Seemingly trivial things that elicit an emotional response of some kind

[First Aspect]

The BoE won't be making any cuts.

 

[First Aspect]

I'm wondering what PPs next equality crusade will be.

 

[Pblakeney]

FTFY.

Yeahbut, specifically so tonight.

 

[Beebo]

I can tell you the date of my last haircut.
30 July 2004
It was the day before my wedding.
I’ve not paid for a haircut since. Just DIY clippers for me.
I must have saved quite a bit.

 

[briantrumpet]

I can tell you the date of my last haircut.
30 July 2004
It was the day before my wedding.
I’ve not paid for a haircut since. Just DIY clippers for me.
I must have saved quite a bit.

From your profile photo, it looks like you do a passable job.

 

[Pblakeney]

I can tell you the date of my last haircut.
30 July 2004
It was the day before my wedding.
I’ve not paid for a haircut since. Just DIY clippers for me.
I must have saved quite a bit.

Ha! 2006 for me in similar circumstance. It was a special occasion though as I'd already been using clippers for 12 years prior.
Can't remember where I was at the #4 to #1 stage at the time though. Been at #0 in winter and razor in summer for a few years now.

 

[BoldonLad]

15 years after the equality act, the pricing of haircuts.

E.g. one near me offers haircuts for under 10s. Girls are £20/£35 for a dry cut/wash and cut. Boys are £16/£20. How is it nearly four times as expensive to wash a kid's hair purely based on their sex?

What a quaint thought, that prices are based on “fairness” or “sex”, prices are based on what the market will bear, essentially, supply and demand.

 

[BoldonLad]

It's distracting people from the gender identity discussion on the Green Party thread, thank you.

Interesting. Does that mean trans people are charged on their birth gender or identified gender? Which hairdresser should each be allowed to attend? 😂

 

[Pross]

A wash for boys is £4. For girls it is £15.

15 is nearly four times 4.

To be fair you framed it £16/£20 and £20/35 so that's an extra 25% for the dry cut and 75% extra for the wash and cut. The whole process is generally more for a girl than a boy. I'm pretty sure they could justify it pretty easily if anyone challenged it legally e.g. the whole process takes 75% longer for a girl (or takes 50% longer on average and uses more materials). I suppose you could argue they should charge by length of hair rather than gender. In general 'unisex' hairdressers charge more than a barber so I'm not sure I would take a boy to a hair dresser rather than a barber anyway.

 

[Pross]

I did, of course, ask Copilot

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Does it have a source (other than Reddit) for that case example as I haven't been able to find it. These things will generally continue to be accepted unless someone feels strongly enough to challenge it legally but despite all the articles online with people complaining no-one has taken up the baton to mount that legal challenge. If they do I suspect the inevitable consequence would be that the cost for men / boys would be increased at hairdressers as woman are their main clientelle whereas barbers would end up being forced to cut the hair of the relatively small number of women that would be happy to have their hait cut in a barber shop (there is apparently a unisex barber chain that set up having spotted this gap in the market).

To go all Rick Chasey, I am surprised all the pensioner discounts have escaped legal challenge when they are all millionaires. Justifying that someone costs less when taking up a seat in a cinema / theatre etc. because they are older feels harder to justify than hair cuts where 'average' length and complexity could be argued.

 

[briantrumpet]

Does it have a source (other than Reddit) for that case example as I have't been able to find it.

It can go in 'AI fails' if it's an hallucination.

 

[BoldonLad]

Does it have a source (other than Reddit) for that case example as I have't been able to find it. These things will generally continue to be accepted unless someone feels strongly enough to challenge it legally but despite all the articles online with people complaining no-one has taken up the baton to mount that legal challenge. If they do I suspect the inevitable consequence would be that the cost for men / boys would be increased at hairdressers as woman are their main clientelle whereas barbers would end up being forced to cut the hair of the relatively small number of women that would be happy to have their hait cut in a barber shop (there is apparently a unisex barber chain that set up having spotted this gap in the market).

To go all Rick Chasey, I am surprised all the pensioner discounts have escaped legal challenge when they are all millionaires. Justifying that someone costs less when taking up a seat in a cinema / theatre etc. because they are older feels harder to justify than hair cuts where 'average' length and complexity could be argued.

Not defending “Pensioners discounts” but, they often have terms and conditions to limit them to off peak times. For example, locally, there is a pensioner discounted travel pass on the metro, but, travel times exclude “rush hour”. In the case of hairdressers, the place my wife (an OAP, although, to the best of my knowledge, not a millionaire) frequents, they give a discount, but, only on some mid-week days (perhaps justified on the basis that OAPs do not go out “on the lash”, at weekends?) 😊

 

[PurplePenguin]

Today I'm being trivially annoyed by you lot and your disregard for the law.

 

[Pross]

Today I'm being trivially annoyed by you lot and your disregard for the law.

Why do you think it hasn't been challenged (or if it has, as Brian's AI response suggests, why the challenge wasn't successful)? You seem to believe it would be a foregone conclusion. My two girls are grown up and pay for their own (ridiculously expensive IMHO) haircuts but if they were allowed to pay the same as me at the local barber I doubt they'd be jumping at the opportunity and if I'd tried taking them there when they were kids there would have been tantrums.

Also, do you think a successful challenge will lead to cheaper haircuts for girls / women or more expensive haircuts for boys / men?

 

[CXRAndy]

Stopped using barbers when my baldness was greater than my area of hair left. Bought some electric clippers, thats decades ago

Oh I have been once in that time, that was when holidaying in Australia for two months, needed a cut in Melbourne -started to look a bit hippy