in the ER, but three months should be enough time for some of it to grow back. If the silhouette in question ks Mike, either he’s regrowing the front part or he’s wearing a baseball hat.
Fuck laces. They’re an outdated technology and I don’t know why we still use them in the friggin’ Future Year 2020! I, too, have fancy shoes without laces. Loafers forever!
Bicycle Bill
Oxfords, not brogues. A gentleman wears laced shoes.
He Who Abides
Manners maketh man.
Geneseepaws
I think Guy DeMaupassant would disagree; “Clothes Make the Man.”
Agemegos
Winchester College.
Deanatay
Sneakers make me a gentleman? Sweet!
Bicycle Bill
There are varying degrees of ‘gentleman’.
Wizard
Because they’re cheap and they work. The casual shoes I wear daily are slip-ons, but I prefer laces for my work boots, because they’re much more comfortable if I can tie them fairly tight. I prefer zippers for my motorcycle boots, because I have a not totally rational fear of getting the laces caught in the drive chain. (Slip-ons are a strict no-go; in an accident they become slip-offs.) While velcro is often associated with cheap sneakers, my cycling shoes use velcro straps, and they’re probably the most expensive shoes I own. (Aside from the work boots, but at least the company helps pay for those.) Conclusion? Different closures may work best in different circumstances. Also, I have too many shoes.
I mean it’s also a vital accessibility thing for some disabled people (very much including me here – I can just about tie square knots these days but can’t judge spacing all that well so I still wear slip-ons or velcro because otherwise they WILL come untied. And tying knots is a very recent development with my motor skills.)
I’m not sure your comment was intended as a significant jab at Walky or not, but given how much you hate him, kinda hits home as a disabled person who literally could not tie knots at age 18 because of her disability.
I was meant to be a jab at Walky but I apologize if I offended you or any other disabled person. That was unintended.
Regalli
Accepted. It’s one of those things people don’t think about the splash damage for until it’s pointed out in general, so I’m used to it. Ableism is unfortunately baked pretty deep into the public psyche, so it happens unintentionally a lot, (Still a hell of a lot better than the Straw Discourse, which has been rehashing the same points for years now – straws are an accessibility thing, plastic straws are literally the only option that fit everyone’s needs, vegetable oil plastics are all made out of pretty common allergens, reusable ones place the onus on disabled people as yet another thing we have to spend more money and effort providing, the invisibly disabled will be policed even worse than usual if it’s a ‘only give them to disabled people who ask’ thing, and the entire thing is putting emphasis on consumers with a focus on something that makes up a frankly minute amount of pollution instead of where it belongs on the companies that are ruining things for everyone. Or at least plastic bags or balloons if you really want to talk about single-use plastics. Like I said, plural years of these exact same points, and it is almost always a ‘well have you tried’ doubling down.)
Chris
And paper straws make everything taste funny.
Regalli
It’s the dissolving, I think. They’re such a non-solution.
173 thoughts on “Haircut”
Ana Chronistic
oh good, they survived the Linda
Reltzik
They survived. Physically speaking.
DarkoNeko
To the point their dad is the one that brought them to school.
Cattleprod
… I want to say Walky looks taller and I have absolutely no idea why I’d think that.
Doctor_Who
The building sunk an inch into the ground over Christmas.
Schpoonman
He’s been slowly growing a spine for Sal.
Zebrafishy
I enjoyed this comment enough that I am making my first post here to tell you this.
Psychie
No the building that sinks an inch a year is the Well’s Library, that’s nearly 7 blocks away
Jhon
Scribe a mark on the foundation and you will see the truth.
( pranksters add extra soil to the surrounding flower beds each year )
a/snow/mous/e
He looks a bit taller than Sal here.
Foxhack
Sal’s hair is pushing her down.
Seriously, that much hair must weigh a ton.
He Who Abides
Yes, it does*
*citation – my wife’s hair, when worn loose, brushes the ground. She says it’s pretty heavy.
Rose by Any Other Name
It’s the hair.
I… I have never found Walky this attractive.
No, wait, let me fix that.
I have never before found Walky attractive.
But… that haircut…
Foxhack
I’ve been getting some really inquisitive looks from people because my hair is much longer than I normally like it to be. You know, with being scared of getting the plague so I haven’t cut my hair in since february.
clif
Same. I call it being prudent instead of being scared on account of I have a lot of experience at lying to myself.
Psychie
Fear is nothing to be ashamed of, it’s nature’s way of telling us “No, no, no! Don’t do *that* you moron! You could get hurt!”
Wizard
Fear does serve a purpose, but it’s very helpful to distinguish between rational fear and irrational. Can this thing I’m scared of actually hurt me? And if it can, how likely is it? What are the costs and benefits of the actions I take to protect myself?
Wizard
Finally got mine cut about a month ago, for the first time since November. (I was already a little overdue when things shut down.) I normally wear mine long, but I was getting excessively shaggy, even with a few self-administered trims.
StClair
I still don’t dare go in for a “real” cut, but about a month ago I couldn’t take it anymore and took a whack at it myself – trims in front and to the sides, and more in back where it was getting really shaggy.
Alaric
I finally cut my own hair for the first time. It turned out a lot better than I expected.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
He has started snorting helium to cope.
Chris Sims
Platforms
Joe
I wanna say it’s because of the vertical lines of the jacket, but I don’t know enough about design and optics to be super confident in that.
Ray Radlein
Hey, meat scissors are probably good for your hair
Ray Radlein
…and I notice he didn’t say he washed the meat scissors
ValdVin
I’m, uh, nobody’s idea of a Board-of-Health-approved kitchen cleaner, but my kitchen shears are always cleaned right away. What’s with Linda?
Inkyzuzi
The issue isn’t that the scissors are gross because their still bits of raw meat. The issue is that Walky didn’t clean them after cutting his hair and definitely didn’t tell Linda so she won’t know to clean them before she uses them the next time
clif
By the time she uses them the hair bacteria and cooties will have died. It’ll be fine.
Particularly since I won’t be eating there.
Geneseepaws
I wonder if she will notice the trimmings on the floor. Would Walky clean up after himself or not?
Needfuldoer
He probably did it in the mirror over the bathroom sink. Maybe he ran the faucet for a second and rinsed some of the trimmings near the drain.
Linda will blame Sal when she notices.
ruhrow
I mean, if these scissors are only used on meat, anything they touch will be thoroughly heat-sanitized by the time they’re consumed.
RowenMorland
You might still end up eating a Walky fur-burger.
Ed Rhodes
And, NOW, I’m gonna stop reading the comments!
ValdVin
Ah, of course. I wasn’t thinking that way. (Of course, I’ve never trimmed my hair with kitchen shears.)
Random832
Well, *he* certainly thinks the scissors are gross [and expects Sal to think that as well] or he wouldn’t have felt the need to reassure Sal that he washed his hands
jeffepp
See the hover text.
He Who Abides
He does that in my kitchen, he’ll eat those scissors. That’s disgusting.
Michael Lanting
More importantly, he didn’t say he washed his *hair*.
Cmasta1992
He kinda looks a musician with that style.
not someone else
I was gonna say, I think he looks better like that. Tiny little bit of a badass.
Doctor_Who
It’s the jacket. It gives him shoulders.
Rose by Any Other Name
I know, right?
Walky is rocking that hairdo.
Linda
It’s the sideburns.
MM
Danny’s hat had better be long burned by now.
Mada
Oh no, Walky growing his hair out is going to be hot…
Undrave
He’s just doing it because he can’t grow a beard.
ValdVin
Appropriate gravatar is appropriate.
Stephen Bierce
Get A Haircut–and get a real job
Clean your act up and don’t be a slob
Get your act together like yer Big Brother Bob…
Geneseepaws
So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him ‘why‘.
Deanatay
Bob Walkeron? Bobky?
Nah, not buying it.
Mra
Soooo, is Mike still comatose after 3 months?
Sirksome
If you want to theorize for a bit one of the silhouettes from the big group shot kind of looks like it could be Mike, possibly in a new outfit, which would imply he wakes up eventually or did wake up maybe.
Bunny
Where do I find that big group shot?!
Sirksome
Not sure where you can find an updated one with Sal and Walky added but it’s underneath the comic a couple pages or so back.
Amara Rezby
Probably tomorrow or the day after when walky and Sal say hey to Joyce? I’m guessing she’s the focal point of all of the character portraits. Or when they’re inside the campus housing proper.
Bicycle Bill
It’s also on the right-hand sidebar under the “Tweets”. Currently showing Joyce, Becky, Dorothy (w/Fuckface on her head), and the Walkerton twins, and they’ve gone from silhouette to full-color pic as they appear in this new storyline.
Predicting the next reveal will be Dina.
Needfuldoer
My theory is he was in a medically induced coma for 2-3 weeks to make sure any intracranial swelling went down and his skeletal/muscular injuries stabilized, and they gradually ramped up physical therapy for him since then.
They probably buzzed all his hair off (at least around the primary injury) in the ER, but three months should be enough time for some of it to grow back. If the silhouette in question ks Mike, either he’s regrowing the front part or he’s wearing a baseball hat.
Sirksome
He’s only being defensive because he doesn’t actually know HOW to tie his shoes. Velcro exists for the Walky’s of the world.
Dunedon
I will admit to wearing slip on dress shoes for almost all occasions to avoid having to deal with laces.
Undrave
Fuck laces. They’re an outdated technology and I don’t know why we still use them in the friggin’ Future Year 2020! I, too, have fancy shoes without laces. Loafers forever!
Bicycle Bill
Oxfords, not brogues. A gentleman wears laced shoes.
He Who Abides
Manners maketh man.
Geneseepaws
I think Guy DeMaupassant would disagree; “Clothes Make the Man.”
Agemegos
Winchester College.
Deanatay
Sneakers make me a gentleman? Sweet!
Bicycle Bill
There are varying degrees of ‘gentleman’.
Wizard
Because they’re cheap and they work. The casual shoes I wear daily are slip-ons, but I prefer laces for my work boots, because they’re much more comfortable if I can tie them fairly tight. I prefer zippers for my motorcycle boots, because I have a not totally rational fear of getting the laces caught in the drive chain. (Slip-ons are a strict no-go; in an accident they become slip-offs.) While velcro is often associated with cheap sneakers, my cycling shoes use velcro straps, and they’re probably the most expensive shoes I own. (Aside from the work boots, but at least the company helps pay for those.) Conclusion? Different closures may work best in different circumstances. Also, I have too many shoes.
Regalli
I mean it’s also a vital accessibility thing for some disabled people (very much including me here – I can just about tie square knots these days but can’t judge spacing all that well so I still wear slip-ons or velcro because otherwise they WILL come untied. And tying knots is a very recent development with my motor skills.)
I’m not sure your comment was intended as a significant jab at Walky or not, but given how much you hate him, kinda hits home as a disabled person who literally could not tie knots at age 18 because of her disability.
Sirksome
I was meant to be a jab at Walky but I apologize if I offended you or any other disabled person. That was unintended.
Regalli
Accepted. It’s one of those things people don’t think about the splash damage for until it’s pointed out in general, so I’m used to it. Ableism is unfortunately baked pretty deep into the public psyche, so it happens unintentionally a lot, (Still a hell of a lot better than the Straw Discourse, which has been rehashing the same points for years now – straws are an accessibility thing, plastic straws are literally the only option that fit everyone’s needs, vegetable oil plastics are all made out of pretty common allergens, reusable ones place the onus on disabled people as yet another thing we have to spend more money and effort providing, the invisibly disabled will be policed even worse than usual if it’s a ‘only give them to disabled people who ask’ thing, and the entire thing is putting emphasis on consumers with a focus on something that makes up a frankly minute amount of pollution instead of where it belongs on the companies that are ruining things for everyone. Or at least plastic bags or balloons if you really want to talk about single-use plastics. Like I said, plural years of these exact same points, and it is almost always a ‘well have you tried’ doubling down.)
Chris
And paper straws make everything taste funny.
Regalli
It’s the dissolving, I think. They’re such a non-solution.