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The Ginger Beard Problem

  • 16-11-2014 09:53PM
    #1
    conorh91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭


    I tried to grow a beard a few months back, but had to shave it all off when part of it turned ginger. It wasn't ginger to begin with, it turned ginger. And only in one area.

    What kind of messed-up phenomenon is this among the Irish male?

    Now that it's Movember, I'm seeing ginger facial hair all around me. Most of the guys who suffer from gingerbeard are, like myself, not even ginger. Most claim not to even know any gingers.

    I tan for crying out loud. I deserve better than this.

    What's happening?

    Is this a strongly Irish phenomenon? Are many of us carrying the ginger gene, or what? How can we rid ourselves of ginger beards?


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  • #2
    0byme75341jo28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,571 ✭✭✭0byme75341jo28


    I don't get the ginger hate tbh.


  • #3
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    When the Vikings did their raping and pillaging the gingerness was one of the traits left behind. The trait manifests itself more often than not in beards


  • #4
    conorh91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    Sariyah Unimportant Turnpike wrote: »
    I don't get the ginger hate tbh.
    It's nothing to do with that. It would be just as odd if we had a blonde or white beards, despite having dark hair, for example.


  • #5
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Sariyah Unimportant Turnpike wrote: »
    I don't get the ginger hate tbh.

    It's because the have no souls.

    Yes op, you're carrying the ginger gene, never have kids.


  • #6
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    Be darker skinned op.


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  • #7
    pharmaton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    your name is conor and you have difficulty accepting your beard is ginger


  • #8
    Useful.Idiot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭Useful.Idiot


    I don't see it as a problem. Ginger beards are the best beards, even if it's just a little patch.


  • #9
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    You need to die, ginger beard.


    Edit: Sorry, I meant dye.


  • #10
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,402 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    You're a dormant ginger OP. One of your parents is a ginger (most likely mother and she dyed her hair to hide the embarrassment). Am in the same boat myself but the grey is overtaking it. On the plus side it's a great deterrent for growing one of those currently trendy beards that make you look like a tool.


  • #11
    Its Only Ray Parlour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭Its Only Ray Parlour


    Include more vitamin D in your diet. Furthermore, if you're young, you'll naturally have blond/ginger hairs in your beard until you shave it a few times.


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  • #12
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    Live in Ireland, deny knowing any gingers. Sure.

    Also, the highest scoring guys in the beard championships have ginger beards. You're just jealous you're not full ginger like me, meaning less ladies want to ride your face. Sorry, Conor.


  • #13
    conorh91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    You're a dormant ginger OP. One of your parents is a ginger
    No, just one shunned Granny was ginger.
    Its Only Ray Parlour wrote: »
    Furthermore, if you're young, you'll naturally have blond/ginger hairs in your beard until you shave it a few times.
    But I'm 23. Is this true? What's the logic behind it?


  • #14
    Miss Demeanour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭Miss Demeanour


    It's Gods way of trying to stamp out this terrible scourge on Irish women that they call movember.
    Its kinda like the plague.......kinda......


  • #15
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Miss Demeanour wrote: »
    It's Gods way of trying to stamp out this terrible scourge on Irish women that they call movember.
    Its kinda like the plague.......kinda......

    Arguably worse than the Black death.


  • #16
    csallmighty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 650 ✭✭✭csallmighty


    I have black hair but tri coloured facial hair a mix of black, grey and ginger.


  • #17
    conorh91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    Did a bit of googling (probably should have started there tbf) and it seems the ginger beard phenomenon may be down to something which sounds vaguely familiar from leaving cert biology, incomplete dominance.

    http://biology.about.com/od/geneticsglossary/g/incompletedom.htm

    Basically, we ginger-beard folk are the piebalds of the world.

    As it happens, I get natural blonde highlights in my dark-haired fringe if I get exposed to the sun. Not sure if that's a related issue.


  • #18
    smcgiff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    Solution. Decapitation, just to be on the safe side.


  • #19
    Highflyer13
    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Highflyer13


    I too have gingerbearditis with a dark head of hair. As a result best not to grow a beard. An awful affliction cursed upon me.


  • #20
    Miss Demeanour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭Miss Demeanour


    csallmighty wrote: »
    I have black hair but tri coloured facial hair a mix of black, grey and ginger.

    Now a fleck of grey......rawr ;).........!!! Just a fleck mind......


  • #21
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,436 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    conorh91 wrote: »
    I tried to grow a beard a few months back, but had to shave it all off when part of it turned ginger. It wasn't ginger to begin with, it turned ginger. And only in one area.

    What kind of messed-up phenomenon is this among the Irish male?

    Now that it's Movember, I'm seeing ginger facial hair all around me. Most of the guys who suffer from gingerbeard are, like myself, not even ginger. Most claim not to even know any gingers.

    I tan for crying out loud. I deserve better than this.

    What's happening?

    Is this a strongly Irish phenomenon? Are many of us carrying the ginger gene, or what? How can we rid ourselves of ginger beards?

    Have you eaten many ginger nuts during the beard growing episode ?


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  • #22
    mad muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    It's not an Irish phenomenon. I'm from Eastern European decent, dark hair, skin that tans at the slightest hint of sun. And I have ginger in my beard. No ginger at all in the family.

    Here's the reason why. I have green eyes.


  • #23
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    I have brown hair, all over, but I used to have quite a few red hairs around my chin.

    But that was in my early-mid 20s. Over the years (33 now) they went much darker, thankfully.

    Although, now I see a fair few more "mature" coloured hairs around there. But I don't mind tbh.


  • #24
    cookie24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 317 ✭✭cookie24


    I also suffer from this, especially around the chin area. My theory....the ginger hairs will eventually turn grey. A bit like Keano's beard now


  • #25
    Remmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    I tend to offer fire as a suggestion for too many of life's problems but I'm fairly sure this is a situation where you could use fire


  • #26
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    You know what is worse than a ginger beard? A blatantly dyed beard.

    **** sake, men, get your **** together.


  • #27
    conorh91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    bodice ripper wrote: »
    You know what is worse than a ginger beard? A blatantly dyed beard.

    Tempted to do that actually.

    The gingerness is localised in one specific area of my otherwise normal face.

    I could probably just dab on some dye with a cotton wool bud, delete this thread, change my name, and deny all knowledge of a ginger gene. Success.


  • #28
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    I think the ginger beard looks kind of cool, especially when it comes in in that tiger-stripey kind of pattern. It is a bit weird when you think about it though.


  • #29
    internet_user
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 974 ✭✭✭internet_user


    I too have a ginger patch around my chin. like someone else said, during the summer, parts of my fringe goes blondish due to the sun


  • #30
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,220 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    In my drunken haste, I thought the OP was having issues with a certain type of cookie.

    Have a ginger beard myself. I like it, my girlfriend likes it and I don't care less about anybody elses negative comments. Althought I have not heard of any.

    I generally get compliments. Most unusual one was from my local chinese "Your beard is comming along quite nicely". I was chuffed :)


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  • #31
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    conorh91 wrote: »
    I tried to grow a beard a few months back..

    Pathetic...simply pathetic.

    Are you a man or a self-obsessed teenage girl?


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