Worm boy

I met you and Jonny on Thursday (!!!!!), I just wanted to thank you so much for signing my jacket & being so cool about it (I had colourful hair & gave you the notebook & pins). I’m 15 and only go to Manchester once or twice a year from where I come from (very small town) so I was super nervous just to be in the city, let alone meeting you guys!!

All that to say sorry about how awkward I was, I don’t think I’ll ever be used to these kinds of interactions!

I had a question I wanted to ask for months, and it’s dumb, unrelated to everything you do. And I forgot, because ofcourse I did. But I wanted to ask the chicken question. It is to be pondered.

In a world where chickens grew hair like humans (imagine a chicken with an Elvis Presley up-do), do you think that the fact they’re gyroscopic would make it easier or harder to give them haircuts?

I occasionally trawl older questions I didn't get time for first go round and see what jumps out at me. I read this question and thought: "What a stupid question, obviously it would be easier!" Then I paused. Then I thought about it. Then I really thought about it. Then I finally came back to my original answer but via a much longer and involved thought process than I was expecting so... kudos. Good question. I think it comes down to the fact that they are still chickens. You can't ask them to put their head down or look left or up or whatever because they're chickens. They don't understand you and they don't want their hair cut. That means ultimately it hits the same territory as sheep sheering and an animal that doesn't randomly jerk their head is going to be much easier to deal with. After all, people train on mannequins for a while at barber college so really it would just be like giving a hair cut for a teeny ,tiny self-stabilising, mannequin that has a beak and an attitude problem.