Facial hair
Apr. 12th, 2008 12:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenOdd thing.
When I sported an imperial (AKA a soul patch) for a while, I got an inordinate amount of stick from my friends (obviously I use the word "friends" fairly loosely, here).
This was doubled and redoubled when, in preparation for getting my head shaved at They Came And Shaved Us, I supplemented it with a goatee.
(Not, note, a full vandyke, with moustache as well, because I have a wretchedly thin moustache. When I wore one with a full beard in the early 1990s, I used to put mascara on my 'tache to try to make it at least visible to the unaided eye. Didn't work. It's no wonder I never got laid 'til I shaved it all off, chopped off the mullet and bleached the stubble blond.)
And yet, some time in February, I decided, on a whim, to experiment with another type of facial fungus. (Since hair seems inclined to grow out of less and less of my scalp each year, I may as well stop removing it from some of the bits of my head where it does still wish to grow.)
So, for a couple of months, I've been wearing sideburns.
But as far as I can tell, nobody's noticed, because it seems a safe assumption that if they had, they'd have instantly started to take the p1ss.
I wonder why this is? Perhaps they're too busy thinking "god, he's got fat" to notice. I mean, at least with sideburns, one can't take it for the vandyke-on-a-fat-bloke pretence of attempting to draw in where one's chin would be if it hadn't sunk in the flab.
When I sported an imperial (AKA a soul patch) for a while, I got an inordinate amount of stick from my friends (obviously I use the word "friends" fairly loosely, here).
This was doubled and redoubled when, in preparation for getting my head shaved at They Came And Shaved Us, I supplemented it with a goatee.
(Not, note, a full vandyke, with moustache as well, because I have a wretchedly thin moustache. When I wore one with a full beard in the early 1990s, I used to put mascara on my 'tache to try to make it at least visible to the unaided eye. Didn't work. It's no wonder I never got laid 'til I shaved it all off, chopped off the mullet and bleached the stubble blond.)
And yet, some time in February, I decided, on a whim, to experiment with another type of facial fungus. (Since hair seems inclined to grow out of less and less of my scalp each year, I may as well stop removing it from some of the bits of my head where it does still wish to grow.)
So, for a couple of months, I've been wearing sideburns.
But as far as I can tell, nobody's noticed, because it seems a safe assumption that if they had, they'd have instantly started to take the p1ss.
I wonder why this is? Perhaps they're too busy thinking "god, he's got fat" to notice. I mean, at least with sideburns, one can't take it for the vandyke-on-a-fat-bloke pretence of attempting to draw in where one's chin would be if it hadn't sunk in the flab.
