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 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.
I hate it when when my local /dev/shm gets smelly.
Samson was actually a sys admin whose servers had incredible uptime until his beard was shaved.
So says the unix bible
It’s been foretold that after a year without touching grass you can harness one-handed vim
GROSS! And can you fix my nvidia drivers???
He can’t take that risk! Don’t you know what you’re asking?
What do you mean men are growing beards “again”? I haven’t noticed any trend between clean shaven / bearded. Some do, some don’t.
Yeah, beards have been common since at least the ‘hipster/lumbersexual’ memes which were about 2008 or so. There’s not been any particular drop off since then. It’s just accepted that some people prefer or look better with a beard.
I’m at least six years in on my current beard. Many others before that.
Why do people on the internet think you don’t have to shave if you have a beard? You’re just shaving less area.
Exactly. When I was clean shaven, it was easy, I could just hold the shaver against the contours of my face.
Now, with a large beard, I only need to shave every one or two weeks, but it takes much longer to do so and is much trickier. I’ve got to sculpt and shape a mound of hair manually. And every day I still brush and oil it.
Clean or short shaven was actually less effort.
Ha, NSFW example but my God when people call the tight trimmed triangle a “natural bush” on women I laugh. It’s more work to maintain than just about any other alternative.
I don’t shave and I have a beard - once in a blue moon for a special occasion, I might trim it.
Exactly, it’s actually MORE work to shave with a beard because instead of just completely removing all of the hair and you have to shape it and make sure it’s symmetrical.
A short trimmed beard you have to do the neck and maybe cheekbones, it’s a lot of upkeep.
I think lots of guys had that type of beard pre-covid, then let it grow out. Once it’s long enough you don’t have to do the neck because it’s hidden by the rest of your beard.
And some guys never have to do cheeks because it grows in good.
Like how 20 years ago it was cool for teenagers and 20 somethings to have goatees. It took me a while to realize most were doing it because they couldn’t grow a full beard.
There’s a lot of variation in facial hair, including where it grows and how thick.
I haven’t shaved since 2014.
Alas, I cannot grow hair on the top of my head, so I must grow it on the bottom.
Also, I have a big ass forehead and no chin. Gotta aim for that balancing point.
Alas, I have just enough native blood to not be able to grow a beard, and not enough to not go bald. Worst of both worlds haha
Beards are where the Communism is stored. As the ruling class become richer and more obscene, class consciousness grows amongst the working class. Hence, beards.
I’ve got mine almost completely colonized with psychedelic mycelium!
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.
Nah, you can just make yourself a staff
Exactly. The moguls try to control how I use it in the organization
Brother beards have been in for like 10 years.
For some of us that’s “new”
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Shaving sucks.
The real question is why shaving should be normalized, expected, or encouraged in modern society.
Yeah, normalize either being okay. Just like long or short hair. Diversity is the spice of life.
Good answer. 👍
Ye, I just shave mine when it starts irritating my neck 🤷♂️
Long story short: WW2
The military required men to be clean shaven, which was partly tactical (proper gas mask seals), partly to whitewash the service (e.g., black men can have severe skin reactions to shaving every day), and had other benefits to unit cohesion and general order (routine personal fitness and hygiene).
Well, that stuck, and an entire (massive) generation of men and their male children were taught that to be good they simply had to be clean shaven. Those two generations make up the vast majority of business and political power in the US, so the idea of “success” and “power” was idolized by a clean shaven male. This was further accentuated by the counter culture reaction of this cohort’s kids in the 60s and 70s, where longer and unkempt “bad” hair was cast against this “good” clean shaven look.
Fast forward to today, those traditions and appearances have been baked into most of modern life. As the boomer population starts to fade away, so will the tyranny of the razor.
The boomers ARE the unshaven hippies tho. People born in the 40s and entering public life in the 60s-70s
Beards are great. Shaving was the greatest crime of Romans.
Right up there with Carthage
??? Carthaginian men did not had that custom, most wore beards.
I think they meant the destruction of Carthage something I am still sore about
Yeah that too, if the Carthage was not destroyed it would serve as counterbalance to Romans at least for a time, and the vile shaving custom would not spread as much.
I think they mean the destruction of Carthage 😉
Yeah that too, if the Carthage was not destroyed it would serve as counterbalance to Romans at least for a time, and the vile shaving custom would not spread as much.
The influence of Marxism
The +5 charisma buff was too hard to pass up.
I always figured rona caused a big enough surge in beards owing to WFH allowing folks to get past the scruff hump that beards could be back on the table again.
First there was WWII, when all men had to be skinheads. Those men continued shaving, and this became a culture handed down to their boys. Now, we’re rebelling against the elders who fucked up everything, so we grow beards to show that we’re different to them.
Source. A lumberjack appered in front of me in a dream I had in 2009.
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.
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.
For me, it’s sheer laziness. Can’t be arsed to shave more than once every 6 to 10 months.
Do always find it funny when folks react strongly when I do shave. It’s hair growth, not a personality.
My step dad is 50 and never amounted to anything in his life so his big thing that he has is his beard. He takes pictures and grooms it and its so so so stupid and it bothers me so much because he’s overweight and has done absolutely nothing worthwhile with his whole life but here is like oh yeah my beard is looking so great noone can grow the kind of beard I can. Like alright Dennis how about you go back and finish grade ten and get a real job other than selling pills.
