Beards are back. I don’t mean the little goatees of the early Noughties or the close-cut five o-clock shadow of yesteryear. This time they’re big, really big. We’re talking twisted whiskers of ZZ Top proportions. Sales of razor blades and shaving foam have dropped through the floor causing consternation in the boardrooms of Gillette and Wilkinson Sword. You can hardly turn on the TV without a Bin Laden lookie-likey looking back. Everyone’s at it. A case in point is the comedian, Alex Horne. He’s gone from clean-cut to shag pile, ageing 10 years overnight. Of course the truth is I’m jealous. My own facial growth has always been a tad patchy and a bit wispy, more Catweazle than Clooney. Back in the Village People day, the Frisco look was the only show in town – plunging check shirts, tight Levi 501s, chest rugs and bushy Tom Selleck tashes. Everyone looked butch, as long as they didn’t move and didn’t speak. And clones only danced with clones. Pretty little things like me didn’t get a look in. No fuzz, no way. These days all the old clones still breathing have morphed into ‘bears.’ Essentially, this just means they’ve gone to fat.
Perking the Pansies 
No, Jack, I can TOTALLY see why this guy has a beard … it’s called ‘doing the public a service’. Ooo, meee-ow! 🙂
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Naughty girl 🙂
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I blame Mumford and Sons
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Me too.
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Can’t recognize anyone anymore. What are they hiding from behind those bushy beards. I agree with Angelajardine. Oh my.
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It’s just a phase. It’ll be something else next year.
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As the saying goes, there really isn’t anything new anymore. We keep recycling.
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I hope the 70s don’t come back 😀
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‘Hair, hair!’ to that.
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😉
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Reminds me of my biking days! leather and beards, hot bikes and I thought it was fab. Now maybe to cover flab! I guess it saves something for the imagination.
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Sounds like a fabulous misspent youth to me 😉
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Not misspent but tons of fun and no regrets! ha-ha I had such fun and I had my own bike a 550cc so I could race like all the boys.
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Sounds like huge fun. Someone once took me for a ride on a Harley. It terrified me 😀
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Well, personally, I like beards. And Harleys. All a matter of personal taste… I am told that beards are not comfortable in this weather….
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And they itch 😀
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As long as beard stubble is gone. God I hate that. Suited very few men, and it’s picky as hell on the face. On the other hand do I want a mouth-full of pubic hair? Never mind, don’t answer. 😐
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Lost for words 😀
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hahaha!
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