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By *hoir OP Couple
over a year ago
Clacton/Bury St. Edmunds |
It has recently been brought to my attention that apparently beards are an old man thing. Now, as a sub-50 year old bearded beardy bloke, I find this weird.
I thought it weird as it has been a younger man's thing for over a decade now and whilst not everybodies cup of tea, it has long been an established fashion (not counting the other levels of beardy goodness).
So I guess the reason for the post and potential thread is; What do you think about beards? Are they only for old men? Do you like a beard?
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over a year ago
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Beards are a man thing.
Also pentagon research shows beards improve combat effectiveness.
The only people who don’t have beards are people that can’t grown them (sorry for your loss).
Or people that can’t fight. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Definitely not an old man thing. I thought older men preferred being clean shaved so I guess I don’t know anything anyway. But definitely think younger (whatever that is) people that can grow beards these days tend to have them and I think younger (again whatever it is) women tend to like them. In my experience and what I’ve seen on the apps. |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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You're post 40 though, you probably fit the old bearded man category to be fair. 
I think it depends on the person as to whether or not I like the beard. I'm not going to get a wide on for anyone with a few facial pubes going on but on the same hand, I'm not going to dry up on seeing them. So yes. Neither worship or loathe. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Beards are a man thing.
Also pentagon research shows beards improve combat effectiveness.
The only people who don’t have beards are people that can’t grown them (sorry for your loss).
Or people that can’t fight."
This is true. I’ve recently grown my beard longer and automatically became stronger, faster and the longer it gets the better I’ve became at Brazilian jiu-jitsu despite having no training. |
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By *hoir OP Couple
over a year ago
Clacton/Bury St. Edmunds |
"You're post 40 though, you probably fit the old bearded man category to be fair.
I think it depends on the person as to whether or not I like the beard. I'm not going to get a wide on for anyone with a few facial pubes going on but on the same hand, I'm not going to dry up on seeing them. So yes. Neither worship or loathe. "
Meow I agree on that point in fairness but the person saying it was a 36 year old male...
Mine is a bit small currently so only 5 (actual) inches long and not patchy thankfully. |
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"I don’t think they’re an old man thing. No I don’t like them x
I hope you aren't being a negative Nora x
Hahaha. Oh god yeah! I didn’t think  .
I love beards!!!!  "
Best change my reply too...
I FREAKIN  THEM x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"You're post 40 though, you probably fit the old bearded man category to be fair.
I think it depends on the person as to whether or not I like the beard. I'm not going to get a wide on for anyone with a few facial pubes going on but on the same hand, I'm not going to dry up on seeing them. So yes. Neither worship or loathe.
Meow I agree on that point in fairness but the person saying it was a 36 year old male...
Mine is a bit small currently so only 5 (actual) inches long and not patchy thankfully. "
I bet this 36 year old male can’t grow a beard. |
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By *hoir OP Couple
over a year ago
Clacton/Bury St. Edmunds |
"Beards are a man thing.
Also pentagon research shows beards improve combat effectiveness.
The only people who don’t have beards are people that can’t grown them (sorry for your loss).
Or people that can’t fight.
This is true. I’ve recently grown my beard longer and automatically became stronger, faster and the longer it gets the better I’ve became at Brazilian jiu-jitsu despite having no training."
Funnily enough I found I was proficient in MMA when I grew mine for the first time and moreso when I pulled on my Tapout tee!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Beards are a man thing.
Also pentagon research shows beards improve combat effectiveness.
The only people who don’t have beards are people that can’t grown them (sorry for your loss).
Or people that can’t fight.
This is true. I’ve recently grown my beard longer and automatically became stronger, faster and the longer it gets the better I’ve became at Brazilian jiu-jitsu despite having no training.
Funnily enough I found I was proficient in MMA when I grew mine for the first time and moreso when I pulled on my Tapout tee!
C"
It’s just scientific fact. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I get about 3 weeks into growing one before it gets to itchy and I shave it off
What about the pubes?
Untouched for 45 years "
You were born with pubes?  |
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By *hoir OP Couple
over a year ago
Clacton/Bury St. Edmunds |
"I get about 3 weeks into growing one before it gets to itchy and I shave it off"
Oil and moisturise it and keep it combed. Sometimes just the combing with a quality comb (and brush as it gets longer) is enough to keep it from itching during that stage.
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To be honest I don't give two hoots if people like my facial hair or not. I don't groom myself for the approval of others, just what feels good and practical. Which is a blade number all over every two to three weeks. It's just annoying after three weeks growth.
Mr
(I'm assuming that was obvious though) |
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Yeah, I wouldn't have said they're an "old man's" thing now - have been sported by 20-something Hipsters for years now!
I don't suit one, and my personal view is that we reached saturation point a while ago, but each to their own so all power to you beard wearers! |
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By *hoir OP Couple
over a year ago
Clacton/Bury St. Edmunds |
"To be honest I don't give two hoots if people like my facial hair or not. I don't groom myself for the approval of others, just what feels good and practical. Which is a blade number all over every two to three weeks. It's just annoying after three weeks growth.
Mr
(I'm assuming that was obvious though)"
I am usually of this persuasion but sometimes it is used as a thing to club you over the head with after energy is spent trying to make things work.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I get about 3 weeks into growing one before it gets to itchy and I shave it off
What about the pubes?
Untouched for 45 years
You were born with pubes? "
Pubes chest and back hair |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I get about 3 weeks into growing one before it gets to itchy and I shave it off
Oil and moisturise it and keep it combed. Sometimes just the combing with a quality comb (and brush as it gets longer) is enough to keep it from itching during that stage.
C"
I don't own a comb or brush. No point when your bald |
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By *yronMan
over a year ago
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"I don’t think they’re an old man thing. No I don’t like them x
I hope you aren't being a negative Nora x
Hahaha. Oh god yeah! I didn’t think .
I love beards!!!! "
Be still my beating heart! |
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"To be honest I don't give two hoots if people like my facial hair or not. I don't groom myself for the approval of others, just what feels good and practical. Which is a blade number all over every two to three weeks. It's just annoying after three weeks growth.
Mr
(I'm assuming that was obvious though)"
Just realised I may have come across a bit like a grumpy old man. But I'm not old. Maybe age isn't a number or maybe it's the beard controlling me  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I get about 3 weeks into growing one before it gets to itchy and I shave it off
What about the pubes?
Untouched for 45 years
You were born with pubes?
Pubes chest and back hair "
Are you Sasquatch? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I get about 3 weeks into growing one before it gets to itchy and I shave it off
What about the pubes?
Untouched for 45 years
You were born with pubes?
Pubes chest and back hair
Are you Sasquatch?"
His hairy bigger brother |
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I've had one for about 5 years now. It's never been a fashion statement but just like my tattoo more of a reminder to myself of newly discovered self esteem.
Therefore I don't really concern myself with what others think of it but I've never had any negative feedback. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I get about 3 weeks into growing one before it gets to itchy and I shave it off
What about the pubes?
Untouched for 45 years
You were born with pubes?
Pubes chest and back hair
Are you Sasquatch?
His hairy bigger brother "
I’ll have to be a bit more careful next time I’m in Mabie Forest. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I get about 3 weeks into growing one before it gets to itchy and I shave it off
What about the pubes?
Untouched for 45 years
You were born with pubes?
Pubes chest and back hair
Are you Sasquatch?
His hairy bigger brother
I’ll have to be a bit more careful next time I’m in Mabie Forest."
You're safe that's not where I roam |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I love a well kept beard on a guy as much as I love the clean shaved look. Beards don't look right on everyone though, but give me a short salt and pepper one on a gorgeous guy in a suit and I'm melting. |
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"I don’t think they’re an old man thing. No I don’t like them x
I hope you aren't being a negative Nora x
Hahaha. Oh god yeah! I didn’t think .
I love beards!!!!
Be still my beating heart! "
Haha I’m getting better. I don’t mind very short ones now. It’s not even a preference it’s like a proper phobia! I wish I wasn’t like it x |
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By *hoir OP Couple
over a year ago
Clacton/Bury St. Edmunds |
"It really depends on the man and the beard... Properly grown and groomed, they look amazing.
I really have a thing for moustaches though, when are they coming back into fashion?"
November normally but there are still some who sport moustaches nowadays. A forgotten form of facial hair by and large though
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"It has recently been brought to my attention that apparently beards are an old man thing. Now, as a sub-50 year old bearded beardy bloke, I find this weird.
I thought it weird as it has been a younger man's thing for over a decade now and whilst not everybodies cup of tea, it has long been an established fashion (not counting the other levels of beardy goodness).
So I guess the reason for the post and potential thread is; What do you think about beards? Are they only for old men? Do you like a beard?
C"
Are they bollox.. a lot people look good with a beard young or old
n I am very partial to my Mr who has one, I find it very sexy on him  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It's definitely become more fashionable for all ages in recent times and find it can really help with the shape of of the jaw.
I'm normally clean shaven but I might try and give it a go so it can hide my stupidly chubby cheeks |
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"I (Moose) have a beard, Buffy would probably kill me if I shaved it off, the kids wouldn't recognise me and the dog would attack me. I've never had any complaints about it  "
can identify with that last time l shaved mine people l worked with walked straight past me lol |
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I’m a huge fan of beards.
When I Google all the actors that are in Vikings and see them clean shaven, it just doesn’t have the same effect on me. But I don’t think it makes a man look older or younger, just more handsome 
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"It has recently been brought to my attention that apparently beards are an old man thing. Now, as a sub-50 year old bearded beardy bloke, I find this weird.
I thought it weird as it has been a younger man's thing for over a decade now and whilst not everybodies cup of tea, it has long been an established fashion (not counting the other levels of beardy goodness).
So I guess the reason for the post and potential thread is; What do you think about beards? Are they only for old men? Do you like a beard?
C"
I’m a 50+ guy, and at no point in my life have I ever grown a beard. The closest I’ve been is when I’ve grown a moustache for ‘Movember’, and boy, the 1st of December never came quick enough…… |
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Fashion moves on, beards had a good run for the last decade among the hipsters and wannabe lumberjacks but I've noticed many of the younger coming of age generation are shaving again now.
I had one for a while till I joined the army but am always clean shaven now, makes me look younger anyway |
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Fashion goes in cycles. When I was younger the line was that women preferred no facial hair so being a lamo I shaved but hated shaving. So was stubly most of the time.
Until I got a job where I had to be presentable so shaving got more annoying.
Then I got ill didn't shave and people said I looked good with a beard. And with a beard I didn't shave and could still look presentable at work so it was a win win.
Then on top of that I actually found women love the beard too! Well lots of them do. |
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By *uzie69xTV/TS
over a year ago
Maidstone |
"I love guys with a beard. Found out recently, I’m what’s known as pogonophile. Most definitely not an old man thing"
Good one! Love beards but can't say I like it so much I'd call myself a Pogonophile...
I sexed a young guy with a mahoosive fuck-off beard once. I was fascinated by it and every so often I would tugged at it to see if it'll come off...
The last time I did that to a beard that big, it came off... But then I was 4 and was sitting on his lap at the time... Ho ho ho... |
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It seems a bit hypocritical that women are happy to slag men off about having beard's and how much they hate them.
Yet god forbid if a man tried to tell women how they should style their hair..
It's like a reverse 50's parallel universe scenario type thing..
Run's for cover and hide's beard. |
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By *hoir OP Couple
over a year ago
Clacton/Bury St. Edmunds |
"It seems a bit hypocritical that women are happy to slag men off about having beard's and how much they hate them.
Yet god forbid if a man tried to tell women how they should style their hair..
It's like a reverse 50's parallel universe scenario type thing..
Run's for cover and hide's beard."
That's a very valid point, though it was the man of the couple that struggled with C's beard...
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"It has recently been brought to my attention that apparently beards are an old man thing. Now, as a sub-50 year old bearded beardy bloke, I find this weird.
I thought it weird as it has been a younger man's thing for over a decade now and whilst not everybodies cup of tea, it has long been an established fashion (not counting the other levels of beardy goodness).
So I guess the reason for the post and potential thread is; What do you think about beards? Are they only for old men? Do you like a beard?
C"
Basically what has happened is that beards became fashionable, and then all the cassanovas who just basically grew a beard because it was in style. So, then eventually when women got sick of being played, they started going off men with beards, which I guess means all those guys will be zipping them off and making life easier for both the actual general beard wearers and pogonophiles.
As someone who has had a beard for somewhere around half of my adult life, I shan't be ridding it for fashionable reasons. Because I'm into metal, I tend to buck the trend anyway, and plus, it really helps with having some control over my dysmorphophobia |
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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago
West Wales and Cardiff |
"Beards are my weakness! The more viking, the better haha "
Couldn’t be without a hig beard now.
Can you get a longboat that far up The Taff?
(that’s not some tortuous double-entendre, honest ).
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Beards are my weakness! The more viking, the better haha
Couldn’t be without a hig beard now.
Can you get a longboat that far up The Taff?
(that’s not some tortuous double-entendre, honest ).
Oh, but it undoubtedly is
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My Beard is probably the same size or a bit bigger than Gandalf's haha it's like marmite you either love or hate but genuinely not interested in the haters, get lots of positive attention when I'm out, random people comment plus I get free products sent due to my IG account, that's my 2 pennies worth...now I'm off to make a spell |
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"My Beard is probably the same size or a bit bigger than Gandalf's haha it's like marmite you either love or hate but genuinely not interested in the haters, get lots of positive attention when I'm out, random people comment plus I get free products sent due to my IG account, that's my 2 pennies worth...now I'm off to make a spell "
...I hear you... |
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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago
Liverpool |
Beards for the most part are mostly associated with older men because well, the older you get (for most, not all) the fuller beard you can grow. For some men they are able to grow a beard as soon as they hit puberty. For others they may not have much hair appear on their face at all until maybe in their 40s.
One way to generally look at it is the mane of a lion. Cubs and adolescent lions don't have one. Young males begin to have tufts, and the older and mature lions have huge thick manes.
Thats a very simple and basic breakdown but an effective one. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Beards mean different things to different cultures… as an act of faith people will have beards…
But the current trend in the West is more around the Hipsters which made beards more fashionable… I’ve had one on and off since I was 17… had a lot of stick when I was in my teens - but it’s ok now… maybe I was a trailblazer for some of my peers… but for me personally… it falls into three areas two important ones culture, faith and coincidently fashion. |
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By *heggMan
over a year ago
South Brum |
"I’m a huge fan of beards.
When I Google all the actors that are in Vikings and see them clean shaven, it just doesn’t have the same effect on me. But I don’t think it makes a man look older or younger, just more handsome
IMO. "
A friend of mine recently sent me a set of photos of actors with and without beards and the tagline "Beards, the male push-up bra." |
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