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Time I had a haircut, no not my creditors.  :D

So how much do you pay for a haircut, going rate around here seems to be $15 for a real basic man's cut, though much like women's hairdressing, you can increasingly pay for whatever your fancy take you.

For a long time I had Princesca cut my hair, so $0, but I found a great old-school barber shop by my new house that'll do it for $12.

Nothing.

My wife cuts all of our hair.

Quote from: Caliga on August 28, 2015, 08:39:54 AM
For a long time I had Princesca cut my hair, so $0, but I found a great old-school barber shop by my new house that'll do it for $12.

Not very good 'old-school' barbers here charge about $15 ( 9 quid).

Seems to be a fashion in the UK nowadays to open a hairdressers, nail-shop or cheap coffee shop if you've some redundancy money to burn or can't think of a good business idea yourself.

What is redundancy money?

Quote from: mongers on August 28, 2015, 08:39:03 AM
Time I had a haircut, no not my creditors.  :D

So how much do you pay for a haircut, going rate around here seems to be $15 for a real basic man's cut, though much like women's hairdressing, you can increasingly pay for whatever your fancy take you.

I have it done between 9-11 pounds at a barber shop.

16$, tip included.

Quote from: Valmy on August 28, 2015, 08:47:29 AM
What is redundancy money?

This:
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-1656044/Redundancy-payout-calculator-How-I-I-lose-job.html (http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-1656044/Redundancy-payout-calculator-How-I-I-lose-job.html)

Or were you making a joke about the lack of worker's rights/protection in the USA?

About US$15.

£9 here. I used to get it done for £8 at a place round the corner, but I discovered that everyone else paid £6 so shifted allegiance  :hmm:

About £55. But I only go three times a year, max.

Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on August 28, 2015, 08:57:40 AM
£9 here. I used to get it done for £8 at a place round the corner, but I discovered that everyone else paid £6 so shifted allegiance  :hmm:

Hello RH, how's are thing going?

No real surprise in the poll results;

Languish=cheapskates.  :P

Quote from: mongers on August 28, 2015, 09:01:10 AM

Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on August 28, 2015, 08:57:40 AM
£9 here. I used to get it done for £8 at a place round the corner, but I discovered that everyone else paid £6 so shifted allegiance  :hmm:

Hello RH, how's are thing going?

Pretty good right now, thanks. All well down in Salisbury?

Quote from: mongers on August 28, 2015, 09:02:14 AM
No real surprise in the poll results;

Languish=cheapskates.  :P

I have tried places that cost more than that.  Guess what, there is no difference.  For a basic man's haircut, paying more just won't yield better results.  My theory is that the better places are only meaningful if you want more complex designs. 

16$ for me, and I usually give a few bucks tip for a total of 20$.

The prices are very consistent.

I run the trimmer over my head once or twice a week, so 0.

Quote from: mongers on August 28, 2015, 08:53:49 AM

Quote from: Valmy on August 28, 2015, 08:47:29 AM
What is redundancy money?

This:
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-1656044/Redundancy-payout-calculator-How-I-I-lose-job.html (http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-1656044/Redundancy-payout-calculator-How-I-I-lose-job.html)

Or were you making a joke about the lack of worker's rights/protection in the USA?

No I have no idea what you mean by redundancy. I guess that means 'laid off'.

I've been cutting my own hair for more than 10 years.

Quote from: Valmy on August 28, 2015, 09:17:46 AM

Quote from: mongers on August 28, 2015, 08:53:49 AM

Quote from: Valmy on August 28, 2015, 08:47:29 AM
What is redundancy money?

This:
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-1656044/Redundancy-payout-calculator-How-I-I-lose-job.html (http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-1656044/Redundancy-payout-calculator-How-I-I-lose-job.html)

Or were you making a joke about the lack of worker's rights/protection in the USA?

No I have no idea what you mean by redundancy. I guess that means 'laid off'.

aka "slut pack"

Normally, between $10 and $20.

Quote from: Martinus on August 28, 2015, 09:28:07 AM
Normally, between $10 and $20.

Really? I am impressed Marty.

Quote from: mongers on August 28, 2015, 08:39:03 AM
Time I had a haircut, no not my creditors.  :D

So how much do you pay for a haircut, going rate around here seems to be $15 for a real basic man's cut, though much like women's hairdressing, you can increasingly pay for whatever your fancy take you.

That would also be a typical fare for a normal men's haircut at a mainstream place in Warsaw, so neither at some dingy barber shop, nor a "coiffure artiste" where you have to make an appointment days in advance.

Zero unless you amortize the cost of the clippers my wife uses.  I feel like I'm missing out, though, because that Sport Clips place looks pretty cool.

Quote from: Valmy on August 28, 2015, 09:29:31 AM

Quote from: Martinus on August 28, 2015, 09:28:07 AM
Normally, between $10 and $20.

Really? I am impressed Marty.

Contrary to what my online persona may be, I am at the relatively low end of gay grooming (which makes me somewhere above the average for a straight male professional). I normally don't get my nails done either. :P

Quote from: Valmy on August 28, 2015, 09:17:46 AM
No I have no idea what you mean by redundancy. I guess that means 'laid off'.

Yep.

US:  I got laid off.
UK:  I was made redundant.

Quote from: Valmy on August 28, 2015, 09:17:46 AM

Quote from: mongers on August 28, 2015, 08:53:49 AM

Quote from: Valmy on August 28, 2015, 08:47:29 AM
What is redundancy money?

This:
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-1656044/Redundancy-payout-calculator-How-I-I-lose-job.html (http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-1656044/Redundancy-payout-calculator-How-I-I-lose-job.html)

Or were you making a joke about the lack of worker's rights/protection in the USA?

No I have no idea what you mean by redundancy. I guess that means 'laid off'.

Oh, that's interesting. I thought the term was American corpo lingo. I'm surprised.

Quote from: Martinus on August 28, 2015, 09:33:46 AM
Oh, that's interesting. I thought the term was American corpo lingo. I'm surprised.

Our corpo lingo for that is 'downsizing' or 'efficiencies'.

Nada. I suppose soon I will have to give up my bohemian ways and start paying out the butt - but for now it is still just me and my clippers. Actually, rather timely as I'm due to whack it all down tonight in time for my holiday.

Quote from: garbon on August 28, 2015, 09:36:56 AM
Actually, rather timely as I'm due to whack it all down tonight in time for my holiday vacation.

You're still an American, so speak American, goddamnit. :mad:

Well we do have a holiday coming up.

Oh fun fact: I came to work yesterday even though it was LBJ's birthday which is a state holiday. Comp time for me  :lol:

I should have stayed home and contemplated his glorious policies.

In an effort to honor LBJ, I hope you committed some election fraud or conducted business while taking a shit.  Johnson was an expert at those two activities.

And the UK also has Monday as a holiday, so it is a holiday weekend. :blurgh:

Quote from: Caliga on August 28, 2015, 09:41:03 AM
In an effort to honor LBJ, I hope you committed some election fraud or conducted business while taking a shit.  Johnson was an expert at those two activities.

:yes:

A great man!

This is a weird thing about America - on one hand you guys are so egalitarian, on the other you have some really weird cult of personality shit like having public holidays on presidents' and generals' birthdays. Even monarchies usually limit themselves to the *current* monarch.

Quote from: garbon on August 28, 2015, 09:41:31 AM
And the UK also has Monday as a holiday, so it is a holiday weekend. :blurgh:

UK holidays are very ulititarian. There are three holidays on Mondays just because they are Mondays - and noone really needs another reason (like this being some social, religious or historical celebration).

Quote from: Martinus on August 28, 2015, 09:42:48 AM
on one hand you guys are so egalitarian

We are?  :hmm:

I think we like to pretend we are, though.

Quote from: Martinus on August 28, 2015, 09:42:48 AM
This is a weird thing about America - on one hand you guys are so egalitarian, on the other you have some really weird cult of personality shit like having public holidays on presidents' and generals' birthdays. Even monarchies usually limit themselves to the *current* monarch.

It is supposed to inspire the current generations to greatness. Anyway this is a State Holiday not a Federal one, for the local boy done good.

Quote from: Caliga on August 28, 2015, 09:44:59 AM

Quote from: Martinus on August 28, 2015, 09:42:48 AM
on one hand you guys are so egalitarian

We are?  :hmm:

I think we like to pretend we are, though.

Hey not every member of the elite used their connections to attend an Ivy League school.

Quote from: Martinus on August 28, 2015, 09:43:57 AM

Quote from: garbon on August 28, 2015, 09:41:31 AM
And the UK also has Monday as a holiday, so it is a holiday weekend. :blurgh:

UK holidays are very ulititarian. There are three holidays on Mondays just because they are Mondays - and noone really needs another reason (like this being some social, religious or historical celebration).

Most of the holidays have a historical social/religions reason though (in fact apart from the 3 bank holidays, I think all of the holidays have an explicit one - and UK only has 8 or so mind you). And Early May Bank Holiday, I believe is just what UK changed to so that there was no link to socialist May Day. Spring Bank Holiday being replacement for what was Whit Monday. Only one I can think of that doesn't quite have a reason is this coming one.

Quote from: Syt on August 28, 2015, 09:16:15 AM
I run the trimmer over my head once or twice a week, so 0.

Great idea. My hair has been thin for years and I've often considered doing something similar.

In former times we did have something called "Saint Monday" here in England. Essentially it was a matter of dissolute workers boozing it up on a Sunday, instead of going to church, and then taking the following Monday off as a holiday.

Quote from: Martinus on August 28, 2015, 09:42:48 AM
This is a weird thing about America - on one hand you guys are so egalitarian, on the other you have some really weird cult of personality shit like having public holidays on presidents' and generals' birthdays. Even monarchies usually limit themselves to the *current* monarch.

These are the holidays I get:

New Years
MLK Day
Memorial Day (for veterans)
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving
Christmas

And that is it. That is probably fairly standard, although some people may get holidays like Veterans Day, Good Friday, Christmas Eve, or the day after Thanksgiving off (those are probably the most common).

Government offices get more holidays, and states governments go by their own rules. So if you hear about state holidays, it will seem like we have a lot because we have 50 states doing their own thing. But you also have to keep in mind that unless you are a government worker most people aren't affected by other holidays.

I get MLK Day off but I always have to work anyway since it's year-end close. :accountingprobs:

Quote from: alfred russel on August 28, 2015, 09:58:45 AM
Government offices get more holidays, and states governments go by their own rules. So if you hear about state holidays, it will seem like we have a lot because we have 50 states doing their own thing. But you also have to keep in mind that unless you are a government worker most people aren't affected by other holidays.

Yeah these are not real holidays. Just an excuse to save some money in the public budget by shutting down state services for a few extra days. LBJ would appreciate that.

Quote from: Caliga on August 28, 2015, 10:05:43 AM
I get MLK Day off but I always have to work anyway since it's year-end close. :accountingprobs:

Raciss!

Quote from: Caliga on August 28, 2015, 10:05:43 AM
I get MLK Day off but I always have to work anyway since it's year-end close. :accountingprobs:

We had it as one of our optional days when I was in U.S. I never took it as everyone else did so it meant I could 'work from home.'

Quote from: Martinus on August 28, 2015, 09:31:45 AM
Contrary to what my online persona may be, I am at the relatively low end of gay grooming (which makes me somewhere above the average for a straight male professional). I normally don't get my nails done either. :P

I dunno, I've seen your bathroom, you've got more product than I :P

These are the days I get for Holidays:

New Years
MLK Day
Presidents Day
Patriots Day (Massachusetts holiday in April) Lexington/Concord battles of the revolution
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Thanksgiving and day after which replaced Veteran's Day though I usually take a vacation day for Veteran's Day.
Christmas
Float day to take when I want.

In Kentucky we get no special holidays. :(

Derby Day is kind of a holiday though, in that tons of people take the day off and most people that don't just come to work and do nothing but talk about whatever Derby party they're throwing or going to.

Quote from: KRonn on August 28, 2015, 09:53:14 AM

Quote from: Syt on August 28, 2015, 09:16:15 AM
I run the trimmer over my head once or twice a week, so 0.

Great idea. My hair has been thin for years and I've often considered doing something similar.

Man, I was literally about to post:

"You know languish is a bunch of cheapskates, when KRonn is the most extravagant spender in a category. :P "


And now you pull the rug from under me.  :(

I can't believe you lot have to gob ack to work the day after Christmas.

We get:
New Year's Day
Good Friday
Easter Monday
Early May bank holiday
Spring bank holiday
Summer bank holiday
Christmas Day
Boxing Day

Quote from: Caliga on August 28, 2015, 10:05:43 AM
I get MLK Day off but I always have to work anyway since it's year-end close. :accountingprobs:

Same, but I get a floating holiday to make up for it.  :)

Quote from: mongers on August 28, 2015, 10:22:06 AM
Man, I was literally about to post:

"You know languish is a bunch of cheapskates, when KRonn is the most extravagant spenders in a category. :P "

I don't think there are too many John Edwards-types around here, who would pay more for a basic service solely for bragging rights.

I mean, all I have the barber do is shave the sides and back of my head with a #2 comb and then lightly trim the top and (sometimes) the bangs with scissors.

Quote from: alfred russel on August 28, 2015, 10:22:43 AM
Same, but I get a floating holiday to make up for it.  :)

Well yeah. :sleep:

I 'traditionally' take that Friday off.

Quote from: KRonn on August 28, 2015, 10:19:14 AM
These are the days I get for Holidays:

New Years
MLK Day
Presidents Day
Patriots Day (Massachusetts holiday in April) Lexington/Concord battles of the revolution
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Thanksgiving and day after which replaced Veteran's Day though I usually take a vacation day for Veteran's Day.
Christmas
Float day to take when I want.

I have 26 "float days". They are called "paid holidays". :P

I presume you use them to take off the birthday of each king of Jagiellonian Dynasty.

Quote from: Brazen on August 28, 2015, 10:22:11 AM
I can't believe you lot have to gob ack to work the day after Christmas.

We get:
New Year's Day
Good Friday
Easter Monday
Early May bank holiday
Spring bank holiday
Summer bank holiday
Christmas Day
Boxing Day

We get:

New Year's Day
Epiphany
Easter Monday
Labour Day (May 1st)
Constitution Day (May 3rd)
Corpus Christi
Military Day/Assumption Day (August 15th)
All Hallows' Day (November 1st)
Independence Day (November 11th)
Christmas Day
Second Day of Christmas

We also get two holiday "Sundays" (Easter and Pentecost) which are there to mainly annoy most people, as it is when all shops are closed and people who forget about them (mainly Pentecost, as Easter is still a big holiday even for the non-religious) have to buy their groceries at petrol stations.

Quote from: Caliga on August 28, 2015, 10:21:55 AM
In Kentucky we get no special holidays. :(

Derby Day is kind of a holiday though, in that tons of people take the day off and most people that don't just come to work and do nothing but talk about whatever Derby party they're throwing or going to.

Wow you really don't. Public employment in Kentucky sucks.

Quote from: mongers on August 28, 2015, 10:22:06 AM

Quote from: KRonn on August 28, 2015, 09:53:14 AM

Quote from: Syt on August 28, 2015, 09:16:15 AM
I run the trimmer over my head once or twice a week, so 0.

Great idea. My hair has been thin for years and I've often considered doing something similar.

Man, I was literally about to post:

"You know languish is a bunch of cheapskates, when KRonn is the most extravagant spender in a category. :P "


And now you pull the rug from under me.  :(

:D  Hehe, no worries. I doubt if I'll be shaving my head anytime soon.

Quote from: Brazen on August 28, 2015, 10:14:03 AM

Quote from: Martinus on August 28, 2015, 09:31:45 AM
Contrary to what my online persona may be, I am at the relatively low end of gay grooming (which makes me somewhere above the average for a straight male professional). I normally don't get my nails done either. :P

I dunno, I've seen your bathroom, you've got more product than I :P

D. has way more of this stuff than I do. :P

I pretty much just have a "web" paste, normal paste and hair spray for my hair. :P

Quote from: Martinus on August 28, 2015, 10:29:33 AM

Quote from: KRonn on August 28, 2015, 10:19:14 AM
These are the days I get for Holidays:

New Years
MLK Day
Presidents Day
Patriots Day (Massachusetts holiday in April) Lexington/Concord battles of the revolution
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Thanksgiving and day after which replaced Veteran's Day though I usually take a vacation day for Veteran's Day.
Christmas
Float day to take when I want.

I have 26 "float days". They are called "paid holidays". :P

Yep, I get those too - vacation days we call them here. Five weeks per year.

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That's not too bad then.

Typically around $17, but I make it a habit to tip well when someone can handle gracefully the unruly mop I call my hair.

Quote from: Valmy on August 28, 2015, 10:42:54 AM
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More than 10 quid and I'm being ripped off.
I try to keep professional haircuts to a minimum.

13 Euro + 2 Euro tip. About once every 4-5 weeks.

My mom still cuts my hair.  Even during the years we lived in different states, when it was time for a haircut, it was time for a visit home.

20-25€ if I want to have it done properly. Whenever I go to cheaper places I get an awful 'do.

I have been going to the same barber for about the last 10+ years.  He has a fascinating story.  He is a Christian Armenian who owned a very trendy hair salon in Tehran in the 70s.  After the revolution he tried to make a go of it but it became untenable for him.  He managed to get out of the country and come to Canada with his family but he was financially wiped out.  He is advanced in age now.  My boys and I get charged 30 bucks a cut and I give him a significant tip - the stories he has to tell alone are worth the price.

Quote from: crazy canuck on August 28, 2015, 12:56:59 PM
I have been going to the same barber for about the last 10+ years.  He has a fascinating story.  He is a Christian Armenian who owned a very trendy hair salon in Tehran in the 70s.  After the revolution he tried to make a go of it but it became untenable for him.  He managed to get out of the country and come to Canada with his family but he was financially wiped out.  He is advanced in age now.  My boys and I get charged 30 bucks a cut and I give him a significant tip - the stories he has to tell alone are worth the price.

Well, he seems like a good scam artist, charging 30 bucks per a kid haircut.

I don't know about a scam artist, but yeah $30 does seem steep.  I'm paying $18 plus tip at my barber (and I do go to an old school barber).

Maybe $35.

Quote from: dps on August 28, 2015, 11:37:56 AM
My mom still cuts my hair.  Even during the years we lived in different states, when it was time for a haircut, it was time for a visit home.

Dude...I didn't need to know that :P

Not quite my mam but I have only ever had one professional haircut that wasn't by the same woman in my home town :blush:

The wife cuts my hair. 

Quote from: Valmy on August 28, 2015, 09:39:30 AM
Oh fun fact: I came to work yesterday even though it was LBJ's birthday which is a state holiday. Comp time for me  :lol:

Aw man I didn't get comp time for yesterday.  Stupid hsc.  :(

My gfs cuts my hair with the tondeuse

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$0. I buzz or shave my own head. Before that maybe 15 bucks or so. I had the same barber from when I was 12 until I was 22.

Quote from: Valmy on August 28, 2015, 01:27:49 PM
Dude...I didn't need to know that :P

:hmm: That's kind of sweet IMO.

I've had the same hairdresser for 22 years now.

14 € +1 € tip to an old pro hairdresser.

Quote from: Brazen on August 28, 2015, 08:59:02 AM
About £55. But I only go three times a year, max.

I only go four times a year but I pay $15.  Nyah nyah nyah.

I love how many posters treat their women like slaves.

About 20 bucks.  I just get a buzzcut these days.

I am not sure what is more nuts - $30 for a kid haircut or going to another state so that your mother can cut your hair.

Twelve thousand won, so a hair over $10.

It's not a competition.

He didn't want to pay the premium for a Kim Jong Il-style cut.

Got one yesterday.  Paid $15 including tip.

Quote from: Caliga on August 30, 2015, 05:58:41 AM
Got one yesterday.  Paid $15 including tip.

Haircut or anniversary dinner at the gas station?

£20/$30 for a haircut. It's near work so I don't have to worry about finding time on a weekend or getting home before the place shuts.

Interesting results so far even allowing for the Languish skinflintery, maybe one of our  economicalist type dudes should make a past-participial-parity-purchasing(thingy) index as a replacement for the big mac one?

I usually go to Haircuttery ($18 + $4 tip). I tip well for haircuts.

Here, I've been paying a very laconic and grizzled old gay farmer (ex-Air Force, natch) $20 total, and I tend to tip on the high side.  So I think the list price is $15 or $16. 

Really glad I found his place.  Before Mike's, I used to go to a real shitty barbershop/hairdresser combo type place where the lady's enormous stomach was pressed against my neck the whole time and she kept coercing me into letting her use horrible "thinning shears," this huge jagged key-looking thing, in a vain attempt to tame the shock of bushy un-combability presented by my scalp.  That experience would set me back $17 plus tip.

Or else if desperate I'd go to the guy by my house, who would really nastily insult his wife to me while she sullenly scrubbed the floor in the same room and gave me death stares, and to drag me into pretty unsubtle racist conversations about the "new people" in the neighborhood coming up from Springfield and Hartford, with their "difficult" hair and unruly kids and bad manners.  His was only $10, though.

In my experience racist barbers routinely offer a 30-40% discount  :)

No racism in the barber I go to, the barbers are a mix of races and religions as are the customers. Nevertheless it is a pretty un-pc and outspoken place..........a pleasant relief from the internet where one so often seems to be dealing with either bigots or ridiculously sensitive folk.

Ha, when I lived in Massachusetts I used to call the place I went 'Racist Barber Shop' (it had no sign saying what it was actually called), because the two guys in there told each other racist jokes constantly.

I usually go to a chain barber/hairdresses shop in my nearby shopping mall.  :Embarrass:

Quote from: Caliga on August 31, 2015, 05:56:07 AM
Ha, when I lived in Massachusetts I used to call the place I went 'Racist Barber Shop' (it had no sign saying what it was actually called), because the two guys in there told each other racist jokes constantly.

What a horrible place.

Yes, that's why he moved to Kentucky.

No one celebrates Mass. :(

Quote from: The Brain on August 31, 2015, 10:35:41 AM

Quote from: Caliga on August 31, 2015, 05:56:07 AM
Ha, when I lived in Massachusetts I used to call the place I went 'Racist Barber Shop' (it had no sign saying what it was actually called), because the two guys in there told each other racist jokes constantly.

What a horrible place.

Where The Brain comes from, when you sit down for a haircut, you get to tell the racist jokes at your own pace and the barbers are expected to laugh courteously, not talk over the customer.  That kind of intrusive informality is an Americanism that just doesn't fly in the real Sweden.

Quote from: Capetan Mihali on August 31, 2015, 11:16:27 AM

Quote from: The Brain on August 31, 2015, 10:35:41 AM

Quote from: Caliga on August 31, 2015, 05:56:07 AM
Ha, when I lived in Massachusetts I used to call the place I went 'Racist Barber Shop' (it had no sign saying what it was actually called), because the two guys in there told each other racist jokes constantly.

What a horrible place.

Where The Brain comes from, when you sit down for a haircut, you get to tell the racist jokes at your own pace and the barbers are expected to laugh courteously, not talk over the customer.  That kind of intrusive informality is an Americanism that just doesn't fly in the real Sweden.

I'm a stickler for many things.

A schtickler, definitely.