BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?

Subject: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 10:45 AM

After all this brouhaha about womanly jiggles, I think it's time to exhaust another fertile subject that has nothing whatsoever to do with folk music...but maybe with the blues. Manly stubble. Is it hot? Is it not? Do you ladies like your man with a little stubble, no stubble, or a whole lot?

Certain individuals like Clint Eastwood, Don Johnson and Bob Dylan have gotten a lot of mileage out of manly stubble. So whaddya think?

Rave away, folks...

I figure we can beat this one to death in under 150 posts easily.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: Kim C
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 10:50 AM

Dylan just looks scruffy with his stubble. Some people look good with it and some don't.

I guess it just depends. I like Mister either clean, or bearded. But of course, there's that in-between time when he's growing a beard, that he's stubbly.

So, I guess I don't know. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: Penny G.
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 11:36 AM

Stubble looks good with square well defined chins but does nothing for receding chins.

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 11:51 AM

Are guys still walking around half-shaved? Maybe I don't get out of these woods often enough.....

I always thought the "stubble look" was little else than a ploy on the part of a few lazy, overpaid "stars" to justify their own sloth. "Hi! I'm A)Don Johnson or B)Brad Pitt and I've just been too f***ing lazy to shave for the last few days. But, hey, I'm a superstar, so instead of 'laziness' will call it a, uhhh, 'fashion statement'. Yeh, that's the ticket."

Other guys can do whatever they want with their facial hair, but I'm going to either grow it out or shave it off - no in-between.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 11:54 AM

unless it is on its way to becoming a beard, or is just a vacation/weekend whatever break, it looks ridiculous and affected and pompous.

mg

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: Big Mick
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 12:00 PM

Stubble looks good on those it looks good on. But when one is affecting it as a "fashion statement" it simply means that I will be today whatever I need to be to look "in". And that has never worked for me. When I like something, I wear it, whether it is "in" or not.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: Morticia
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 12:54 PM

I like the look but don't like to snog (kiss), stubble is prickly.

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: MAG
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 01:29 PM

Haven't we had this discussion before???

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: GUEST,irishajo
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 01:37 PM

Manly stubble...yes, please.

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: harpgirl
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 02:00 PM

...ewwwwww! whisker kisses! nothing worse! give me a soft belly and a hairy chest anyday, but whisker kisses?????? who wants their face cut to ribbons...No way.......

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: harpgirl
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 02:01 PM

...unless your name is Sam Elliot.....

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: hesperis
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 04:48 PM

Scratchy. Beard or clean-shaven, please.

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 05:10 PM

Verdict? Old subject...

Beards and Mudcatters

Beards and Bards


beards and long-term romance

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: GUEST,toribw who should be working
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 05:15 PM

I gotta say I'm not fond of the continual "I haven't shaved for four days" look. Either it's becoming something, or it's not.

My hb. has the ever-changing facial hair fiesta going on. I never know what he's going to do next. So there's frequent stubble, but it doesn't stay that way long.

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: artbrooks
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 05:26 PM

Oh, you mean on FACES, LH!!

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 06:09 PM

I like the look of the 'designer stubble' but come on girls it's not good in the kissing stakes, you get red rashes and sore lips. I like clean shaven men but I am also partial to a man with a a nice soft beard!!!

cat

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 06:39 PM

Well, yes, Kat...but has that ever stopped us before?

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 07:16 PM

Morticia is spot on. Depends whether we're talking about the look or the feel. Stubble = abrasive sandpaper.

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 07:16 PM

No, not you, LH, never...though you used to be a bit more creative and less flippant about filling up the space, imo.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: GUEST,Ernie Shavers
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 05:05 AM

Shaving sucks. Don't be a slave to the shave.

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 05:16 AM

It appears womanly stubble is now in the full glare of newsgroup ridicule for the poor old Mudcat.

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 06:42 AM

I still can't workout why men shave. Come to think of it why do women shave legs and armpits? We leave our arms alone so why not the other bits?

I saw an advert on TV for a foam that removes hair while you shower. Why don't men use that instead? It's s'posed to last longer and be smoooooooooth! Why scrape your face risking slicing it and bleeding.

I like hairy faces BTW.

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: Teribus
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 08:15 AM

I think Bruce up top there had it right on the mark

"...the "stubble look" was little else than a ploy on the part of a few lazy, overpaid "stars" to justify their own sloth. "Hi! I'm A)Don Johnson or B)Brad Pitt and I've just been too f***ing lazy to shave for the last few days. But, hey, I'm a superstar, so instead of 'laziness' will call it a, uhhh, 'fashion statement'. "

Any time I see it, the overriding impression is - "Idle tosser can't even be bothered to shave."

In the immortal last words of Julius Caeser "TEE HEE Brutus!" LOL!!

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 08:22 AM

You're right, Kat. I began to prefer humour to endless deeply serious wrangles with people of opposing viewpoints, but I am still willing to wrangle now and then if I really care enough about the subject...

I think it helps my state of mind not to take either myself or other people too seriously at least part of the time. You should have seen how serious I was when I was a youngster...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 09:46 AM

When talking bout manly stubble
I hate to burst your bubble
But it scratches when short and so...
Let it grow
Let it grow
Let it grow!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: hesperis
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 03:41 PM

Some guys grow stubble in an amazingly short time, too. Then it doesn't matter how much they shave, they still have that sexy "just got out of bed" look. But... it scratches. Sigh.

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: GUEST,Fred Miller
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 05:18 PM

Someday I'll post something in earnest about music. I liked long hair and beard till I started losing some hair, and had to let go, was ratty looking in my case. I like the look when the hair is near the same length as a day or so of stubble, but too many days growth gets inbetweeny looking, sometimes. If nothing else, David Hockney's ink drawings of it are enough to justify the look. I have to shave for occasions of affection.

Not all women do shave, at all, and this was actually a topic in my college days. I've never cared much about it one way or another, and was surprised how strongly some people feel about it. It's true that most of the hippie women I knew weren't very hairy anyway, maybe it would start to seem unkempt at some point.

I insist that everything does, somehow, at some abstract level, have to do with folk and blues. I'm not sure why or how, but on faith, I believe: it must. Why does my stubble begin to look scruffy to me, and why do I sometimes like the somewhat tidier sound of a capoed guitar, if only on the first fret? Is there a connection there? Why does it drive some people crazy if I don't clip my strings off at the tuning keys? The quality of scruffiness is not strained.

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 05:35 PM

Someone pointed out that Dylan looks scruffy when he's stubbly. Dead right. He often looks scruffy regardless, actually, but the unshaven bit really puts the "S" in scruffy where Bob is concerned.

I love those scenes where Brad Pitt comes in all unshaven and naked to the waist...you can tell that he is just the ULTIMATE example of: "God, I am SOOOO sexy. I don't need to shave, ever, because I am the "I" in irresistible. I don't even need to wash. Well, I think I'll just let it grow for another day or two...drives 'em wild..."

Kissing Brad Pitt on such occasions must be a bit like colliding with a circular sander.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: Don Firth
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 01:04 PM

To the ladies, getting close to a guy with stubble may have all the charm of being caressed by a cactus, but if I go more than a day or two without shaving, it starts to itch like crazy!

He drove them in with a hammer
And bit them off inside.

(There. Now it's a music thread.)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: MAG
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 04:31 PM

"He's the kind of artist rents a groovy little attic
And discovers that he can't grow a beard ..."

Subject: RE: BS: Manly stubble - What's the verdict?
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 08:06 AM

I know it's painful but I think designer stubble is very sexy. There said it!