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BEARDS!

Okay, I’ve grown a beard on different occasions. My family generally hates it, and some of my friends say it doesn’t suit me, but I love it. And why not? It defines my chin, it’s warm, and adds a little something different to an otherwise uninteresting face. Plus, it hides those pesky zits that still crop up now and again.

And then I see celebrities like Conan O’Brien and David Letterman with these great beards one week, and then suddenly they’re gone. Why? Are beards really that faux pas? I mean, the way I see it, a beard (or any facial hair, really) is a perfect complement to a man’s masculinity. Oddly, my grandpa hates my beard, but he’s old and Chinese, so I guess there’s a cultural difference there. But I’ve had girlfriends who’ve told me they like my beard and actually refused me to shave it, so I can’t understand why they are so unpopular.

I’m putting this out to every able-bodied male out there on Help.com: Grow a beard! Try it once. Who cares what your significant other or family or friends say about it? Just do it. I figure every man should try it just once. I mean, there are so many things people miss out on in life, especially the simple things like growing a beard.

So what are you waiting for? Get to growing! You’re not a real man if you don’t.

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Rico offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 4 #
US | 1 year, 6 months ago (9 minutes after post)

Ive had a beard now for 10yrs. In the late summer I stop trimming all together and when halloween comes around I do something crazy with it. Last october I had the handlebar and chin poof. Come November first is the only day of the year you will see me clean shaven. A week later its back in buisness.

I started to grow the beard because it is painfull to shave. My facial hair is extreemly thick and any razer no matter how expensive just cuts up my face when I shave. I just use an electric razer to trim.

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Shakeybritches offline Verified User (1 year, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (9 minutes after post)

I have grown one in the past and even now have a 3″ goatee.

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Cole Becket offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (11 minutes after post)

I had a beard, but I shaved it off. If I could I would never grow a beard again.

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The Astro-Man offline Verified User (2 years, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (17 minutes after post)
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The Astro-Man offline Verified User (2 years, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (17 minutes after post)

What the hell? It worked in the preview.

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The Astro-Man offline Verified User (2 years, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (17 minutes after post)

Becket wrote:
I had a beard, but I shaved it off. If I could I would never grow a beard again.

If you could? What’s that mean? Are you somehow obligated to wear a beard?

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Cole Becket offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (18 minutes after post)

I have an insane beard growing abillity, it’s a nuisance.

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The Astro-Man offline Verified User (2 years, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (19 minutes after post)

I envy you, good sir. Takes me a good two weeks to get a good base grown in.

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Cole Becket offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (21 minutes after post)

Don’t. Nobody should have a noticeable five o’clock shadow at noon. But if you like your beard then grow away.

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Shakeybritches offline Verified User (1 year, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (23 minutes after post)

I hate having to shave, I shave my head too!

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Rico offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 4 #
US | 1 year, 6 months ago (23 minutes after post)

Becket wrote:
Don’t. Nobody should have a noticeable five o’clock shadow at noon. But if you like your beard then grow away.

That is why I gave up shaving. Just a trimmer now. When I took physics in college we were working on diffraction patterns with lazers. All the facial haired people measured the width of thier hair. Mine was the thickest by about 3times. The proff didnt believe and measured it himself with a microscope.

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Rico offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 4 #
US | 1 year, 6 months ago (34 minutes after post)

Anyone have that experience where you shave a well worn beard and you have super white skin and the wind freezes that part of your face?

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kemmy offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (37 minutes after post)

Hahahaha, I saw BEARD, and had to check it out.

Your post is hilarious! Really, props to you for growing a beard and trying it out.

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The Astro-Man offline Verified User (2 years, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (53 minutes after post)

I recently shaved my beard off in lieu of a pair of mutton chops. For the first week or so of having it off, I felt naked. I hated it. I’m growing it back as of now.

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nanny shark offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 12 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (1 hour, 57 minutes after post)

Speaking of beards, you know something I realized? We haven’t had a bearded President since Benjamin Harrison in 1893. The last mustachioed president was in 1913, William Taft.

This just goes to show you that America doesn’t appreciate a good patch of man-fur anymore. I’m growing a beard just to spite our voting population.

I wonder how Obama would look with a fu manchu?

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Rico offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 4 #
US | 1 year, 6 months ago (2 hours, 7 minutes after post)

Obama would do much better with a nice set of chops and a soul patch.

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nanny shark offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 12 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (2 hours, 10 minutes after post)

Ah, touche.

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The Astro-Man offline Verified User (2 years, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (2 hours, 20 minutes after post)

Rico wrote:
Obama would do much better with a nice set of chops and a soul patch.

We should petition for that.

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Rico offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 4 #
US | 1 year, 6 months ago (2 hours, 21 minutes after post)

Throw in a mohawk

“I pitty the foo who vote Republican!”

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Felicity offline Verified User (1 year, 11 months) Long Term User Shouts: 18 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (3 hours, 4 minutes after post)

Personally, I’m attracted to a guy in a mustache or beard,and if they have both,Yowza!Add a cowboy hat and I’m his.

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1 year, 6 months ago (3 hours, 33 minutes after post)

Howdy Partner…..lol

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Tictactomm offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 13 #
Edmonton, AB, CA | 1 year, 6 months ago (6 hours, 23 minutes after post)

I used the awesome power of the beard on only two occasions:

1) Grew for 8 months while my wife was pregnant with the girls: shaved the day they were born.
2) Grew for 9 months while my wife was pregnant with my son: shaved the day he was born.

Now the beard must lay dormant until another worthy cause dawns on me.

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Tictactomm offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 13 #
Edmonton, AB, CA | 1 year, 6 months ago (6 hours, 24 minutes after post)

By the way, the best desciption of beard growing in a year has to be AJ Jacob’s The Year of Living Biblically.

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JesusMurphy offline Verified User (2 years, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 5 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (9 hours, 4 minutes after post)

I used to think my Grandpa was Santa Claus cause he always had a long, crazy white beard. When none of my peers believed me when I told them, I grew suspicious of my mother’s father. One day I simply jumped him in the living room, grabbed as much of his beard as my tiny hands could, and yanked as hard as my proportinally tiny body would allow.
My Grandfather doesn’t visit as much as he used to.

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Times' gone mad offline Verified User (2 years, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 6 #
Silver Spring, MD, US | 1 year, 6 months ago (15 hours, 53 minutes after post)

*15 hrs later* no beard…dammit!

oh right, sorry can’t has a beard. :(

I don’t like a beard on my Fiance, but I prefer the scruff to clean shave–it’s kinda sexy.

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The Astro-Man offline Verified User (2 years, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (16 hours, 57 minutes after post)

If that is your fiance in your profile, then he’s rockin’ a pretty sweet beard, even if it is mostly scruff. But hey, scruff counts.

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Times' gone mad offline Verified User (2 years, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 6 #
Silver Spring, MD, US | 1 year, 6 months ago (17 hours, 34 minutes after post)

Yes that’s him. And that’s pretty much a beard, or a month of not shaving.

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mou offline Verified User (2 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
AQ | 1 year, 6 months ago (22 hours, 31 minutes after post)

Alas, once again I have beard envy.

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downtowndaisy offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (3 days, 17 hours after post)

I have to say I find beards extremely attractive on most guys haha.. My first ex never could grow facial hair for 2 reasons, his job, and it just wouldn’t grow… I’d get pissed when he shaved the little bit of stubble he had… second ex… had a goatee type of thing minus the stache haha with the little soul patch below his bottom lip… SO HOT! I used to play with it haha… I miss that soul patch… :)

Now moustaches are a whole different story… those can range from creepy to hot… just depends on the guy… but for the most part they are a bit weird…

I 3 Beards!!

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pineapppplemonke offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (6 days, 11 hours after post)

beards are great! i think all men must have one!
you can do so much with them!

if i was a male i would so have a goatie and die different colours like billy conealy he is a legan!!

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aeolian mode offline Verified User (2 years, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 10 #
Rocklin, CA, US | 1 year, 6 months ago (6 days, 21 hours after post)

One of the highest levels of acheivement is the growth of a beard……..

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The Astro-Man offline Verified User (2 years, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (6 days, 22 hours after post)

Totally. Mine is coming back nicely. I am quite pleased with my progress.

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aeolian mode offline Verified User (2 years, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 10 #
Rocklin, CA, US | 1 year, 6 months ago (6 days, 22 hours after post)

let me restate what I wrote…. One of the highest levels of acheivement for man or women is the growth of a beard

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Florimouse offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 26 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (1 week after post)

Jebus Zeus (CoalMan) wrote:
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=349e7…

Very nice! :)

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Florimouse offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 26 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (1 week after post)

nanny shark wrote:
Speaking of beards, you know something I realized? We haven’t had a bearded President since Benjamin Harrison in 1893. The last mustachioed president was in 1913, William Taft.

This just goes to show you that America doesn’t appreciate a good patch of man-fur anymore. I’m growing a beard just to spite our voting population.

I wonder how Obama would look with a fu manchu?

Well, I for one appreciate a good patch!! :)

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Florimouse offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 26 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (1 week after post)

The Astro-Man wrote:
If that is your fiance in your profile, then he’s rockin’ a pretty sweet beard, even if it is mostly scruff. But hey, scruff counts.

Nice eyes, too.

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The Astro-Man offline Verified User (2 years, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (1 week after post)

florie wrote:
Nice eyes, too.

Yup, I got that.

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nanny shark offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 12 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (1 week after post)

I have no idea how I found this. Listen to Beard Lust; maybe it’ll give you a chuckle.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?…
Enjoy.

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Tictactomm offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 13 #
Edmonton, AB, CA | 1 year, 6 months ago (1 week, 1 day after post)

Nice nannyshark!

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