who the hell made it mandatory for men...

[BikeWriter]

to shave their beards and mustaches? I haven't shaved in about four years.

[WCGreen]

1. I trim and shave ever so little.........

But I hav had a beard for most of my adult life....

[BikeWriter]

5. I have too, except for when my jobs required shaving.

[Heidi]

2. Not me.

I love Mr. Heidi's beard and moustache. :shrug:

[Cassandra]

3. Fashion

It comes and goes around shaving. However, if you need to wear a gas mask someday, you might want to reconsider your position.

[BikeWriter]

51. Gas masks are the precise reason I've had to shave sometimes...

As an ex professional firefighter I can make a tight seal and suck the mask flat with a full beard or none.

[Mutley]

4. At least the surface area that a man needs to shave

is much less than the surface area a woman needs to shave.

[WCGreen]

7. And why do women have to shave.....

I think it's entirely up to the woman how she wants to present her body....

Hair is natural, so let it grow,,,,,

[Mutley]

9. I personally think hairy legs on women looks bad

(for all you DU women out there who don't shave your legs, please don't flame me! that is just my opinion!), so, at least in the summer, I try to shave every couple of days. It sucks though.

[WCGreen]

11. Whatever you decide is fine with me.....

I remember the first time I was with a "natural" woman....

It was disconcerting at first, of course, but after a day or two, didn't matter.....

[BikeWriter]

58. Hmm, I don't remember I ever have.

[Wetzelbill]

62. is there any kind of woman you haven't slept with?

Jeezus, you aren't Warren Beatty are you? :)

[BikeWriter]

8. Yes'm, and our faces are tougher than, uh, yeah.

[Mutley]

13. They are!

Try shaving your legs and cutting yourself. It won't stop bleeding for 30 minutes and it huuuuurrrrrrttttttssssssss.

[BikeWriter]

17. I'll pass on that, Dear. I do empathize, though.

:(

[mopinko]

6. i dunno

i have never seen my husband's real face.

[BikeWriter]

10. ROFL! I remember my four year old's reaction when I shaved...

"Daddy?"

[Viking12]

59. I cut my hair from "extreme hippie" to "suburb dad" length

and my 2 year-old had no idea who I was when I got home from the salon - it almost killed me :cry: An hour later all was well :woohoo:

[BikeWriter]

60. It does take them a while to adjust to it. I once...

surprised a Lady I'd been going with when my employer demanded I shave. She didn't recognize me at first either. :-)

[Mutley]

15. LOL!

I didn't see my Dad's real face until I was 22 years old!

[BikeWriter]

47. Lol! My Son was so wierded out he wouldn't sit in my lap for two days...

and he normally seldom got out of my reach. :-)

[dhinojosa]

12. The unibomber look is so 1990s

plus "queer eye for the straight guy" said no.

[Jade Fox]

19. "the Unibomber look".....LOL!

[BikeWriter]

20. I don't always follow their fads. ;-)

[Jara sang]

14. Good point

Men in there natural states really resemble Cro magnons

[WCGreen]

27. Grog Am Hungry

Grog Look for smooth skin woman...

Grog like smooth skin women....

Uh Oh, Grogette hear me...

Grogette gnash flint tonight, again....

Grog not happy....

Grog go get some grog....

[BikeWriter]

40. You're right, here's one of me twenty years ago...

[hobbit709]

16. I quit shaving

the day I got out of the Air Force in 1973

[BikeWriter]

38. I got out of the Air Force four years before you...

I grew my first beard in Alaska (Thanks, Major Bill Short) and I've prefered a beard ever since.

[Wapsie B]

18. If you're Old-Order Amish and married,

it's mandatory that you have a beard and 'stache.

[BikeWriter]

22. Are you? I could pass for Amish or Orthodox Jewish...

except for my long hair.

[Wapsie B]

24. No, Not at all.

I grew up near an Amish settlement or reservation as some call it. But that's the closest I am to being Amish. We had an Orthodox Jewish community near us as well. But I'm not of that culture either.

[BikeWriter]

33. Oh, okay. They are both admirable people.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

21. good for you!

I LIKE fellows with full beards and mustaches!

[BikeWriter]

23. As you can see mine grows rather full...

[kedrys]

28. OMG, you're my uncle Clem!

Damn! :)

[BikeWriter]

31. LOL! We're kin?

[kedrys]

53. If you have an old beat-up VW van in the back

and ran away to Mexico for a year and a half with a lovely young thing less than half your age, then you're *definitely* my uncle Clem. :D

[BikeWriter]

55. I have been known to run with the younger Ladies, but...

It's been years since I've owned a VW. :-)

[trackfan]

30. You could play God in the movie.

I can't grow one like that. My beard grows out to the side, so I look more like an old sea capatain. (My hair also grows to the side, so I look like Larry, or Bozo, when I have long hair).

[BikeWriter]

32. I'm lucky in that my hair waves naturally when long...

The beard wisps out after the first foot or so, but it's almost belt-buckle length now.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

34. It looks really nice

my husband's is about as full, but you have more hair on the top of your head than he does.

[BikeWriter]

36. Thank you, Ma'am. I'll be sixty in a few weeks but...

I can still get by with brushing my hair back or parting it in the middle or either side.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

43. Sixty is a nice age

My husband has been follically challenged since his early twenties, but he grows the sides long like you.

[BikeWriter]

45. That's cool, it's all in the luck of the genes...

I'm like my Dad who thinned out on top, but still had plenty of hair at sixty. Out of his four sons I was probably the luckiest. Our youngest Brother took after an uncle and is nearly bald.

[Bouncy Ball]

25. No one did.

Screw 'em. Wear it like you want. It's YOUR face.

:hi:

On edit, he's old enough to be my grandfather (I think), but this guy is sexy and he's almost always had a beard and long hair:

[BikeWriter]

42. Yes, he's usually bearded. He's also been known to smoke behind...

all the better beer joints in Texas! :-)

[El Fuego]

26. Hey kids, it's Limerick Time!

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared! --
Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard.

-- Edward Lear

(You made me think of this!)

[BikeWriter]

35. ROFLOL! I love that! :-)

[khashka]

29. It was God who made it mandatory

I can't grow a full beard for the life of me. And I just tried. Somehow the sideburn part never comes in. And I always wanted muttonchops, damn it!

So, this morning I shaved. It was a living hell. And so disappointing.

Khash.

[BikeWriter]

39. Aw shit. I'm sorry, Pard. It's in the genes, I guess.

My first beard in my early twenties was very full, thick, and dark.

[Trigger Hippie]

37. I don't know who made it mandatory

but I am heartily against men shaving their faces. All men should be bearded. I love bearded men. :loveya:

:bounce:

Vive le hair!!!!

[BikeWriter]

41. Ahh, I heartily agree, Dear! :-)

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

57. All woman should share your opinion on this

I have been bearded since I was 17 with a goatee a year earlier.

Now chest hair just needs to come back in fashion....

[Trigger Hippie]

61. Oooohh,

chest hair. Grrrrrrr. That's always in fashion with me. It's so silly that other women don't agree. :hi:

[no name no slogan]

44. I have a light beard, and if I don't shave it

.... i have people coming up to me and asking how the chemo is going.

[BikeWriter]

46. Ohhhhhh, that's cold blooded! I would never do that!

[Spider Jerusalem]

48. Started with the ancient Greeks.

The idea was that if you were cleanshaven an opponent in battle couldn't grasp your beard and pull you in for a death-blow.

[BikeWriter]

49. Hmm, in the twenty or so fights I've had as an adult...

I have often grabbed someone by the hair as I punched them. I have yet to have it happen to me. (Knock on wood.)

[johnnie]

50. I can't take facial hair

Even if I go two days without shaving, it drives me nuts. I had a full beard and mustache once because I was, how shall I say... indisposed. I cut it all off as soon as I got home and that was the last time I had hair on my face. Well, I have had burns once and a while.

[BikeWriter]

52. My face itches the first few days of growing a beard...

It seems more natural to have two inches of beard or twenty.

[Skittles]

54. men made it mandatory

men in bidness

[BikeWriter]

56. We don't need no fuckin' bidness.

[ghostsofgiants]

63. I can barely even grow facial hair

So I don't have that problem.

[jojo54]

64. A story about when men HAD to have a beard

The town I grew up in on 4th of July. They had a "jail" for all men who came to the celebration without a beard and mustache. Fake or real, it didn't matter. I don't know exactly why, but it had something to do with the towns' founders.

Personally, I like a beard and mustache. It give a man character.