Bring on the beards!

On December 13 2006 · 3 Comments · In Diary

Woo hoo, I’m fashionable! It turns out that I have been being fashionable for a short while now, ever since I decided that I could no longer be bothered shaving on a regular basis, and I felt happier with my appearance with a hairy face, not a bald shiny face. Beards are back.

I opted for a full-face beard-like thing, which I cultivated while travelling last year and haven’t been able to say goodbye to ever since. I feel more comfortable and confident with it, partly because it conceals a chunky neck and an underwhelming chin. I tried goatee beards for a while, but suffered too many comparisons with Ricky Gervais, and saw too many examples of men with goatees who were conspicuously tossers. They’re usually gurning down their noses from under baseball caps on the Crimestoppers website, or displaying ‘Craig David’ beards that are so tidily trimmed I wonder why they bother when they could just draw it on with a magic marker.

Doughboy does his goatee right, it fits him, not too fussy, but I know he is but an inch away from cultivating it into a gigantic metal-band monstrosity that scares small children and doubles as a food storage facility. Only then will he have fulfilled his true potential. I’m going to keep working on mine as well.


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  • http://theanswers42.blogspot.com/ Margaret

    There was an Old Man with a beard,
    Who said, “It is just as I feared! –
    Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren,
    Have all built their nests in my beard.

    (Edward Lear)

    Owls, larks, hens and wrens are OK-ish.
    Leftovers from dinner-time are not.

  • NL

    it’s gonna get “metal” over chrimbo…oh yeah. We have Remington just launching a major campaign on how uncool it is to be hirstute. Oh how they’re stuck in the 80s.

  • NL

    got a nice full beard on the go at the mo…it’s my xmas beard.