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Pogonophobia
DIR By: Truman Overby
Date: April 21, 2019, 11:20 am
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This appears to be a clear case of pogonophobia. Sure, homeless
men have lice-infested beards and maybe the occasional sloppy
eater has bits of bacon and the remnants of last night's lasagna
dinner in his facial hair. But most of us, nah, I'm a bearded
guy who's meticulous in his beard bathing.
HTML https://www.thesun.co.uk/sun-men/8860464/men-beards-germs-dogs-bacteria/
What do you think, do you perceive beards to be a fertile garden
for all sorts of one-celled nastiness? And l don't want to limit
this to men only. What about you ladies? Maybe you or your great
aunt were bearded ladies in the circus. What about your
experiences or those of old Aunt Cora? Was she one who adhered
to a strict regimen of beard maintenance? Or did she have bits
of lunch floating around in it? Pictures anyone?
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Re: Pogonophobia
DIR By: Nikola
Date: April 21, 2019, 3:21 pm
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So is it to beard or not to beard now? That's a tough one.
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Re: Pogonophobia
DIR By: SHL
Date: April 21, 2019, 6:31 pm
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Nothing against beards, but they seem very 1970s and 1980-ish to
me, sort of like long shaggy hair was on men in those days. I
see it as just a fashion trend is all. I never really fell
totally out of style, so they are fine on some guys. Let‘s hope
the 1970s moustache does‘t return anytime soon.
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Re: Pogonophobia
DIR By: NealC
Date: April 21, 2019, 8:23 pm
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Beards are back, in a big way too.
I bet the Leisure Suits you saved in the 70's will be back in
style soon.
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Re: Pogonophobia
DIR By: Truman Overby
Date: April 21, 2019, 8:26 pm
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So no one had a bearded Aunt Helga who was with the circus?
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Re: Pogonophobia
DIR By: NealC
Date: April 21, 2019, 8:29 pm
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We had a rich and rather vain Aunt Helga. One day my father
told her that if she had one more facelift she would have a
beard.
She didn't like that.
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Re: Pogonophobia
DIR By: Susan
Date: April 21, 2019, 9:52 pm
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Isn´t that one of those fake news sources?
Well, our family has a tradition of hayrack rides to a spot
where we roast hot dogs, have s´mores, etc. We did that this
evening. I could hardly look at my brother-in-law because of
the food (potato salad?) caught in his bushy, untrimmed beard. I
do not think he could feel it the way you can feel it when you
have food directly on your skin.
On men who keep it trimmed better, beards can look good. I have
never thought about germs growing in beards. But personally, I
do not like the feel of men´s facial hair, beards or mustaches.
I have always wondered what I would do if my husband died and
I wanted to start dating again. Would I just avoid dating any
men who were not clean-shaven? Would I learn to not pull away?
Or would I dare say something like: ¨I would love to go to the
movies with you, but if you want me to kiss you, you are going
to have to shave first?¨
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Re: Pogonophobia
DIR By: SHL
Date: April 21, 2019, 10:38 pm
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--- Quote from: NealC link ---
>
> Beards are back, in a big way too.
> I bet the Leisure Suits you saved in the 70's will be back in
style soon.
>
--- End Quote ---
I don‘t think beards ever really went away, with the exception
of a few decades way before my time. There were plenty of beards
in the 19th century. That‘s an easy one. (I think it was legal
even during the Civil War to wear them in the military.) But,
then by the 1920s to about the late 60s they were really out.
Who had a beard in the 1950s for example? (Well, I guess they
had the Greenwich Village beat-necks of the time. )They probably
would have labeled you a commie for having one back then, and
they would have pointed to Castro in the early 60s to prove the
point. Then the hippie movement brought them back in the late
60s, I assume. Then they took off in the 1970s, or alternatively
in the 1970s the mustache alone came into style. Hair got long
(I remember the days when if a guy had hair so short you could
see his ears you thought he was in the military). The mustache
alone was the worst. All that mess continued till the early 90s
maybe? Then it thankfully faded. Hair went short and mustaches
disappeared. But, beards always hung around for some reason.
Even Al Pacino, playing Lefty in the film Donny Brasco, set in
1978, had enough sense to knock Johnny Depp on the arm and say
he had to get rid of the mustache. When asked why, Lefty said,
„Cos it‘s against the rules.“ See, even Lefty‘s buddies had „the
rules.“ You could do all that other stuff they were doing, but
when it came to mustaches you had to follow „the rules.“ ;)
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Re: Pogonophobia
DIR By: Chizuko hanji
Date: April 22, 2019, 1:28 am
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Football players whom I like are always beard men, so I should
not have read this thread.
Japanese business men are not allowed to have beard. It's a
culture. Rather, Asian people are not hairy so they can't have
it.
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Re: Pogonophobia
DIR By: Alharacas
Date: April 22, 2019, 4:14 am
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--- Quote from: Chizuko link ---
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> Rather, Asian people are not hairy so they can't have it.
>
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Isn't that a bit too sweeping, Chizuko? Maybe there was never a
time when Japanese men were required to have a beard, but
Chinese men were, as far as I know - and wikipedia seems to bear
me out:
"Most Chinese emperors of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) appear
with beards or mustaches in portraits."
"During the Chinese Qing dynasty (1644-1911), the ruling Manchu
minority were either clean-shaven or at most wore mustaches, in
contrast to the Han majority who still wore beards in keeping
with the Confucian ideal."
(quotes from
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard)
But of course I agree that it's cultural. :)
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