• Sky_Lobster@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Whenever I see this meme template I can’t help but think about how the girl on the left has a snout. What’s up with that? Is this from some kind of furry thing?

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      11 months ago

      Artifact of a slant of anime style. The ‘cute little nose’ ends up making for fun profiles when there’s supposed to be a little bump out of a nose, but then their mouth is wide open, too. Normally, a little bump of a nose looks totally normal. (as normal as anime, anyways)

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      11 months ago

      That was my dad in the Navy in the '60s. The rules were you could have facial hair, but if you wanted to go from clean shaven to facial hair you needed permission and you had two weeks to grow it - if it wasn’t good enough you had to shave.

      He couldn’t grow a beard in a fortnight. I can’t grow a beard in a fortnight.

      So he applied right before going on leave so he would have 4 weeks of leave + 2 weeks to grow the beard, which was sufficient

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      11 months ago

      Last time I shaved it felt like my chin had been amputated

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        11 months ago

        I inadvertently switched my thrichotillamania to my beard a few years ago.

        I miss it terribly. Shaving is so much work, and while it’s relaxing, inevitably an ingrown hair pops up and retriggers everything anyway when I attempt to grow it back.

        I’ve been worried I permanently destroyed it like the guy in the meme, but I had my thumb bound up for 5ish weeks and it came back in nicely before I decimated it again.

        Amputation is a very accurate description

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      11 months ago

      I’ve had a beard ever since I could grow one. It hit me pretty hard when I turned 18, just boom, beard, and haven’t shaved it smooth since. I literally have no idea what I look like as an adult without a beard.

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    11 months ago

    A beard is fine. It requires maintenance though. These jungle refugee beards need to go. Plus, if the mustache is hanging over your lip it’s like Jean-Ralphio’s sister, Mona-Lisa, THE WOOORST🎶.

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      11 months ago

      If I grow a beard, and wish to satisfy my wife’s preferences, my only choice is a wild beard

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    11 months ago

    My beard of the past 20 years started falling out to look like this recently. Actually pretty sad day when I decided it looked too mangey and I shaved it.

    Now my kids call me Mr potato head.

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    11 months ago

    When I was younger, I desperately wanted a bushy beard, had none to speak of, today I’m older, could grow one easily, don’t want one anymore, makes me look old. Shaving is so obnoxious. I guess it’s one of the grass on the other side it’s greener thing. Sigh.

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    11 months ago

    I grew a bushy beard over 2020, then when masks were recommended I shaved to a moustache

    My wife wanted the beard back “sorry hon, that stops the mask working”

    Now 2024, still mo. I like it

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      11 months ago

      I kept my epic beard during the 'demic, n the most annoying thing was wearing a mask n having it leave an imprint in the beard n fucking it all up. Now I just have a low-key boring beard. I kinda miss the ole bushy bastard.

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    11 months ago

    i mean, just shave until the growth kicks in sufficently that you get a proper 5’o clock shadow and from there it’s fine to let it grow

    if you can’t reach that level of growth… probably just keep shaving and go gnomecore

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        11 months ago

        It’s normal. I can grow a moustache - a proper soup strainer; I can grow a chin beard. No chance can I grow sideburns, the hair goes super sparse above my mouth (aside from directly above my lip)

        There’s great variation in the facial hair men can grow and whatever one can grow will increase as one ages.

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          11 months ago

          god i wish i could get a proper bushy mushy, i get an acceptable amount of lip reinforcement but 90% of the growth goes straight into growing the pointiest beard you’ve ever seen

          gotta trim off like half of it to avoid looking like i got a traffic cone on my chin

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            11 months ago

            I couldn’t grow a mo until age 40, so if you’re young, don’t be discouraged

            Also I never had success just growing a mo. I grew a wild beard and then shaved off everything else