[Volkh]

Well I started growing mine a few weeks ago before even seeing this! what good timing. My girlfriend hates it, but lord do i love it.

[Slow Ben]

I mean I REALLY hate you all.

[cauthon]

Should that not be EQ?

[cerveza_fiesta]

The boyfriend of the girl who lives in the apt upstairs from me has a colossal beard...and just bought a kit for it that includes:

• trimming equipment
  
• A beard comb
  
• Beard soap
  
• Leave-in beard conditioner
  
• a bumper sticker saying "real men wear beards"

My mind is simultaneously screaming "GAY!" and "AWESOME!" at this.

I can't decide which it actually is...I suppose it could be gay AND awesome....or awesomely gay, or awesome in its own gay little way, or just plain GAYSOME.

Hard to say...thoughts?

On a sidenote, she wont let him put the bumper sticker on her car...so i volunteered my truck. I think he might give me the sticker...which is the awesomest part of the whole kit.

[Tiste Simeon]

It's worth it just for the bumper sticker...

[Slow Ben]

If you have a beard that can be described as colossal, I think you get a gay pass on just about anything you need to maintain it.

[cerveza_fiesta]

@ben

well put and very true.

Colossal might have been a strong word, but its well on its way to colossality....colossalness...colonoscopy?

Right now its at about "this is SPARTA" levels.

Mine still looks a bit ratty.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Could be the beard is awesome but your love for it is gay?

[Mezla PigDog]

I persuaded Mr Mezla to try a beard a few weeks back (no, it didn't take much persuading, just one small "Do you think you would look good with a beard?" and the razor went into hiding). He had to shave for a wedding but restarted 2 weeks ago. It is looking mighty fine and if he decides to keep it, I was thinking of some kind of beard grooming kit should be under the tree on Christmas morning. So what is it that a man needs to truely care for his mane?

[cerveza_fiesta]

@mez

well, my friend (the bf of the girl that lives upstairs from me) apparently requires beard soap, leave in conditioner, a comb, trimming scissors and a bumper sticker

I figure if you repeat that, you'd have a gaysome christmas present on your hands.

@RLY,

Touche.

[Cougar]

Using a little trickery I've managed to persuade Mrs C to not whine too much so I'm having a go at the beard. I shall report back in due course

[Tiste Simeon]

I just told the gf that I was growing it in competition with some geeks online. She was surprisingly OK with that... Should I be worried?

[cerveza_fiesta]

I received the typical eye-roll when I said the same to the wifey.

She's used to me yammering about things I find funny on the forum, though she still doesn't approve.

The best was when we were on a romantic getaway in Quebec City and I convinced her to let me call up Darkwatch to go for a beer. We talked forum / startrek all night. Ha!

I had a great time, and though DW is a hell of a nice guy and she had a good time that night, she still rolls her eyes when I talk about it.

Anyways, beards.

Mine received a third compliment today from the third and final female at my place of employment. Again, she's old and kinda gross but still, opposite gender positive comments about my beard ALL COUNT.

My grand total is 3 positive compliments now. I'm impressed because even I'll admit it looks kinda terrible at the moment, but still awesome.

Terrsome...awesible...aweserrible....AWECERITOPS.

fuck...I bet an aweceritops would have a beard. Aweceritops beards would probably even survive as a fossil. Paleontologists would be puzzled about the large scraggly appendage rooted to the chin-bones of these large carnivorous reptiles from the jurrassic age. They would also find pieces wavy, fatty, salt-laden meat in the gizzard of such creatures and the mystery of the Aweceritops' typical diet would be solved.

I think we all know the answer. Bacon.

Beard

bacon
bacon
bacon

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Mezla PigDog, on 26 October 2009 - 04:59 PM, said:

I persuaded Mr Mezla to try a beard a few weeks back (no, it didn't take much persuading, just one small "Do you think you would look good with a beard?" and the razor went into hiding). He had to shave for a wedding but restarted 2 weeks ago. It is looking mighty fine and if he decides to keep it, I was thinking of some kind of beard grooming kit should be under the tree on Christmas morning. So what is it that a man needs to truely care for his mane?

I dunno bout the special shampoo and conditioner, but a decent trimmer should have good battery life and be reasonably easy to recharge. I bought a cheap one a while back and the battery life is terrible - it's one of those things you won't notice if it's there, but if it isn't it's very annoying. Other than that they'll all be pretty standard, although you should make sure it can cater for the length you have in mind. The longest mine cuts is about 5mm, which suites me fine, but might be a bit short for someone else. Make sure it has a decent motor that will cut (as some one else said - not pull) through everything in a pass or two, trying to catch that one long hair can get irritating. And check how easy it is to clean, you dont want to have to disassemble the thing to get all the wayward hairs out. The little comb is also pretty cool, even if you only use it to pretend you're a giant

@ cervesa - rep for aweceritops, that's meme-worthy.

[Darkwatch]

Tiste Simeon, on 26 October 2009 - 06:37 PM, said:

I just told the gf that I was growing it in competition with some geeks online. She was surprisingly OK with that... Should I be worried?

Depends really how far she'll let the whole "The internet told me to" go.

Mezla:
What you want is a basic beard trimming kit, nothing overly fancy like CF's neighbour.
Just:
-The trimmer (with adjustable trimming guide)
-The comb
-Scissors

Beard shampoo and conditioner is over kill as such. Just washing it in the shower with soap or normal shampoo does the job quite well.


CF:
Hehehehehe.

For my part I have a 10 positive female reactions to my beard versus 5 negative female reactions.


Right now I've cleaned it up a bit since I went to visit some family, trimmed a bit of the jawline but only enough to give some shape back. Still nice and full.

[Salt-Man Z]

I know you're talking about beards and all, but is anyone aware of Movember coming up? Check out the link; I'm considering taking part.

[Satan]

cerveza_fiesta, on 26 October 2009 - 06:52 PM, said:

Mine received a third compliment today from the third and final female at my place of employment. Again, she's old and kinda gross but still, opposite gender positive comments about my beard ALL COUNT.

My grand total is 3 positive compliments now. I'm impressed because even I'll admit it looks kinda terrible at the moment, but still awesome.

Darkwatch, on 26 October 2009 - 07:16 PM, said:

For my part I have a 10 positive female reactions to my beard versus 5 negative female reactions.


Right now I've cleaned it up a bit since I went to visit some family, trimmed a bit of the jawline but only enough to give some shape back. Still nice and full.

I don't get compliments for my beard as much as shocking disapproval when I show them a picture of me clean shaven. But hey! Whatever one can get, right?

[Bapop]

Mmm... Sparta-beard

Sadly enough I'm not as far along in my attempt but we'll get there. At least there hasn't been any negative comments, come to think of it no one has commented upon my attempt:question:

@Saltman We have something similar for prostate cancer here in Sweden so I see a potential connection, but I was to lazy to check out the site properly, perhaps later on

[Macros]

I'm still in.
dilema though, we're heading down to the city for halloween, so my 8 week easy run on the isle of middle of fucking nowhere has no been jepodised by the fact that I look like a hobo and although its halloween, the beared hobo look doesnt float with colonel stafenberg or whatever his name is.

Will try and stick the pace, report coming on sunday

[cauthon]

This be my colleague: