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."
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Less bacteria.
Frankly, Fernando and the Most Interesting Man sound like they could have infected half of Hollywood with stds.
I remember having a conversation with someone at work about Tiger Woods and I referred to him as “the human Petri dish”. I agree with you.
Hehehe...never crossed my mind...course, now my whole head and face are shaved, so...that ship has sailed for me.
I don’t think I could carry the bald head and full beard thing (The Barbarian Look) though I did have a woman tell me I looked like the guy in Breaking Bad, though I have never seen it!
LOL, and the older we get, we start getting it on the inside growing out as well (ears and nose)
I guess if that is all I have to worry about...:)
Heh, no, no, no...it wasn’t his BEARD that looked odd!
I think they make tools for that.....:-)
LOL!
I remember a song “I’m Hip” where the guy sings, “I’m hip, but not weird; as you can see I don’t grow a beard . . .”
Yeah, a freaking hedge trimmer!
Even big jobs are often better done delicately.
G’Nite!
I like my beard and I’m keeping it.
If feminazis have a problem with it, eff off!
There are worse fhings in life than hirsute men.
They hate men, period.
Hysteria over a beard is merely a symptom not the real reason such people are perpetually offended over the existence of men.
There is a difference between “men with beards” and “beardos.” Beardos are the weirdos she describes. Men with beards are fine.
One takes his chances every day.
Corinthian Leather
Young pups ‘comment’ on my LACK of hair, and I tell them...
“Men only have so many male hormones.
If you want to use then to grow hair; go right ahead.”
Did you ask WHICH guy?
... hirsute women.
LOL, I had to look at the characters, and it is sometimes hard to see your physical appearance as others do, but it wasn’t hard to figure out which one she meant...:)
We all laugh about it...sometimes I threaten to grow it back.
I am your mommas pimp and she just paid me with your unemployment check. But I'm not gonna worry about shes so ugly she got no customers since you ain't getting a job anyways if you stink as bad as your jokes. Lol
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