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ls650
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| On the combi going home last night I noted that there were 6 men--and all 6 had mustaches. |
Interesting. After reading the notes yesterday, I decided to keep my eyes open and do an informal observation. After spending the morning walking around the town, I was surprised to see very few locals with mustaches: I'd estimate the number of men with facial hair at about 15% to 20%.
I suspect that it may be because the area supports so much tourism: perhaps employers expect their workers to be clean-shaven?  |
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Ben Round de Bloc
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 2:58 am Post subject: |
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| ls650 wrote: |
| moonraven wrote: |
| On the combi going home last night I noted that there were 6 men--and all 6 had mustaches. |
Interesting. After reading the notes yesterday, I decided to keep my eyes open and do an informal observation. After spending the morning walking around the town, I was surprised to see very few locals with mustaches: I'd estimate the number of men with facial hair at about 15% to 20%. |
I did the same thing this afternoon while I was downtown! 
I was also surprised at how few local men sport mustaches. It looked to me like maybe 25% tops. I thought it would be more. Facial hair on Mayan men is usually very thin and patchy, so it was hard to tell if some of them had mustaches and/or beards or not. Of the local men who can grow obvious mustaches and beards but choose not to, most have a habit of shaving only once every 3 or 4 days, so that much of the time they have stubble or a heavy shadow.
Mexican men in our foreign language department: 1 with a full beard and mustache, 1 with a mustache, and 3 clean-shaven. |
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spidey
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I've been sporting a shaved head and a soulpatch for about 5 years now. The mustache definitely seems to be passe and very retro 70's and 80's. The soulpatch seems to be in vogue these days. Such is the wheel of fashion. I'm sure the stache will have its day again. Along with the infamous long sideburns.
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Ben Round de Bloc
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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| spidey wrote: |
| I've been sporting a shaved head and a soulpatch for about 5 years now. |
WTF is a soulpatch? |
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shmooj
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Like Will, fashion passes me by... much to my wife's embarrassment sometimes I'm sure but I do my own hair/beard every weekend with a pair of clippers.
The story goes that when I arrived in Japan in 1998 the price of getting a haircut made me faint. I didn't cut my hair for the next four years and grew a ponytail. Then, getting fed up with always having to 'do my hair' I shaved it off to a 3mm length. I've been doing my head and my face with a No.1 every week for the last 3 years and it hasn't cost me a penny.
If it wasn't for my skin being wicked shade of puce I'd be gorgeous...  |
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ls650
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| WTF is a soulpatch? |
The small patch of hair that grows on the lower lip. It is also sometimes called a 'pinch'. |
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spidey
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Yeah....'pinch' is exactly what the students want to do. When they see that little tuft of hair UNDER my lower lip, it makes them go crazy.Who woulda figured.
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mcNug
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 2:49 am Post subject: |
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| I'm 24 and although usually a beard man, I've joined the mustache club. My father had a mustache and his father had one and so on. My Dad and his brother look the Mario Brothers and I say the mustache is here to stay dagnammit! |
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Cardinal Synn
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"Never trust a man with a mustache"
I read that in a book once. Can't remember the title, but I have lived by its wisdom ever since.
Beard - OK, Goatee beard - sometimes cool, but a tache? No, no ,no!
Mustache wearers:
Begbie out of Trainspotting.
Saddam
Dodgey 1970s (and 80s) footballers
Dodgey 1970s TV police characters
Dodgey 1970s porn stars
Adolf Hitler
Freddy Mercury (OK, he was cool but very very camp - not really a great advertisement for mustaches for straight guys)
Need I continue?
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Boy Wonder
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 4:33 pm Post subject: Top Man |
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Great moustache wearers of our times.....and other peoples times...
Kings of Europe
Prince Albert
Errol Flynn
David Niven
Clark Gable
Terry Mcdermott
Kapil Dev
The Beatles circa 1969
MC Hammer
Charles Kortwight
Clement Atlee
Prince
Richard Pryor
Eddie Murphy
Shaft
David Bedford
David hemery
Peter Elliott
Mark Spitz
Burt Reynolds
HG Wells
Shakespeare
Kofi Annan
Michael Jordan
Ian Botham
Chris Tavare
Leon Trotsky
Ian Chappell
Rodney Marsh
Lionel Richie
and other guys too numerous too mention right now....
Real men have facial hair.......
Movers and shakers and great manly lovers....its our trademark..our copyright...our birthright..... |
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mcNug
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You're forgetting the greatest of all.....
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spidey
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 6:27 am Post subject: |
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How about...
Albert Einstein
Mark Twain
oh yeah!...and Zorro (The Gay Blade)
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Boy Wonder
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Des Lynam
Jason King
Inspector Clouseau |
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Kurochan
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:31 am Post subject: Bruce |
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| I think Americans think moustaches are a little "gay." Or, that was a stereotype in the past, anyway -- a guy in leather, named Bruce, with a moustache. That would at least partly explain their scarcity now. |
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Cardinal Synn
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I rest my case.
Magnum PI - good one! Of course there was Mike Hammer too, played by Stacey Keach, a man who wore his 'tache before and after Hammer. He was also a big fan of snow - the South American variety.
Now, as for that list of great 'tachers of our time posted above, I couldn't help but notice that they were all famous last century or at least famous for what they did last century. How about a list of recent achievers who sport mustaches?
I could compile a list of much much cooler guys who don't/didn't wear a tache, but I won't. It would be far too long.
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