Beards/Scenesters/Why? (1 Viewer)

[pighead]

Ok, just tried to start a thread on boards about facial hair and it turned into an unmitigated disaster. who would have thought writing a few words about facial hair could inspire such hatred and venom. There were two punks trying to rile Pighead up and a moderator who insisted on locking said thread because it wasn't in the beard and facial hair forum. Ridiculous carry on. Pighead has a mild interest in beards. He does not want to enter a room of beard lovers and have a beard love in with a bunch of hairy freaks. It's like talking about apples in a pub and teh landlord telling you you have to go to the specialised Apple Room out the back where there is a collection of apple loving misfits waiting for an apple related conversation with Pighead.

The basic premise of the thread was that Pighead has grown a beard and although in it's infancy he is quite pleased with it thus far. Given that this is a cool rocking hangout with cool rocking people Pighead would hazard a guess that the % of beard wearers here far outweigh the % of beard wearers over on boards.

And So I Watch You From Afar, The National, Jarvis Cocker, the bloke in Ham Sandwich and thousands if not millions more of credible artists sport the beard. Why? As a scenester what is it about the beard that attracts itself to this culture. You'd never see a raver or a boyband member with a group. It's just the hipsters and the Country and Westerners. But why? Interesting questions Pighead but is there an answer? Hmmm, don't know says Pighead as he strokes his new beard.

 

[Theseus Mock]

Please move this thread to the Linux & Open Source forum for the neck beard enthusiasts

[edit: oh & to give an honest answer, it's probably because people in those scenes don't give two hoots about their looks. I'm guessing for the scenario with boy bands, it's hard for 13 year old fangirls to get the horn for some dude that looks like a young Ronnie Drew.]

 

[torpid]

I once sported one o those, merely so that those I was mixing with wouldn't recognize me later when the time had come to jettison them, and said facial appendage from my life-group. My guess is that hipsters in the 'indie' phase of their career, encourage follicle harvesting so that in the Autumn/successful stage they can be rid of the 'desparate/poor/couldn't be bothered' look, and live on blissfully unaware of previous mediocrity.

 

[Brush]

A hipsters/scenester's power is all housed in his beard. Without it he loses at least 90% of his irony. If the rims of his spectacles or extra thick he may be able to recoup up to 10% of the irony. Outlandish clothing also helps but get the ensemble wrong and the hipster could be looking at derision and even exile to the some other less ironic scene, probably one of those scenes prefixed with the word 'post'.

 

[pighead]

A hipsters/scenester's power is all housed in his beard. Without it he loses at least 90% of his irony. If the rims of his spectacles or extra thick he may be able to recoup up to 10% of the irony. Outlandish clothing also helps but get the ensemble wrong and the hipster could be looking at derision and even exile to the some other less ironic scene, probably one of those scenes prefixed with the word 'post'.

Woah. That's pretty mindblowing stuff. Hipsters look like they don't give a fuck but seemingly there's a lot going on behind the scenes to achieve this casual look. Is there such a thing as having the wrong beard or is any type of facial hair allowed (Goatees excepted obviously)

 

[rettucs]

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1376212

really interesting

 

[SomethingManic]

I wish I could have a beard, but it grows ginger and I don't like that. I would have a stylish enough beard though, and not just a hairy mass of scariness. Also, shaving is bollocks and sometimes I can't be arsed doing it. Maybe that's a reason for beards too?

 

[Brush]

A beard must be either left completely untamed and grown wild or fashioned into some manner of style. Preferable something that harks back to something kitsch from the past. Although like a fashion ensemble; Shape the beard wrong and look like you made to much effort, or it resembles a beard of someone current and fashionable you are looking at excommunication. Unless its done in an ironic fashion of course.

 

[pighead]

A beard must be either left completely untamed and grown wild or fashioned into some manner of style. Preferable something that harks back to something kitsch from the past. Although like a fashion ensemble; Shape the beard wrong and look like you made to much effort, or it resembles a beard of someone current and fashionable you are looking at excommunication. Unless its done in an ironic fashion of course.

You seem to be a bit of a beard expert Brush. Answer Pighead this. Will the patchiness around the jawline area fill itself in over time or is Pighead's beard destined to be forever incomplete. The chin and upper lip areas are coming along nicely but the sides are fairly pathetic looking thus far truth be told.

Case of being patient or time to cut one's losses?

 

[Brush]

You could always tell the grand high hipsters of the council of the tortoise shell spectacles that you have alopecia of the beard and they may let you off if you promise to wear tight fitting Mary Quant-esque horizontal-striped tops and only buy your footwear in dingy vintage clothing stores for the rest of your young and hip years.

I'm not really that much of a beard expert. I'm more interested in the near-lost art of the cultivation of mutton chops. Which I must stress have to be complimented by some manner of bad-ass hat-wearing. .....and if you've got a pair of sandals you'd best wear em. Especially if they are those old plastic French ones.

 

[Lili Marlene]

[edit: oh & to give an honest answer, it's probably because people in those scenes don't give two hoots about their looks.

ahahahahahahahahahaha




HAHAHAHAHAHAHA


FUNNY.

 

[pete]

Ok, just tried to start a thread on boards about facial hair and it turned into an unmitigated disaster.

you should have gone to www.beards.ie

 

[Brush]

you should have gone to www.beards.ie

The new 2011 edition of the hipster handbook says that bad puns are no longer ironic enough. To gain true acceptance and that coveted white leather jacket with gold stitching and clashing purple and turquoise leg warmers you must engage in a campaign of tasteless and offensive dead baby jokes.

 

[pete]

ha

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I calls it a fat man's chin.

 

[SomethingManic]

You could always tell the grand high hipsters of the council of the tortoise shell spectacles that you have alopecia of the beard and they may let you off if you promise to wear tight fitting Mary Quant-esque horizontal-striped tops and only buy your footwear in dingy vintage clothing stores for the rest of your young and hip years.

I have tortoise shell glasses, and I love them.

 

[ratmonkey]

Didn't some of Take That have beards at some point?

 

[Shapey Fiend]

I dress like a hipster but only because I don't hang around with many of them. Went to an MF Doom gig in London last year and there were 1000 people dressed exactly like me except they were skinnier and had better hair. Made me want to go home, shave my head and change into a XXL Rocawear.

 

[pete]

Didn't some of Take That have beards at some point?

works on so many levels

 

[ann post]

I defo prefer grunge to metal, and think the indie war should go ahead.