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Post by Marshall on Oct 29, 2023 14:37:13 GMT -5
Old guys don’t help the image. We were out to breakfast and there were 9 guys my age in the place. All of them had the exact same beard. A gray Van Dyke. It’s become the badge of the old guy face. I went home and shaved mine off. I don’t look a day over 72 now. Not a day. I don’t know that going beardless makes anyone look younger. A couple years ago I shaved my beard off. I decided it was my face I didn’t like, not the beard. The beard covers up looming jowls. Youn guys all have beards these days. Of course they’re not Snow White.
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Post by billhammond on Oct 29, 2023 15:36:20 GMT -5
Worried about Kirk Cousins, who injured his ankle and left the game, which the Vikes won by 14, but ...
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Post by drlj on Oct 29, 2023 15:47:53 GMT -5
Old guys don’t help the image. We were out to breakfast and there were 9 guys my age in the place. All of them had the exact same beard. A gray Van Dyke. It’s become the badge of the old guy face. I went home and shaved mine off. I don’t look a day over 72 now. Not a day. I don’t know that going beardless makes anyone look younger. A couple years ago I shaved my beard off. I decided it was my face I didn’t like, not the beard. The beard covers up looming jowls. Youn guys all have beards these days. Of course they’re not Snow White. I don’t have a problem with beards. I grow them, shave the off after a while, and then grow them back. What I found funny that day was that 9 guys had exactly the same beard. It was like a club meeting. And as far as your face is concerned, you look pretty damned good for a guy your age.
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Post by billhammond on Oct 29, 2023 16:03:01 GMT -5
And as far as your face is concerned, you looked pretty damned good for a guy your age. Note the snarky past tense on "looked."
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Post by drlj on Oct 29, 2023 16:31:20 GMT -5
[quote author=" billhammond" source="/post/1000505/thread" timestamp= "1698613381"] Note the snarky past tense on "looked." Hey! Wait a minute. That’s Hammond snark & I almost fell for it!
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Post by billhammond on Oct 29, 2023 16:45:52 GMT -5
Looks like a torn Achilles for Cousins, too bad, a fine QB, and the season is no doubt over for the Vikes.
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Post by coachdoc on Oct 29, 2023 18:25:15 GMT -5
Could care less about the Vikes. Now the Iggles. Now there is a team.
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Post by howard lee on Oct 29, 2023 19:08:34 GMT -5
Looks like a torn Achilles for Cousins, too bad, a fine QB, and the season is no doubt over for the Vikes.
I know this has been devastating news to a good friend of mine and a die-hard, and I mean DIE-HARD, Vikings fan. He sometimes travels with his two young daughters from St. Louis to see them play.
And I have a beard.
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Post by Marshall on Oct 29, 2023 19:26:01 GMT -5
Looks like a torn Achilles for Cousins, too bad, a fine QB, and the season is no doubt over for the Vikes. As soon as it happened, and we saw the replay, and the commentators said, “I don’t see where the injury was.” I said “Achilles.” Tough one.
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Post by John B on Oct 29, 2023 19:37:15 GMT -5
I am working on my Santa beard. Right now it's about 2" long.
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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 29, 2023 19:43:14 GMT -5
November is beard month for some reason. I think I'll skip that this year. I grew a beard for the first time a few years ago thinking it would be easier than shaving. With all the trimming, it is not.
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Post by Russell Letson on Oct 29, 2023 19:46:29 GMT -5
Didn't have time to reply to LJ's post about beards, aging, and not-too-bad-for-one's-age before going off to play with a bunch of other geezers at the brewery.
I grew my current goatee during the lockdown months (it took that long)--I'd wanted a PP&M beard since approximately 1963, but the other attempts were eventually (gently) discouraged by C, so I removed them, keeping my long-running mustache. This time, either the silver of my whiskers or simple exhaustion softened her opinion, so I've maintained the beardy bit. But I did notice that variations on the old beatnik beard have become strangely common, and not just among Men of a Certain Age. I'm somewhat alarmed to find myself at the center of a fashion movement, but I refuse to give in to my usual contrarian impulse. Though I find comfort in not having one of those oh-I-forgot-to-shave beards, and I remove the soul-patch section. I also distinguish myself from various of my fellow geezers by never wearning a baseball cap, particularly a red one, and never wearing anything resembling cammo.
I look pretty much my age, but I'm told I clean up nice.
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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 29, 2023 19:52:47 GMT -5
I also distinguish myself from various of my fellow geezers by never wearning a baseball cap, particularly a red one, and never wearing anything resembling cammo. I you did wear a baseball cap of any color would your wear it backwards?
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Post by Cornflake on Oct 29, 2023 20:09:13 GMT -5
I started my current beard in July, I think. I was tired of shaving. I was also tired of the face I kept seeing in the mirror. No plans to get rid of it.
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Post by Russell Letson on Oct 29, 2023 20:11:16 GMT -5
I you did wear a baseball cap of any color would your wear it backwards? Only if I were acting as a camera operator outdoors. And since Marty Scorsese never returns my calls, that's not gonna happen.
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Post by drlj on Oct 30, 2023 8:24:39 GMT -5
I’ve had a beard since 2015. Every now and then I like to see what’s under it. It usually startles me into growing it back quickly. I guess I hope the reveal will be better for some reason but it never is. Damn reality!
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Post by coachdoc on Oct 30, 2023 13:05:50 GMT -5
I don’t know that going beardless makes anyone look younger. A couple years ago I shaved my beard off. I decided it was my face I didn’t like, not the beard. The beard covers up looming jowls. Youn guys all have beards these days. Of course they’re not Snow White. I don’t have a problem with beards. I grow them, shave the off after a while, and then grow them back. What I found funny that day was that 9 guys had exactly the same beard. It was like a club meeting. And as far as your face is concerned, you look pretty damned good for a guy your age. My wife told me she wouldn’t marry me until she had seen my face. I shaved one time and that satisfied her. That was the only time I’ve shaved in 50 years.
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