Oi Baldy!!! You look like Vin Diesel!!!!

Well i’ll take that compliment!!!!

So apparently i look like this guy, or apparently i do to the population of Asia. Since travelling I have worked, lived and met hundreds of Asian friends. Whenever I have my likeness compared to movie stars or celebrities they always come up with Vin Diesel. Thank you very much.  I also hold a broad shouldered stocky frame, more muscle than fat I hope. However compare that to my 5’3″ size I don’t see the likeness. Growing up when I was a little wider it was this guy, Danny DeVito

So short fat and bald

Some young schoolgirls once likened me to Pitbull, which makes sense if I put on a pair of shades, my Bald head turns me into the Superstar

I have even had Bronson britains most violent inmate, but i think that’s a stretch

as for America, Australia, Britain this comparison always seems to amuse you

So thank you Asia i will take to looking like Vin Diesel as a huge compliment as for the Ozzies, Yanks and my fellow countrymen you can all bugger off!!!!!!

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Oi Baldy!!!! Why does my Grandad still combe his 3 hairs

From Teddy to Bobby

Try to picture my Grandad in his 20’s. An English teddy boy, charmer, ladies man, living for the weekend. More Grease slicked through his jet back hair than a chip shop fryer. For example these two young men

Now lets age him by about 50 years, still holding on to distant youth my Grandad now sports the Sir Bobby Charlton (one of Englands most legendary footballers)…..

….What does that man see in the mirror?.

Still Convinced

As he did all those years ago, he takes his grease and his trusty comb and sweeps the several strands of hair over his chrome dome. His bald head gleaming through what little hair he has left. So what good does he think it does? Is he still convinced no-one will notice the cover up? A few years ago when it was thicker he may well have managed to pass it off at a stretch. Although he is not the only one of this senior generation who does it.

It’s a generation thing

To quote the this article i found http://sciencemags.blogspot.com.au/2010/01/psychology-of-comb-overs.html

Sociological thinkers (and people with a great deal of extra time on their hands) suggest that combover practitioners fall prey to the sorites paradox. Essentially, the sorites paradox describes how small steps that seem sensible on their own can lead to an absurd outcome. In the case of comb-overs, the victim may begin moving the part of his hair by a small amount to add fullness to a region of thinning hair. Only as the process of baldness accelerates does this become a futile attempt to hide a glaring patch of skin under the last few stragglers of hair.

So if this is to be believed then my Grandad is suffering from a complex he started years ago and he probably still believes it’s working. This comes down to a generation of men with thick hair who used it as a fashion statement years ago, yet still holding on as tightly as they can to what hair they have left. My Grandad is obviously still that young Teddy Boy at heart.

Baldy locks and the three hairs

Well my Grandad seems happy even if he’s convincing no-one, even when the wind picks up and turn his 3 hairs into antennas. Bless the old git.

I’ll leave you with this from The Baldy Man

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Oi Baldy! I’m not hiding I just like hats!!!!

Does my head look good in this?

I am an advocate for not hiding my bald head behind a hat I believe it shows a lack of confidence. For me this would be classed as wearing a hat for every occasion. No matter where you go you have a hat to wear and will try damned hard to avoid taking it off. Only what if you actually want to wear a hat?

The Dilemma

It’s a dilemma, hats like any item of clothing can be fashionable, I for one look good in a trilby. Where I get stuck is wearing it without being accused of hiding my baldness. How do I avoid that sort of stigma. What if sometimes I just like wearing a hat?

I get it a lot, Oi Baldy! take that bloody hat off! Why you wearing hat indoors? What you hiding? Bugger all thank you very much!!!! I’m no Calvin Kline model but I work a hat like I’m on the runway. This right here is just another addition to my sexy feel good nature, stop getting jealous.

Take action

My plan of action is simple I wear the hat, but for minutes at a time I’ll remove it so all the world can bask in my baldness. It’s out there I am proving to everyone in the pub, club, bus, café, etc that I love my baldness but like a nice pair of shoes I like to wear a good hat.

Should I care?

No! but i do it’s a statement that says i don’t care not a concern for being bald.I guess for me i worry I don’t come across as confident as i feel. The last thing I would want is to be sympathized on for something that is the making of me.

Let me know what you think guys and follow me here at OI! Baldy Blog or send me a tweet https://twitter.com/Oibaldyblog and check out my friends at TheBaldNation.com where i guest blog

OI! Baldy!!! Are you the Bald headed Fonzie!!!!

Being Bald and beautiful is a hard gig.

Lets go back to the early 90’s and 2 dancing skin heads were singing “I’m too sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts” back when big hair do’s and shoulder pads were just falling out of fashion. The band Right Said Fred were oozing camp machoism and confidence. This was the start of the chrome dome and it was was making a breakthrough. They weren’t technically bald but were certainly unashamed of having little to no hair what is more they flaunted sex appeal

Where’s my bloody confidence?

I lacked a certain amount of confidence in my first bald year nothing but time wasted feeling sorry for myself. I didn’t realise that I was now a darn sight more attractive than ever and why? Because I stopped worrying, I went out into the world and showed them that I am a baldy and I love it. I got confident and secure about it. Everything in my life got better and better and I became the man I am today.

Bald headed Fonz

Being confident makes it a lot easier to deal with baldness, get cocky with it. What we lack is the inhibition to appreciate just how good a bald head can look. If you can see yourself in the mirror each day and call yourself the bald Fonzie then people will love it. There is nothing more awkward than a man who hides behind a combe over or a permanent hat that only comes off when needed.

Solid bald action heroes

The days of Errol Flynn are over, the full locks and quiffs are out. We are lucky that mainstream media has taken to the bald man. Hollywood will influence the world in fashion and style. What was a hair dominated industry things have changed. Now they are turning to the bald man for confidence. Vin Diesel, Jason Statham, Samuel L Jackson are just a couple of sex symbols fronting films. That’s right sex symbols, granted they have impeccable physiques but nobody is complaining about their slapheads and they are dripping in sex appeal.

You da man

To anyone who worries about looking out of place or less than sexy, to those who worry they are less of a man, don’t! Bald is sexy, bald is beautiful and you need to look in the mirror and tell yourself that you da man!!! Go out into the world and rock it.

Let me know what you think guys and follow me here at OI! Baldy Blog or send me a tweet https://twitter.com/Oibaldyblog and check out my friends at TheBaldNation.com where i guest blog

OI! Baldy!!! Is it in my genes?

Of course it is, thats the simple answer

Check out this beautiful bunch above,  sat down is my Dad, my uncle (Dads side) standing is me and my other uncle (Mums side) did i stand a chance?

The beauty of it

To me it was no surprise I lost my hair and judging by that picture i’m guessing no-one else was surprised. For me the expectation of going bald was there. Yes I was too young but at least I was half way to understanding how to feel when the time came.

The running joke

I was always raised to see the funny side of things, try to be light hearted even when the situation seems dire. Going bald was no exception. Yes i stressed about going bald so young but with family like this ready to take the piss out of you then it’s easier to see the light hearted side of going bald.

No thick skin

No matter how much fun me and the family would have it still hurt when people would slap my head or comment on my receding hair line. Would those same people ridicule someone with a disability (quite dramatic I know) and think it’s exceptable. There is no thick skin to a man who is distressed about his situation.

So shake it off

Taylor swift may have skipped a line in here single Shake It Off “Baldies gonna Bald, so i’m just gonna Shake it off”. What my genes and family gave me was humour and expectations, i can’t say i was 100% mentally prepared to cope with my earl stages of baldness but I knew what my future held as if looking into a big shiny bald headed crystal ball. “So when the haters gonna i hate, i’m just gonna shake it off, shake it off” (generally down the plug hole).

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OI! Baldy, Check out Jason Statham

OI! Baldy Jason Statham Rocks it!!!!!!

Though technically not as Bald as the rest of us, Statham rocks the receding hairline. It’s probably his chiseled features, his bad ass attitude. Or the fact he is ripped from head to toe, but ladies love him, men admire him and Hollywood can’t get enough of him

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Movies

• Crank/ Crank 2 – A movie that was born of psychedelic video gaming, high octane and just over the top bizarre.
• Snatch – Dirty British Gangster movie from Guy Ritchie, Brad Pitt steals the show but Statham is full of one liners.
• Transporter 1/2/3 – The great thing about Statham is he doesn’t take things too seriously and Transporter is exactly that
• Expendables 1/2/3 – What a line up!!!! Statham holds his own between some action heavyweights.

He’s ripped

An added bonus to rocking the Bald head is often a ripped physique. Mr Statham used to be a competitive swimmer so he has always trained hard but check out this shot from the great Death Race just shows why the ladies love him.

Kick Ass!!!

The man is kick ass, his martial arts skills tend to feature in most films he does. He had pursued  martial arts as a market seller before being cast in Guy Ritchie’s  Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Guess that worked out well.

Kelly Brook

And one of my favourite reasons to love him is he once had a romance with the lovely Kelly Brook. This speaks for itself

Whats Next

If it aint a Baldyfest he will be up against Vin Diesel in the new Fast and Furious 7

OI! Stop worrying

 

 

 

OI! Baldy Stop Bloody Worrying!!!!

When I first noticed my hair receding my world turned 50 shades of grey. I was heartbroken or at least felt the same crushing feeling that comes from such a horrid time. This was Bulls**t i would tell myself in the mirror. Why me?

Anxiety and Paranoia

Everybody is watching!!!!! I used to hesitate in the mirror and give myself pep talks before leaving the house. I would try cover up techniques top avoid the stares of strangers and friends. I felt disfigured, although that sounds dramatic this was the way my perception of myself had changed.

Oldie Baldie

I never felt my age, i didn’t know how old i felt. Only old people are Bald, Right? would I look like my friends older brother? It made me feel sick to the pit of my stomach but like it or lump it I was turning into my Dad

Goodbye Sex Appeal

What a mojo killer!!!! Are the ladies going to look at me again, who likes bald men. How many Bald Calvin Klein Models are there? probably more than I think but all I saw were sexy men with full head of hair. This was what women swooned over not a slaphead.

What i should have thought 

We are in an age where vanity reigns supreme. We read magazines that idolizes the beautiful and handsome. We are made to feel utterly self confident about how we look, so for a teen whose going bald this was a harsh reality that I would beat myself up about. What I should have realized that hair means nothing. Confidence is what is key, embracing the fact that your bald is sexy. It worked for me I was happy to be bald when I realised that women were attracted to me. The day I shaved it off I was telling the world that there is more to me than hair and you know what i’m going to rock this. That was the day I stopped worrying

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Thanks Jack

Oi! Baldy!!! Heres a Poem for Bald men!!!!

Here is a Poem I found here at http://www.postpoems.org, I think the poem sums up the true nature of what women think of thehandsome population of Bald Men

Bald Men By Kat

I love those men with balding heads.
I think they are so hot.
While others are fussing with their hair,
these men worry not.
Please don’t give me helmet hair
with spray to hold it down.
Or even worse the comb-over,
spread precisely about your crown.
I like the brave and bald look
don’t be afraid to have it seen.
Whether a fringe around the bottom
or a chrome dome like Mr. Clean.
Balding men are sexy
at least that’s what I think.

They may be tanned and shiney
or sunburned lightly pink.
I heard it on a video
the line, I believe it said….
Don’t think of it as losing hair
You’re just getting more head!
So give me a man with a little less hair
than someone with alot.
I care not what others think
I still think bald is hot.

Let me know what you think guys and follow me here at OI! Baldy Blog or send me a tweet https://twitter.com/Oibaldyblog

Thanks Jack

OI! Bald = Old Right?

So does going bald mean you look old?

Something that bothered me greatly when i first started to notice my baldness creeping in was the idea that i was going to look old. I mean who goes bald at 18?

Looking like my dad

I was made in my dads image, size, shape, facial features, we looked the same in every way except one. I had a mop of hair that curled it’s way down my face, he on the other hand was entirely Bald. This made sense as he is over twice my age so being bald was just an age thing. Then my hair began falling out. This was no longer an age thing, my genes had bitten me in the ass way too early in my years. I believed the day i finally took a razor to my hair is the day i became my Dad.

I’ll be 45 before i look my age

So naturally i was worried, being just two years away from my twenties and i was becoming an old man. Each day i looked older. I looked to my friends who were an image of youth something that was gradually slipping away from me. What would girls my age think of me? Who would want to be with a boy who looks like a 40 year old? I believed that it would be years before I could look my age again. And so I wallowed in self pity.

How old do you think i am?

When my hair finally became too thin to cover up I took it back to a grade zero, not quite a slaphead yet. What remained was the fading outline of a balding man, just enough hair to emphasize the recession. This was not the desired effect but I  hadn’t yet dared to go fully shaved.  No sooner had i cut my hair back did people start getting my age wrong. When i was introduced to new friends I would often ask the ice breaker question “how old do you think i am?”. Looking back this was my  barrier to protect myself, ensuring I got the elephant in the room out the way first.  At 21 years old the guesses would vary between 25 and 30, which as a young man was a horrible feeling. The shape of my hairline had become the bane of my life. My confidence had taken a beating.

Young and Bald

It took me a long time to pluck up the courage to shave my head. When that day finally came everything changed. I had regained my youth, I came away looking younger. Although being bald didn’t make me feel as though i was in my early twenties it seemed that not completely shaving put years on me. The recession of my hair made me look old. Now looking in the mirror I no longer saw an ageing youngster. However I still looked a lot like my dad but as his son not his twin. I felt young again and kicked myself for not shaving earlier. I was wrong being bald doesn’t mean your old. My confidence came back and soon enough so did my luck with the opposite sex.

 

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Jack

OI! Baldy, Uncle Fester, Cue Ball etc etc etc

OI! Uncle Fester

Good Day to you sir

The day i shaved my head was the day it started, the day the banter, the jokes and the piss taking began. My head and my predicament was certainly not off-limits. So I just wanted to share 5 of my favourite words that you may expect to hear when you finally take that plunge into the world of baldies.

1.Baldy The easiest and simplest term, Oi Baldy! Baldy, Baldy, Baldy!!!!! usually preceded my a head slap.

2.Cue Ball For obvious reasons, particularly if you’re a white Male, your entire head apparently resembles that of a cue ball. I’d rather think it didn’t but anything round and white is likely to be coined as a term to take the piss out of you.

3.Skin Head No hair, just Skin obviously. Although this term is usually associated with anarchist men of the 70s and 80s. It has somewhat of a stigma to it. You have to be a certain type of man for this to catch on. If you’re the office type who likes slippers and tea I doubt you’ll find many jokers throwing this term around you.

4. Follically Challenged The only term that makes it sound like a disability. This is the phrase used by those who want to be polite about it, if I am honest I would rather you just be called Baldy thanks!!!.

5.Uncle Fester Yep that short bald Uncle from the Addams Family, you’ll find many comparisons to a variety of TV and movie characters but Fester will be brought up more than most.

Getting Bored It will get boring, every wannabe comedian will throw the same names or terms or even phrases at you.  So much so that when they do get creative you find yourself applauding signs of wit and even intelligence. Just bare in mind, it does become second nature and the jokes stop being offensive. Just learn to give as much as you get

Have any creative names? or whats your favorite? Take a couple of minutes and let me hear your thoughts?

Thanks Jack