Decem-beard

[Seil]

I'll talk about Movember the same way that my brother talked about that one FB fad where it was cool to put your favorite kids show as your display pic to raise awareness about... something ...somewhere.

"People in Africa are starving! People are dying of hunger all over the country! Go to the nearest restaurant and order a steak to show your support to end hunger everywhere!"

But I suppose it does raise awareness of the issue, and it is widely recognized (I've seen some of the older guys in town doing it "as a work thing." Even 11 year olds are being totally rad. (http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2011/11/25/ottawa-movember-boy.html) But here's the thing: I was in the car this morning, listening to the radio, and there was an announcement about "Decem-beards (http://decembeard.com.au/)."

...What? Apparently, it's "something something charity," and then the news person on CBC was like "After Decem-beard, we have 'Man-uary. (http://www.manuary.com/)'" ...What!? I just think that men are really lazy and have invented complex excuses to just not shave.

[Aldurin]

This is not a valid Seil Thread since you did not title it correctly. And there's no tag to boot (you know how anal we are about that stuff).

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Movember has plenty of events that raise money. Some of my friends raised a good 10,000 pounds doing movember.
Decembeard is stupid.

[Geminex]

Movember has plenty of events that raise money. Some of my friends raised a good 10,000 pounds doing movember.
Do they get sponsors for having really nice moustaches?

[Betty Elms]

Fuck men. I'm starting crotchtober, the equal opportunity no-shaving month.

[MSperoni]

Cocktober would work for us men.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Do they get sponsors for having really nice moustaches?

Pretty much. How do none of you dudes not know how movember works. FFS.

Fuck men. I'm starting crotchtober, the equal opportunity no-shaving month.

Get back in the corner. You can come out when you have a moustache.

[Krylo]

All these no shaving things are dumb. It's incredibly easy to not shave. In fact it's easier than shaving. All it requires is for you to be lazy as shit every day.

Being lazy as shit is not a valid way to show support of, raise awareness for, or raise money for anything. It's like if instead of having walkathons to raise money for cancer research people went around getting people to pledge if they sat around in bed watching movies all day.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

It requires challenging social conventions and standards of good taste and fashion.
Shaving is heaps easier

[MSperoni]

Being lazy as shit is not a valid way to show support of, raise awareness for, or raise money for anything.

What about taking a shit? I have big plans for Crapril.

[Krylo]

It requires challenging social conventions and standards of good taste and fashion.
Shaving is heaps easier

Except when you can just say "I'm raising awareness for men's health issues" all of that social pressure immediately goes away.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

But when you're in the club trying to pick up all the hos you won't have time or the ability to explain over the Untz untz untz.
Alternatively if you have a steady girlfriend you'll need to adminster regular beatings to get her to accept your moustache.

[Krylo]

Chicks dig socially conscious guys. If you can't find a way to use your shitty awareness facial hair as a successful pick up, it is you who is socially unacceptable, not your shitty facial hair.

And it only doesn't work on steady girlfriends because they totally know it's all a bunch of bullshit excuses for you to be too lazy to shave as well.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I'm not talking the jovial back and forth of picking up women at a low key social gathering. In that field your chances remain even or perhaps are even enhanced.
I'm talking the raw thrust of the club, where you cannot explain the reason for your mo, where there is no talking, no cut or thrust of witty barb merely the raw passions of a stolen glance- trapped forever in the wall of hair.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Wake me up when we get into Februshary and Marschole.

[Seil]

This is not a valid Seil Thread since you did not title it correctly. And there's no tag to boot (you know how anal we are about that stuff).

I was told to stop it, so'm stoppin' it.

All these no shaving things are dumb. It's incredibly easy to not shave. In fact it's easier than shaving. All it requires is for you to be lazy as shit every day.

http://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/moods/neutral/daily_needs/lazy.gif

[Fifthfiend]

If I start calling it Janu-Hairy can I lay off waxing my back for a month?

[Darth SS]

Can we go back to what our parents called it? "Growing a beard."

Also, I challenge the idea that growing a beard is easy because it specifically requires not doing something. I challenge it solely on the basis that beards get fucking itchy. Really itchy. Like, you're sitting in a class and you should be trying to understand the algebra in front of you but instead all you can think about is how it feels like your neck is on fire and you desperately want to scratch it furiously but then you might get beard dandruff all over your black sweater and people will see and be grossed out so you can't do that but maybe a couple exploratory touches yes those are okay no one questions those but it only itches more now and someone asked a question and you missed it because of the forest thrusting itself forth from your face.

[Krylo]

Can we go back to what our parents called it? "Growing a beard."

Also, I challenge the idea that growing a beard is easy because it specifically requires not doing something. I challenge it solely on the basis that beards get fucking itchy. Really itchy. Like, you're sitting in a class and you should be trying to understand the algebra in front of you but instead all you can think about is how it feels like your neck is on fire and you desperately want to scratch it furiously but then you might get beard dandruff all over your black sweater and people will see and be grossed out so you can't do that but maybe a couple exploratory touches yes those are okay no one questions those but it only itches more now and someone asked a question and you missed it because of the forest thrusting itself forth from your face.

You have terrible skin. Use lotion or something.

I have not shaved for a month and a half. I do not itch, and have not itched.

And it's not to raise awareness for shit that everyone already knows about or whatever. It's purely because I'm a lazy asshole and the longer it gets the more effort it is to actually shave.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

Two reasons why I have a beard:

I eat razors, trimmers, and sundry grooming products because my beard is so damn thick.

I've had a beard in some form or another for over a decade for the above reason.

That and I love my beard. spose that is three reasons. Never particularly care for these beard/stache themed nonsense things, as expressed before.

[Archbio]

Doesn't growing a beard demand less effort than growing a mustache? For the people who can grow beards at, I mean, as opposed to people whose facial hair is more limited.

It wouldn't be quite shaving, or quite not shaving.

Like taking a whole eyebrow off is less hassle than trimming it. Now that was a good trend.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

Yes, growing a beard takes no effort at all because it is an automagic biological process of keratin extrusion via the hair follicle. Same amount of effort as mustache. No more, no less.

Unless you're Gordito Delgado who grew a fine 'stache through sheer force of will.


and with that cleared up, grooming a beard can be a rather timely process depending on the style, thickness, and length of said beard owner. One errant slip of the trimmer or clippers and glorious symmetrical balance is thrown all kattywompus. Then the crushing shame sets in. Followed by the determination to salvage with emergency symmetry styling.

[Archbio]

Same amount of effort as mustache. No more, no less.

What I was saying is that to grow a mustache, someone who grows more facial hair naturally than is necessary to have just the mustache needs to continue shaving the rest of the facial hair, which is more effort than just letting everything grow into a whatever beard and takes more care than just shaving everything off, since I imagine you don't want a lopsided mustache.

It's seems the grooming choice that demands the more care, is what I'm getting at.

[Fifthfiend]

Yeah beards basically just happen

A moustache takes commitment

EDIT like you can put work into your beard but one way or another it's still a beard

But like if you let your moustache go then you pretty much just end up with like... a shitty beard

[Amake]

I have it on good authority that mustaches are thoroughly unsexy precisely because you're putting effort into styling and grooming hair that's basically growing out of your nose.

With snot.

[Sifright]

I have it on good authority that mustaches are thoroughly unsexy precisely because you're putting effort into styling and grooming hair that's basically growing out of your nose.

With snot.

Some one doesn't seem to understand what a mustache is because i'm pretty sure people dont use the hair from inside their nose to make it.

[Archbio]

Well, some people could.

[Amake]

Nonetheless, that's how it looks to members of their fairer sex.

[Darth SS]

Yeah beards basically just happen

A moustache takes commitment

EDIT like you can put work into your beard but one way or another it's still a beard

But like if you let your moustache go then you pretty much just end up with like... a shitty beard

Here's the thing I hate about fifth. He's a douche and you wait for an opportunity to call him out and say he's wrong. BUT, just like now, he's completely 100% right.

Well played sir.

I hope that Tom Selleck blesses you with the gift of mustache.