The short hair diaries
 

Maybe my old threads are not coming back. So, new beginnings...


Peace,

kowalski

I thought you'd somehow deleted them.

It's a conspiracy.

About a year ago a hairdresser tactlessly informed me that I am thinning on top "Have you been chopping at your own hair? This bit is really short" she said. I didn't get my hair cut again after that and when it recently got too long I shaved it down with clippers. I've never had short hair before and was somewhat anxious about how I'd look.

I'm still handsome af.


Peace,

kowalski

About 12 years ago my hairdresser said to me you're growing wings, are you gunna hang on to them? and I reluctantly, after 5 minutes of deliberation, said fuck it shave it.

Since then I've always shaved my head. It makes me sad when I see cunts trying to hang onto what's going.

I have to admit I was very self conscious wet shaving my head at first but now I love being able to get up and go without worrying about how it looks/smells feels and girls seem to like my head as I keep it fresh and smooth - great to rub when I'm going to town downstairs...

I'm not that bad, you pair of weak gened bald cunts. Just a little thin at the top and can't have my lucious curls dangling around my collar anymore. When the males in my family get old they should just convert to Judaism because only the center of the kippah patch goes and we have big noses.


Peace,

kowalski

I've seen a few articles, reports and threads on the topic of hair loss as a result of amphetamine use. I believe it was R3flex (who used to be on here) who mentioned it once, and that was the first time I'd ever heard of the possibility.

I don't know much about the science behind it or the reasons why hair loss may be induced as a result of heavy stimulant use, just that if it's true, it would certainly make a lot of sense in my case.

Don't look there first. Start with your male family heredity. Hair loss is highly correlated with ancestral hair loss. Stress seems to be the next biggest factor followed by diet and other environmental factors.

Any hair loss caused by amphetamine use would have been only during the period of heavy consumption and would probably be only temporary with hair returning afterwards.


Peace,

kowalski

Over the past year I've been trying to be more orderly in general.

The last time my life got shook up I didn't leap into action as aggressively as I always have done previously. Mostly in life I've just gone into anything I wanted to go into thinking "if it goes bad, I'll use my intelligence and creativity to improvise my way out of it". This last time that all felt like way too much effort. I didn't revel in it at all as I previously have. The situation could have been easily prepared for and the impact cushioned with a small increase in conscientiousness.

I guess this is in part due to getting older and in part due to the angle at which my future can expand from any one point being significantly narrowed and the landscape ahead being significantly more uneven because of living in Cordoba (no family, less friends, less options compared to a big city, language barrier, etc.)

Now I have savings and contingency plans and short hair and a routine and a kitten (I call him Brian Sabotage, for reasons that got washed away in the great forum flood). And now, I'm exactly 15% more normal, more adult and more boring than this time last year. So now I'm exactly -20% normal, 30% adult and 18% boring.

Today Brian Sabotage came home injured af. His femur snapped clean in two, nearly jutting out the skin. I took him to the vet.

When they were describing the operation he needs, tears were raining off my face caused in equal parts by my care for him and the damage this care is about to inflict on my bank balance. Thankfully I don't get shy about crying more than the average person gets shy about laughing (i.e hardly at all), I really don't see the difference between the two nor many reasons to stifle either.

He will be operated on tomorrow morning at the exact same time that I will be on trial in a foreign court for a crime I did not commit. My vet is charging me 7 times more than my lawyer but if the lawyer thing goes badly, it'll be infinitely worse than the vet thing.

Tomorrow also happens to be Friday the 13th. I don't believe in that shit though so - Brian will survive, I'll be found not guilty and some hottie will blow me.


Peace,

kowalski

I like the idea that it was caused by my excessive past, it's a better story to tell the grand-kids.

The last grandparent I had died nearly 2 years ago & he was bald. His son (my uncle) has a receding hairline but has never shaved his head, always hanging on to what he had. If it was hereditary, it must have came from this side of the family (my mums side). The good thing about this though is, I'd rather have inherited being bald than being gay, which is what my uncle (mentioned above) is. The gay gene skipped me thankfully, cos I'd hate to be eating cock instead of lovely wet pussy.

There were a couple of theories or "reasons" as to why I started to recede so young. I used to wear baseball caps all the time in my teens, and I had my head shaved at parties at least 3 times. The baseball cap thing is more of a myth I would think, but having my head shaved when I was out of it I believe kick-started my beginning to lose it. Of course, I would imagine if I was going to go bald it was going to happen anyway, because if I had healthy follicles it would just grow back, but having it shaved 3 times inside a couple of years sped up the process, I believe.


PS. Tell me Brian is alive!?

Brian Sabotage is alive. Still jacked up on opiates in the hospital. He's very accustomed to psychedelics though, so a little bit of smack isn't gonna freak him out. They say he might come home tomorrow, but I know that is just a linguistic game doctors play with patients and their families to keep the horizon close enough to not fall into despair.


Peace,

kowalski

That's awesome. It would have genuinely hurt me a bit if your pussy had died.

Now for other stuff..

Either I missed it, or I can't remember it, but what are you on trial for? Why the fuck you being blamed without justification? How's that going so far?

Haven't you been in Spain for at least the guts of 4 years? In which case, how come you've suggested language barrier as an obstacle?... My point here being, I thought you made a decision to only speak Spanish about..... fucking ages ago I dunno, so how does a clever enough cunt like yourself not possess fluency in Spanish having lived there for so long?

I'm not suggesting it's easy to learn a new language. I myself intend to learn Spanish myself as a hobby when I've my studies done. There's a product called fluent in 3 months (you'll have heard of this product when reading the 4 hour work week) that the guy who made the product speaks 12 fucking languages or something fluently (probably more now) by throwing himself into the language by only speaking in that language.

My point is you've been there 4 years, and maybe a year or up to 2 years ago you posted that you decided to only speak in Spanish over there. So are you almost fluent in Spanish? Are you still shit? In the middle maybe?

I would suggest that guy has a brain unlike most other people's brains and his achievements will be about as reproducible by the average person as the achievements of Usain Bolt are. Do the course and give me a call in 3 months time. I promise you won't know what the fuck I'm saying.

Italians can learn Spanish in 3 months because they're so similar, going on to learn French and Portuguese as an Italian who speaks Spanish would also be piss easy. Then if you moved on to one of the Germanic languages it would be not too much effort because your understanding of grammar would be next level and most of the vocabulary would exist in one form or other in another language you speak. Honestly, the bar of 'fluency' isn't that high and is really far away from mastery.

I speak Spanish with fluidity. Any native would call me fluent. I speak it better than any Brits here I've met. Nevertheless I make tonnes of errors and there's whole groups of tenses I just don't use and my vocabulary has gaps. So if someone tells me "I should have had a spanner" I wouldn't know what the fuck they were saying because I don't know the Spanish for spanner and then because phrases like "I should have had..." are rather more complicated and nuanced than we realise when only speaking our native tongue. Like, for sure, no one reading this can give an off the cuff explanation as to why the construction "I should have had..." comes to be understood the way it is.

So, despite being what is called fluent, I don't have mastery over the language. In normal discourse this is hardly problematic. However, things like reading legal documents is a real chore involving dictionaries and multiple rereadings and after a few paragraphs you get mentally burnt out. In this way it narrows your scope because certain tasks slow you down considerably and time is not an infinite resource, nor is mental effort and so on.

Or in a more basic example, it's not like I could just go work in a random call centre for a month or two if I got into financial difficulty. After a few weeks I'd probably have tidied up enough and got used to the things customers say and so on... but that's not how employers hire. In the UK, I'd walk into any such role even if I was half asleep, in my PJs, insulted the interviewer and was visibly drunk.

Not that I want such a job.


Peace,

kowalski

What about Brian tho

Either you're overestimating it, or you are clueless.

I've experienced both sides.

I think it's because Spain is different. Over in the UK you got a 4% unemployment and everyone receives free money from the state. Over here it's just coming down to 16% and hardly anyone receives free money from the state. So, even shitty job openings receive untold numbers of applications from competent, intelligent, uni graduates, with experience.


Peace,

kowalski

In the UK it's not really that rosy.
The official unemployment rate is a sham, plus there are a high number of "zero contract", part time and crap "poverty wage" jobs now.
"Free money" from the state doesn't really exist. You pay in when working , then when you can't, you get some back... and even that is being restricted, tightened, means-tested etc. More and more.
Yes, there are lots of other issues to factor in, but it's definitely not too good at the moment, and inflation is threatening to spike again.

You're an idiot.


Peace,

kowalski

What you describe as happening in spain - happens here - where even crap jobs get decent science graduates applying. I work in the NHS and without going into too much detail, I get to see who applies for various jobs - the amount of qualified, some even experienced, people applying for the very basic level jobs is a real eye opener.
90% of their reasons for applying is there are no "proper jobs" out there.

But yeah, I'm obviously the idiot for replying with facts, reasoning and co prehension of the wider picture.
Don't just throw "idiot" in there man, gimme some proper arguments if you disagree. I could at least respect that.

The only facts were posted by me. Unemployment: UK 4%, Spain 16%. Bring other stats, almost all of them will be worse here. And that shit accumulates.

Zero contract, part time, poverty wage. Here too but worse.

Minimum wage stats - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...ges_by_country - add in cost of living... still worse here.

Firemen evict whole families and retirees from homes out to the street with no option of shelter. That happens here not there.

Fom UK gov website. Look who gets free money - https://www.gov.uk/jobseekers-allowance/eligibility - yep, everyone!

From Spain gov website. Look who gets money - https://www.sepe.es/contenidos/perso...de_un_ano.html - yep, hardly anyone.

Look at whatever stats you want. Do it. It'll be good for you.

You comment demonstrating that you don't not even know Spain is totally in the shit since the financial crash. You talk too much and listen to little. That is the calling card of an idiot.

Bring your anecdotes about the UK. I'm from there, all my family and friends are there. I also have uk anecdotes. And, I have Spain anecdotes. And, can and do combine both comparing and contrasting them. Just how I did when I quoted unemployment figures from both sides and on and on and on...

Thinking the UK can win in a game of poverty top trumps, lol.
You'll be trying to win warm weather top trumps, busy beaches top trumps or free food with your beer top trumps next.

And, everything you've posted on the forum so far has been equally as retarded. Listen more, talk less.

Now that you've got your explanation and have been utterly destroyed in the process - dejarme en paz, gilipollez.


Peace,

kowalski

Very good with the stats :)
Much better comeback than "you're an idiot."
If you're only goal in being on here is to "destroy people" - I'd have to seriously question why you're even here, when everyone else's goal is to try and learn and discuss new ideas and improve themselves. Yes - that includes listening too. Do I talk to much? Probably. I'll try to use smaller words when replying to you in future, after this one. Maybe that'll help you.

Is your designated role to play the female and shit-test newbies or something? Some kind of hazing I've noticed you do to others. Doesn't look very good to the average person who might want to join in and share ideas.

Politics can be a wide subject and not everyone has the same ideas or agrees with everyone else. If you're going to get butt-hurt every time someone has a slightly different view then that's not a good place to be in.

Now, all I said is it's not so rosy in the UK either. Nothing to do with claiming the UK has it worse than Spain. I'm sure it is but bad there, but that doesn't mean the streets are paved with gold everywhere else.

Not everything is a pissing contest which has to have a winner and loser either. Sometimes people just don't agree on some things. It's not like I personally insulted your girlfriend Theresa May (yet). If the UK is doing so much better than Spain (your claim) yet is also giving out free money to everyone (your claim), what does that say? Also - where's my free money. Why aren't you collecting your free money? It's obviously a great system.
Anyway- that's all obviously nonsense and not something wer're going to agree on. So why not just say c'est la vie, high five and move on? Instead of trying to pick fights where there are none, and over topics where you have to put words into people's mouths in order to have a comeback on.
I have arguments all the time with friends - especially about politics - but that doesn't mean we fall out and stop helping each other when needed.

The ultimate goal of this forum should be to share ideas and techniques etc. and help each other. Otherwise you're just a troll.
Would you rather be banging chicks, or at least learning how to improve your game in order to bang chicks, or would you rather hide on internet forums making snide remarks that you think are insulting people?
People just think you're troll if you do the latter.

Didn't read.


Peace,

kowalski

Maybe in November I was out with friends. We just arrived at El Automatico. They knew another guy there I didn't know, Pablo (who is always coked up and drunk, I'm later told). I tried to introduce myself but he didn't want to. I started to turn away and he threw a glass at me, I ducked and it hit someone else, who had to go to hosipital for stitches in his face and happens to be a lawyer.

On the night Pablo addmitted to police that he had thrown the glass. Later he changed his story. His new story is inconsistent, physically impossible and his 'witness' was not seen by anyone else there.

So, a few weeks ago I received an order to go to the courts to be investigated. I was questioned by the judge, then cross examined. All the questions I just straightforwardly answered, except the last one from the other lawyer. He asked why Pablo attacked me. I replied "you are asking me to speculate about the motivations and psychological state of a stranger in a bar who throws glasses at people, I'm not qualified to do that and I'm not going to do that".

Now just waiting to see what will happen next. It seems probable that the case will be changed from criminal to civil. A fine will be set based on the severity of the injury. Then return to court to find out who pays what. Pablo knows he's responsible, he knows the fine is his, he's just trying to pull a fast one and spread the cost using the defence of comparative negligence - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_negligence

Having seen the whole case file now, I'm confident him having changed his story will not go well for him and am hopefully to be fully absolved.


Peace,

kowalski

I empathise with you in French, I can do what I do because it's technical and being surrounded by English speaking provinces/countries the majority of technical people will refer to parts in English i.e. a bearing becomes un bearing rather than the French "un roulement". I'd hate to be in a position forced to apply for jobs in call centres/shops/bars....

Getting the job in 4 easy steps with kowalski :biggthumpup:

I'm printing the t-shirts now

"Free the Cordoba K"

Is it possible to empathise in French?

Yeah. It'll suck if it comes to that.

I had designs on starting something independent before the hosting ends but, with the legal problem making me want to sit on my savings in case I need to give them up as a fine, or rinse them on lawyer fees, or burn them escaping to a nation that doesn't extradite (i.e. none of the good ones), everything has got stalled. Maybe I should have gone double or nothing but it didn't seem wise.

So, now I'm fixing up my CV and starting to apply for jobs in my old career.

Everything I saw till yesterday meant moving city (mostly to madrid) or nation (mostly to india) but I just spotted a planner / optimiser role here in Cordoba. It'd be about a 2 step demotion for me in the UK. This excites me. I feel like there can't be many, or any, other people living in Córdoba with a CV that comes close to mine and who would be interested and available. This is an area where if I occasionally fuck up a word, it isn't going to affect my status as an extremely well suited candidate. Maybe the best in town in terms of breadth and depth of experience and provable success.

I'm ready to go live in India though too. You get to just shit in the street, I heard. Sounds fun.


Peace,

kowalski

Better than all this masterbating ive been doing in parks!

I've just finished tailoring my CV to the role advertised in Cordoba and next sending it off to be professionally translated.

I've only seen one factory in Cordoba complex enough to need a production planner, Cementos Cosmos. The job is almost definitely for them. So, this is probably the only production planning role in Cordoba and it probably only comes available once every 2 or 3 years.

Would very much like to get it.

Not really thinking about girls at the moment with everything else I need to get done, but randomly bumped into one I know in the street the other night. She invited me for a drink, I go, we chat with her touching me a lot. Then she invited me back to hers for "one more beer and then you have to leave" which I let slip by. But she repeated it twice. Women are so arrogant with that shit. I told her "no, I don't want to" and walked away.


Peace,

kowalski

Sometimes you have to prioritise certain things, especially when unexpected shit happens.

I had another Corsa that I only got in February, and it blew up a few weeks ago. I decided not to bother getting another car right away. Reason being I had 4 assignments left to complete my degree (3 now) and the completion date is May 31st. So, I said fuck getting another car, I'm just gunna focus on these last few pieces of work first.

What would you be planning? The only thing I can gather is that it's a concrete place. But I guess Cementos could mean anything in Spanish.

Yeah, it'd be planning the production of concrete forms for construction firms from raw materials.

There's a slight delay on my CV caused by a shitty translation. They have great verified reviews. Maybe the majority of their customers only speak the source language of their document and not the target language. So, they wouldn't really be able to judge the finished item.

I'm a savage:

https://i.imgur.com/CEWcOUj.png

"myslef"

Edit: I got refunded


Peace,

kowalski

I tried using Fiverr to do the base of mine, got refused 4 times...

Finished translating the CV text myself today. Took me about 4 tiring hours over 3 days to translate the 350 words. Including lots of struggling with synonyms and technical terms. I'm so lazy. Next, the cover letter!

Meanwhile, I'm deciding what to do in about 4 weeks time if I've not found work. Will probably travel for a bit while keeping on applying for stuff. Most probably I'll be applying for stuff not in Cordoba, so I'm not wanting to get a contract on a new place here and have that financially and geographically constraining me. Might be wrong but I have worked out that I can travel for a few months at about the same living cost as staying in the same place but with more benefits.

And, for now, I barely even raise an eyebrow when a hot girl bats her lashes at me.


Peace,

kowalski

Because barca is a rowing boat and you probably meant barça which is a football club and I'm not that good at football. The city of Barcelona is Barna for short. Chew on my pretentiousness!

I'd be reasonably happy there. Though it seems most openings that are suitable for me in that region are not in the city but in some nearby smaller industrial towns.

I loved living there 5 years ago but now I'd rather be in Andalusia. But my desires are taking a back seat right now. Opportunities is where it's at. Fuck knows where I'll end up.


Peace,

kowalski

Stating the obvious here but since it would seem that the business you were thinking of starting will be taking a back seat for now at least, are you going to deregister the business name or simply change the address as and when you've decided what you're doing? If you do travel rather than stay put, how you gunna work that?

I guess there's always the possibility of a PO box (dunno how that works in Spain, or if it does work). Cunts travel and live the 'laptop lifestyle' and how the fuck do they do it. Although that's what the cunts tell you, probably just to get your money for their overpriced courses. Because it's usually those kind of cunts who tell us IT'S POSSIBLE IF YOU JUST INVEST IN YOURSELF....AND ME.

Of course, I know it's possible. But nowhere near as easy as these annoying bastards who pop up on YouTube try to make out.

Here when you register a name, it is simply reserved for you for up to two years. Within which time you can open a business account in that name to deposit the minimum funds required for the type of LLC you are registering. Then continue with the process of setting up your LLC.

Here and in the UK you must have a physical address to register. However, there are services that let you use their address for a small fee if you are traveling or whatever.


Peace,

kowalski

I've registered a name and it's currently a dormant company (I may change the name depending on what it turns out to be etc). I put this in writing to my housing association to keep everything legit as fuck and above board from the offset. I hand delivered it and the housing officer seemed positive about me being given permission to use my address as a business address, with the key point being that I'll never be physically trading from here. He just had to run it by his manager.

If not, PO boxes are about 200 quid a year.

You'd still need to provide a physical address though. That's UK law.


Peace,

kowalski

I guess that would make sense.

I did actually point out in my letter that using my home address would be a temporary arrangement. That if business was successful I'd eventually change to a PO box (or equivalent), just in the interests of making things more professional.

I'm hoping the manager who must review the request appreciates my disclosure of plans, rather than me just proceeding without saying anything.

Saint Cugat is a pretty nice area with metro stops, free buses and lots of businesses. I've visited twice (for work) and loved it

Lots of drugs and prostitutes too :trampoline: