Beards - are they evil?

Beard or not?

  • Yes I am a proud beardy, hear me roar!

    Votes: 15 33.3%

  • I am a former beardy, but no longer

    Votes: 5 11.1%

  • I will not countenance growing a beard!

    Votes: 12 26.7%

  • I am not able to grow a beard

    Votes: 13 28.9%
  • Total voters
    45
john eden

john eden

male pale and stale
I only ever grew a beard once, to see what it was like.

To be frank with you all I really don't think it suited me.

Whilst I have some sympathy for the great tradition of beards and revolutionary politics (something the left of today could consider reviving, perhaps?) I'm not overly keen on them.

How about you?

Do you feel that the contribution of beardy geezers to music/politics/world culture has been good or bad overall?

Is there a hipster beard?

Have you ever been hugged by a DJ who had a beard, and if so how was it?
 
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mos dan

mos dan

fact music
john eden said:
Or are they lazy fuckers who can't be arsed to shave?
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this frequently describes me, i can never be arsed to shave. i never let it get to beard length though, i'm not big fan.

my former housemate's dad had a beard for about 20 years. then last year without warning shaved it off, and so when my housemate was confronted with his beardless dad for the first time, he found it quite seriously traumatising.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
mos dan said:
my former housemate's dad had a beard for about 20 years. then last year without warning shaved it off, and so when my housemate was confronted with his beardless dad for the first time, he found it quite seriously traumatising.
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There's clearly a psychoanalysis PhD waiting to be written about this. :cool:

I image the lower half of the guy's face was noticeably paler than the rest of it, which must have looked a bit weird.
 
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Pestario

tell your friends
Proper beards on people who can grow them and are kept in good shape are great.

Patchy beards on teenagers, young twenty somethings and other beard-challenged types are wrong.
 
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3 Body No Problem

Well-known member
Pestario said:
Patchy beards on teenagers, young twenty somethings and other beard-challenged types are wrong.
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Nah mate, it's the fluffy patch beards that are sexy, because the connote both, that interesting phase of youthful irrational exuberance of youth, and also the strength of adult manhood.
 
Grievous Angel

Grievous Angel

Beast of Burden
I have a beard at the moment. It is looking ok cos it has loads of grey in it
:cool:
will probably come off soon, though I am tempted to keep a neatish one. think I might need sightly shorter hair to carry it off.

I had a very nice goatee back in 95-99, suited me.

I can see you with a beard john - it just might take you six months to grow it!
 
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droid

Guest
Grievous Angel said:
I have a beard at the moment. It is looking ok cos it has loads of grey in it
:cool:
will probably come off soon, though I am tempted to keep a neatish one. think I might need sightly shorter hair to carry it off.

I had a very nice goatee back in 95-99, suited me.

I can see you with a beard john - it just might take you six months to grow it!
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Maybe then you'd let him give you a hug?
 
Dusty

Dusty

Tone deaf
I have a beard, primarily because I started out being too lazy to keep shaving and designer stubble slowly turned into a permanent feature. However I have sensitive skin and shaving usually ends up with a painful raw neck as a result.

I recently shaved it off after my girlfriend at the time kept dropping unsubtle hints that she preferred clean shaven men. But when I saw myself facially bare in the mirror for the first time in a year I realised that I looked like a complete twat. This was confirmed when I visited my parents and my mother looked really unhappy that it had gone, she must have thought I looked like a twat as well - so it is back.

Mother overriding girlfriends opinion? Analyse that.
 
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Chris

fractured oscillations
I was raised in that beardy, bluegrass-and-CSN&Y, "c'mon kids lets go on a road trip to Arizona and hike the canyons for five days!" kind of universe so it generally have an affection for it.

That said, 'valways had my hair on the long-ish side, ever since I was really young, but I think I prefer myself without a beard for now. I'm pretty damn blonde so I have to grow it out a bit for it to look like more than just scruff. I'll probably grow a beard though when, or if, I make it to be some old dude living out somewhere in the country up north or in Germany.
 
Dusty

Dusty

Tone deaf
Unlucky, I'm assuming that is a one-way process and the hair never grows back in affected regions?
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Dusty said:
Unlucky, I'm assuming that is a one-way process and the hair never grows back in affected regions?
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Apparently in about 50% of cases it grows back within a year, and in 90% of cases it eventually grows back at some point. So here's hoping. I think it's just stress (the phantom pandemic of the modern age, yeah yeah... ;)) as I've got to hand in my thesis pretty soon and my girlfriend's been ill and stuff - also it's an autoimmune thing, and I get hay fever pretty badly, so it sort of fits.

Sorry, this is getting a bit emo! There are kids starving in Africa, etc. etc.
 
STN

STN

sou'wester
john eden said:
I only ever grew a beard once, to see what it was like.

To be frank with you all I really don't think it suited me.
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No, I can imagine.

john eden said:
Whilst I have some sympathy for the great tradition of beards and revolutionary politics (something the left of today could consider reviving, perhaps?) I'm not overly keen on them.
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john eden said:
Do you feel that the contribution of beardy geezers to music/politics/world culture has been good or bad overall?
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Good beardies: Robert Wyatt, Evan Parker, Burning Spear, me
Bad beardies: Osama Bin Laden, Alan Ginsberg
Good non-beardies: John Cowper Powys, Angela Carter

Beardies win!

john eden said:
Have you ever been hugged by a DJ who had a beard, and if so how was it?
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I have hugged myself. It was nice, thank you.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
You missed the best beardy of all:

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STN said:
I have hugged myself. It was nice, thank you.
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Were you also gently rocking backwards and forwards and telling yourself everything was OK? I find that's how to get the best out of a self-hug.
 
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droid

Guest
Heh.

The thing about beards is the ageing factor. Useful maybe for the likes of Ben UFO, but not so good for some of the antiques around here.

Case in point:

Ronnie Drew 1966 (RIP)

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Ronnie Drew 2007

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On the other hand, if you want that 'permanently geriatric' look...
 
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