Beard Respect

#manchew

 

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theres a name for people without beards...

women

 

I always kept a beard. Lifeguarding for years it provided great protection. I've just always felt comfortable with one. I kept it and my hair non hipster. I now have to shave every day and I hate it. The day I can grow one again I will. It's not really that complicated or trendy and I hate the beard movement. It's just facial hair and a preferenece. The whole freaking world lives like they're the star of a show and everyone cares. Blech.

 

“Everyone wants to wear a beard and a flannel, but no one wants to swing the ax.”
-J.U 2009

 

Tell me about it. They're ****in nasty sometimes. I always joke when I see a really long one, about how he's probably got what he ate for dinner two nights ago in there!

And when they get long enough, they start to smell and they wind up feeling dirty after just a few hours of getting out of the shower.

 

It's just another part of the much bigger #lookatme movement

 

Word. Iv had a beard since i could grow one back in high school. Long before it was trendy. I don't have a job that makes me shave, and i hate shaving. So i grow it out. Then it gets grizzly and i trim it back when i cut my hair, which i do myself, then repeat. I don't style it or shape it up or anything. I don't touch it till my moustache hair starts getting stuck in my teeth.

People come up to me allot and ask me about it and i find it kinda annoying. Dudes telling me my beard is looking good or whatever. It's weird. Just let me be. I'm too lazy and hairy to shave regularly. Its not a fashion statement. I had one before it was cool and will when it's no longer cool.

Its trendy now therefore anyone with a beard is being trendy.....i don't get the logic.

 

Beards are like tattoos... they change their "meaning" from generation to generation. Live long enough and everything comes around.

 

beards are the new mullet

 

Ah ha! Yes I do, good sir.

 

I once had a boss who had a beard, for years, and he was a big guy and loud and aggro. One day he shaved it, and he looked like a chipmonk. My roomate and fellow employee Jim and I both told him we couldn't work for him anymore unless he grew his beard back, He did. Some people look good in a beard.

I couldn't grow a decent one until maybe 25, then I looked too Al Pacino scarface, now I'd look homeless. Plus the food thing, I'm a slob, so it would make things much worse. Plus my hair looks like Frank Sinatra's. Some old lady told me that in the grocery store the other day. I don't need no stinkin' beard. Plus it's too damn hot down here.

 

Anyone here know Smitty the shaper at Nomad Surf Shop in Briny Breezes? Archtypical mad genius. Has a full on Unibomber beard. Totally rocks it. Sometimes there's various odd sized bits of foam stuck in it for days. And critters. And a doobie or two of the brah jah.

 

Soft ice cream or pizza cheese fermenting in a beard ain't a good thing...

 

Ummmm.....you are starting to wax kinky over this bearded dude......

 

I grow a beard every winter (as I work and play outside) and I have never had any issues with bacteria. Any normal hygienic practice will do. Kind of like keeping your coochi clean...

 

http://abc7.com/health/mens-beards-found-to-be-dirtier-than-a-toilet-seat/691110/

 

I guess a game of: "carnival: guess your weight" or a "free mustache ride" could elicit these results.

These are risks I am willing to take...