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Revoke the op's man card....

Desertranger,

My lady says that my full beard is SOFT, feels good against her skin AND she says that I look like an Old Testament prophet.


My GUESS is that she'll get used to it.

yours, satx

Make a deal, you quit shaving your face and she gets to stop shaving her legs.

Dunno if i should post this, but here goes. A long time ago a wife came into the machine shop at quitting time and told her husband to get the chips out of his beard because it really tore up her legs. He nearly had to quit over that one.

Hardest part of growing a beard is getting past the wino look stage.

It's the Magic Carpet... just ask if she wants a ride.

As for the "Bin Laden look" I should probably take great offense to comments like that but in the end, it only shows your ignorance, arrogance, and bigotry. I grow my beard in the colder months because I trap and having a chapped face sucks. I shave in March for the warmer months and keep only a goatee neatly cropped. It wasn't so many years ago that growing a beard was simply what men did, and only boys had a clean face. It was an aristocratic society that decided men should be clean shaven and dress like pompous little boys. A clean face was merely a holdover from that. The more contemporary days of people associating beards with a "lower class of men" are coming to an end thank goodness.

Never thought to ask mine.

I'm calling BS on a beards keeping anybody warm. Beards are temperature neutral.

You don't. Spend your energy on something that matters.

@TimberRunner,

I didn't say WARM, I said keeps my face from getting Chapped. Call BS all you want. At 0400 in the morning with it's below freezing and the wind is ripping, my face gets chapped. Beard prevents that.

Tell her if I want your opinion I'll give it to you, now STFU.

Probably a good idea to have your overnight bag in the truck first.

Lots of users/ internet friends giving ya advice. This guys friends helped him out with his beard also. https://youtu.be/q03hNtdzNl8

This^^^. I dont lick legs and armpits.

Grow your beard and enjoy it young man, we work our asses off for our women, watch out for and protect them, would take a damn bullet and die for them, we certainly dont care what clothes, shoes they wear, or how they cut their hair or what purse to carry.

Seems pretty simple to me, my face = my choice.

I think some guys want the SOCOM look. See it alot, hat with the subdued US flag, tactical pants and boots.

Not saying all or the OP are like that, I think a lot of dudes just do what is trendy.

Worn a beard for the last 40 or so winters. When its zero and the wind is blowing my beard sure feels warmer. Keeps the wind off my lower face. On days like today, I wouldn't be without it.

I'd grow a beard just for convenience if not for the fact that radiation killed about a 3rd of it many years ago. I don't care to look like I got the mange.

But this old gray beard ain't like the beard I used to have. Once it turns gray it's about like 12 lb test monofilament. A razor used to just wipe it off back when it had some color. Now I have to scratch at it until I'm bleedin' from 8 different places.

Shaving didn't used to suck. It does now.

Oh I'm married alright, for 20 years in January (gulp)

but my wife says I'm barely married (bigger gulp)

Should have just said “Copy Tanner”

Is she going for the bearded lady act?


Or does she wear the pants and you can’t wipe your own azz without permission?