Are you a beardist? (BE SENSITIVE ALERT)

BBC News ^ | November 18, 2002 | BBC News

[MadIvan]

I have a beard. I am really laughing at this. I hope that they aren't taking it seriously. I mean, I really hope they aren't taking it seriously! ;)

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[sheik yerbouty]

"A beard is the glory of its face."

[sauropod]

Wonder what the response of the BLF would have been to
the bearded lady at the carnival?

[Paul Atreides]

Does EVERYONE have some sort of fringe group, accompanied by a gripe?

[wimpycat]

The oppressed and subjugated Bearded Collies.

[MadIvan]

Does EVERYONE have some sort of fringe group, accompanied by a gripe?

Hitherto I wasn't even aware I was part of a fringe group. ;)

But I guess I am now - I have a beard, and I'm proud!

Regards, Ivan

[areafiftyone]

My boyfriend tries to grow a beard (uses the excuse that in the winter it keeps himm warm but that is a bunch of bull) but I won't let him. I keep tell him he looks like a homeless person or Moses or Bin Laden and that turns him off of it. I get grossed out by it because when they eat it looks sooooo disgusting.

[Dog Gone]

I used to grow a beard for hunting season every fall. In the late 80s, I decided to keep it. I don't even think about it anymore.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Yes. I myself am founder of the Bronzed Adonis Liberation Front. My people have been horribly oppressed.

[Paul Atreides]

I wasn't referring to you as being a fringe group, just for having a beard. It seems that every time we turn around, there is some group, claiming to speak for everyone, being offended or worried over something.

FWIW, I used to have a beard, as well.

[general_re]

Does EVERYONE have some sort of fringe group, accompanied by a gripe?

Yes.

[BikerNYC]

Does a goatee count?

[MadIvan]

I myself am founder of the Bronzed Adonis Liberation Front

Is that affiliated with Narcissists United? I heard they disbanded after all the members just wanted to make speeches about themselves. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[HELLRAISER II]

I have a beard & it's alway's trimmed & neat, currently it's just a Goatee. Only slobs let food get in their beard, maybe he needs to work on his eating habit's more than his grooming habit's.

[Desdemona]

My boyfriend tries to grow a beard (uses the excuse that in the winter it keeps himm warm but that is a bunch of bull)

I have a cousin who is an iron-worker and grows his out for exactly that reason every winter. At least until his youngest was born, and he was afraid he would scare her. I doubt anything would scare that kid.

[MadIvan]

I wasn't referring to you as being a fringe group, just for having a beard.

Don't worry. I'm very amused by all of this - I've never been an oppressed minority before. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

I have to trim my beard every other day - do that and he shouldn't have a problem.

Regards, Ivan

[wimpycat]

Hey, I'm a fan of ZZ Top and all, but would buy a sandwich from them? Hell no, not without a hairnet!

[DainBramage]

"A beard in hand is worth two in the bush."