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10 June 2006
Chests: Smooth or hairy? I have approximately 7 chest hairs.
Please Christ no. I'd win. I don't have chest hairs, I have a fucking winter pelt. A coat, as it were.
Don't get me started on the mutant fucking three inch long hairs that sprout randomly from my fucking shoulders. Or the outside of my nose. My internal nose hairs are a whole different story, but, yes, even my fucking nose is furred.
I look forward to the incomparable joys of comb-able ear fur which await me in my old man years.
I haven't experienced the bliss of a smooth chest since I was in fucking kindergarten. You want me to count my chest hairs? Fuck you. I don't have enough life left for that kind of shit.
I'm in the wrong fucking latitude. I'm best suited for wandering naked and unarmed in an ice age.
Loq, I already have to spend about twenty minutes once every couple weeks plucking hairs from my ears. Mostly from um... I forget what you call it. The little part that points towards the back of your head.
And my chest and stomach both have enough hair that I could shave it off and make nests for small woodland creatures if I wanted. And the hair goes right up my throat just high enough that there is this bunch of hair right above the collar of a t-shirt. So I keep that eliminated. The weird uber-long shoulder hairs? Yeah, have those. One here and there. And not much back hair but little bits here and there that is really long. Damn hair.
I'm not as hairy as loq or were, but I'm in that direction. I don't particularly like it, myself. I don't think I've had a partner complain (because they've all been nice people), but I have had partners that just love to lie in bed and run their fingers through my chest and stomach hair for hours.
Though I've often buzzed everything off all over with electric clippers, and I've even shaved most everything off for comfort/heat/aesthetic reasons (with hideously painful regrowth experiences) - I haven't tried waxing yet.
I'm very seriously worried that the first time I'd try waxing some poor Asiatic salon worker would have to literally climb up on me for leverage, fail, and then attach one end of the waxing-strip to a high powered winch.
Upon which my entire hide would just peel off like a banana peel.
No, really, it's freakish. I have some kind of mutant Norse-Scottish-German hair growth thing going on. Where normal folks have one hair follicle per pore-site, I have three or four, even on my head.
It's not so bad that I can go shirtless and look like I'm wearing a densely knit sweater, but it's still very much gorilla pelt-like, and it's no small amount of consternation to me.
The upside is that my head-hair is fabulous and I'll never go bald. The downside is that I often find small woodland creatures hibernating between by manboobs and I'm deathly afraid of the hook side of velcro.