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Fascinating article.

Read such nuggets as "Some scholars assert that it is not yet established whether the sexual selection leading to beards is rooted in attractiveness (inter-sexual selection) or dominance (intra-sexual selection)"

and

"Presence of a beard makes the owner vulnerable in fights, which is costly, so biologists have speculated that there must be other evolutionary benefits that outweigh that drawback."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beards

What say you?

No doubt some guys are into it. Never been big on bearded ladies myself.

and yet your avatar is distinctly more hirsute than mine... coincidence?

some good beards:

Fan wrote: and yet your avatar is distinctly more hirsute than mine... coincidence?

Yeah, it is. Personally, I've tried to grow a decent beard but I just don't have the facial follicle density for it.

As it is, with the gray I've got any scrubby looking cover I can come up with only has people guessing my age to be even HIGHER than 65 (which is a dozen years too high already).

I hear I look in my 80's, I can say it's not extremely flattering to know I'm my own grampa.

so... pirates and terrorists is how you see the bearded?

How about

if by 'terrorists & pirates' you mean folks I can respect (and criticize, simultaneously), then yes! I am well aware that Gottfrid has a drug problem, and Teddy has... well, a murder problem...

Now, this is a beard I can not criticize, it's purely respect.



and a couple more for which I have great admiration:

one of my favourite guitarists

Teasing ya Squid

Ppl should watch http://watch.tpbafk.tv/

Fan wrote: Teasing ya Squid

Ppl should watch http://watch.tpbafk.tv/

I know.

Disclosure: At heart I am a terrorist and a pirate. Some days I lack the courage, maybe I simply lack the beard! Down with razors!

and of course:

Don't mow your lawn, literally and figuratively.

Fan wrote: Ppl should watch http://watch.tpbafk.tv/

Yes... I agree!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTOKXCEwo_8

People often do double takes at me, both for my size (first) and then my close-to-ridiculous beard.

The beard is both reviled and revered in our society. I have been told to shave it off for work, refused and been fired. I do not part with my beard, unless I just happen to want to, which has been on average 3 times a year when I shave it off. However, I am cultivating a real doozy recently, about 4-5 months worth and I can hide at least 25 wooden matches in it now (this is my pseudo-scientific new beard volumetric measurement system, how many wooden matches can it sustain).

I was once asked to fire a hard working man under my supervision because he wore a beard similar to the one depicted in post #8 (thanks, bobbo). In fact, the guy was a French Canadian named LeBlanc, who was the leader of a punk band styled after the Dead Kennedys. I refused, and in fact laughed at the idea (literally, & loudly). Did not go over well.