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I'm a baldy. When this first happened to me at the age of about
12 I
think, I noticed that I was banging my head on things more.
Particularly when doing DIY. I realised that hair acts a bit like
whiskers
on a cat; and gives you an early impact warning.
Maybe, I thought, I should get a
wig, or self adhesive tape with
bristles
on my head...
A more practical application though might be to replace 'Mind Your
Head' tape for low door frames etc. with one that includes small
bristles - about an inch or two would probably do.
This could be created with the text into a narrow fabric design.
It might even work for the fully-haired.
Car_20Whiskers
[hippo, May 14 2010]
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// I noticed that I was banging my head on things more // |
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"Darwin Warning .... Darwin Warning......" |
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+1 with a name change maybe. |
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Yes, the bristles need to protrude at an angle and
horizontally too ideally. A tape with bristles all over could
be wrapped around the outside angle of the frame. |
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//And in my experience, by the time my hair feels the doorframe its too late to alter my trajectory sufficiently to do any good whatsoever.//
One might posit that the flaw lies not with the idea (which is magisterial in its subliminal promotion of the 'tache as an object that protects) but with one or more of the following: the speed at which you travel; your reflexes; the sensitivity of your scalp to movements in your hair; and the rigidity or otherwise of yr barnet. |
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Active laser height sensor before the doorframe which lights up a polite japanese bow sign if it is triggered. |
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Oh... this reminds me of the day in one fine summer,
where I realized I was on longer 5'10". See... There
was this stairway in my basement, one that I could
run down at full speed and never whack my head on
the ceiling... until I was 6'0". Ouch. |
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you grew 2" overnight? wow. |
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No, [po]... I just didn't have a need to flee from one
of my two brothers or rush out of the house in a
while. |
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[INPO], you just reminded me of my own similar episode - first day of school, 9th grade, attempting my regular ballistic dismount from the school bus. Now I wonder if recalling some time that I took some aspirin will help the remembered headache... |
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How about pad "short" overhead door jambs
"short" as defined by being less than the 90th percentile of adult heights for a country’s population
Maybe reduce the door height and the overhead pad can act as insulation / air infiltration |
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I'm afraid I will have to rescind my bun, since the whole topic
of Health and Safety is very seriously pissing me off at
present. Nothing personal. |
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You can't rescind buns - it contravenes food hygiene
regulations. |
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OK [MB], replace the bristles with sharp spikes? |
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That's not going to cheer me up. I am really that pissed off.
No, really, I am. |
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