Flashes, sporrans and... facial hair?

[Kilted_John]

Oh. I forgot to post that bit.
Just that at the age of TWENTY FOUR I finally managed to grow a decent pair of sideburns.
Finally.

Geez... I started getting a full beard in when I was 15. Finally decided to put the Braun shaver away in 1996, at the age of 21. Been wearing facial hair ever since then. Usually a full beard, but about three time in the past three years, I have trimmed it off so I had a goatee...

-J

[davedove]

You know, I still sometimes get offered a half fare on the bus.

It must be nice. I'm already getting offered the senior discount in some restaurants. It's usually some 16 year old working that gives it to me. I sometimes don't know whether to be insulted or to take the discount.

I generally take the discount.

[Oldhiker]

Tell us more about how you knitted these. my wife knits and I had asked here how to do these and she was clueless.

Thanks

[TheKiltedWonder]

You know, I still sometimes get offered a half fare on the bus.
And then go to the pub and don't get I.D'd.
How it goes, I guess.

Don't complain. At 23 I look so ancient with my full beard that not only do I not get ID'd, none of the people with me get ID'd either. Needless to say all my 21, 22, 23 year old female friends get mad at me and complain about how old I make them look

[Arlen]

Tell us more about how you knitted these. my wife knits and I had asked here how to do these and she was clueless.

Thanks

Fairly simple.
A knit stitch all the way. 5 stitches across and as many rows as you need for them to wrap around your leg twice and hang just a little.
As for the frays, just take 5 lengths of yarn and thread them through loop of each knot at the end. Then tie them and pick them apart. Do this for both ends and you have nice frays on your flashes.

[Kilted_John]

In the past 11 years, I think I may've been ID'ed twice. Likely because I don't drink alcoholic beverages.

-J

[Retro Red]

Oh. I forgot to post that bit.
Just that at the age of TWENTY FOUR I finally managed to grow a decent pair of sideburns.
Finally.

Yeah, I can relate to sparse facial hair. I was well into my thirties before I needed to shave every day & it's taken me about fifty years to grow a decent beard. Spare facial hair was handy in the Air Force, though. In basic training, one of the most common things guys got demerits on was a dirty razor - the slightest bit of hair or shaving cream or even a water mark got you a demerit. Well, that was never a problem with me because I went through the entire 6-weeks of training without shaving; my razor looked brand new because it was! Oh, & I'd just turned 20 when I volunteered.

I'm not complaining, though. Scraping my face with a sharp blade every day isn't my idea of fun. That's not the reason I finally grew a beard, though. I find that as a man with a "baby face" & who likes to wear kilts, that having facial hair helps avoid, shall we say, some "awkward misunderstandings" as to my gender (this was especially true when I had long hair down to my butt).

Congratulations on the side-burns & great job on the garter flashes & sporran!
.

[Arlen]

I find that as a man with a "baby face" & who likes to wear kilts, that having facial hair helps avoid, shall we say, some "awkward misunderstandings" as to my gender (this was especially true when I had long hair down to my butt).

Congratulations on the side-burns & great job on the garter flashes & sporran!
.

I can understand that.
Being short and baby-faced I had that problem till I was about 22, short hair or no.
I suppose that it didn't help that for a long time I was very overweight and had some rather pronounced man-boobs.


That said, I am working on growing a bear more for religious reasons than just purely looks. So it's not something to go into on board.

[gilmore]

...That said, I am working on growing a bear more for religious reasons than just purely looks. ...

Joining the Ursulines?

[Clockwork John]

Becoming an Orthodox priest?