Yesterday I passed a barbershop and saw ads on their wall outside of men with beards and short hair. It is a revival or saving electricity ?
I’m a unix-guru.
If I were to shave I’d get a -5 penalty on my bash magic.
If I skip showers for a month I can interface directly with any device in /dev
If I skip showers for a month I can interface directly with any device in /dev
None of /dev will want your interface.
/dev/zero will always be accepting.
I hate it when when my local /dev/shm gets smelly.
Samson was actually a sys admin whose servers had incredible uptime until his beard was shaved.
It’s been foretold that after a year without touching grass you can harness one-handed vim
GROSS! And can you fix my nvidia drivers???
He can’t take that risk! Don’t you know what you’re asking?
What do you mean men are growing beards “again”? I haven’t noticed any trend between clean shaven / bearded. Some do, some don’t.
Yeah, beards have been common since at least the ‘hipster/lumbersexual’ memes which were about 2008 or so. There’s not been any particular drop off since then. It’s just accepted that some people prefer or look better with a beard.
I’m at least six years in on my current beard. Many others before that.
Why do people on the internet think you don’t have to shave if you have a beard? You’re just shaving less area.
Exactly. When I was clean shaven, it was easy, I could just hold the shaver against the contours of my face.
Now, with a large beard, I only need to shave every one or two weeks, but it takes much longer to do so and is much trickier. I’ve got to sculpt and shape a mound of hair manually. And every day I still brush and oil it.
Clean or short shaven was actually less effort.
Ha, NSFW example but my God when people call the tight trimmed triangle a “natural bush” on women I laugh. It’s more work to maintain than just about any other alternative.
I don’t shave and I have a beard - once in a blue moon for a special occasion, I might trim it.
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Some people think beards are stylish.
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Exactly, it’s actually MORE work to shave with a beard because instead of just completely removing all of the hair and you have to shape it and make sure it’s symmetrical.
It’s also easier area. Cheeks and neck are way flatter than chin.
Very variable, depending on style and your personal growth pattern. I have a small patch on each cheek that has to be cleaned off, but otherwise it doesn’t require shaving. With a big beard you have to care for it like normal hair, though, with haircuts and products.
Buuut I do have the shave my whole head. Oh well.
I haven’t shaved since 2014.
I’ve (recently) stopped shaving entirely, but I use my trimmers to to a quick hackjob on the area I used to manually shave. so my facial hair care routine is about 5 minutes every 2 weeks or so, plus maybe 5 minutes a month to buzz my head. can’t believe I used to spend that much time every couple of days to look like shit. now I still look like shit but have a few more minutes
its the other way around for those people: they have a beard because they stopped shaving, not because they wanted a nice looking beard.
tbh there is a part of me that resents this “ew you grow facial hair and don’t shave around the edges to create sharp lines” view though. Its like women feeling they have to shave their legs or pits, it’s BS and people shouldn’t be judged for literally just how their body naturally is. Its not like there’s a legitimate sanitary reason for shaving legs or necks.
Alas, I cannot grow hair on the top of my head, so I must grow it on the bottom.
This is my reason too.
IIRC, it’s the same testosterone-y hormone that determines how good you are at growing a beard that also determines how aggressively you go bald. So there’s lots of folks in this boat with us
It’s more so how sensitive your cells/receptors are to these hormones (testosterone/DHT), assuming you have healthy levels. There’s people on anabolic steroids that still can’t grow a dense beard. It’s just genetics.
The more you know!
Also, I have a big ass forehead and no chin. Gotta aim for that balancing point.
Alas, I have just enough native blood to not be able to grow a beard, and not enough to not go bald. Worst of both worlds haha
Brother beards have been in for like 10 years.
For some of us that’s “new”
More like 70 years.
I mean, they were never out in Afghanistan. I think we have to confine discussion to the West here, where I assume OP lives.
You could go back to the 19th century in America, but beards were definitely out from the 1920s to 60s. IIRC it was chemical warfare that killed the beard, because they don’t fit under a gas mask, and dudes all want to look like a tough guy. After that, the counterculture brought them back for people involved. I’m less clear on post-Cold-War trends.
yes thank you my post was very serious
Of course, it’s the internet, we’re always in the twilight between serious and joking.
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- I’m lazy
- I can
- makes me look my age
- razor burn sucks
- 3’o clock shadow sucks
- who cares?
Shaving takes less time than keeping it tidy, at least for me.
To increase their UNIX skills.
😃
I’m a fucking wizard - the beard is mandatory.
I control electron flow on my spare time
I control erection flow.
Do the other wizards just give you the staff, or do you have to go on a quest or something?
Becoming a wizard isn’t so trivial as just being declared one - many wizards apprenticed themselves to gain knowledge and improve their chances but that elevation is a personal journey.
You will know you’re a wizard when you can look at fellows in your skill and know that none of them would challenge your adoption of the title. I wish you the best of luck. It’s a title within reach of everyone in their lifetime.
The staff and robes are optional but who would turn down a badass purple robe.
It’s really the stick I’m interested in. So you can just go get your own staff? Nobody awards you the staff, or stops you from getting a staff?
Nah, you can just make yourself a staff - there aren’t any restrictions, registries or waiting periods.
Nah, you can just make yourself a staff
Exactly. The moguls try to control how I use it in the organization
Beards are where the Communism is stored. As the ruling class become richer and more obscene, class consciousness grows amongst the working class. Hence, beards.
SAVING ELECTRICITY LOL WUT
Shaving sucks.
The real question is why shaving should be normalized, expected, or encouraged in modern society.
Yeah, normalize either being okay. Just like long or short hair. Diversity is the spice of life.
Good answer. 👍
Ye, I just shave mine when it starts irritating my neck 🤷♂️
Long story short: WW2
The military required men to be clean shaven, which was partly tactical (proper gas mask seals), partly to whitewash the service (e.g., black men can have severe skin reactions to shaving every day), and had other benefits to unit cohesion and general order (routine personal fitness and hygiene).
Well, that stuck, and an entire (massive) generation of men and their male children were taught that to be good they simply had to be clean shaven. Those two generations make up the vast majority of business and political power in the US, so the idea of “success” and “power” was idolized by a clean shaven male. This was further accentuated by the counter culture reaction of this cohort’s kids in the 60s and 70s, where longer and unkempt “bad” hair was cast against this “good” clean shaven look.
Fast forward to today, those traditions and appearances have been baked into most of modern life. As the boomer population starts to fade away, so will the tyranny of the razor.
The boomers ARE the unshaven hippies tho. People born in the 40s and entering public life in the 60s-70s
Beards are great. Shaving was the greatest crime of Romans.
The biggest problem with growing a beard is that it only looks good after a certain amount of time. When people grow beards it’s usually when they are on vacation because it is nice not having to shave and you dont have to look professional with a crazy half grown beard.
A couple of years ago the word took an extended vacation and a lot of people took the opportunity to grow a beard.
The influence of Marxism
I mean, they’re both coming back a bit, but I don’t know anyone who was like “well, Marx had one”.
(It’s not real analysis, I’m memeing)
(Oh, gotcha!)
There is a time while growing a beard that it looks like shit.
Most of the people shave it off to not go through it.
But the pandemic meant people could go for weeks without seeing an other human. Which is the perfect time to grow a beard and get over the awkward phase without getting laughed at too much.
I grew out my hair instead, looked like shit but now I know.
Can confirm, grew beard during lockdown, never went back!
Same. Still haven’t learned how to style it but it’s still better than the face I had before
Started growing mine during no-shave November 2019, and then we shut down for COVID. It was perfect timing.
