Is a wet willy standard protocol?

Raymond Lin said:
The question is will you be going back?
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Depends on if my usual barber is rammed next time too :p Got another Turkish barber th eopposite end of the same road and whilst that barber offers me a drink etc, he talks relentlessly and you just want to glove slap to say be quiet :cry:

Bug One said:
Maybe your ears were particularly rank. :p
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Impossible, I value my hearing as much as my eyesight, so they are well maintained!

roccles said:
The barber lifted my head up and violently twisted it last time I was there which resulted in a nice pop! Must admit it actually felt quite good after but do feel he should have asked first! :cry:

But on the whole I think the Turkish barbers are great, and nothing beats the smell of singed ear hair in the morning.
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Pffft I crack my own neck multiple times a day :p

 
Sadly, I'm now at an age where my ear hairs grow like buggery. I love the Turkish ear hair burning technique but not so keen on the haircut itself -always ends up far too short.
Have tried to burn off my ear hairs myself with a cigarette lighter but this is tricky to do without burning my ears.
It is strangely therapeutic though plucking them out individually with tweezers, or with a set of needle nose pliers for the bigger clumps.
 
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think there is some cultural appropriation here - the italians have been doing ear burning for at least 20 years when I first saw it (Ventimiglia) ..
I think Turkish UK barbers were just a glint in Erdogans eye at that time.
 
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Pawnless Endgame said:
Overclockers now has the feature from Mumsnet by letting you create sockpuppet accounts which is normally against forum rules but it is allowed on Mumsnet (and now on OcUK). The Mumsnetters refer it to name-change (or NC for short). E.g. "Have NC for this thread, here's my AIBU..."

mrk and Mags is the same person :)
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I wonder who the OCUK version of Penis Beaker is?

Also Center Parcs...you know.
 
cheesyboy said:
Huh, and I was a bit perturbed when the Turkish lad shaved my eyebrows (just to a sensible length, not off entirely). A wet willy is pretty next level!
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Without asking?! I would be amazingly peed off and demand free haircuts for a year if they did that without asking. Who even shaves their eyebrows anyway aside from guys being dudes on stag parties or something :cry:
 
gingergundog said:
I wonder who the OCUK version of Penis Beaker is?

Also Center Parcs...you know.
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Penis Breaker+sockpuppets = mrk/Mags :p

And yeah they're obsessed with Centre Parks. Good drama on AIBU. There's the unwritten rule in parking threads where a poorly drawn diagram is mandatory. Everyone on AIBU is labelled an alcoholic, even the tee-totallers. "My DH spends too much time with his hobby", with pages of replies asking what this "hobby" is and no one gets to find out. Also, a 26 y/o female dating a 20 y/o = ok, but a 26 y/o male dating a 20 y/o female = not ok.
 
I get the ear flame treatment and also get my eyebrows cut.

Basically as I age the barber seems to spend less time cutting the receding hair on my scalp and more time tending to the new places it's growing from :)
 
mrk said:
Without asking?! I would be amazingly peed off and demand free haircuts for a year if they did that without asking. Who even shaves their eyebrows anyway aside from guys being dudes on stag parties or something :cry:
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Its gets a bit out of control the older you get, sometimes I wish I had a live in Turkish Barber.
 
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not read whole thread..skipped to last page, but I have went from 'Am I a teabag now?' to ' 'Penis Breaker+sockpuppets = mrk/Mags :p'

if Fear and Loathing was a thread on a forum :p
 
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mrk said:
New Turkish barber shop opened up a walk down the road and my usual place was rammed so figured I'd go there instead this time round.

All good, clean place, snazzy Turkish music don't understand a word but the beat is "fire".

After the cut and fade he says hair wash time, I insist it's not needed as I'm showering later anyway but he insists. I apologise and obliged in true British tradition.

Barber washed my hair then proceeded to WASH MY EAR HOLES???

Immeasurable violation.

Then goes to the other room and grabs a hot steaming towel and wraps hair and face in it and lets it steep for 4 minutes. Am I a teabag now?

On one hand an unusual barbering experience.

On the other hand .. Yeah

Thoughts and prayers?





(Not a Magnolia post :eek:)
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Yea man I go to a turkish one and you never know what you going to get, fire in ears, hot towels, moisturising face and hair and even shoulder massage while the hot towel is in your face... It's an experience. The guy just decided to nab my eyebrows off this time unprovoked. Dudes are just a law unto themselves.
 
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