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Beards: Manly or Impossible.

Posted on 12/16/2018 4:30:13 PM PST by RoosterRedux

I have had a big bushy gray beard for the last 6 months...my women friends like it (or so they say) and the rest of my friends seem to stand in awe.

It is certainly an expression of an inner self...but what is that inner self saying?

I have learned to groom this bush without the help of barber. I did go to a beard barber once, but he never asked me where I was headed re: my beard.

We need a thread here on FR about beards.

Folks who have never had one cannot know the joy...and the pain.


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1 posted on 12/16/2018 4:30:13 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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In my younger,more foolish days I had a bushy red beard.Fortunately,I changed my mind.Looking back I realize I looked damn silly.

But...different strokes for different folks.

2 posted on 12/16/2018 4:35:45 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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3 posted on 12/16/2018 4:36:28 PM PST by amorphous
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Last year I tried for Hemmingway and got Bad Santa...


4 posted on 12/16/2018 4:36:33 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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I’ll tell you the truth but you have to accept it. Big bushy gray beards don’t look good on anyone. People only say otherwise because they see you’ve invested a lot of time into it and don’t want to offend you.


5 posted on 12/16/2018 4:38:40 PM PST by DouglasKC
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Just 6 months???

n00b!

I’ve grown my beard since 1982!

Should be 8 feet long by now, but I keep it trimmed.


6 posted on 12/16/2018 4:38:53 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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bookmark


7 posted on 12/16/2018 4:41:51 PM PST by GOP Poet
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Santa?


8 posted on 12/16/2018 4:42:27 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Both work at different times. lol
:D


9 posted on 12/16/2018 4:42:41 PM PST by GOP Poet
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I’m not going to beard the question since I don’t have a beard.


10 posted on 12/16/2018 4:45:01 PM PST by Redcitizen (I don't always lurk, but when I do, Freerepublic.)
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I shaved it because the wife said it chaffed. Plus nigh 25 years later it would be white if I grew out it, although the white is just barely reached my sideburns so it’s not apparent yet and would weird if I did have a beard.


11 posted on 12/16/2018 4:45:36 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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Beards good, clean good, but stubble, what, are you assaulting us with needles? ;-)


12 posted on 12/16/2018 4:49:02 PM PST by Bethaneidh
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"Both work at different times. lol"

"Isn't it pretty to think so?"

13 posted on 12/16/2018 4:52:24 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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Wasn’t it Eddie Munster who found bacon in his beard? I’m waiting for that day.


14 posted on 12/16/2018 4:54:47 PM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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I’ve had mine so long I don’t recognize myself without it. Shaved once a few years ago and started it back the next day.


15 posted on 12/16/2018 4:56:37 PM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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16 posted on 12/16/2018 4:57:50 PM PST by golux
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I love beards. But there can be too much. I guess I’m more attracted to the trimmed ones, but guys with thick beards show a certain macho courage, or maybe just a deep devotion to their religion...


17 posted on 12/16/2018 4:59:56 PM PST by Yaelle
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I’ve grown my beard since 1982!

Hmmm. So it's about 36 years old, right?

When I lost mine (this year), it was 50 years old. It sprouted soon after I got an honorable discharge from the USMC in 1968.

So what happened?

Lymphoma materialized in my neck in late March this year. By the time that chemo and radiation had chased the cancer away (according to the oncologists), that lengthy white beard (yes, I used to do Santa!) was gone, along with most of the rest of the hair on my body.

The hair atop my head is back. My moustache and goatee are back, much thicker than they were nine months ago.

But, the place under my left jaw where the radiation entered . . . it's just now beginning to sprout the faintest, wispiest peach fuzz. And, on the opposite side of my face, there are still some blank spots, likely resulting from deflection of radiation in that direction from several dental implants.

The oncologists tell me the beard will return, but more slowly than the hair lost from chemo alone - which returns much faster, and (sometimes) more vigorously than it was when it departed.

18 posted on 12/16/2018 5:00:18 PM PST by Brandybux (Oportet ministros manus lavare antequam latrinam relinquent.)
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Not sure if this is true but I did laugh at the thought


19 posted on 12/16/2018 5:00:41 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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A beard will not hide a queer or hipster

That simple


20 posted on 12/16/2018 5:00:43 PM PST by wardaddy (I don’t care that you’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it won’t matter what yo)
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