The thing is, if you want to cut your hair then do it... but if you want to do it because of a job or pussy then don't fucking do it. That's just not metal... it's sucking balls. I've had long hair from 13 till now (34).... plenty of jobs and plenty of pussy.

At Maiden the fucking place was full of middle aged men with short hair and they were all fucking cunts. They pretend to be metal but you can see they all fucking sold out to become accountants, salesmen and plumbers. They all suck balls every fucking night. FACT

You're a bell end.

Aye.

Not being 'Metal' is a good thing really. I can go anywhere and blend in fine. Having long hair for 21 years doesn't make you 'Metal'; it makes you a complete gimp.

What the fuck are you talking about. Your hair isn't important! Fucking hell. What is metal is doing what _you_ fucking want. That's what I'm saying. I've done quite well in life NOT blending in.

What I fucking hate is when people come up to me and say I used to have long hair, I really wish I'd kept it. Well just fucking grow it you fuck whit. It's fucking free to grow it. But then they make lame excuses about what their fucking boss thinks... blah blah blah.

Life is full of options, doing what YOU want is metal is my gimpy bell end opinion.

Name one person who has ever done well for himself by having long hair...

Vivian Campbell

How about three of the gimps in your sig?

Dian Wei wrote:Vivian Campbell

Nah, Dio and Def Leppard made his name.

Herzeleid wrote:How about three of the gimps in your sig?

Steve Clark had long hair and he died. Rick Allen had long hair and lost an arm. Phil Collen had long hair and lost his hair. Th'other two are just from Sheffield.

Metal Iain wrote:Name one person who has ever done well for himself by having long hair...

I don't know anyone that has done well for themselves. That's their business, not mine. All I know is I've done well for myself by being me and people from all walks of life have respected that.

I've worked cleaning toilets, cutting grass, lead teams of a hundred people making video games, started companies which are now worth millions and failed making things worth nothing at all. I've sat in front of bankers, lawyers, judges and millionaires. Anyone that had a problem with me... well I didn't want to work with them anyway!

It just isn't a problem to have long hair! You need to make your own mark in life coz it's pretty fucking short.

If you compromise you loose. You end up working with someone petty enough to care about hair length... imagine how fucking small minded they are. Do you really want to work with that person?

Don't take any of this the wrong way. I'm not Richard Branson! I'm quite a shy guy who just bumbles along in life.... but I've done all right.

Oh, so you mean literally by having long hair...That's a bit stupid. You could do the same with short hair.

Anyways, too big of a deal is made out of all of this. If you want short hair, lovely, if you want long hair, lovely. I don't give a toss what you look like. Just as I expect you to give me the same courtesy.

metaldazza wrote:

Metal Iain wrote:Name one person who has ever done well for himself by having long hair...

I don't know anyone that has done well for themselves. That's their business, not mine. All I know is I've done well for myself by being me and people from all walks of life have respected that.

I've worked cleaning toilets, cutting grass, lead teams of a hundred people making video games, started companies which are now worth millions and failed making things worth nothing at all. I've sat in front of bankers, lawyers, judges and millionaires. Anyone that had a problem with me... well I didn't want to work with them anyway!

It just isn't a problem to have long hair! You need to make your own mark in life coz it's pretty fucking short.

If you compromise you loose. You end up working with someone petty enough to care about hair length... imagine how fucking small minded they are. Do you really want to work with that person?

Don't take any of this the wrong way. I'm not Richard Branson! I'm quite a shy guy who just bumbles along in life.... but I've done all right.

Bollocks!

Herzeleid wrote:Oh, so you mean literally by having long hair...That's a bit stupid. You could do the same with short hair.

Anyways, too big of a deal is made out of all of this. If you want short hair, lovely, if you want long hair, lovely. I don't give a toss what you look like. Just as I expect you to give me the same courtesy.

To be fair, no one respects anyone who has long hair.

I didn't mean for this thread to turn into a typical 'Gimps vs Iain' thing again. It was probably inevitable but, still, I'm not saying that people with long hair should be rounded up for orderly disposal. I've had long hair and reckon that I got it cut off at the right time. Since I've had it cut, no one has said 'you look worse'; on the contrary, everyone has gone out of their way to say I look better now. Now that I've had my hair short for a while, I really can't think why I would have had it long whilst not being in a band.

metaldazza wrote:At Maiden the fucking place was full of middle aged men with short hair and they were all fucking cunts. They pretend to be metal but you can see they all fucking sold out to become accountants, salesmen and plumbers. They all suck balls every fucking night. FACT

What?! They sold out to become plumbers?! What does that mean!? As opposed to what?!

Metal Iain wrote:Bollocks!

Oh yeah, I've got those as well and two kids to prove that they work. I keep the hair short on them though