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Gentlemen, measure your sideburns!

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Okay, drop everything and measure those things. Start at your best estimate of where the head-hair ends and the face-hair begins. If you have a beard, congratulations- you have infinite sideburns!

Poll Results

OptionVotes
I have a beard! 17
I have no sideburns. 7
1/2 - 1 inch. 5
2 - 3 inches. 5
1/2 inch or less. 3
1 - 2 inches. 1
3 - 4 inches. 1
4 inches or more. 1


― epistantophus, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 03:55 (fourteen years ago)

Confession: When I was measuring just now I realized that my sideburns were of unequal length!

― epistantophus, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 03:57 (fourteen years ago)

I have heard of these 'sideburns'

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 04:37 (fourteen years ago)

If I had sideburns I would look like Eddie Hitler.

― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 04:38 (fourteen years ago)

i always have infinite sideburns except that one time i got a haircut and for some reason the dude shaved a line in between my burns and my beard. what is up with that?

― Mordy, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 04:39 (fourteen years ago)

where does hair end and sideburns start serious q

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 04:40 (fourteen years ago)

I had to shave my beard, but I kept the sideburns and then I grew a kind of chinstrap so technically, it's a beard again but not a full one.

― dog latin, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 09:06 (fourteen years ago)

my hair and sideburns don't link up though - there's a tiny bald gap where my temples are, but the hair grows over it.

― dog latin, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 09:07 (fourteen years ago)

1-2 inches, nearer 2, thought they have been as long as 4 in the past.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 09:09 (fourteen years ago)

it's an inverse to your shoe size thing, I reckons.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 09:10 (fourteen years ago)

My sideburns are metric.

― antiautodefenestrationism (ledge), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 09:11 (fourteen years ago)

I hate sideburns and always shave up to a point in line with the top of my ears.

― cheque out my debit to building society (snoball), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 09:13 (fourteen years ago)

Nearly 3 inches probably. I usually get rid of them after a couple of weeks or a month again, they come back, let them stay for a couple of weeks etc.

― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 09:26 (fourteen years ago)

When I get a haircut I usually cut them back to about an inch, but then every time I shave they creep a little farther down my face until they're eventually over 2 inches and ungainly.

― epistantophus, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 10:59 (fourteen years ago)

1/2" or less. Ever since the gray/brown ratio started getting a little rich, I've kept them shorter and shorter.

― Food! Trends! Men! Hate! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 12:13 (fourteen years ago)

berad

― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 12:19 (fourteen years ago)

Urban Dictionary: berad

12 Mar 2008 – 1.) One whose a class flirt with some serious mojo issues 2.) another name describing a complete jackass 3.) relative to John Doe, but cooler 4.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 12:22 (fourteen years ago)

One of the main reasons I like having sideburns is that it means there's less of my face that I have to shave. Kind of like why I want to put a wide strip of flowers and mulch around the perimeter of my yard and house- less to mow.

― epistantophus, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 14:49 (fourteen years ago)

Just a bit more than 2". Measured from where the top of my ear connects to my head.

― A Lip in the Blandscape (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:39 (fourteen years ago)

got a beard at the moment but i might shave it in the next few days at which point i will get back to you on this

― ride the dronosaur (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:38 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

bad timing. i have none. when i was younger, and i swear this is true, my nickname was "sideburn sid"

― Summer Slam! (Ste), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 00:05 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

holy beards!

― epistantophus, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 00:49 (fourteen years ago)

4 inches or more. 1

This just further convinces me that I'm doing everything right.

― bear has little fear of hades (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 10:09 (fourteen years ago)

Sideburns are just wrong wrong wrong. Beard or nothing, anything else and you're just vandalizing your face.

― Noise II Men (EDB), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 12:14 (fourteen years ago)


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