A Beard - do you have one?

[Arakhor]

I've never dyed my hair either. I maintain a beard because I don't want to go to the effort of regularly shaving and combing it for a few seconds every few days is much less effort.

 

[Zardnaar]

I've never dyed my hair either. I maintain a beard because I don't want to go to the effort of regularly shaving and combing it for a few seconds every few days is much less effort.

Habit they gandedout free razors at high school so been clean shaven ever since with two short lived exceptions.

 

[The_J]

The only real grooming I do is to trim it down every 2 weeks, but I'm also not letting it grow long, so not the best comparison .

So, a preliminary conclusion from this seems to be – the CFC community is a pretty hairy bunch?

I'm pretty sure that conclusion would hold without the beard knowledge ^^.

I am actually surprised by how many voted that they have beards. It is still (despite the fad) relatively rare, I think.

I'm surprised too. But maybe you shouldn't think of white, nerdy kids with big glasses as the stereotype who hangs around here lol.

 

[Samson]

The only grooming mine gets is running my fingers through it while I am sat at my computer thinking. It is really good for that, I have wondered if that is why so many famous philosophers have had beards, so they have something to do with their hands while they are philosophising.

 

[Arakhor]

I'm surprised too. But maybe you shouldn't think of white, nerdy kids with big glasses as the stereotype who hangs around here lol.

I think that's more because we've all grown up now.

 

[Kyriakos]

I'm surprised too. But maybe you shouldn't think of white, nerdy kids with big glasses as the stereotype who hangs around here lol.

Despite the bearded chad meme, I think that most irl beardos are actually pretty nerdy
Although a beard, typically, is a symbol of power (you can't have one if you are a prepubescent boy).

 

[Verbose]

I'm surprised too. But maybe you shouldn't think of white, nerdy kids with big glasses as the stereotype who hangs around here lol.

I kind of think that was how it started, but now we should have progressed to an assembly of sage Philosophers with beards to our knees – and the domes of our heads peeking out on top.

 

[Angst]

I am actually surprised by how many voted that they have beards. It is still (despite the fad) relatively rare, I think.

Well, we're relatively enfranchised nerds. They usually have beards.

edit i'm slow

 

[Sofista]

I'm surprised too. But maybe you shouldn't think of white, nerdy kids with big glasses as the stereotype who hangs around here lol.

That's right! Everybody sing:

I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay,
I sleep all night and I work all day...

 

[GinandTonic]

The pubs open tomorrow after almost six months, in honour of which I've attacked the whole of my head with clippers. Less hair and more dome on the top, an awful lot of white in the beard - but about as dapper as it's going to get these days.

It's a weird thought that I'll be in a (not a supermarket) room with another human being tomorrow for the first time since november 4th last year.

 

[Samson]

It's a weird thought that I'll be in a (not a supermarket) room with another human being tomorrow for the first time since november 4th last year.

I recently had that thought, with the replacements: supermarket => medical establishment, tomorrow => vote day and november 4th => February 9th.

 

[GinandTonic]

I recently had that thought, with the replacements: supermarket => medical establishment, tomorrow => vote day and november 4th => February 9th.

Feb 9th? You had Christmas? You jammy...

 

[Samson]

Feb 9th? You had Christmas? You jammy...

Feb 9th 2020.

 

[GinandTonic]

Feb 9th 2020.

Ouch!

 

[MaryKB]

Question: why are some beards rough and scratchy, and others are soft and silky? Is it purely genetics, or like does it have to do with how well you take care of your beard? Do you use shampoo and conditioner, like with hair?

 

[Birdjaguar]

@MaryKB Genetics mostly, but if you ignore basic cleanliness, well who knows.

 

[PhroX]

Question: why are some beards rough and scratchy, and others are soft and silky? Is it purely genetics, or like does it have to do with how well you take care of your beard? Do you use shampoo and conditioner, like with hair?

I suspect it's a bit of one, a bit of the other. To keep my beard decently soft, I have to use beard oil every couple of days, but I know guys who don't and say their beards are fine without (they do wash their beards of course, but don't use specialist stuff to keep it soft). I've also noticed that my beard has become rougher with age.

 

[Akka]

No beard. I tried to grow one when I was young, but it just itches too much. And no, it doesn't pass with habit.
Anyway I prefer the "morning shadow" look, so all is well, I just buzz it every two-three days or so.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

When I was young, I grew a beard.

Now, my beard grows a man.

 

[Farm Boy]

Well, we're relatively enfranchised nerds. They usually have beards.

edit i'm slow

Sorta depends on the work people do. If you get dirty every day, the beard is easier to shave than clean. Hair length too. In that situation, the hair is an affectation. If you're inside/clean almost all the time, shaving and cutting your hair is more effort than washing it. Then shaving is the affectation.