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Does anyone else find 'Movember' moustache growers a bit smug?

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    #32
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    juan.kerr wrote: »
    Go for it.

    Is it all people with facial hair that you dislike or just the ones that claim to do it for charity?


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    #33
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    aaronjumper wrote: »
    Is it all people with facial hair that you dislike or just the ones that claim to do it for charity?

    The ones that jump on the Movember bandwagon only, don't really care about facial hair otherwise.

    As someone else mentioned, some 'participants' don't even know it's for charity.


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    #34
    Mensch Maschine
    Registered Users Posts: 403 ✭✭Mensch Maschine


    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    Finally every second bloke in ireland will no longer look like a skanger or gay.

    More eye candy for you then, yeah?


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    #35
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    Larianne wrote: »
    Maybe their top lip gets cold in November? Tis chilly out.

    So how many of those shaved them off on 1st December?


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    #36
    Insect Overlord
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    9959 wrote: »
    I hope you're not suggesting that a man might wear a moustache because he thinks it 'looks good' on him.

    I've only ever seen three people who've looked even remotely cool sporting these facial abominations: Bryan Ferry, Brandon Flowers, and the late lamented Betty Driver from the TV Soap 'Coronation Street'.

    Tom Selleck, Freddie Mercury, Hugh Jackman.


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    #37
    Larianne
    Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    juan.kerr wrote: »
    So how many of those shaved them off on 1st December?

    I dunno. I don't have an obsession with men wearing moustaches. ;)


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    #38
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    Larianne wrote: »
    I dunno. I don't have an obsession with men wearing moustaches. ;)

    That makes two of us. At least.


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    #39
    Andy!!
    Site Banned Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Andy!!


    juan.kerr wrote: »

    Not really, since no one here knows who I am. Whereas the moustache growers are walking around showing off their moustaches.

    Yeah I dont think you understand what smug means. You can still be smug if no one knows.


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    #40
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    Andy!! wrote: »
    Yeah I dont think you understand what smug means. You can still be smug if no one knows.

    Can you really be? And how would this manifest itself?


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    #41
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Mensch Maschine wrote: »
    More eye candy for you then, yeah?

    Yeah, women.


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    #42
    arse..biscuits
    Registered Users Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭arse..biscuits


    Movember is the most unsmug form of charity I can think of. Making your face look ridiclous for a month isnt easy.


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    #43
    aaronjumper
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    arse..biscuits wrote: »
    Making your face look ridiclous for a month isnt easy.

    I do it all year round!


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    #44
    DebDynamite
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    I agree OP. If you want to grow a 'tache, just grow a fukking 'tache whenever you want, not just November 'cause everyone else is doing it.

    I posted this on another thread: For all the hype of Movember and lads putting pics up on Facebook of the progress of their 'taches, there's not a lot of info in the mainstream actually about testicular cancer.


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    #45
    padi89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,478 ✭✭✭padi89


    arse..biscuits wrote: »
    Making your face look ridiclous for a month isnt easy.

    The majority know what it's about so growing a mustache is hardly ridiculous or challenging.


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    #46
    Andy!!
    Site Banned Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Andy!!


    arse..biscuits wrote: »
    Movember is the most unsmug form of charity I can think of. Making your face look ridiclous for a month isnt easy.

    Too right; half way through the month I really wanted to quit.


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    #47
    Dravokivich
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    DebDynamite wrote: »
    I agree OP. If you want to grow a 'tache, just grow a fukking 'tache whenever you want, not just November 'cause everyone else is doing it.

    I posted this on another thread: For all the hype of Movember and lads putting pics up on Facebook of the progress of their 'taches, there's not a lot of info in the mainstream actually about testicular cancer.

    If you want more info on cancer become an oncologist.


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    #48
    gozunda
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    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    Finally every second bloke in ireland will no longer look like a skanger or gay.

    Quite like the 1970's pornstar look tbh ;)

    Hey anyway what's the problem - grow a bit of facial hair, raise awareness, raise a bit of money ...

    Put a smile on some hairy blokes face!


    Some woman like it afaik....we can't all be hairless babies :o


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    #49
    wandatowell
    Registered Users Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Fellas just grow them to look hip or somesh1t like that, I very much doubt many of them actually donated to charity


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    #50
    vektarman
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    juan.kerr wrote: »
    Does anyone else find 'Movember' moustache growers a bit smug?
    Myself and my workmates grew moustaches for Movember, and raised a few quid to boot, it was heartening to see how many people encouraged us through the month and helped us make people aware of mens cancer issues, 'smug' was the last thing that we would have thought of ourselves.


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    #51
    Real Life
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    I wish we were in a time where men could grow a moustache like this and not be questioned about it.
    http://i.imgur.com/km2vF.jpg
    a fantastic example of a moustache, i think i should do this since my hair is already the same


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    #52
    Larianne
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    Real Life wrote: »
    I wish we were in a time where men could grow a moustache like this and not be questioned about it.
    http://i.imgur.com/km2vF.jpg
    a fantastic example of a moustache, i think i should do this since my hair is already the same

    I'm pretty sure there's a guy working in Urban Outfitters in town rocking that look at the moment.


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    #53
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    Real Life wrote: »
    I wish we were in a time where men could grow a moustache like this and not be questioned about it.
    http://i.imgur.com/km2vF.jpg
    a fantastic example of a moustache, i think i should do this since my hair is already the same

    I passed a guy with one of those the other day. Tall, well built, shaved head. He looked magnificent. Why wouldn't you grow one? There's a nasty insular attitude from some people but fcuk them. They're going the way of the dinosaurs, thank God. Be a man and grow whatever facial hair you want.
    -Guy with a beard.


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    #54
    Handsome Bob
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    I say fair play too them, especially those who are willing to have knacker taches for the month. ;-)


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    #55
    Zab
    Registered Users Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭Zab


    juan.kerr wrote: »
    Rubbish. I donate to charities, but prefer to keep it anonymous.



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    #56
    Ghandee
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    I can't wait till Fanuary.


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    #57
    Real Life
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    Shryke wrote: »
    I passed a guy with one of those the other day. Tall, well built, shaved head. He looked magnificent. Why wouldn't you grow one? There's a nasty insular attitude from some people but fcuk them. They're going the way of the dinosaurs, thank God. Be a man and grow whatever facial hair you want.
    -Guy with a beard.

    you've talked me into it, il do it. i already have a full grown beard so its just a matter of shaving everything but the moustache


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    #58
    TheFisherKing
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 69 ✭✭TheFisherKing


    W.Shakes-Beer wrote: »
    Beard-cember, Beard-uary, Beard-ruary, Barch, Bapril (no baps), Bay, Bune, Buly, Baugust, Beard-tember, Beard-tober.....

    http://tinyurl.com/cc8suq9


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    #59
    Hippies!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Hippies!


    They're fairly irritating alright. Not sure why though. I think it's the idea of a grown man only feeling comfortable to grow a tache if his freinds are too and they're doing it for a "cause" :rolleyes: It's proper Facebook generation stuff.


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    #60
    corktina
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    i don't mind the Movember concept, if only it were limited to men it would be good though


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    #61
    The Orb
    Registered Users Posts: 600 ✭✭✭The Orb


    Can't wait for the girls turn in Fanuary


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