Last night I was out with a group of friends at a local hole-in-the-wall pub listening to a blues/americana band play. The band was great, the beer was tasty, the company wonderful, the people watching... well that's when I noticed something odd going on. The pub was packed with people, mostly men. And the majority of them had beards. There were a few nicely groomed goatees. A couple of short and neatly trimmed full face beards. However, by and large, the majority of men there had full on "Hagrid from Harry Potter" style beards. The guys from ZZtop looked like amateurs in comparison to these beards. Small children and animals could be concealed within these beards. Smugglers and terrorists could use them to transport crates of contraband across the borders. (My mind cannot even think about all the other things that could be nestled in amongst the wiry, grizzled, overgrown strands without becoming permanently scarred. No lets not go there!).
Of all of us females sitting there observing this group of bearded men last night, not one thought that any of the full scraggily bearded men were attractive. NOT ONE! Which begs the question then...why would men grow them? These beards aren't things that just popped up overnight when the guy rushed out of the house without shaving one day. These beards took months and months, maybe even years to grow to these lengths. This is a deliberately cultivated appearance. I will admit that sometimes overgrown hair can be an attractive or at least interesting phenomenon, such as really long great dreadlocks. But the "I've superglued a dead poodle to my face" look doesn't qualify in that category.
Ladies? What is your input? Beard? No beard? What is your preference and why?
And guys, riddle me this... WHY would any half normal looking guy choose to hide his features behind a mountain of overgrown pubic-style hair unless he was in the witness protection program?
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