Beards... disgusting

I have no strong feelings. My ex had a beard for years, then shaved it off and just kept the moustache which I liked. When the moustache went too I couldn’t get used to it.
Generally I think beards are aging, think Graham Norton and Pierce Brosnan, both of whom look years younger without the beards. What I really dislike is stubble, it just looks dirty and unkempt.

Serendipity22

Grandma70s

PS I thought the fashion for beards had waned now. I hope so.

Not round here its not !!!! Gee wizz, its like planet of the apes !

My grandfather used to give me chin pie as well; so I gave my kids the same; now my 23 year old son is getting his own back and giving me chin pie (thankfully, his day old growth is still relatively soft compared to what my grandfathers was like.

Ooh, I hate beards and shaved heads. Naturally bald fair enough, but don’t get why someone would grow a horrible long beard and then shave the head leaving it all shiny……………….?

Motherduck

I just think a beard is pointless

Not so. Apparently it's for keeping food in.

grumppa

I grew my first beard in the school summer holidays when I was sixteen, and repeated the process annually until I left school. I have had one ever since, apart from four brief intervals: two for plays I was in, and two when my electric beard trimmer went berserk and I had to restart from scratch. It was once jet black, now it's white, and has always been kept trimmed, shorter now than fifty-odd years ago.

As for beard hair being pubic - of course it is, in the sense that it begins to grow with the onset of puberty, and tends to be equally wiry. Anyway, what's wrong with pubic hair?

Thank you grumppa for providing us with observations from our male colleagues!
(At least, I'm deducing you're a chap? If not, mega-apols?)

Any other menfolk around to give us their views, in the interests of balance?

OH grew a beard a year or so ago, and how it suited him - he looked so distinguished. I loved it, but he got tired of carefully trimming it every other day or so. Evidently it was more time consuming than shaving, so off it came. I wish he would grow it again.
That said, I absolutely detest the Old Testament Prophet look that some men sport - usually with scruffy clothes and greasy looking hair and glasses. Horribly off putting, and I shudder to think what might be lurking in the tangled mess. Yuk!

Also I assume that those who call beards unhygienic are those who think that bearded guys don't wash/shower/shave? Maybe their men are like that ? Mine ain't!

I just think a beard is pointless

I can't stand the current trend for the "old wino in the bushes" type of half shaved half not kinda growth! It looks dirty unkempt and decidedly revolting on anyone who has greying growth!!
However
My DH had a small and tastefully groomed beardette and it's certainly not yuk/full of old food/sticky/ messy or any of the unlikely other described states some have said they've wotnessed- and slurped spaghetti I? What kind of dump do you frequent pray tell?? messy facial furniture is no-no but well tended silky and groomed ? I find them attractive. We are talking about bearded men yes? Not women............?!

I quite like small goatees, but proper beards - yuck! No thanks, I’m with you Serendipity22.
One son has a small one the other is clean shaven - but I prefer NO Beards!
Laughed at your comment Ailidh

(Hmm... maybe there's another thread about baldness? If so, sorry!!)

I quite like beards. What I DO hate is the compulsion of some men to shave off their head hair. Fair enough for men who go naturally bald, but to choose to lose it! Bring back the 1960's!!!

My DS (no beard) has long hair, halfway down his back which he keeps in perfect condition and always ties back for work. (proud mum here!)

I like a beard on a man not keen on my own though

My eldest son and both his sons have beards. The elder grandson's one is bushy and I suppose could be described as unkempt - but I love it. It suits him! He also has longish curly hair to go with it (his Dad says he's going through his Jesus phase!). I can't abide goatees or any other 'fiddled about with' growths though - but each to their own. I have to say I keep my own well trimmed

I once read the opinion that "kissing a man with a beard is like eating a peach through a hole in a blanket." In a good way.

Son in law not sin ? sorry

I don't mind a beard. My son and sin in law both sport tidy, well groomed and maintained bears. I do think a bushy unkempt beard looks untidy though.
As for comments on soup, spaghetti and the like being lodged in beards, I think that says more about the eating manners of the person with the beard rather than anything else

I quite like small, neat beards if they suit the wearer. Our son has had one for about 18 years and I really can't imagine him without one. I don't like really thick beards - even Aidan Turner looks revolting with one. He's definitely off my pin up list now!

My husband first grew a beard in his twenties, before we met - to make him look older at work, where he was in charge.
I’ve never known him without one! I find well-groomed beards very attractive. (Think Sean Connery in Red October! ??) I do have to remind my OH to trim it - at Christmas he likes to do a Santa look-alike! ? Last time we went on a cruise, the crew thought he looked like Kenny Rogers. ?

I don't mind a tidy goatee beard, but the untamed fuzz - I think is just lazy!

I don't care for facial hair, I have delicate skin, dislike being scratched.

I do find it not kind to say "disgusting" to choice of others.

To each their own.

Hey, hang on! I don't think your average Viking would agree with that! Let's not forget that having a beard is totally natural. It's shaving that's the contrived approach.

This notion that beards are unclean is a generalisation, and in most cases just not true - the majority of men with one wash their faces at least once each day, which is probably more frequent than a lot of people wash the hair on their head.
I think a neatly trimmed beard looks nice, and actually suits some men really well, better than when they shave it off.

I’m not a fan of big, bushy beards - to me they look rather ridiculous, but, hey, each to their own. It’s a good thing that we don’t all like exactly the same things.

My husband had a beard and he looked very good with it - better than without and it wasn't scratchy at all. Both my sons and my grandson all have beards of some description all neatly trimmed and I have never seen any of them with food in their beards. What company are these people keeping? The Twits?

A man chooses whether or not to have a beard. Women aren’t obliged to find their choice attractive.