I'm the guy on the left (The little guy mesmerized by the flash is my son, Jordan).
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Gaseous Anomaly: Not a bear? You have obviously never encountered me before I've had my morning ration of caffein-laden beverage.
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What is it with you Yanks and beards? Eh? Lee never had a beard. Daryus hasn't got a beard. I haven't got a beard. The Canadians haven't got beards (hopefully), so what makes you lot so special? HMMMMM?
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It's called testosterone. Despite the folklore, it doesn't cause or exacerbate violent behavior, but it does increase one's sex drive, and promotes the growth of facial hair. Think about that next time you meet an otherwise gorgeous woman with noticeable hair on her upper lip.
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Well Baloo, you don't look like the kind of bear I see where I live... and why all the fuss about having facial hair? Like what Baloo said, it's hormones. Look at the son of Baloo. One day, when he reaches puberty, he's gonna have a large surge of hormones. He'll physically and mentally change. He's gonna have a deeper voice, growth spurs, hair growing everywhere, his muscles will grow, he'll have "needs" that will include the opposite sex...
Baloo, can I offer you a cage? A sedative? A baseball bat?
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Uh... I don't think Liam was asking why Americans can grow beards. I think he wanted to know why they do. And I for one can honestly claim that I do not. I've found that uninhibited follicular growth on my semblage becomes bothersome after a while, so I don't let it do that. Besides, it helps me keep my youthful charm... :-)
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"Youthful charm" is not something I'm particularly concerned with preserving. I spent 20 years nicking my face every morning so I would be in compliance with the regulations. When I retired, I decided to give my face a break by not dragging a sharp blade across it every morning. The only parts of my face I shave are below my jawline and either side of my goatee.
Besides, now that all the folks in charge are old hippies, no-one objects to beards anymore.
--Baloo
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Well, facial hair is a secondary sex characteristic in men, so it's caused by testosterone, which is responsible for the sex drive. 'Course, the hormones have no bearing upon whether or not you choose to shave... *shrug*
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You know, instead of pushing your face onto the scanner surface, you can actually scan a picture.
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I can live with a goatee. Providing it's done well, (in a Satan kind of way, as oppossed to a Chandler kind of way).
How long you had the goatee anyway Daryus?
And goatee's are different. They make you look, well, evil. And can be quite restrained. Compared to essentially growing pubes all over your face. You don't see women going dribbly over a hairy arse do you? And how many of you girls get turned on when you see a man with a back so hairy he doesn't need to wear a jumper in winter, eh?
Women shave or wax their legs, arm-pits, and often the area around their front-bottom. The least we men can do is run a razor over our faces each morning. Besides, where do you buy your razors? Is it an American thing, where you have to shave using broken shards of a mirror? I can shave perfectly well without cutting my face to ribbons (since I lost the spots at least. I pity the man who has to shave with acne), although I am one of those people who can get by using an electric. I can't grow decent sideburns either. Which is probably a good thing.
And on the plus side, I don't have a hairy back. Or feet. Or arse. (as I've proved to a few people).
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