AIBU abut beard twiddling inappropriate in public ?

[beardfear]

So I popped into the phone shop and the only assistant in sight was sitting at the desk talking to a female customer whilst constantly twirling his beard. It was super weird and I promptly left. AIBU or should beard twiddling a bit erm sexual? He wasn't doing it for me but was he signalling the customer, like female hair twirling ?

Or maybe he just twirls his beard through habit? He probably wasn't even aware he was doing it.

Well, I think we need to know more. Was he fiddling absent-mindedly with it? Or was he caressing it, while running his tongue over his lower lip and giving her Bette Davis eyes?

Come on, OP. Don't be a bell-end

This is lighthearted right?

Whaaaaa

I'm always pulling on my hair and fiddling with my eyebrows and it's not sexual. Mainly an ADHD symptom. But my mom always said I 'looked like a bimbo' when I touched my hair so I try not to!

Maybe he has ADHD and needs told his beard twiddling is far, far too sexual for the public

Yes, he definately was signalling the customer.

I bet as soon as you left they were at it next to the Galaxy S21s like rabbits.

Is hair twirling a signal? Shit! I do it. What secret signals have I been giving out without knowing? I'm autistic and it's a sign of stress for me.

As long as it's not a pubic beard he was twiddling that's fine.

Can't think of anywhere sexier than the phone shop tbh

@underneaththeash

As long as it's not a pubic beard he was twiddling that's fine.

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I was thinking that someone was twiddling with someone else's beard, which would be a bit weird, but no, fiddling with your own beard is fine. I wouldn't even have noticed it tbh. I fiddle with my own hair, my earrings and my own facial fuzz thanks pcos all the time without realising and I'm defo not flirting with anyone!

Dunno.. But my son absent mindedly twiddles his into peak/horns and he looks like a wally when he forgets and goes out with it like that!

There's nothing sexual about beard twiddling.
(Or beards, generally, for me.)

I’ve been playing with/twiddling my hair since I was toddler. It’s definitely not sexual.

Isn't it just habit? DH does it all the time - he doesn't even realise.

Beard twiddling is not sexual. I'm more sure about this than I have been about anything else my whole life.

@underneaththeash

As long as it's not a pubic beard he was twiddling that's fine.

That was my first thought!

This has got to be a troll post

Wtf

@underneaththeash

As long as it's not a pubic beard he was twiddling that's fine.

I would think of it as the opposite of sexual, more like a repellent.

YABU, it was his beard, not his penis.
Maybe he was anxious and this was a way of self soothing.

What?

OMG I have always twiddled my hair - god knows what people must have thought over the years.

Eh? I twiddle my hair all the time because I can't help it. Do people think it's a flirty thing??