Boy Thread: put a hat on ur butt

[suffer-cait]

what happened to cause you to wish you had already?

[dubsola]

What do you dudes with beards do about beard-druff? Apparently my chin is a mess underneath all the hair. I tried normal hair shampoo but it didn't do the greatest job. Anything I could try? I suppose shaving the whole thing would help but I'm too lazy/busy to shave regularly (kid) and so this is easiest for me right now. Also, too: I live in a dry climate (current humidity ~15%).

Here's a recent picture of the offending beard, spoilered for large.

Spoiler:

I have this problem, which I mitigate by keeping my beard trimmed and washing thoroughly. I think the dry climate is a red herring, since I live in London which isn't dry by any stretch of the imagination.

[broken_escalator]

Hmmm. I have a poster being displayed at a conference that I'll be forced to attend. Usually where I work we get away with just slacks and dress shirts, and occasionally a tie for big meetings. Are there any brands of jackets I should look into for tall and skinny people? I have no jackets or suits of any sort.

[mercutio_stencil]

Hmmm. I have a poster being displayed at a conference that I'll be forced to attend. Usually where I work we get away with just slacks and dress shirts, and occasionally a tie for big meetings. Are there any brands of jackets I should look into for tall and skinny people? I have no jackets or suits of any sort.

I've had good luck with Calvin Klein, they usually have a 'slim' and 'extra slim' version of their suits. Also, take it in to a tailor, for $30 or so, it will end up looking much better.

[Rium]

So, after reading the last page of this thread, I bought a DE safety razor. I’m pretty happy with it. I’m not sure if there is much of a difference in skin friendliness, but it definitely made shaving more enjoyable.

[rath358]

Fuck. I thought I was slowly getting better with my straight razor, but now I have like 10 cuts all over my face.
>.<

[Shivahn]

Fuck. I thought I was slowly getting better with my straight razor, but now I have like 10 cuts all over my face.
>.<

It takes a while, and you will have bad days, I'm sure you really are much better than when you started: Just don't shave for a couple days to heal and give it another go.

[Moose Anus]

As I've gotten older (I'm mid-30s), I've noticed an interesting phenomenon. When I pee standing up, I have a really good, nearly orgasmic sensation in my dick. This doesn't happen when I pee sitting down. I find myself drinking too much on purpose just so I can pee again.

I'm a little worried that this might be some sort awesome symptom of ass- or nad-cancer. Is this just a normal thing that I haven't heard of before?

[e^iπ+1=0]

Looking for beard advice. I recently shaved off my mustache and to some degree my upper cheeks. Can't seem to decided if my resulting facial hair looks alright. Should I shave more, and if so, where?

Spoiler:

Hair pulled back:



Looking to one side:



Other side:



Hair not pulled back:

[doogly]

That's what I'd eliminate. I am also very wary of mustacheless beards, they give a sort of less than glammy 19th century look to me.
IANAL, YMMV, YHWH

[torontoraptor]

Looking for beard advice. I recently shaved off my mustache and to some degree my upper cheeks. Can't seem to decided if my resulting facial hair looks alright. Should I shave more, and if so, where?

Spoiler:

Hair pulled back:



Looking to one side:



Other side:



Hair not pulled back:

I'd recommend shaving the bit extending down your neck on either side, it works well with the unkempt lumberjack look, but not with the Abe Lincoln type thing.

Related question, I plan on doing something with my facial hair for Halloween. Since I'm shaving it all off the next morning for Movember, I can do any style I want. I'm stuck between going as some form of Abe, or as the creepy thin moustache candy man type.


Edit: Beaten like a dead horse.

[e^iπ+1=0]

Alrighty then, I'll have a go at that. I'm leaving for a night out soon, so I'll see what people think.

Edit: Even though nearly everyone I saw tonight I'd seen last night, no one even acknowledged that I'd since shaved. *shrugs*

[doogly]

Lovely boingboing thing on why you should not wear a fedora.

http://boingboing.net/2012/10/02/why-th ... t-gee.html

"The problem is that the fedora has become a go-to accessory for a peculiar subculture of love-entitled male nerds whose social inexperience and awkwardness manifests in a world rocked by a gender revolution—a tectonic shift in the makeup of formerly cloistered, rule-bound clubs. They aren't bad people – they simply need a place from which to draw a sense of manhood, if not from women. When deciding how to represent themselves in a dating profile, why wouldn’t they cling to a fashion emblem from a bygone age, a time when guy was just a guy and a doll was just a doll? A fashion which recalls Frank Sinatra and Al Capone, a conventional masculinity marked by elegant detachment and an appeal to women that remains decidedly independent of their approval?"

[Garm]

Shoot. I like my fedora and don't need to draw on it for a sense of masculinity. Jerks. Thanks for ruining my nice hat.

[You, sir, name?]

Yeah. A fedora typically gives me a bad first impression. Some can pull it off, but most contemporary fedora-wearers can't.

In many respects, the same goes with wearing a suit. If you don't have what it takes, you look like a car salesman.

[bigglesworth]

With the latter, I think it's mostly due to wearing a too-formal suit. There are a bunch of fabrics that don't cause that effect.

[natraj]

whatever, boingboing article, i am always pretty skeptical of people who try to claim any X article of clothing is obviously just being worn by X for Y reasons so don't wear it. maybe some people just like hats?

[Ptolom]

Fedoras are okay if worn with discretion. I don't know about the creepy appeal to women part but they do make you look like a weasel if you have too thin a face.

[RollingHead]

It mostly depends on whether guys just wear the hats or pose pulling those silly faces, I guess.

[roband]

Last day of Movember, results in this monstrosity:

[doogly]

ye gods, why?

[roband]

Because it's fucking hilarious. Also, charity.

[gmalivuk]

The most charitable response to that would likely be euthanasia.

[roband]

Woahwoahwoah, to me or to the shitty beard?

C'mon now gents, senses of humour to the 'On' position please?

[gmalivuk]

I meant the "mustache", but I guess I could go either way.

[roband]

As above, 'tis but for charity. I make no claims for my facial hair growing skills. Once it's there, it just amuses me to arrange it so.

[doogly]

http://us.movember.com/about
It hurts, it hurts so bad.

[roband]

Our page has a different colour scheme - http://uk.movember.com/about

Strange.

[doogly]

The UK page also has specific injunctions against joining a mo bro joining their mo to the sideburns. Not so in the permissive United States.

[roband]

That's interesting.

I'm fortunate, in that my terrible 'tache doesn't naturally grow anywhere near my sideys/beard.

It's an isolated, sparse patch of manliness - yet manly is still is.