BS: I'm sick of stubble

Subject: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Wesley S
Date: 04 Jun 15 - 10:55 AM

So Old Dudes sick of the Beatles? Well I'm sick of stubble. Either grow a beard or shave - that's my rant. I guess it started with Don Johnson and Miami Vice. But that was in the 80's and we should be over it by now. It seems especially silly when you see a movie with a guy going for a job interview at the White House with a three day growth on his face. Really? You're not going to shave for a job interview? Get out of my office.

I guess women like it because you still see it everywhere. But if you haven't been on a week long camping trip drag a razor across your face.

Opposing views welcome. But you're not going to change my mind.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 04 Jun 15 - 11:07 AM

Full beards are becoming de rigeur amongst the young bucks this side of the pond. Stubble seems to be passé

Thank goodness.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 04 Jun 15 - 11:10 AM

And only full beards it seems. I'm sure a lot of them are false as they seem to be in better condition than the head hair!

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 04 Jun 15 - 11:13 AM

oh... facial stubble... thought you meant..... 😜



I feel sorry for an entire generation of young men
who have never experienced the delights of 100% natural women...

Glad I grew up in the 1970s... 😎

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: GUEST,#
Date: 04 Jun 15 - 11:36 AM

Bunch of damned sissies with electric razors and shaving kits. Use a blow torch and be done with it.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 04 Jun 15 - 11:39 AM

Living in the city as I do, I have to make judgment calls about everybody around me. A person who's walking toward me on the sidewalk can be anything from a neurosurgeon to a homeless schizophrenic.

One of the ways I assess people is by how well-groomed they are. Males who have stubble do not look well-groomed or even reasonably clean, and so they look dangerous. They are doing themselves a real disservice.

When I was little, I used to sit on my father's lap and talk to him. How well I remember the rough, sharp scratchiness of the stubble he occasionally had. Guys, believe me, having cheeks that feel like steel wool does not make you sexy.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 04 Jun 15 - 11:44 AM

Well, perhaps you should use Veet.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Ed T
Date: 04 Jun 15 - 12:44 PM

I had shoulder long hair and permanent "stubble" in the late 60's-early 70s. It matched my army shirts and tie-dyed white bell bottom pants. I shave daily now, and the worlx is " no worse" for how I appeared to the public back then. In fact, I would enjoy having such a full head of hair and such an innocent, free spirit today.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: GUEST,Pete from seven stars link
Date: 04 Jun 15 - 01:27 PM

I still got shoulder length hair, and occasional stubble cos I don't wanna shave every day...........growing old disgracefully !.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Musket
Date: 04 Jun 15 - 02:02 PM

I'll second that.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Jun 15 - 04:15 PM

I have been watching more television lately and find that most of the major male stars seem to be sporting stubble. When they all have it it isn't a novelty. Perhaps they'll shift back to clean shaven so their strong manly jaw lines show again. :)

I saw a photo recently on Twitter that I dug up as illustration: stubble on David Boreanaz and some guy in the background - the guy in the background looks like it isn't a good fashion choice for anyway, but with several of them around it kind of looks like winos in fancy jackets. :)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jun 15 - 04:32 PM

What I don't get is t.v. characters who always look like they have a 3-day growth. The bad boy character often has that look. But how do they do it? Do they shoot the whole episode in one day after three days of rehearsal? And then he shaves until the next week's rehearsals start? Or is there artificial stubble that he can put on like a fake beard or a wig?

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 04 Jun 15 - 05:05 PM

There are razors for maintaining 3 day growths.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 04 Jun 15 - 11:30 PM

I look at the picture of David B, and I think, "Here's a guy who got C+'s all the way through high school. And now he's trying to look tough."

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Don Firth
Date: 05 Jun 15 - 12:23 AM

He'd never shave a whisker
From off of his horny hide;
He'd just drive them in with a hammer
And bite them off inside.

That's the way we do it up here in the Pacific Northwest....

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: bubblyrat
Date: 05 Jun 15 - 08:30 AM

In the British Royal Navy you had to get permission to grow a beard; it was always known as a "full set", that is to say no goatee beards or twirling moustachios , just an honest-to-goodness whopper (although it had to be trimmed neatly ).One submitted a "request form" to "discontinue shaving" in Naval parlance; if granted, you endured everyone's jibes for two weeks,after which the Master- At -Arms (the final arbiter)inspected your attempt and either approved it (hurrah !) or ordered you to "shave off !".Just to complicate things ; each ship or shore-base could have ONE person with a "fancy" ( goatee, twirly Sir Francis Drake type) beard,but depending on seniority, so if a Chief Petty Officer had a magnificent, waxed, dashing,piratical effort and then a Lieutenant similarly hirsutely-appendaged joined the Ship's Company , then the CPO either shaved of or got the scissors out!

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Jun 15 - 09:11 AM

Silver in the Stubble


Early in the morning,
Hear the razor roar,
There's silver in the stubble
And it wasn't there before.

Chorus:
For the leaves are getting greener,
And spring is on the way;
Girls are getting prettier
And younger every day.

Silver in the stubble;
Winter in the wood.
Fare you well, you wicked world,
I'm going to be good.

Chorus:

Time to think of Heaven;
Time to think of Hell.
Time to go to church on Sunday,
Hark, I hear the bell.

Chorus:

But if any girl is willing,
She only has to say;
I'll hang my halo on a shelf
Until another day.

Chorus:

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jun 15 - 10:17 AM

I feel sorry for the all the characters in movies and on TV shows who have permanent stubble. They only get to live their lives one day out of three. Shave, wait two days, have a life for one day, shave again, wait two days again, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jun 15 - 10:30 AM

http://beardtrimandgroom.com/best-trimmers-for-stubble/
Let's face it, that short growth of stubble gives most men that masculine, slightly bad boy appearance that most women love. But getting and keeping the perfect stubble is more than just simply not shaving for a day or two.

http://www.wikihow.com/Maintain-Stubble
Though men may like the designer stubble look for several reasons, you should especially consider it if you're prone to shaving irritation and ingrown facial hairs. Maintaining the hairs at a short length can help clear up skin, and it can also give baby-faced men a more rugged, handsome look.

http://www.fashionbeans.com/2013/mens-grooming-maintaining-stubble/
Gone are the days when clean shaven was the only way to look well groomed. Some of the most stylish and sophisticated men on the planet are adopting a more rugged approach to facial hair, and from bar to boardroom stubble is no longer seen as scruffy. If uncared for, stubble can make you look rough or haggard – but equally it has the ability to transform a smooth baby face into something far more masculine and handsome. The look we're going to cover in this article (and what I consider to fall under the term 'stubble') includes everything from a couple of day's growth to a short beard.

Good thing I read Mudcat, or I would never have known. All these years I've been torturing myself, afraid to leave the house without shaving. Now I can relax, and become a babe magnet too.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 05 Jun 15 - 10:39 AM

Let yer whiskers grow,
Let yet whiskers grow.
What's the use of shaving?
Pull 'em out by the roots,
They'll do as laces in yer boots.
Think o't'money yer saving...

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jun 15 - 10:42 AM

I prefer clean shaven, myself. Leeneia and I rarely agree about anything, but encountering stubble in close quarters is like he's wearing a scouring pad. The same problem Punkfolkrocker alluded to when nether beards are shaven. ;-)

Boreanaz has great features that are obscured by the stubble. I think he has been given bad advice to keep sporting the 3-day stubble. As is the case with many of these actors/celebrities. I'm always reminded of Yasser Arafat.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: GUEST,#
Date: 05 Jun 15 - 12:00 PM

Folks is sick of stubble and they say it's a disgrace
To have a growth that's neither beard nor dirt upon my face
So now I have a forest where my stubble used to be
But now I can't talk to myself 'cause I don't know that it's me

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Jun 15 - 01:16 PM

""encountering stubble in close quarters is like he's wearing a scouring pad""

This brings to mind other potentially romantic and "stubbly" situations, where "he", could be replaced with "she". Ouch!
;)

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Leadfingers
Date: 05 Jun 15 - 01:27 PM

There are a variety of available devices for self grooming to maintain stubble , or trim a Full Set - I have on myself which I COULD use on a daily basis to maintain stubble or , as I usually do , keep the beard looking tidy and manageable .
And Bill D - it would , feel , be polite to credit Sidney Carter for hi excellent song !

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jun 15 - 04:22 PM

REAL me, like me, pound their whiskers in with the blunt end of a single bit ax and shave off INSIDE with the blade.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 12:08 AM

Ed T, that's what I was referring to, bearded nether regions. Hair fads come and go down there also. Shaving is expedient, but Nads makes for a smoother experience for all concerned. :)

There have been a couple of Frozen Logger references, but the takeaway for modern Urban dwellers today is "the lumbersexual look" - an odd pastiche of facial hair, plaid shirts, and suspenders. This is more what you'll see when you meet a real logger. For what it's worth.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 03:36 AM

But why the braces and belt?
Braces alone = OK.
Braces + belt = seriously naff.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: GUEST,
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 03:46 AM

Having suffered with/from boyfriends whose faces would turn into scouring pads within hours of shaving, I now only settled for men with facial hair long enough to have become soft; though I may make an exception for a man with a natural goatee and naturally smooth cheeks).

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: frogprince
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 09:56 AM

As to some of the latter discussion here, I prefer dental floss to a wire brush...

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 11:03 AM

I'm with you, Guest. If he doesn't want to shave, let him grow a beard, which will be soft.

Are the young children of today still afraid of men in beards?

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 11:47 AM

♪ ♫ ♪ Nobody knows the stubble I've seen. ♪ ♫ ♪

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 11:47 AM

"Bill D - it would , feel , be polite to credit Sidney Carter for hi excellent song !"

Ahh.. right. I intended to, but missed the C&P... thanks for correcting the error, Terry.
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And SRS makes important points about fads vs. 'comfort'. I have always tried to ensure I took a woman's concerns into account. ...to everyone's advantage. ☺

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 12:01 PM

Fortunately I learned early on that girls don't like stubble and took to heart the Burma Shave admonition that we used to see on sequential roadside signs in West Virginia:

College men/ Your courage muster/ Shave off that/ Fuzzy Cookie Duster

I finally got sick of scraping a sharp piece of steel across my face and just trim around the edges now and then.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 12:21 PM

Right... another Burma Shave sign: (saw it near El Dorado, Kansas about 1952)

"Pedro
Walked home, by golly-
His bristly chin
Was hot-to-Molly"

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 02:01 PM

I well remember going to Whitby Folk Festival back in the '80s and telling the kids that if they had an issue, find a man with a beard to help. Of course that was before Peter Sutcliffe and Harold Shipman...

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Noreen
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 03:59 PM

'I am half sick of stubble,' said        
          The Lady of Shalott.

(with apologies to my Lord Tennyson)

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: JennieG
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 06:16 PM

Another voice joining the chorus here! I do admire a bloke in a nicely trimmed beard, or a clean shaven bloke, or a bloke with a fuller beard provided that not too much wildlife lurks in it.......but not stubble. As has been said above it makes a bloke look threatening and scary, even if he isn't.

And dirty. And unkempt.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Thompson
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 06:38 PM

Ar coinleach glas an fhomhair,
A stóirín, 'sea dhearc mé thu…

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Teribus
Date: 07 Jun 15 - 04:30 AM

Bubblyrat your post sparked some memories.

Request to discontinue shaving meant just that, everything had to grow for the grace period you were given (IIRC it was normally three not two weeks). After that as you say you had to present yourself and your growth before the Master-At-Arms and he would inspect it, the criteria I saw used was an ordinary comb which the MAA would place in what ever area of the beard he thought thinest/weakest, then order you to attention followed by rapid orders of "Eyes right, eyes left" - if the comb fell out you were ordered to "Shave Off".

One way of growing a "set" surreptitiously was to start one off two weeks before you went on draft or changed establishments, normally a leave period in between leaving one ship and joining another, arrive at the new one with your newly "trimmed" beard and the Regulating Staff at the new establishment just automatically assumed you'd been given permission to grow and keep it in your previous billet.

Best branch to get permission with the highest chances of keeping it was in Submarines, especially in the days of the old conventional boats - if you had a beard you didn't use up valuable fresh water shaving while on patrol.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Jun 15 - 04:42 AM

Well, a lifelong clean-shaven chap spends six months of his life shaving. I gave up shaving 45 years ago when I developed a rash on my neck and I haven't tried to find out since whether the rash would come back. About two minutes per week on a quick beard trim is all my face ever gets. Just think, six months of your life when all you can do is think about sex/football/God/money/rock and roll. I suppose it might not be a complete waste. But I think we don't want everyone, or anyone, to feel forced to conform to some standard or other that's merely a passing phase in history. My mum thinks that anyone with a tattoo should be thrown in jail :-) whereas I like the idea that everyone should be free to express themselves, appearance-wise, exactly how they want to without some nitwit or other "forming an impression" of them.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: GUEST,Grishka
Date: 07 Jun 15 - 10:30 AM

Don't burst my stubble!

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: Ed T
Date: 08 Jun 15 - 03:32 PM

"May women with stubble,
At least have big bubbles!"

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: olddude
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 11:59 AM

I am sick of trouble woh woh

Subject: RE: BS: I'm sick of stubble
From: olddude
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 03:19 PM

I am sick of puddles also so dang much rain can'teeven go for a walk