NON-POLITICAL - A beard!

[Trailrider #896]

Without getting into any political aspect at all! Trump's pick for his VP wears a beard, the only one of the possible candidates! Kinda looks like President Grant! 

[Subdeacon Joe]

14 minutes ago, Trailrider #896 said:

Without getting into any political aspect at all! Trump's pick for his VP wears a beard, the only one of the possible candidates! Kinda looks like President Grant! 

 

Never trust a clean shaven man,  he's trying to hide something. 

[El Chapo]

54 minutes ago, Trailrider #896 said:

Without getting into any political aspect at all! Trump's pick for his VP wears a beard, the only one of the possible candidates! Kinda looks like President Grant! 

 

El Chapo approves of bearded candidates.

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

I have no problem with the beard.

[Pat Riot]

Why would having a beard be an issue?

[Subdeacon Joe]

Just now, Pat Riot said:

Why would having a beard be an issue?

 

I have no problem with them. 

 

[Cypress Sun]

1 minute ago, Pat Riot said:

Why would having a beard be an issue?

 

I was wondering that myself, Kamala has had one for years.

[Rye Miles #13621]

4 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

I have no problem with them. 

 

Me either 

[Alpo]

There's an online story. The guy just served his two terms, and his vice president has just been elected, so he's got like 3 months left of being president. And he gets up one morning and he starts to shave and finds out he's out of razor blades. So he skips it that day. And the next day, when they have more blades, he decided screw it. He wore a beard from the time he was old enough to grow one until he got into politics. And now his political life was over, so he was growing it back. And his friends and associates and secret service detail get in this big discussion about when the last time there had been a president with a beard. Sometime in the late 1800s. The last president with any facial hair was Theodore Roosevelt, and that was several years before the first World War.

 

They just decided amongst themselves that politicians had decided that you couldn't get elected with a beard anymore.

 

Maybe we will see if they were right.

[Rip Snorter]

But Gabby Hayes had whiskers and that was O.K.

[Pat Riot]

In 1970 my Dad got out of prison and decided we needed to move to Georgia. Thomasville, GA. 
My old man had a beard. He couldn’t get a contract for any type of contracting job except this one lady that hired him to trim all the trees on their property. 
She told him the reason he couldn’t get work was because he looked like a Yankee carpet bagger. 
He shaved it off the next morning. Didn’t help. We ended up moving again. 

[Yul Lose]

My first job in the two way radio business was working at a shop owned by a guy who absolutely hated beards. He had a policy that we were not allowed to grow a beard and mustaches had to be neatly trimmed. I needed help in the shop servicing and installing radios and I hired a guy that unbeknownst to me could show up for work at 7:00am and by 8:30 am he had a full on beard. Our boss didn’t get to the shop until 9:00 and never saw the transition from clean shaven to bearded and after about a week of threatening to fire the guy if he didn’t shave the other 4 of us decided to quit shaving too in support of the “Human Fire Plug” as we called him. Well it worked and the boss backed down and the grooming was never an issue again. We were up on a mountaintop building a site that was helicopter assessable and spent a couple of days up there and it was hot and we shed our shirts early on and I swear the Human Fire Plug had more hair than a grizzly bear all over his body.

[Eyesa Horg]

I had a guy working for me that grew a beard while you were talking to him.

In reality, he was much slower than Yul's Fire Plug. At 7:00 he was clean shaven, when he came back in at 3:30, he had a nice dark beard. Takes me for bloody ever.

[Alpo]

My seventh grade PE coach was also a scoutmaster. Not my troop but we went to summer camp the same week. And he forgot his razor.

 

By the end of the week Coach Post had a full beard.

 

Not this much

But more than this

 

At the end of the week it's obvious I need to shave. But dang. I was a 17 year old boy trying desperately to grow a beard. And seeing how fast his groupGREW made me shave when I went home. Didn't try for another couple of years.

[Pat Riot]

This was my last beard. According to the date stamp I took this photo on March 25 then shaved it. 
 

 

This past few years I grow one when the weather cools and shave it off in the Spring. 

[Alpo]

In the late 80s I went into the bathroom one day and shaved. Then I came out in the living room, and everybody freaked.

 

I told them that it had just occurred to me that none of them - my wife nor my children - had ever seen my face. So I shaved it off. Let them see what I looked like without it.

 

Then I grew it back.

 

 

I'm considering doing it again so my granddaughters can see what I look like without it. Maybe.

[Pat Riot]

6 hours ago, Alpo said:

In the late 80s I went into the bathroom one day and shaved. Then I came out in the living room, and everybody freaked.

 

I told them that it had just occurred to me that none of them - my wife nor my children - had ever seen my face. So I shaved it off. Let them see what I looked like without it.

 

Then I grew it back.

 

 

I'm considering doing it again so my granddaughters can see what I look like without it. Maybe.

Alpo, I had a beard for a few years when my daughter was a girl. One day when she was about 15 I trimmed my beard and screwed it up on one side and as I tried to correct my screw up I just made it worse so I shaved it all off. 
As I was coming out of our bedroom my daughter was coming towards me in our little hallway. She saw me, screamed and beat feet for the front door. I yelled out “Nikki, what’s wrong?”

When she heard my voice she stopped, turned around and said “Dad?”

”Yeah”

”You scared the heck out of me.”

We still laugh at that memory. 

[Alpo]

50 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

One day when she was about 15 I trimmed my beard and screwed it up on one side and as I tried to correct my screw up I just made it worse so I shaved it all off. 

Adam-12 episode. Malloy went on vacation, and when he came back he had grown a mustache.

 

 

And all day long he took grief about that mustache. From Reed, from the sergeant, from the other cops.

 

Next day he shows up clean shaven, and Reed wanted to know what happened to his mustache.

 

He said that morning when he was trimming it, he got one side a little too short. So was he was trimming the other side to make it even he got it too short. And he kept going back and forth, and when he finally got it even he looked like a red-headed Charlie Chaplin. So he shaved the rest of it off.

 

I thought it was interesting that he said a red-headed Charlie Chaplin and not a redheaded Hitler. Because most people don't think of that as a Chaplin mustache, but instead as a Hitler mustache.

[Alpo]

Going the other direction. I don't remember what book this was from, but it was an interesting piece.

 

The guy had been sent TDY and it ended up being a whole lot longer than he was supposed to be gone. Kept being delayed and delayed and extended. And they were out in the sticks, and he just let his hair and beard grow. Then when it was finally over and he could come back home, he was unable to get in touch with his wife.

 

When he finally makes it back to the house, she's not home. Tired from all the traveling, he just went in and went to bed.

 

Couple hours later she comes home and finds this long-haired bearded guy in her bed. Called the cops.

[Subdeacon Joe]

My wife has never seen me clean shaven.  If I want a divorce, all I have to do is shave.

 

[Warden Callaway]

I've had a beard for many years. It took a long time for it to get very full. For many years I'd shave once a week.  I had a cousin that had to shave twice a day from his early teens on. 

[Rye Miles #13621]

I've had a beard since 1982, of course it was a different color them! 

[Trailrider #896]

I never said I didn't like Vance's beard...don't feel one way or another about it. Just a bit unusual for a politician in this day and age is all. I don't have a beard because my wife says it would make me look old. Hell, I am old, 82 in a week or so. But I'm not hairsuet enough to grow a decent beard. Young guys wearing beards seems to be the fashion now. Both my adult grandsons wear beards!  Still think Vance looks somewhat like U.S. Grant.

[Dantankerous]

[Eyesa Horg]

I've had a mustache since 73, chin beard most of the time, full in the winter if it grows! Sometimes, but rarely just the mustache. I hate shaving.

[Dantankerous]

9 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

... I hate shaving.

Me too.  I've had to maintain a clean shaven face for 32 years at my job... we wear full face respirators, scba equipment, etc so I get it. When I retire I'm throwing away my razors.

[Eyesa Horg]

My issue too is that I suck at trimming/grooming. Due to my shoulder and crappy eyesight it's hard to trim using one hand to hold a razor and the other to guide it! I let my haircutter clean it up every 6 weeks! Good thing I still have hair! Better grey than ney I guess. 

[Cypress Sun]

Takes me forever to grow a decent one, by then...it's summer in Florida. No thanks.

[Trailrider #896]

2 hours ago, Dantankerous said:

Unh-huh! 

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

some years back I took a 3 week fishin' trip , Vacation go ya know 

 

 I was a hourly Mgr, at a big retailer , first nite back , ya would have thought the devil , had walked in 

 

  kept the beard for couple of months , then trimmed it down 

 

  a bunch of folks still thought  was the devil turned loose on the world 

 

  CB 

  

[Pat Riot]

8 hours ago, Alpo said:

thought it was interesting that he said a red-headed Charlie Chaplin and not a redheaded Hitler. Because most people don't think of that as a Chaplin mustache, but instead as a Hitler mustache.

When I was in the Navy after a few months on the IO we had watched Stalag 17. For some odd reason many of us, including me, had mustaches and some had full beards. 
We came up with this scheme to reenact the scene from Stalag 17 the next day. We all cut our mustaches to look like Hitler’s / Chaplain’s the next morning. The guys with beards cut them off except for their Hitler mustache.

At Quarters on the main deck we all faced forward to hide our appearance. We usually faced aft. All the other divisions mustering on the foc’sle agreed not to give us extra attention until our Chiefs and Division Officer arrived.

At 06:00 hours we could hear the Chiefs and the LT,JG come up behind us. “CO Division! What are you all doing? ABOUT FACE!”

We all did an about face raised our right arms and yelled out “Ya vol mein fuhrer!”

All the guys on the forward main deck erupted in laughter. 
Our two Chiefs looked like they were going to bust up. Our LT looked like someone had just gut punched him.

We were laughing when from the starboard bridge wing we heard Captain Bob yell “All right, knock that s*** off Gunners Mates and shave that crap off your faces and get to work!”

Our LT,JG really looked  like he was going to have a conniption. 
My Chief stepped up and yelled at us to get below and shave. 
 

I would bore you with all the details of the ramifications of our act, but we had to do some extra work over the next few days and Yes, it was all worth it. 
We did get a lecture from our Dept Head regarding Navy regs regarding tomfoolery and the actual regs on the discipline that any USN personnel sporting a “Nazi Mustache” could be sent to the brig for a time no less than a week, but no more than a month (which did concern us until we all realized there was no brig to go to and who would maintain the missile launchers, gun mounts, small arms, etc.)

 

It was definitely worth it.