Canadian Entertainment, Music and Catch All II - Page 21

Architype · #**401** Posted **Sep 30, 2024, 7:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

I wish he'd start taking the hair dye down a couple of degrees. It's just a pet peeve of mine.

Are you sure? His father Pierre still had dark hair at the same age, unless he dyed it too.

MolsonExport · #**402** Posted **Sep 30, 2024, 8:23 PM**

My hair is still 99% dark (I'm 55)...although my beard (if I was to grow one) is quite salt & pepper. I have never dyed it, and I never will.

SpongeG · #**403** Posted **Sep 30, 2024, 11:56 PM**

my hair is still dark but my beard is mostly grey or white now.

Innsertnamehere · #**404** Posted **Oct 1, 2024, 2:49 PM**

you all are lucky, I'm already going grey and I'm still (barely) in my 20's

Gresto · #**405** Posted **Oct 1, 2024, 6:00 PM**

I, too, still have dark brown hair at 49, but my beard, when I let it try to grow (I can't grow a proper beard), is at least half white.

Acajack · #**406** Posted **Oct 1, 2024, 7:27 PM**

Mid-50s and just a tiny bit of grey at the bottom of my sideburns. The rest is still all brown.

Body hair is greying though.

And my beard if I let it grow is a mix of brown, red* and grey.

*The only red hair on my body.

SignalHillHiker · #**407** Posted **Oct 2, 2024, 9:21 PM**

Just an aside to check in on your friends. We lost a local drag/queer icon to suicide last weekend.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-support-of-jonathan-nichol-aka-reign-michaels

I never knew him well, but he was always welcoming and encouraging at the gym, and the few places I ended up where he was working. The type of person who always gave you a full-teeth smile and five minutes of his time wherever you happened to run into him. A good, kind soul, even in my limited interactions with him, and, to me, that's the best a person can be.

Also, CBC, NTV, VOCM, etc. They've all covered it, which surprised me.

https://ntv.ca/community-mourns-loss-of-drag-performer-reign-michaels/

ScreamingViking · #**408** Posted **Oct 2, 2024, 9:43 PM**

I'm almost 54 and I went from red hair as a kid, to mixed brown as a teen, to full brown, and now I'm going white. I look really old when I have a few days of stubble. Greys started creeping in during my mid-20s, and really took over by 40. I didn't mind it so much on my head, but the change in colour of the chest hair was tough to accept. My arms, legs, and eyebrows are the final lines of defence, and that invasion has begun especially above the eyes.

I have a lot of friends who started to lose their hair even in high school, and they now shave their heads. The rest are similar to me.

So if it wasn't one, it would be the other.

Thankfully none of us has gone with colouring or replacement. I'm of the "let it be" perspective. And I had a hair stylist who called my current shade "Arctic Blonde" and there's not much wrong with that!

ScreamingViking · #**409** Posted **Oct 2, 2024, 9:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Just an aside to check in on your friends. We lost a local drag/queer icon to suicide last weekend.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-support-of-jonathan-nichol-aka-reign-michaels

I never knew him well, but he was always welcoming and encouraging at the gym, and the few places I ended up where he was working. The type of person who always gave you a full-teeth smile and five minutes of his time wherever you happened to run into him. A good, kind soul, even in my limited interactions with him, and, to me, that's the best a person can be.

Also, CBC, NTV, VOCM, etc. They've all covered it, which surprised me.

https://ntv.ca/community-mourns-loss-of-drag-performer-reign-michaels/

This is sad

north 42 · #**410** Posted **Oct 3, 2024, 11:24 AM**

I’m 59 and only have a few greys on my head, but my beard is about 50% grey now, and I have 2 white eyebrow hairs. I also just got my first grey chest hair about a year ago, I have 5 now, and still 100% brown hair everywhere else.

MonctonRad · #**411** Posted **Oct 3, 2024, 12:30 PM**

Just saw the discussion on greying hair.

I am 67, and my hair is still generally light brown/dark blond, which I think tends to hide the grey which is present (less of a contrast than if my hair was dark), If you look at my hair in good lighting, I think the grey is more obvious, but, by and large, it is well hidden.

My moustache on the other hand is darker, and, clearly more than 50% grey. This bugs me. I have thought about shaving it off.

In general, I look much younger than my stated age. I may be 67, but, I think I look more like I'm 55. I could probably pass for 50 if I shaved off my moustache.

Architype · #**412** Posted **Oct 3, 2024, 7:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Just saw the discussion on greying hair.

I am 67, and my hair is still generally light brown/dark blond, which I think tends to hide the grey which is present (less of a contrast than if my hair was dark), If you look at my hair in good lighting, I think the grey is more obvious, but, by and large, it is well hidden.

My moustache on the other hand is darker, and, clearly more than 50% grey. This bugs me. I have thought about shaving it off.

In general, I look much younger than my stated age. I may be 67, but, I think I look more like I'm 55. I could probably pass for 50 if I shaved off my moustache.

That sounds familiar, I am also around your age, and what is left is not grey, except the beard, it's a matter of genetics. People are also surprised when they learn my age. I have friends 10 years younger and more, who are grey but won't dye it. It seems to be a badge of honour.

1overcosc · #**413** Posted **Oct 4, 2024, 12:12 AM**

Appearances can be deceiving with age. My parents are both in their early 60s and were born in the same year. My mom looks very young for her age, but my dad does not. You'd think there was a 10-15 year age gap between the two of them if you just met them and didn't know their ages.

But my dad is in better health it seems. My mom is already starting to get some mobility issues and has had some health problems come up recently; while my dad still moves like he's in his prime and in seemingly perfect health.

SpongeG · #**414** Posted **Oct 4, 2024, 12:15 AM**

I was wondering if this has been happening in other parts of the country. A number of intersections around the Vancouver area have made turning right at a red light no longer allowed.

I often see people at other intersections where it is still permitted also just sitting their waiting for a green light which is very annoying, just turn!

I also hate being the first one at that light in the right turn lane especially when there is no traffic at all cause I fell like people are going to get pissed off.

ScreamingViking · #**415** Posted **Oct 4, 2024, 12:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

I was wondering if this has been happening in other parts of the country. A number of intersections around the Vancouver area have made turning right at a red light no longer allowed.

It's happened here in Hamilton along major street corridors, especially the one-ways. There are advance pedestrian "walk" signals.

A number of pedestrian fatalities spurred the change. Near where I live there's a no-right-on-red restriction and I have had assholes honking at me to turn before the light is green (usually they don't even have their turn signal on, so it's not like I'm holding them up if they're going straight on through the intersection). I guess sign awareness is not a universal thing.

SignalHillHiker · #**416** Posted **Oct 5, 2024, 9:31 PM**

NYT has rediscovered us, and this time it's not breathless surprise that we have coffee shops and urbanity (which is cute and acceptable from NYC, obviously, not even complaining):

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/05/world...e&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

kwoldtimer · #**417** Posted **Oct 8, 2024, 12:38 PM**

UofT professor Geoffrey Hinton has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with a professor at Princeton U. He's the 7th Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics since 1990.

harls · #**418** Posted **Oct 8, 2024, 3:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

I was wondering if this has been happening in other parts of the country. A number of intersections around the Vancouver area have made turning right at a red light no longer allowed.

Yes, in Gatineau in the last few years these are popping up all over the place.

Acajack · #**419** Posted **Oct 9, 2024, 1:44 PM**

Long-time editorial cartoonist (caracaturiste) Michael de Adder has been let go by the Halifax Chronicle-Herald after three decades with the paper.

He is a legend of the genre in Atlantic Canada and beyond.

MonctonRad · #**420** Posted **Oct 9, 2024, 2:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Long-time editorial cartoonist (caracaturiste) Michael de Adder has been let go by the Halifax Chronicle-Herald after three decades with the paper.

He is a legend of the genre in Atlantic Canada and beyond.

I'm a big fan of de Adder. A good Moncton boy from Riverview NB. He's been done dirty by Brunswick News, then the Washington Post and now the Chronicle Herald. I'm really pissed off.

His cartoons are deeply insightful and cut to the quick. Pure genius.