Beards, for me, are itchy and uncomfortable. Plus, being clean-shaven was a mantra from my late mother (see my signature line.)
Nope.For tonight's nightmare:
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Maybe not in your part of England, but there were bureaucracies on some parts of the Eurasian landmass.
And what is a chariot or cart if it isn’t a Scythian death machine or means of transporting foodstuffs across the Fertile Crescent to earn one’s weight in donkey carvings? Surely the same purposes we still have cars now and they needed to be sold.
Maybe not in your part of England
Yes. That is me to a teeI shave because my Bride wants a weirdo, not a beardo.
I try to eat in the dining room or shovel sustenance into my piehole while sitting on the couch watching my idjit screen. And though I’m not much for ironing these past 30 years, the few times I do, I use the ironing board.
I take it she’ll see this meme and say it’s you:
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I’m told it’s me a lot.
When I worked with TB patients I HAD to be klean shaven!Folks might not realize that a lot of people have to shave everyday just to survive. A lot of industry have chemicals that are toxic and SCBA could be needed. Fire fighters who have to enter buildings that are full of nasty smoke and unknowns.
I shaved every day to work in a industrial setting in case I had to dawn a potable mask in a belt bag so I could exit to safe harbour.
There are a lot of other jobs that require cleaned shaven faces not just for survival but dress code like military and business.
When I worked with TB patients
Same here.I've had a full beard for over a year. It looked ok on me...but I think I look better without it. Now that my facial hair is predominately white, but the hair on top of my head isn't, I really look better without it!
So my SCBA mask fits me with an air tight seal.
I suspect that this has something to do with the social approval of shaving. The removal of facial hair not only makes a male more recognizable to his group, it distances him from hair- or fur-covered lower primates and other animals. True, in the latter part of the 19th Century in the West, a beard was seen in terms of manliness: the mark of a man who either was busy (read: "successful") and had no leisure time for a shave, or had the resources to have the beard professionally tended by his barber. Then, as someone else mentioned, along came World War I, and the necessity for a clean-shaven face for gas mask-wearing cropped up.Are you asking why do we, as a society, shave, or why do we INDIVIDUALLY shave?
Society wise, I heard a theory that once men (and women) began living together, in groups, a shaved man was seen as more compliant and less threatening, thereby fitting into the group easier and easing any apprehension amongst his fellow males.
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This. The same why I brush my teeth or take a shower.I shave because it makes me feel clean and pleasant.