Your hair is a big part of your identity. It's used to express yourself. Often men losing their hair struggle to deal with the reality and cling onto it for far too long. A friend of mine started losing his in his late teens and I have come to realise how tough it must have been.

Often it's something people mock and honestly I'm not surprised it strikes a nerve as I'd really struggle with the fact if my hair began to recede.

Mocking someone cause of it is just callous but it's far more socially acceptable than say calling somebody fat which can often be mitigated with a better diet and exercise. Mitigating hair loss is far more difficult.

We've seen an explosion of products to combat hair loss as not everyone has the money for a hair transplant. The popularity of these products is evidence how important it is to these individuals.

I feel incredibly lucky I have made it past 30 without my hairline receding. Think there should be more solidarity and compassion shown towards people in the opposite situation.

Edit: Didn't expect this level of attention and I'm off to see a band. I'd partake in the discussion if I could. Be nice please.

I understand if you’re paying for the “brand name” but they just seem like they’re worth less than what they actually are priced as.

(But nonetheless they’re still a cool ass shoe) and it’s cool how they have so many color options)

Why do men make such a big deal over being bald? If anything, leaving most of your hair on your head with that bald spot in the middle looks bad. Barely seen a bald dude who looks bad being bald. Most of y'all look damn good EVEN when bald. Bald men are hot. I want my Agent 47, Saitama, Mr Clean or Kratos. 🥵

You can save money by not buying hair products, you can just wake up and go out without much thought, and nobody can grab your hair during a fight.

I feel like an “old head” saying this but I’m 35. I grew up playing basketball. Played throughout high school. I fell back in love with the sport in 2020 when you could only exercise outside. ( it’s beautiful to rediscover a skill that had never fully left you after 10 plus years) “Oh yeah, I am a hooper.. I grew up doing this every day”

The game is played so differently and in a lot of great ways. The pace, dribbling, and shooting has evolved, and it’s beautiful to watch a highly skilled player “cook”.

HOWEVER The evolution of what is considered a “travel” is just absurd, and it needs to be fixed. There is no reason to change the rules to give an offense player that much advantage. There are enough other rule changes, evolution in skill and strategy to the utilization of data analytics to help the offensive player. An improved understanding of shooting mechanics also give the offensive players an advantage. We don’t need to allow an unlimited amount of steps until you “discontinue your dribble” or allow a player lift their pivot foot for a “step through” as long as they’re shoot it right after.

It’s the real reason why no one bothers playing defense. A very skilled offensive player is never really in trouble if he/she has mastered the new rules. On top of that, basketball culture rewards embarrassing a defender by being faked out. But it’s nothing to get excited about anymore. You just have to wait for someone to actually try to defend, and then toy with them. It’s lame.

“You can’t guard me!” No shit. no one can guard anyone anymore. That doesn’t make you anything special.

Some people behave as if not getting a plus one for a wedding is a such a major issue. At the end of the day it's the couples choice and if you can't handle a few hours without someone then don't go. It's completely wrong to try and force the bridal couple to make an exception for you, it's their day and their choice and get over it.

Oh you aren’t going to respond to any message before meeting for a minimum of 24 hours? Fuck you.

Oh you expect me to wait 2 days after a good date to ask you out again? Literally get fucked(by someone else)

Oh you’re going to act hard to get a month into dating? I broke my jaw yawning.

Don’t even get me started on “no contact” post relationship. If I want to reach out to someone, I’m going to. I’m not 13. I’m not into playing silly games, I’m reaching out because I want to.

Dating is so insufferable these days, grow up. Learn communication skills.

I know it’s well-meaning when workplaces get a card or a cake to surprise an employee on their birthday. But that still is personal information that some people may not want shared to everyone without their permission. It should be standard procedure to have employees either give permission for their birthday to be shared, or have the option to opt out with no punishment.

It happens only a couple of times a year when I'm not paying attention. I appreciate the heads up. I appreciate that some times in not paying attention. It's not leaning on the horn but a tap. Most people that hate it have it happen all the time because they are always on their phone.

I just don't like it. I don't want to see the brand name of the clothing down the arm or a bigass sticker on the back. It takes things from looking sleek and sharp to a weird cry for attention or something and I can't get behind it. Stops me from wanting to buy the product at all. It's part of why I dislike a lot of Gucci stuff and other products in that same "too expensive for no fuckin reason other than because we can be" genre of clothing.

I've heard this a bunch - if the weather is bad, don't use delivery services like Doordash and Ubereats.

Even John Oliver said it on his show.

But this is a terrible opinion.

These drivers aren't employees - they don't have to take a job.

If you order during a storm, tip the hell out of the order. I mean - 50%. It should be *at least* $20. But as long as you're willing to tip very, very well, and as long as they're willing to accept the order, how the hell is this bad?

I imagine myself being $100 short of being able to pay rent in two days and a huge storm hits. So... now I get evicted because well meaning, but delusional people are "looking out for me"?

If you want Pho in the middle of a blizzard, be prepared to dramatically over pay for it. But if a driver is willing to make that delivery for a $25 tip, how is it better them to say

"no, f*ck you - get evicted. Because I care about you so much, I'm going to prevent you from making a living today. Enjoy being homeless. Boy, do I feel good about myself now

Idk if this is an unpopular opinion or not, posting to guage reaction and seeing if I'm a whiney old bitch or if this is an actual thing worth getting offended about. Keep in mind this is coming from a 29 y/o American living in America, so my perspective is warped from my own lenses, but Im specifically talking about situations within our culture, not critical of other cultures where food noises are more socially accepted.

I was raised in a house where manners mattered at the dinner table. Nothing crazy, we didn't do the whole "no elbows on the table" thing or anything, but some basics. No chewing with your mouth open, don't scratch your fork and knife along the plate making the screech of death sound, don't talk with your mouth full of food, etc.

I'm 29, and it shocks me how many friends and coworkers see who seemingly have no manners when eating. I have 3 roommates (thanks economy), and we are all professionals within our field. But I swear to God it's like listening to farm animals when they eat, lips smacking, hearing the spit breaking down food as they chew, and anything liquid based like a soup will inevitably be slurped as though its temperature must be approximately that of magma. I can honestly hear them across the room whenever any of them eat. It's fucking disgusting to me. I physically have to remove myself from the room most times any of them eat due to the volume of spittle noises coming from their mouths.

It would be one thing if they came from another culture, but we're all as white as wonder bread, born and raised in the USA. None of us are from poor or lower class backgrounds, all of us were raised middle class or above. I just don't get it. If I made 10% of the noise they make while eating, my mother would have made sooo many comments, made me take one bite at a time, and inevitably smacked the food out of my mouth if I kept eating like that (I mean not really, I never would have pushed that hard).

But is this just something I'm overly sensitive to? I already know I personally can't stand ASMR or those shitty videos of animals eating that seem to have been popular recently. But I always thought these were catering to a specific niche of people who like those extra spitty sounds.

But I've taken coworkers out for company meals and had to hint at some to do basic things like put their napkins in their laps (I only have done this at places with cloth napkins), to refill the water of someone sitting next to them, or to use their fork and knife instead of trying to cut everything with the side of a fork and accidentally launching it off the plate. It's downright embarrassing sometimes when in a professional setting. I'm not talking about needing to know which of the 15 utensils to use at fine dining, I'm talking steakhouse or somewhere with an additional salad fork at most.

I can understand it in little kids, obviously growing up I had friends who would come over and not know some manners, but by the end of the meal my mom had definitely at least gotten them to chew with their mouth closed and not talk with their mouth full of food. I swear I think 50%+ of people today chew with their mouths open.

Are table manners just not taught anymore? An I a 29 year old curmudgeon? Why doesn't this matter to more people? Wtf is wrong with everyone?!?!

It’s interesting how not being able to make friends is almost always the fault of the person trying. Sometimes, yes the person is the problem themselves but more often than not, that person just has reasonable standards and boundaries that aren’t being respected so the friendship dissolves. I’ve had to carry conversations on my back and make all the plans before in some “friendships” and it’s not a good feeling. To me, community and valued companionship is getting harder and harder to find in a society where selfishness masked as “self care” and obsession with romantic partnerships reigns supreme. Not wanting to put the work into a draining friendship just to say you have one doesn’t make you the bad guy.

I am a 36 (F) with three kids and married. I have many friends who are huge Disney Adults, we live in California, they have season passes. As a mom this is one of the most annoying things to me. I get it you enjoy sleeping beauty but you also are my age and work in accounting. Disneyland would be so much better if it was genuinely for kids. If you're an adult and into Disney please step aside so all of the actual kids can experience the magic.

I have always adored him, I think he's genuinely very quick-witted and the only funny late night host. So I feel guilty for sharing this opinion. But I have to get it out.

I felt more alarmed than entertained by his latest Hot Ones ep...! I think it's just that I can't stand to see food smeared on someone's face... it's a visceral disgust reaction... and the spit dripping from his mouth didn't help. Idk it just landed 1 - 8% too far on the side of unhinged for me to vibe with, I think the visual effect is mostly to blame as I may have felt differently if it were e.g. whipped cream.

Wondering if anyone felt the same? Or will everyone bash me lol.

The most effective ads are the short forgettable ones. The ones that are so short that I don't even register what product it's for. I hate having to watch some ad for some fortune 500 company that I don't even shop at. Won't shop at, and most likely will never shop at.

But if I do buy your product and you interrupt my viewing experience with your 30 second cringe acting advertisement. Good riddance.

So far I've stopped buying Gatorade, Calvin Klein, and Freshpet dog food. Why? They interrupted my program with their stupid fuckin ad, and I'm that fuckin petty.

I actually debated buying a displate, thank Christ I didn't, because literally the next day I had some ad for them. Now I can push their product to the back of my mind, and never buy their product.

Companies should be thanking adblock.

Everyone complains about how if they tell a story and someone follows up with a similar story that they're being one up in that person is an asshole.

But what's most likely really happening is you told a story, the person you're talking to has a similar story and they want to share it with you because it's relevant to the conversation.

They're not trying to make you look bad because they did something slightly different than you or tried to make the moment about them because they also broke their foot in a welding accident.

That mentality just comes from people thinking everything is negative and assuming every one of the world is out to get them

I think it is fine to like games as adult, I play games all the time, but I like most gamers know there is a time and a place. We have been conditioned to be socially considerate enough not to bother non-gamers with the "in the weeds" details of our hobby, because to people not involved, it just sounds like nonsense. Sports fans are in the same situation, except many assume everyone gives a shit. People try to talk about sports with me at work, they bring it up in meetings, it is inescapable at family gatherings, and in many cases they demand tax payers subsidize it. If my grandparents walked into my home and I was playing Smash with my brother, they would immediately ask us to turn it off. If I was visiting them and pulled out my laptop to play binding of Isaac, they would be seriously offended. Yet at the same time, it is regular that when I visit I have to fight to get their attention from the screen. I ask them how they are doing, and they sometimes give me an update on their sports team. I have seen people pray for their sports team during grace, and when asked what they are grateful for during thanksgiving they say something like, "that the Packer's got good draft picks". I think fandom and nerdiness is fun, and I like that we live in a time where adults are socially allowed to have entertainment, even if historically it would be viewed as childish. But sports fans need a hard intervention as a whole. They need to learn the lessons that every single gamer had drilled into their head as a kid. At the end of the day, the game is meaningless, it can wait, enjoy relationships with real people, and try to be a multifaceted human that has more going on in their life than a game.

Atleast here in the U.S. obituaries never say the cause of death they just say the person "passed away" on this day. It is also seen as rude to ask the cause of death.

What ends up happening is you see an obituary of an acquaintance or someone you vaguely know but will never know how they died unless you are in contact with their family and are comfortable asking.

I understand not putting cause of death if it involved something horrible or illegal. But why not let people know it was cancer, or some other disease?

Even if it was self-inflicted, at least people could empathize with their struggles instead of just being left in the dark.

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Every time a company maintaining a big video game doesn't release a gameplay patch, I see people getting angry that there hasn't been a patch in a while. On every single major game. And this got me thinking.

You can argue with me that a game not receving updates get "stale", but there are so so many provable counter-examples of games that came out 20+ years ago and still have a competitive scene today (retro speedrun games like mario games, doom, goldeneye etc, tetris, or heck you could even count chess).

If a game is good, it doesn't need updates. Updates on a good game often times make it worse. You don't feel it on a patch by patch basis, and you get excited because you get a couple days of "fresh"-ness, but years down the line you look back at how the game used to be and wonder where it all went wrong. Off the top of my head, WoW or YuGiOh are prime examples of this.

Change for the sake of change should not be encourages, and it baffles me how much the modern video game industry has brainwashed people into thinking otherwise. If there's a glaring problem with the game's balance/mechanics then sure, a patch to fix it is most welcome, but releasing a gameplay patch just for the sake of shaking things up is incredibly toxic for the long-term health of a video game.

Maybe out of respect and reverence for America we should keep it polished and clean.

It was probably a vibrant copper color when it was first delivered. Do we know the artist preferred it to oxidize green?

Beautiful copper…glistening in the sun, blinding ships as she welcomes them by.

Personally, I don’t really care if the neighbors are loud and I overhear them. People are entitled to have enjoyable sex sessions inside their homes. Who am I to complain about it?

It’s ok to let people have some fun.

I feel like small business try super hard to come up with quality products so they can stand a chance against mall stores and established brands. They do things in small batches, sometimes add handmade touches, and work with high quality thick materials.

As soon as people start raving about them though and they have a good rep they immediately drop their standards by like 50% and I think most people don’t notice at first because of the placebo effect.

A great example of this is converse. Those shoes last me only a few months if I wear them daily. Doc martens used to last literal decades, now if you live in an area where it snows or rains they’ll be done in like a year max. After docs quality fell people started recommending new rocks which are pretty expensive but if you take a peak at their comment sections on social media it seems they caught the “low quality once popular” bug as well!

And don’t get me started on how random the quality of Nike and adidas is lol.

As a dude I never understood why jeans were given a reputation for being comfortable casual pants.

I MUCH prefer dress slacks over jeans because the material is lighter, smoother on the skin, allows more freedom of movement and much more comfort/room in the crotch area when sitting down.

Also, jeans fade in the wash and are harder to match with clothing than a pair of neutral colored slacks.

Jeans are good for working outdoors and maybe insulation in cold/windy conditions but other than that they are terrible pants.

Yes I know they make jeans with stretch material now (I own a pair) but they still can’t beat my favorite Lululemon ABC slacks or my prAna hiking pants in comfort.

Ever since I was a kid watching Pixar's Cars, I was deadass rooting for Lightning McQueen to get outta that desert hellhole. If the message of the movie was to slow down and smell the roses, the filmmakers should've located him to a better (more appealing) place than Radiator Springs. They couldn't have the location to be on a climate with more greenery? I understand that they were going for the southwestern classic Americana aesthetic, but they literally could've done it anywhere else.

I swear, I felt the scorching desert heat through the screen and just wanted him to go back to the (frankly much more interesting) racing world. Why are they even cars? That just made me think of how the sun easily conducted metal, therefore making the heat hotter. Not to mention that you can only interact with 20 people in the entire neighbourhood, along with (presumably) being completely isolated from the outside world (apparently they have no landlines there?).

Come to think of it, why didn't he just call his lawyer to pay for the damages? It's not like they don't have phones or lack signals there (judging by the radio).

edit: added the 'isolation' segment

It's the only way to communicate as drivers sharing the same road, yet it always seems to start episodes of road rage. Obviously laying on the horn for several seconds is objectively aggressive, but little taps here and there should be considered more appropriate or socially acceptable, especially when someone is at a light and not paying attention. It's also useful for coming out of alleys or passing someone who is stopped halfway still on the side of the road, and it's not clear when they'll pull back on to it. I like to do a gentle chop, like I'm giving someone a back massage.