So, today marks the second attempt to get this sodding green out of my hair.
Wish me luck, bitches. At this rate, I won't even be that gutted if it all snaps off from over bleaching.

Tell me about your "Well it seemed like a good idea at the time" moments. To follow on from Monty - no whining, just amusing anecdotes.

Edit: Just thought of an Alt Q. I saw the actual Magna Carta yesterday, what awesome pieces of history have you seen?
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:11, 38 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Can you do the old joke?
Why's your hair green etc
(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:12, Reply)

Har har.
I've not had that one yet actually.
Just small children staring at me.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:13, Reply)

As long as they don't throw rocks I suppose.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:14, Reply)

Apple
What did you do to your hair?
(Catomiagi is in with a chance, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:13, Reply)

I dyed it blue in celebration of getting an industrial placement.
It looked great! But now my placement starts in 5 days and it's now green and won't go away.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:15, Reply)

can you get a salon to strip the colour?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:16, Reply)

I don't have that kind of money at the moment.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:17, Reply)

and bleaching and dying haven't helped?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:18, Reply)

Just tried bleaching so far
Dying it brown will be a last resort.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:19, Reply)

if it's too green
Or it has a green hue. Consider putting a dark reddis brown on it.

That normally does the job.
(Catomiagi is in with a chance, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:20, Reply)

Ooh, I shall keep that in mind.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:20, Reply)

burn it off with a lighter then

(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:19, Reply)

My mum wanted to shave it

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:20, Reply)

Have you got a nice-shaped head?

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:23, Reply)

I'm clicking this for some out of context weirdness

(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:24, Reply)

I like your thinking

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:31, Reply)

I dyed my hair bright red at uni
that was misguided. It went pink for a long time. Longer than it was red.

I also tried to dye it blue, and it ended up looking green for 2 days, gery for 2 days and then back to normal...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:13, Reply)

I went "Ice White" which apparently means ginger.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:14, Reply)

I bleached mine before the red
should have kept it like that I think.

I got called salmon-head for quite a while because of the stupid pinkness
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:15, Reply)

Everything means ginger if you're not careful

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:19, Reply)

I dyed mine black at school.
I was sent to my year head because it made me look like I was 'on something'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:23, Reply)

Which one?
There are four copies left
( Peej, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:22, Reply)

Sailsbury Cathedral

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:23, Reply)

I once shagged a girl on the magna carta memorial in Runnymede.
Good times. I should be banged up like Charlie Gilmore
( Peej, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:26, Reply)

I've dyed my hair tonnes of colours
To get rid I've with died purple over the top as it works on blues greens pinks and reds. Other wise dark brown over the top always works.
( Peej, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:24, Reply)

The only problem is, I didn't do it all blue.
So whatever I cover it u with has to work with my natural dark blonde.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:25, Reply)

Why not go brunette all over?
Would suit you and cover everything
( Peej, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:27, Reply)

Like Cousin It?

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:33, Reply)

Alt: fucking loads.
Highlights include

The Bayeaux Tapestry
Stonehenge
Delphi at dawn
The Pantheon, Rome
The Roman Forum
The Courthouse where Blackbeard's men were tried, Williamsburg VA
Amphitheatre at Olympia
The Acropolis (marred by resoration work though)
Fucking shitloads of castles esp the Welsh ones, Chepstow is a beauty
The Book of Kells
The Lindisfarne Gospels
The Alfred Jewel

Christ I could go on all day. Maybe I shall.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:30, Reply)

The Rosetta Stone
The sarcophagus of Seti I
Silbury Hill
West Kennet Long Barrow
Danebury and Avebury Ring
Wayland's Smithy
The Cerne Abbas Giant
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:33, Reply)

i've tried to put highlights in my hair 3 times now abd they keep going pink because i dyed my hair red so many times

( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:32, Reply)

Stonehenge
Silbury Hill
Avebury
Leedes, Corfe, Raglan, Windsor, Chepstow etc etc etc castles
Most of the stuff in the London museums
Fishbourne Palace
The Acropolis
The Delphic Oracle
Temple of Zeus at Olympia
Mycenae
Sutton Hoo
Loads of stuff.
( Kroney, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:44, Reply)

Oh, and Croydon airport.

( Kroney, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:52, Reply)

Oh fucking hell how I forgot Mycenae I do not know.
Fucking incredible.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:56, Reply)

You seem to have been to many of the same places as me.
With the glaring exception of Croydon airport.
( Kroney, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:58, Reply)

I have yet to enjoy its mysterious charms.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 13:00, Reply)

It's actually kind of interesting if you're into the architecture of the period.
Otherwise, it's just an airport.
( Kroney, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 13:02, Reply)

I'm not in the least bit interested in it.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 13:03, Reply)

Oh well, I wouldn't bother then.

( Kroney, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 13:06, Reply)

Righto.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 13:11, Reply)

In the Guggenheim in Venice
I was so awe struck at standing inches away from a Magritte painting, it was all I could do to stop myself from stroking it.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:48, Reply)

I was similarly impressed by seeing Hogarth's 'Rake's Progress' series at the John Soane Museum.
The painting room is amazing in there - although the place overall I found claustrophobic and a little unpleasant.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 13:02, Reply)

I've been to lots of galleries and areas of historical interest
but I only included that example because it's the closest I've felt to the enormity of the artifact. Usually I don't get taken that way.

I absolutely love churches and cathedrals though. Like, disproportionately love them.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 3 Aug 2011, 13:06, Reply)

Let a useless, feckless waste of space move in with me
He lost his job after not bothering to turn up, nor phone in one day, despite having his probation period there extended the week before. He lasted another 3 months before I kicked him out, 1 month before I left.

That was a fucking mistake, I can tell you.

Also, I've dyed my hair red, black-red, blue, black-blue, blond, black and purple. I enjoyed having them at the time, but my hair was so knackered afterwards, I don't dare dye it again.

Alt: Book of Kells, Rosetta Stone, Elgin Marbles, Michelangelo's David, etc.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 12:50, Reply)