Beards......

[Orkney]

OK heres a thread and a poll about beards - before the board suffers a split between the hairy brigade and the facially follicly challenged

Have there ever been any famous beard sporting Minor drivers?

[RogerRust]

umm howabout Alec Hasabeardness?

[Rasputin]

Ivor Growth !

[Orkney]

Rasputin said in the other thread

I think a beard should be compulsory if you drive a Morris (with a possible exception for the ladies)

I have seen a lady with a beard !!!! Dressed in tweeds - AND wearing a monocle And drank pints and smoked cigars !!!
Wonder if she had a minor ?

[Judge]

I wonder what LouiseM, and pognophobe (apparently wrong spelling ) think of that

[LouiseM]

Orkney,
Are you sure that it was a lady and not an Emily from Little Britain impersonator?

Have there ever been any famous beard sporting Minor drivers?

What about the Beardmore Brothers??

[Orkney]

Are you sure that it was a lady and not an Emily from Little Britain impersonator?

no definitely not this was in the days long before little britain - she was quite well known in the particular area otherwise i migth have thought it was a wind up had people not informed me of her local fame !

[Sidney'61]

I think theres nothing wrong with having a beard it's just very stereotypical for a classic car 'anorak'
I'm still a child but i think i'll eventually end up growing one just to fit in with the minor driver image!

[overider]

I dident mind them once upon a time but now if i dont shave it comes through gray so now i say no! NO BEARD FOR ME

[paulk]

I have a Beard and thoroughly approve of them.

Especially the Ginger ones

[Furrtiv]

As a lady, I have a fifty-fifty approach to beards. I don't necessarily find them attractive, however it depends upon the wearer and some men definitely look better with a beard - but it must be a full, healthy growth of bushy hair, not these pathetic wispy strands of bum-fluff or razor-edged pseudo-gangsta-style poncy lines of black!

[KOOL-MOM]

I LOVE em, any length any color as long as they aren`t raggedy, patchy or mangey looking! Especially silver or red ones ; )
=^..^=

[MikeNash]

Ah, you're very wise Kool-Mum (if a bit picky).

I used to advise my daughter and nieces to stick to the beardies if only to avoid disappointment later, 'cos all the hairless are

EUNUCHS!

[Peetee]

however it depends upon the wearer

I've never worn one, but I have grown a few.

Yes it does depend on the owner. My head sort of tapers away towards my chin so it fills it out a bit where needed and detracts from my impending 'island'. As someone once said to me. "Ironic isn't it, you've spent all your life listening to Peter Gabriel and you've ended up looking like Phil Collins".

[wibble_puppy]

Bad. Germy and prickly.

Having said that, if I were a bloke (or if I were the "lady" of whom Orkney speaks with such well-deserved reverence) I would certainly have had a go at one, once. Along with blue hair and dresses made of black elastic. And a van painted a colour namable only in nightmares

[Orkney]

Bad. Germy and prickly.

ahh cummon - what hope has a beardy got with you if your hatrid of the wrong coloured bit of pipe from your carb is anything to go by

Your right on the prickly thing from a wearers perspective - thats why i dont have one (well that and the grey and redness )

[alex_holden]

Your right on the prickly thing from a wearers perspective - thats why i dont have one (well that and the grey and redness )

I find the prickliness goes away once it gets past a certain length.

I reckon a beard would suit you, Kevin.

[wibble_puppy]

if your hatrid of the wrong coloured bit of pipe from your carb is anything to go by

Not me! what are you on about?

The prickliness is more from the usee's perspective, if you get me

[Orkney]

Bog off Alex
Partial beard is enough through not shaving for a week - after that it bugs like heck. Mind you my dislike of shaving should mean i look like a spare member of ZZ top.
Getting easier now with age but shaving used t be a nightmare on account of stubble similar to wire brush. That and it used to grow so quickly, could be clean shaven suited and booted first thing and have 5 O'clock shadow by 10am ! Went quite a few years using a clipper not shaving and just trim it back everyday - and actually i didnt care about the george michael & designer stubble comments cos they were easier to put up with than the misery of shaving

[bigginger]

I had a beard for a while, 'cos my illness meant I couldn't feel my hands well enough to shave . Never found it 'prickly' from a user's POV, just an irritating thing to have on the face Never again (unless I have too, for the same reason...)