Fascinating article.
Read such nuggets as "Some scholars assert that it is not yet established whether the sexual selection leading to beards is rooted in attractiveness (inter-sexual selection) or dominance (intra-sexual selection)"
and
"Presence of a beard makes the owner vulnerable in fights, which is costly, so biologists have speculated that there must be other evolutionary benefits that outweigh that drawback."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beards
What say you?
Beards
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Beards
The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibility of lying about it.
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
No doubt some guys are into it. Never been big on bearded ladies myself.
Last edited by Riddick on 02-01-2017 02:39 AM, edited 1 time in total.
Yeah, it is. Personally, I've tried to grow a decent beard but I just don't have the facial follicle density for it.Fan wrote: and yet your avatar is distinctly more hirsute than mine... coincidence?
As it is, with the gray I've got any scrubby looking cover I can come up with only has people guessing my age to be even HIGHER than 65 (which is a dozen years too high already).
I hear I look in my 80's, I can say it's not extremely flattering to know I'm my own grampa.
if by 'terrorists & pirates' you mean folks I can respect (and criticize, simultaneously), then yes! 
I am well aware that Gottfrid has a drug problem, and Teddy has... well, a murder problem...
Now, this is a beard I can not criticize, it's purely respect.
and a couple more for which I have great admiration:
I am well aware that Gottfrid has a drug problem, and Teddy has... well, a murder problem... Now, this is a beard I can not criticize, it's purely respect.
and a couple more for which I have great admiration:
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For if it profit, none dare call it Treason.
Yes... I agree!Fan wrote: Ppl should watch http://watch.tpbafk.tv/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTOKXCEwo_8
For if it profit, none dare call it Treason.
People often do double takes at me, both for my size (first) and then my close-to-ridiculous beard.
The beard is both reviled and revered in our society. I have been told to shave it off for work, refused and been fired. I do not part with my beard, unless I just happen to want to, which has been on average 3 times a year when I shave it off. However, I am cultivating a real doozy recently, about 4-5 months worth and I can hide at least 25 wooden matches in it now (this is my pseudo-scientific new beard volumetric measurement system, how many wooden matches can it sustain).
The beard is both reviled and revered in our society. I have been told to shave it off for work, refused and been fired. I do not part with my beard, unless I just happen to want to, which has been on average 3 times a year when I shave it off. However, I am cultivating a real doozy recently, about 4-5 months worth and I can hide at least 25 wooden matches in it now (this is my pseudo-scientific new beard volumetric measurement system, how many wooden matches can it sustain).
The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibility of lying about it.
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
I was once asked to fire a hard working man under my supervision because he wore a beard similar to the one depicted in post #8 (thanks, bobbo). In fact, the guy was a French Canadian named LeBlanc, who was the leader of a punk band styled after the Dead Kennedys. I refused, and in fact laughed at the idea (literally, & loudly). Did not go over well.
For if it profit, none dare call it Treason.