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AIBU?

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To find beards repulsive and to be utterly weirded out by moustaches?

48 replies

duchesse · 14/05/2008 13:34

I can't look at most bearded men without thinking "grubby" and moustaches just make me think of the 1930s and all those control-freak fascists. AIBU?

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Tutter · 14/05/2008 13:35

my fil tints his 'tache

Rubyrubyruby · 14/05/2008 13:35

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southeastastra · 14/05/2008 13:35

yes

Walnutshell · 14/05/2008 13:36

Totally unreasonable yet entirely understandable.

Iklboo · 14/05/2008 13:36

Pogonophobe
Persoannly I love facial hair. DH has a great 'biker' style goatee beard. I don't think he suits being clean shaven.
BUT - if you don't like them, that's OK. Just try NOT to think of fascists

Uriel · 14/05/2008 13:36

Not a Sixties child then.

YeahBut · 14/05/2008 13:37

I have a profound dislike of facial hair on men. I'm not keen on facial hair on women either.

GrapefruitMoon · 14/05/2008 13:38

You know i was just thinking this earlier - walked past a teenager/young man with longish red hair and beard to match. I thought he would look so much better without the beard and a bit of a haircut - i usually like red hair (lots in my family...) but it was all you saw iyswim...

PortBlacksandResident · 14/05/2008 13:38

A goaty really suits my Dh but........i just couldn't.

snowleopard · 14/05/2008 13:40

My mum used to say "kissing a man without a moustache is like having a boiled egg without pepper"

Boak! (mainly because it was my mum)

But I don't mind some nice stubble - as long as it doesn't get too long. DP is crap at remembering to shave so if he's too beardy I send him off to have shave before he gets a snog.

duchesse · 14/05/2008 13:41

Ikiboo- Not a fear of pogo sticks then? < disappointed >

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scottishmummy · 14/05/2008 13:55

are we talkin bearded ladies or bearded men?a bearded lady is very emmm distinctive

duchesse · 14/05/2008 13:58

My god but you have some tough ladies up north of the border, Scottishmummy... either that or it's really cold.

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tigana · 14/05/2008 14:06

Not bothered by beards, and beard plus 'tache is ok. But 'tache alone - urghh.

bran · 14/05/2008 14:11

YABU, but I agree with you. A small, neat, well-groomed goatee is just acceptable, but I find everything else a bit repellent. I would do everything in my power not to sit opposite someone with a beard/moustache at a restaurant or pub. I used to work with someone who had quite an unkempt beard/moustache and it was fairly stomach churning to watch him eat.

Weirdest of all IMO is a full beard without a moustache, it just looks so odd.

duchesse · 14/05/2008 14:27

Very Amish, that last option. Moustaches are deemed "proud" in the community.

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snowleopard · 14/05/2008 14:28

When DP has let it all grow too long (scruffy git), sometimes he shaves just the beard off then chases me round the house with just the tach, laughing maniacally.

schneebly · 14/05/2008 14:33

lol my dad has a 'tach and looks a little like a seventies porn star see my profile!

Can't ever imagine him without it though.

I once kissed a man with a full-on beard-tache combo but I was incredibly drunk and I am not sure I caught his name

Lauriefairycake · 14/05/2008 14:35

Dh has a very well groomed goatee, he would look dreadful without it as he has a weak chin

duchesse · 14/05/2008 14:35

hehe- Or a slightly flaky faded Magnum, Sneebly

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jesuswhatnext · 14/05/2008 14:56

my first dh had a beard (still has one) i can't bear it, horrid tickly smelly hair, ughhhhh ( total biker style)

RainyWednesday · 14/05/2008 16:19

DH has a proper big man beard and I love it.

Couldn't live with a goatee - ugh ugh. And 'taches without beards are pornstar-pervert-WRONG!

RustyBear · 14/05/2008 16:21

Look at the last picture on my profile. Can you really say he'd look better without the beard?

3andnomore · 14/05/2008 16:31

I don't like beards and moustaches much....however , I do find that some men can look good with a beard or moustache....
however, my dh is NOT one of them, lol! He looks awful and I don't like the senstation when kissing him, when he has a beard...
My dh looks about 20 years older then he is, when he wears a beard...he would love to wear one, but loves me enough not too....

SummatAndNowt · 14/05/2008 16:39

DH usually has a goatee, but he shaves it off for summer, I hate kissing him "clean shaven" - this only lasts for about an hour after shaving then it's stubble city.