Chatting with the barber

helimachoptor · 20-09-2011 08:22AM

Before baldness took it's toll

me and Don used to have great chats. Apart from him very few people have chopped my mullet

Gummy Panda · 20-09-2011 08:28AM

I went to one of those Boston Barbers before. Guy went on a rant about the government, mortages, NAMA and bankers. It was like listening to a taxi driver. Never going back there.

I miss the girl in Grafton Barbers who was good looking and had big boobs. She'd rest them on your shoulders while cutting :pac:

GavRedKing · 20-09-2011 08:45AM

My barber is also one of my buddies that I know a good few years so its good to catch up with him every few weeks, as I dont get to see him as much due to the distance.

Sofiztikated · 20-09-2011 08:51AM

Used to stay quiet, but I have found a barber shop now that suits me.

I like the people there, I like the layout of the shop, they recognise me after the first time I was there, the other places I went to many times, and they still didn't remember me, and asked the same questions.

They make tea, we can chat about shaving stuff, they've just gotten their own line of products in, so I'm interested in trying them out, talk ****e about cars, women, don't do football.

Orando Broom · 20-09-2011 08:52AM

De economeee!

AeoNGriM · 20-09-2011 09:10AM

hondasam wrote: »

Is this a boys only thread Fago??

sexist thread

Name the last time you had your hair cut by a barber, and not a stylist/hairdresser.

(Bonus points if you can name the last time you peed standing up.......also, post pics)

I prefer the haircut in silence mostly, however I'll have a natter if I know the barber reasonably well (I tend to go wherever is handy ie home, work, somewhere inbetween)

ejmaztec · 20-09-2011 09:13AM

Chatting with the barber is like Boards with scissors. It's neither person knowing what they're talking about, and making wild generalisations about everything.

kfallon · 20-09-2011 09:30AM

I do my own hair every day :P

However I miss the chats with the Eastern European girl who works in the local barbers, she had some 'mi-wadi' on her and a nice girl to boot. Used to always be working when I called in and as friendly as you can get!

ejmaztec · 20-09-2011 09:43AM

kfallon wrote: »

I do my own hair every day :P

However I miss the chats with the Eastern European girl who works in the local barbers, she had some 'mi-wadi' on her and a nice girl to boot. Used to always be working when I called in and as friendly as you can get!

So, what did you do to get barred then?

Gummy Panda · 20-09-2011 09:46AM

ejmaztec wrote: »

kfallon wrote: »

I do my own hair every day :P

However I miss the chats with the Eastern European girl who works in the local barbers, she had some 'mi-wadi' on her and a nice girl to boot. Used to always be working when I called in and as friendly as you can get!

So, what did you do to get barred then?

Probably asked for sneaky finger

blackwhite · 20-09-2011 09:54AM

ThurstonWhore wrote: »

My hairdresser gives me a cup of tea, biscuits and magazines so we don't have to talk to each other.

Mmmm..... hairy tea

kfallon · 20-09-2011 09:56AM

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Probably asked for sneaky finger

If only!

I wasn't barred, I started shaving my head so no need to go in there anymore. I still see her every so often and we have a 30 second chit chat but no more rubbing of the noggin

:P

kfallon · 20-09-2011 09:59AM

Reminds me of the joke:

A little girl goes to the barbershop with her father.

She stands next to the barbers chair, eating a muffin while her dad gets his haircut.

The barber smiles at her and says, "Sweetheart, you're gonna get hair on your muffin."

"I know," she replies, "I'm gonna get tits too ya dirty bastard"

:pac:

Shiner11 · 20-09-2011 12:01PM

My self and a friend used to go to the same barbers. It was all women that worked in there. One woman now was absolutely terrible at giving haircuts unless you wanted a blade. I used to avoid her like the plague, like making a phonecall just as her seat became available and id let d next person go before me. My friend used to love having chats with her though. She looked like the wicked witch of the west without the green complection and a lot more warts.

I spoke to my friend recently, as in i hadn't seen him in about 2 months. He said he now has that woman believing he goes shark hunting with his millionaire uncle in Australia every summer. He actually spends his summers in a caravan in Kerry.

Carstuck · 20-09-2011 12:06PM

When I started going to my present barber first, I tried to make conversation but he wasn't engaging back much! So now there's pure silence. Seems to be his norm as he doesn't talk to anyone else either.

IamtheWalrus · 20-09-2011 12:07PM

McP2011 wrote: »

Do talk a bit depending on who's cutting my hair lol.

lol?

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 20-09-2011 12:11PM

The last time I got my hair cut in Galway it was this pretty hot Polish girl. Didn't say a word but at the end she gave me this really long scalp massage then a smile :eek:
I was pleasently stunned

neilthefunkeone · 20-09-2011 12:11PM

I wouldn't start a conversation.. if they asked a question id answer so as not to be rude but ill leave nothing to follow up on..

Just cut the hair and let me out of here..

Same rule for lifts, shops etc

Deise 2012 · 20-09-2011 12:27PM

My barber recently changed shops. Since she did, she has got very chatty. The last place she worked was unisex, men out front, women down the back. Its men only now. Cant but help she is wearing lots of shirts now. When she does, she told me business could be brisk. I wonder why.

smash · 20-09-2011 01:24PM

A hot polish chick cuts my hair, never know what to talk to her about so I just stare in the mirror.

The Agogo · 20-09-2011 01:28PM

It's not for me have to say...its just awkward

TheMilkyPirate · 20-09-2011 01:32PM

I hate small talk, Be it taxi drivers barbers whatever, It's always the same ****e and neither of you want to do it.

My GF is a hairdresser now so i get it done for nothing

Blazer · 20-09-2011 01:35PM

Cassius Flabby Dwarf wrote: »

The last time I got my hair cut in Galway it was this pretty hot Polish girl. Didn't say a word but at the end she gave me this really long scalp massage then a smile :eek:
I was pleasently stunned

tell us the shop u idiot:pac:

Dravokivich · 20-09-2011 01:39PM

I tell'em what way I want it done and confirm if I want them to cut the length shorter.

What else am I going to talk about?

jester77 · 20-09-2011 01:40PM

I have good banter with mine, last time I was in we were trying to resolve his love life. His gf wants him to move into her place but he doesn't want to give up his pad just yet. It was a bit more complicated than that and we didn't reach a solution either.

problemchimp · 20-09-2011 01:49PM

My barber is a Chinaman who can't be arsed talking, the perfect barber for me as I can't be arsed either. Mind you with my head of hair, it doesn't take as long as it used to.

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 20-09-2011 01:51PM

Sc@recrow wrote: »

tell us the shop u idiot:pac:

Fat Freddies in the Liosbain Industrial Estate. Blonde chick at the end

smokingman · 20-09-2011 01:53PM

Been going to the same barber (he's not a hairdresser, there's a red/white pole outside and everything

) for about 4 years now.

The last one involved a heated discussion on how he thought Final Fantasy 7 was the greatest game ever made. If it's not games we chat about, it's the premiership or super hero movies/comics.

I quite look forward to going in there to be honest

Captain Darling · 20-09-2011 01:58PM

Fago! wrote: »

I used to say nothing and just sit there without a word between us. With each visit conversation grew to more than two words. Now it's like chatting to an old friend. Great craic altogether.

So do you chat to the barber when he's cutting your hair, or do you sit in silence staring in the mirror the duration of the haircut? If not, why?

I used to go to this auld fella called Chick the Barber in Galway. The hair cut mightnt have been the best but he told some great stories.

There was always some more auld lads in there talking about time gone by and the who was dying or something like that. He was a bit of an institution.

I think there is a bookies there now or something. Lovely man.

--Kaiser-- · 20-09-2011 02:31PM

I don't mind if the baber wants to chat or not, I'll oblige them either way, but at my local barber there are generally two different barbers. One, a foreign girl, doesn't say a word, a bit rough when pushing your head to one side and that, but does a great job. The other, an Irish guy will spend 45 mins giving me a sh1te haircut as he babbles on with his stupid stories. I'll take the 10-15 mins of silence please

Chatting with the barber

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