"You need to shave that beard off - it makes you look old".

[FrenchieBoy]

Funny enough that was my wife's comment to me...not mine to her.

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Anyhoo.

I only don't shave because I am genetically lazy. Every once in a while it gets too much for my wife, and she starts that campaign that always results in me slinking off to find the shaving stuff.

It is because I do not shave every day, that I cannot immediately lay my hands to what is needed.

Electric trimer to do the 'heavy lifting', then wet shave to finish off.

I studiously avoid the, cutthroat razor my son bought me for my last birthday. Tried it once. Did not end well.

Anyhoo.

Finish up with some 'balm'.

Bastard! That stings!


Yeah well it would...I should have checked...

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Ah well. With a face as leathery as mine, I am guessing it's all good...

Keep it as it is Stalker62. At least if you want to earn a bit of beer money you can work as a "Part Time Santa"!

 

[Stalker62]

Keep it as it is Stalker62. At least if you want to earn a bit of beer money you can work as a "Part Time Santa"!

Funny thing....two years ago...

 

[BenBhoy]

Depends on the job really. In my old job at one time, you had to submit an application to grow a beard and it was generally only allowed if you grew it over a period of leave, so you weren't at work with would have been described as having a scruffy appearance.

Absolutely feck that..no offence but any job that tried to dictate such unimportant bollocks I'd tell them to do one. I go to work looking homeless!!

 

[BenBhoy]

A beard, recently
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Which way up is your head on??

 

[nic531]

My beard and hair does not grow very long but just gets curly! when I first retired I did not shave or trim my hair for a year... nutty professor look.

Mind you my OH has never seen me clean shaven... we have only been together 24 years.

After time off sick following heart surgery, in my old job, I came back with a small 'rats tail' ponytail to my first day back, giving evidence in Crown Court.. In a northern force at the time, the old arse Crown Court Sgt was not impressed and wrote a 2 page report - I was told by my Inspector, it had to be off my shirt collar, while at work..... the female officers were not impressed when I then said, that must count for them as well then!

 

[opticron1]

Absolutely feck that..no offence but any job that tried to dictate such unimportant bollocks I'd tell them to do one. I go to work looking homeless!!

As you say....depends on the job. I was expected to be clean shaven or a neat well trimmed beard to allow decent "face fit" with certain types of masks to avoid cross infection/contamination. Since retiring - not so much.....definitely depends on whether the boss gives me the evil eye to get it trimmed!

 

[JockStalk]

Slack.
Shave every day, can’t abide not.
Standards people.
Standards.

 

[75]

I remember being berated terribly by a farmer in Cumbria whilst out fell running. Proper nastiness in what he was saying and assumed it would be along the lines of "bloody tourists" or being where I shouldn't (in his view).

The crime?

A beard.

I kid you not, so much venom in the old bugger over a beard! I could do nothing but laugh which I fear escalated the situation more than had I engaged in a frank argument.

 

[kenbro]

Wife says I’m too ugly not to have a beard!