Post by: cosine on January 30, 2007, 11:16:09 AM
Post by: doczinn on January 30, 2007, 11:18:04 AM
Post by: Twycross on January 30, 2007, 11:18:19 AM
Post by: El Tejon on January 30, 2007, 11:18:50 AM
Take a bath, shave your face and floss your teeth--you'll get more chicks.
Post by: K Frame on January 30, 2007, 11:20:52 AM
Mtnbkr is clean shaven.
Post by: mtnbkr on January 30, 2007, 11:29:16 AM
I absolutely hate shaving, but I'm too hot natured to wear a beard year round. I shave about every other day now.
Chris
Post by: K Frame on January 30, 2007, 11:34:36 AM
SHUDDER...
Post by: Matthew Carberry on January 30, 2007, 11:36:24 AM
Post by: charby on January 30, 2007, 11:37:08 AM
Normally I have just a El T Monkey Butt moniker which Mrs Charby likes. I usually grow my beard out in early Oct for hunting season, but just kept mine on a little longer this winter. I have a bird hunt in two weeks and probably shave it off shortly after it.
-C
Post by: Eleven Mike on January 30, 2007, 11:38:30 AM
Take a bath, shave your face and floss your teeth--you'll get more chicks.
Some people look better with facial hair.
I've heard many times that people are less likely to trust a bearded man. Can anyone shed some light on that? What about Jesus and everyone else in the Old and New Testaments? What about Santa Claus, Abe Lincoln and about half the "trust-worthy" public figures from the later nineteenth century? Is this just a relic of some post-war ethos that demands everyone be clean-cut and wear a hat, coat and tie?
Post by: Matthew Carberry on January 30, 2007, 11:40:11 AM
Post by: Brad Johnson on January 30, 2007, 11:43:06 AM
Brad
Post by: Sindawe on January 30, 2007, 11:50:34 AM
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It's just jealousy from all the low-testosterone types who can't grow a decent beard.
Yeppers, a fact I realized when mine really started coming in at 15.Growing a beard now, since I've not had one for the past 14 years due to work restrictions then (OHSA related) and only sported either the monkey-butt, Jamie Hyneman style walrus moustache or a long Fu Manchu. If I don't like the beard, its back to the monkey-butt and maybe shave the head since the hair there is going away on its own. *SOB*
Post by: Furious Styles on January 30, 2007, 11:52:12 AM
Post by: wingnutx on January 30, 2007, 11:53:41 AM
I'm not actually capable of growing a beard.
Post by: mtnbkr on January 30, 2007, 11:55:45 AM
Irwin's just scared the princess would use a beard for Tarzan practice.
It's kinda funny when she grabs hold of his. 
Quote from: Eleven Mike
Some people look better with facial hair.
Very true. A friend of mine who has a "weak chin" looks silly without a beard.Chris
Post by: Monkeyleg on January 30, 2007, 12:06:05 PM
I grew mine back in 1994, when my hair loss was becoming more apparent. For whatever reason, I'd gone over a week without shaving, and my wife commented that it looked nice. Then she said, "a lot of guys who lose their hair grow beards." So, I did.
Funny thing is, she now hates it, and says it makes me look older.
Post by: Perd Hapley on January 30, 2007, 12:07:28 PM
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A friend of mine who has a "weak chin" looks silly without a beard.
That's not a nice thing to say. Now go apologize to Mike Irwin. 
Post by: Twycross on January 30, 2007, 12:10:45 PM
I'm clean shaven.
I'm not actually capable of growing a beard.
I'm not actually capable of growing a beard.
I have to admit that that's where I am too. Just hoping that will change in the future.
Post by: stevelyn on January 30, 2007, 12:40:07 PM
Post by: TMM on January 30, 2007, 12:52:54 PM
i plan on a soul patch or goatee[yea, looks aweful on bald guys but i think it would match my looks personality, etc] later if it happens to look good on me.
i'm old fashioned, and i bet i'll be using a straight razor - from what i've seen with the 2-bladers we have here, they don't offer a very close shave, leaving a scratchy scruff, no matter what technique i use [going up, going down, one big stroke, little short overlapping movements, etc].
~tmm
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on January 30, 2007, 01:03:02 PM
So I have full beard. If you can beat 'em, join 'em. I try to keep it neatly trimmed, so that I don't look like a mangy unkempt oaf. That's the plan anyways. I'm not so sure it's a success.
All of you folks who can't grow a beard, count your blessings.
Post by: Jamisjockey on January 30, 2007, 01:22:34 PM
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on January 30, 2007, 01:24:17 PM
beardless, but I only shave 2-3 times a week
I hate people like you...
Post by: Perd Hapley on January 30, 2007, 01:24:27 PM
beardless, but I only shave 2-3 times a week
I was like that in my early twenties, which coincided with active-duty service. Thank God.
Post by: Monkeyleg on January 30, 2007, 01:33:15 PM
I only shave a few times a week, but that's because I work from home. Don't have to leave the house very often.
Post by: Car Knocker on January 30, 2007, 01:34:20 PM
What about Jesus and everyone else in the Old and New Testaments?
Is there any documentation that actually describes Jesus as having a beard or is this just extrapolated from the Jewish Law of the day?
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on January 30, 2007, 01:47:29 PM
What about Jesus and everyone else in the Old and New Testaments?
Is there any documentation that actually describes Jesus as having a beard or is this just extrapolated from the Jewish Law of the day?Post by: Perd Hapley on January 30, 2007, 02:03:23 PM
Is there any documentation that actually describes Jesus as having a beard or is this just extrapolated from the Jewish Law of the day?
I think the point was that Jesus is usually thought of as a bearded man. I believe beards were nearly universal in that culture. Also there is a prophecy in the Psalms, I think, that speaks of his beard being plucked as a form of humiliation.
Post by: Jamisjockey on January 30, 2007, 02:55:32 PM
beardless, but I only shave 2-3 times a week
I hate people like you...Oh, its not that I get scruffed out....its just that since I got out of the Corps in '97 I haven't had an employer that expected one to be shaven if not growing a beard, nor did I have to do any kind of public image thing.....
You probably still hate me though
As a matter of fact, almost all my fishing or mountain bike pics I'm scruffy
Post by: wmenorr67 on January 30, 2007, 03:18:13 PM
Post by: mtnbkr on January 30, 2007, 03:21:43 PM
I think I've used baits larger than that.
Chris
Post by: Jamisjockey on January 30, 2007, 03:25:11 PM
Well isn't that a cute little fish.
I think I've used baits larger than that.
Chris
I think I've used baits larger than that.
Chris
As have I....the thing about that fish that makes it special was that it was caught above 9000', is native, and I'd hiked about 4 or 5 miles above 8,000 to get to that lake.
Post by: mtnbkr on January 30, 2007, 03:35:43 PM
Chris
Post by: K Frame on January 30, 2007, 03:36:14 PM
Irwin's just scared the princess would use a beard for Tarzan practice.
Earth to Carebear...
She's used my mustache for that very thing.
Post by: K Frame on January 30, 2007, 03:38:32 PM
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A friend of mine who has a "weak chin" looks silly without a beard.
That's not a nice thing to say. Now go apologize to Mike Irwin. I've got a lot of things.
But a weak chin isn't one of them.
Post by: Tallpine on January 30, 2007, 03:42:47 PM
Post by: K Frame on January 30, 2007, 03:47:43 PM
Post by: Matthew Carberry on January 30, 2007, 03:54:20 PM
Brute
beardless, but I only shave 2-3 times a week
I hate people like you...Oh, its not that I get scruffed out....its just that since I got out of the Corps in '97 I haven't had an employer that expected one to be shaven if not growing a beard, nor did I have to do any kind of public image thing.....
You probably still hate me though
As a matter of fact, almost all my fishing or mountain bike pics I'm scruffy
Post by: Matthew Carberry on January 30, 2007, 03:55:46 PM
Irwin's just scared the princess would use a beard for Tarzan practice.
Earth to Carebear...
She's used my mustache for that very thing.
Earth to Mike Irwin... I knew that.
Post by: K Frame on January 30, 2007, 03:59:32 PM
Irwin's just scared the princess would use a beard for Tarzan practice.
Earth to Carebear...
She's used my mustache for that very thing.
Earth to Mike Irwin... I knew that.
Then your point was..........
Oh wait, I know. You didn't have one!
Post by: Lee on January 30, 2007, 04:01:06 PM
Post by: roo_ster on January 30, 2007, 04:01:28 PM
My wife likes me clean shaven.
I do, however, come from a line of men who could grow some serious cookie-dusters.
Post by: Perd Hapley on January 30, 2007, 04:32:28 PM
full beard since 1976
Shucks, Grandpa, you're beard's as old as I am.
Post by: CAnnoneer on January 30, 2007, 04:51:31 PM
Post by: Matthew Carberry on January 30, 2007, 06:29:43 PM
Irwin's just scared the princess would use a beard for Tarzan practice.
Earth to Carebear...
She's used my mustache for that very thing.
Earth to Mike Irwin... I knew that.
Then your point was..........
Oh wait, I know. You didn't have one!
Earth to Mike Irwin... I didn't actually know that, I was setting you up to give a line from Zoolander
Post by: Northwoods on January 30, 2007, 06:39:52 PM
I typically shave Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on January 30, 2007, 06:57:55 PM
Regarding Jesus, I think the scripture mentions them plucking his beard out during the crucifixion.
Post by: Mabs2 on January 30, 2007, 08:16:07 PM
I love having a bald face, but the day or two after, especially if I shave off my stache the stubble irritates me pretty badly. I can't shave again because my entire face will bleed and hurt very badly. I can't grow it out because it's itchy, uncomfortable, and I just plain don't like it.
It's a vicious, horribly cycle.
I'm stuck waiting three or so days between electric shaves.
Plus I look like a freaking girl with zero facial hair.
It makes me want to kick puppies.
Post by: Eleven Mike on January 30, 2007, 08:21:34 PM
Irwin's just scared the princess would use a beard for Tarzan practice.
Earth to Carebear...
She's used my mustache for that very thing.
Earth to Mike Irwin... I knew that.
Then your point was..........
Oh wait, I know. You didn't have one!
Earth to Mike Irwin... I didn't actually know that, I was setting you up to give a line from Zoolander
Uh-uh, Matt, I think you DIDN'T have a point, cause you said, "I knew that" as if you DIDN'T know it was a joke!"
Where did I put my Wham album?
Post by: Car Knocker on January 30, 2007, 08:29:46 PM
Electrolysis.
Post by: Strings on January 30, 2007, 09:22:02 PM
And Dick, you do NOT need any help looking older... :neener:
Post by: Monkeyleg on January 30, 2007, 09:50:59 PM
The subject of male facial hair is weird. In the country music world, beards are fairly common. In pop/rock music, beards are less popular. You'd have to go back to the early 1970's to find facial hair being a factor in a band or singer's popularity. It was a phase that came and went. A female friend of ours referred to them as "buffalo men," and she didn't mean to be praiseful.
If you look at the most popular singers of the last few decades, nearly all were clean-shaven. With the exception of the ocassional mustache in the 1940's, most popular male actors have been clean-shaven as well.
I was watching a snippet of "The Godfather" for the 2000th time tonight, and my wife walked in about the time that Sonny (James Caan) was seen wearing just a t-shirt, and all of the hair on his arms and back was visible.
"Eeeeewww," she said, for the 2000th time.
I think that guys worry more about appearing to be macho than women do.
Post by: 280plus on January 31, 2007, 01:34:43 AM
I was bearded from right after boot camp until I REALLY needed a job about 8 years later, they said they'd hire me but I'd have to get rid of the beard. So I shaved it off and then didn't bother to show up for the first day of work.
Clean shaven since, up to and including today, well, after I shave today.
Post by: BryanP on January 31, 2007, 01:59:20 AM
A friend of mine has had a beard for as long as I've known him. I've seen him without it once. He shaved his big bushy beard once on a whim. He took one look in the mirror and said "Yep, I knew there was a reason I grew this beard." He walked in the room and a bunch of us took one look and said "Grow it back. You look like the love child of Captain Kangaroo and Drew Carrey."
Post by: mtnbkr on January 31, 2007, 02:06:06 AM
"See my beard, ain't it wierd, don't be sceered, it's just my beard..."
George Carlin, right? "Spare hair is fair". Chris
Post by: 280plus on January 31, 2007, 02:17:27 AM
The only other part I remember is:
"Lenin had a beard, Uncle Willy had whiskers."
Post by: mtnbkr on January 31, 2007, 02:22:18 AM
I haven't heard that routine in 17 years, btw. Odd the things you remember...
It's frightening that I have memories older than Cosine
Chris
Post by: 280plus on January 31, 2007, 02:31:16 AM
Post by: Mabs2 on January 31, 2007, 06:17:31 AM
mbs357,
Electrolysis.
Considered it.Electrolysis.
Too poor atm.
Post by: Ezekiel on January 31, 2007, 07:49:33 AM
I guess I've looked like this [goatee] since around 1993, save for a few shaves here or there.
With a Kangol cap, cigar and turtleneck under a blazer, I appear totally beatnik. With earrings, a leather jacket and the same cap (backwards), I look way Shaft. In the photo used on this site, I just look constipated.
Post by: Strings on January 31, 2007, 09:11:16 AM
And Dick, just remember: I'll eventually be as old as you are now (and you'll just be that much older)... :neener:
Post by: Ex-MA Hole on January 31, 2007, 09:18:10 AM
Post by: mtnbkr on January 31, 2007, 09:38:02 AM
Quote from: Hunter "nice legs" Rose
Chris, I'm willing to bet most here have shorts older than Cosine
Not me. 18 years ago, I was much smaller than I am now. 3 years ago, I was much larger. Nothing I wear today is older than 5-6yrs.Chris
Post by: cosine on January 31, 2007, 01:13:24 PM
Chris, I'm willing to bet most here have shorts older than Cosine.
Hey!! I am going to be 19 in two weeks, you know!
Post by: Strings on January 31, 2007, 01:38:36 PM
Yep... and I have shorts that are older than you...
Not our fault you're a young punk...
Post by: Monkeyleg on January 31, 2007, 01:47:21 PM
Man, when I was 19, the VietNam war was still raging, Nixon had just been elected a year prior, I had a dial telephone, 45 rpm singles were still being sold, the 8-track tape player had just come out, and there were--gasp--no personal computers. Just big mainframes with a whopping 64K of RAM.
As for shaving, when I was 19 or so, my brother, who was a plastics engineer, had an idea for a plastic, disposable razor. Nothing like it on the market at that time.
Post by: 280plus on January 31, 2007, 04:09:07 PM
Post by: bedlamite on January 31, 2007, 04:59:10 PM
>Hey!! I am going to be 19 in two weeks, you know!<
Yep... and I have shorts that are older than you...
Not our fault you're a young punk...
Yep... and I have shorts that are older than you...
Not our fault you're a young punk...
Apparently they last longer when you wear skirts.
Post by: Tallpine on January 31, 2007, 05:00:46 PM
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Shucks, Grandpa, you're beard's as old as I am.
You durn tootin' - you young whippersnapper!
Post by: Balog on January 31, 2007, 05:14:18 PM
Post by: Perd Hapley on January 31, 2007, 05:15:45 PM
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With earrings, a leather jacket and the same cap (backwards), I look way Shaft.
You wish. I have a natural goatee as well, but it comes in red.
Post by: crt360 on January 31, 2007, 06:40:07 PM
Post by: Strings on January 31, 2007, 07:01:45 PM
Post by: Perd Hapley on February 01, 2007, 03:56:50 AM
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I'm without beard. I've grown one, done the monkeybutt look, and even had Jesus hair (or maybe disciple hair, it was more Warren Haynes looking).
Uh, disciples of uh-Jesus-uh have-uh short-uh hair-uh. Know ye not-uh, my brethren-uh, that-uh the Word of uh-God uh-tells us-uh...that it is a-uh shame-uh for a man-uh to have-uh long hair-uh? Can I get an Amen-uh?!
Brother Brimstone, 2007
Post by: Mabs2 on February 01, 2007, 05:23:46 AM
Better not let you guys learn how old I am. =p
Post by: coat4gun on February 01, 2007, 06:30:57 AM
I can't imagine waisting my time shaving every day. I would rather sleep the extra time...