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Rogue Body Hair

Perfect Tommy

08:40 / 03.10.01

I have no idea how I could have not noticed until now. I have a single arm hair, about one third of the way behind my wrist, which is a full two inches long. I am leaving it there purely so that people will believe me.

Maybe it's not as important to the world as the Monkey-Man of India, but it's important to me. Dear God, please don't let me be the first 10 minutes of Teen Wolf.

Lost Nauth

10:28 / 03.10.01

I hate rebellious body hair! My hair is blonde but every once and awhile a black one will pop up. Usually on one of my arms. I can feel the difference. It's a little bit thicker. It just feels so wrong! I have to spend all day trying to pull it out. *shakes fist*

Perfect Tommy

17:31 / 03.10.01

This one is blond, which is nonstandard. Perhaps it's yours?

Jack Fear

17:38 / 03.10.01

Take it from a crusty old bastard of 34: it only gets worse.

If you'd told me ten years ago I'd be regularly shaving my ears--the outer ear, no less--I'd have fucking killed myself.

Perfect Tommy

18:26 / 03.10.01

I am my father's son; I know that I shall be well protected from the nuclear winter. I was just shocked and amazed at the singularity of purpose this arm hair has shown, both in length and in its ability to hide in plain sight. I think I'm going to try and make it a familiar.

grant

18:28 / 03.10.01

I found a similarly long hair on my arm once -- but there's a single eyebrow I'm even more fond of. I'm hoping to mature into a full John Houseman fringe some day.

Mordant Carnival

20:05 / 03.10.01

I have a single, solitary mustache hair on my lip. Just the one. It's next to my lip peircing so I'm going to try and train it to grow round the post, like a teeny-tiny little wisteria.

I heard about this woman once who was into pulling out and swallowing her hair. One day she somehow got one with a live follicle and it took root inside of her belly. Don't mess with follicles, dudes. They're the enemy within.

TrapSpringer

15:56 / 08.10.01

quote:I heard about this woman once who was into pulling out and swallowing her hair

I don't know about follicles taking root in one's stomach, but swallow hair for a long time and you might wind up with a trichinobezoar.

Mordant Carnival

16:02 / 08.10.01

quote:Originally posted by TrapSpringer:
swallow hair for a long time and you might wind up with a trichinobezoar.

"Rapunzel, let down your hairball..."
Oh, no. Gratuitous Sandman quotes... creeping... into... posts.... gothic... side... taking over... must....resist...

TrapSpringer

16:29 / 08.10.01

Sorry Mordant, someone had to. I'm just surprised I was the first.

w1rebaby

19:21 / 09.10.01

here's one - hair, can it really be psychologically affected?

I was told I had a white patch of hair on the back of my head, in my final year, a stressful experience. I did check it out in a mirror and it was definitely paler than normal.

Perhaps an individual hair of ridiculous length is evidence of a deeper-rooted psychological problem? Maybe this explains why rogue hairs sometimes pop up on bits of my face that are otherwise free of the things.

Mister Snee

15:27 / 19.10.01

I've had long, single, blonde rogue hairs before. They're usually quite loosely-rooted if you feel inclined to give 'em a tug.

Hair cancer.

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