WarshipAdmin wrote:
I wear glasses and have a beard. Babies are fascinated by both. I think I know the reason. Anyone else got a pet theory?
It is because they understand your problems and want to help.
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Nick Sumner |
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WarshipAdmin wrote: It is because they understand your problems and want to help.
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Sorivar |
Theories on Babies and Beards and Glasses. | ||
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1. Babies are usually lacking in hair. They figure that pulling the extra hair off your face will level the playing field. It is a self esteem thing.
2. Babies are very cunning and know that they can get away with murder. Pulling your beard hard and smiling right after always works! 3. Babies are very focused on detail. They can see the stuff crawling around in your beard. They are only trying to get rid of it to help you. 4. Food. Babies are trying to supplement their diet with your crumbs. See #3. 5. Babies don't see very well at first. Your glasses give you an advantage. They are trying to negate the advantage. 6. Babies see themselves reflected in your glasses and it confuses them. Could be another baby to play with. 7. Babies would stick their fingers up your nose; but you are already doing that. They grab the glasses or beard instead. 8. Babies can not gouge your eyes when you are wearing glasses. They are removing the protection before the attack. 9. Mommy told the baby that she "HATES" your beard. She put junior or junior miss up to it. 10. Glasses make an interesting cracking sound when they hit the hard floor. Babies know this and crave hearing the sound.
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JNiemczyk |
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I grew one last year as an experiment and I preferred the way I look with it. Not having to shave in the morning certainly saves quite a bit of time.
I find a small pair of scissors useful for keeping it tidy. |
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RJimFox |
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Having a beard makes me look my age; clean shave and I look about 15; seriously. I went to a family funeral over Xmas clean shaven and popped into a Newsagents to buy a scratchcard (my only ( One year I think I'm just going to grow it all year, just to see how long it will grow! FLW's beard in his wedding photographs, as I posted, is spectacular!
Fe godwn ni eto
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Jeff Thomas |
Another funny beard story from the Thomas family | ||
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About 1970 or so my Dad was at faculty meeting for the UW med school. Some clown loudly commented that they needed to kick "all the G**D*** hippies out
of the med school." His complaint being long hair and beards. One of the hippies in question was my brother. So at the next meeting my Dad and about
four other tenured profs showed up with full beards. End of complaint. Dad's had his beard ever since.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things:
the decayed and degraded state of moral and patri- otic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse." -John Stuart Mill |
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edgeplay cgo |
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Jeff Thomas wrote:LOL! Somehow I can't imagine anyone mistaking me for a Hippie!
- Dennis
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ATMahan |
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Given that I've gone and joined a vintage base ball league, I've FINALLY been able to grow facial hair myself (very frustrating coming from a hirsute
family, I tell you!); I went for the "classic" 1860's look, with the moustachios and the imperial trimmed neatly to the chin, a la Matthew
Broderick in Glory. A small pair of scissors is very useful, as is moustache wax and washing the face thoroughly in the shower.
"To remain ignorant of events that happened before you were born is to remain a child. What is a human life worth unless incorporated into the lives of
one's ancestors and set in the context of history?"
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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WarshipAdmin |
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Here's my theory.
Babies are learning to communicate. Normally the people who are talking to them speak and pull expressions. With a beard many of the facial cues are missing, and the same with glasses. So they have a new puzzle. So when they try to pull your beard off and break your glasses itis because they want to see a normal looking face, not a masked one. |
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1Big Rich |
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Jonathan,
My advice is get yourself one of these: http://www.executive-shaving.co.uk/shaving/beard-&-moustache/3-piece-beard-moustache-grooming-kit-travel-kit.php or something like it. Helps with the details. I no longer wear a beard, just a handlebar moustache. But the points already made about grooming and cleanliness should be well taken. Very important. BTY, my beard went when I started shaving my head. I have the razor out anyway, so.... Regards,
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Of all the capital ships that were designed for the Royal Navy, those which, without doubt, would have been regarded as the best were never built. --John Roberts |
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edgeplay cgo |
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1Big Rich wrote: A beard and a shaven head can be a very powerful image ...
If you don't mind looking like a biker.
- Dennis
-- Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. -Sir Winston Churchill |
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