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benefits of NOT having a beard

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    #92
    Real Life
    Registered Users Posts: 943 ✭✭✭Real Life


    This whole thing of people not getting a job with a beard is rediculous. People say it to me all the time, you'll never get a job with that beard.
    Unfortunately for them i already have one. A beard shouldnt and generally doesnt matter in most areas.
    I can understand someone working in the food industry not being allowed have a beard but i dont see how a builder, plumber, mechanic, doctor, solicitor, accountant or in my case designer having a beard should be a problem.

    Loads of other jobs could be added to that list


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    #93
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,695 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Problem123456 wrote: »
    Honestly I think men look best with a bit of stubble..
    Beards make most people look lazy tbh

    A well look after beard is a marvel to look at. The time and effort involved is far from lazy.

    Stubble would be the lazy option, as they are neither shaving enough or dedicated enough to maintain a well kept beard.


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    #94
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    Real Life wrote: »
    This whole thing of people not getting a job with a beard is rediculous. People say it to me all the time, you'll never get a job with that beard.
    Unfortunately for them i already have one. A beard shouldnt and generally doesnt matter in most areas.
    I can understand someone working in the food industry not being allowed have a beard but i dont see how a builder, plumber, mechanic, doctor, solicitor, accountant or in my case designer having a beard should be a problem.

    Loads of other jobs could be added to that list

    Irishmen who work in office jobs who are under the age of fifty rarely have facial hair, as far as I can see. Over the age of 50, facial hair seems to be less uncommon.

    Ireland is a small place with a conservative outlook on fashion, and beards aren't very fashionable in this country.

    I've found that it usually tends to be slightly alternative type girls who tend to prefer bearded men. That said, after the ex Miss Mustard got over her intial distaste for a beard I had previously, she grew to like it.

    So overall, I would venture a guess that a beard may be a disadvantage in trying to pick up a more conservative type lady. Of which there are many in this conservative country of ours.


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    #95
    o1s1n
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    The Mustard wrote: »
    So overall, I would venture a guess that a beard may be a disadvantage in trying to pick up a more conservative type lady. Of which there are many in this conservative country of ours.

    Why would anyone want a conservative lady? How boring. Freaky deaky all the way. :pac: /strokes beard


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    #96
    Real Life
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    Luckily for me i have no interest in conservative ladys


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    #97
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    Crooked Jack wrote: »
    Complaints from women? Quite the opposite in fact. I've been told I look far too young without it and one in particular enjoyed the brush of it across her nipples as i headed south.

    Beards win and you win.


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    #98
    Ilyana 2.0
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    As a woman, beards don't do much for me at all. A bit of stubble is grand but no more than that. My biological instincts must be borked :pac:


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    #99
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    Ilyana 2.0 wrote: »
    As a woman, beards don't do much for me at all. A bit of stubble is grand but no more than that. My biological instincts must be borked :pac:

    you must be a conservative woman then :pac:


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    #100
    JD DABA
    Registered Users Posts: 294 ✭✭JD DABA


    (no beard)


    You can stand outside a school without being questioned.


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    #101
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,695 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    JD DABA wrote: »
    (no beard)


    You can stand outside a school without being questioned.

    That's because they think you're a pupil ;)


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    #102
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    o1s1n wrote: »
    That's because they think you're a pupil ;)

    *high five* :cool:


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    #103
    Ilyana 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Ilyana 2.0


    IM0 wrote: »
    you must be a conservative woman then :pac:

    Not at all, I just prefer a clean-shaven man :)


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    #104
    minidazzler
    Registered Users Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    JD DABA wrote: »
    (no beard)

    You can stand outside a school without being questioned.

    What possible reason could you have for wanting to stand outside a school?
    Ilyana 2.0 wrote: »
    Not at all, I just prefer a clean-shaven boy :)

    There we go.

    I've got a beard, a job and have a fair amount of success with women.

    Have had only 1 girl tell me I should shave, I laughed at her and decided I didn't want to talk to her anymore.

    Had one girl threaten to break up with me if I did shave.... obviously I fell madly in love with her. She is a queen among women with her priorities straight.


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    #105
    Festy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭Festy


    Beards are so great,I'm thinking they should change the name of this forum to



    now ye're not shaving

    BEARDS.IE


    :pac:


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    #106
    Timmyctc
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    Is there a beard appreciation thread. Also. Is there like a place where bearded men can sit in armchairs in front of a fire with brandy and discuss man things?


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    #107
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Timmyctc wrote: »
    Is there a beard appreciation thread. Also. Is there like a place where bearded men can sit in armchairs in front of a fire with brandy and discuss man things?

    This needs to happen...to the forum requests!!


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    #108
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    This needs to happen...to the forum requests!!
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1103

    For all your talk of beards being attractive to the opposite sex it seems to me that the people most enamoured with beards are other guys.


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    #109
    JupiterKid
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    Ireland may have been a so-called "conservative" country up to now but it is changing pretty fast these days and from what I can see - beards among young men are far, far more popular than at any time in my living memory (I'm 38 BTW and have a beard).

    There probably hasn't been any time since at least the early 1970s when facial hair wasn't more popular.:pac:

    BTW us gayers also love having beards and admiring hot hirstute men too. Anyone here heard of bears? ;):cool:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTNGLdwIc2w


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    #110
    Banjo
    Registered Users Posts: 10,485 ✭✭✭✭Banjo


    So are you saying that one of the advantages of not having a beard is that the Gayers will lose interest in you?

    You, sir, are a closet heteromophobe


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    #111
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Because of my job I can't grow a beard.... But I'd love to, in fact I've often thought of taking leave with the sole intention of growing a beard.

    Benefits to not having a beard (for me) ~ none that I can think of.


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    #112
    Reamer Fanny
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    Cos they are gay


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    #113
    apollo8
    Registered Users Posts: 349 ✭✭apollo8


    Shaving every day is a real pain though thankfully we do not have to lock our feet to the floor:eek:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94-puZit3DA


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    #114
    Bozo Skeleton
    Registered Users Posts: 749 ✭✭✭Bozo Skeleton


    Charlotte High Mustang wrote: »
    Because of my job I can't grow a beard.... But I'd love to, in fact I've often thought of taking leave with the sole intention of growing a beard.

    Benefits to not having a beard (for me) ~ none that I can think of.

    I was just about to post something similar. The job I've had for the last year requires me to be clean shaven. It's a handy number, but I always had a beard going on before, it was never a problem in other jobs. The call of the beard is getting stronger and stronger. I'd leave in a heartbeat if I could get a job somewhere where I don't have to shave.
    This is one of the major effects the economic collapse of Ireland has had on me.


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    #115
    Nemeses
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    Can I ask, what jobs do you have that state no beards?


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    #116
    Festy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭Festy


    Nemeses wrote: »
    Can I ask, what jobs do you have that state no beards?

    I know when it comes to Hotel work you have to be clean shaven.


    and if you work for Abercrombie and Fitch :pac:


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    #117
    Bozo Skeleton
    Registered Users Posts: 749 ✭✭✭Bozo Skeleton


    I work in a bar. The owner is old school, a decent bloke. But he does insist on being clean shaven, which I learned when I turned up unshaven when I started there. I worked in various music venues before the crash (bars have been badly hit by the recession) where it wasn't an issue. The job is a handy number, but there's no way I'm being having to be clean shaven for the long term. Problem is, there's f*ck all bar work out there at the moment :)


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    #118
    Glico Man
    Registered Users Posts: 8,280 ✭✭✭Glico Man


    There is only one benefit of not having a beard, you can grow one.


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    #119
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    gurramok wrote: »
    Shavers can feel pain and are not afraid of a bit of spilled blood like a real man, instead of beard wimps who cry at the thought of a sharp blade to the face!;)


    <rubs 7 inch scar from having neck sliced open 4 years ago>
    <strokes beard>

    Riveting tale, chap!


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    #120
    toastedpickles
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    I'll just leave this here


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    #121
    Blondie919
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    Festy wrote: »
    I know when it comes to Hotel work you have to be clean shaven.

    Depends on what your job position is in hotels. I work as a kp in a hotel and have a very hairy beard. No-one has ordered me to shave it and if they ever do then I'll quit my job.


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