Posted on 08/14/2018 9:51:50 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
It's tempting to think of the beard as a kind of "return to our ancestral roots" (ironic), but it's not quite as simple as that. Don't kid yourself, hairy paleo diet dude who just can't squeeze a shave between CrossFit sessions. Cavemen plucked their beards with clam shells, Little Mermaid-style, exhibiting a degree of care and attention that so many men today seem happy to dismiss. Men throughout the ages have oscillated between beard-having and not-having, from Alexander the Great's shaven soldiers, to the bushy-chinned Victorians.
If the men in my life are anything to go by, there are several stages to a man's beard-having. The first is Beard Anticipation. "I think," he says, caressing his chin thoughtfully, "I might grow a beard." To be honest, I reckon this is actually the second stage. He's already decided to do it, and now he's canvassing opinion. In every instance, I respond with sensitivity (mine): "Please don't grow an effing beard."
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Better a beardo than a weirdo.
I imagine once it’s grown in sufficiently it softens up. But anything (stubble) that keeps my wife from me will not stand or grow:-)
Holly thinks people care about her opinions. Precious.
How would she react to a real man, one wonders...
“Someone was reading Clam of the cave beard
Bearded clam?
The author
Groan....but good.
Ok, but ya gotta reciprocate with a Brazilian
I wonder how loud the screeching would be if the OP were re-written as “A man’s lament: please don’t cut your hair short”.
I am going for “Sea Captain” length on my beard.
Just perfect when we sail away...SOON!
I saw a comedian demonstrate the differences between men and women with one simple skit. He pretends he’s a man handing a slip of paper to his wife and says, “here, honey. I’ve made you a to-do list.”
And he then asks, “how do you think that would go over?”
We don’t even think about the stuff we let everyone get away with, regarding men, but consider terrible if done to women.
Thats the easy part. When you rent it to the members of the local wildlife community you just put upkeep clauses in the lease.
What do you mean stop? It sounds like she doesn’t do it now.
My beard started as no-shave Saturday, Sunday.
Then no-shave Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Then no-shave Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Then no-shave Wednesday, Thursday,Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Then I set up a home office and just threw rules out the window.
I do trim it up when the next door neighbor kid says I’m starting to look a little “Islamo-headchopper-ish”. Which is fair.
The effing word ‘effing’ is a “clean-ish” version of the effing word “f**king”.
I mean, fuq.
My husband has had a beard for all of the 23 years I’ve known him.
Once about 8 years ago he shaved it off because of a bad cut. Walked into the room and I didn’t even notice it at first. You get used to it and see it even when it isn’t there.
Someone was reading Clam of the cave beard
Bearded clam?
Yeah; that and curled moustaches are a little creepy.
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