Topic: Movember/Novembeard '08 (Read 34405 times)

Jimmy the Squid · « **on:** 18 Oct 2008, 09:44 »

So, who's going to be getting in on this this year?

Despite the fact that I'm pretty sure I will fail totally, I'm getting in on the ground floor and I'm totally ready to grow an awful, awful neckbeard next month. My goal is to reach the standard that our always dashing Johnny C has set (and maybe get some of that possibly-family resemblance going).

If I remember from my observations of last year, last day of shaving is on the 31st of October and by that point you are to be clean-shaven. After that point and until the 30th of November you basically touch no blade nor electric cutting instrument to your face. Pictures to document the growth I think are expected as are interesting beard designs when it comes time to remove the fur (if you so choose). Obivously though we don't need pictures from every day. Every week will probably be fine.

If anyone has anything to add or correct me on, this is the place to do it. It's also the place for expressions of interest.

GO GO GO!

michaelicious · « **Reply #1 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 09:53 »

I am so ready for this.

I have been training in the off-season.

Ã¶de · « **Reply #2 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 09:57 »

I'm not shaving!

Hljómalind · « **Reply #3 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 10:00 »

If only to improve my ranking, I'll give it a go, though I'm not really hairy enough to develop anything more than oddly dispersed tufts.

Oli · « **Reply #4 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 10:04 »

I am so taking part in this. I will look like a child rapist, but it will be worth it.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #5 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 10:18 »

Do you start with a blank slate on october 31st? I thought it was just 'don't shave in november!'

I will be participating though.

michaelicious · « **Reply #6 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 10:22 »

Quote from: StaedlerMars on 18 Oct 2008, 10:18

Do you start with a blank slate on october 31st? I thought it was just 'don't shave in november!'

I will be participating though.

I don't think it's an official rule that you have to be clean-shaven on October 31st, but it makes things more interesting. Plus it is easier to gauge your progess that way as well.

sean · « **Reply #7 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 10:27 »

Though if you already have a beard, there is no reason to shave! You are a better man than the rest of us already.

Quite honestly I don't think I can participate. I have very little beard power and my young and naive age of 17.

0bsessions · « **Reply #8 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 10:37 »

You must shave October 31 or it is not a Novembeard. Part or the exercise is to gauge one's beard growth and getting a head start kind of defeats the purpose. All participants tend to shave October 31, take a picture and then give periodic status updates.

Personally, I won't be participating. After last year, I simply cannot go through the scratchy annoyance that was anything past a week's worth of neckbeard.

negative creep · « **Reply #9 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 10:44 »

I'm in this year! I just don't think that you will even see what little hair I can grow on my face if I take a photo with my webcam.

Scarychips · « **Reply #10 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 10:54 »

I think I'll participate, it'll be interesting.

Peet · « **Reply #11 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 11:38 »

I wanted to do this but i have been vetoed by a lady.

imagist42 · « **Reply #12 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 11:56 »

If you let a lady tell you that you cannot grow a rad structure of facial hair for one month, you are weeeeeeeak.

(P.S. I am totally willing to participate for all four days of November I will be around to show my totally invisible ginger-growths.)

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #13 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 13:51 »

Not shaving, I've worked too hard and too long for my chin-curtain to just go away. And anyway, the hair on the cheeks is starting to fill in a bit.

Tom · « **Reply #14 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 14:12 »

I'd participate but I've got a strict school that I've got to go to almost every week day of Novemeber. To compensate, I'll probably just do my own thing in December.

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #15 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 14:18 »

I'm in. Prepare yourselves for my awful, awful facial hair.

KvP · « **Reply #16 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 14:24 »

Quote from: Cartilage Head on 18 Oct 2008, 14:18

I'm in. Prepare yourselves for my awful, awful facial hair.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #17 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 14:59 »

I would quote that again, but then it would be silly.

I cannot grow facial hair for the life of me.

blanktom · « **Reply #18 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 15:38 »

I am currently waiting for work to tell me to shave off the admirable start to a beard I have begun to grow. Although it is looking likely I will not have a job soon enough! And then...well I am totally in. I'm going to see how far I can get until I shave on October 31st.

Liz · « **Reply #19 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 17:11 »

Quote from: Jeans on 18 Oct 2008, 10:20

I am in.

Patchy, hairy, disease-like moustache and a beard almost worthy half a Sam to follow.

Wait, you can grow facial hair?

Hmm. Never would have known.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #20 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 17:22 »

Eez facial hair, eet eez as fine as silk and the colour of spun gooooold.

Liz · « **Reply #21 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 17:57 »

Well I look forward to it either way. Should be good for a chuckle.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #22 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 18:09 »

But Tommy, yours is always the most impressive and I still can barely believe its real.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #23 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 18:30 »

surely they allow mustaches? grow a handlebar, you know you want to.

Jace · « **Reply #24 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 20:58 »

I'm in, but like others it will be a laughable attempt since I don't have that much facial hair. YET.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #25 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 22:23 »

I'm in.
If I try really really hard I bet I can beat Jens.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #26 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 23:16 »

Weren't you just photoshopping your beard out of all of your pictures anyway?

I'm sorry but I had to say it, its like some angry badger clawing at my brain to make bad jokes.

yelley · « **Reply #27 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 23:40 »

i kind of want jason to do this, since he is the sort of guy that needs to shave twice a day... but i also want him to be able to get a job. and i would like to be able to kiss him without having itchy face. DILEMMA.

clockworkjames · « **Reply #28 on:** 19 Oct 2008, 00:38 »

I not shaved in a week, but was gonna because I will need to go to a job interview soon

Will still try to do this though, then at the end I will do the whole shaving it off bit by bit to laugh at different styles before leaving a little square moustache and goose-stepping around the house, might annex the kitchen.

Hat · « **Reply #29 on:** 19 Oct 2008, 00:45 »

if I get around to quitting my job I am in for this but otherwise it will not be able to happen

ZJGent · « **Reply #30 on:** 19 Oct 2008, 00:58 »

This is my year.

est · « **Reply #31 on:** 19 Oct 2008, 06:24 »

I am pretty sure I may do either the full beard thing or do a Movember thing (ie: just the moustache). Gonna see what the guys at work are doing. Over here Movember is a sponsored thing for prostate cancer research, so it's for a good cause & all that jazz

Liz · « **Reply #32 on:** 19 Oct 2008, 07:36 »

Quote from: yelley on 18 Oct 2008, 23:40

i kind of want jason to do this, since he is the sort of guy that needs to shave twice a day... but i also want him to be able to get a job. and i would like to be able to kiss him without having itchy face. DILEMMA.

It's only really itchy when they are in the stubble stage. Once the beard hair grows out a bit longer you are cleared for good times.

yelley · « **Reply #33 on:** 19 Oct 2008, 09:19 »

i have hyper sensitive skin... jason has always had the little goatee and soul patch thing and it still irritates me a bit. when we first started dating my skin was red and flaking off from the irritation and it took weeks for my skin to sort of get used to it. super gross, i know... but this is why i prefer clean shaven boys!

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #34 on:** 19 Oct 2008, 09:26 »

I have to shave my beard to be Chuck Bass for halloween so I guess I will reinitiate beard for November.

calenlass · « **Reply #35 on:** 19 Oct 2008, 10:57 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 18 Oct 2008, 18:19

The other day I looked through my photos and I realised that I was sick of looking like such an asshole all the time.

Please Note - The real reason is that I need to shave on occasion for work-related reasons now.

Tommy, you never look like an asshole with scruff. I do not know how you would ever look like an asshole anyway, but maybe that is just me. And I thought you worked with geologists! Why do they care if you don't shave?

De_El · « **Reply #36 on:** 19 Oct 2008, 12:54 »

I planned to do this with a bunch of friends already. Among them is a boy who can supposedly only grow one sideburn. He is the mighty Uniburn.

calenlass · « **Reply #37 on:** 19 Oct 2008, 17:15 »

Wait why does bartending necessitate shaving?

Inlander · « **Reply #38 on:** 19 Oct 2008, 17:23 »

Quote from: yelley on 19 Oct 2008, 09:19

i have hyper sensitive skin... jason has always had the little goatee and soul patch thing and it still irritates me a bit. when we first started dating my skin was red and flaking off from the irritation and it took weeks for my skin to sort of get used to it. super gross, i know... but this is why i prefer clean shaven boys!

This is just your skin naturally rejecting awful facial hair choices! If he grew a proper beard I'm sure there would be no problem at all.

Hat · « **Reply #39 on:** 19 Oct 2008, 20:22 »

Quote from: calenlass on 19 Oct 2008, 17:15

Wait why does bartending necessitate shaving?

If you work at a wanky joint like I do it is considered very bad form to turn up lookin' scruffy and they will probably just send me home until I shave.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #40 on:** 19 Oct 2008, 20:56 »

I didn't shave last month and I'll be damned if I shave this month either

(this does not mean I a doing a Novembeard it just means I am lazy)

Inlander · « **Reply #41 on:** 19 Oct 2008, 21:21 »

Just as necessity is the mother of invention, laziness is the father of bearditude.

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #42 on:** 19 Oct 2008, 21:22 »

A bunch of my friends are doing it for the prostate cancer stuff too. I bet a lot of you with work and stuff, if you get sponsored and tell them what it's for, I bet they'd understand. In fact, a fancy schmancy hotel/bar/etc downtown always does "Bras on Broadway" every year (it is a bra fashion show for raising fundage for breast cancer research) and at the end of Movember they'll have their first ever "Bros on Broadway" as the gala event.

Jace · « **Reply #43 on:** 20 Oct 2008, 08:54 »

Quote from: BrittanyMarie on 19 Oct 2008, 21:22

"Bros on Broadway"

I'm sorry, but all I am imagining this as:

"sup brah, I'm on broadway, brah. Do you have a dirtbike brah? I love football brah. Hey, hey brah, I got this killer weed, lets get high brah."

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #44 on:** 20 Oct 2008, 10:15 »

I probably won't do this since I need to get a job and my mom gets uppity if I don't shave

Storm Rider · « **Reply #45 on:** 20 Oct 2008, 11:37 »

Quote from: Inlander on 19 Oct 2008, 21:21

Just as necessity is the mother of invention, laziness is the father of bearditude.

Unfortunately, he's also a deadbeat and won't pay child support.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #46 on:** 20 Oct 2008, 11:51 »

laziness is also the father or one of the worst culinary inventions ever, in-the-bag ramen.Crush the ramen in the bag, open one end, take out the flavor packet and open it, dumping the contents back in the bag, add a little water, and microwave the whole thing, hoping it doesn't spill over. If you're lucky it'll all cook, if you aren't you eat it anyway because you're lazy.

michaelicious · « **Reply #47 on:** 20 Oct 2008, 12:00 »

And you're out of Cheetos.

And, after looking out the window plaintively for fourteen minutes, you decide you are too depressed again today to go outside and walk the forty-three metres to the convenience store to buy another bag.

And you don't want to miss Antiques Roadshow because by a strange coincidence one of the appraisers met two women with glassware designed by René Lalique within five minutes of each other (this is a very rare occurrence).

And that is your life.

tania · « **Reply #48 on:** 20 Oct 2008, 14:40 »

i would do this with my legs or armpits or something but honestly, i already kind of never shave them as is.

who has time? not this girl.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #49 on:** 20 Oct 2008, 15:25 »

(totally irrelevant to topic, but ephemere is tania right? why are people suddenly changing their names? it only makes life confusing.)

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