I'd love it EL looked like some weird cross of Ernie from Sesame street and David Lynch.
You'd hate me Ernie,* I leave my face alone, it gets to a tickly length and I whip out the clippers and run over my face then repeat.
*Maybe for more reasons than this.
The whole alpha bollocks runs deeper than beards though.
A venn diagram of “Alpha” and EDC knives would be amusing.
Well, I'm certainly not an Alpha male despite the knives
Personally I consider allowing facial hair to grow rampantly across your face to be a sign of slovenly laziness, and neatly trimmed facial hair to be a sign of excessive vanity.
Guess I'm somewhere inbetween, not sure what ernie's judgement will be 🤣 Bald as a coot btw
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whereas I see being clean shaven as a desperate attempt to hold on to youth
Or an inability to grow a beard....
Beards have got nothing to do with it to be fair. Lots of folks, including me, have beards. I look like Casper the friendly ghost or Robocop without a helmet without one. I think it’s the colour blue or men without glasses. See, bollocks that makes no sense!
Close your eyes Ernie! The not very Alpha is coming 😀
A venn diagram of “Alpha” and EDC knives would be amusing.
Well, I’m certainly not an Alpha male despite the knives
I was going to add a third set of "stupid-sized 4x4s with names like Warrior " too but I thought was getting a bit personal 🤣
Well, I’m certainly not an Alpha male
Oh c'mon, that smouldering look on your face as you pose for a selfie in front of a hotel bed?
You positively extrude masculine assertiveness. You must have to fight them off.
Edit: 😏
Scotroutes
Suburban gangsta?
I was going to add a third set of “stupid-sized 4x4s with names like Warrior ” too but I thought was getting a bit personal 🤣
I drive a Land Rover 🖕🤣
You must have to fight them off.
Literally, all the time 🤣
Turning your chair round backwards is another move to add to the alpha playbook.
https://twitter.com/NickAdamsinUSA/status/1616966175627288576
Close your eyes Ernie!
Well obviously I couldn't read that with my eyes shut but what a truly magnificent beard.
Although I can now understand how the sight of fearsome ginger facial hair must have struck fear in the hearts of ancient Britons.
I hope you thoroughly wash it after meals btw. Or does a handheld vacuum cleaner do the job?
Turning your chair round backwards is another move to add to the alpha playbook.
Errmmmm
Christine Keeler was an alpha male?
Shaving is an (unconscious?) act of submission towards your establishment masters. Beardies are more your independent, free thinking/acting types.
Or are they just compensating for being slapheads? 🙂 the upside down head look 🙂
Shaving is an (unconscious?) act of submission towards your establishment masters. Beardies are more your independent, free thinking/acting types.
I'm just lazy and can't be bothered shaving 😁
Christine Keeler was an alpha male?
Probably had more alpha male psychological traits than most self proclaimed alpha males.
Except (probably) the propensity for violence.
I hope you thoroughly wash it after meals btw. Or does a handheld vacuum cleaner do the job?
always carry a comb and use napkins.
Or are they just compensating for being slapheads?
yes 😕
*flicks luxuriant locks*
I would grow a beard if I could grow something that didn't make me look like i should be in an alleyway with a can of crucial brew swearing at randoms
Thick beards and going bald are linked with testosterone levels IIRC
Thick beards and going bald are linked with testosterone levels IIRC
Since having my testosterone reduced to tiny levels I do seem to be getting a bit thicker on top. The beard is still there, but the rest of the body is getting less hairy.
Since having my testosterone reduced to tiny levels
Willingly and with your full knowledge and consent? Or as the result of some diabolical conspiracy?
Estrogen in drinking water - a foreign substance introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual.
Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water? On no account will a Commie ever drink water, and not without good reason - estrogen.
It is a leftist plot to turn us all into leftie-voting woke snowflakes. Expect your beard to fall off and boobs to suddenly appear.
Judging by the photo above TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR never drinks water.
I thought commies only drank cammomile tea? 'cos proper tea is theft
property geddit?
Willingly and with your full knowledge and consent? Or as the result of some diabolical conspiracy?
With consent, as part of prostate cancer treatment. I've posted about it before. Other reasons men have it done are because they want to be women or because they are paedophiles. Oestrogen is a separate thing from lack of T I think.
It is interesting to try to keep track of the physical and psychological changes but difficult to separate those due to reduced T from drug side effects. And of course many male things are baked in at puberty and wont change.
Judging by the photo above TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR never drinks water.
Judging the STW forum demographic 99% of posters drink gallons of the stuff....
😉
Oestrogen is a separate thing from lack of T I think.
Yes of course it is, it wasn't a serious point!
Although there are people who do worry about estrogen levels in drinking water. Apparently it is something of a myth that the birth control pill have added any significant amounts of estrogen to drinking water.
I do a fake alpha beard,cause I am in the (minority) gang of not shaving from the end of British Summer Shaving Time in Oct till March ,so it's more CBA than Alpha.
😆 🤣
I am in the (minority) gang of not shaving from the end of British
SummerShaving Time in Oct till March
Woohoo! Join the gang. For me it's not CBA so much as trying to keep my face warm in the freezing temperatures. Even a short beard works wonders. It comes off as soon as we start getting decent amounts of sunlight as I'm wary of ending up with tanned cheeks and white chin. Of course, there's always at least one bloody cold spell after it's been shaved off!
Some more excellent Alpha tips here. Don't forget, housewives are sentient beings with an incredible gift, don't ejaculate near prostitutes.
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1617554304629616640
I'm surprised how little flack the OP got for his needy humblebrag. You lot are slipping.
I’m surprised how little flack the OP got for his needy humblebrag. You lot are slipping.
We're all quietly jealous but too beta to admit it.
If we are humble bragging...
I fell over and hit my head. After being carted off to hospital the lady doctor put her hands down my pants to take my pulse, asked if I did sport, I said I cycled and then emblazoned above my head on the wall was a sign the read ATHLETE.
Best Day of my life!
that has to be a parody account, surely?
Word for word what I was about to write.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
I've been through tweets from the Nick guy before and found it hard to work out if it was parody
Hard to believe it's anything else from that particular one
A real Alpha wouldn't start a thread about it. So OP is definitely Beta or below.
I’ve been through tweets from the Nick guy before and found it hard to work out if it was parody
If he is, he's playing a very long con, and you have to admire his consistency.
that has to be a parody account, surely?
Yes, but he's subtle enough most of the time that it's usually hard to know. I suspect the same guy does the Gary Peterson and 3-year letterman parody accounts too:
https://twitter.com/3YearLetterman/status/1695968693090451691
https://twitter.com/GaryPetersonUSA/status/1694807887791484993
Alpha? It’s all bullshit made up to help males not comfortable with their actual self to feel OK and less threatened by everything and everyone.
Yeah, incels, basically. Sad little boys yet to actually grow a pair.
Anyone who describes themselves as or is accepting of being described as 'alpha' is deficient, insecure and pathetic.
So 'nick adams' went to the bakery for some 'fresh sourdough bread'.
Accepting the possibility this is an exemplar of Poe's Law, what a knob.
Are you going to the bakery for stale sourdough?
Three words - fresh sourdough bread; two of them - fresh and bread - are completely redundant.
What a prick - if he's not a parody.
What a prick – if he’s not a parody.
It's a parody account, but it's subtle enough most of the time that it's hard to tell.
Funny thing about all these mouth-breathers is they'd describe some of the introverted reflectors I've worked with over the years as Beta's or Simps. Little do they know some of them have nice little post-nominals that in the military community signify they are anything but.
Absolute whoppers the lot of them.
What they describe as "Alpha" is how to successfully have an insecure attachment style.
It's mixed in with some stuff that can be helpful, such as a growth mindset, and personal responsibility, but overall it's pretty toxic.
What they describe as “Alpha” is how to successfully have an insecure attachment style.
It’s mixed in with some stuff that can be helpful, such as a growth mindset, and personal responsibility, but overall it’s pretty toxic.
Tis a sales pitch. Nothing more.
The irony is, that the book "The Game" which brought this whole subculture to wider attention (including mine) is about how empty and joyless it is.
Another masterclass from Nick Adams (Alpha Male).
https://twitter.com/NickAdamsinUSA/status/1700695297905619268