Hair

[jack]

I've shaved my head again. I shall be Picardy for a few days and then furry. Someone remind me to clip it in a couple of weeks.

A minor entry in the Jack handbook, which doesn't have any major faux pases[1]. When you see me, positive or negative comments are great. Surprise or no response are fine. Normally everyone gasps and makes a joke or states the obvious, and it gets a bit repetitive, but today no-one seems fazed at all.

[1] Pronounced "foh pars" :)

ETA: It feels good. Whenever I feel slightly tired or headachy, any hair always feels like a weight pressing on my brain. No hair feels breezy and light, though the pillow feels funnily skull-shaped :)

Comments

[mair_in_grenderich]

*gasp* you've cut your hair! can I stroke it?!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

LOL. Best wait till till friday, actually, it's just growing in now, but should be soft then :)

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

I shall wait for it to grow a little and then long-distance-nnnynng it. :-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

That's a verb *too*? Oooh!

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

It is indeed a verb too. Just ask the Grand Qi Master of Nnnynng. :-)

[angelofthenorth.livejournal.com]

mmmm - I always find my head to be rather light when I lose a foot of hair. I can't imagine that feeling with the little you have normally...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

LOL. Yeah, I don't know if I'd cope with long hair. Though it's nice to have something you can run your fingers through.

I think you didn't want me to denude myself, but I can now :)

[angelofthenorth.livejournal.com]

Depends which parts you're denuding.

Do I get a chance to stroke it?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Depends which parts you're denuding.

All parts I'm happy with a razorblade near, ie. head and chin :)

Do I get a chance to stroke it?

If you're in cambridge between 2 and 14 days from now :)

[angelofthenorth.livejournal.com]

Cambridge - not before Easter, sadly.

Why wouldn't you be happy with a razorblade anywhere else?

Cambridge - not before Easter, sadly

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

:( Remind me to keep it short, then :)

Why wouldn't you be happy with a razorblade anywhere else?

It's not really something you can explain...

Re: Cambridge - not before Easter, sadly

[angelofthenorth.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

I'm just thinking of the places I've wielded a razorblade recently and wondering why one might object...

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[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Isn't it harder[1] on floppy things? My head, ok. My torso, rather not.

[1] More difficult.

Re: Cambridge - not before Easter, sadly

[angelofthenorth.livejournal.com]

Not really. Underarms - no problem. You firm up face slightly, I presume, in order to shave...

Re: Cambridge - not before Easter, sadly

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. I still won't bother, though. And will keep a "magic foot" between anything sharp and anything uncircumscised :)

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[angelofthenorth.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

[fluffle.livejournal.com]

"faux pases" [1] Pronounced "foh pars" :)

[2] and spelt faux pas ;)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think that would be correct. But I wanted to emphasise the plurality or it'd be ambiguous. I mean, "faux pas" is an english word now, and "es" is an english pluralising.

[fluffle.livejournal.com]

but surely the use of it implies plurality unless you state specifically that it was singular? I know it does to me. (I'm not being picky, merely noticing)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

(No, that's fine.)

Just to check, faux=false and pas=step OR steps. And in my sentence either makes sense.

Did you mean in that context or in general? I think I would treat faux pas as single or plural and single in isolation...

[fluffle.livejournal.com]

yeah, faux = false either singular masculine OR agreeing ith the plural.
pas = steps or steps

your sentence with the use of "any" implied plural, you wouldn't have said without any red car, you'd say without any red cars, I think... (bad analogy, but it works).

in general, it would have to be taken in the context of the sentence which usually gives away which way you read it as being. I think it would generally be clear when it was singular though - frinstance "that was a faux pas on my part".

[fluffle.livejournal.com]

er, step or steps, like you said :)

[mair_in_grenderich]

sheeeeeeeeeeeeep.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Moooo.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oops. I look it up, and the plural is specified. Spelt the same, but the s isn't pronounced in the singular and is in the plural. Makes sense, I should have checked.

you wouldn't have said without any red car, you'd say without any red cars, I think..

Ooh, now I'm not sure. I agree with that, but does it apply in negative sense? "What red car? I don't see any red car!" sounds ok, as does "It doesn't have any major mistake in" (though 'misatkes' does too).

I tried google, but googling for "any" is unproductive :)

[fluffle.livejournal.com]

whereas I think I'd *always* put a plural after any, unless I typed "without any one thing". the mistake one sounds really funny to me, the red car less so but still sounds funny.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Sounds like time for a poll.

[satanicsocks.livejournal.com]

Yay! Tis the season for hair fun :D

Re: Cambridge - not before Easter, sadly

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Orange dreadlocks, yay.