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.
But...different strokes for different folks.
Last year I tried for Hemmingway and got Bad Santa...
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.
Just 6 months???
n00b!
I’ve grown my beard since 1982!
Should be 8 feet long by now, but I keep it trimmed.
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Santa?
Both work at different times. lol
:D
I’m not going to beard the question since I don’t have a beard.
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.
Beards good, clean good, but stubble, what, are you assaulting us with needles? ;-)
"Isn't it pretty to think so?"
Wasn’t it Eddie Munster who found bacon in his beard? I’m waiting for that day.
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.
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...
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.
A beard will not hide a queer or hipster
That simple
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