JT dreams of replacing me someday, and thinks all he has to do is acquire a Trophy Girlfriend. How wrong he is.
I will give him a little hint.
Don’t worry, JT. Puberty is almost inevitable.
Never let it be said that I am ungenerous to the younglings. I have a suggestion for JT that will help him immediately.
feralboy12 says
Most any guy can grow a beard. It takes a real man to put a blade to his face every day.
'Tis Himself, OM. says
FIFY.
Dick the Damned says
Yup, & sometime a cigar is just a cigar. (Well, that one is, anyway.)
'Tis Himself, OM. says
Not that there’s anything wrong with masochism.
Or so they say.
Moggie says
feralboy12:
Boys use blades. I prefer a blowtorch.
chigau (難しい) says
Is that just a cigar?
VeritasKnight says
Allow me to say: lol.
And again, sir: lol.
JT, there’s only one response: the Burnsides.
Brian says
Wait, if JT has acquired a Trophy Girlfriend … doesn’t that mean that he HAS a beard now?
Glen Davidson says
Yeah, I’m going to listen to a wooist. It’s all ghosts, just in your mind.
Oh, there’s something to depth psychology, it’s just that Freud didn’t really do it very well. Greek myths are just myths, Siggy, to be enjoyed. They’re not science.
Glen Davidson
changeable moniker says
@Moggie: the Desperate Dan approach! Well played. Have a cow pie …
Stevarious says
Bah! A REAL man ties each individual strand to a different horse’s tail, then starts throwing snakes at them!
Daniel Fincke says
They say a picture says a thousand words. Sometimes it only needs 13 to say what needs to be said.
chigau (難しい) says
Loggers drive them in with a hammer
and bite them off inside.
a3kr0n says
You’re name isn’t Mullet, is it? And you weren’t involved in a Amish beard cutting fiasco in Ohio, are you?
JT Eberhard says
I do not always shave. But when I do, it’s to spite PZ Myers.
PZ Myers says
It would spite me even more if you sliced off your testicles.
Serendipitydawg (Physicists are such a pain sometimes) says
The inflatable beard is OK but the bacon air freshener makes me wish I resided in the US.
John Morales says
[semi-OT]
The animated edition of Hyperbole and a Half‘s
(Allie Brosh) ‘How to Make Showering Awesome Again’: Shower Products for Men.
For REAL men!
feralboy12 says
Well, I just never wanted hair on my face. After all, I have to eat with this face.
Happiestsadist says
Chigau @#13: Thanks. That’s going to be in my head for days.
Hank Fox says
Chuck Norris never shaves. He hammers the beard hair in and bites it off from the inside.
eddyline says
What impressed me more was the tentacle
http://www.mcphee.com/shop/products/Tentacle-Mustache.html
chigau (難しい) says
Happiestsadist @20
Sorry. I happens sometimes.
Do you know the one about dancing loggers?
Happiestsadist says
YES! Only the most entertaining of the NFB shorts (after The Cat Came Back).
Now, to dance about the kitchen.
Gregory Greenwood says
eddyline @ 22;
From your link;
Soft vinyl? Clips? Pah! I say we put this genetics business to good use. There is but one way to go here – PZ must channel his inner mad scientist (go on, PZ, I know you want to) and splice some cephalopod DNA into the human genome to create the unmitigated awesomeness of a true tentacle beard.
Not only stylish, but prehensile! Just think of the benefits – as just one example, far from being an impediment to feralboy12’s gastronomic pursuits, it could make the entire process hands free, and just think of how much it would impress the ladies…
Plus, it would drive fundies everywhere absolutely nuts, which is always a bonus.
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'Tis Himself, OM. says
That’s just plain evil!
Atta boy, PZ.
Daniel Fincke says
Work on your aim, there’s a way to eat with just your mouth.
Gregory Greenwood says
John Morales @ 18;
In between all the uncontrollable laughter, I found myself thinking that if you supplemented the violent imagry with images of young women naked but for tactically placed limbs/steamed up shower glass/miscellaneous objects then you would pretty much have actual shower product adverts. In the case of shower products for men, have a well muscled male model type bloke lathering his hair with the aforementioned product, then introduce images of young women naked but for tactically placed limbs/steamed up shower glass/miscellaneous objects…
Yup, the advertising industry is not predictable at all…
Stevarious says
Yeah, if your whole face, including beard region, is in on the action, you are doing it wrong.
It’s like the old joke – The bartender says to Joe, “I don’t know how Bob always leaves with two or three ladies on his arm every night.” And Joe says, “I know! He’s not that good looking, he dresses funny, he’s not rich, he’s not well spoken… Shoot, all he does is sit there, licking his eyebrows!”
'Tis Himself, OM. says
That’s if you want to do it the easy way. Real Men™ get serious with their food.
Duckbilled Platypus says
Weaklings, I tell you. Really Real Men™ have coconut food fights.
changeable moniker says
For the shavers:
Fuck Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades
Oooooh, yeah.
KG says
I don’t need to grow a beard; it grows all by itself.
'Tis Himself, OM. says
I don’t even have to encourage it, it does what it wants to do.
Sili says
Well, there’s hair growing on my face, but it rather refuses to assemble into a beard.
I have cut off my testicles, though.
shouldbeworking says
I love Dara O’briain’s take on razors.
changeable moniker says
Oh! Sili, your comment on TET. Related?
'Tis Himself, OM. says
shouldbeworking #36
Pray tell, what is Dara O’Briain’s take on razors?
changeable moniker says
@’Tis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WvgH-MP87A
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shouldbeworking says
Thans for attaching the link. When the litte one says ‘feed me’ the RFN! Is transmitted by the volume.
changeable moniker says
@shouldbeworking, with the addition of a “k”, I can understand your opening sentence. The second and third, however, are mystifying. ;)
shouldbeworking says
Sorry about that. The little one around the house can be quite vocal at meal times. RFN is ‘right fucking now!’.
Am I ever going to get used to this tablet’s keyboard? I doubt it, if the recent quantity of typos are any indication.
JT Eberhard says
Slicing testicles?
I was suckered in by the Gargoyle’s Gambit once and it cost me the hair on my leg and head. Never again!
'Tis Himself, OM. says
changeable moniker #40
That video acted strangely. First, you have to change a setting from 360p to 240p (I have no idea what p stands for) to get the sound and video in sync. Then it dies at 2:03. But what I did hear was quite funny.
shouldbeworking says
Worked fine on my new toy, could be beginners luck with all these typos.
feralboy12 says
Well, that certainly explains why no one ever gets food in their facial hair.
feralboy12 says
And every day brings new gizmos to shave with.
Shaving In The 21st Century: A Baffling Ordeal
Sili says
cm,
Yah.
eddyline says
@ Gregory Greenwood #25:
Already been done…though perhaps not for real….
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3941043456/ch0001221
cybercmdr says
Started a beard a while ago, then my wife got back from visiting the grandkids. End of experiment, as I still very much enjoy kissing my wife. I found out there would be a lot more salt then pepper in it, though.
tim rowledge, Ersatz Haderach says
Bah. A *real* man can just hold it in by force of will.
Kamaka says
Having a beard does have it’s drawbacks.
Stupidheads say such things as “You look like George Carlin/Merle Haggard”.
George Carlin is not so much of an insult, but who the fuck is Merle Haggard?
John Morales says
cybercmdr:
Huh.
Except for the grandkids, you speak for me.
(I like my nookie, my wife is fussy about fuzz)
Hate to say it, but PZ is the troglodyte, and JT is the up-an-comer.
(Way of the world, it is — the old makes way for the new)
—
PS Love ya, PZ!
(Happy Monkey!)
John Morales says
PPS I wonder if JT passes the Brazilian test.
</TMI>
Rip Steakface says
The “p” stands for progressive scan, one of two ways of displaying video, the other being interlaced. 99% of modern computer monitors use only progressive scan, while TVs are less consistent (old TVs generally use interlaced).
Progressive is better – displays a clearer, sharper image and requires less exertion on the part of computer graphics cards.
John Morales says
[OT]
Steakface, that, and the amount of data transferred.
240p is 320×240 pixels, 360p is 640×360 pixels per frame.
madtom1999 says
Slicing testicles?
I’ve always wondered why we attempt to look prepubescent all the time – perhaps that’s the next stage.
Strategically Shaved Monkey says
A bit of selective testicle-slicing might reduce the testosterone level on this thread.
But whay jump straight from beard-shaving to de-gonading. As real men, we should be slowly upping the ante.
At least go for scrotum shaving. Now there’s something only real men with real trophy girlfriends could pull off.
Gregory Greenwood says
eddyline @ 49;
I am going to go out on a limb here and say that this has to be CG – Bill Nighy is a committed method actor, but I think even he would draw the line at having tentacles grafted onto his face…
… wouldn’t he?
Of course, if the film credits mention “transhumanist biological support from Professor PZ Myers” then we will know that Nighy went the whole hog, and my respect for him as an actor (and as the first exemplar of our new post-human overlords) would grow exponentially…
;-)
trent says
A woman asks why do men want to look like women?
Dhorvath, OM says
I love shaving. And I forgive you PZ for thinking that being a man has external markers.
The Sailor says
“Each 5-3/4″ wide, soft vinyl Tentacle Mustache attaches to your nose with a clip and makes you look like a cross between a sophisticated gentleman and a squid.”
We call it the Zoidberg.