TobyC
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Post by TobyC on Mar 7, 2020 15:42:17 GMT -6
I'm 1/8th of an inch on my head, to heck with feathering. Only real hair from the neck up is my mustache, which has been there for decades.
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Post by birdlives on Mar 8, 2020 13:56:54 GMT -6
I'm 1/8th of an inch on my head, to heck with feathering. Only real hair from the neck up is my mustache, which has been there for decades. Eyebrows?
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TobyC
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Post by TobyC on Mar 8, 2020 14:23:55 GMT -6
I'm 1/8th of an inch on my head, to heck with feathering. Only real hair from the neck up is my mustache, which has been there for decades. Eyebrows? I do have those, and they are unaltered! They are getting funky as I get older, I have to yank out one or two every now and then.
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ShadowsDad
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Post by ShadowsDad on Mar 8, 2020 17:07:53 GMT -6
I buzz cut my eyebrows. If i don't when I sweat it drips down onto my glasses. Plus when the eyebrows grow out they put oils onto the glasses. I hate that!
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TobyC
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Post by TobyC on Mar 8, 2020 18:02:17 GMT -6
I buzz cut my eyebrows. If i don't when I sweat it drips down onto my glasses. Plus when the eyebrows grow out they put oils onto the glasses. I hate that!
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Post by birdlives on Mar 8, 2020 23:38:50 GMT -6
I do have those, and they are unaltered! They are getting funky as I get older, I have to yank out one or two every now and then. 🤣😂 I've been getting those bushy thick wild grey eyebrow hairs, myself...My barber tries to keep them at bay!
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Post by birdlives on Mar 8, 2020 23:40:06 GMT -6
I buzz cut my eyebrows. If i don't when I sweat it drips down onto my glasses. Plus when the eyebrows grow out they put oils onto the glasses. I hate that! Buzz cut...good Idea!! I was thinking of using my power mower!🤣😁🤣
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ShadowsDad
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Post by ShadowsDad on Mar 9, 2020 7:24:43 GMT -6
Before I retired I worked in a papermill. They have yet to invent one that's cool. In my job I could find myself in a place that was easily 120°F and had to be there for some time. Taking a cool off break just dragged it out. So I'd do the job, accept the sweat and get out ASAP after the job was complete. Being able to see, that is, not have salt crystals from evaporating sweat on my glasses was a plus. I started cutting my eyebrows out of practicality and just kept doing it because it worked so well. If I didn't wear eyeglasses I would stop cutting the eyebrows.
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mrconklin
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Post by mrconklin on Mar 9, 2020 19:02:00 GMT -6
Before I retired I worked in a papermill. They have yet to invent one that's cool. In my job I could find myself in a place that was easily 120°F and had to be there for some time. Taking a cool off break just dragged it out. So I'd do the job, accept the sweat and get out ASAP after the job was complete. Being able to see, that is, not have salt crystals from evaporating sweat on my glasses was a plus. I started cutting my eyebrows out of practicality and just kept doing it because it worked so well. If I didn't wear eyeglasses I would stop cutting the eyebrows. Yet to invent one that's cool OR smells nice. In a former life I drove charter bus and had a group to take to Boise Cascade in International Falls MN. Well, the night before they had a wine and cheese deal at the hotel. I had some fresh fruit and cheese and an hour later was throwing up. The next morning it's 38 degrees (F, not C) and I'm standing out in front of the bus with no coat. Man cold air helps when you feel like crap. Well we get to the papermill and I am offered to come on the tour. I could smell it and politely declined. I didn't think the smell mixed with the moist heat would do me any favors.
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ShadowsDad
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Post by ShadowsDad on Mar 9, 2020 22:05:56 GMT -6
Our paper mill itself (the paper machines) didn't smell bad in general, but it was hot and humid. Now the pulp fiber side, another building, could smell terrible depending on where you were in it. Heck, there were places in it where the "air" could kill you. Other places that could dissolve and cook you. We all drilled for evacuation and needed it at times for real. Lots of places in all the areas that could kill and then cook you, making paper is not a human friendly process. One never let ones guard down or trusted to luck. I saw an engineer who designed a piece of equipment get his arm scalped in the same equipment he designed. The skin and muscle from the elbow to his hand was laid bare and turned inside out and since the rollers were heated it also got cooked. He was a hurting unit. He never came back to work. All because he tried to remove a piece of paper from out of between the rollers with his fingers instead of using a clasping tool that one could release and only cost a few dollars to replace. The massive rollers grabbed him (called a nip point) and it takes time to stop them turning.
For a time I was in the chip plant where the trees got turned into chips before the chemical process to dissolve the part we didn't want and keep the fibers we did want. The chipper could turn a 20' long pine log 48" in diameter into chips in literally a second. Fall in and no one would ever hear it and there wouldn't be time to scream. A contractor did go into a chipper just down the road and his son found the red pieces in the wood chips.
So many ways to get hurt or killed in the mills. The smell was the least of it. Chemicals that are carcinogenic that deter slime growth (ever make a spitball?), and doing maintenance having the slime drip down onto us. Just nasty. Lots of people on them die before their time and the ones who don't age at a phenomenal rate.
I need to stop writing about it or I'll have a nightmare about it tonight. I see other retirees from time to time and the first thing I ask is,"Have the nightmares stopped yet?". They all look at me like I have 2 heads. Some reply, "How did you know? I never told anyone!". I worked there and we're all the same deep down. I need to stop.
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Post by ordinaryshaver on Mar 13, 2020 8:28:21 GMT -6
Well, I went from having no prospects for future employment to having 3 possible opportunities to make a buck. One was a fall back plan, one was a good option but not my ideal, and the last was the one I really wanted. I got the one I really wanted and I start orientation today at 1 pm. I was told that the benefits would be great, and it would be the same set days off as I had before. I will ask this today as well just to make sure. If it is the case, then I think I have my last job! Wish me luck today. Also, I apologise for being gone for a while, that is what has kept me away for so long . I should be back with more regularity now.
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ShadowsDad
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Post by ShadowsDad on Mar 13, 2020 8:38:37 GMT -6
What !! You mean employment has kept you away!? What a crappy excuse! OK, seriously, good for you, I'm glad to read of it. Of course income producing employment takes precedent. It does for everyone here, well, except for us retired folks.
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Post by ordinaryshaver on Mar 13, 2020 8:42:20 GMT -6
Unemployment to be precise. I have enjoyed being daddy for these past few weeks, but it's time to get back to work and back on a normal routine.
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Post by wchnu on Mar 13, 2020 12:12:07 GMT -6
I buzz cut my eyebrows. If i don't when I sweat it drips down onto my glasses. Plus when the eyebrows grow out they put oils onto the glasses. I hate that! All I can add is... YUP.
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Post by wchnu on Mar 13, 2020 12:12:21 GMT -6
Unemployment to be precise. I have enjoyed being daddy for these past few weeks, but it's time to get back to work and back on a normal routine. Good luck!!
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