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    She posts that calendar and yet won't let me beard or 'stash up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bigdad1 View Post
    She posts that calendar and yet won't let me beard or 'stash up.
    I'd say that makes it OK for you to put up some girlie calenders!
    When she complains, just say "its OK, I don't want you to look like that".


    I don't mean to be provocative, But much like the 'wife vs. kilt' issue that pops up from time to time, I'm dismayed and confounded by some of y'all giving control of your facial hair to somebody else.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zardoz View Post
    I don't mean to be provocative, But much like the 'wife vs. kilt' issue that pops up from time to time, I'm dismayed and confounded by some of y'all giving control of your facial hair to somebody else.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zardoz View Post
    I'd say that makes it OK for you to put up some girlie calenders!
    When she complains, just say "its OK, I don't want you to look like that".


    I don't mean to be provocative, But much like the 'wife vs. kilt' issue that pops up from time to time, I'm dismayed and confounded by some of y'all giving control of your facial hair to somebody else.
    In my own defense

    Bob had a mustache when we first dated (a hundred years ago or so). He was clean-shaven when we met again in this lifetime. I've told him that I prefer him to be clean-shaven. But if he really, truly wanted to "stache up" again, I wouldn't try to say "you can't do that." He might find my opinion being expressed in more subtle ways but you're right, it is his facial hair and I do not control it.

    In the same regard, I currently wear my [head of] hair long, and I think he likes it that way. If I thought I might cut it short, I'd run the idea past him and take his preferences into account. But they would not represent 100% of my decision-making process.

    As for posting the link to the pictures, I found them interesting and thought others here would too. I've also posted links to pictures of New York City in the early 1900s -- doesn't mean I want to live in NYC!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zardoz View Post
    I'd say that makes it OK for you to put up some girlie calenders!
    When she complains, just say "its OK, I don't want you to look like that".


    I don't mean to be provocative, But much like the 'wife vs. kilt' issue that pops up from time to time, I'm dismayed and confounded by some of y'all giving control of your facial hair to somebody else.
    It isn't a question of giving control of my facial hair to anyone. She has a right to tell me as her partner (key word there) that she prefers a smooth face next to hers. And, as I love and respect her I maintain that smooth face. I had plenty of beards and goatees and 'stashes in years past and don't need to prove to myself I can grow one. Besides which I have enough gray hair on my head so don't need any more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zardoz View Post
    But much like the 'wife vs. kilt' issue that pops up from time to time, I'm dismayed and confounded by some of y'all giving control of your facial hair to somebody else.
    Well. . .I got my right hip replaced 10 weeks ago, and spent the 13 calendar days before returning to the office with my African Grey Parrot at my girlfriend's place. To my surprise she said, "You know, since you don't have to go to work for a while you don't need to shave. . ."

    I took the hint.

    This is me pre-surgery back in December, in Japan for martial-arts training (I'm an instructor): https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...&id=1199617140 (You can't see the kilt in the photo, but I'm wearing one; this was at my grandmaster's birthday party.)

    And post-surgery, at my girlfriend's March 5, the day before returning to work: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...&id=1199617140

    Now grown as much as I'm going to let it: April 17, my lass treating me to a birthday dinner at a Brazilian churrascaria: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...&id=1199617140

    And a week later (last Saturday), outside the Jewish synagogue where I work: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...&id=1199617140

    The last one, BTW, was also my first day wearing the first of two new kilts just received from/made by Matt Newsome. This one is in Douglas Weathered.

    Reactions at work to the goatee from everyone who's mentioned it -- Temple staff, congregants, other visitors -- have ranged from very positive to wildly enthusiastic. I think I'm going to keep it.

    I don't (yet) wear the kilt during working hours, but enough people have seen me wearing one to realize I don't wear bifurcated garments much unless I'm at work or doing my martial-arts thing. This morning one of the rabbis walked by me, and she made a point of commenting positively on my kilted photos on Facebook. . .
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dale Seago View Post
    To my surprise she said, "You know, since you don't have to go to work for a while you don't need to shave. . ."

    Well done, that lass! And congratulations on your rehab.
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    I figured id throw my beard into the mix


    this is a couple years old but its basically the same has been for about a decade

    luckily i got a girlfriend who like the beard and the kilt she has never seen me without the beard.

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    A nice little ditty: "If You've Only Got A Moustache" by Stephen Foster.

    I've had a moustache since I was 18 (it's been of legal age on its own for a couple of years now). Kind of a family tradition. I have photographic documentation that 5 of the last 6 generations have worn at least a moustache, if not a full beard.
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    Sydnie, since I have had a moustache (uninterrupted) since 1970, and a beard (with some interruptions) since early the following year, I have done most of my kissing with facial hair (mine, that is).
    And all of my kissing with my wife has been that way.
    There were a few girls before that. But even then I had my grandmother’s advice on my mind (she was the one who told me about kissing without a moustache being like soup without salt).
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