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Beards & Moustaches

Swifty said:
I do the same thing. I remember my Mum finding men with face fanny's a bit off putting, she reckoned they were probably full of food so I'm careful to keep mine clean.
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I've had a beard and it gets disgusting after two weeks, drinking anything is foul and leaves a stain and a taint.

I'd rather jog 20 miles and then staple my hairy balls onto my face than grow a beard over a week and it would be more hygienic.

Moustaches - Just make you look like a creep or pervert unless you are Charles Bronson.

I recently bought a nice Edwin Jagger safety razor for about 30 quid, (didn't go too expensive as I was new to safety razors), It offers a lovely shave much better than anything Wilkinson or Gillette has to offer with their silly multi-blade nonsense. It has a nice weight to it - you could brain an oxen with it and it looks like a little Mjolnir.

https://www.edwinjagger.co.uk/edwin-jagger-barley-chrome-de-razor.html

The replacement blades work out considerably cheaper too. Yes, it takes slightly longer but the whole point of a good shave is it's supposed to be a pleasurable experience. Something Gillette seems to have forgotten, just get up a little earlier in the morning.


Luckily the whole hipster-beard thing seems to be dying off and hopefully, I'll be dead before the silly beard look comes back into fashion.
 
Naughty_Felid said:
I've had a beard and it gets disgusting after two weeks, drinking anything is foul and leaves a stain and a taint.
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I've had a beard since 1997 and never had any problem. Comb it, wash it every day when you do the rest of your face and it doesn't get nasty, keep the edge along your top lip trimmed and it doesn't touch food or drink.

I can imagine a Strawbridge is difficult to live with though...

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Mocking moustaches can be dangerous.

The Saudi gunman who killed three sailors at a Florida naval base had lodged an official complaint against one of his instructors, reports say.

Mohammed Alshamrani is said to have been "infuriated" after the instructor referred to him using a disparaging nickname in front of 10 other students. The instructor referred Alshamrani has "porn stash", the New York Times reports, quoting communication between people involved in flight training.

"I was infuriated as to why he would say that in front of the class," he is said to have written in his complaint.

The jibe is understood to have suggested his moustache resembled those worn by some porn actors.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695766
 
Should you wish to stay hip with the latest trends in men's facial vanity ... I give you the monkey tail beard!

Here is but one of the illustrative photos to be found at the link below. It shows professional baseball player Mike Fiers, who's credited with popularizing the style.

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Monkey Tail Beard Is The Latest Male Fashion Trend
It’s not easy to be a fashionable man in this day and age when everything changes so fast. Regular boring beard is no longer enough. Now you have to grow monkey tail beard to keep up with the times!
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https://www.sadanduseless.com/monke...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

See Also: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/...-monkey-tail-beard-trend-sweeps-internet.html
 
CarlosTheDJ said:
I've had a beard since 1997 and never had any problem. Comb it, wash it every day when you do the rest of your face and it doesn't get nasty, keep the edge along your top lip trimmed and it doesn't touch food or drink.

I can imagine a Strawbridge is difficult to live with though...

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I used to travel to work (in Scotland) on an Italian moped some twenty-five miles, to work right up in the highlands for work for the Forestry Commission planting trees, ditching etc. Eventually at around the age of twenty-something, I decided it would be advantageous to have a go at growing a beard, mainly to see if it does in fact keep the face warmer. It did. But I never had any Idea that it would eventually turn out to be a full beard of some length, and red. At least it kept out the snow, although I do remember a few icicles in mid-winter freeze-ups, I remember one day in particular, when we all got ushered into a land owners old barn where he had a large fire brazier going so we could get warmed up and eat our sandwiches and hot coffee. "Utter Bliss!"
When after a number of years I left the Forestry, I removed my beard... when two old ladies I'd passed by on a path said they'd mistook me for Prince Charles with a beard!
 
CarlosTheDJ said:
I've had a beard since 1997 and never had any problem. Comb it, wash it every day when you do the rest of your face and it doesn't get nasty, keep the edge along your top lip trimmed and it doesn't touch food or drink.
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The former Mr Snail cultivated a full Amish gob-rug which he didn't maintain at all. No combing or brushing, dunno how often he washed it but I never saw it wet, and there was only lip-trimming when he was in danger of actually choking himself. This was because he disliked shaving.

He seemed to think grooming the beard was effeminate so it was scruffy, straggly and unhygienic.

Earlier in the thread Rynner quoted roughly thusly - 'No man grows a beard if his wife hates it.'

I replied 'My ex did!' :incan:
 
A friend of a friend (yes, I know) who was working at a gas station managed to land a job at IBM. Back then, IBM had a strict no facial hair policy. On his last day at the gas station he shaved off only one side of his beard, and tried to present only one side of his face at a time to customers. One customer who realized the man had a half beard began averting his eyes, as if there was something truly disgusting on his face.
 
ChasFink said:
A friend of a friend (yes, I know) who was working at a gas station managed to land a job at IBM. Back then, IBM had a strict no facial hair policy. On his last day at the gas station he shaved off only one side of his beard, and tried to present only one side of his face at a time to customers. One customer who realized the man had a half beard began averting his eyes, as if there was something truly disgusting on his face.
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Maybe he was averting his eyes from the madman with half a beard! :chuckle:
 
Monkey Tail Beard Is The Latest Male Fashion Trend
It’s not easy to be a fashionable man in this day and age when everything changes so fast. Regular boring beard is no longer enough. Now you have to grow monkey tail beard to keep up with the times!
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You know, I was always disdainful by those who insist on trigger warnings on everything, and safe spaces...But Im reconsidering.
 
escargot said:
The former Mr Snail cultivated a full Amish gob-rug which he didn't maintain at all. No combing or brushing, dunno how often he washed it but I never saw it wet, and there was only lip-trimming when he was in danger of actually choking himself. This was because he disliked shaving...
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Men with beards like this remind me of the seaside. Why? Because the odour I always associate with that particular type of unkempt straggle is one of wet sand saturated with oil and stagnant seawater. I've met several people where this sour and salty odour has been almost overpowering.

I'm not entirely sure that will mean anything to other people. My mum has always had a really acute sense of smell, which I think I've inherited - and we often find odours overpowering that other people appear not to be conscious of - or we find similarities between particular smells that make other people think that we've taken a knock to the head.

We should have been parfumiers or something. It can sometimes make bus journeys a form of torture.
 
Spookdaddy said:
Men with beards like this remind me of the seaside. Why? Because the odour I always associate with that particular type of unkempt straggle is one of wet sand saturated with oil and stagnant seawater. I've met several people where this sour and salty odour has been almost overpowering.

I'm not entirely sure that will mean anything to other people. My mum has always had a really acute sense of smell, which I think I've inherited - and we often find odours overpowering that other people appear not to be conscious of - or we find similarities between particular smells that make other people think that we've taken a knock to the head.

We should have been parfumiers or something. It can sometimes make bus journeys a form of torture.
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My old dear reckons she can smell all sorts of odd things, including a particular odour around a man who has just had sex! o_O

I'm sort of glad I didn't know this back in the days when I was taking new boyfriends home to meet her.
 
I have a beard. Due to lockdown it is the biggest beard I have ever had.
I suffer in winter with SAD so tell peeps it is to keep the cold off whilst standing on a windy winter train platform, but really I don’t have the energy to shave in the morning so my beard starts in October and goes before my birthday in March

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I grow in summer and shave in winter - mainly as some kind of prophylactic against skin cancers down here.

There is some suggestion now, that it isn't sunlight that causes skin cancers though. The last two I had removed were both in places that rarely received direct sunlight.
 
RE: the monkey tail, there's a comedy with Luis Guzman playing a supporting character who has his beard and moustache shaved into a big question mark, and I'll be darned if I can remember what it was.
 
As I understand it, the need for gas masks was what killed off beards in the military/society. I wonder if covid face masks might do the same.
 
Mungoman said:
There is some suggestion now, that it isn't sunlight that causes skin cancers though. The last two I had removed were both in places that rarely received direct sunlight.
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We won't be requiring any evidence, thank you. :chuckle:
 
I’ve had a beard and tash for the last couple of years and like Carlos says wash it trim it and keep it neat no problem.
But also the beloved missus likes it so it’s stayed.It’s the eye brows that I have trouble with a right pair of dennis healys they are.I’m sure they go out on a night with the cat.
 
Xanatic* said:
As I understand it, the need for gas masks was what killed off beards in the military/society. I wonder if covid face masks might do the same.
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Don't know about beards but are very handy for going to shop without a shave!
 
Xanatic* said:
As I understand it, the need for gas masks was what killed off beards in the military/society. I wonder if covid face masks might do the same.
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In the construction industry it is a requirement that those requiring a dust mask are clean shaven. Respirable dust is so small it can slip through a gap between the mask and the skin created by a beard or stubble. It causes problems with the likes of Sikhs who have to wear a hood when undertaking dusty works.
The site guys also have to have a face fit test to prove that the masks adequately fit their faces as not all masks fit all faces. It is such a big issue within the industry that I have banned the use of disposable paper masks and require companies to spend a few quid and buy half masks.

Work related ill health kills way way more construction workers than accidents do.
 
Tempest63 said:
In the construction industry it is a requirement that those requiring a dust mask are clean shaven. Respirable dust is so small it can slip through a gap between the mask and the skin created by a beard or stubble. It causes problems with the likes of Sikhs who have to wear a hood when undertaking dusty works.
The site guys also have to have a face fit test to prove that the masks adequately fit their faces as not all masks fit all faces. It is such a big issue within the industry that I have banned the use of disposable paper masks and require companies to spend a few quid and buy half masks.

Work related ill health kills way way more construction workers than accidents do.
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Yep! I'm only 67 (Quiet down the back!!), but it takes me a good ten minutes to become mobile of a morning when getting out of bed.

It's feet, (I can here my Dad now -'look after your feet Son'), lower back and knees...as of late, forming a fist is quite painful

Thank the Gods we've gone from 'occupational hazard', to 'repetitive strain injury'.
 
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