Yesterday I passed a barbershop and saw ads on their wall outside of men with beards and short hair. It is a revival or saving electricity ?
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- I’m lazy
- I can
- makes me look my age
- razor burn sucks
- 3’o clock shadow sucks
- who cares?
it’s fun to play with. my ADHD brain likes the texture
That’s the tism side of my brain. The ADHD side of my brain thinks shaving is the most boring chore ever. I fold and put away my laundry with greater frequency.
Fashions change. We were about due for a swing back to beardy, I reckon.
Personally, I’m bald, and I grow a really good on that, like, holds a shape. It just makes sense.
In the US they were definitely out of fashion in the '80s and '90s. They were fashion statement that said “I’m a gross hippie” or worse, a BeeGee.
I was a teen at the time and the consensus among teen girls was that a beard was the ultimate dealbreaker of a physical attribute. Makes sense, really, because most guys our age couldn’t grow a nice one if they wanted to. (And also - hippies are gross). I always respectfully disagreed, and would point to our classmate, Murad. He had pretty well grown facial hair by junior year and he looked fiiiinne.
The exception that proved the rule? Luckily (for Murad) my classmates generally agreed, but refused to back down from their opinion in general.
That attitude persisted, with the occasional appearance of a goatee or soul patch in the late '90s, both of which proved to be a gateway drug that led to the appearance of proper beards. I think a lot of guys would have liked to have beards, but realized that they were driving away potential partners. But they were pretty normal by 2010.
I’ll drop this line from wikipedia, which should illustrate just how boringly mainstream beards have become in the US.
Since 2015 a growing number of male political figures have worn beards in office, including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and Senators Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton.
Damn hippies.
My wife and I both grew up in the eighties/nineties and this was exactly her attitude for years. It was only when I went ahead and grew one anyway - despite her reservations - and she decided she actually likes the way I look with it and now won’t let me shave it off!
I just do whatever the last attractive person who gave me advice on my appearance told me to do
There’s a strong correlation between haircuts and facial hair, and economic uncertainty.
I couldnt find a good source for this, can you share it?
It doesn’t exist. Who’d fund that research? Lolz
Yeah, I’m interested. It’s not a connection I’d expect.
Edit: Hmm. Not a study, but there’s musings towards the end of this article.
Interesting article!
I’m a unix-guru.
If I were to shave I’d get a -5 penalty on my bash magic.
If I skip showers for a month I can interface directly with any device in /dev
If I skip showers for a month I can interface directly with any device in /dev
None of /dev will want your interface.
/dev/zero will always be accepting.
I hate it when when my local /dev/shm gets smelly.
GROSS! And can you fix my nvidia drivers???
It’s been foretold that after a year without touching grass you can harness one-handed vim
Samson was actually a sys admin whose servers had incredible uptime until his beard was shaved.
So says the unix bible
He can’t take that risk! Don’t you know what you’re asking?
The biggest problem with growing a beard is that it only looks good after a certain amount of time. When people grow beards it’s usually when they are on vacation because it is nice not having to shave and you dont have to look professional with a crazy half grown beard.
A couple of years ago the word took an extended vacation and a lot of people took the opportunity to grow a beard.
Eh, idk. Depends on the person. I’ve been going for a “scruff” look for a few years now. I trim close-ish 1-2 times/week, just before it starts to get itchy from hairs getting long enough. I always have at least 1-2mm facial hair.
If I go clean-shaven, I have baby face and I look 10 years younger. Not a good look. A bit of scruff makes me look closer to my age, but I don’t like the look of a full beard on me since I can’t grow a decent mustache. It looks like I’m trying too hard.
Im lazy. Dont like my beard, but cbf shaving.
Could be recency bias, could be that fashion is a cycle that repeats and old fashions are rediscovered. Could be laziness because at some point it becomes easier to trim a beard once every month than shave everyday.
Some people’s skin also can’t handle daily trauma from razors.
It also looks more interesting than a vanilla clean shave, imo. People might be looking to stand out for that reason.
I look better with a beard, it’s not that deep
Same. I shaved mine a while back and my best friend was blunt - “You look better with the beard”.
Righto. Beard it is.
Same here. I used to shave my head and face but recently I went through a period of over-work and didn’t have time to shave. Everyone told me I looked better with hair and beard, including the wife. So hair and beard it is then
Some people’s skin also can’t handle daily trauma from razors.
Pili multigemini…
I might have fucked up the order, but it means “multiple twin hairs”. Like, where just one hair should grow out of your skin, you have multiples.
If you let it just grow, you’re fine. But if you shave it’s very easy for it to be ingrown because the “hole” the hairs come thru was only meant for one hair.
When I was in the military and had to shave every day it was horrible. I don’t know if shaving makes more grow, but I’d have stubble thicker than mechanical pencil lead, and when I’d pluck it I’d find out it was 3-5 hairs attached to the same “root”. One of those becoming ingrown is a huge hassle.
With a beard, it’ll just shed normally or come out when I comb it. The problem is when you shave and the hair bunch has to keep pushing thru the skin over and over.
I’m a fucking wizard - the beard is mandatory.
I control electron flow on my spare time
I control erection flow.
Do the other wizards just give you the staff, or do you have to go on a quest or something?
Becoming a wizard isn’t so trivial as just being declared one - many wizards apprenticed themselves to gain knowledge and improve their chances but that elevation is a personal journey.
You will know you’re a wizard when you can look at fellows in your skill and know that none of them would challenge your adoption of the title. I wish you the best of luck. It’s a title within reach of everyone in their lifetime.
The staff and robes are optional but who would turn down a badass purple robe.
It’s really the stick I’m interested in. So you can just go get your own staff? Nobody awards you the staff, or stops you from getting a staff?
Nah, you can just make yourself a staff - there aren’t any restrictions, registries or waiting periods.
I’m seeing a lot of those creepy mustaches lately.
The Charlie Chaplin ones?
You talking bout me?
Dawg like a year ago I came back into the office for the first time since Covid and all the 20 year olds had somewhere between pedo stashes and handlebars. Zoomers crack me up they’re great
I think zoomers are young enough not to have the generational memory of how creepy mustaches are, so suddenly they’re cool again. I’m afraid it’ll last until the zoomers are old enough to be the creepy ones.
It’s partly because of Top Gun and some other recent pop culture occurrence I can’t recall off the top of my head. But yeah, I know several people at work who recently started doing it as well, and one of them mentioned that as their inspiration. I’m guessing a few started bc of that and more followed suit, because why not or something.
No one here did it because of Top Gun lol… I think it just came hand in hand with the mullet being back in fashion
It’s been trending since COVID
At least maybe even before that
I mean, beards are in fashion for several years now, aren’t they?
I personally started growing a beard, because my skin is easily irritated and I don’t like walking arround looking like a pizza. Luckily I also think I look better with a short, well kept full beard. Beards either take time or look like shit though in my experience.
If I may quote Nick Offerman…
I grow a beard because I am neither a child nor a woman.
