No-Shave November

roland_7707

Anybody participating?

0patience

I would, but being american indian, I can't hardly get a moustache and goatee to grow, let alone a beard.

Rain

Thanks to the Army, only my southern regions

Glock1975

Rain:

Thanks to the Army, only my southern regions

Shouldn't take to long.

danielzreyes

I'll play

CharlieHeis

I prefer Movember. Just a 'stache. I've grown a sweet porn-stache for Movember the last couple years.

Martel

I got tired of my full beard and just last week trimmed it back down to a goatee.

I find that I prefer the longer beard in the summer and shorter in the winter. It has something to do with dry skin that I can't get to in order to scratch under all that hair in the winter and heat/humidity exacerbated razor burn in the summer.

mmccartneydc

I usually start my beard around now and shave sometime in Jan. When duck hunting in below 0, it helps to have some fur!

roland_7707

Crappy pic but day 5 of not shaving.

youngryan216

I usually have a full beard, but my wife is going to lose it when I go just mustache tonight for Movember.

Eulogy

I made October Beardtober but i still haven't shaved yet.

webmost

0patience:

I would, but being american indian, I can't hardly get a moustache and goatee to grow, let alone a beard.

My Dad was like that. Had the aquiline nose, the high cheekbones, red skin -- could not grow but the least skimp of beard. Each of us six children have his high square forehead; otherwise each inherited one trait or another. One sis had the long heavy shiny black hair. Another the copper skin. Another the cheekbones. Me, small hands, stoicism, philosophical imagination, and a love of nature so profound that I cannot stand to trim a tree or dig a hole. Even mowing a lawn is like physical pain. Can't explain it. No one on either side grows a beard as curly and thick as I do. The best combo was my eldest sister, who combined great-grandma's cheekbones and hawk nose and copper skin with my father's hazel eyes and blond hair. Striking. Great grandpa had one heck of a beard down to his chest, and long wavy chestnut hair.

Great grandma was Siksikiwa... Blackfoot.

This time of year I grow my balaclava beard long and let my Gyro Gearloose bozos fluff on out, to keep warm. The chrome dome has to have a hat.

Fire place weather rolling in. Trees shedding rapidly. Invigorating. Love it.

I have zero notion what awareness is supposed to accomplish. Seems to me the most poignant and pervasive mens' problem is the virtual certainty you will not get to live in the same house with your children to help them grow up day by day. How any divorced father paying child support to merit metered visits on alternate weekends soothes that open wound by growing a November beard just baffles me. Much less prostate cancer. Of all the silly buzzwords we have seen come and go, this "awareness" may be the most fatuous.

"Thought is easy. Action is difficult. To act in accordance with our thought is the most difficult thing we have to do." ... Goethe

Thanatos0320

Martel

So this is about awareness of something or other? I thought it was something some college/HS kid cooked up at some private school with a dress code that included shaving as an excuse not to shave. If it's about awareness, it's failed in epic fashion.

webmost:

0patience:

I would, but being american indian, I can't hardly get a moustache and goatee to grow, let alone a beard.

My Dad was like that. Had the aquiline nose, the high cheekbones, red skin -- could not grow but the least skimp of beard. Each of us six children have his high square forehead; otherwise each inherited one trait or another. One sis had the long heavy shiny black hair. Another the copper skin. Another the cheekbones. Me, small hands, stoicism, philosophical imagination, and a love of nature so profound that I cannot stand to trim a tree or dig a hole. Even mowing a lawn is like physical pain. Can't explain it. No one on either side grows a beard as curly and thick as I do. The best combo was my eldest sister, who combined great-grandma's cheekbones and hawk nose and copper skin with my father's hazel eyes and blond hair. Striking. Great grandpa had one heck of a beard down to his chest, and long wavy chestnut hair.

Great grandma was Siksikiwa... Blackfoot.

This time of year I grow my balaclava beard long and let my Gyro Gearloose bozos fluff on out, to keep warm. The chrome dome has to have a hat.

Fire place weather rolling in. Trees shedding rapidly. Invigorating. Love it.

I have zero notion what awareness is supposed to accomplish. Seems to me the most poignant and pervasive mens' problem is the virtual certainty you will not get to live in the same house with your children to help them grow up day by day. How any divorced father paying child support to merit metered visits on alternate weekends soothes that open wound by growing a November beard just baffles me. Much less prostate cancer. Of all the silly buzzwords we have seen come and go, this "awareness" may be the most fatuous.

"Thought is easy. Action is difficult. To act in accordance with our thought is the most difficult thing we have to do." ... Goethe

roland_7707

Day 10

roland_7707

danielzreyes:

I'll play

Still goin?

whatever day it is.

danielzreyes

I'm still going. I don't know how much longer though. Plus I had a 4 day head start in Oct

twistedstem

Still in!! Haven't shaved my face since Nov 1st!! Everything else dolphin smooth.....

webmost

danielzreyes:

I'm still going. I don't know how much longer though. Plus I had a 4 day head start in Oct

I'm still going. I don't know how much longer though. Plus I had a 30 year head start in Oct

This kind of temperature, I grow a full on billy goat to keep the neck warm on the ride to work. 21 dedamngrees this morning. It's like February round here.

Can not see the advantage to shaving. Nothing but wasted time, money, and even blood from time to time. It's like in the old days, when men were expected to wear stinking ties. Sure glad we got over that nonsense.

Only down side to beards, they do require a lot of napkin.