I'm growing a beard! [Archive]

Tycho

11-09-2007, 01:43 AM

It's been exactly 1 week since I last shaved (well shaved my whole beard anyway). I'm keeping my face neatly clean and trimmed, straight and such.

But I'm just trying this.

Thing is, it's coming in partly blonde, so I'll wait until it's a bit more grown-in to take pictures.

I'm getting my new driver's license with my beard. :beard:

I hate the way it feels though. I've always been a guy who needed a really clean-shaven face. I'm going to get a few girls' opinions before I take it off sometime next week after my appointment at the DMV, but if everyone likes it, I'll try to let it stay.

I think I look more mature, sophistocated, etc. with my :beard:

More manly, I guess.

But it might be more work to trim it and keep it neat than it is to just blindly shave my face clean. I also don't like how I can purse my lips and feel my moustache or chin whiskers. I'm not used to that.

And at first, my face felt rough on my pillows because the hair was really short and spiky. It's just past that point now. But like I said, a lot of it is blonde and I can feel it better than anyone could see it.

This is the story so far about my :beard:

bigbarada

11-09-2007, 02:41 AM

Is it growing out full or is it really spotty? My beard will grow in really full if I let it, so I have to constantly trim it down or I look like some mountain man.

TeeEye7

11-09-2007, 03:06 AM

OK guys. Get a room! ;)

Tycho

11-09-2007, 06:03 AM

Is it growing out full or is it really spotty? My beard will grow in really full if I let it, so I have to constantly trim it down or I look like some mountain man.

It's growing out full, if you mean by there's hair filling in everywhere evenly. It's sometimes harder to see because it's lighter in color, that's all.

And I think anyone who wears a :beard: has to keep it trimmed. I have the grooming equipment. Now I await to see if I'll have any more women! :grin:

Old Fossil

11-09-2007, 07:19 AM

Now I await to see if I'll have any more women! :grin:

Most women say they don't like men with beards. Then again, most women are dumb.:laugh:

I have a short beard I keep trimmed. It grows so fast, I have to shave every day if I go clean-shaven, or else I look like a bum. Easier for me just to trim a beard up every other day. A friend at work also has a fast-growing beard, but he doesn't trim it too much, and looks much like a Civil War commander.

El Chuxter

11-09-2007, 11:25 AM

Since no one has said it yet, I will:

"You have just taken your first step into a larger world."

Jedi_Master_Guyute

11-09-2007, 11:48 AM

My winter beard has been growing since early October. It's lookin' mighty fine if I may say so. Keeps my face toasty warm when I walk to class in that chilly Northern Ohio weather! :thumbsup:

CaptainSolo1138

11-09-2007, 11:51 AM

I'm getting a Merkin.

Tycho

11-09-2007, 11:57 AM

It's still so irritating. I am doing my best to make it until Tuesday that I shave it all off.

bigbarada

11-09-2007, 12:11 PM

Once it gets long enough, it will stop being uncomfortable.

When your moustache gets long enough to reach your mouth, you might find yourself chewing on the hairs without realizing it.

But what will really drive you nuts is when you get that one stray hair that gets turned upwards and starts tickling the inside of your nose. You'll turn into a crazy man for a few seconds while you try to locate that one single hair.

My biggest problem with a beard is when I'm eating in public I get really self-conscious about food being stuck in my beard. I'm constantly wiping my beard to make sure food isn't in there.

bigbarada

11-09-2007, 01:31 PM

I think Tycho ran to the bathroom to shave his beard off after reading my last post.:D

Tycho

11-09-2007, 02:10 PM

No. I didn't. But you made it so tempting!

I did take a shower and thoroughly wash my face. I may even make an appointment at the dermatologist for Wednesday so I'm prepared in case I shave it all off the day before. I don't know how my skin will be underneathe and I'd prefer it to be as baby-smoothe as possible. I'd like to go back to that John Mark Carr look.

Right now I look like a combination between James Hetfield and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

"For Whom The Order 66 Tolls..."

Mr. JabbaJohnL

11-09-2007, 02:32 PM

I'd like to go back to that John Mark Carr look.

You mean the guy that claimed to have killed JonBenet? Why in the hell would you make that comparison?

Tycho

11-09-2007, 02:38 PM

You mean the guy that claimed to have killed JonBenet? Why in the hell would you make that comparison?

He has a really smoothe face as I think he had tons of laser hair removal done on his beard so he could remain "a child" or something.

I saw Nancy Grace conduct his very strange interview. He didn't claim to have killed Jon Benet, btw. He said he was "with her" when she died. Witnesses can prove that he wasn't, I guess. But "with her" was never clarified by Carr either. "With her" spiritually? Who knows? I almost never think of him, but as this facial hair issue comes up, he stands on one end of the extreme while the boys from ZZTop and Santa Claus balance out the other.

El Chuxter

11-09-2007, 02:45 PM

Eww. Just eww.

plasticfetish

11-09-2007, 03:05 PM

Eww. Just eww.Seriously...

darthvyn

11-09-2007, 04:03 PM

i've grown many variations of facial hair. i just didn't feel the need to start a thread on each version.

anyway, for the "bearded folk" it's traditional to name each beard you grow, so as to become more in-tune with it. what have you named yours?

Old Fossil

11-09-2007, 04:15 PM

anyway, for the "bearded folk" it's traditional to name each beard you grow, so as to become more in-tune with it.

"Bearded folk?" Do you mean Dwarves?:Ponder:

I have not heard of this tradition.

darthvyn

11-09-2007, 04:25 PM

i guess you don't know the secret "bearded folk" handshake either, then, huh?

jedibear

11-09-2007, 06:00 PM

Okay...this is hands-down, the most bizarre discussion I've ever seen here.
Not sayin' it's bad....just...different for this place. :)

BTW...I'm guessing I fall into the "mountian man" catagory. Every winter I let it grow out until I have a nice thick burl of fur covering my neck...great natural warmth for these cold noreaster winters! I hate shaving...won't do it.
I have better things to spend my money on (like action figures) than supporting the male cosmetics industry...

Not knockin' those who do however...

mabudonicus

11-09-2007, 06:50 PM

I have a SWEET setup right now which I call "the Lemmy"
Basically shave my neck/chin and a strip from right under my nose all the way down to meet the chin shavedness. Looks f-ing AWESOME and I look REAL dangerous to boot :beard:
Iso & Baws

My beard could kick multiple beards butts

2-1B

11-09-2007, 06:50 PM

I got a Brazilian yesterday.

Tycho

11-09-2007, 07:07 PM

I didn't know I'm supposed to name my beard.

How about "The Kenobi?"

Yeah, I still shave my neck in the front and back and the middle of my chin, just under my lip, so that the beard is perfectly shaped. In this way I look like a Jedi action figure, especially when I wear my white bathrobe and carry my blue Master Replicas lightsaber.

Uh, not that I do that a lot....

TeeEye7

11-09-2007, 08:54 PM

I got a Brazilian yesterday.

lollollollollol
OMG! Oxygen! Oxygen! I can't breathe! You're killing me Caeser!
lollollollollol

Tycho

11-09-2007, 10:14 PM

Why is that funny? I don't get the joke.

JediTricks

11-09-2007, 10:29 PM

He has a really smoothe face as I think he had tons of laser hair removal done on his beard so he could remain "a child" or something.That only lasts about 6 months, as I understand it.

Tycho

11-09-2007, 10:48 PM

Yeah, I think hair growth (and nail growth for that matter) is a way for your body to transform and excrete other by-products of its metabolism and growth.

If laser hair removal (at possibly up to thousands of dollars) kills the hair follicle cells, when those cells naturally die and are replaced by new cells, your hair growth should start all over again.

Now I don't know how balding works or why. Well it doesn't work unless you're Captain Picard, but what I mean is why does hair start to fail to grow in certain places? It'd be more convenient if it failed to grow on your jawline rather than the top of your head, but oh well.

BTW, completely off topic -but your head / scalp has to breathe. Those of you wearing ball caps constantly might bald before those of us who don't. Also wearing long hair might pull the follicles moreso with a similar result. There's a long-hair that works at my Target who is balding. The whole result is very creepy looking.

bigbarada

11-10-2007, 01:02 AM

Well, balding is based on genes and it has something to do with testosterone levels in the body being too high, I believe.

You see a lot of balding guys wearing baseball caps because they are trying to cover up their thinning hair. The caps didn't cause them to go bald, they just wear the caps to cover up the fact that they are going bald. lol

El Chuxter

11-10-2007, 01:33 AM

Balding is passed down on the mother's side.

Which is good, because my dad is nearly bald. :D

Tycho

11-10-2007, 12:30 PM

I couldn't stand it any longer. While at Target this morning, I didn't find any toys so I bought shaving cream instead.

Later this morning, about an hour ago, I went in for my haircut. The girls there thought my beard made me look older. That was it! The irritation as well as the 'looking older comment' cemented it.

I prefer to look younger so I can at least have the advantage of lying about my age as I've entered my 30's and prefer to date girls in their early 20's (it being understood that they also got Brazillians - now I get the reference). But it's been my experience that the majority of ladies I like prefer guys their own age, so I have to fake it the best I can. (They aren't looking for permanent relationships and neither am I, so it doesn't really matter).

But a smoothe face feels great to have back again!

I just can't wear facial hair I guess.

Mr. JabbaJohnL

11-10-2007, 03:10 PM

There was a period of a few weeks/months last year where I was losing a fair amount of hair, and I had the beginnings of a bald spot, too - not a comforting thing, since several people on my mom's side of the family are bald and went that way early. Now everything is fine, though. It's amazing what combing your hair before taking a shower and using good shampoo will do. lol

High schoolers with facial hair generally come off as skeezy so I think I'll wait a while on that.

darthvyn

11-10-2007, 04:05 PM

But a smoothe face feels great to have back again!

what's with ye olde tyme spelling of "smooth"?

JetsAndHeels

11-10-2007, 04:26 PM

Balding is passed down on the mother's side.

Yep.

You should see some of the men on my dad's side..they look like Lex..glad they aren't on my mother's side.

Rebo's_Guitarist

11-10-2007, 04:35 PM

I try to keep a nice beard all year round. Generally, I use it as a diguise when I go back home. No lie.:bandit:

DarthQuack

11-10-2007, 05:32 PM

I'm feeling the need not to shave either....should be interesting to see how it grows in....

Tycho

11-10-2007, 10:11 PM

what's with ye olde tyme spelling of "smooth"?

I ye be watchin Pirate movies, mate! :Pirate:

El Chuxter

11-10-2007, 10:41 PM

"Smooth" is a great song, and I normally don't care for Rob Thomas.

Mad Slanted Powers

11-10-2007, 10:52 PM

Back in my college days, I would grow one when I went to Alaska during the summer. I'd keep it for a while after I got back home. I also forgot until recently that I grew one during the summer before my junior year of high school. I saw a picture recently and was confused because my hair was parted in the middle. I had started parting on the side during my senior year. Then I remembered it. I don't think I 'd want one now. On Halloween, I dressed as a pirate so I just didn't shave that day. I didn't really like the way it felt by the end of the day. Makes it harder to keep the face clean. Maybe I could handle a goatee. That wouldn't require a mustache.

I first noticed losing my hair when I was 21. In college, I only got a haircut once a year, so maybe Tycho's long hair theory has some validity. Also, I wore a hooded sweatshirt a lot when I was running, as well as on the fishing boat, where I also wore it with a baseball hat. Going three weeks without a shower on the boat probably wasn't good on the hair either. Plus, I don't really use a good shampoo. I've used Head & Shoulders or a cheap version of it for years. I don't know if I really have a dandruff problem or not, so I probably don't need to use it. My dad and brothers are all at some stage of baldness, but I lost it the fastest. My oldest brother still has the most hair, while my other brother went gray pretty quick. I've got some gray already as well.

Attached is a college meal card photo with the beard. Not sure what year. Probably 1990, before I noticed the hair starting to get thin.

JediTricks

11-11-2007, 02:56 AM

None of Tycho's theories ever have any validity. BTW, great mugshot there MSP, they take it when you were arrested for time-traveling back from the year 1965? ;)

Tycho, you want to look younger? Stop getting your hair buzzed that short, it makes a big difference, grow it out a few inches.

plasticfetish

11-11-2007, 03:42 AM

You know, all this talk of beards and how it might be making me look older has really made me reconsider my own beard. So I shaved it off.

I'll post the before and after photos. I think removing the beard has made a big difference...

darthvyn

11-11-2007, 08:55 AM

Tycho

11-11-2007, 10:49 AM

Haha, PF.

JediTricks, I hate managing my hair when it's longer - the gel or hair "glue," you know. I went out last night and a girl (probably about 26) struck up conversation with me (beard gone, btw). So I guess I am doing alright.

Besides that, I also look partly ready to join the Skin Heads, Neo-Nazis, and Neue Hitler Youth.

Jedi_Master_Guyute

11-11-2007, 11:50 AM

Shaved it already Tycho? Such a quitter!!

I guess you just aren't good enough to join the ranks of those fellas who have facial hair! :p

Mad Slanted Powers

11-11-2007, 12:52 PM

I remember being on my dad's fishing boat and being frustrated at being yelled at and not being able to do stuff right. However, I made myself laugh when in my head I was thinking, "I don't have to listen to you, I have a beard!"

Tycho

11-11-2007, 01:29 PM

Shaved it already Tycho? Such a quitter!!

I guess you just aren't good enough to join the ranks of those fellas who have facial hair! :p

I'll never be as cool as you JMG. I must accept the fact that me and my Mouse Droids will forever live in your (beard's) shadow.

JetsAndHeels

11-11-2007, 06:19 PM

Shaved it already Tycho? Such a quitter!!

I guess you just aren't good enough to join the ranks of those fellas who have facial hair! :p

He just wanted to start a new thread. :)

JediTricks

11-12-2007, 12:09 AM

JediTricks, I hate managing my hair when it's longer - the gel or hair "glue," you know. I went out last night and a girl (probably about 26) struck up conversation with me (beard gone, btw). So I guess I am doing alright.

Besides that, I also look partly ready to join the Skin Heads, Neo-Nazis, and Neue Hitler Youth.You're out of your gourd. Just grow it short and brush or comb it, don't screw with "product" at all, it'll be fine. Trust me, I've seen you with a head of hair and without, there's no comparison, the buzzed look makes you look years older.

I don't think I've shaved in 2 weeks, it's another awful patchy teenager beard for me (nothing like being 32 and having the facial hair of someone half your age). Really it's just a faint van dyke with the seedlings of chops. It's coming off at some point, probably would have been yesterday but my plans changed to something less formal.

Tycho

11-12-2007, 12:20 AM

Just grow it short and brush or comb it, don't screw with "product" at all, it'll be fine.

My hair tends to "fro" a little without product in it. I hate that. I'll get that Shia LeBouf look, but with no life-size Transformer to hang around with.

Trust me, I've seen you with a head of hair and without, there's no comparison, the buzzed look makes you look years older.

Well, when you saw me with a head of hair, I was years younger - well maybe two years younger at least (my MySpace pics from C3 in 2005 right before the aneurysm). Remember I was hospitalized after that major aneurysm in my brain. That may have taken its toll on my youth as well. The recovery is also when I switched to my military buzz cut, as I was spending so much time in bed, that lying on the pillows was pulling my hair - even pulling it out. That could instigate balding, of which there is not a strong history of in my family - so I don't want to change any tradition on that front. (I'm content to lose the Captain Picard look-alike contest.)

Rebo's_Guitarist

11-12-2007, 08:42 AM

Last year my employees and I had a beard growing contest. We started out clean at Thanksgiving and went until Christmas. I won, only because everyone else gave up...

CaptainSolo1138

11-12-2007, 10:53 AM

The only time I can stand going for more than a week without shaving is when I grow my Red Wings playoff beard. :thumbsup:

darthvyn

11-12-2007, 11:13 AM

after my "zombie luciano pavarotti" for which i connected my burns to my van dyke with whatever would grow in, i decided to cut it down to what i like to call "the sophisticate" - thin, squared-off sideburns (but not chinstrap thin) meeting the beard at a 90 degree angle at the jawline. the beard itself forms an isosceles triangle (as viewed from the side, long part up, most acute angle meeting the sideburns) from the rear of the jaw, spreading toward the chin where it meets the moustache, all (as of last night) neatly trimmed with the #2 separator on the clippers.

on a side-note, the configurations i've had in the past are:

sideburns (had them of various sizes/lengths since sophmore year of HS)
abe lincoln (amish-style squared-off beard/burns combo sans moustache - grew it as a joke and kept it up for a play i was in)
goatee (with and without soul patch, trimmed short and scraggly long variations)
standard van dyke (#2 clipper)
the "cobain" (van dyke clipped with #1)
the "rebel yell" (broad sideburns, culminating in a point)
the "biker" (nearly a full beard sans chin, also known as the "old west" when longer/bushier. grew this specifically for my motorcycle learner's permit picture.)
the "wolverines" (sideburns that stop before the chin, connecting with a thin point to the corner of the mouth)
the "hetfield" (van dyke with chin missing, like the "biker" without the connection to the sideburns)
soul patch
and the afforementioned "sophisticate"

since the birth of my daughter i've had some form of facial hair (more than just sideburns). been just under 11 months now. i feel like i have to tread lightly otherwise i could freak her out when i get rid of it.

Mr. JabbaJohnL

11-12-2007, 12:48 PM

I don't think I've shaved in 2 weeks, it's another awful patchy teenager beard for me (nothing like being 32 and having the facial hair of someone half your age). Really it's just a faint van dyke with the seedlings of chops. It's coming off at some point, probably would have been yesterday but my plans changed to something less formal.
Ha, JT and I have the same facial hair patterns. :D

Mad Slanted Powers

11-12-2007, 06:37 PM

I've always wanted to try a beard on one side of the face and clean shaven on the other side. Or maybe a reverse goatee.

2-1B

11-12-2007, 06:51 PM

I had traditional sideburns over the summer, then I decided to let it grow in more on the cheek area and so I now (thru precision trimming) have them pointed them off toward the moustache. I love them !

I can't quite connect the moustache to the chin so I clean it out to give it more of a "planned" look on the side of my mouth. :D Also I can't connect the soul patch to the chin so I trim it below my lower lip and then have the chin stuff going on beneath, I limit it's width to about the width of the moustache but this summer I let it get kinda wide and wild by letting it be wide and then never trimming it. lol

So in summary, that's 5 spots of hair I have on my face and NONE of them connect: 2 burns, 1 patch, 1 stache, and 1 goat

JimJamBonds

11-12-2007, 10:44 PM

Since leaving UPS where I had to be clean shaven for 7 years I've regrown a Van Dyke and now have a closely trimmed beard that will be around for a week or two longer.

Also as I'm writing this I'm rocking a Dunder Mifflin hooded sweatshirt.

Mr. JabbaJohnL

11-13-2007, 05:35 PM

Also as I'm writing this I'm rocking a Dunder Mifflin hooded sweatshirt.
One of my friends recently bought one and he had no idea it was from the Office.

There's really not much of a point to this story. But it p***ed me off.

Blue2th

11-13-2007, 06:14 PM

Damn, by the time this thread has gotten to where it is now, I must have shaved my stubble at least 30 times. :squareeye

JediTricks

11-13-2007, 10:33 PM

My hair tends to "fro" a little without product in it. I hate that. I'll get that Shia LeBouf look, but with no life-size Transformer to hang around with.So, just like Shia then. Don't worry about it, the Jewfro (aka the "Isro") is making a comeback and it's manageable anyway.

Well, when you saw me with a head of hair, I was years younger - well maybe two years younger at least (my MySpace pics from C3 in 2005 right before the aneurysm).I guarantee you that your buzzed hair adds a few years on you.

Remember I was hospitalized after that major aneurysm in my brain. That may have taken its toll on my youth as well. The recovery is also when I switched to my military buzz cut, as I was spending so much time in bed, that lying on the pillows was pulling my hair - even pulling it out. That could instigate balding, of which there is not a strong history of in my family - so I don't want to change any tradition on that front. (I'm content to lose the Captain Picard look-alike contest.)You basically look bald now because your hair color is so light and you keep it buzzed short (and not "jarhead" buzzed neither).

My "Shaggy" is coming in really awful now, and it's starting to get uncomfortable - awesome. If it doesn't come off tomorrow, I'll keep it around till Thanksgiving.

Ha, JT and I have the same facial hair patterns. :DWell, you are basically the group I was referring to when I said "another awful patchy teenager beard for me (nothing like being 32 and having the facial hair of someone half your age)". :p

Lowly Bantha Cleaner

11-17-2007, 10:39 PM

Tycho, good to see you give it the old college try.

I think the longest I have gone without shaving was a bit shy of three days. I come from a family of clean shaven individuals and anytime a family member attempts to break that tradition (my older brother almost 15 years ago), they are treated like outcasts. But someday when I get the courage too, I think I will have a beard that rival that of Grizzly Adams.

Tycho

11-18-2007, 12:43 AM

It's so uncomfortable actually. I ran into my cousin and her husband today by chance actually. They just returned from a vacation.

He'd tried to let his beard grow and he can't stand it either and plans to shave tomorrow.

With meeting ladies, it's all attitude I guess. Today I just felt friendly. I had lunch with a girl I met in the line at Subway. She was a dance major at my alma matter. Then I joined with a very, very, very gorgeous girl I saw in Target and just introduced myself to. I had nothing to lose, so I was confident. Know what? We clicked. She's a fashion correspondent whom just by looking at me, you should be able to tell that I'd have nothing in common with. But she seemed to really enjoy meeting me. Then I went to a cantina that a good lady friend I've known for several years works. She too was very happy to see me.

Everything went well with no beard and no hair (well, realistically, hair that's buzzed as short as JT alluded to).

DarthQuack

11-18-2007, 10:08 AM

My beard is starting to get scratchy.

Old Fossil

11-18-2007, 01:45 PM

Interesting the buzz this thread has generated.

Why are beards so (for lack of a better word) controversial? Maybe it's because our society demands conformity. Kind of hearkens back to Imperial Rome, where for a long time beards represented the barbarian Goths, Vandals, Celts, etc.; heathen tribes. The clean-shaven Roman epitomized sophistication, order, civilization; the bearded barbarian, vulgarity, chaos, primitive-ness. Naturally men wanted to be as close to the ideal of Rome as possible, so even if they weren't Roman, they shaved their beards and cut their hair so as to appear Roman... thus also (perhaps inadvertently) appearing more effeminite.

The beard still represents a threat to civilization in our collective Western subconscious. So often bearded men are ridiculed or feared, and pushed to the fringes of society: the mountain man, the bearded Vietnam veteran, the modern-day backwoodsman. They are close to the "hairy men" that haunt our legends, like Sasquatch, werewolves, King Kong and Mighty Joe Young. Hair seems to symbolize wildness and rebellion (rebellion in our country's history is often led by bearded men), a rejection of traditional mores and values -- thus the bearded hippies and biker gangs.

It's all part of a process of emasculation that's been going on since the days of Julius Caesar and Pompey. Today men are taught that their natural ugres are mostly wrong, and are encouraged to be more nurturing, more civil, more "smoothe" (to use Tycho's spelling): i.e., more feminine. The ways of axe and sword are relegated to video games and the football field and battlefields comfortably far away. Male sexual urges are something to be constantly held in check, if one is to live comfortably in polite society.

Long live the :beard:!

JediTricks

11-18-2007, 03:08 PM

I think it's just 'cause they look stupid and are itchy. :p

I shaved mine off 2 days ago, and now it's all sandpapery (I don't get 5 o'clock shadow, not even for days) which has some charm.

jedibear

11-18-2007, 05:17 PM

Stupid and itchy, eh? Well, I've been called a lot of things, but .... LOL

Interesting the buzz this thread has generated...

Long live the :beard:!

Here, here! :thumbsup:

Mad Slanted Powers

11-18-2007, 11:20 PM

Mr. JabbaJohnL

11-19-2007, 12:56 AM

I don't really hear much of people hating on beards. I know some women don't like them, but others do. However, mention back hair and you get all kinds of jokes and ridicule. So, while I keep my face shaved and I'm balding on my head, I'm part sasquatch everywhere else.
Dunno if this goes under the heading of "TMI," but any and all back hairs get tweezed right away. There aren't many, but there are some, which is just a few too many. :D

This Thanksgiving break is, for me (and apparently a few friends, but we'll see), Beard Week. We'll see how far it goes without shaving for a week. I'm not expecting great results but I could increase my sexiness tenfold. As if that's even possible. :thumbsup:

Tycho

11-19-2007, 01:16 AM

Just several thoughts:

It was too uncomfortable for me to wear facial hair, so I'm clean shaven.

I'm very clean shaven, as I think guys look gross with arm pit hair when they're at the beach and lay back with the back of their heads resting in their hands.

This may result in me looking effeminate but I am not going for that. I just don't want to look gross.

As to ladies? Well I also don't subscribe to holding my sexuality in check like I'm ashamed to be a straight man. It takes a lot of courage sometimes, but I will not abide by society's conventional "morality." Nice guys finish last.

The case being I just met a girl who told me she had a boyfriend. I was VERY quick to respond in a playful way, asking her when he wouldn't be home so I could have sex with her - and that we don't have to have dates on Friday nights. She laughed and gave me her phone number.

Mr. JabbaJohnL

11-19-2007, 01:23 AM

The case being I just met a girl who told me she had a boyfriend. I was VERY quick to respond in a playful way, asking her when he wouldn't be home so I could have sex with her - and that we don't have to have dates on Friday nights. She laughed and gave me her phone number.
Well, with a completely normal line like that, why shouldn't she?

Tycho

11-19-2007, 08:01 AM

Well, with a completely normal line like that, why shouldn't she?

I forget often and need to remind myself that a lot of it comes down to confidence levels.

I'm not likely to EVER see some random girl again, so it doesn't matter WHAT I say to her if it has humor, shows class (my example does not), or whatever. If you just are polite and have an interesting conversation, that's all it will ever be. You're still not going to see her again. She can find someone else to have another interesting conversation with her some other hour. If you show you're willing to hook it up with her, she has a reason to specifically see YOU later (if she wants you). If she is not interested in her, we're back to where we started again - you're never going to see her again so it didn't matter what you said to her.

El Chuxter

11-19-2007, 10:50 AM

Chewie never complains about his beard, and his is a lot fuller than yours will ever be.

2-1B

11-19-2007, 06:15 PM

Strangely enough though, Chewie DOES shave his armpits...he doesn't want to look gross and I don't blame him. :)

DarthQuack

11-19-2007, 07:10 PM

So I have brown hair and my beard is growing in red.....hmmmm

2-1B

11-19-2007, 09:13 PM

That's pretty cool Redbeard DQ, cuz then you can rock the :beard: AND the :Pirate: in the same post.

Mad Slanted Powers

11-19-2007, 09:36 PM

I've seen a touch of red in my hair, including the beard when I had one. Now it's more likely to be a touch of grey. My oldest brother is the red-head in the family. He had a big, full beard in his high school graduation picture. Now he just sports the goatee and maybe a mustache. My other brother did the Alaska beard thing as I did. He experimented with a goatee before, but was usually clean shaven. Last year or so he started doing the soul patch thing.

DarthQuack

11-19-2007, 10:18 PM

Soul patch....aka flavor saver??

Tycho

11-19-2007, 11:18 PM

Because some of my hair is blonde, I can't tell if lighter patches are toe-head or turning white.

Maybe I should assume it's the latter and get myself large, dark glasses and a cane to walk around with?

JediTricks

11-20-2007, 05:31 PM

Chewie never complains about his beard, and his is a lot fuller than yours will ever be.He doesn't have a beard, only a mustache!

I think guys look gross with arm pit hair when they're at the beach and lay back with the back of their heads resting in their hands.

This may result in me looking effeminate but I am not going for that. I just don't want to look gross.It's also more hygienic, the armpit hair collects bacteria from the sweat which creates more BO. I hear guys in Italy shave their pits for that reason.