beard

what is it with beards?

i tried to have one once, but it became mildly irritating; more so when i shaved it off and 75% of my lower face almost peeled off leaving some nasty red lumps.

so if you're thinking about growing a beard, then my advice is do not.

the most famous person in history with a beard was bluebeard, the famous pirate from that book which is a story about... um, pirates. i don't have a problem with bluebeard, he was a maverick and an early adopter of what was to come many years later...

...unfortunately, billy connolly was woefully miscast in my view. as to why he went with a royal blue (some would deem it purple) goatee-type beard thing in an advert for the lotto (some purists would deem it the national lottery... i'm with the purists) is beyond me.

if he thought that it would go in some way to making him look cool, or appear like the once legendary bluebeard then the plan to add an extra couple of pages onto his autobiography would surely seem ill-conceived.

as it happens, he just ended up having a wierd beard.