RateItAll: The Opinion Network

I have very few good physical attributes. My hair is probably one that is good for me. I have even been compimented on having nice, pretty hair. it is getting some sparse grays but not too bad. As for the rest of me,well, not so great.

I guess I'll have to take James' word on this being his best physical attribute since I've never seen him. I can identify with that thought though because, as the years roll by, I consider my hair to still be my best physical attribute too. Both sides of my family were blessed with thick hair with lots of body. I tend to take after my father's side and have much less gray popping in to share space with the original auburnish brown inhabitants. One reason I think hair remains important to people is that while it can be affected by aging, it tends to resist it more than body parts that bag, sag and drag. This is similar to my theory on why women love shoes so much - your slack size may go from 8 to 18 but by golly and thank God - your shoe size will probably remain a 7 1/2! Most of us enjoy thanking our feet for this by offering them as many pairs of shoes as we can afford. With hair, your best bet is to find a good, classic style for it that suits your face and stick with it. This gives the illusion that you never really age - or at least, you're doing so gracefully. Case in point - actress Lee Remick who I would have suspected had a portrait of herself stashed in the attic until I realized that she always sported the same classic do. One thing that you should never do (IMO) is to try to follow fadish/outrageous trends past a certain age - unless you enjoy being the butt of jokes. As to those who find their little scalp buddies abandoning ship well, I feel pretty sure that if I were a guy losing my hair I'd cut the the remaining hair very short. Letting it get long just creates too much contrast and screams, "I'm having major reality checking issues". And, with the possible exception of Donald Trump (and we all know he knows and has actually found a way to cash in on it) and few others, the vast majority of the world decided long, long ago that combovers are just retarded looking.

Overated or not, I'm glad I have all of mine, and then some. My hair is the equivalant of St. Augustine grass. A pain in the ass at times to always have to make that trip to the barber, comb it when the wind messes it up or when my wife runs her finger through it. Yes, very overated.

Hair is overrated and too many people put too much into going bald, who cares.

About 99% of the physcial compliments that I have received have been about my hair. I'm blessed with taking after my maternal grandmother's family, so I have thick, dark hair from the Chikisaw and Cherokee Indian bloodline. I have to admit that I am starting to get a little thin on top, but I'm not quite to the Ben Franklin look yet. *No, Texasyankee, I didn't make this list to become popular. I made this list as a response to a particular person. In fact, I never actually thought anybody would respond to it. Since people have, so be it.

Nobody cares, what do you think this place is, a single's meeting place or something? This list is irrelevant, nobody wants to know about your attributes, except in response to normal lists. If this list idea was to become popular do you realize how many other lists like this we would have? Bad enough how some of the lists in here are. (oh man I am starting to sound like pbeavr now)

Me too. Before going to work, I shave, take a shower and spray my hair with hair spray and sometimes gel. I spray my hair while it's wet. That way, people notice that my hair is never dry. Otherwise when I'm not at work, I wear a baseball cap or stocking cap. I can't stand going anywhere with my hair all dry. I have thick hair.