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What the hell is pomade? My hairdresser told me to get some.
I guess this explains a bit.
https://www.layrite.com/blog/pomade-vs-mousse-vs-gel-which-one-is-for-you/
But I'm pretty sure I haven't seen pomade at the drugstore.
Anyone with any experience with pomade?
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@karla said in Help Bites:
What the hell is pomade?
Isn't it that black stuff you rub on leather dress shoes to keep them in good shape? Why in the world would you want to put that in your hair?!?
Or am I thinking of the wrong thing?
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@boomzilla said in Help Bites:
I would stay away from it, personally.
You'll never get a perfect pompadour that way!
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When life gives you poms...
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@magus said in Help Bites:
@boomzilla said in Help Bites:
I would stay away from it, personally.
You'll never get a perfect pompadour that way!
That is the plan.
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@karla said in Help Bites:
But I'm pretty sure I haven't seen pomade at the drugstore.
Yeah you have. Axe brand makes a ton of pomades, and Axe is everywhere. (Obviously, higher quality brands make it too. Axe is like the Taco Bell of personal hygiene products.)
@karla said in Help Bites:
Anyone with any experience with pomade?
I use it daily with my weird male curly hair. I basically just comb it back and rub in a bit of pomade, give it kind of a glossy finish but isn't sticky like gel or spray.
The stereotype of the 1950s greaser with his slicked hair? That was pomade, but using handfuls instead of fingertip-fulls.
EDIT: also that link above saying it doesn't wash out is pure crap, unless (again) you're putting on gobs of it instead of just a bit.
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@magus said in Help Bites:
@boomzilla said in Help Bites:
I would stay away from it, personally.
You'll never get a perfect
purple pompadour that way!FIFM
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@boomzilla said in Help Bites:
I would stay away from it, personally.
It isn't as bad as it used to be
The original pomade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries consisted mainly of bear fat or lard.
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@timebandit They were called "greasers" for a reason.
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@boner said in Help Bites:
When life gives you poms...
On my screen, the font rendering makes that look like porns.
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Pomade (/pɒˈmeɪd/; French pommade) [...] The original pomade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries consisted mainly of bear fat or lard.
I was wondering what it had to do with apples, but then saw the etymology section:
The English word "pomade" is derived from French pommade meaning "ointment", itself arising from the Latin pomum (fruit, apple) via the Italian pomata or pomo (meaning "apple"—as the original ointment recipe contained mashed apples).
tldr: At least two steps removed from anything to do with apples. Also, I don't see why they mention Italian at all, since French has the word "pomme" with the same Latin root.
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@hungrier said in Help Bites:
Also, I don't see why they mention Italian at all, since French has the word "pomme" with the same Latin root.
Because alternative romance?
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@blakeyrat said in Help Bites:
I use it daily with my weird male curly hair. I basically just comb it back and rub in a bit of pomade, give it kind of a glossy finish but isn't sticky like gel or spray.
Used to do the same, same kind of hair and that was the only thing that calmed it down without appearing too glossy or spiky.
Now I just keep my hair so short it can't curl or do anything otherwise disobedient. :P
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My stylist calls it 'styling cream', think it's the same thing.
I use this stuff which is awesome:
And then a bit of ultra-fine high-hold hairspray to set it. Impervious to small explosions/natural disasters after that but still washes out just fine with shampoo.
Edit: Noticed the site says 'for men' all over it. I wouldn't say the fragrance on that one is 'manly' at all, the hairspray is way stronger anyway.
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@tsaukpaetra said in Help Bites:
@hungrier said in Help Bites:
Also, I don't see why they mention Italian at all, since French has the word "pomme" with the same Latin root.
Because alternative romance?
Then it would have mentioned Greece instead.
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@hungrier said in Help Bites:
Also, I don't see why they mention Italian at all, since French has the word "pomme" with the same Latin root.
I just checked a French etymology dictionary, which confirms that French borrowed the Italian word "pomata". So Italian called it like this because it contained apple, but French called it like this because Italian did, not because of its appley-origin. Therefore it makes sense to mention the Italian origin. I guess.
(and, as often with word borrowed from other languages, French still use "pommade", but in a much more general sense -- any kind of ointment can still be called a "pommade" -- and not that I know of for haircare)
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@blakeyrat said in Help Bites:
I use it daily with my weird male curly hair.
I don't want to know what you do with your pubic hair.
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Question: What's the format thing that the forum uses for the "A day ago" "21 minutes ago" output?
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@karla said in Help Bites:
You need help on something but it doesn't need a full thread.
Surprise: we got a full thread!
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@chaostheeternal said in Help Bites:
like this:
That doesn't look too hard to port to UE4's c++... Thanks!
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Are peaches supposed to look like this?
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@tsaukpaetra said in Help Bites:
Are peaches supposed to look like this?
The shape and color look more like pears than peaches. Either way, I'm gonna go with "no."
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@hardwaregeek said in Help Bites:
@tsaukpaetra said in Help Bites:
Are peaches supposed to look like this?
The shape and color look more like pears than peaches. Either way, I'm gonna go with "no."
Awe shit, I meant to type pears, said out loud 🍐,but still typed 🍑 ugh...
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@tsaukpaetra said in Help Bites:
@hardwaregeek said in Help Bites:
@tsaukpaetra said in Help Bites:
Are peaches supposed to look like this?
The shape and color look more like pears than peaches. Either way, I'm gonna go with "no."
Awe shit, I meant to type pears, said out loud 🍐,but still typed 🍑 ugh...
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So a few days ago I ran out of my Axe pomade and I bought some American Crew. It's much different... it holds a lot firmer and is a lot thicker (I guess that language about it not coming out easily in the shower might be more accurate with this brand), has a nice scent though.
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@blakeyrat said in Help Bites:
it holds a lot firmer and is a lot thicker (I guess that language about it not coming out easily in the shower might be more accurate with this brand), has a nice scent though.
One time, years ago, my then-wife and I went to some sort of retro/vintage event — I no longer remember what it was — and it was decided that my hair should be pomaded. The stuff we got was like Vaseline (petroleum jelly, or soft paraffin, for you all on the other side of the pond) mixed with beeswax and guar gum, or something — much thicker than plain petroleum jelly but just as greasy, and very sticky. It took like a week to wash it out of my hair. Also, it smelled like pineapple. Effing pineapple. "Hey! Flying, stinging insects that are attracted by food odors, come get me!"
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@hardwaregeek said in Help Bites:
@blakeyrat said in Help Bites:
it holds a lot firmer and is a lot thicker (I guess that language about it not coming out easily in the shower might be more accurate with this brand), has a nice scent though.
One time, years ago, my then-wife and I went to some sort of retro/vintage event — I no longer remember what it was — and it was decided that my hair should be pomaded. The stuff we got was like Vaseline (petroleum jelly, or soft paraffin, for you all on the other side of the pond) mixed with beeswax and guar gum, or something — much thicker than plain petroleum jelly but just as greasy, and very sticky. It took like a week to wash it out of my hair. Also, it smelled like pineapple. Effing pineapple. "Hey! Flying, stinging insects that are attracted by food odors, come get me!"
That's why she's your ex right? Clearly she was doing some serious next level manipulation to make you suffer.
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@karla No, the reason she's my ex is largely — not entirely, but mostly — my fault, and entirely unrelated to hair care products.
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@hardwaregeek said in Help Bites:
@karla No, the reason she's my ex is largely — not entirely, but mostly — my fault, and entirely unrelated to hair care products.
Truth is a to .
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@heterodox said in Help Bites:
@blakeyrat said in Help Bites:
I use it daily with my weird male curly hair. I basically just comb it back and rub in a bit of pomade, give it kind of a glossy finish but isn't sticky like gel or spray.
Used to do the same, same kind of hair and that was the only thing that calmed it down without appearing too glossy or spiky.
Now I just keep my hair so short it can't curl or do anything otherwise disobedient. :P
You’re stupid. It would be cool to have curly hair.
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@hardwaregeek said in Help Bites:
@karla No, the reason she's my ex is largely — not entirely, but mostly — my fault,
You slept with another Vaseline product! In your hair!
and entirely unrelated to hair care products.
Uh, I’m wrong, then. :(
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@kt_ said in Help Bites:
You’re stupid. It would be cool to have curly hair.
Everyone who has straight hair wants curly hair and everyone who has curly hair wants straight hair.
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@heterodox said in Help Bites:
@kt_ said in Help Bites:
You’re stupid. It would be cool to have curly hair.
Everyone who has straight hair wants curly hair and everyone who has curly hair wants straight hair.
and everyone who doesn’t have hair wants hair and everyone who has hair wants her:
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@kt_ said in Help Bites:
@heterodox said in Help Bites:
@kt_ said in Help Bites:
You’re stupid. It would be cool to have curly hair.
Everyone who has straight hair wants curly hair and everyone who has curly hair wants straight hair.
and everyone who doesn’t have hair wants hair and everyone who has hair wants her:
I'd hit that.
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@karla With a judo chop?
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@kt_ /me misses having hair like that
Filed Under: Maybe not quite that nice, but it was about that long, maybe longer.
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@zecc said in Help Bites:
@karla With a judo chop?
http://ohtoptens.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Grumpy-Cat-NO-6.jpg
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@tsaukpaetra said in Help Bites:
Are
peachespears supposed to look like this?Which part? The brown or the white?
Never mind. It doesn't matter. They're probably just fine. I've seen (and eaten) pears that looked like these.
The brown color is just a little oxidation, and it's not dangerous. That could just happen over time while the pear jars sit on the shelf.
If there's fuzzy material in the top of the jar/lid, then I would say there's an issue, since the jar wasn't sealed properly, and mold has begun growing.
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@scholrlea said in Help Bites:
@kt_ /me misses having hair like that
Filed Under: Maybe not quite that nice, but it was about that long, maybe longer.
I've basically got the exact same hair as her.
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@djls45 said in Help Bites:
They're probably just fine.
I like how you're answering a 11-day-old post.
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@zecc
@Tsaukpaetra may have already thrown out his jars of pears; I don't know. But if someone else has pears that look like that, or if he finds more jars of pears, maybe it could still help.
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@djls45 said in Help Bites:
if he finds more jars of pears
I hear they are more common looted from pink crates, so if you are looking for jars of pears always smash all pink crates
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@Luhmann You're suggesting that he pare the pink crates to find pairs of jars of pears?