# BeardLife
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [May 19, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448 "2014-05-19T17:21:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/1 "2014-05-19T17:21:29Z")
so i came across this pic and thought it was funny but also thought it was worth a discussion.
This is clearly the rage right now… white guys growing crazy big beards and wearing them around as a badge of honour.
Unfortunately, another subset of this crew also wears mega scraggily hair on top of their heads.
this came up yesterday at the 2014 meet at the cosy where there were like 15 white guys with beards and scraggily hair… so many that i couldnt tell one from another and was randomly asking bearded scraggily white dudes who’s car was whose.
Then Ali points out that he’s brown-ish and that people used to be intimidated because he looked a bit terroristy with his beard and scraggily hair… now people just think he’s a white hipster since he isnt that dark.
Have bearded white-boy hipsters effectively co-opted the image of terrorists for themselves?
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/2 "2014-05-19T17:38:10Z")
According to experts, we reached “peak beard” already. It’s a dying trend.
> For the study, researchers asked 1,453 heterosexual or bisexual women to respond to 36 photos of men’s faces. They found that, when women saw hairy face after hairy face, they began to prefer clean-shaven men. Trendiness would appear to work against the beard’s sexual appeal. Science has called it: It’s all over, beardies.
> As the popularity of beards spread, it became harder to identify the beard of an authentically style-conscious, creatively employed hipster-leaning man. At first it was just beard and the wrong kind of ironic T-shirt. But it quickly escalated. All of the sudden it was: You have a beard, but you prefer Phish and not showering? You have a beard, but you didn’t just score a Color Me Badd record from an antique vinyl fair? You have a beard, and you actually live in the wilderness? No. It is too much. We’ve entered the dark ages.
> **[Science Says Beards Are Now Over](https://www.thecut.com/2014/04/science-says-beards-are-now-over.html)**
>
> We're facing peak beard: Join us in appreciating some of the greats.
Surprised you didn’t know this Bing, lol.
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/3 "2014-05-19T17:43:01Z")
[#peakbeard](http://www.son240sx.org/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=peakbeard)
so good.
Southern Ontario must be late to the party then because it’s only been a year since i’ve really seen it take off up here.
or maybe i just hang out with people who have jobs mostly.
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### Author:  [@sasquatch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sasquatch)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/4 "2014-05-19T18:08:12Z")
I can’t wait for the beard trend to end, I’ll have so many less people asking me if I like duck dynasty. Fuck
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### Author:  [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/5 "2014-05-19T19:27:19Z")
I get the same thing. I grew a gnar beard before it was cool, it hides the ugly
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### Author:  [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/6 "2014-05-19T19:39:30Z")
New rule: if you have never used a chain saw you may not grow a beard.
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### Author:  [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/7 "2014-05-19T19:53:47Z")
I’m allowed to have a beard.
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### Author:  [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 8:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/8 "2014-05-19T20:14:09Z")
I like having a beard.
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### Author:  [@91MR2](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/91MR2)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 8:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/9 "2014-05-19T20:40:12Z")
Yeah, there was a time where real men had beards…that was a really long time ago…
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### Author:  [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/10 "2014-05-20T04:00:23Z")
There are men that have beards; and then there are women.
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2014, 4:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/11 "2014-05-20T04:58:42Z")
> [@Blue Eyed Devil](#):
>
> New rule: if you have never used a chain saw you may not grow a beard.
Perfect
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### Author:  [@copperlegend](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/copperlegend)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2014, 6:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/12 "2014-05-20T06:09:37Z")
> [@Blue Eyed Devil](#):
>
> New rule: if you have never used a chain saw you may not grow a beard.
Nooo. Now theblue is going to use this to justify his winter beard. “But I’ve used a chainsaw! A guy on the internets says I can grow one!”
Thanks, jerk.
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### Author:  [@splitmup](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/splitmup)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2014, 9:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/13 "2014-06-22T09:09:14Z")
i had a beard since i was 18. short/long at times. this face hasn’t seen a razor in four years.
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### Author:  [@maxwell](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/maxwell)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2014, 9:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/14 "2014-06-22T09:20:52Z")
I’m one of those ‘patchy’ guys based on gene’s or some shit. It doesn’t look super great grown out. I can however grow a pretty creepy mustache if asked nicely enough.
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### Author:  [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2014, 11:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/15 "2014-06-22T11:00:02Z")
> [@splitmup](#):
>
> i had a beard since i was 18. short/long at times. this face hasn’t seen a razor in four years.
Pics!
also, I’m going more with angle grinder over chainsaw. Sparks, danger, burns.
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### Author:  [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/16 "2014-06-22T12:05:22Z")
I’m totally going for the Amber alert look
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### Author:  [@tpgsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tpgsr)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2014, 12:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/17 "2014-06-22T12:09:59Z")
I have not owned a razor in something like 8 years. Also I own multiple chainsaws so I guess I am good.
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### Author:  [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/18 "2014-06-22T20:04:09Z")
I just saw a dude at wegman’s who legit looked like Ted Kaczynski’s (sp?) Mug shot…same beard had pedophile glasses
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### Author:  [@L8APEX1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/L8APEX1)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/19 "2014-06-23T19:02:01Z")
What’s funny is you get compliments for having a beard. In essence I am getting a compliment for doing nothing. “your laziness looks fantastic”. Now if I throw the handlebars on, holy crap I’m now a rockstar.
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### Author:  [@Southtowns27](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Southtowns27)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beardlife/269448/20 "2014-06-23T19:48:31Z")
I haven’t been clean shaven since 1997
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