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- From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Beards in heat
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.190207.15209@spdcc.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 19:02:07 GMT
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- dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
- >markm@ogicse.ogi.edu (Mark Morrissey) writes:
- >>It took years of cut and grow, cut and grow before I got my beard trained
- >>to grow on demand.
-
- >I suppose this is tongue-in-cheek. Your hair follicles don't know they've
- >been cut. All you're doing by shaving is creating a "level playing field",
- >and the years of effort are simply time to play your genes out.
-
- >>The sad part is that I am such a little furnace
- >>that I can't stand to wear it year round (not even in Butte, Montana
- >>where "hot" is 85 degrees).
-
- >I can't figure this one out. Have you considered the Sinead look?
- >Much cooler (most heat is lost thru the top of the head--trust me on
- >this.) I'm an original furnace but I don't find that a beard
- >makes me feel hotter (well, THAT way.) Is this a problem with sweat?
-
- I find that the beard keeps summer heat OFFF of my face
- (since the follicles don't have nerve endings). In terms of sweat
- I've also found that I get more cases of "itchy-beard" in humid
- places (say Boston as opposed to New Mexico)...
-
- BBC
-