My mate shaves his beard.

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My friend has had a full beard since he was 16. It proved beyond any shadow of a doubt his manliness, but yesterday he made the heart-wrenching decision to remove his person of all face fungus. Bear in mind that few of his friends had seen him without a full beard - certainly nobody he knows at university, and not too many from school either. He did it for a mask party he went to last night simply for the joke of wearing a papier mach? beard and revealing a clean-shaven face to his unsuspecting friends. Which is awesome. Doing anything for the sake of a joke, even if it only amuses you, is a great way to live your life.

As we go to the same university, he came over to my halls so that I could supervise the operation. Of course, we couldn't just take it off at once. That would be a waste. If beards only have one purpose, it's to provide a canvas for amusing shapes on one's face.

Thus commences the delicate procedure of creating humour through hair:

Sam, plus beard. A good chunk of hair to get rid of.
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I'd like to make it clear that he used a ladies' razor. So what if he got it free somewhere? It's still woman apparatus. Tsk.
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The shaving begins.
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See! The Venus Divine in action. How poetic the image, a feminine device emasculating the male as he complies, wilfully giving up his Y chromosome... [/Freud]
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See how he cries! The male, realising his mistake, has no option but to complete the procedure. [/Freud again]
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Actually, he looks pretty good.
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The sculptor at work, forming his beard's next shape.
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Sexy.
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High five!
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The next shape was one I suggested. He didn't end up looking like the American-style trucker I'd imagined, though. The result was way cooler...
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... a sheriff!
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At first this moustache made him look like a dad (anyone's dad, really), but the addition of my glasses made him look like a Gumby (from Monty Python's Flying Circus).
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My brain hurts! My brain hurts!
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All of this nonsense, of course, was merely foreplay. What we were really in this for was...



















The Hitler.



















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He was scared to do the real salute because the curtains were open and people might have seen us. That would have been weird.
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He did a proper goosestep though.
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"One hundred... BILLION... dollars!"
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I don't want to tell you what we'd been doing just before I took this photo. Suffice it to say that we were both very relaxed.
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This is a hilarious thread. I think so because I'm lazy and I shave on average about once every two weeks, and whenever I do and I have some time to mess around, I do different styles along the way. The Hitler is definitely the best, though I wouldn't go out with it. :D
 
I always thought 16-year-old guys with a full beard look odd :blink::lol:
 
^ Not as odd as 16 year old girls with a full beard.

Trust me, I've seen them.
 
I alternate between beards and hair to nothing (right now, for example, my head is fully shaved).

It's hair...it grows back quickly (what I have left of it) :)

But it can be shocking for some folks!

Steve
 
This is definitely the best look here. If I could grow facial hair I would rock this all the time. (Or a Fu Manchu, since being Asian means that my friends expect me to have one, of course.)

The Sheriff is badass, he'll look like the angry guy from American Chopper, meaning he has taste and style. And :lmao: at the Hitler! Nice goose step.

By the way, how old is your mate? He looks like he lost 5 years shaving that thing off.

^ Not as odd as 16 year old girls with a full beard.

Trust me, I've seen them.

Pics or it didn't happen! :yucky:
 
I don't have pictures of my experience, just look at Greta van Susteren. I'm sure she has a beard that she shaves before going on air.

Pics or it didn't happen! :yucky:
 
^ Then again, I'm also sure she's a man and has a deeper voice than Bill O'Reilly. The miracles of post-production...
 
LOL nice one, I'd like to make jokes with my beard - but obviously I don't have one yet :p

(offtopic - 300th post :mrgreen:)
 
Hm, i seem to recall shaving as early as 16, but not as full as that. Or is he MUCH older than 16 atm?
 
By the way, how old is your mate? He looks like he lost 5 years shaving that thing off.

Hm, i seem to recall shaving as early as 16, but not as full as that. Or is he MUCH older than 16 atm?

He's 19, but his beard was that full three years ago. It's quite weird to see him without it again.
 
I still can't grow a full fucking beard. <_<

But hey, at least it means I don't have to shave that often.
 
*grabs beard*

From my cold, dead chin!

(Blind_Io was slightly drunk when making this post, after consuming an excellent bottle of 2003 Sterling Vineyards Pinot Noir)
 
I still can't grow a full fucking beard. <_<

But hey, at least it means I don't have to shave that often.
I'm stuck in between - I grow sideburns and hair under my chin really quickly but not on my face, so it just looks crap if I don't shave often. I wish I could grow a proper beard, it'd be so rad. Forget doing the Hitler for fun - I'd be bringing it back as a fashion accessory.
 
Go for the soul patch? Those look decent on most fellas.

Or a chin strap.
However... Only about 1 in 100,000 men can wear a well-suited chin strap.
 
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