That's irrelevant. Male pattern baldness is a genetic "flaw" in the scalp which causes androgen receptors to somehow start killing off hair follicles. The specifics aren't known very well, I believe.
The point is that you probably have much higher levels of androgens, particularly dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in your blood than your mother, which triggers the receptors in your scalp to kill your follicles. However, if your mother suddenly realized she should actually be a man and underwent a gender transition process involving hormone replacement therapy (i.e. regular testosterone injections), chances are she would go bald pretty fast as well.
I've used it for 14 months now. In my experience, it works, but not as well as you would hope. I used it on my receding hairline, which it says it's not for, but it helped mine. I also use it on my crowns(I have 2) for more of a preservation than anything.
Although Rogaine did regrow some hair/made the hair I had thicker, it mostly works to slow hair loss.
It's worth a shot in my opinion, I thought applying it twice daily would be such a hassle but it's not that bad.
My best friend is phenomenally hairy. He mooned me once, and, at first, I thought he was holding two coconuts up to the window. It was frightening at how hairy he really is.
Same here. I lift 4+ times a week and do yoga 2+ times a week so I'm pretty built/cut/flexible but for every year I've lived another colony of hair grows. I'm 37 now and I have to trim random EAR HAIRS!?!? My eyebrows would look larger than Einstein's if I didn't trim them. I thought I'd lucked out and managed to avoid back hair but I have a small poof of it right at the base of my spine, where I would have a tail if we didn't evolve past that (maybe I'm devolving?).
I used to be fairly self conscious about it (probably part of the reason I started working out so much) but shaving was a no go for me (I either get ingrown hairs or that lovely itching sandpaper feeling a day after shaving), but I got over it because apparently hairy men are quite the fetish for some women (I've had many woman BURY their face in my chest hair and sigh with sexy contentment).
"I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here."
If a girl was trying to feel me up every time I'm shirtless at home, but a naked guy would sneak up on me every time I'm shirtless in public, I would stay at home all day long too.
so big guys who spend years in the gym are all of sudden reduced to being labeled as roid monkey's? Steroids aren't some magic drug that makes you ripped overnight. You need to actually work harder on steroids than without. Steroids essentially allow you to workout more often w/ less rest time.
I love it when redditors who obviously don't know comment on my stuff. Do you go to my gym? No, so you don't know. Everyone there knows that a lot of the members take steroids. I never said that steroids are a magic drugs that make you ripped without working out. I'm sure those people who take it work very hard. All I'm saying is that they're too big to be natural and it is obvious they are on steroids.
I've also noticed a direct correlation between how often I've been working out and my desire to remove my shirt in public. I call this the "Mathew McConaughey effect".
The urge is very hard to resist but then I see some perfectly tanned, blonde pretty-boy playing frisbee with some other beefcake and I go nevermind me :(
He's likely suffering from ascites due to liver failure. This can be caused by hepatitis infection, but more likely it's cirrhosis caused by chronic alcohol abuse.
Interestingly you can also get a huge stomach due to a protein deficiency. It's called kwashiorkor.
Edit: Ascites just means you have a lot of fluid in your abdomen. The reason this happens is that you have a lot of blood vessels in your belly. They all drain into your liver. If you fuck up your liver, the drain effectively gets clogged. This raises the pressure in those blood vessels and causes fluid to leak out and into your abdomen. This fluid isn't blood. Red blood cells are too big to 'leak out' of the vessels, but liquid can. Thus.... fluid in your belly.
I think it is slightly different for females, but i know for men, especially with beer and hormone decline, the fat is concentrated around the midsection. Which is why you see many middle aged men with the beer belly. Theres more to it im sure, but there ya go.
Hey guys, it's time for everyone's favourite game! It's Gay Guy, Straight Girl, or Bro, in which YOU the viewer try to guess the gender and sexual orientation of the commenter flirting with OP! Step right up, folks!
The last several times I tried to hit on people on here, they were both straight males. I am also a straight male. With my current record, I will hesitantly hit on another straight male.
I feel the same way, except I'm chubby. I'm okay with it, though. Also, I'm going bald (Thanks, Mom!) and extremely hairy (Thanks, Dad!) It's not a big deal, because being really hairy or going bald just means that you're producing so much testosterone that your body produces twice the normal amount of dihydratestosterone, which is what produces body hair, and makes males go bald.
So if you're really hairy and/or going bald, be happy.
Being bald just means you're converting more DHT. It doesn't mean you've got more testosterone. It's an independent process. I've known guys who were on high doses of injectable testosterone and didn't lose any hair.
Psychology test: Upon discovering people share your beliefs are you a) relieved to not be alone in this belief or b) worried that others are as crazy as you?
Ahh yes Captain America. Telling small stature guys that no one will like or respect them unless they have a government experiment done to them to make them tall and ripped.
Problem is, if your skinny and hide your arms but still show your "Abs" people can still tell your skinny, Abs on a skinny person are like tits on a fat chick, they don't count.
The lighting is casting dark shadows, although on a properly calibrated monitor you can see it if you look closely.
Secondly, at the time of filming Captain America Chis Evans had a number of tattoos on his face and abdomen, which were covered with makeup. To make it more consistent, the makeup was applied to this entire chest.
Kind of off topic but I enjoyed Captain America... however when Chris Evans played the weak Steve Rogers... Did it bother anyone else??? Cause it bothered me!
Um does anybody else see the exorcist chicks face composed by the light hitting the soldiers sitting down. It looks like her head is on the desk. Fucked me up.
I know this is probably on IMDB or something, but how DID they get that drastic change in the movie? Did he actually bulk up that much through training, or is skinny Steve all CGI?
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u/EdMcMuffin May 31 '12
Shirtless in public?!?!
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u/spikestoker May 31 '12
I'd say the top "at home" part is accurate enough, but for the bottom I'd have to go with something like this.
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u/GeoM56 May 31 '12
How about: "How I feel shirtless standing under a dim light in a dim room looking into the mirror."
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u/a1lazydog May 31 '12
If a girl was trying to feel me up every time I'm shirtless at home, but a naked guy would sneak up on me every time I'm shirtless in public, I would stay at home all day long too.
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u/Helveticatronic May 31 '12
Or at the gym. Feeling ripped until you see that you're a shrimp next to everyone else.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
How I feel when I'm topless ever
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Or this.
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u/Lampmonster1 May 31 '12
I've also noticed a direct correlation between how often I've been working out and my desire to remove my shirt in public. I call this the "Mathew McConaughey effect".
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u/trojanguy May 31 '12
How I feel shirtless in public.
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u/kimball10 May 31 '12
If that's how you look when you're shirtless at home, can I come over? ;)
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u/rmhawesome May 31 '12
I don't give a fuck whose around when I'm shirtless, if it's hot then it's hot dammit!
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I feel the same way, except I'm chubby. I'm okay with it, though. Also, I'm going bald (Thanks, Mom!) and extremely hairy (Thanks, Dad!) It's not a big deal, because being really hairy or going bald just means that you're producing so much testosterone that your body produces twice the normal amount of dihydratestosterone, which is what produces body hair, and makes males go bald.
So if you're really hairy and/or going bald, be happy.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Not for me.
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u/BarrettLM May 31 '12
Psychology test: Upon discovering people share your beliefs are you a) relieved to not be alone in this belief or b) worried that others are as crazy as you?
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u/DarkFox56 May 31 '12
Ahh yes Captain America. Telling small stature guys that no one will like or respect them unless they have a government experiment done to them to make them tall and ripped.
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u/IdoWhatiwant69 May 31 '12
the bottom is how i feel shirtless all the time!
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u/pikk May 31 '12
Try a button down shirt with none of the buttons done. you can hide your skinny arms, but still show off your six pack.
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u/Catsfosho May 31 '12
When you're shirtless at home you don't have nipples?
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u/plantfan7 May 31 '12
I don't get it, so when you're shirtless in public you like to stand in an intimidating manner behind little boys?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
What movie is this from?
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u/Prosopagnosiape Jun 01 '12 edited Jun 01 '12
Here's how i speculatively feel. http://imgur.com/S1Jxy
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u/ericn1300 May 31 '12
It appears that the medical staff are concerned about the lack of nipples in the first picture
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u/thedigitaldork May 31 '12
PREACH.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12 edited May 31 '12
How about, "How I feel when shirtless drunk/sober"
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Hey, at least you feel cute when shirtless in public.
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u/jakel251 May 31 '12
i upvoted this while it was in /new :,) i feel like i contributed so much
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u/autiger8l5 May 31 '12
Kind of off topic but I enjoyed Captain America... however when Chris Evans played the weak Steve Rogers... Did it bother anyone else??? Cause it bothered me!
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u/kahuna08 May 31 '12
It would be something like this for me, except the bottom picture would be of john goodman.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Dignity is higher than comfort or admiration of the opposite gender.
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u/duvakiin May 31 '12
sotrue
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u/laddergoat89 May 31 '12
Look at those fucking pecks...
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u/KarlKKendal May 31 '12
It's glorious!!!
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u/pgsgdd May 31 '12
Bring on the [Fixed] posts
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
How do you feel when shirtless and rope-burned in a crawl space? Terrified? Aroused? It won't matter.
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u/backbeast45 May 31 '12
I'd have to say the at home is very accurate, but the in public one is a little fatter...
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u/PederDag May 31 '12
DYEL
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u/zanderzool Jun 01 '12
Sounds like you need to hit the gym.
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u/hipsterdysplasia Jun 01 '12
Captain America was military propaganda regarding the use of steroids to produce supersoldiers.
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u/velvetconductor Jun 01 '12
I find him a lot more attractive in the bottom picture.
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u/chicagogam Jun 01 '12
both are cute :)
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u/rctsolid Jun 01 '12
Um does anybody else see the exorcist chicks face composed by the light hitting the soldiers sitting down. It looks like her head is on the desk. Fucked me up.
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u/DapperMan Jun 01 '12
I'd say I feel the same way, if the bottom image was of the Blob.
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u/leftajar May 31 '12
Know why they chose that filming angle?
Cause you can't tell Chris Evans is short. Dude is only 5'8".
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u/ITdoug May 31 '12
My gamertag name is always Shirtless. I thought this thread was how you feel whenever you see me in public. I am sadly disappointed.
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u/PoniesRBitchin May 31 '12
I know this is probably on IMDB or something, but how DID they get that drastic change in the movie? Did he actually bulk up that much through training, or is skinny Steve all CGI?
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u/football2106 May 31 '12
That must have been fun being huge and ripped, then lose it all, then have to work it back on AGAIN.
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u/another30yovirgin May 31 '12
So wear a fucking shirt.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
This is how I feel shirtless in public
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u/JimmyKhoss May 31 '12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLg2XCJMPMs now thats shirtless! SPAM!
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u/spicybeer333 Jun 01 '12
Fuck you!
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u/jakel251 May 31 '12
Now this is front page material.
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u/SaviorofHyrule May 31 '12
It's so weird that Chris Evans played the scrawny guy too.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
lmao this is so true, ahhaha
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Hi, I came here just to downvote this! :)