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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.
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
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.
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.
I don't shave and I have a beard - once in a blue moon for a special occasion, I might trim it.
Alas, I cannot grow hair on the top of my head, so I must grow it on the bottom.
Brother beards have been in for like 10 years.
For some of us that's "new"
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.
I’ve got mine almost completely colonized with psychedelic mycelium!
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.
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.
SAVING ELECTRICITY LOL WUT
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.
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 +5 charisma buff was too hard to pass up.
Could be recency bias, could be that fashion is a cycle that repeats and old fashions are rediscovered. Could be laziness because at some point it becomes easier to trim a beard once every month than shave everyday.
Some people's skin also can't handle daily trauma from razors.
It also looks more interesting than a vanilla clean shave, imo. People might be looking to stand out for that reason.
I look better with a beard, it’s not that deep
Same. I shaved mine a while back and my best friend was blunt - "You look better with the beard".
Righto. Beard it is.
First there was WWII, when all men had to be skinheads. Those men continued shaving, and this became a culture handed down to their boys. Now, we’re rebelling against the elders who fucked up everything, so we grow beards to show that we’re different to them.
Source. A lumberjack appered in front of me in a dream I had in 2009.
I always figured rona caused a big enough surge in beards owing to WFH allowing folks to get past the scruff hump that beards could be back on the table again.
I grew one during lockdown, decided I liked it and kept it. I suspect I am not an anomaly in this.
For me, it's sheer laziness. Can't be arsed to shave more than once every 6 to 10 months.
Do always find it funny when folks react strongly when I do shave. It's hair growth, not a personality.
Full beards are great. I can go a week without any maintenance and still look presentable. Any other style of facial hair is just too much effort.
It's crazy how long it's been since we've had a bearded president in the US.
If I may quote Nick Offerman...
I grow a beard because I am neither a child nor a woman.
I’m seeing a lot of those creepy mustaches lately.
Dawg like a year ago I came back into the office for the first time since Covid and all the 20 year olds had somewhere between pedo stashes and handlebars. Zoomers crack me up they’re great
I think zoomers are young enough not to have the generational memory of how creepy mustaches are, so suddenly they're cool again. I'm afraid it'll last until the zoomers are old enough to be the creepy ones.
I'm lazy and can't be fucked shaving regularly
Because it grew back?
Personally I've always found most men look more attractive with beards (I'm a straight dude) so I grew one as soon as I could.
After having it for a while I decided to shave as I hadn't seen my actual face in a few years. After I shaved I realized that I have very chubby cheeks that make me look like a literal child.
I'll never clean shave again
Fashions change. We were about due for a swing back to beardy, I reckon.
Personally, I'm bald, and I grow a really good one that, like, holds a shape. It just makes sense.
Cause our chins are weird.
In my case, it’s because I prefer it. Razors are expensive, and who has time to shave anyway? I’ve had a beard off and on since college in the 80s, when it made me look about five years older. Now it makes me look about 10 years younger. I’ll take it. :)
Razors are expensive,
They don't have to be! Dual edge safety razor blades are like $10 for 100. You could splurge ($50 for a nice one, or hundreds for a really nice, probably unnecessarily expensive one) on a nice handle that will last you the rest of your life, or get just about as good a shave with one that costs $10. Heck, if you're lucky you could find some old, nice one at a garage sale that's already been around 70 years, and will easily still be working fine when you're dead. Unfortunately, like just about everything else old and good, they've become a bit trendy, so it might be hard to find deals like you used to be able to.
Well, it does more-or-less happen on its own if you aren't paying attention.
