Every man needs to grow facial hair at least once in his life, just so he knows how stupid he can look

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Prove me wrong.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep, '96-'98.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to do this about every three or four months, just to show my then-GF how much uglier I could have been.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

A mistake I shall never make again.

― JS Williams (js williams), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I accidently kept it on too long so when I shaved I could no longer bear to look at myself

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope Nick doesn't see this thread. I don't know if he knows he needs to grow facial hair at least once in his life, just so he knows how stupid he can look. Plus, I think I already told him that's where I draw the line. Extensive facial hair = immediate breakup without conversation.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I could grow a mustache just for laughs, but mine is SOOOO thin (to make up for my thick, luscious hair on top of my head). I think I once went two weeks without shaving, and it looked horrible. I also grew a goatee/soul patch when I was 19 or 20. A co-worker said... "But you CAN'T grow facial hair." I was like, "but I did!" And she said, "No. You can't." So I shaved it off the next day.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I have never intentionally grown facial hair, but believe me, I know how stupid I can look. Very.

― NA. (Nick A.), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I threaten my grrlfriend with this all the time, and it never fails to scare her. I haven't shaved in four days. I think now might be the time. My face is just gonna look like a collage of hair and lips.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

A Picasso. Doesn't sound that bad.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

or you could be in a play that required it.

after that I had a trucker handlebar for about 3 days. Ah youth, so so stupid.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

i just know i'm going to look back on the last year and a half with deep, deep regrets. i'm getting fuzzier as we speak.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i always look cool

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Keen googlers could find pics of me with a beard online still, I think. Don't worry, they aren't nude. It was laziness rather than aesthetics.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

In university I spent a semester abroad and came back with my first beard. I figured I could work on the Electra complex of the chiXors whose dads had beards. The first day back an attractive friend of mine told the story of how when she was five her dad went to Alaska for work for six weeks and came back with a beard; she was frightened of him and hid in the closet. doh

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I have no idea if I'll stick with this facial hair thang, but my pops looked really great with a fu manchu-type thing in the 70s. So maybe there's hope. But most likely I'll just look like a drrrty hippie.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I flew to Arizona for my grandfather's funeral abt 9 mo ago. I looked like absolute shit when I got off the plane, unwashed, hadn't shaved in abt a week. Next morning I got cleaned up, shaved (which I do intermittently, since I look abt 14 without some kind of scruff). When I walked into the house, my whole family, incl grandma, was VERY DISAPPOINTED that I'd "shaved my beard off."

So that may be proof, Y4nce.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Prolly the closest I've ever come to truly having facial hair was when I was 12 or 13, when I was just starting puberty. My mom and I had this weird stalemate where neither of us wanted to admit it was happening. So she never bought me a razor or anything, and my dad never taught me how. So I had these disgusting tufts of hair in odd places on my face for at least six months before I finally just stole a razor and started doing it myself. It was very odd. And anytime anyone mentioned shaving, I got really nervous. Maybe I was meant to be Samson.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 6 June 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I went for the "immigrant just off the boat" beard once. Bad, bad, bad idea.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 6 June 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

My ex says I'm "100% fuckable" when I'm all like 4-6 days-of-growth stubbly but "totally ha ha yeah right!" when I'm clean-shaven.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 June 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

nick you need yrself a good granola grrl, stat!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 6 June 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i had a goatee when i was younger just to see what it looked like but it was no good... only my parents and grandparents saw because it was over the summer but i still have apicture of me with the goatee holding a copy of Anna Karenina and wearing my Folger Library Student Shakespeare Festival T-Shirt. In boarding schoo, facial hair was not allowed, so everytime I would shave, I would make my sideburns just a little longer, just to see where they would draw the line.
I think I look good with stubble from a few days, but after a week maye it is too much, plus it is hell to shave that much growth.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 6 June 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I did try growing a beard a few years ago. It was the Christmas holidays, and I met one of my friends just before classes were starting again, and she said "are you trying to grow a beard? you do realise we are all going to laugh at you?". I had to agree, my beard was rubbish.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 6 June 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

if i let the stubble go too long i think it becomes more obvious that my underchin/wattle area is no longer the tan, taut and muffiny thing it once was. wah.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 6 June 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I've done it. Yanc3y's on the legal tender currency, as always.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 June 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I have had some sort of facial hair since 1994.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 June 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

in high school, guys who were otherwise quite good looking, would grow really nasty facial hair. i think they were using this to make the statement "Hey, look at me! I can grow facial hair! I am such a man!" and then after a few weeks i guess the novelty wore off, and the returned to their normal smooth-faced selves.

i don't think all men look stupid with it, but most look better without it.

― sand.y, Saturday, 7 June 2003 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)

well it beats shaving Yanc3y! girlfriends would complain about their grazed faces when i shaved. plus i couldn't help but cut my skin to ribbons each morning when i did. my beard's as soft as lambs wool and any girl who frumps about it can get fucked.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Saturday, 7 June 2003 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I am not allowed to grow facial hair

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 7 June 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Me with facial hair of any sort = an abomination unto the heavens, a crime against god.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 June 2003 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I can look all right with a goatee or beard, only if it lasts no longer than 10 days.. at which point, it becomes all sparse and wirey, and I shave it off in disgust.

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 7 June 2003 05:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I am not particularly capable of growing much, though on certain occassions I have tried. No. No it does not happen so much.

Now that I'm dating someone again I feel a bit obliged to shave more often -- I am shaving no more than once or twice a week since my job doesn't care and until recently I didn't have anyone to not scrape up. And I can get away with it -- it's not until four or five days that you can really notice it if you're not looking.

And pffff, it would take about 10 years for me to grow a moustache, and it would be a sad one even then.

― Chris P (Chris P), Saturday, 7 June 2003 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I've worn a goatee for so long, it's no longer an affectation.

― Hank Tenbeer (kenan), Saturday, 7 June 2003 06:18 (twenty-two years ago)

More of an affliction, is it?

― Chris P (Chris P), Saturday, 7 June 2003 06:26 (twenty-two years ago)

It hides my neck fat, which is even more of an affliction.

― Hank Ten Beer (kenan), Saturday, 7 June 2003 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a smallish sort of beard for a couple of years around 1990-92 until a friend of mine (and in all seriousness) remarked that I looked like a member of U2.

Off it went the next day.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 7 June 2003 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep. I lasted one week. She told me to grow it, then she told me to remove it. But she likes a bit of stubble. Grrrrr!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Saturday, 7 June 2003 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i spy thumb-prints on your foreheads millar and colin.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Saturday, 7 June 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Er, maybe Chris. But I agreed with her. I was starting to look like a folk singer, or, worse, a geography teacher. Perhaps only silver-haired or black-haired men should be allowed to grow beards. Blond, brown or red hair doesn't cut it.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Saturday, 7 June 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

colin, i'm merely flying the flag for the right to grow facial hair. and as a folk-singing, Geography teacher with brown hair, the time to make a stand is now, dammit.

*punches fist in the air*

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Saturday, 7 June 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

But you can hide half your face with a beard...surely that's a good thing....

― Wendy Henson (Wendywoo), Saturday, 7 June 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

But you can hide half your face with a beard...surely that's a good thing....

http://www.tremeloes.oldiemusic.de/galerie/dave_halfbeard.jpg
http://www.zabriskiegallery.com/Who%20Me/mr43792.jpg
http://cosray2.wustl.edu/~marty/beard.gif

― man, Saturday, 7 June 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah....much better.

― Wendy Henson (Wendywoo), Saturday, 7 June 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Technically that's only a quarter of your face.

― Wendy Henson (Wendywoo), Saturday, 7 June 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

God... if I don't shave for, like, a day and a half I end up with a pretty impressive beard. By the end of any substantial period without shaving I look like an Islamic fundamentalist, as anyone who bumps into me on Sunday at Glastonbury will find out. Shaving is wonderful.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 7 June 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://hipsterdetritus.blogspot.com/me6603.JPG

Goatee + sideburns = DESTINED TO BE HAUNTED BY THE GHOST CELICA

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 7 June 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

(and to look like I have a 300-pound man's double chin in every photo even though I don't have one in real life)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 7 June 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I know the feeling, Mr. Nate.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 June 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

personally i adore my Noddy Holder-esque sideburns but i draw the line at anything below the lower lip line or directly under the nose (he says after having not shaved for four stinking days now)

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 7 June 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember my sideburns era 2000 how i thought it was coool than. now i woun't even stand to lay a glimpse on my own photos from than. same goes to my 2001 no-sideburns Goatee era. now i'm thinking lite beards are coool but wait for my no beard stupid mustache era in 2004. i'm gonna take this face for another test drive.

― Jrvision (visionjr), Saturday, 7 June 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i spy thumb-prints on your foreheads millar and colin.

actually it's just a big blue USAF insignia

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 7 June 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I no longer have exams to worry about so I havent had a bear since. The best part of me in a beard is my close resemblence to Shaggy.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 7 June 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I no longer have exams to worry about so I havent had a bear since
Another excuse for my beard, all the guys at my course look like a 'men anonymous' convention on the Red Green show a month before the exams.

― Jrvision (visionjr), Saturday, 7 June 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

While Im down with Dj Grizz, I have never ever had a bear, exams or not.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 7 June 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

haha. bear: 'to have had one' vs. 'to have had looked like one'

― Jrvision (visionjr), Saturday, 7 June 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I cannot under any circumstance imagine Martin Skidmore with a beard.

There are photos about of me with beard from last winter. They don't look great.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 9 June 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

the only time I've had more than three or four days' growth of beard was when I was doing my finals. It was great getting rid of the beard once my exams were over. I'm not sure whether any photographic evidence of the bearded me exists.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 June 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

My best friend married this real pain in the ass two years ago. To piss her off a couple of the other groomsmen and I grew fu-manchu mustaches. When we arrived at the rehearsal dinner looking like pimps she went nuts. Needless to say we shaved them off for the wedding. She was much happier when we told her we did it as a joke.

I've been having this fantasy of moving to the middle of nowhere Vermont with my wife and getting away from it all. I want to become a furniture maker, grow a beard and learn to play slide guitar.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 9 June 2003 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Yancey, I had the same shaving stalemate with my dad, who was often too embarassed to discuss puberty-related changes with me. Except I went and bought razors like a real man, instead of stealing them.

― NA. (Nick A.), Monday, 9 June 2003 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I learned how to shave in a hotel room the night before my first day of Boarding School. Before that day I probably looked rather strange.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 9 June 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

When I shave all of my stubble off, I tend to look about ten years younger than I really am, which theoretically would make me look stupider (or at the very least a bit less wise). Despite that I never tend to grow my facial hair particularly long because it itches like hell when it gets past a couple of weeks' growth. Also, I think I've inherited my dad's method of beard growth, which consists of taking tons of hairs of many different colours, and mixing them throughout. (Mostly red, but black, brown, blond and probably even grey allll mixed in. Now THAT would look pretty silly.)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 9 June 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

well, this needed a reply from me! i have sideburns since i was 15, and i've had different kinds of beards, i like experimenting in the mornings :-)
now i've had my moustache for over three years i'm thinking of a change, but my girlfriend doesn't allow me to...

― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

No, don't! I prefer the clean shaven look, myself. (And don't try to get away with the five o'clock shadow, either;> Trust me, only George Michael was able to get away with that.)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Proof that I once had a beard. Approach with caution! Safe for most work! http://caption.org/1997/pdc/martin-skidmore.html

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, sideburns count?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Sideburns do not count.

I shaved yesterday. I am a pussy.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Martin the Terminator.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

the hair on the right side of my face doesnt grow due to good ol' radiation therapy, so i dont think that i will be growing any facial hair soon

― todd swiss (eliti), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't mess with Martin! His tank is gassed up, and ready to roll....(how old were you, when you took that, Martin?)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Well I didn't take that. It was in 1997, and I shaved all the beard and had a #1 cut on the head within the year, and I've kept that look since.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 9 June 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

I love how a lot of the people here seem to think their opinion is law. If a man wants to grow hair on his face, that's a natural thing. The ONLY thing that counts is whether he likes it or not. Don't put stock in what anyone else thinks. And guys... some women are turned on by hairy men. If you grow a beard that YOU like and keep it for a while, you will find yourself dating different kinds of women-- the ones who LIKE beards. Grow for it!

― Jack McConnell, Sunday, 18 April 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

yes.

― g--ff (gcannon), Sunday, 18 April 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

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