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Lol. Can someone explain the context here for those out of the loop?
by LewisVerstappen 5y ago
Lol. Can someone explain the context here for those out of the loop?
- xbryanx 5y agohttps://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/this-dont-you-lecture-me-with-your-30-website-generator-is-a-musical-delight https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/this-dont-you-lecture-me-...
- jccalhoun 5y agoApparently the title is a meme taking from DragonBall Z https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dont-you-lecture-me-with-your-30-dollar-haircut https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dont-you-lecture-me-with-your...
- duxup 5y agoI don’t even pay $30 for a haircut…
- reaperducer 5y agoBarber schools always need people to practice on. $8 + tip.
- chrisfrantz 5y agoMade that mistake once, never again
- latexr 5y ago“Soon after that I started going to therapy. Someone told me that New York University was offering talk therapy on a pay-what-you-can basis. They charged less because the therapists were all in training. It was like barber school: you show up, they randomly assign a young therapist to you, and he or she starts giving your mental health a crude, halting trim. If this does not sound appealing to you, you are wrong. You should always pay full price for a haircut, but if you have a chance to buy discount therapy you should grab it, because the markup on that shit is insane.” — John Hodgman, Vacationland
- stjohnswarts 5y agoIt really depends on what you get done. I could probably do my own with a set of sheers and an extra mirror to get the back :) .
- b112 5y agoMy haircut is like PROD. Not gonna put an intern on it. :P
- bdcravens 5y agoUntil last month, I hadn't gotten a paid haircut since the start of the pandemic. Got a decent pair of clippers with a taper guard, and did "okay" except for the edging on the back, which I learned to just not worry about (though my wife has done it a couple of times, and it comes out decent then)
- duxup 5y agoIt would be easier if we could reject bad hair pull requests.
- remram 5y agoYou can consider the last two years to be a staging environment, depending on your industry.
- okwubodu 5y agoLucky. Mine started at $15 + tip and slowly creeped up to $20 until New Years 2020 when every decent barber seemingly unionized and went to $40/cut. [something something it wasn’t like this under the XYZ administration]
- iKevinShah 5y agoalways had a feeling balding and not having the hormones to grow beard had its benefits
- duxup 5y agoI kinda wish I could test going the full bald shaved head thing… before doing it.
- james-skemp 5y agoIf you go for a very short buzz you'll have a good idea of your head shape, and whether it'll help or hurt if you go hairless. I've heard that shaving it is actually a lot of work, so investing in some good clippers and buzzing is likely easier.
- duxup 5y agoYeah I imagine it’s a pretty big process. The skin up there is sensitive and prone to cuts I imagine.
- riidom 5y agoBeen bald for two years roundabout a decade ago, before and after that having long hair. And oh yes, bald is like 10x more work - at least if you go for bowling-ball-grade of baldness. Never shave when you are in a rush and enter a public transport 5 minutes later.
- drdec 5y agoYou missed your window. March of 2020 was the perfect time to try something like this.
- nkrisc 5y agoEven cheaper if you cut your own hair. I've already recouped the cost of equipment many times over. Works best when you're not going for some fancy look though and just want something clean and simple.
- progre 5y agoI give myself a buzzcut every two weeks. 21mm on top, 5mm on the sides and back, slanted cutter on 5 in the trasition zone. If it goes bad I can always do 5mm all over. Hardest is to catch the whispy fuckers around the bald spot. I also do my kids hair, though the girls keep theirs long so thats just a matter of brushing it real neat and make a straight edge. The boy is too small to take to a hairdresser anyway. I also do my wife's hair. She is the only one where some thought and planning is required. I'm amazed that she lets me.
- nkrisc 5y agoI do my son’s hair as well. Unfortunately for me (or maybe him), it’s pretty curly while mine is completely straight, so I’m pretty clueless on how to handle it. If I do it sheet enough it looks nice and clean. The double, counter rotating cowlicks on him makes it difficult too.
- kingcharles 5y agoThe back? How do you do the back of your head? Any tips? Wife? I just got out of jail and I'm broke so I bought some uber cheap clippers and have been cutting my own for months now. This from a guy who wouldn't blink at spending $250 on a hair cut before he got locked up lol
- progre 5y agoI have a mirror like this one https://www.wayfair.com/decor-pillows/pdp/rebrilliant-clementina-magnifying-traditional-wall-mirror-w000339154.html?piid= https://www.wayfair.com/decor-pillows/pdp/rebrilliant-clemen... (Except mine was way cheaper, Ikea probably) oposite my main bathroom mirror. So facing the swing arm mirror I can see the back of my head and since it's through two mirrors the hand actually moves like you'd expect when you look at it.
- iso1631 5y agoMy wife cuts mine and the kids, takes about 5 minutes and no problem with our double crowns. Before then I'd get a haircut whenever I had the time, usually once every 6-9 months. At one point I went for 5 cuts in a row (about 3 years) getting a haircut on a different continent each time.
- serial_dev 5y agoI thought it was supposed to be expensive? Don't you lecture me with your fancy and expensive haircut? Though I didn't watch Dragon Ball that long, so I don't know. Maybe he is belittling him that his haircut is so cheap?
- riidom 5y agoMine maybe when inflation-adjusted.
- stjohnswarts 5y agolol no doubt $15 is top for me (and $5 tip). All I get is a head shave, it literally takes them 5 minutes tops.
- starkd 5y agoAnother version of this is "don't lecture me with you and your store-bought hair cut"
- Trasmatta 5y agoDBZ memes are some of the first ones I remember as a kid, before we called them memes. I'm enjoying the resurgence of them (although this particular one isn't my favorite).
- FabHK 5y agoThanks for the link & background, KYM is superb (and of course on !kym with DDG). Off-topic: from "top entries this week" on KYM, I just learned that the Bodganov twins (of Bogdanov affair fame, reverse Sokal hoax), have died (within 6 days of each other). Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794879 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794879
- tim333 5y agoYeah anti vaxxers got by covid.
- wodenokoto 5y agoIt’s a pretty funny line. Anyone know what the original Japanese was?
- tetromino_ 5y agoIn original context, was a $30 haircut supposed to be cheap or expensive? In 2022 in my neighborhood, $30 is somewhat on the expensive side for a men's haircut (a basic haircut at a trendy barber shop is $25) but extremely cheap for a women's haircut. But what was the intended meaning of the phrase in Japan in the 1990s in relation to the characters speaking it?
- tokumei 5y agoDamn, I’m getting my hair cut at the wrong place. I like my guy though. He massages my head.
- polka_haunts_us 5y agoWell first of all, I don't think the phrase existed in the original Japanese, only in the English dub where they made the creative decision to make the character who says it talk like some Redneck Trucker. The context is said Redneck Trucker is a robot who has been programmed to kill the main characer, Goku. One of Goku's friends says something about how if he does that he is just a slave with no free will. Our Redneck Trucker then points out that humanity has used their free will to do plenty of bad things, followed by our line here. So if you want to simplify its meaning, you could just translate it to "Don't talk down to me". So in context, $30 is an expensive haircut, and the purpose is to indicate the speaker feels the target is talking down to him, but the actual reason has nothing to do with the target being rich as opposed to being human. It could also be some meta commentary from the English side about how ridiculous the hair of everyone in the show or even the general genre is.
- mike_hock 5y agoIt would be $50 today assuming moderate inflation.
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