On 8 Oct 2015 15:46:36 GMT, notbob > wrote:

>On 2015-10-08, Embudo > wrote:
>
>> Soon to return - the van dyke...
>
>Perhaps not. Turns out the beard fell out of fashion in the early
>20th century due to the discovery that tuberculosis was passed by
>coughing and that the infectuous sputum might rest on one's own
>whiskers. We are now seeing multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis
>(MDR-TB), so the beard may go the way of the slide rule, once more.
>
>I've worn a van dyke for years, but only cuz my fuller beard looks
>terrible. I let it grow out a bit in Winter to keep my face warm.
>
>nb

Many years ago I grew a full beard, people told me that beard made me
look like my brother, he has a full beard... but he's a flaming
faggot... I couldn't get to my Gilette fast enough. Faggots grow
beards because it's the only [pseudo] manly thing they can do. Faggots
grow beards for one reason and one reason only, it makes their face
look like a ****.