Winter: time to get beardy ?
Dec 4th 2006, 9:21 am
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Re: Winter: time to get beardy ?
Originally Posted by willmore
Does a mole with a hair growing out of it count for anything? 
Dec 4th 2006, 1:20 pm
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Re: Winter: time to get beardy ?
Originally Posted by Rich_007
So after a week or two of minus temps and forecasted long term cold weather for the next 2 months or more, is it time to grow a beard ? I've noticed a few people grow the stubbly fluff beard or the medium-thickness 'forestry workers beard' stylee. Note I'm not thinking of a full thick bushy bushman look. Now that would just be stoopid.
And so I'm given to consideration of achieving beardy status....less morning hassles with shaving. Lower maintenance costs, no need to buy expensive multi-blade razors for a few weeks. A nice no-cost insulated face-protector. A somewhat rugged look appealing to certain types.
So, is it time to beardy up, or should I yearn for something more socially acceptable, like a Satan-worshipper, NDP member, etc ? Anyone on here a part time winter beardy type ?
Rich.
And so I'm given to consideration of achieving beardy status....less morning hassles with shaving. Lower maintenance costs, no need to buy expensive multi-blade razors for a few weeks. A nice no-cost insulated face-protector. A somewhat rugged look appealing to certain types.
So, is it time to beardy up, or should I yearn for something more socially acceptable, like a Satan-worshipper, NDP member, etc ? Anyone on here a part time winter beardy type ?
Rich.
I can get away without shaving for a few days a time this way, and after the first few days its soft enough that MrsK has no complaints
Its a goatee thing...sadly a bit ging too
She must really love me!Besides, when it comes off again in the spring I look so much younger
I realised how...well... canadian I had become yesterday, moving a big pile of dirt to make a flatish section of yard to make the rink on.
A: Calling it "The Yard"
B: Wanting a rink
C: Wanting it better than last year!
D: Thinking, Phew, bit warm, I should take my jacket off, then realising it was minus 5!
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Dec 4th 2006, 1:27 pm
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Re: Winter: time to get beardy ?
Originally Posted by iaink
I can get away without shaving for a few days a time this way, and after the first few days its soft enough that MrsK has no complaints
Besides, when it comes off again in the spring I look so much younger
Besides, when it comes off again in the spring I look so much younger
But I've been told by my good lady wife that if it's not gone by the time I get to Canada I'll have a long walk home from the airport.
Dec 4th 2006, 1:32 pm
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Re: Winter: time to get beardy ?
Originally Posted by welshchem
At the minute th OH is in Canada while I'm still in the UK finishing my PhD, so I'm cultivating a thesis writing beard.
But I've been told by my good lady wife that if it's not gone by the time I get to Canada I'll have a long walk home from the airport.
But I've been told by my good lady wife that if it's not gone by the time I get to Canada I'll have a long walk home from the airport.
There seems to be a lot of irrational beard prejudice in the UK...I used to have it too, but when you are out freezing various bits off outside at -20 practicalities take over, and you realise its nothing to be afraid off.
I suspect if my OH wasnt Canadian I theres a good chance I would never have been given the opportunity to keep it either.
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Dec 4th 2006, 1:35 pm
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Re: Winter: time to get beardy ?
Originally Posted by iaink
Tell her she should knock it until shes tried it!
She's a wiley one
Dec 4th 2006, 1:42 pm
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Re: Winter: time to get beardy ?
Originally Posted by welshchem
I don't think it's up for negotiation! When I tried arguing she just threatened to bring extra cases of stuff to the airport for me to carry on the journey.
She's a wiley one
She's a wiley one
I wonder what shes afraid of?
Dec 4th 2006, 2:47 pm
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Re: Winter: time to get beardy ?
Originally Posted by iaink
Her loss then...and yours too I suppose
I wonder what shes afraid of?
I wonder what shes afraid of?
Dec 4th 2006, 2:49 pm
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Re: Winter: time to get beardy ?
Originally Posted by welshchem
She says it makes me look old, I say distinguished
) you'll look when it comes off after the winter
You'll be like a new man
Dec 4th 2006, 2:50 pm
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Re: Winter: time to get beardy ?
I sport a goatee 365 days of the year. The Mrs threatens to leave if I shave it off. Apart from a disturbing amount of grey, nay white appearing in it I am happy to comply! It doesn't get cold enough here to notice any appreciable difference having one in winter or not. On the other hand it doesn't get warm enough in summer to make it too sweaty an experience either!
Dec 4th 2006, 2:53 pm
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Re: Winter: time to get beardy ?
Originally Posted by iaink
There seems to be a lot of irrational beard prejudice in the UK...
There's surely no arguing that facial hair on men is one thing Mrs Thatcher was right about
Dec 4th 2006, 2:57 pm
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Re: Winter: time to get beardy ?
Originally Posted by Biiiiink
There's surely no arguing that facial hair on men is one thing Mrs Thatcher was right about
I guess she had to be right about something. What did she say?Whats you're experience of men with beards anyway?
Dec 4th 2006, 3:00 pm
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Re: Winter: time to get beardy ?
Originally Posted by iaink
I guess she had to be right about something. What did she say?Whats you're experience of men with beards anyway?
I don't mind a goatee I suppose, it's the full beard I couldn't stand.
What was that Roald Dahl book about a beardy man with all kinds of food debris stuck in there...? I must have read that at a young and impressionable age and it's stuck with me
Dec 4th 2006, 3:02 pm
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Re: Winter: time to get beardy ?
But Santas alright isn't he?
Dec 4th 2006, 3:03 pm
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Re: Winter: time to get beardy ?
Originally Posted by Bleech
But Santas alright isn't he?
Dec 4th 2006, 3:04 pm
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Re: Winter: time to get beardy ?
Originally Posted by Biiiiink
She said she "wouldn't tolerate any minister of mine wearing a beard" I think, they were banned from the cabinet.
I don't mind a goatee I suppose, it's the full beard I couldn't stand.
What was that Roald Dahl book about a beardy man with all kinds of food debris stuck in there...? I must have read that at a young and impressionable age and it's stuck with me
I don't mind a goatee I suppose, it's the full beard I couldn't stand.
What was that Roald Dahl book about a beardy man with all kinds of food debris stuck in there...? I must have read that at a young and impressionable age and it's stuck with me