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[KodKod]

*warning: excessive body hair

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[Blizzlord]

@weird wow.

I feel bad for Greeks, then. I have a Greek friend, no body or facial hair. He said its a Greek thing, genetics and all.

On the bright side, no need to shave or trim:p

So that is why the Greeks didn't conquer the world: they were busy trying to invent body hair!

[King DZA]

This makes me upset that even after weeks of not shaving, the best kind of facial hair I can work up is a post-pubescent peach fuzz moustache and some unusually long chin hairs.

Damn my smooth, magnificent skin....

[Blizzlord]

This makes me upset that even after weeks of not shaving, the best kind of facial hair I can work up is a post-pubescent peach fuzz moustache and some unusually long chin hairs.

Damn my smooth, magnificent skin....

There can be no "ruler over all things ruleable" with no beard!

This is sooo getting sigged!

[Dish It Out!]

O Daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.  Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stonesupright *kapok training spear*.

[King DZA]

This makes me upset that even after weeks of not shaving, the best kind of facial hair I can work up is a post-pubescent peach fuzz moustache and some unusually long chin hairs.

Damn my smooth, magnificent skin....

There can be no "ruler over all things ruleable" with no beard!

The temporary inhabiting of a relatively hairless organic structure has little effect on my ability to have reign over all existence.

[NW_Kohaku]

I have no idea who this St. Clement guy is, but clearly he was trying too hard to justify why he was too lazy to not shave or look like less of a hobo.

[Eric Blank]

I concur. And the no shaving law; ludicrous, especially when some men have positively ghastly facial/body hair. Most unlike myself, for I have thick, evenly distributed facial hair and acceptably cleanly body hair. Never a good excuse to shave! Well, except to impress those women of cowardly, inhuman nature who dispise "sasquatches" like me.

[wierd]

I'm not bashful about my appearance.  These are a little old, but meh. I have long hair, and usually keep it pulled back. You can see what serves as a beard fairly well. With it down a have a vague similarity in appearance with "rob zombie" without his makeup on.

(Another day at work for the psychotic engineer)

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("I'm a rockstar!")

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I can't grow a "complete" full beard, as my cheeks are afflicted with native american genetics. Bald patches on both sides, and scraggly growth. I keep it shaved off. Just chin and mustache. No neckbeard hair, thank gawd.

[Callista]

I think it actually made sense, back then. No antibiotics. Cut yourself shaving and you could sign your own death sentence.

[wierd]

Nonsense. Semitics and arabs both are really big on ritual cleanliness.

Hell, pretty much the WHOLE BOOK of leviticus is about ritual cleanliness and lifestyle practices.
(When it isn't condemning adulterers, homosexuals, zoophiliacs, witches, sorcerers and unbelievers to death by stoning. Oh yes, disobedient children and prostitutes too.)

The issue wasn't infection, it was about being distinct and officious over women. Cutting your beard was unmanly, and unmanliness from a man was seriously punished. It was their version of pink aisle madness. In this case, lethal levels of machismo.

Likewise, long hair on a man was unmanly. Whole long list of crap.

But cleanliness issues causing infections? Their religious customs and ceremonial cleanliness had them bathing MULTIPLE times per day, throwing away dishes that had food go off in them rather than wash and reuse, throwing away clothes and bedclothes from people who had become ill, and a whole host of things. For the ancient world, they were squeeky clean.

Really, it really was about sexism, and "my beard is special because it clearly announces my superiority as a man! Thou shalt not cut the beard!" Types of weak reasoning for it more than anything else.

[Monk321654]

Nonsense. Semitics and arabs both are really big on ritual cleanliness.

Hell, pretty much the WHOLE BOOK of leviticus is about ritual cleanliness and lifestyle practices.
(When it isn't condemning adulterers, homosexuals, zoophiliacs, witches, sorcerers and unbelievers to death by stoning. Oh yes, disobedient children and prostitutes too.)

The issue wasn't infection, it was about being distinct and officious over women. Cutting your beard was unmanly, and unmanliness from a man was seriously punished. It was their version of pink aisle madness. In this case, lethal levels of machismo.

Likewise, long hair on a man was unmanly. Whole long list of crap.

But cleanliness issues causing infections? Their religious customs and ceremonial cleanliness had them bathing MULTIPLE times per day, throwing away dishes that had food go off in them rather than wash and reuse, throwing away clothes and bedclothes from people who had become ill, and a whole host of things. For the ancient world, they were squeeky clean.

Really, it really was about sexism, and "my beard is special because it clearly announces my superiority as a man! Thou shalt not cut the beard!" Types of weak reasoning for it more than anything else.

And THIS is why I despise a large majority of Ancient Cultures.

Fuck you, Romans!

[King DZA]

Hey, all cultures have their flaws. It's not like the Romans aren't responsible for plenty of neat things as well.

[Lagslayer]

Nobody has linked to this forum yet? Shame. I know it's not DF, but it's just so damn relevant to the conversation.

[Zale]

Why is this in the Dwarf mode discussion forum?

You're new here?

No, I'm just used to seeing threads start on topic and then go off topic. If you want to start a thread that's off topic, there's a separate board for that.

Maybe it'll careen off-on-off-topic?