Just a minor, hirsute blip or are we in this for the long-term?

The meeja is pushing the ‘beards are dead’ line quite strongly, yet I see more and more everyday.

Several high profile TV beards have gone recently, Big Gaz Malone being the latest example.

How’s this going to go?
‘Tache wax in Aldi and Piccadilly Weepers on Countdown, or will it be cold cheeks by Christmas?

I like mine and wear it with pride, but its time is sadly coming to an end. It needs to be gone by mid October and I am not looking forward to that day.

Lets face it, Movembers pretty much ****ed this year, innit?

https://uk.movember.com/

I reckon I’ve managed 2 weeks sans beard in about 8 years, I look wierd without one. The media had nothing to do with growing it, so will have nowt to do with its future.

🙂
It can’t be easy for the long termers.

Same when flares came back.
I’d long advocated the wider trouser.

Mine (albeit short and well trimmed) will remain as it is there to balance out the sad lack up top.

I’m wondering whether the mustache will make a come back next (at least one that lasts beyond November every year).

The hipsters will be shaving again soon – we have passed “Peak Beard” and everybody who had a beard before they were trendy will go back to looking slightly older than they are instead of achingly cool.

Beards – the future?

Future? Seems like they’ve been around…. Forever.

Much like the debris from your last meal, which didn’t make past the enamel.

Beards are ghastly things.

Mine’s getting quite long.

Guy at work walked past me the other day and asked, “growing a beard?” Two days on and I’ve still not managed to come up with a suitably witty retort. Standards are definitely slipping.

Beards = not having to shave all the time.

It’s also good as a ruminatory aide.

Beards are ghastly things.

QED

trends? who honestly cares? I had a goatee, I now have a full Victorian chin and cant see it going anytime soon, maybe a stubble for Xmas but set the trends/buck the trends but don’t follow. sheep follow.

No they are crap as I’m not allowed one due to work

Guy at work walked past me the other day and asked, “growing a beard?” Two days on and I’ve still not managed to come up with a suitably witty retort. Standards are definitely slipping.

You should reply “No, I’m pregnant.”

I’ve been a full-time beardy in one way or another for somewhere between 15 and 20 years now. I reckon the future looks pretty much the same.

Or claim that you are doing hair surrogacy for some premiership footballer.

I’m not allowed one due to work

You don’t employ any Muslims, then?

You should reply “No, I’m pregnant.”

Nice work, that’ll do.

In the not too distant future we will be looking at this:

With the same scorn as when we look at this:

great mullet ^^ I think porn star tache’s are the next thing. Big thick down curling moustache’s.

Cougar – Moderator

I’m not allowed one due to work

You don’t employ any Muslims, then?[/quote]

Plenty of jobs that you can’t do safely with a beard or stubble. Try getting a respirator to fit over a beard. If you can’t get a seal you can’t do some jobs in some places.

If you can’t get a seal you can’t do some jobs in some places.

Marine zoologist, for instance?

Nice play on words, you growing a beard…

Mine (albeit short and well trimmed) will remain as it is there to balance out the sad lack up top.

Yep, me too.

George Cole, such a versatile actor.

In the not too distant future we will be looking at this:

With the same scorn as when we look at this:

I have been for the past 2 years matey 😆

Not that I care about such things, but I’m told Jared Leto was the reluctant king of the Beard and Topknot look and idol of the weak chinned, cereal bar dweller.

He’s had a shave recently – so I reckon it’s all over bar the shouting.

I’m not allowed one due to work
You don’t employ any Muslims, then?

Of course not. He’s a nun.

Catholics only.
No beards.

Pffft, Padre Pio had a beard.
Too painful holding the razor, I’d imagine.

A man bun to go with your beard Sir?

I don’t know, is it made with real man?

Is there anyone on here with a man bun?

To answer Cougar’s q obviously. 😉

cinnamon_girl – Member
A man bun

I’m afraid to ask…..
😯

[Quote]You don’t employ any Muslims, then?[\quote]

No, they just wont employ someone with a beard. It’s the default in the oil and gas industry on sites handling H2S, CN, and often on other sites too.

And strictly it’s not compulsory to grow a beard as a muslim, it depends which Caliphate or Iman you follow and their interpretation.

No, they just wont employ someone with a beard. It’s the default in the oil and gas industry on sites handling H2S, CN, and often on other sites too.

And yet the RN are OK with beards. Not much H2S and CN but plenty of other hazards around plus a need for flash protection. Odd that.

I like them, Beards that is.

Think this Trend is around for a little while yet, London being the originator of all things Trendlike still sporting Beards.

I do see T’ashes’ being the next Big Thing though. Already seen acouple of Dandys prancing about Shoreditch way, resplendant in capped jeans, velour pumps and velvet waistcoats with denim shirts underneath, hair slicked back.

Looks great.

I love Trends me.

Same withe the Army. Again, a respirator thing. ‘Tache -> OK, beards, not.

Big Gaz Malone

who?

The meeja

what?

I dunno, had my beard from before it was fashionable, i’d swap every folicle of it for a full head of hair though

For Solo

😀

The future is safe for mine. I’ll be glad when the fashion ends and no-one any longer assumes I’m an old bloke pretending to be a hipster.

they just wont employ someone with a beard.

Is that actually legal?

I mean, it’s sensible obviously if it’s a health and safety issue, but I’m surprised that it doesn’t either fall foul of a discrimination law or has a religious privilege exemption (like Sikhs and safety helmets).