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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 25, 2024 16:04:20 GMT -5
Yeah I think it's more of a millennial woman thing. When the kids were younger most of the younger fathers in the late 20's to early 30's had giant and, in my opinion, some scraggly, beards. Most men's facial hair seems reflect more on their wives' taste than their own. I know I keep both my facial hair and the hair on my head to my wife's liking. But at least it leads to fairly accurate memes like this ....
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Post by tartanphantom on Jan 25, 2024 16:41:52 GMT -5
Yeah I think it's more of a millennial woman thing. When the kids were younger most of the younger fathers in the late 20's to early 30's had giant and, in my opinion, some scraggly, beards. Most men's facial hair seems reflect more on their wives' taste than their own. I know I keep both my facial hair and the hair on my head to my wife's liking. But at least it leads to fairly accurate memes like this ....
My wife has no idea what you are talking about... but she won't let me shave it off. She likes the look of a 19th century cavalry officer, but from the neck down I look more like a 19th century quartermaster. (I'm still at home in a saddle, though... poor horse.)
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 25, 2024 17:22:41 GMT -5
The old dudes here think that women should only like what us geezers like. It's a different world. They dig long bushy beards.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 25, 2024 20:13:39 GMT -5
I grew a beard for the first time over the 2020 Covid lockdown (though I only shave about once a week anyway, so I usually have some stubble). My wife really liked me with a beard, though it's a little prickly when kissing. I did kinda like how it looked and I kept it for a year or so, but in the end it had to go -- much to my wife's disappointment. What with beard shampoo, trimming, beard conditioner, beard wax etc, it's more damn effort to keep a beard looking decent than it is to shave!
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 25, 2024 21:46:25 GMT -5
I've been stung by a wasp once, You had a fight with Muhammed Ali ? No, he stung like bee, remember? Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee; ...uh.....D-Con Roach Spray kills bugs?
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 25, 2024 22:17:36 GMT -5
Was the Blue Bullet a new character, or from the Golden Age? And I will clearly admit, that I think on a lot of the covers Kirby did when he returned to Marvel, he was phoning it in. There were covers that Stan, as editor, would have rejected. But there were more books and more so-so covers got through. Blue Bullet was a Jewish scientist who developed a flying suit, but, it was mostly a set-up to sending the Invaders to Warsaw, to look for the developer's brother, who creates a Golem to fight the Nazis. I covered it here.Unlike DC or Fawcett, Timely had very few recurring villains, other than the Red Skull, in Captain America. Most ended up dead by the end of the story. Roy created villains that were usually pastiches of other heroes, like Master Man, Warrior Woman, U-Man and Baron Blood, based on Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Batman, respectively. Later, he had characters based on Marvel heroes, like Blue Bullet (Iron Man, though Iron Knight was a more direct copy), Golem (not a villain, but based on the Hulk, also Frankenstein's Monster, in a later story), and Thor (as himself, dimensionally displaced and hoodwinked by Hitler). Roy also had a group of "heroes" (Nazi dupes) who were pastiches of the Quality Comics heroes, who later made up the Freedom Fighters, at DC. The only Golden Age characters to appear, aside from the Invaders, themselves, were: The Red Skull The Reaper (a Captain America enemy, used in a reprint because they blew a deadline) Asbestos Lady (a Human Torch enemy) The Destroyer-mystery man, here revealed to be Brian Falsworth, the son of Lord Montgomery Falsworth, aka Union Jack. Beyond that, there was the stateside hero group, the Liberty Legion: The Patriot Miss America The Whizzer Blue Diamond Red Raven The Thin Man Jack Frost All of those characters had appeared at Timely. For whatever reason, Roy never used other Timely characters: Blonde Phantom The Blazing Skull The Fin The Vision (the original mystical hero) The Angel (the first one, which was a rip-off of The Saint, to a certain extent) The Thunderer Black Marvel Citizen V Captain Wonder Electro Black Widow (original one) Rockman Phantom Reporter Dynamic Man Fiery Mask Mister E Master Mind Excello Laughing Mask Blue Blade Witness Mercury (the Roma God) The Young Allies (kid gang that had adventures with Toro and Bucky, including racial caricature Whitewash Jones) Golden Girl-Cap's brief female sidekick, in the late 40s Roy used The Fin and Blazing Skull in The Avengers, in the finale of the Kree-Skrull War, when Rick Jones is given a power boost by the Kree Supreme Intelligence and he gives form to his memories of old heroes. Citizen V was later used in name, then legacy in Thunderbolts, while Captain Wonder through Witness appeared in the maxi-series, The Twelve, by Joe Straczynski. The Angel was a central character in Ed Brubaker's The Marvels Project and some of the other Timely characters put in appearances there. The Patriot got a mini series, in the 2000s, covering his adventures and becoming Captain America, briefly. The Young Allies got a mini-series and the caricature f Whitewash is addressed, much like Howard Chaykin addressed Chop-Chop, in his Blackhawk mini-series. I want to say Midnight Sons or similar tied Blazing Skull to Ghost Rider.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jan 25, 2024 22:58:08 GMT -5
I grew a beard for the first time over the 2020 Covid lockdown (though I only shave about once a week anyway, so I usually have some stubble). My wife really liked me with a beard, though it's a little prickly when kissing. I did kinda like how it looked and I kept it for a year or so, but in the end it had to go -- much to my wife's disappointment. What with beard shampoo, trimming, beard conditioner, beard wax etc, it's more damn effort to keep a beard looking decent than it is to shave! I've maintained facial hair in some form or fashion for the majority of my adult life. Sometimes just a moustache, sometimes a moustache and close-trimmed jawline beard, sometimes a moustache and close-trimmed Van Dyke/goatee, and now, the current look, which I've had for about 4 years.
In fact, now that I think of it, I haven't been completely clean-shaven since 1992. I guess I'm accustomed to the maintenance; the washing, trimming, shaving (neck and cheeks), oiling, waxing, etc is a sort of zen catharsis for me. If I go several days without shaving my neck and cheeks, then I really start to look like a scruffy wild man.
Never cared for the unkempt Geldof look, or the "soul patch only" look either.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 25, 2024 23:11:18 GMT -5
I grew a beard for the first time over the 2020 Covid lockdown (though I only shave about once a week anyway, so I usually have some stubble). My wife really liked me with a beard, though it's a little prickly when kissing. I did kinda like how it looked and I kept it for a year or so, but in the end it had to go -- much to my wife's disappointment. What with beard shampoo, trimming, beard conditioner, beard wax etc, it's more damn effort to keep a beard looking decent than it is to shave! I've maintained facial hair in some form or fashion for the majority of my adult life. Sometimes just a moustache, sometimes a moustache and close-trimmed jawline beard, sometimes a moustache and close-trimmed Van Dyke/goatee, and now, the current look, which I've had for about 4 years.
In fact, now that I think of it, I haven't been completely clean-shaven since 1992. I guess I'm accustomed to the maintenance; the washing, trimming, shaving (neck and cheeks), oiling, waxing, etc is a sort of zen catharsis for me. If I go several days without shaving my neck and cheeks, then I really start to look like a scruffy wild man.
Never cared for the unkempt Geldof look, or the "soul patch only" look either.
I went to a Catholic high school that required us to be clean shaven. The day I graduated in '87, I started growing a mustache and I haven't been completely clean shaven since. Around about '94 I grew the Van Dyke/goatee just as I was starting grad school, and I've had that ever since. I have never gone full beard though, though I have had a week or two unshaven during a couple of health issue times when hospitalized or bed-ridden but always cleaned up as soon as I was able. It's just what I am most comfortable with regardless of what anyone else thinks. I tend to keep the goatee fairly well-trimmed and not too long, though I have let it get longer and thicker a few times over the years, I just always end up trimming it back. So yeah, haven't been fully clean-shaven since May 1987. -M
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 25, 2024 23:59:32 GMT -5
I had to shave for the military, but never had a very thick beard. However, after the military I did grew a mustache and various iterations of van dyke and full beard. Mine grew patchy and I would grow frustrated with the way it looked and would shave it off and start again. I had a moustache and triangular soul patch (I believe the French called it a roi, though I may have misread that) when I met Barb, in 2007, but grew a van dyke, again, and mostly kept it, in various trimmings, ever since. I finally let it grow long enough to fill in better, as I had a tendency to trim it too early and not let it grow to a longer length and thicker bulk, though my beard doesn't grow thick enough to really achieve what I would like. I mostly trim is to something resembling a swashbuckler style, as best I can approximate, without benefit of waxes and such, as I don't have the patience for that. Plus, my beard is mostly grey-to-white, now, which affects how it looks. It's not one or the other enough to look uniform and parts of the moustache are transitioning to pigment loss.
Of course, part of my frustration was that I could never make it look like the movie van dykes I tried to emulate; but, then, most of those were fakes glued to the actor's face. I also don't have the square jaw to carry it off, either, even at my best shape.
I could have had a moustache, in the military, but the regulations were so exacting and it wasn't naturally thick enough to mess with it. Beards had long been outlawed in the Navy, due to breathing gear, for firefighting. You can't get a good seal on the mask, with a beard.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 26, 2024 0:14:20 GMT -5
My midshipman days.... This was when I met Barb.... More recent years.... This is my ideal and about as close as I can get now, with a rounder face and thinner beard (and no beard maker, since Ross Martin's is a fake). Also, without the waxed styling of the moustache. (or the filtrum gap). Right now, it is as close to that as I have ever managed and am just trying to let it grow a bit longer. Wearing a mask through COVID, for 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week (and then some) did more to shape it than anything outside of waxing.
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Post by tonebone on Jan 26, 2024 10:44:18 GMT -5
I heard that women LOVE those types of beards. They are sexually attracted to that look. My wife hates facial hair of all kinds. That's the reason I don't have a beard anymore. That would be the reason I wouldn't have a wife anymore.
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Post by tonebone on Jan 26, 2024 10:46:24 GMT -5
I grew a beard for the first time over the 2020 Covid lockdown (though I only shave about once a week anyway, so I usually have some stubble). My wife really liked me with a beard, though it's a little prickly when kissing. I did kinda like how it looked and I kept it for a year or so, but in the end it had to go -- much to my wife's disappointment. What with beard shampoo, trimming, beard conditioner, beard wax etc, it's more damn effort to keep a beard looking decent than it is to shave! I've had a beard since 1984.
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Post by kirby101 on Jan 26, 2024 11:08:05 GMT -5
I have grown beards on vacation to make shaving easier. My wife isn't crazy about it, so I don't keep it. Also, since my beard has turned white, it adds ten years to how old I look.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 26, 2024 11:21:03 GMT -5
We're well off topic, but oh wells. I think that the last time I didn't have facial hair was around 1993. None of my sons has ever seen me without a beard of some sort.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 26, 2024 11:45:29 GMT -5
My wife has no idea what you are talking about... but she won't let me shave it off. She likes the look of a 19th century cavalry officer, but from the neck down I look more like a 19th century quartermaster. (I'm still at home in a saddle, though... poor horse.) My wife more stares me down when I try to change my hair more than my facial hair. I don't have long hair to my shoulders or in a ponytail because I like it. I'd shave my head with a bic razor if I had my way. But alas I don't. Now to get back on topic.... Ultimate Spider-man is the only thing of Bendis' that I have read that is any good. He's (or was not sure his status now) an overrated writer. There I said it!
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