ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)

[Jacqui]

I believe it's true.

How come everyone I know who has shaved their arms, their hair has grown back coarser?

[Pthagnar]

I believe it's true.

How come everyone I know who has shaved their arms, their hair has grown back coarser?

http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.p ... 037#783037

[Jacqui]

I believe it's true.

How come everyone I know who has shaved their arms, their hair has grown back coarser?

http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.p ... 037#783037

And..?

[Pthagnar]

"Hair feels more rough when the tips are shaved off, which is apparently what gives the impression of hair being stronger when you let it grow back after shaving. "

[Torco]

I dunno: I used to shave my beard but not my upper lip when I was younger and guess what; I have a strong beard and thin upper lip hair. Also, I shaved my scalp for a couple of weeks and my hairline went forwards [towards my nose, so to speak] a couple of centimeters, and grew back thouger and more thick.

So yeah, in my experience this myth is true.

[Jacqui]

"Hair feels more rough when the tips are shaved off, which is apparently what gives the impression of hair being stronger when you let it grow back after shaving. "

That doesn't make sense, though. Hair doesn't grow back straight away...

[rickardspaghetti]

Yes it makes sense. And he didn't say that hair grew back straight away.

[Jacqui]

Every wondered why you never see a beard as silky as hair?

[Guitarplayer II]

Hair stubble ain't exactly silky, neither are pubic and axillary hair.

[rickardspaghetti]

Every wondered why you never see a beard as silky as hair?

Because they're different?

[schwhatever]

Facial oils I bet.

[rickardspaghetti]

We need Delthayre.

[LinguistCat]

My fiance's facial hair is actually extremely soft even though he keeps it short. In fact there's no difference between it and "head hair" of the same length. So it's not automatic that shaving = coarser hair. It's just that the thin tips get cut off when you shave, so shaved hairs have thicker, blunter tips which make them seem coarse.

[rickardspaghetti]

You sure know more than I. And that worries me.

[Torco]

My fiance's facial hair is actually extremely soft even though he keeps it short. In fact there's no difference between it and "head hair" of the same length. So it's not automatic that shaving = coarser hair. It's just that the thin tips get cut off when you shave, so shaved hairs have thicker, blunter tips which make them seem coarse.

That is indeed true; the tip of a head hair has been dangling for quite a while, while one's beard, lest you're daistallia or delthayre or something, doesn't last as long. It is also, on many people, qualitatively different hair [tho not always]. Also, it's a fact, or at least it is in my experience, that long hair, due to the pulling and whatnot, grows slower and falls easier than short hair, so maybe it's not shaving that strenghtens the hair, but indeed continued short length.

Also, it makes perfect evolutionary sense for hair to grow faster when cut: imagine you're a wolf or whatever, and a patch of your hair gets pulled because of, I dunno, another wolf bit it or whatever. If all your hair keeps growing at the same rate you're not only gonna be loosing heat through the bald patch, but your camouflage [and social status] get crappier. I imagine there's some sort of feedback mechanism built into hair which would make it grow faster when too short* and slower when long enough*

* compared to a 'default length'

[finlay]

Silent Letters! You're in a nice environment too! That shirt has a nice colour, and that cup makes me want to go buy coffee from a shop. Is it coffee in there?

It's a lovely environment - the High Line park in Manhattan - and it is indeed coffee.

I sorta wish I could grow that type of beard... but, alas, my years are few in number, so hope still remains.

It might help if you shave frequently in your younger years. I hear this encourages faster, denser growth. OTOH,

I had my beard at 16.

Genetics probably has a lot to do with it. It's hard to say when I was able to grow a full beard. Probably by 19 or 20, but that age I went around clean shaven, maybe some sideburns at most. It wasn't until the mid-20s that I let it grow in from time to time. It's been a fixture for about 5-6 years now.

The shaving thing is an illusion. I don't think I got proper stubble till I was about 20, anyway – or else I just didn't notice before that that my shaving was having to become more frequent. It's not until this year that I decided to let it grow to see what happens, how it looks. Got it in a pointy goatee at the moment... it's long enough that I actually condition it to stop it from being too coarse, wild or unwieldy...

[Kostalan Rottsaa]

Skomakar'n, I gotta say, you're sexy as hell. The hair really suits you.

I'm way late on this, but I'm tempted to say that too, and being bisexual, that makes things a bit awkward maybe...

[Silk]

That is indeed true; the tip of a head hair has been dangling for quite a while, while one's beard, lest you're daistallia or delthayre or something, doesn't last as long. It is also, on many people, qualitatively different hair [tho not always]. Also, it's a fact, or at least it is in my experience, that long hair, due to the pulling and whatnot, grows slower and falls easier than short hair, so maybe it's not shaving that strenghtens the hair, but indeed continued short length.

My beard hair definitely seems to be of a different quality than the hair on my head. The hair on my head is a dark brown color, but my beard has some red and blond hairs, as well as a patch of white hairs that always grows in a certain area.

[schwhatever]

People often have patchy red hair rather than solid. Or it could be light

[Yiuel Raumbesrairc]

Melvillian Days, Constitution Day

Here's me with my Melvillian flag



Thanks to two of my flatmates for helping with the picture.

[Astraios]

Skomakar'n, I gotta say, you're sexy as hell. The hair really suits you.

I'm way late on this, but I'm tempted to say that too, and being bisexual, that makes things a bit awkward maybe...

Nahh. This whole board is for sexual deviants like us. The conlanging thing is just a clever ruse to avoid unwanted attention.

@Yiuel: Did you make the flag? How did you do it? Will you make me one? For free? And pay for the P&P? And send me some cookies as a gesture of goodwill between Quebec and the UK?

[Yiuel Raumbesrairc]

@Yiuel: Did you make the flag? How did you do it? Will you make me one? For free? And pay for the P&P? And send me some cookies as a gesture of goodwill between Quebec and the UK?

1. I did not make the flag.
2. I drew it, and sent it to a shop specialized in making flags (The Flag Shop, in Montreal).
3. I can design it, but not much more.
4. It cost me 100$, so... no.
5. To the UK? You'd have to add 40$.
6. Why cookies when you could have asked me Maple stuff. And it would be between Melville and the UK. I'm not Resident of Quebec after for government agencies.

[Astraios]

@Yiuel: Did you make the flag? How did you do it? Will you make me one? For free? And pay for the P&P? And send me some cookies as a gesture of goodwill between Quebec and the UK?

1. I did not make the flag.
2. I drew it, and sent it to a shop specialized in making flags (The Flag Shop, in Montreal).
3. I can design it, but not much more.
4. It cost me 100$, so... no.
5. To the UK? You'd have to add 40$.
6. Why cookies when you could have asked me Maple stuff. And it would be between Melville and the UK. I'm not Resident of Quebec after for government agencies.

1. Aww. You lose some awesomeness, then.
2. Ooh, maybe there's one here.
3. Nahh.
4. Damn.
5. Damn!
6. I've run out of cookies, so they were the first thing on my mind. Wanna send me some Melvillian Maple Stuff instead?

[vampireshark]

Yiuel looks most awesome and very stately in said picture.

And maybe constructing a Telèmor flag would be cool... probably expensive as well. But, hey, sorta worth it. I do wish I knew how to sew.

[Yiuel Raumbesrairc]

Yiuel looks most awesome and very stately in said picture.

I'm The Assembly of Melville's Secretary.