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lagerlout2006 · Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 985

Is the mustache now considered uncool? Or with the shaved head any facial hair is "blase."

Even in film no-one has a mustache unless it's some derisive character. Or a villian who also (GASP) smokes. And why is a goatee cool but not an old-school 'stache. I'm going to grow a mustache as a statement of my personal freedom and individuality. Cool

It's a question of conformity"""

Shonai Ben · Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 617

Way ahead of you.
Had a mustache for the last 30 years and still counting.....

Boy Wonder · Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 453 Location: Clacton on sea

Try David Wood of the Qatar Petroleum Gulag .....office 3b.
He has a splendid moustache.

vre · Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 371

Merely a personal preference but I hate mustaches and I could never kiss a bloke with one. I like beards though (which naturally come with a muzzie). I like the feel of a beard, especially when it gets to about 3/4 cm and is softer. Hmmmm

Will. · Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 783 Location: London Uk

Same here Boy,
28 years full beard and don't regret a minute of it I look at the TV adverts of men supposedly using a razor as swift as a swipe card and wonder at the idiots that subscribe to the daily scraping of their face and the associated palaver of powders and creams and perfume and PAIN that goes along with it.
Facial hair blase...?
Who cares? This is not the reason to wear a beard, it is simply a lot more comfortable than scraping your face twice a day for someone else's idea of what you should look like.
Think of the impressive beards and mos of yesteryear a full spade or a Walrus, the David Brent type goatee is around a lot at present facila hair is around but in minute quantities as those who wear it are wearing it as a fashion statement and minimal is 'in' so slimline sideburns are 'en vogue' as the fashionistas of today's youth cannot grow anything more than a wisp or two beneath their ears due to their youth they are affecting the rest of Mankind, the Male half that is, with their idea of what facial hair is and should look like.
REAL men have a real beard and laugh in the face of shavers

Boy Wonder · Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 453 Location: Clacton on sea

Will...you are my hero.
I mean it.
A real guy who doesnt give a fig about fashion or what others think.
good for you mate.
Where i am at the moment seems to be entirely populated by poseurs and prancing ponies caring too much what girls think of them and too little about what it is really like to be a real bloke.

All hail to the Beard and Moustache.

jpvanderwerf2001 · Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 1117 Location: New York

Come to India! There's about half a billion men (and perhaps a few million women) here with moustaches!

moonraven · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 3094

They are still very popular here in Mexico, too. I find them very attractive if they are kept up well.

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

I used to have a full-beard, but then some people I worked with saw a picture of me without it and commented that the beard made me look several years older. Sad

I don't have a beard now... Confused

I can't see the point in having a mustache: you still have to shave most of your face. To my mind having a mustache makes it look like you can't decide whether you want to grow a beard or not.

moonraven · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 3094

ls650 wrote: "To my mind having a mustache makes it look like you can't decide whether you want to grow a beard or not."

How long have you been in Mexico? Apparently not very long. Mustaches are a cultural preference.

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

moonraven · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 3094

Look around you. Count the number of men you see on the street--even in Huatulco--with mustaches. When I was at the Puerto �ngel campus and went regularly to Huatulco, I saw plenty.

Here where I live in Morelos the percentage is higher than 50. Some folks have to bite the bullet and shave theirs off when they loose bets on soccer games. When they do so, it is regarded as an erosion of their masculinity....This is the land of Zapata--and every male wants to look lilke him.

Celeste · Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 12:58 am Post subject:

I like moustaches, but probably only because my dad had one. My brother grows one now and then too. My husband looks better clean shaven. (He doesn't really have enough facial hair for beards and moustaches to grow in without looking scraggly and scruffy)

I think that the key to facial hair is for it to be very well groomed. (Untrimmed, uncombed, wild facial hair with food stuck in it, is really creepy)

moonraven · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 3094

On the combi going home last night I noted that there were 6 men--and all 6 had mustaches.

Will. · Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 783 Location: London Uk

I have one advantage over shaved men.

I can prove it.

"You have never kissed a man until you have kissed a man with a beard"

Mick Jagger

In Ned Kelly... I think.

I have to admit ..it works.

And let's be honest how can you offer a moustache ride if you don't have one?

For Boy,
Funny thing, I am probably the most non-fashionable bloke know. It simply means nothing to me.
Happiness is from within.