The "lumbersexual"

[Goatboy]

Yes indeed I am. I cut down healthy tress regularly. I log them up and heat my home with them and I cook with them having seasoned them. I remove them because they are weed trees (e.g. elder which self seeds all over), sycamore, blackthorn suckers etc. In their place I plant important conservation species (True Service trees, hornbeam, Wild service, etc.).

I'm sure less biodiversity, less important habitats and more pollution from using commercial energy suit some but that doesn't suit me.

It may be "incredible" to you, but to me, being a steward of the land, means managing the land, improving it, working with it and gaining what I need (including fuel) from it - in a sustainable way.

How do you heat your home?

Hear, hear. My sentiments on land management exactly.

 

[Hibrion]

Accidentally being in 'fashion' has its drawbacks. I must admit I can relate to this meme of late:

 

[laro13]

Accidentally being in 'fashion' has its drawbacks. I must admit I can relate to this meme of late:

Nice one!

 

[John Fenna]

Yes indeed I am. I cut down healthy tress regularly. I log them up and heat my home with them and I cook with them having seasoned them. I remove them because they are weed trees (e.g. elder which self seeds all over), sycamore, blackthorn suckers etc. In their place I plant important conservation species (True Service trees, hornbeam, Wild service, etc.).

I'm sure less biodiversity, less important habitats and more pollution from using commercial energy suit some but that doesn't suit me.

It may be "incredible" to you, but to me, being a steward of the land, means managing the land, improving it, working with it and gaining what I need (including fuel) from it - in a sustainable way.

How do you heat your home?

This is the way ahead
And it allows me to use my axe while wearing my rough wool shirt, my beard flowing in the breeze and the setting sun glinting off the razor edge on my GB SFA....

 

[Bluebs4]

Id pull me back for sure , so were back to men looking like men thank god i dident come out

 

[oetzi]

This is the way ahead
And it allows me to use my axe while wearing my rough wool shirt, my beard flowing in the breeze and the setting sun glinting off the razor edge on my GB SFA....

Choose a popular hipster-crowded spot for lovingly sharpening the edge of said axe. Report afterwards of the reaction of the puplic.

 

[Countryman]

I could get smacked down here as we have some "intriguing" facial hair fashion in this community but young blokes with hair greased to perfection and Duck Commander beards cracks me up.

In years to come people will look back on their ancestors with a huge "***!"


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[James.R]

This is great news! My wife will be pleased! Her very fashionable husband! Mind you I don't buy my clothes to be fashionable just practical. Does this mean I don't have to change from work when I go out now?

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[andybysea]

James R cat walk beckons!

 

[Angry Pirate]

Yes indeed I am. I cut down healthy tress regularly. I log them up and heat my home with them and I cook with them having seasoned them. I remove them because they are weed trees (e.g. elder which self seeds all over), sycamore, blackthorn suckers etc. In their place I plant important conservation species (True Service trees, hornbeam, Wild service, etc.).

I'm sure less biodiversity, less important habitats and more pollution from using commercial energy suit some but that doesn't suit me.

It may be "incredible" to you, but to me, being a steward of the land, means managing the land, improving it, working with it and gaining what I need (including fuel) from it - in a sustainable way.

How do you heat your home?

Where's the like button when you need one!

I could get smacked down here as we have some "intriguing" facial hair fashion in this community but young blokes with hair greased to perfection and Duck Commander beards cracks me up.

I had to google duck commander. I took my son to have his hair cut in a barber's in Southport. It was a hipster joint with lots of men having their big manly beards trimmed to perfection. Put my scraggly effort to shame but kinda defeated the object of having a beard in the first place, i.e. lazy facial insulation.
Was in the market for a new wool checked shirt but this thread has put me right off now

 

[Countryman]

Thumbs up for sanity!




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[British Red]

I took my son to have his hair cut in a barber's in Southport. It was a hipster joint with lots of men having their big manly beards trimmed to perfection. Put my scraggly effort to shame but kinda defeated the object of having a beard in the first place, i.e. lazy facial insulation.

My wife likes my beard to be neatened once every few months. So I sit in the barn, she breaks out the clippers and tidies it up. Its still long but she evicts a few birds and its has less straggly outliers.

Its fair play I suppose - I cut her hair (with a laser level to make sure its accurate)

 

[oetzi]

This is great news! My wife will be pleased! Her very fashionable husband! Mind you I don't buy my clothes to be fashionable just practical. Does this mean I don't have to change from work when I go out now?

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Real men dont wash. Sweat, mixed with the skin´s natural oils, makes waterproof and keeps warm.
Real men also do shave, but in a manly way, with a straight razor.

 

[Bindle]

[video=youtube;5zey8567bcg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg[/video]

This video needs to be in this thread!

 

[Big Si]

How many of us have had the beardy short haired look for years and never known there is a name for it.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/14/lumbersexual-beard-plaid-male-fashion

What a load of rubbish.

Si

 

[Rabid]

Give it a week and it will be something else.

 

[sandbender]

Big Si's thread merged with this earlier one.

 

[Chris the Cat]

I think it's fine, great look, better than back-wards facing baseball caps and so.
I have little problem with young'uns fashion statements, as a youth in the 70's and 80's I had a few 'looks' myself!
Some fine beards out there, I commend them!

da C.

 

[Big Si]

Big Si's thread merged with this earlier one.

Thank you for that, Just show I need to read this pert of the forum more often!
Si

 

[Tengu]

But what if a beard is neccisary to your work, like that of a Philosopher or Archaeologist?