RANT! #1: Beards

umm i don't have a web cam but i do have a beard and my wife hates it

Point taken. Small item: Lenin didn't write the Communist Manifesto; Marx did. Pictures of Marx show that he had a more disturbing beard than did Lenin.

Don't have one, but it sounds like someone has beard envy.

Thats some hideous photoshop work. My wife hates it when I grow my Winter beard.

Name one eh? Paramhansa Yogananda I can name more if you want. But truly the beard is rad, people tend to assume cliche things upon viewing a man with a healthy beard, but as long as you don't rock bird nests or leftover dinner scraps I see no problem with having something so manly.

Ugh! On beards and on the stills of the user videos here.

My husbands dad's beard is the softest beard I have ever encountered. So I love beards...if they are soft! No beard h8 here!

Jesus Christ, why did I shave my beard? :(

Beards? That is the first rant? All the annoying shit going on in the media and the internet and the first rant is about beards. Dumb.

Nirvana

Mammalian pride!

Im a girl and I love beards, stubble, ect... If I was looking for soft and smooth I would be with a chick. Plus it gives boys with a less then chiseled square jaw line a good cover up.
Just think WWJD?
Im bet JC's bitch never asked him to shave and I bet he didn't ask her to either.

I don't have a web cam, so I'll have to type my rant:

If anyone should understand the beard, it should be women. They have a hell of a lot more to shave than us, and Lord knows they're never silky smooth unless it's a special occasion.

Legs, pits, bush, belly, back, upper lip (you know who you are)... in my 35 years of bachelorhood, I've come across some body hair that damn-near made me click on the lights to double check the number of orifices available. Now that I'm in that middle-aged range, I'm seriously considering some night-vision goggles just to reduce the number of interruptions. But I digress.

Good Lord, we're mammals, people! Hairy by nature. Maybe I'm lazy; maybe I'm at peace with nature; maybe my fascination with 70's porn has become troublesome. Whatever the reason, I'm starting to think this fixation on eliminating body hair is a further perversion of something fundamental. I mean, ideal body types are sliding further and further away from a normal, healthy adult body, and more towards that of a prepubescent child (for both sexes).

All that said, the only thing that personally bothers me is hairy legs on a chick. Hairy pits? I'm never looking under there anyway; what do I care? Overgrown shrubs? I always fantasize that I'm Indiana Jones, slicing my way through the jungle with a machete, searching for the Golden Idol (which, BTW, I always find ;D). But legs always seem to be intertwined or rubbing against my shoulders or my cheeks or something. Honestly, I notice that more than anything else.

Likewise, I can see how a rough face could be discomforting to a woman. I'd consider a smooth face for smooth legs a fair trade-off, but that would have to negotiated. Still, beards are awesome, generally speaking. They're convenient. They look cool. With some doctoring, they can add character.

My name is SDLN. I'm pro-beard, but I'm not a fundamentalist.

Okay, this is far from a terrible post, but the fact that a this made it to the top fills me with despair.

My wife loves my beard.
She calls it her personal French Tickler :)

i have a beard, and i love a man with a beard.. good thing my lover has one. ;)

I have a beard and a white-man's fro for half of the year, and the other half, I shave my beard and buzz all my hair off my head. My wife likes it either way. I look younger than I am when I'm clean shaven. I'm 34 and I still get carded when I buy cigarettes sometimes. I look much older when I grow my hair and my beard, because I have more white hair than your average 30-something, which I like.

i like a little facial hair.. some stubble here and there, thats manly. but a full osama bin ladin beard... not sexy... not sexy at all. ur face should not look like a monkeys ass. and if the dude is nasty sometimes the beards start to smell bad or have particles stuck in them... gross. I also hate chin straps... dont know why but they just turn me off. And i hate the thin, dirty sanchez mustaches, cause.. they look like a dirty sanchez. Also, I hate that little triangle of hair in the middle of the chin, when its the only facial hair a dude has. I mean really, why keep that? shave it off, it looks rediculous.