Hairy Backs!!!

Pickers said:
Any calls for a poll on hairy backs?

"Hairy and proud - Man stylee"
"Hairy but keep it waxed off - Metro stylee"
"Not hairy, but not fussed"
"Not hairy & damn happy about it"
"Back Hair?! eugh - Repulsive! Repugnant! Hair-B-gone!"
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I can tell you the outcome of the poll already - hair for the win ;)
 
Hair for the Win !! GRRR !! ;)

I must admit LOADS and LOADS of hair would probably be a little bit :eek: but I certainly wouldn't start making waxing demands
 
Hairy is manly and manliness is hairy: I would never consider de-furring unless my girlfriend got carpet burns or something. I know some women like their men smooth, and my theory for such odd phenomena is that such women must either be a. lesbians and unaware of it, b. intimidated by overt displays of masculinity, or c. paedophiles. :D
 
kreeeee said:
How, pray tell, did you find out that dead material can sense when it is cut?
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Going by your reply I guess you shave twice a month or less? ;)
I don't know the scientific explanation for it but hair does get stronger when cut, as anyone on here WHO HAS ANY (:p) wil tell you.
 
Twaddle? You mean to tell me your beard doesn't get stronger if you shaver more often fatiain? Because mine certainly does, and I have the weight of extensive empirical evidence on my side! Not just my own either: we have 2 years compulsory national service in Cyprus, and the experiences of hundreds of Cypriot males I have discussed this with agree with mine.
 
manveruppd said:
Twaddle? You mean to tell me your beard doesn't get stronger if you shaver more often fatiain? Because mine certainly does, and I have the weight of extensive empirical evidence on my side! Not just my own either: we have 2 years compulsory national service in Cyprus, and the experiences of hundreds of Cypriot males I have discussed this with agree with mine.
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So by your arguement 80 year old men have bullet resistant beards? :D

When you cut hair, you're cutting the dead ends of the hair off it can't affect the growth. Your beard may *feel* thicker because of the blunt ends of the hair.

BTW, did you know beard hair is roughly triangular in cross section. FACT.
 
fatiain said:
So by your arguement 80 year old men have bullet resistant beards? :D

When you cut hair, you're cutting the dead ends of the hair off it can't affect the growth. Your beard may *feel* thicker because of the blunt ends of the hair.

BTW, did you know beard hair is roughly triangular in cross section. FACT.
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Erm sorry but my stubble is defiantely thicker than it used to be. How do i know? The little annoying bit under my bottom lip has only just started growing about a year ago, it started of as small thin hairs now its proper man stuble like the rest noticabely thicker!

What does your stuble do?
 
jezsoup said:
Erm sorry but my stubble is defiantely thicker than it used to be. How do i know? The little annoying bit under my bottom lip has only just started growing about a year ago, it started of as small thin hairs now its proper man stuble like the rest noticabely thicker!

What does your stuble do?
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I assume you started shaving when you started growing a beard for the first time...

Therefore you have two variables going on. You cannot draw accurace conclusions given the circumstances.

My suggestions:

Grow yourself an Al-Q stylee beard. Measure its thickness in units of "birds nested per square inch" then hire a hedge trimmer and get rid of it.

Grow ANOTHER Al-Q stylee beard (having shaved a few times) and again measure the thickness in birds nested per square inch.

Compare.

Perhaps repeat, applying mustard.
 
jezsoup said:
Erm sorry but my stubble is defiantely thicker than it used to be. How do i know? The little annoying bit under my bottom lip has only just started growing about a year ago, it started of as small thin hairs now its proper man stuble like the rest noticabely thicker!

What does your stuble do?
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Yes, but shaving doesn't make it do that, does it? It would have went like that anyway with age. You also don't get more hairy folicles appearing when you start shaving, if there was one before then after you shave there will still be one. Don't quote me on any of this though :rolleyes:
 
fatiain said:
So by your arguement 80 year old men have bullet resistant beards? :D
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YES!!! Why did you think so many retired cops become security guards???:p
No, seriously, it's the FREQUENCY of shaving that makes it grow stronger, and when you shave less often your beard gradually grows softer (another fact on which there is a general consensus).

When you cut hair, you're cutting the dead ends of the hair off it can't affect the growth. Your beard may *feel* thicker because of the blunt ends of the hair.
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Ah-ha, but the root of the hair is not dead, is it? And just as bushes (no, not that kind) or trees or other plants are periodically trimmed to make them stronger (by giving their roots less work to do by decreasing the amount of plant they have to send nutrients to, thereby making the rest of the plant stronger), so if you keep your beard short by shaving every single day the hairs will become stronger.

BTW, did you know beard hair is roughly triangular in cross section. FACT.
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Fedération Anglaise pour Cross-sections Triangulaires? (excuse my French... no, really, excuse it: I can't spell in French to save my life!:D)

What's that got to do with anything anyway? And is beard hair unique in this? Is pubic hair octagonal in cross-section or something? :confused:

Dude, just trust me on this one: it's my FACE I'm talking about - I live with it daily and know it intimately, you're not going to convince me it behaves otherwise by quoting scientific facts at me. And, as I said, it's a widely-held consensus that HUNDREDS if not thousands of men hold. If your beard doesn't behave in this way, it must be simply because your beard hair just isn't as strong/thick as mine, which means that although it does get stronger you just don't notice. When you can wear down a Mach 3 razor blade in a 5 shaves under normal use and only 2 shaves when you're shaving daily you NOTICE the difference!:D
 
kreeeee said:
How, pray tell, did you find out that dead material can sense when it is cut?
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It cant, therefore the hair keeps growing and will get thicker and thicker, much like the base of a tree gets thicker as it grows and grows.

If you wax it, it pulls it out completely and a new hair grows, thus it will never get thicker.

Or were you being sarcastic its hard to tell on a forum :p
 
kreeeee said:
How, pray tell, did you find out that dead material can sense when it is cut?
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You tear hair out by the root when you wax.
You cut it off at it's thickest point when you shave.

As it grows again (and speaking of which, isn't interesting that hair only grows to a certain length, seeing as it's dead material and apparently, can't sense when its cut)

Effectively, the base of the hair will become the tip, and as such, the strand will be thicker :)

Ant :cool:

EDIT: Oh, and I'd like to point out that I have partial hair growth on my face and head, so I wet shave daily. The hair is noticeably thicker if I'm shaving daily as opposed to weekly.

Ant :cool:
 
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