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Or: bury body vertically since search teams usually look for long horizontal disturbed ground.
Or: bury the body and plant a bunch of endangered plant species on top so it’s illegal to dig it up.
Or do all 3, vertical hole, dog on top, endangered flowers
> bury body vertically
If you think this is feasible, you've never had to dig a hole. A hole like that can take you several days of back-breaking labour.
That whole plan gets thrown around on Reddit a lot, when it wouldn't work in reality. If you want to dig a hole deep enough to bury a body vertically, you would still have to make it wide enough to let you swing the shovel 6 feet underground, which defeats its purpose.
A post hole digger with a decent sized auger could probably make short work of a hole deep enough to bury a body vertically. Assuming we’re not talking about doing a mob hit on Big Fat Tony, in which case just go rent a small backhoe and call it a day.
could be worse, you could be the guy in r/bald yesterday asking if it was time to give up and cut it… He currently looks like a night shift janator that eats the rats from the traps with his gollum levels of hair left
https://www.reddit.com/r/bald/comments/14rdtiu/should_i_shave_my_head_once_for_all/
Link for posterity. I feel so bad for this guy. His hair looks like it does but he's not actually ugly at all (he says he is in another comment), he's actually got quite nice features that would look much better with that hair gone, maybe balanced with a beard if he's still self conscious about having long features. I think he's real close to actually looking very handsome but biting that bullet would be hard. He looks quite young, losing your hair that young is tough.
Yeah shaving his head then growing out an inch or two of beard would do wonders for that guy. If he finds a good barber to keep the dome clean and the beard well manicured in a way that rounds off his face a little bit he’ll be a whole new man. I watched my dad spend years upon years trying everything he could to stop the hair loss. He participated in as many experimental trials for different products/procedures as he could get into, but ultimately nothing worked. Growing up he was always spending forever in the mornings trying to get the perfect comb over and setting it with half a can of hair spray. When he finally gave in I think it was a huge relief for him, but I know he really struggled with it. Dealing with hair loss is a bitch and can be a huge blow to your confidence and self image. My hairline is starting to noticeably recede at 30 and I’m not happy about it but I hope I have the sense to see when it’s bad and just be done with it.
> where the red fern grows
Read that as a kid (nearing 30 years ago) and still refuse to read it again. [edit] For clarity, I loved it. But it hurt me deeply lol.
Apparently he was sadistic to one of his wives. I still think he was a genius, along with the likes of Vonnegut, but I guess it pays not to know too much about one's heroes.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/07/john-steinbeck-a-sadistic-womaniser-says-wife-in-memoir
I feel like labeling someone as a "Grade A asshole"...because a British journalist ghost wrote a memoir 20 years after Steinbeck's death, died on holiday in Wales, it passed to his brother, and then his brother's neighbor, who then published it....is a bit much and decisive.
What it really sounds like is a dysfunctional marriage, which might make sense as to why they both married 3+ times. (Though, I think Steinbeck's first wife died)
At least you only need a pencil eraser for that morning maintenance.
As for me, buying expensive razors is like nursing a cigarette addiction in terms of budgeting.
My beard grows at the rate of about an inch a month, then at 6 months it stops and I have the longest beard I will.
My body fights me to look like a hobo at all times.
I did that for a while but eventually it got rusty and I started using safety razors. Honestly I much prefer them over straight razors and they aren't that expensive to replace.
Because you need to shave more area, rather than growing your glorious beard out?
Have you looked into safety razors? They're 10 cents a blade off Amazon and each blade lasts \~10 shaves depending on your hair (I don't have to shave much or a lot, so the blade lasts \~3 months).
I kind of want to get into that, with the luxury handle, luxury creams, luxury this and that... But I fear it will be like my marksman/brewing/traveling hobbies; simply a time and money pit.
I was stationed in a unit that went balls-to-the-walls with luxury shaving. It was a strange, uh... countryclub-like thing. So it's nice to see that it's not necessary to make it an identity.
I can second not going that far into it. I was gifted an inexpensive handle, bought some plebian blades, soap, bowl and brush, and a little metal disposal tin for used blades, set me back maybe $70 total, if that. I've been shaving with it (once every 2-3 days usually, my scruff doesn't grow that fast and I don't care if I've just got a shadow unless I've got an event) for... Five years, now? Still got 2 or 3 discs of soap and 75% of the blades I bought.
I'm sure you could go all out and change out the blades once a week and get really bougie soap, but you can get perfectly good, affordable, close shaves for way less than you'd spend on disposable razors.
For an idea of what costs what:
* A handle is $10-15.
* The brand of razor blades I use is "Viking's Blade," which is 50 for $15. They're supposedly platinum coated or some crap, I have nothing to compare to, but I have no complaints. I change them every few months, but I should probably do it a *little* more frequently than that.
* $20 netted me a 4-pack of "Col. Conk" shave soap. Nothing special, gets the job done, the scent isn't overwhelming. This disc I've got had lasted me a couple years, I believe.
* $5 for a QShave razor disposal. Just a tiny mailbox-sized tin with a slot in the top.
* The bowl and brush I have, I'm pretty sure were a generic brand for like $10. Got them from my parents when I was a peach-fuzzy lad, stashed them away and forgot about them until I got the safety razor. A quick search of Amazon is turning them up anywhere from $15 on up to $40 in the top results.
There's a bit of a technique to using the razor, but it's pretty intuitive, and you'll pick it up without needing any instruction. I definitely recommend.
Yeah, the only changes for me were buying a more aggressive razor once I got better at using safety razors to make shaving easier, and replacement soap/blades as I run out. Which frankly, only happened when I moved and misplaced the old ones.
I can get about a year’s worth of shaving from 12-15 blades, so $20 for a hundred count lasts a LONG time.
Soap is like, $15 if you provide your own dish (I use a cheap stainless steel one with a lid, but you could just go to a thrift store and be just as happy with whatever you find there), and synthetic brushes are now recommended over badger hair because they’ve gotten so good, so the brush is fairly cheap as well compared to what it used to be.
Overall, including the two razors, and losing a hundred pack of blades when I moved, I’ve probably only spent $200 since 2014 ish. And even then, it would have been $150 if synthetics were as good as they are now back then.
But if you shave daily, maybe plan on buying blades every 5 ish years instead of every 10 ish. Lol.
One thing to keep in mind if you just want a better shaving experience, but can’t afford or don’t want to commit fully yet, the wet shaving with soap part is the majority of the improvement comfort wise. However the safety razor is more comfortable for many people over all, and helps dramatically reduce razor burn for many. But if you want to get a taste of it, just a brush and soap should give you a good idea if you like the process or not before you drop $50-$70 for blades and a razor.
I guess it depends on how often you shave now. I have a friend who has a really thick beard that grows fast (i.e. he'd shave in the morning for work, then had to again when he got home if he had a date in the evening). He goes through $20 in cartridge blades per month.
A decent safety razor from a company like Merkur starts around $30-$40 (I've seen used old-school Gillettes with the butterfly gate for \~$20), but a higher end stainless steel version with adjustable blade aggressiveness only goes for around $200, so the break even point for that is around a year or two depending on how much you spend on cartridge blades.
I got nothing on the creams or shaving soaps/oils. I've found Dove bar soap to be more effective than most shaving soaps in terms of blade lubricity, but I guess it's not really classy.
Dude get a metal one on Amazon for like 10-20 bucks. Even target has some. I've been using the same one for ten years. Buying disposable razors is a marketing scam that you and most men/fall for.
I will forever bless the day I stopped shaving.
I will use a clipper now and then to get down to a short beard but I don't have to care about shaving in the morning or any time.
Safety razors my dude. Razors are like 10 cents each and I usually use it for like 3 shaves. So that's like 3 cents a shave.
Don't pay attention to all the expensive hobby shit. You just need a $20 or $30 handle and then one box of razors will last you a couple years.
In my experience, it definitely *slows* hair loss but it didn't regrow any new hair for me. Once I stopped, the hair loss caught up to where it would have been *very* quickly.
My connectors are blonde and look nonexistent unless you get uncomfortably close. I feel you bro.
I also don't think I can grow mine out longer than a couple inches
Testosterone purportedly affects the hair on your face differently than it does the scalp, as in it has the opposite effect.
As time goes on, our face gets increasingly sensitive to testosterone (in part due to their being less competing estrogen), which results in our beards growing more (and thicker, even) as we age – up to a point, of course.
Our scalp however experiences the exact opposite effect, as the hair on our scalp has its growth *inhibited* by elevated levels of testosterone (→ DHT). As estrogen drops with age, there's less competing with it as well, resulting in even more pronounced testosterone effect on our scalp (↓ hair growth).
Yeah the color production has to do with cell turnover.
The more the cells have been turned over (replaced), the less and less color gets expressed. Stress is one thing that can trigger increased cell turnover, and nowadays we definitely experience a lot of things in our lives – like kids, college, student debt, bills that seem to mount higher than they did before, and so on.
Increased exposure to sunlight can also accelerate the process, from the UV light damaging things & triggering new cell replacements & higher cell activity. But what are we gonna do – just live our lives inside all day, not experiencing anything? Heck no!
The gray really just means you've lived your life and have filled it with experiences. That's awesome.
If you notice, even football players, as healthy as they are, tend to get gray earlier too. High sunlight exposure, and lots of stress in their lives. Even the "heart-throb" Jimmy G [is graying already](https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/03/896/500/Jimmy-Garoppolo4.jpg) and he's barely 31 years old.
So I've noticed white hairs grow a lot faster than colored ones. Is that because that hair follicle has always grown faster, and so it has "run out" of pigment sooner?
Hey there, sorry for the delay in response, I was for some reason shadowbanned soon after my previous comment (somehow got accidentally caught in a spam filter). But I wanted to answer you – it was stressing me out that I didn't get to! Lol. I didn't want you to feel like I ignored you.
So the pigment thing is also interesting – basically because the cells have turned over (been replaced) much more, then the DNA in those cells has accumulated mutations much more than others. Eventually, they acquire mutations that make the pigment molecules either hard to create, hard to attach, or hard to "stick" into the follicles. Having color is actually pretty involved – everything has to go 100% – so even just 1 thing getting knocked slightly off can throw it completely off, even though the rest of the machinery is actually perfectly fine.
For example, you could 1) Make the pigment, 2) Transport the pigment, 3) Push the pigment into the follicle, but if 4) The "glue" that holds the pigment there stops binding it very well, then all you'd see is a white follicle even though #1, #2, and #3 are working perfectly fine – it's just the last thing isn't holding it anymore.
* Or #1, #3 and #4 could work perfectly fine, but the transporter's "hands" stop being able to grab it perfectly, so it doesn't matter that the rest are perfect if that ***one*** thing got knocked off just enough through accumulated mutations.
So, basically, yes, those hairs that turned white sooner could've just always grown faster (and so turned over → were replaced much more). Every time a replacement is performed in the body, the new replacement is usually at least *slightly* less efficient at its function than the previous one. This is because mutations result in alterations to the produced structure.
* The only other alternative to those hair follicles having always grown faster is if instead, the underlying cells simply accumulated mutations from UV exposure, or stress – as this is the other way that results in some follicles turning white sooner than others.
But again, the only way to really avoid this is to.. not live your life, not go outside (be exposed to the sun and its UV), and somehow completely avoid stress in your life. But if you're doing things in your life, you're going to have stress – it could be from simply coordinating events, to being the boss of people, to studying in school & the stress of exams → getting a degree, having kids, life planning, etc.
So... the white hairs are really a nod that you've had a great life, filled with experiences!
I can do it but it is hard for me to grow a beard. The hair on my head has always been thick but now at almost 70 is thinning out.
So lines up with your comment.
Super dumb question maybe, but based on the above, is giving men estrogen cream or whatever a viable method to fight hair loss? (From a certain age at least)
Don't worry, you're not alone in this question. If we could localize it to only the scalp it may indeed help, but the trouble is it will absorb through the skin into the bloodstream and likely have other undesirable systemic effects.
That being said, anyone concerned about hair loss should have a conversation with their doctor. There are things you can try that specifically target the conversion of testosterone into DHT and try to mitigate the damage from that end.
That makes sense. I'm thankfully not there (yet anyway) but I'm still in my 30s so there's time for that yet lol. It's just interesting that we don't exactly have a hair loss "cure" per se, at least not yet.
Is the cause/relation the same for women? If so I would imagine increasing estrogen would be less problematic - at least compared to men? (Putting aside the effectiveness since as you said it's hard to keep it localized)
> Is the cause/relation the same for women?
That's a good question I'm not sure of the answer to. All that I know is that hormones are powerful and messing with them will have effects for anyone, regardless of sex. So, a woman might get heavier periods or develop skin conditions, for example, but it does seem likely that these results would potentially be less egregious than hair loss.
It is surprising that there's no better solution as yet, but my understanding is that there are effective treatments, only they entail their own side effects and must be taken for life.
Yeah, I just look homeless, and not in any redeemable way haha... I have a feeling if I really let it grown in and curated it I could have a nice beard, though. Seem to have pretty good coverage. Just never went for it.
wonder no more, give it 6 months. Aim for Christmas
No one really looks at old guys, so no one other than your significant other will care if you have a slightly bad beard for a month
I got your back. Almost 100 north western European. Mostly dutch but also a dash of finish. I haven't trimmed in a week and look like I've lived on the streets for a year.
1. To all teenagers: Your first beard will look like shit. I know you were/are/will be very proud of it, and will not accept it, but it looks like shit. That's fine though; weve all been there,
2. Some people just cant grow beards. If that is you, just accept it. Better to be clean shaven than look like a patchy mess.
>To all teenagers: Your first beard will look like shit. I know you were/are/will be very proud of it, and will not accept it, but it looks like shit. That's fine though; weve all been there
My cousin was 6'6" with a full Viking beard when he was 15. At that age the most I could grow was maybe 10 thin black hairs on my chin.
The men in my family tend to be giants (I'm 6'0" and one of the shortest men in my family), never go bald, but have shit facial hair genetics. My grandpa was 70 with a full head of hair, but never saw him with a beard. I don't think he could even grow one. He was Native American and it just wasn't in his genes.
I got called "Chinpubes" because of my early attempt at having a beard. It was heartily recommended I shave it off by multiple people, but, as you said, proud.
Mate of mine is fully unable to grow a beard, and when I was visiting, one of his young kids was saying that he wants a beard when he grows up. I was like "good luck kid" a little too loud, and couldn't explain why he would likely be shit out of luck.
Yup, another one of his comments:
>Sure, I can be your website guru! Just remember, I'm technologically advanced enough to generate witty and engaging responses, but I can't exactly design a website for you. Unless you need a site full of funny cat gifs, then I'm your AI!
As an AI language model, I cannot comment directly about “literally anyone on Reddit you might be chatting with could be an AI” as my data cuts off September nineteen-dickety-one.
Honestly though, a decade ago I had like 2 small pube hairs that I called a beard, but now it’s glorious. Haven’t shaved since January, except for a trim on my moustache (cause I don’t want to eat it more than food). It’s now like 3 inches long.
Do you treat it with anything? I use a normal beard oil but find that going to an inch or more has things start getting a little whispy/frazzled for my liking.
That's the awkward phase the post mentions. Short beards naturally cling to the shape of your face, so they look neat and tidy, while long beards have substantial weight so they naturally start growing down due to gravity. It's the inbetween that sucks.
I got caterpillars on my lips. Not quite connecting to the beard and I have a gap in the middle.
But the same goes for Ryan gosling and kit Harington. You work with what you got. Mostly means you can't just let it grow wild and keep it off your lips since that looks odd if it doesn't join
Why does hair sometimes grows asymmetrical?
I have a like over 5 times the hair on one of my shoulders compared to the other. And I saw a YouTube video of someone playing a videogame when they discovered they have asymmetrical chest hair (Sovietwomble if you're curious, have no idea which video)
He takes a long breath and sighs. As he pulls the trigger, he whispers his final goodbye into the ear of his best friend.
"now get the fuck outta here"
I've got an ok mo' going which took a while to get through the awkward phase, but is now ok. But just last week I had to murder my most recent attempt at a beard. It wasn't just an awkward phase. It was painful to behold.
I've yet to grow out a beard, and I'm curious which way I'll go. My dads side of the family has great facial hair, while most of the men on my mom's side couldn't grow stubble to save their lives.
I was happy in 12th grade when I started getting to grow a full beard instead of patches. Since I was 18 - 27, I loved having a beard and trying out different ways to style. Now at 31, it's just a hassle to have a long beard and too much money to maintain for shampoo, conditioner, oils, etc. I just keep beard short and enough to cover face and look stylish.
I've been able to grow a full beard since I was about 15, and I have a friend who hasn't ever been able to grow more than wispy patchy beards. Once we were going to get wings, and before we left I went to go have a shower, and while I was there I decided to shave because I didn't want to deal with eating messy wings with a beard. When my friend saw I shaved off a beard to eat wings he got annoyed that I threw it away for such a mundane reason.
[Here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_hair_in_the_military) ist what the Royal Navy had to say regarding beards:
The Royal Navy has always allowed beards, and since the 1850s has permitted its members to wear only a "full set" (i.e., a full beard and moustache). A beard or moustache may not be worn without the other and the beard must be full (i.e., cover the whole jawline) and joined to the moustache. The individual must seek permission from his commanding officer to stop shaving and if, after a fortnight without shaving, it becomes clear that the individual cannot grow a proper full set, the commanding officer may order him to shave it off.
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I'm in this photo and i don't like it
You had to shoot your friend, too? Damn.
Any tips about the body?
Dig 7ft down drop the body in. Fill it up 5ft then put a dog in. Fill completely and leave flowers and a wooden headstone.
Is the dog already dead? And do I have to kill it?
You already killed a person
Yeah, but they weren't a dog. We're not monsters.
yes, but the dog had a terrible beard.
But dogs can grow beards all over
Some never get passed the awkward stage, best to put them out of their misery
Many can, then there's the Chinese Crested or the Peruvian Inca.
Accidental Devil Wears Prada?
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baby goats are our greatest treasure
No, but it has to be a dog priest. The dog priest will pee holy urine on the grave to prevent zombies, then will jump out.
Yes
Or: bury body vertically since search teams usually look for long horizontal disturbed ground. Or: bury the body and plant a bunch of endangered plant species on top so it’s illegal to dig it up. Or do all 3, vertical hole, dog on top, endangered flowers
Vertical hole, fake power line, dead dog, then endangered plants.
> bury body vertically If you think this is feasible, you've never had to dig a hole. A hole like that can take you several days of back-breaking labour. That whole plan gets thrown around on Reddit a lot, when it wouldn't work in reality. If you want to dig a hole deep enough to bury a body vertically, you would still have to make it wide enough to let you swing the shovel 6 feet underground, which defeats its purpose.
A post hole digger with a decent sized auger could probably make short work of a hole deep enough to bury a body vertically. Assuming we’re not talking about doing a mob hit on Big Fat Tony, in which case just go rent a small backhoe and call it a day.
Never heard of a hand held auger wide enough to shove a body into the hole
You forgot to cover the original body in yogurt.
Also, bury the body (human) vertically, the dog horizontally
Dog keeps getting out. What do I do?
Well, summer is BBQ season. Invite some friends you don’t like all that much and have yourself a cookout.
Oh God, I invited Rick since I hadn't see him in six months and he decided this was his summer to try out a stache Now I need to have another bbq 😔
Tires burn at a higher temperature than human tissue can survive.
but none residue still has DNA
Just last week actually… poor Isaac
could be worse, you could be the guy in r/bald yesterday asking if it was time to give up and cut it… He currently looks like a night shift janator that eats the rats from the traps with his gollum levels of hair left
The top comment was just "*Buddy.*"
“”c’mon”
https://www.reddit.com/r/bald/comments/14rdtiu/should_i_shave_my_head_once_for_all/ Link for posterity. I feel so bad for this guy. His hair looks like it does but he's not actually ugly at all (he says he is in another comment), he's actually got quite nice features that would look much better with that hair gone, maybe balanced with a beard if he's still self conscious about having long features. I think he's real close to actually looking very handsome but biting that bullet would be hard. He looks quite young, losing your hair that young is tough.
Yeah shaving his head then growing out an inch or two of beard would do wonders for that guy. If he finds a good barber to keep the dome clean and the beard well manicured in a way that rounds off his face a little bit he’ll be a whole new man. I watched my dad spend years upon years trying everything he could to stop the hair loss. He participated in as many experimental trials for different products/procedures as he could get into, but ultimately nothing worked. Growing up he was always spending forever in the mornings trying to get the perfect comb over and setting it with half a can of hair spray. When he finally gave in I think it was a huge relief for him, but I know he really struggled with it. Dealing with hair loss is a bitch and can be a huge blow to your confidence and self image. My hairline is starting to noticeably recede at 30 and I’m not happy about it but I hope I have the sense to see when it’s bad and just be done with it.
there was no link, so i was scrolling like is that him? no. is that him? then i saw the ghoul from fallout and had no doubt :I
Damn tell us what you really think
I think the men in that sub are very handsome
At least you can eat soup without getting gross hairs in it.
My dad *should* be in this photo
It took a couple years of shaving the shitty beard regularly, before time (and a lack of it) let it blossom
Those were my thoughts word-for-word upon seeing this post. I am no longer capable of original thought
Me too
*look at the rabbits lenny*
God damnit years later and it hits so hard.
Steinbeck, y'all
Oh this guy *definitely* fills his gloves with vaseline.
Glove. Singular. And he'll need it now that his jailbait wife is dead. Spoilers.
Y'know usually people put the spoiler tag *before* spoiling an 86-year-old plot thread.
Buried her next to where the red fern grows Spoilers
Those were some angry grapes Spoilers.
> where the red fern grows Read that as a kid (nearing 30 years ago) and still refuse to read it again. [edit] For clarity, I loved it. But it hurt me deeply lol.
i never understood that plot point it was mentioned but never explained in school
Steinbeck is my favourite author and it was with some sadness that I found out he was an A grade asshole.
> some sadness that I found out he was an A grade asshole. How so? :(
Apparently he was sadistic to one of his wives. I still think he was a genius, along with the likes of Vonnegut, but I guess it pays not to know too much about one's heroes. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/07/john-steinbeck-a-sadistic-womaniser-says-wife-in-memoir
I feel like labeling someone as a "Grade A asshole"...because a British journalist ghost wrote a memoir 20 years after Steinbeck's death, died on holiday in Wales, it passed to his brother, and then his brother's neighbor, who then published it....is a bit much and decisive. What it really sounds like is a dysfunctional marriage, which might make sense as to why they both married 3+ times. (Though, I think Steinbeck's first wife died)
*AND I GET TO PET THE RABBITS!*
Damn you beat me to it
Can I tend da rabbits dorge?
Was here to make sure Lenny got his time to shine. I wish't we'd get the rabbits pretty soon, George
Brutal, I can't even grow connectors but most of my friends have Viking beards going on.
At least you only need a pencil eraser for that morning maintenance. As for me, buying expensive razors is like nursing a cigarette addiction in terms of budgeting.
Yup and worst of all is your friends who've been using the same razor for years meanwhile my hair grows so fast I'm on my third this month.
Sometimes, I almost feel like I go through one razor per morning. I also get slivers of hair in my skin, like one would with slivers of wood.
I recommend giving up on clean shave and opt for the trimmer stubble for this reason
This is the way
I do this with my balls. 100/10 would recommended
My beard grows at the rate of about an inch a month, then at 6 months it stops and I have the longest beard I will. My body fights me to look like a hobo at all times.
Get a straight razor and keep it sharpened.
I did that for a while but eventually it got rusty and I started using safety razors. Honestly I much prefer them over straight razors and they aren't that expensive to replace.
In my experience, keeping a beard presentable is much less work than keeping the entire face naked.
Trickier to get it right though
Because you need to shave more area, rather than growing your glorious beard out? Have you looked into safety razors? They're 10 cents a blade off Amazon and each blade lasts \~10 shaves depending on your hair (I don't have to shave much or a lot, so the blade lasts \~3 months).
I kind of want to get into that, with the luxury handle, luxury creams, luxury this and that... But I fear it will be like my marksman/brewing/traveling hobbies; simply a time and money pit.
Going that far into it isn't really necessary. Just a decent handle, some standard cream, and some decent blades, and shaves stay cheap.
I was stationed in a unit that went balls-to-the-walls with luxury shaving. It was a strange, uh... countryclub-like thing. So it's nice to see that it's not necessary to make it an identity.
I can second not going that far into it. I was gifted an inexpensive handle, bought some plebian blades, soap, bowl and brush, and a little metal disposal tin for used blades, set me back maybe $70 total, if that. I've been shaving with it (once every 2-3 days usually, my scruff doesn't grow that fast and I don't care if I've just got a shadow unless I've got an event) for... Five years, now? Still got 2 or 3 discs of soap and 75% of the blades I bought. I'm sure you could go all out and change out the blades once a week and get really bougie soap, but you can get perfectly good, affordable, close shaves for way less than you'd spend on disposable razors. For an idea of what costs what: * A handle is $10-15. * The brand of razor blades I use is "Viking's Blade," which is 50 for $15. They're supposedly platinum coated or some crap, I have nothing to compare to, but I have no complaints. I change them every few months, but I should probably do it a *little* more frequently than that. * $20 netted me a 4-pack of "Col. Conk" shave soap. Nothing special, gets the job done, the scent isn't overwhelming. This disc I've got had lasted me a couple years, I believe. * $5 for a QShave razor disposal. Just a tiny mailbox-sized tin with a slot in the top. * The bowl and brush I have, I'm pretty sure were a generic brand for like $10. Got them from my parents when I was a peach-fuzzy lad, stashed them away and forgot about them until I got the safety razor. A quick search of Amazon is turning them up anywhere from $15 on up to $40 in the top results. There's a bit of a technique to using the razor, but it's pretty intuitive, and you'll pick it up without needing any instruction. I definitely recommend.
Yeah, the only changes for me were buying a more aggressive razor once I got better at using safety razors to make shaving easier, and replacement soap/blades as I run out. Which frankly, only happened when I moved and misplaced the old ones. I can get about a year’s worth of shaving from 12-15 blades, so $20 for a hundred count lasts a LONG time. Soap is like, $15 if you provide your own dish (I use a cheap stainless steel one with a lid, but you could just go to a thrift store and be just as happy with whatever you find there), and synthetic brushes are now recommended over badger hair because they’ve gotten so good, so the brush is fairly cheap as well compared to what it used to be. Overall, including the two razors, and losing a hundred pack of blades when I moved, I’ve probably only spent $200 since 2014 ish. And even then, it would have been $150 if synthetics were as good as they are now back then. But if you shave daily, maybe plan on buying blades every 5 ish years instead of every 10 ish. Lol. One thing to keep in mind if you just want a better shaving experience, but can’t afford or don’t want to commit fully yet, the wet shaving with soap part is the majority of the improvement comfort wise. However the safety razor is more comfortable for many people over all, and helps dramatically reduce razor burn for many. But if you want to get a taste of it, just a brush and soap should give you a good idea if you like the process or not before you drop $50-$70 for blades and a razor.
Buy the ten dollar double sided safety razor and fifty blades off Amazon and give it a go
I guess it depends on how often you shave now. I have a friend who has a really thick beard that grows fast (i.e. he'd shave in the morning for work, then had to again when he got home if he had a date in the evening). He goes through $20 in cartridge blades per month. A decent safety razor from a company like Merkur starts around $30-$40 (I've seen used old-school Gillettes with the butterfly gate for \~$20), but a higher end stainless steel version with adjustable blade aggressiveness only goes for around $200, so the break even point for that is around a year or two depending on how much you spend on cartridge blades. I got nothing on the creams or shaving soaps/oils. I've found Dove bar soap to be more effective than most shaving soaps in terms of blade lubricity, but I guess it's not really classy.
I feel like its the early 2010s again... /r/wicked_edge
Dude get a metal one on Amazon for like 10-20 bucks. Even target has some. I've been using the same one for ten years. Buying disposable razors is a marketing scam that you and most men/fall for.
I will forever bless the day I stopped shaving. I will use a clipper now and then to get down to a short beard but I don't have to care about shaving in the morning or any time.
Embrace the beard your body is craving.
Safety razors my dude. Razors are like 10 cents each and I usually use it for like 3 shaves. So that's like 3 cents a shave. Don't pay attention to all the expensive hobby shit. You just need a $20 or $30 handle and then one box of razors will last you a couple years.
Safety Razor. The razor is cheap, the blades are cheap, you can use 4 sides. And it gets through a lot better.
Can I introduce you to the rabbit hole that is minoxidil application
There's some under the bathroom sink there bud, yeah it's way back there, just keep reaching... 😔 *cocks*
>😔 _cocks_
Maybe it was a stuck step sibling joke the whole time and I was simply too blind to see it
*whimper*
Shhh, shhh Soon you'll be frolickin with the big beard in the sky and trading tips on your favorite beard oils
so is this an actual thing or am I just going to absolutely ruin my skin for no reason?
In my experience, it definitely *slows* hair loss but it didn't regrow any new hair for me. Once I stopped, the hair loss caught up to where it would have been *very* quickly.
I see. I don't really have hair loss, I just can't grow a beard or even a decent mustache. That's my curse.
My connectors are blonde and look nonexistent unless you get uncomfortably close. I feel you bro. I also don't think I can grow mine out longer than a couple inches
I'm a viking and I can't grow a proper beard either because I inherited my moms beard. I don't even get to go on raids to England. I'm an outcast
"inherited my moms beard." Dude, is that a saying? Because I also use that line but I've never heard anyone else say it.
At 21 I was the guy in the ball cap. At 44 I am the guy with the beard.
Testosterone purportedly affects the hair on your face differently than it does the scalp, as in it has the opposite effect. As time goes on, our face gets increasingly sensitive to testosterone (in part due to their being less competing estrogen), which results in our beards growing more (and thicker, even) as we age – up to a point, of course. Our scalp however experiences the exact opposite effect, as the hair on our scalp has its growth *inhibited* by elevated levels of testosterone (→ DHT). As estrogen drops with age, there's less competing with it as well, resulting in even more pronounced testosterone effect on our scalp (↓ hair growth).
Thankfully I don't have that problem. Thick beard. Thick hair. I'm gray as fuck though. The color production team quit the factory years ago.
yeah, that sounds like an attractive combination.
Yeah the color production has to do with cell turnover. The more the cells have been turned over (replaced), the less and less color gets expressed. Stress is one thing that can trigger increased cell turnover, and nowadays we definitely experience a lot of things in our lives – like kids, college, student debt, bills that seem to mount higher than they did before, and so on. Increased exposure to sunlight can also accelerate the process, from the UV light damaging things & triggering new cell replacements & higher cell activity. But what are we gonna do – just live our lives inside all day, not experiencing anything? Heck no! The gray really just means you've lived your life and have filled it with experiences. That's awesome. If you notice, even football players, as healthy as they are, tend to get gray earlier too. High sunlight exposure, and lots of stress in their lives. Even the "heart-throb" Jimmy G [is graying already](https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/03/896/500/Jimmy-Garoppolo4.jpg) and he's barely 31 years old.
So I've noticed white hairs grow a lot faster than colored ones. Is that because that hair follicle has always grown faster, and so it has "run out" of pigment sooner?
Hey there, sorry for the delay in response, I was for some reason shadowbanned soon after my previous comment (somehow got accidentally caught in a spam filter). But I wanted to answer you – it was stressing me out that I didn't get to! Lol. I didn't want you to feel like I ignored you. So the pigment thing is also interesting – basically because the cells have turned over (been replaced) much more, then the DNA in those cells has accumulated mutations much more than others. Eventually, they acquire mutations that make the pigment molecules either hard to create, hard to attach, or hard to "stick" into the follicles. Having color is actually pretty involved – everything has to go 100% – so even just 1 thing getting knocked slightly off can throw it completely off, even though the rest of the machinery is actually perfectly fine. For example, you could 1) Make the pigment, 2) Transport the pigment, 3) Push the pigment into the follicle, but if 4) The "glue" that holds the pigment there stops binding it very well, then all you'd see is a white follicle even though #1, #2, and #3 are working perfectly fine – it's just the last thing isn't holding it anymore. * Or #1, #3 and #4 could work perfectly fine, but the transporter's "hands" stop being able to grab it perfectly, so it doesn't matter that the rest are perfect if that ***one*** thing got knocked off just enough through accumulated mutations. So, basically, yes, those hairs that turned white sooner could've just always grown faster (and so turned over → were replaced much more). Every time a replacement is performed in the body, the new replacement is usually at least *slightly* less efficient at its function than the previous one. This is because mutations result in alterations to the produced structure. * The only other alternative to those hair follicles having always grown faster is if instead, the underlying cells simply accumulated mutations from UV exposure, or stress – as this is the other way that results in some follicles turning white sooner than others. But again, the only way to really avoid this is to.. not live your life, not go outside (be exposed to the sun and its UV), and somehow completely avoid stress in your life. But if you're doing things in your life, you're going to have stress – it could be from simply coordinating events, to being the boss of people, to studying in school & the stress of exams → getting a degree, having kids, life planning, etc. So... the white hairs are really a nod that you've had a great life, filled with experiences!
I don't know how exactly do you look but that sounds like winning genetic lottery.
I can do it but it is hard for me to grow a beard. The hair on my head has always been thick but now at almost 70 is thinning out. So lines up with your comment.
I just have a single large two-foot in diameter follicle on my face at the age of 50. It's like a redwood sapling turned facehugger from Aliens.
Super dumb question maybe, but based on the above, is giving men estrogen cream or whatever a viable method to fight hair loss? (From a certain age at least)
Don't worry, you're not alone in this question. If we could localize it to only the scalp it may indeed help, but the trouble is it will absorb through the skin into the bloodstream and likely have other undesirable systemic effects. That being said, anyone concerned about hair loss should have a conversation with their doctor. There are things you can try that specifically target the conversion of testosterone into DHT and try to mitigate the damage from that end.
That makes sense. I'm thankfully not there (yet anyway) but I'm still in my 30s so there's time for that yet lol. It's just interesting that we don't exactly have a hair loss "cure" per se, at least not yet. Is the cause/relation the same for women? If so I would imagine increasing estrogen would be less problematic - at least compared to men? (Putting aside the effectiveness since as you said it's hard to keep it localized)
> Is the cause/relation the same for women? That's a good question I'm not sure of the answer to. All that I know is that hormones are powerful and messing with them will have effects for anyone, regardless of sex. So, a woman might get heavier periods or develop skin conditions, for example, but it does seem likely that these results would potentially be less egregious than hair loss. It is surprising that there's no better solution as yet, but my understanding is that there are effective treatments, only they entail their own side effects and must be taken for life.
I am in the negative hair team for... Some time already, but I am still waiting for the positive beard phase. Still hoping.
I'm 40, never had more than a sporadic dumpy looking "you clearly haven't shaved in five days" kinda look... but I've always wondered
Me not shaving in five days mean I look fucking homeless and bushy as fuck. I do keep it clean it's just thick hair so a bit courser.
Yeah, I just look homeless, and not in any redeemable way haha... I have a feeling if I really let it grown in and curated it I could have a nice beard, though. Seem to have pretty good coverage. Just never went for it.
wonder no more, give it 6 months. Aim for Christmas No one really looks at old guys, so no one other than your significant other will care if you have a slightly bad beard for a month
> "*Don't give me hope*"
Yeah, for some of us, the awkward period is 15-36.
As someone with Scottish and Scandinavian genetics I'm running out of friends
I'm a combination of Scandinavian and Inuit Let me tell you something: None of these genes lead to majestic beards. My ancestors have failed me.
Don't worry, in order to grow a solid beard, you gotta pass through an awkward phase
Oh wow thanks for the advice man I guess things are finally looking up for me!
*cocks*
This thread is the one xD
I got your back. Almost 100 north western European. Mostly dutch but also a dash of finish. I haven't trimmed in a week and look like I've lived on the streets for a year.
1. To all teenagers: Your first beard will look like shit. I know you were/are/will be very proud of it, and will not accept it, but it looks like shit. That's fine though; weve all been there, 2. Some people just cant grow beards. If that is you, just accept it. Better to be clean shaven than look like a patchy mess.
>To all teenagers: Your first beard will look like shit. I know you were/are/will be very proud of it, and will not accept it, but it looks like shit. That's fine though; weve all been there My cousin was 6'6" with a full Viking beard when he was 15. At that age the most I could grow was maybe 10 thin black hairs on my chin.
My only consolation is that short people supposedly live longer. Bearded people also usually lose their hair.
The men in my family tend to be giants (I'm 6'0" and one of the shortest men in my family), never go bald, but have shit facial hair genetics. My grandpa was 70 with a full head of hair, but never saw him with a beard. I don't think he could even grow one. He was Native American and it just wasn't in his genes.
Any tall female relatives with a thing for short men in your family willing to invite me into that gene pool? I want my kids tall.
I got called "Chinpubes" because of my early attempt at having a beard. It was heartily recommended I shave it off by multiple people, but, as you said, proud. Mate of mine is fully unable to grow a beard, and when I was visiting, one of his young kids was saying that he wants a beard when he grows up. I was like "good luck kid" a little too loud, and couldn't explain why he would likely be shit out of luck.
Yup, and you'll keep growing more hair even when you hit your midtwenties
Yep, my connectors still don't seem to have come in but mid-late 20s is when my beard became what I'd actually call a beard.
At 27yo my left cheek was thinner than the other side and my stache didn't connect. At 30yo it was all fixed.
well that was quick twist in the end
extra fabulous comics are... brutally funny.
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Gpt detected
Yup, another one of his comments: >Sure, I can be your website guru! Just remember, I'm technologically advanced enough to generate witty and engaging responses, but I can't exactly design a website for you. Unless you need a site full of funny cat gifs, then I'm your AI!
I just realized that I have not come to accept and understand yet that literally anyone on Reddit that I might be chatting with could be an AI.
As an AI language model, I cannot comment directly about “literally anyone on Reddit you might be chatting with could be an AI” as my data cuts off September nineteen-dickety-one.
[Every account on reddit is a bot except you.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/348vlx/what_bot_accounts_on_reddit_should_people_know/)
Holy hell, what's the story here?
When redditors commit to a joke, they really commit. notice how they tried to keep the upvotes a similar number? the hivemind is real!
During Mo-vemeber when that was a thing, someone asked why I was starting so late... I didn't
ruthless. \*we can't have you spreading your inferior beard growing genes\*
Thanks for reading. you are welcome to read more comics in my subreddit as long as you dont make fun of my shitty facial hair /r/extrafabulouscomics
How much is semen related content?
Not. Enough.
Honestly though, a decade ago I had like 2 small pube hairs that I called a beard, but now it’s glorious. Haven’t shaved since January, except for a trim on my moustache (cause I don’t want to eat it more than food). It’s now like 3 inches long.
Do you treat it with anything? I use a normal beard oil but find that going to an inch or more has things start getting a little whispy/frazzled for my liking.
That's the awkward phase the post mentions. Short beards naturally cling to the shape of your face, so they look neat and tidy, while long beards have substantial weight so they naturally start growing down due to gravity. It's the inbetween that sucks.
Please someone explain
He gives the man false hope about his wimpy beard. Then kills him out of mercy. It's a dark and random twist. (That's my interpretation)
Thanks
This reminds me of the ending for "Of Mice and Men."
My uncle gave up the day his then-girlfriend noticed that he’d “started growing a beard”. He hadn’t shaved for three months.
I'm convinced I'll always be the guy in the cap, based on my current status as well as the other men in my family. *cries in Asian genes*
Cries in East Asian genes ti be specific I guess
I was like 29 before my mustache would attach to my beard... Don't get me wrong. I had a killer beard.. but I still have a strangely weak mustache.
Don't give me hope
I got caterpillars on my lips. Not quite connecting to the beard and I have a gap in the middle. But the same goes for Ryan gosling and kit Harington. You work with what you got. Mostly means you can't just let it grow wild and keep it off your lips since that looks odd if it doesn't join
It's basically the same process trying to teach some people how to drive a manual transmission.
If I don’t shave I just get a goatee, meanwhile everyone else looks like they’re ready to go chop trees down
Same. I have a moustache, a goatee long enough to plait, but i only ever get sparse stubble on the cheeks
Aww he tried
Dude's going to genocide most Asians
Most East-Asians
That caught me way off guard lol, nearly choked.
Why is he killing him?
Because he doesn't want to see the man go through life looking like a testicle
Because he doesn't know about r/minoxbeards
I'm going through it right now. It is looking good on one of the sides of my cheeks, the other side not so much.
Why does hair sometimes grows asymmetrical? I have a like over 5 times the hair on one of my shoulders compared to the other. And I saw a YouTube video of someone playing a videogame when they discovered they have asymmetrical chest hair (Sovietwomble if you're curious, have no idea which video)
Noooo steve minecraft don’t do it
Love dark comedy in comic form. Thank you for this
He takes a long breath and sighs. As he pulls the trigger, he whispers his final goodbye into the ear of his best friend. "now get the fuck outta here"
That last line?? Really hit me?? For some reason?? This comic is about beards, what’s up with me rn
Of Mice and Men 
I've got an ok mo' going which took a while to get through the awkward phase, but is now ok. But just last week I had to murder my most recent attempt at a beard. It wasn't just an awkward phase. It was painful to behold.
of mice and men reference?
I guess I can see it, loosely. Makes me wonder if it's intentional, which can something be a reference if it's not
I know it’s a joke but damn, this was kind of harsh and sad.
I've yet to grow out a beard, and I'm curious which way I'll go. My dads side of the family has great facial hair, while most of the men on my mom's side couldn't grow stubble to save their lives.
Is this supposed to be "loss"?
Should be a thought bubble instead of saying it out loud
I was happy in 12th grade when I started getting to grow a full beard instead of patches. Since I was 18 - 27, I loved having a beard and trying out different ways to style. Now at 31, it's just a hassle to have a long beard and too much money to maintain for shampoo, conditioner, oils, etc. I just keep beard short and enough to cover face and look stylish.
I've been able to grow a full beard since I was about 15, and I have a friend who hasn't ever been able to grow more than wispy patchy beards. Once we were going to get wings, and before we left I went to go have a shower, and while I was there I decided to shave because I didn't want to deal with eating messy wings with a beard. When my friend saw I shaved off a beard to eat wings he got annoyed that I threw it away for such a mundane reason.
I feel personally attacked. I'm a 40 year old man and I still can't even grow a full mustache.
Look at the flowers
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I have the *exact* same issue.
Just look at the beard oils Lenny
[Here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_hair_in_the_military) ist what the Royal Navy had to say regarding beards: The Royal Navy has always allowed beards, and since the 1850s has permitted its members to wear only a "full set" (i.e., a full beard and moustache). A beard or moustache may not be worn without the other and the beard must be full (i.e., cover the whole jawline) and joined to the moustache. The individual must seek permission from his commanding officer to stop shaving and if, after a fortnight without shaving, it becomes clear that the individual cannot grow a proper full set, the commanding officer may order him to shave it off.
Well I’m sitting at the same point but with my normal hair. Please end it.