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To wonder why so many men are sporting an isolated moustache?

101 replies

MrsSlocombesCat · 15/10/2024 23:41

They looked hideous in the seventies when men didn’t know better. Now they’re combining that terrible look with an even more terrible look - the mullet. Why do men seem to want to look like porn stars?

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SensibleSigma · 18/10/2024 08:24

@SinnerBoy its the little patch of beard just on the centre of the chin. Narrower than the lower lip.

Im off to google Australian Mullet. I’ll probably get fish pics 😁

StMarieforme · 18/10/2024 08:26

ConsuelaHammock · 15/10/2024 23:50

They like how they look?
Much like overly made up women with spiders for eyelashes and ridiculously long nails think they look good?

Exactly. The women with sausage lips look more like porn stars than the moustachioed men do.

HideousKinky · 18/10/2024 08:40

Adam Fleming on BBC Newscast suddenly got a moustache and it's awful

AdviceNeeded2024 · 18/10/2024 08:46

Aaron Taylor Johnson pulls it off well 😍 but he always looks good!

To wonder why so many men are sporting an isolated moustache?
oakleaffy · 18/10/2024 08:57

TempestTost · 16/10/2024 00:05

Everything comes around again. It was bound to I guess.

I feel not many men can carry off a stash, you need a very strong face, especially a strong jaw. It's not like a beard where it can hide a multitude of sins. Weak jaw or chin with lip hair tends to exaggerate the problem.

Plus, the bum fluff on young men makes them look about 12 which I think is not what they are going for.

I don't hate it as much as the caterpillar eyelashes and harpy nails on women though. They are scary and also seem debilitating.

Edited

I too detest ''scary eyebrows'' on women and fake talons.

Purrpurrpurr · 18/10/2024 09:14

David Niven is the only man who has ever looked good sporting an isolated moustache, all other men should take note

Abhannmor · 18/10/2024 09:19

MabelMora · 15/10/2024 23:55

I think on the right man a 'tache can look quite sexy.

Unfortunately I am regularly transported back to the 80s at the moment seeing young men with bum fluff on their top lips with a curly mullet. Also seeing lots of drainpipe trousers with a flash of white socks on the local high school lads. I feel ancient remembering it all first time round!

White socks....not with shiny grey shoes with a gold buckle 😱. Dublin 1980s. Topped off with a little tash known locally as a 'Ronnie'. For reasons I never found put.

Dandeliontea123 · 18/10/2024 09:23

Purrpurrpurr · 18/10/2024 09:14

David Niven is the only man who has ever looked good sporting an isolated moustache, all other men should take note

I watched 'Raffles' the other day and totally agree with you about David Niven!

Abhannmor · 18/10/2024 09:28

PickAChew · 18/10/2024 00:16

I haven't seen many moustaches but some of the school boys round here have truly glorious mullets.

That's cheating! Mullets are for older guys to offset the thinning hair surely?

SingingSands · 18/10/2024 09:36

I struggle to find them attractive because they very much remind me of my dad in the 70s and 80s 😄

But I still think they're better than lip filler and false eyelashes - at least they are natural!

EBearhug · 18/10/2024 10:07

Purrpurrpurr · 18/10/2024 09:14

David Niven is the only man who has ever looked good sporting an isolated moustache, all other men should take note

I'm not sure of that. I offer you:
Peter Bowles.
Tom Selleck as Magnum.

LaLaLaLaLolaaa · 18/10/2024 10:12

I love an isolated moustache 😂 Movember is my favourite time of year for this reason!

ZaZathecat · 18/10/2024 10:26

I think long beards look awful and make young men in their 20s look 50, but it's fashion, and so they do it.

Purrpurrpurr · 18/10/2024 10:27

EBearhug · 18/10/2024 10:07

I'm not sure of that. I offer you:
Peter Bowles.
Tom Selleck as Magnum.

Do you know, I have just realised I am prejudiced against non pencil moustaches, because your suggestions are reasonable but not for me. I have decided that Little Richard is also allowed to compete with David Niven, there is space for both!

Waboofoo · 18/10/2024 10:29

It looks terrible! I’m glad I’m settled with man who is too old for this nonsense as the look is a total turn off for me!

DogInATent · 18/10/2024 10:34

Male facial pubes go through a variety of topiary fashions from time to time. Steer the men in your life towards the ones that suit their face shape.

But they're not permanent and don't carry the long-term damage potential of unregulated injectables/fillers that are the female fashion.

Sdpbody · 18/10/2024 10:51

And all the mullets.

They looked shit first time round. Why would you do it again?

tolerable · 18/10/2024 16:32

How many stashes can you fit on one face?
That's why

EBearhug · 18/10/2024 18:15

I think it means moustache only, rather than moustache with beard.

PointsSouth · 18/10/2024 19:28

Bit of a shocker here...

Different people like different things. If no one liked a thing, no one would do it. So anything that's a thing is something some people like and it's pretty much certain that they know people of the opposite thingy who like that thing too, hence the sporting of the thing.

tolerable · 18/10/2024 19:51

DaughterOfSqualor · 18/10/2024 00:02

Is that you Cod? 😂

I don't get that...(.or have any recollection of responding) definitely would of said that tho

ScottBakula · 18/10/2024 20:18

ConsuelaHammock · 15/10/2024 23:50

They like how they look?
Much like overly made up women with spiders for eyelashes and ridiculously long nails think they look good?

Yup, agreed !

SinnerBoy · 19/10/2024 04:48

SensibleSigma · Yesterday 08:24

its the little patch of beard just on the centre of the chin. Narrower than the lower lip.

Ah, thanks. A sort of chin Brazilian then. A Chazilian....

LunaNorth · 19/10/2024 05:14

It’s like the world is suddenly populated by an army of little Kevin Websters.

As if aliens have learned about human life from watching 80s Corrie, and are trying to blend in.

Abhannmor · 19/10/2024 08:26

@Lunanorth 😂 😂

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