Beards

[Stralya]

I'm a bus driver and the other day I took a bunch of Primary school kids to the Zoo. As I was winding the destination roll, one of the little darlings exclaimed, "Wow! Look at his beard!"

Slightly alarmed, I checked for spot fires and escaping vermin but found all to be in order.

Turns out the little bloke was amazed at the length of my beard so I was wondering, How many of you have beards, are they biker beards, long beards, goatees etc.

Next time petejw comes over, I'll get him to take a pic and I'll post it here.

Just thought this could be a bit of fun.

Dan
Child frightener.

[Hammerhead1st]

I used to have a scruffy mess on my face, which I cleaned up into a goatee, then EVERYONE started wearing goatees. SO I shaved it all off and wear only a mustache, which I keep trimmed short and under control. Guess the wild look is 'out' around here.

[JWSanders]

I have a goat just to keep me from having to shave my chin.

[HobbyMan]

you know the military. I used to have a beard. Ilooked like Chris Cringle would have at 20yrs old. It was a good German beard.

[rman]

mask seal

Clean shaven.
Helps the mask seal better during scuba diving.

[fredintoon]

Big hairy deal

I used to wear a roman beard (short, shaved under the jaw & upper cheeks)
Then my facial hair started to gray out and I began to look like a mad Santa so off it came. Even though I shave every day (well, most days, anyway) I'd suppose that shaving must be the most widespread total waste of effort in the world.
assuming 3 billion men shave every day and a day's growth of whiskers is 1/32",
world-wide there's 150 miles of beard going down bathroom sinks every day.

[DiverRay]

Had a beard in my younger days. Now I have just a mustache, trimmed just a bit below the nose so the dive mask won't leak.

[fredintoon]

Technology favors the shaven.

Masks; scuba, oxygen, toxic vapors, any kind of mask, they are all based on a rubber to bare skin seal to work properly.
I well remember the anti-radioactives mask training session where we were instructed to turn up unshaven. Oh how one nearly puked when that hint of mercaptan oozed under the stubble. Lucky us, the instructors had stopped using tear gas by then. Betcha if a half-billion more men adopted the Sikh faith you could buy a mask that sealed over a beard at any store AND there'd be a Snell rating for motorcycle turbans.

[bigjames79]

growing it out

well my first two years of college i grew my hair and beard. ended up with a new coach and made everyone shave. No more than a Goatee. i cut my hair short and wore a goatee for about 1.5 years. but i just decided a couple of weekends ago to let it go again. So here we go for round two

[STEPPENWOLF]

Went clean shaven about 5 years ago.Divorce and needed a new look,a calico beard made me look old:-)A short hair cut and now I am a mean,clean looking53 year old:-):-) I could probably pick up any girl at the bar at 2:30 am...standing or on the floor,I am pretty strong:-):-):-)

[Stralya]

SCBA

I had ten years in the New South Wales Fire Brigade. I left there two years ago. In the Brigade, you couldn't were a beard because of the breathing apparatus mask. Prior to that I had many years in Law Enforcement and there too, beards were a no-no although now they allow them.

I guess it's because most of my working life I wasn't able to wear a beard that now that I can, I do.

I look like a Billy Goat peeking through a hedge, a white hedge, but I'm not trying to impress anyone. I'm single so I figure if any woman can see through the forest into the man then she'd be worthwhile.

I've also let my hair grow, it's not too bad being tied back all the time and after all, I grew up in the '60's and '70's so I suppose I'm just catching up

[panshovel]

Shaving is just a waste of time. I had it shaved off to just a mustache in April so I could get a job so now its back, without the black ends just gray but I earned them.

[Hammerhead1st]

Re: SCBA

Originally posted by Stralya
I had ten years in the New South Wales Fire Brigade. I left there two years ago. In the Brigade, you couldn't were a beard because of the breathing apparatus mask.

We're allowed to have small goatees and still wear SCBA's. It's the under-chin area that needs to remain clean...

[The Lorax]

I wear a goatee, mainly because I hate to shave, I don't care for a full beard, and SWMBO demands that I have at the minimum, a mustache. as she believes that I look somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 y/o when I'm clean shaven. my goatee has a little gray in it (so does my hair), I guess I've just gotten used to having a little shrub growing around my mouth.

[TopCatGr58]

I can't grow a really thick one, I've got like 1/16th American Indian somewhere, I've never been able to have a decent set of sideburns! But when my Father passed in 2000, I had started one to honor him when I was to visit him in Hawaii, so I kept it and wore it for a year! Photodump changed their system a while back, but also apparently got a lot of angry letters about ALL of the photos that people had previously linked to that were no longer working, so they somehow reset things, but it soemtimes takes a little while for the links to work, so if it's not showing, it will in about 30 seconds!


I've always sported a mustache, and still have it now, although sprinkled with much more gray than above! With the full beard, I wasn't allowed to dine at the "Y" per SWMBO!

I too am a modest child of the late 60's, 70's, and remember a bit by George Carlin about hair, beards, such, so I pulled out my old record and transcribed it here, enjoy!

The Hair Bit:by George Carlin
I told them about my hair,
I'm aware some stare at my hair,
in fact to be fair, some really despair of my hair.
But I don't care, cause they're not aware nor are they debonaire,
in fact, they're just square.

They see hair down to there, say beware, and go off on a tear.
I say NO FAIR. A head that's bear is really no where.
So...be like a bear, be fair with your hair, show it you care.
Wear it to there, or to there, or to THERE is if you dare!

My wife bought some hair at a fair to use as a spare.
Did I care? Oh Contrare. Spare hair is fair.
In fact, hair can be rare. Fred Astaire got no hair,
nor does a chair, nor a chocolate eclaire.
And where is the hair on a pear? No where, mon frare.

Now that I've shared this affair of the hair, I think I'll repare
to my lare and use nair, do you care?

Here's my beard, ain't it weird,Don't be skeered, it's just a beard.

That's the thing, the word beard shook a lot of people up.
Beard! It's not American sounding. Beard!
Lenin had a BEARD!Castro had a BEARD! Gabby Hayes had "whiskers"!
Humpty Willie had "whiskers"! Yeah,
Well, anyway, I mentioned hair because I've only had extra hair
for about a year now. And, uh, it's actually the same hair I've always had,
just used to be on the inside, I'm wearing it in a new location, that's all!

And I've found there are some advantages to longer hair.
For one thing, it covers the pimples on your neck!
One of the disadvantages of longer hair...
Alot of people think you're a commie fag junkie!
Well, it's tough to talk them out of three things at once you know!