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To beard or not to beard

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ibis the being

16:46 / 11.10.05

I agree wrt the soul patch, Anna.

I think that Calculating Beard is pretty sex-ayy.

Axolotl

As I approach the 2 month period of beardedness I have to say I'm definitely enjoying it. Not having to shave is a big bonus, but I have also been pleasantly surprised by how enjoyable the actual tactility of the beard is. You can stroke it & twiddle it, smooth down your 'tache and generally use it as an aid to thought.
Disconcertingly it is extremely ginger which is strangely at odds with my general colouring. I've still no idea if I am improved aesthetically by it, but I think I will stick with it for a while.
I am unfortunately unable to provide pictures for your edification, so you will have to be content with picturing me as some kind of disembodied beard without a context.

Char Aina

15:17 / 21.11.05

you have a beard?
man, we need to have pints so i can see this in action.
i recently shaved mine off, so if we do it before it grows back it'll be like the twilight zone or some shit.

Rev. Jesse

16:43 / 21.11.05

Personally, I have mutton chops. Put me in an ascot with a high collar and I look like Thomas Jefferson.

Char Aina

16:58 / 21.11.05

i think you should get the moustache that goes with those.

nothing says "hell yeah!" like a hairy w on yer face.

electric monk

17:20 / 21.11.05

Anna - On the other hand, there is just NO EXCUSE for the soul patch. EVER.

My pointy chin-shrubbery is absolutely crushed now. And CRYING.

electric monk

17:52 / 21.11.05

It's feeling better now. I think it still misses the days when it was a full-on goatee and made me look like a young Gerald Gardner.

Markle Sparkle

14:29 / 16.02.06

Before (yesterday):

After (just now):

I feel a bit naked. You can't see it but I had something of a hispter mullet in that first shot - I've had it for the past year. Had the beard for about six months too.

The walk to the bus this morning was cold and unpleasant.

Spaniel

15:13 / 16.02.06

Are beards (not *spit* goatees) as trendy in the US as they are in the UK these days?

Markle Sparkle

16:49 / 16.02.06

yes.

Spaniel

16:54 / 16.02.06

Thought so.

I resent the fact that I am, under no circumstances, allowed to grow a beard. The reasons for this are twofold. Firstly, my SO has made it clear that kissing teh beard is not amongst her favourite pastimes, and, secondly, my twin brother has one.

Balls. I hate shaving.

Triplets

17:03 / 16.02.06

Pics of Beardurance, plz.

Triplets

17:03 / 16.02.06

Or just one of you, baldy face. I'll get a marker.

Axolotl

17:20 / 16.02.06

As an experiment my mighty beard has been trimmed to a hadow of its former self: I am currently goateed.

I don't like it and I want my beard back.

Goatees, pft

goatees: Urgh.

Bard has a few beardy photos of me, I think. He can post them if he likes.

Ganesh

22:57 / 16.02.06

My bearded face, yesterday (well, work Christmas do). Not crying.

Spaniel

05:56 / 17.02.06

I think I can see some tears dripping from that beard.

'Sokay. 'Sokay for beards to be sad.

BlueMeanie

12:44 / 17.02.06

I've regrown by goatee*, and I am inclined to think that Barbelith is less than innocent in this matter.

*pfft!

Spaniel

15:08 / 17.02.06

Barbelith sure isn't. I (and a small cabal of the sane) sure am.

The Natural Way

16:41 / 17.02.06

A MAN BELONGS TO THIS GOATEELESS CABAL

Loomis

17:32 / 17.02.06

My secret beard is crying because it wants to be let out.

I had a beard (and long hair) for years when I was a spotty student but both have been banished ever since. Now I'm relapsing. But the problem is that it doesn't grow properly in patches either side of my chin (just outside goatee range). I didn't mind the straggly student beard combover when I was young and straggly myself, but I just don't think I can deal with it now.

I am crying beardy tears, or is that teary beards.

Sebastian Kant

17:35 / 17.02.06

I have at least two more inches on mine since this photograph was taken and I wax it to a point these days.

The Natural Way

18:04 / 17.02.06

Scraggy beards are all very well and good, but, as Nuneaton Savage reliably informs me, I have an Argonaut's beard. Argonaut's beards are easily the most exciting.

Loomis

18:13 / 17.02.06

What exactly is an argonaut beard? Lots of little curls like on Greek statues? I always wondered whether the ancient Greeks really had beards with such tight little curls. I think they carried little pots of beard wax with them wherever they went.

The Natural Way

18:45 / 17.02.06

A tightly groomed, but very dark and hairy beard. A beard that ends where the neck begins. A beautiful beard.

Spaniel

09:55 / 18.02.06

I want an argonaut's beard (that is crying).

Mourne Kransky

09:58 / 18.02.06

I want an argonaut (that is crying).

Jawsus-son Starship

11:10 / 18.02.06

My local council-man and co-worker David Neighbour ran his entire campaign based on his moustache (and other, less well rounded or important policies), but since coming to power has traded up for a beard, turning his back on his core demographic.

The question that arrises from this incident is: Should we only allow men to run for office if they have achieved facial hair? The Womens can do what they want.

Sauron

14:31 / 18.02.06

Full Beard - yes

Trendy facial trimming - no

Mourne Kransky

14:46 / 18.02.06

Sauron, that's not a beard. It's your lower eyelash.

Sauron

14:52 / 18.02.06

Yeah, I suppose I have a sort of 'eye- goatee'.

God damn hypocrite...

Slate

07:37 / 31.07.06

Hey Zorro, how's the beardness going? You said you were ginger? As ginger as this? I have had it for a year and a half now... I have ups and downs with it, sometimes standing in front of the mirror with the electric shaver going, looking at it and thinking ginger.. Ginger..... GINGER!!!

Ender

23:29 / 31.07.06

How are beards thought of in the professional market in England?

I have been asked to shave mine from time to time while working in the US.

My current job, as a reporter at a weekly paper, has a rule prohibiting long beards (I interview county commissioners and mayors often).

I think that the beard has gotten a bad rap.

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