I've grown a beard and now I'm treated differently

TwsT said:
what if they are more alpha without a beard :D afterall subscribing to fashion is a form of conformity and subjugation hardly alpha :) admittedly op is saying he didn't do it for fashion but still you know what i mean. Facial hair isn't the definition of alpha.
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All things being equal, in the wild the bearded male will be more likely to attract a mate. Wikipedia states:

"A courtship display is a set of display behaviors in which an animal attempts to attract a mate and exhibit their desire to copulate. These behaviors often include ritualized movement ("dances"), vocalizations, mechanical sound production, or displays of beauty, strength, or agonistic ability."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtship_display

Basically beard = alpha
 
Whilst i can see your point those with the loaded levels of testosterone to be "alpha" would grow a beard much easier and quicker than none alpha but in times where a none alpha has time to safely grow a beard without being out cast by the alpha or killed it's a defunct trait.

in short the ability to quickly grow proper facial hair could be defined as alpha not the abliity to grow a beard.
 
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I keep one because i look like a child clean shaven, as well as being lazy so its very low maintenance.

Fortunately i've got a very well behaved beard, full and thick enough but not full face full of hair and a neckbeard.
 
Timescale is nothing, beard is everything!!

Also, that would be the worst superpower - beard man, the power to rapidly grow a beard before your eyes! :D

If we look at Dexter's Lab circa 1997 we are reminded by Action Hank that "It doesn't matter if you have the beard on the outside, all that matters is that you have it on the inside." Basically inside every man there is a strong bearded man waiting to come out.
 
If belief was all you needed the world would be a different place but I did like like analogy. :)
 
I would be out with my wife and folks would laugh, jeer shouting beardy.
People can be so immature and hurtful.

I kept telling her to shave


;)
 
tom_nieto said:
Timescale is nothing, beard is everything!!

Also, that would be the worst superpower - beard man, the power to rapidly grow a beard before your eyes! :D

If we look at Dexter's Lab circa 1997 we are reminded by Action Hank that "It doesn't matter if you have the beard on the outside, all that matters is that you have it on the inside." Basically inside every man there is a strong bearded man waiting to come out.
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What am I reading?! Lol
 
AHarvey said:
You get 3 kinds of bears:

1) the man beard. Wears normal clothes, isn't over fussed on fashionable labels and it's a proper man's beard.

2) The neat and tidy beard, normally worn by quiffy haired skinny jean wearing no socks with shoes types that are doing it to be fashionable.

3) The patchy unable to grow a proper beard beards. Normally jealous of those that can grow them.

I've always had stubble, then did a murder mystery and grew a smallish beard for the fancy dress part of the night, a couple of weeks growth, it's stuck around since then, maybe 18 months now at most.

Gets a little curly at the sides so trim it with hair clippers to grade 2 or 3, and comes down about an inch under the chin. Keep it neat-ish but I'm not overly fussed.

I've one ginger mate who can't grow one who every time it gets a trim and I get a hair cut he makes a hipster comment but on the whole people like it.

You get women commenting on it or randomly coming up and stroking it in a pub but it's men that like it more, every time I go out drinking you get blokes walking past going "nice beard" etc, or in one case, another bearded bloke just shouting "BEARD!!!!!!" across the pub and then comes over, starts stroking it and talking about caring for it.

It also got me the nickname "the bear" at work.

It's at the point now where I don't know if I could shave it off...

I need to make me some beard balm too.
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I'm number 1
 
After doing 22 years in the army and having to shave pretty much every day. I've (wet) shaved twice in the 3 years since I left.
My "beard", if you can call it that, consists of me not shaving for 2-3 weeks. Followed by a trim with the clippers. Then repeat.

If it gets too long then it annoys me and also makes me look really old (it's about 70% grey).
 
I keep my beard mainly so I have something socially acceptable to stroke in public, the other option led to threats of being included on some sort of register :o
 
dessimpson said:
After doing 22 years in the army and having to shave pretty much every day. I've (wet) shaved twice in the 3 years since I left.
My "beard", if you can call it that, consists of me not shaving for 2-3 weeks. Followed by a trim with the clippers. Then repeat.

If it gets too long then it annoys me and also makes me look really old (it's about 70% grey).
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Nice pension tho:p
 
Had a beard before the fad, will have a beard after the fad. Your wives and girlfriends wanted me before and they will want me after. Hell, some of you probably want me too.
 
Skidder said:
Had a beard before the fad, will have a beard after the fad. Your wives and girlfriends wanted me before and they will want me after. Hell, some of you probably want me too.
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But they don't want you now because you're clean shaven. Is this some kind of self-inflicted celibacy?
 
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