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 ?

  • @HarriPotero
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    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

  • @[email protected]
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    1225 months ago

    What do you mean men are growing beards “again”? I haven’t noticed any trend between clean shaven / bearded. Some do, some don’t.

    • Amputret
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      Yeah, beards have been common since at least the ‘hipster/lumbersexual’ memes which were about 2008 or so. There’s not been any particular drop off since then. It’s just accepted that some people prefer or look better with a beard.

      • scops
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        85 months ago

        Yeah, I haven’t been clean shaven since I could first pull off a beard. Last time I saw my naked face was 15 years ago.

        That said, I have started to put more effort into my beard to try to keep up with trends. Growing it out, oiling it, shaping the edges. It’s fun, but I still find myself trimming it down after too long just to make it easier to manage.

        • @[email protected]
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          What oil are you using? Hands down the best stuff I have ever tried is from a small New Zealand brand called Lambert’s Luscious Beard Oils. I started getting compliments at work after switching to that stuff.

  • @[email protected]
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    705 months ago

    Why do people on the internet think you don’t have to shave if you have a beard? You’re just shaving less area.

    • @guy
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      275 months ago

      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.

      • @RBWells
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        85 months ago

        Ha, NSFW example but my God when people call the tight trimmed triangle a “natural bush” on women I laugh. It’s more work to maintain than just about any other alternative.

    • @[email protected]
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      135 months ago

      I don’t shave and I have a beard - once in a blue moon for a special occasion, I might trim it.

    • Chainweasel
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      95 months ago

      Exactly, it’s actually MORE work to shave with a beard because instead of just completely removing all of the hair and you have to shape it and make sure it’s symmetrical.

    • @givesomefucks
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      55 months ago

      A short trimmed beard you have to do the neck and maybe cheekbones, it’s a lot of upkeep.

      I think lots of guys had that type of beard pre-covid, then let it grow out. Once it’s long enough you don’t have to do the neck because it’s hidden by the rest of your beard.

      And some guys never have to do cheeks because it grows in good.

      Like how 20 years ago it was cool for teenagers and 20 somethings to have goatees. It took me a while to realize most were doing it because they couldn’t grow a full beard.

      There’s a lot of variation in facial hair, including where it grows and how thick.

    • @[email protected]
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      5 months ago

      Very variable, depending on style and your personal growth pattern. I have a small patch on each cheek that has to be cleaned off, but otherwise it doesn’t require shaving. With a big beard you have to care for it like normal hair, though, with haircuts and products.

      Buuut I do have the shave my whole head. Oh well.

    • @Alk
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      15 months ago

      I haven’t shaved since 2014.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’ve (recently) stopped shaving entirely, but I use my trimmers to to a quick hackjob on the area I used to manually shave. so my facial hair care routine is about 5 minutes every 2 weeks or so, plus maybe 5 minutes a month to buzz my head. can’t believe I used to spend that much time every couple of days to look like shit. now I still look like shit but have a few more minutes

    • @NegativeInf
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      45 months ago

      Also, I have a big ass forehead and no chin. Gotta aim for that balancing point.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      Alas, I have just enough native blood to not be able to grow a beard, and not enough to not go bald. Worst of both worlds haha

  • @[email protected]
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    • I’m lazy
    • I can
    • makes me look my age
    • razor burn sucks
    • 3’o clock shadow sucks
    • who cares?
    • @Nikls94
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      15 months ago

      Shaving takes less time than keeping it tidy, at least for me.

    • wellDuuh
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      135 months ago

      I control electron flow on my spare time

    • @[email protected]
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      45 months ago

      Do the other wizards just give you the staff, or do you have to go on a quest or something?

      • @[email protected]
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        45 months ago

        Becoming a wizard isn’t so trivial as just being declared one - many wizards apprenticed themselves to gain knowledge and improve their chances but that elevation is a personal journey.

        You will know you’re a wizard when you can look at fellows in your skill and know that none of them would challenge your adoption of the title. I wish you the best of luck. It’s a title within reach of everyone in their lifetime.

        The staff and robes are optional but who would turn down a badass purple robe.

        • @[email protected]
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          15 months ago

          It’s really the stick I’m interested in. So you can just go get your own staff? Nobody awards you the staff, or stops you from getting a staff?

          • @[email protected]
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            Nah, you can just make yourself a staff - there aren’t any restrictions, registries or waiting periods.

            • wellDuuh
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              Nah, you can just make yourself a staff

              Exactly. The moguls try to control how I use it in the organization

  • @m13
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    395 months ago

    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.

    • @MrVilliam
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      35 months ago

      I wish fox news would say this so all of my bearded conservative coworkers would shave all at once. Having a beard is like 20% of their personality, but they’d line up for a shearing if their marching orders said to like the good little sheep they are.

  • @scottywh
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    365 months ago

    Shaving sucks.

    The real question is why shaving should be normalized, expected, or encouraged in modern society.

    • @[email protected]
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      195 months ago

      Yeah, normalize either being okay. Just like long or short hair. Diversity is the spice of life.

    • @bluemellophone
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      5 months ago

      Long story short: WW2

      The military required men to be clean shaven, which was partly tactical (proper gas mask seals), partly to whitewash the service (e.g., black men can have severe skin reactions to shaving every day), and had other benefits to unit cohesion and general order (routine personal fitness and hygiene).

      Well, that stuck, and an entire (massive) generation of men and their male children were taught that to be good they simply had to be clean shaven. Those two generations make up the vast majority of business and political power in the US, so the idea of “success” and “power” was idolized by a clean shaven male. This was further accentuated by the counter culture reaction of this cohort’s kids in the 60s and 70s, where longer and unkempt “bad” hair was cast against this “good” clean shaven look.

      Fast forward to today, those traditions and appearances have been baked into most of modern life. As the boomer population starts to fade away, so will the tyranny of the razor.

      • @[email protected]
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        55 months ago

        The boomers ARE the unshaven hippies tho. People born in the 40s and entering public life in the 60s-70s

  • @[email protected]
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    245 months ago

    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.

  • HexesofVexes
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    205 months ago

    The +5 charisma buff was too hard to pass up.

  • @[email protected]
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    205 months ago

    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.