Posted on 08/14/2018 9:51:50 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
It's tempting to think of the beard as a kind of "return to our ancestral roots" (ironic), but it's not quite as simple as that. Don't kid yourself, hairy paleo diet dude who just can't squeeze a shave between CrossFit sessions. Cavemen plucked their beards with clam shells, Little Mermaid-style, exhibiting a degree of care and attention that so many men today seem happy to dismiss. Men throughout the ages have oscillated between beard-having and not-having, from Alexander the Great's shaven soldiers, to the bushy-chinned Victorians.
If the men in my life are anything to go by, there are several stages to a man's beard-having. The first is Beard Anticipation. "I think," he says, caressing his chin thoughtfully, "I might grow a beard." To be honest, I reckon this is actually the second stage. He's already decided to do it, and now he's canvassing opinion. In every instance, I respond with sensitivity (mine): "Please don't grow an effing beard."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
“They have the most recognized beards in the United States.”
... Frank Beard. Life is funny sometimes.
I started with a variety pack just to see what worked for me and settled on the Derby blades:
The brush I picked up was fairly simple:
Then I picked up a mug and soap, which weren't that expensive either. I got a shaving stand ($15) for Christmas one year as a gift.
I know I entered into this on the low-end price wise but it's been working out for me. I think in total, I have spent about $50-$60 in supplies over the last 2-3 years on shaving, most of which was the initial investment. With prices today that is about 2 dozen Gillette Fusion blades which is what I used to use.
Of course, like any hobby, the sky is the limit to how much you potentially can spend. I've seen brushes alone that can go for well over $100.
I found a sub-Reddit devoted to this hobby called Wicked Edge which has been quite interesting. Some people are able to find vintage razors on eBay, estate sales, or even goodwill/thrift shops and they are still compatible with the modern blades.
I get a far better shave with less irritation and far less cost and it makes my wife happy, the most important factor. :)
Thanks for enlightening me. If I caught kids taking pics of "my" Seal team members or "my" Marine snipers, I'd have them "shot on sight," unless, of course, I could do it myself!
I didn’t know that. Ok, I’ll give the actor some props.
Lol! No one knows what women want like Wolf “find me more hillary votes” Blitzer.
Full Disclosure - I've been clean shaven for seven decades and crew cut for four.
I have no idea why women are attracted to beards.
LOL - which might explain why I currently live alone!
LEARN HOW TO CHANGE A TIRE.
>Jesus had a beard, so no problem.
Yeah, but look what happened to him.
I like long hair on some men, if it’s clean and well trimmed. But guys, if you’re balding - and especially balding and grey - don’t wear what you’ve got left in a squiggly little pony tail or floating around your neck. You look stupid!
I’ve only encountered a couple of men who could get away with that - academics of Emeritus status who were so damn brilliant nobody cared how eccentric or funny looking they were.
One of my heroes, Irving Finkel of the British Museum, has it all goin’ on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHjznvH54Cw
Why don’t you grow one and see what happens?
I looked it up, and it was J.E.B. Stuart. From his Wikipedia page:
Stuart was a popular student and was happy at the [United States Military] Academy. Although not handsome in his teen years, his classmates called him by the nickname “Beauty”, which they described as his “personal comeliness in inverse ratio to the term employed.”[11] He possessed a chin “so short and retiring as positively to disfigure his otherwise fine countenance.” He quickly grew a beard after graduation and a fellow officer remarked that he was “the only man he ever saw that [a] beard improved.”[12]
In hindsight, it should have been obvious that it was Stuart, not Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, that ironically was nicknamed “Beauty” because of his lack of chin. I think that Jackson popped into my mind because the NY Giants had a star shortstop from the mid-1920s into the 1930s named Travis “Stonewall” Jackson (so nicknamed because he “stopped ground balls like a stone wall” and, of course, because his last name was Jackson), and the shortstop that he replaced on the Giants was an even better one, Dave Bancroft, who was nicknamed “Beauty” because of his defensive prowess. I guess that I conflated the two nicknames in my mind and thought that General Stonewall Jackson might have been the one that grew a bushy beard to cover up a weak chin.
I grew it out in college for about a month.
I had light brown hair with blond streaks at the time. My cheeks, jawline, and neck grew in heavy and completely black, but my mustache grew in sparsely and almost completely white, and was almost invisible from a couple feet away, so I thought the beard looked ridiculous.
My girlfriend kind of liked it, but, for me, kissing with it was a dreadful experience, so I shaved it off, and never looked back.
We change physically as we age in all sorts of ways, and not all of them for the worse. You might like the way you look with it, now...
I try to take them on a case-by-case basis, but when I see a pear-shaped leftist with them...it's a no-go.
I thought this was a pretty funny commercial (My wife was the one who sent it to me!): Laser Vision Turkey Carver Cuts Man Bun!
Not too long ago I saw just that. I missed the beginning so Im not sure about the character. It is either Most Interesting Memories of Most interesting Guy, Most Interesting Jr, or Most Interesting Reboot Man, Im not sure which it is but hes being Interesting in the commercial
I think goatees look pretty cool on the right face. I sported one for a few days after letting my beard grow out for a month or two, but it doesn’t look good on me because I banged my chin on the floor and the hair all grew in white there.
I was playing dodgeball, laying on my stomach on the floor, and a guy flung the ball right at my head as I looked up and I involuntarily ducked hitting my chin on the hardwood floor and splitting it open. It isn’t a good look when it grows in, it just looks odd.
I like seeing some guys with a goatee, it really gives a cool look.
I never could grow any fondness for the “thin beard” look, where someone shaves the beard into a relatively narrow path from the ear to the chin. There is something wrong with it in my mind, but, as I said...some guys can carry just about anything.
The entire beard is white now.
I still have a nice body (life long runner), but I have a very modest retirement income, which means I am lady-fishing in very small pond!
I was playing dodgeball, laying on my stomach on the floor, and a guy flung the ball right at my head as I looked up and I involuntarily ducked hitting my chin on the hardwood floor and splitting it open. It isn’t a good look when it grows in, it just looks odd.
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dye it.
My daughter’s Barbies dated GI Joes and a Hunter Jim(?). Even then they knew that Ken had fruit in his pants.
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