A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy π
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
Yesterday I passed a barbershop and saw ads on their wall outside of men with beards and short hair. It is a revival or saving electricity ?
I'm a unix-guru.
If I were to shave I'd get a -5 penalty on my bash magic.
If I skip showers for a month I can interface directly with any device in /dev
If I skip showers for a month I can interface directly with any device in /dev
None of /dev will want your interface.
/dev/zero will always be accepting.
Samson was actually a sys admin whose servers had incredible uptime until his beard was shaved.
It's been foretold that after a year without touching grass you can harness one-handed vim
What do you mean men are growing beards "again"? I haven't noticed any trend between clean shaven / bearded. Some do, some don't.
Yeah, beards have been common since at least the βhipster/lumbersexualβ memes which were about 2008 or so. Thereβs not been any particular drop off since then. Itβs just accepted that some people prefer or look better with a beard.
Why do people on the internet think you don't have to shave if you have a beard? You're just shaving less area.
Exactly. When I was clean shaven, it was easy, I could just hold the shaver against the contours of my face.
Now, with a large beard, I only need to shave every one or two weeks, but it takes much longer to do so and is much trickier. I've got to sculpt and shape a mound of hair manually. And every day I still brush and oil it.
Clean or short shaven was actually less effort.
I don't shave and I have a beard - once in a blue moon for a special occasion, I might trim it.
Alas, I cannot grow hair on the top of my head, so I must grow it on the bottom.
Brother beards have been in for like 10 years.
For some of us that's "new"
Beards are where the Communism is stored. As the ruling class become richer and more obscene, class consciousness grows amongst the working class. Hence, beards.
Iβve got mine almost completely colonized with psychedelic mycelium!
SAVING ELECTRICITY LOL WUT
Shaving sucks.
The real question is why shaving should be normalized, expected, or encouraged in modern society.
Yeah, normalize either being okay. Just like long or short hair. Diversity is the spice of life.
The biggest problem with growing a beard is that it only looks good after a certain amount of time. When people grow beards it's usually when they are on vacation because it is nice not having to shave and you dont have to look professional with a crazy half grown beard.
A couple of years ago the word took an extended vacation and a lot of people took the opportunity to grow a beard.
There is a time while growing a beard that it looks like shit.
Most of the people shave it off to not go through it.
But the pandemic meant people could go for weeks without seeing an other human. Which is the perfect time to grow a beard and get over the awkward phase without getting laughed at too much.
Could be recency bias, could be that fashion is a cycle that repeats and old fashions are rediscovered. Could be laziness because at some point it becomes easier to trim a beard once every month than shave everyday.
Some people's skin also can't handle daily trauma from razors.
It also looks more interesting than a vanilla clean shave, imo. People might be looking to stand out for that reason.
I grew one during lockdown, decided I liked it and kept it. I suspect I am not an anomaly in this.
The +5 charisma buff was too hard to pass up.
Full beards are great. I can go a week without any maintenance and still look presentable. Any other style of facial hair is just too much effort.
It's crazy how long it's been since we've had a bearded president in the US.
Linux market share must be growing
I always figured rona caused a big enough surge in beards owing to WFH allowing folks to get past the scruff hump that beards could be back on the table again.
For me, it's sheer laziness. Can't be arsed to shave more than once every 6 to 10 months.
Do always find it funny when folks react strongly when I do shave. It's hair growth, not a personality.
First there was WWII, when all men had to be skinheads. Those men continued shaving, and this became a culture handed down to their boys. Now, weβre rebelling against the elders who fucked up everything, so we grow beards to show that weβre different to them.
Source. A lumberjack appered in front of me in a dream I had in 2009.
Fewer beardless people to bully others into shaving, the cycle will continue to reinforce itself until system collapse
If I may quote Nick Offerman...
I grow a beard because I am neither a child nor a woman.
Well, it does more-or-less happen on its own if you aren't paying attention.
In my case, itβs because I prefer it. Razors are expensive, and who has time to shave anyway? Iβve had a beard off and on since college in the 80s, when it made me look about five years older. Now it makes me look about 10 years younger. Iβll take it. :)
I'm lazy and can't be fucked shaving regularly
Iβm seeing a lot of those creepy mustaches lately.
Dawg like a year ago I came back into the office for the first time since Covid and all the 20 year olds had somewhere between pedo stashes and handlebars. Zoomers crack me up theyβre great
I think zoomers are young enough not to have the generational memory of how creepy mustaches are, so suddenly they're cool again. I'm afraid it'll last until the zoomers are old enough to be the creepy ones.
Fashions change. We were about due for a swing back to beardy, I reckon.
Personally, I'm bald, and I grow a really good one that, like, holds a shape. It just makes sense.
Ages ago, I won a bet that I would get carded at the pub if I shaved, even if I was wearing an expensive suit. I was 35 at the time.
Because it grew back?
Personally I've always found most men look more attractive with beards (I'm a straight dude) so I grew one as soon as I could.
After having it for a while I decided to shave as I hadn't seen my actual face in a few years. After I shaved I realized that I have very chubby cheeks that make me look like a literal child.
I'll never clean shave again
