The great toupee debate

Oswald Osbourne

I was out the other night and got talking to this guy at the table next to me. Anyway after a while I starting noticing there was something not quite right about his barnet. Suddenly it dawned on me and I realised he must have been wearing a small dead animal on his head cos whatever he had there wasn't hair! So I called him on it. I said "So did you buy your wig or is it rented?"

Instead of punching me in the face or running off crying he immediately admitted his follicular handicap to me and so began a conversation about how certain kinds of cosmetic additions are acceptable but others are not. For example wrt to the head alone you can have dentures or contact lenses and no one will bat a plastic concealing eyelid at you, yet get found out sporting a crown-topper and there'll be hell toupee! A lifetime of ridicule awaits you.

So the question for this thread is : why does our furry friend the rug continue to be such a figure of mockery yet other items such as contact lenses or dentures become readily accepted in society?

D-Generate

I groan at that toupee joke but I like your writing style!

Rb

You need contacts to see and dentures to eat perhaps? Not everyone likes being partially blind or having to eat their food through a straw afterall.

Red Hand

rb_ie wrote:

You need contacts to see and dentures to eat perhaps? Not everyone likes being partially blind or having to eat their food through a straw afterall.

Yep, I think many would see it as a foolishly vain excercise, as it is not really necessary or effective in most cases.

Blitzkrieger

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TerrorFirmer

Our manager in work has a toupee. I didn't realise for months - neither did my friend, until one day he casually said 'How is his hair always so perfect?' Someone else then stopped dead in their tracks and gave us a 'How did you not know' speech.

Apparently one day his toupee blew away too - that I would pay to see. As for wearing a toupee though, no big deal in my eyes...