Beard and long hair!

[YOke]

Please help me get to the bottom of this phenomenon.
I've noticed an alarming number of people here going for the "beard and long hair" look. Me being one of them.
Just wondered if we could run a quick "hands-up" on who has beard and long hair.
Just to clarify; any facial hair except sideburns will count as beard and hair has to cover your neck. Is this a common trait in adventuregamers?

[Arboris]

*raises hand*

But the beard is more a product of me being too lazy to shave

[Sutebi]

I have somewhat long hair, but I have to stay clean shaven as a requirement of my job. So I got one out of two, although my "long hair" couldn't be much longer than an inch or two, but that is long for me.

[strazer]

Yep, long hair and I'm growing my beard back as we speak.
I suspect it's a trait shared by many computer geeks, not exlusive to adventure gamers.

[Ali]

I'm a longhair, in fact a kid called me that yesterday. I'm also in the "it's not a beard I'm just too lazy industrious to shave" category.

As far as a common adventure gamer trait goes, my adventure-game-playing-girlfriend has long hair too. No beard though, so's you know.

[Gonzo]

I can't really grow a beard but I often try. I do have long hair though. Ideally I'd have both, like Guybrush in MI2, 'Let It Be' era McCartney, and Gandalf. All very cool people.

[DragonRose]

I have a beard and long hair!

[|Alky|]

I sorta started growing a beard, like around my mouth (an extended goatee). School rules said I couldn't, and the lameass invigilator for the exam kept telling me to shave it off. I was leaving anyhow, so I was like "Expel me then, bitch!". But I shaved accidentially, so meh.. lame. I liked my xHoboCorex beard..

[LordHart]

If you had only asked this question about a month or two ago... :'(

http://www.tdrdesign.net/images/osbearhead.jpg

Now its all gone... well, except for the beard...

[Tiki]

My hair is long..somewhat.  It was butchered recently, my school dean threatened me with a 5 day suspension if I didn't have it cut (no joke!).  So..its getting there now...the backs pretty short still, but the front I'm much more please with.

As for the beard, nope.  I do have my moustache coming back, though! 

[LordHart]

The principal threatened you to have it cut? What an asshole!

[YOke]

Interesting stuff. With this many people in such a short time, I do not hesitate to declare this an official phenomenon.

Strazer: I guess you are right about it being a computer geek thing. Maybe hair grows better when exposed to monitor radiation. 

I have heard many tales from other countries about rules of appearance, and I still find them hard to believe. Over here we have (almost) complete freedom to look the way we want at school. (peer pressure not included in statement) If a principal tries to expel someone from school for looking a certain way, he'll be called a facist by the papers the next day. Freedom through media prosecution.

[Johnny Odd]

I shaved accidentially

HOW?!

I too fall into McCartney beard zone - hair to my shoulders too.

[Rincewind]

Well, I fit in the "long hair"-cathegory - It's almost down to my shoulders - But no real beard to speak of yet, though...Ã, 

[Alynn]

Never with the long hair, but before the military I did have the beard... I'd shave it all sorts of ways... from the reverse goatee, to the whole amish beard thing... but now I'm in the army, and all I can have is sideburns that go "no lower than the bottom most part of the opening in the ear" (quote from the regulation)...

But I shall have it back, the ladies love it....

[Darth Mandarb]

I cut my hair myself using the auto-clippers.Ã,  I cut it down to the lowest setting and always keep it short.Ã,  I can't stand long hair anymore!

Here's me in high-school (and this wasn't even the longest!):


Here's how I keep it now (and have for about the last 10 years!)


As for the beard ... it takes me about 2 weeks to grow out what you could call a true 'beard' but as I fall under the 'too lazy' category I usually go about 2 - 3 weeks without shaving before I can't stand the itchy-ness anymore.Ã,  Then I shave.

[Isegrim]

long hair... yes, sure (about down to the middle of my back)
beard... not too dense, but all over the face! (The beard is mainly there, because without it I'd look like my mother... Not that I have a feminine face, though )

Me be hairy troll!

[YOke]

Johnny: It isn't that hard to shave yourself by accident. One moment of carelessness, the clippers slip... and BANG! You have to remove all of it to not look like a dork.

Darth: I know how you feel. I was totally shaved, face and head, from 1998 to mid-2001. Last couple of years I went all the way with a razor. Almost a religious/ritualistic feeling to shave your head with a razor. At least for me it was. I keep myself entertained by constantly changing how I cut my beard. Theese last couple of months I have opted for some rad handlebars.

BTW
Do any of you, my long haired friends, experience what I like to call hair-paranoia? You keep thinking that you see something moving in the corner of you eye, but then you realize it's just your hair?

[Ali]

Definitely.

There's a moment of: "Oh Lord, the demons of my past have finally caught up with me!"

Then you realise it's hair.

[sedriss]

I have hair and long beardÃ,