Beards ARE evil

[Loz]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4666132.stm

interesting article on the beeb website, think I'll check out that programme

[Spandex]

Blurt your brains...

Long beards are simply unfamiliar in western culture. Most people's exposure to them has been through the media such, as extremist Islamists such as Chechen rebels and the Taliban. "Association" at work. Simple as that. Don't blame the British public for that. Can anyone really be blamed for giving someone wearing a hoody,dark glasses,and a bushy beard (as in the photo here) suspicious looks? What has this experiment proved? Nothing really. Just another attempt to cry "Racist" in my opinion.
Adam Alexander Smith, Somerset

[e_wann]

infact muslims don't shave their beard init, got no prob with that if their happy, but only the rest of muslim-community gets a bad name out of it and it fanatics

[Jeniffer Mills]

Steev is beardy......C`mon Steev, talk about the daily harrasments you have to go through!

[e_wann]

infact 2 friends of mine are havin also one atm: 1 got a fully-wully and the other around his mouth, need also attention tho, that why i still shave. a guy who i know has a massive one and he need to roll his spliff-tips around 8 cm long coz otherwise he could/have burnt it

[Paddy]

whenever i read the comments on a bbc article, it always reassures me just how 'british' the british public are.

Mmmh, Dark Clothes, sun glasses, hoody...Dodgy what ever ethnich/religious background you come from.
Mick Slowey, Blackpool

[Loz]

somehow, I don't think that guy wore those clothes and sunglasses for much more than the photoshoot.

but I'll watch the programme, maybe he did.

This bit worried me the most:

So when I was stopped by police outside Downing Street, and searched yet again, I asked one of them the question: "Do I look dodgy?" The answer was a very definite yes.

"Would I look less dodgy without my rucksack?" I asked. "Dodgy," he replied. "What about if I wore a suit?" "You'd look like a dodgy bloke in a suit," he said. "How about if I shaved my beard?" "Dodgy. Just face it - you look dodgy," came the disconcerting reply.

Funny how I really have the strong feeling that if this guy was white, the policeman wouldn't have responded in the same way.

[joe pinapples]

The Beard and Mostache Competition - The MOST EVIL COMPETITION IN TEH WORLD?!?!?!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39522000/jpg/_39522469_winners_afp300body.j pg

The winner is in the middle - the most EVIL man ever? YES!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39522000/jpg/_39522419_posing_afp245body.jp g

A No-Future Party, yesterday.

[kams]

"Thank heavens this awful sounding program has been relegated to BBC3 and is not gracing our screens on BBC1. I'm irish and all the way through the height of the IRA bombings in London people looked at me in these so called 'odd' ways and I was stopped and searched all the time AND rightly so. It's not rocket science to put 2 and 2 together and work out the current threat is from radical British Muslims hence all Muslims will be under greater scrutiny. Honestly, I only wish these wingers would grow up and face the reality of where they are living and give us all a break!"

Ryan Cormick, Bristol



Yeah mate, give us ALL a break eh?

[Loz]

The thing is, during the 80s period of Stop and Search, it was Black people and Asians, not the Irish, who were 5 times as likely to be stopped and search than anyone else. And rightly so. Why don't they just wake up and realise where they live? A bigotted, scared and reactionary nation.

[joe pinapples]

I feel sorry for Black Irish people, like Phil Linnot he got stopped and searched so much. . . . he DIED!

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

Steev is beardy......C`mon Steev, talk about the daily harrasments you have to go through!

My main observation is that I get less sex when my 'tache starts growing into my mouth. Other than that it's all good.

I'm getting more harrasment for my hair though now.. after having a techno haircut for 11 years I've decided to grow it.. a couple of weeks ago it just passed my eye level.. so I'm continually brushing it out of my face.. I have a deep seated dislike of paying for my hair to be cut... so I'm in a bit of a muddle...

[Spandex]

My main observation is that I get less sex when my 'tache starts growing into my mouth. Other than that it's all good.

Yeah.. i just realised I can chew mine. Somethings got to give.

I have a deep seated dislike of paying for my hair to be cut... so I'm in a bit of a muddle...

We'll bring some scissors with us when we come down.

[Loz]

when your beard is of that strength, you can officially start drinking real ale.