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.
bfl
Joy and pain.
Never heard it phrased in such a way. Had a GF back in the day that seemed to like it. Kinda nice having her caress the face going to sleep. But it wasn’t a Duck Dynasty kind of beard. I kept it trimmed.
Now days it grows in more grey. Sigh. Hey, at least it’s not falling out. That’s a plus. Wish I could say the same for the rest of my hair.
The beard will rise again?
Whoa, you look way better without the beard. You are very handsome (without the beard).
LOL, my wife never appreciated the beard, but...she had to put up with decades of stubble so...I am guessing the beard was preferable to THAT!
Thank you for saying so...I admit that being cleanly showered and shaved is a great feeling for me...I feel like I could conquer the world (at least until I step out into it!)
I grew up in a military environment, back when beards were discouraged in the military, though I think they let them grow now. I disagree with that, but I will say, those Special Forces guys do look bad-ass with their beards!
first a thread about viagra and now a thread about beards....next up a thread about the best trusses....
Stupid
I last shaved in the spring of 1975. I trim the beard fairly short maybe three times a year and the mustache somewhat more often. Sometimes I consider trying to grow a long Civil War general type of beard, but it always gets annoying on windy days when it gets a few inches long.
I grew a beard in high school and shaved it off the night before heading to Army boot camp, knowing I would not be able to have a beard for a long time. I have a mustache now and have had a mustache for my 24 year marriage, cut it off one time, wife said she felt like she was sleeping with another man, longest 2 weeks I have EVER had, wont be doing that again. :)
Should be 8 feet long by now, but I keep it trimmed.
Had mine since '74.
It never gets much longer than the bottom of my welding helmet.
Stubble is better than a beard any day.
I think men with beards look like they are either walking around with a small house pet on their face or a really bushy pussy.
I hated Paul Ryan’s beard. He looked bad, dirty.
My opinion is that the fashion of perpetual stubble is asinine. Makes everyone look like a wino.
Grow a beard or shave, but pick one and stay with it.
May you enjoy continued good health...
Woot! Woot!
I'm still flabbergasted sometimes at our "prospects" medically. My grandparents would have thought it pure magic.
It is absolutely amazing. I still haven’t told my dad that it was lymphoma. He, and I for that matter, grew up thinking that most cancer, especially blood cancers are always fatal. That isn’t true any more. Praise God! I had just gotten used to the thought I had cancer when suddenly I didn’t have cancer. Weird.
Itchy, constantly in the way, catches on everything, dirty, annoying.
Those are the FEATURES.
Grown a few, absolutely HATED them, with all my being I hated them.
Not overly fond of mustaches either, but completely ABHOR beards.
Besides, they make one look like a moon-worshipper if of reasonable length, and one looks completely unkempt when a beard is kept short.
Nope, don’t like ‘em. At all.
You like yours, I’m happy for you.
Blunt and to the point, FRiend. Thank you.
Twenty-something dudes with beards look like idiots, for the most part.
I read somebody opine somewhere that “you gotta earn that beard.” This appeals to me. Beards are symbols of maturity, male authority, and patriarchal wisdom.
Your grandpa probably looks distinguished with a full beard. Your collegian nephew probably looks like a soy boy.
I agree that facial hair should be kept neat, although this does not necessarily require the services of a barber.
My personal preferences are all over the map, mainly because I act in a lot of community theater shows and my facial hair comes and goes depending on the part.
I had a neatly trimmed moustache for the comedy I did in early November, then quickly grew a Hemingway-style beard for the Christmas pageant I finished last weekend. Next up, I will have to be clean-shaven to play a clergyman early next year.
My conclusion — anything works as long as it’s kept neat.
However, there is one style I don’t much care for — moustache and goatee. You don’t get much of a break from shaving, and the general look gives me the feeling that “this dude is trying too hard to look cool and impress the ladies.”
The paradox of masculine style is that you should never look like you’re trying too hard.
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