Shave your f****** beard

I'm talking to all of you. I don't care how cool and manly you think you look with a bush of fur around your face, don't care how well you feel that it hides your soft chin, acne scars or baby-face, and definitely don't care how often you lather/condition/trim your heinous, thorny facial bush. It is uncouth, it is unprofessional and most damningly it is dirty

The comeback of facial hair is THE worst fashion trend of our generation. When I see some dickhead walk into a client meeting with a suit and tie on but completely unshaved, I immediately assume they are both a mental child and ridiculously self-obsessed. It's like wearing Nike mid-calf socks under Gucci loafers, just dirtier. Moreover, what in god's name are you trying to tell the world by trimming your facial hair into some weird form of a fashion statement? How long do you spend staring in the mirror playing with your body hair? And at what point do you look in the mirror and convince yourself that having hair all over your face and upper lip is the way to go? Do you also shave polka-dots into your chest hair? Landing strip pubes? 

Idk what is wrong with these people, but I do know the prescription: Shave your fucking beard!

Shave your fucking beard

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You should leave the country, frankly. People like you are narrow-minded, immature and incapable of thinking logically - indicative of the pathetic times we live in and the decline of America. 

Facial hair has historically been, and currently is, a sign of health and virility - has been since the times of the legendary Aryan Persians and Hellenic Greeks. It's great, frankly. You know who doesn't have facial hair? Chemo patients. 

Facial hair has no relevance to job performance or your ability either. It's just facial hair. It's not "dirty" either, especially if trimmed neatly.

It doesn't reflect badly on anyone to have it, especially since we all have different genetics too. Why should someone who can grow a beard in under 24 hours have to shave everyday because someone else, with significantly different genetics, can't grow a beard in under 6 months? Absurd. 

In fact, it's highly likely you are insecure you can't grow as thick a beard as others and are like many others, looking for an excuse to make yourself feel better.

Ultimately, your post has now ensured I won't be shaving anytime soon. Thank you. You incompetent fool.

PS. Trump is a morbidly obese, dyslexic, incompetent promo artist. That's a lot more offensive than facial hair.

 

No he's right. You're a total loser because you're mad you can't grow a beard.

Otherwise you're just low IQ. Imagine thinking facial hair is a topic of discussion.

It's absolutely fine to have a beard in any capacity.

 

used to be hardcore for clean shaven, thinking the same as you. as I've gotten older, I've softened my stance, it really doesn't matter. currently have a beard, but not ISIS style, more like king felipe (current king of spain) without as much silver/white

live and let live bro

PS - have you ever considered that many men's faces actually prefer to have the hair grown out, and that it's not a fashion statement? I can speak to this because of my mixed ethnicity, my facial hair is curly, so when kept clean shaven, I would get ingrown hairs, occasionally horrific looking, and since having a beard, all discomfort and unsightly red spots have gone away. just like I won't assume you're being serious (because this feels like a troll), you shouldn't assume it's just a "fashion statement" unless you have the evidence

 

Have your people consider testifying before the Jan6 cmte that you tried to overthrow America and make yourself dictator

Get busy living
 

Tbh, I do not really care what anyone else does with facial hair.  I shave every every day but I only shave the goatee every 2-3 days.  I kind of like the subtle, scruffy look.  I think an issue with maintaining a full beard might be the impact on your skin.  I would assume that if you have a full beard, you can't moisturize your face and then the complexion of the skin might deteriorate.  With that said, I do not really know if this is true or not. 

 

It seems that in the professional world, almost everyone over 45 is clean shaven and almost everyone under 35 has facial hair (at least among the men who can grow it). It’s a generational thing. It will come and go. No look is innately professional or unprofessional. 19th century professionals sported ornate facial hair. Given the available tools of the time, they probably spent a lot of time on it. 
 

I wish I could go clean shaven but a few years ago I shaved my facial hair off entirely, went into the office, and a woman almost cried. Literally, a woman almost cried. Apparently, I look like a prepubescent girl when clean shaven. 

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It seems that in the professional world, almost everyone over 45 is clean shaven and almost everyone under 35 has facial hair (at least among the men who can grow it). It's a generational thing. It will come and go. No look is innately professional or unprofessional. 19th century professionals sported ornate facial hair. Given the available tools of the time, they probably spent a lot of time on it. 
 

I wish I could go clean shaven but a few years ago I shaved my facial hair off entirely, went into the office, and a woman almost cried. Literally, a woman almost cried. Apparently, I look like a prepubescent girl when clean shaven. 

I do not think looking like a girl is a good thing but having a younger look will eventually work for you. Looking young is probably a disadvantage in the teens and twenties but when you get beyond 30, it becomes a good thing.  I looked very young as a teen and in the early to mid twenties.  It definitely affected my confidence back then but most of it was probably in my own mind, thinking that girls were not going to like the younger looking guy.  Lifting weights helped me get beyond much of this.  Tbh, I only started being able to grow decent facial hair in the past couple of years. I attribute it to an oil based shampoo and retinol.  My facial hair looked like crap when I was younger.  

 

This is such an odd thing to feel so strongly about. What man spends so much of their energy focused on how other men wear their facial hair?

 

Why would anyone pay to go to a school where the KKK was founded.

I get USC/UCLA. I get NYU. I even get Michigan/Ann Arbor.

I simply don't get IU. Garbage location.

 

If you go back 100-200 years you’ll find extremist alum at any school. Kind of a silly reason to avoid a school with a student body of thousands of people just because of a few extremists in the schools history.

Also USC/UCLA are more geared towards west coast recruiting whereas IU can get you into CHI.

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I’m growing a beard out right now. Thick AF. Some girls ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. I get compliments all the time.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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I’m growing a beard out right now. Thick AF. Some girls ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. I get compliments all the time.

If it looks good, then rock it.  The beards on a majority of guys do not look very good either because they can't grow it well or they don't maintain it well.  If you are very good looking guy, growing a beard it not going to add much and could detract from your appearance it you don't maintain it or can't grow it that well.  

 
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growing a beard was one of the best decisions I've made. I went from Mr Clean to shemar moore overnight

It all makes sense now.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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You’re saying he looks better with the add on facial hair beard that everyone probably knows him for, than just naturally without? 

Bilzerian looks better with a beard, by far.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I got asked out tonight to the club and I know it is half because I look like this hippie bearded guy. She's cool, but I just want to be buddies, I can't date her.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

it's waxed and waned. after some of the ancient egyptians went clean shaven, facial hair was big for a while in the ancient near east with the main philosophers at the beginning of western philosophy as we know it having been bearded (socrates, plato, aristotle, zeno of citium) and then alexander the great ushered in an era of clean shaven people, continued through many of rome's most famous (& infamous) emperors like nero & caligula and philosophers like cicero & cato, stopped around the time of aurelius (though it's worth noting that of course many of the Jews and earliest Christians were bearded, and this was around the time of caesar, though also worth nothing this was likely out of obligation as early Christians were by definition born as Jews most likely and shaving is verboten in that faith's orthodoxy) and has continued to go back & forth since then.

 
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it's waxed and waned. after some of the ancient egyptians went clean shaven, facial hair was big for a while in the ancient near east with the main philosophers at the beginning of western philosophy as we know it having been bearded (socrates, plato, aristotle, zeno of citium) and then alexander the great ushered in an era of clean shaven people, continued through many of rome's most famous (& infamous) emperors like nero & caligula and philosophers like cicero & cato, stopped around the time of aurelius (though it's worth noting that of course many of the Jews and earliest Christians were bearded, and this was around the time of caesar, though also worth nothing this was likely out of obligation as early Christians were by definition born as Jews most likely and shaving is verboten in that faith's orthodoxy) and has continued to go back & forth since then.

It hasn’t waxed and waned that much. Given the lack of modern shaving tools and the fact that virtually everyone was poor throughout history, nearly any male who could grow facial hair has throughout history. A few wealthy people in specific cultures are just an exception. 

 

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