Beards

krappyrubsnif

All the bar staff at the Stapleton have beards. This worries me.

kreuzkav

I don't think a beard is a good or bad thing.  Neither is hipsterism.  Lots of bearded hipsters are into good stuff.  What's terrible is following a trend blindly.  That could be reading the Guardian, drinking a wine because you read it was the one in a publication, going to a farmer's market in a flat cap because it's an image you bought into.  Anyhow, individuality is cool. Hipsterism started off as a reach for authenticity but got incorporated into the spectacle quite quickly.  I blame Steve Jobs and his apple snakery.

gardener-joe

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Arkady

Beards are so noughties. I'm far more concerned about the growing trend towards the massive manucured moustache. It clearly threatens us all.<br><br>I also thing that this is the fault of Steve Jobs, or possibly Mark Zuckerberg. Definitely someone in the IT industry anyway.

NorthNineteen

I was nearly blinded by an excessively pointy moustache the other day, I'm with Arkady - they're a definite threat<br>

Arkady

<img src="http://www.stickcal.com/image/cache/data/products/mouthstache-bloody-eyeball-triangle-600x600.jpg">

Arkady

Amazing what you find when you google 'eyeball on a moustache'.

krappyrubsnif

Even my dog has a moustache

Arkady

Do you wax it into comedy styles?<div><br></div><div><img src="http://static.flickr.com/188/379245393_b4ca4f30e6.jpg"><br></div><div><br></div><div>If not, why not?</div>

krappyrubsnif

And it's a girl.

Papa

Those pointy ones are over. <div><br></div><div>I predict a revival of the seventies and early eighties standard moustache.</div><div><br></div><div><img src="http://tomselleck.tv-website.com/images/pic_selleck.jpg"><br></div>

Arkady

<span style="font-style: normal;">Now </span><span style="font-style: italic;">there's</span> a man.

NorthNineteen

I hope 70s/80s hairy chests come back too! <br>

Sutent

Then you have big sideburns too

Arkady

Alas, I am but half a man, having precisely no ability to grow sideburns or chest hair. Undressed, I look much like Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic.<br><br>A terrible shame, as I've always lusted after the 1960s Kirk look.<div><br></div><div><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/d1803aeaf2b7340044de8457fe77b58d/tumblr_n636zyA0S01tvo8rjo1_500.jpg"><br></div>

Arkady

Or, given my head hair, probably more 1980s Kirk.<div><br></div><div><img src="http://img.trekmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/shatcard.jpg"><br></div>

djmattyoung

<font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;">The Jolly Butcher in Stoke Newington has been named as the most beard friendly pub</span></font><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2015/01/20/the-jolly-butchers-has-been-named-the-most-beard-friendly-pub-of-the-year/">http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2015/01/20/the-jolly-butchers-has-been-named-the-most-beard-friendly-pub-of-the-year/</a></span></font><br></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana">good ale there that's for sure. </font></div>