Hahahahaha...I think of those times in the Navy after I got out of Boot Camp and went to my “A” School in Memphis, TN. (NATTC Memphis)
We were still having inspections, and we had to get hair cuts. So, the night before, in the barracks, there were guys giving out hair cuts for those who hadn’t had them in advance.
We had this one big guy, whose face in my mind resembled the face of the big guy in Full Metal Jacket, but he wasn’t a chubby guy like that, he was just big, and he had a beard.
Well, we were all trashed, watching this guy get his hair cut, and the guy doing the cutting was screwing it up. Every time he screwed it up, he went higher trying to fix it, and after a while, what started out funny began to seem kind of...hazardous. None of us knew this big guy that well, and he was pretty drunk.
Those of us watching began to wonder if, each time he looked at his hair after another attempt to “fix” it, he was going to blow his top and beat up the guy cutting his hair, who was clearly getting nervous about it.
And with each attempt at fixing it, his hair looked more and more outlandish and bizarre until the big guy realized it was beyond fixing and said “Just take it all off.”
When the amateur barber did so, the combination of the boot camp style buzz cut and the remaining beard on his face, combined with his weird looking face and huge size, made him look nearly demonic! But...he didn’t beat the guy up.
When we were inspected the next morning, I must not have been the only person who thought his appearance looked quite odd, because he was put on report.
In retrospect, he would have been fine if he had shaved that beard off! Leaving it intact with all his hair gone gave him a distinctly barbaric or satanic look!
The way a lot of guys look these days.