Southern Hemisphere merchants seem to be overly fond of the “Oi-mate-you’ve-missed-a-bit” goatee look.
I personally favour the extravagant sideboards I used to see sported by Irish labourers in London in the 60s but which, for some strange reason, have gone out of fashion.
Hm. Sounds like me. I get my hair cut about two or three times a year. Right now I’m in the “Let’s see how long I can stand it” phase. Then I get it cut very, very short; sometimes spiking it. But when it’s short, I get “helmet head” when I ride the motorcycle. Sort of a couple of “ridges” where the ventilation channels are in the the padding of the helmet. Can’t do anything about it, unless I don’t ride, so I just reckon I don’t have to look at it! It’s not my problem! 
You are not wrong.
Hey maybe that is what “American hair” is. They are the ones that brushed and moussed, rather then going with the “bed hair? what’s that?” look.
(is it too late to say I have a Pommy fetish?)
Being a baldie I have, like all other baldies, been tempted by the devils own goatee.
There is a perfectly good anglo-saxon word for a warm wet home surrounded by a tuft of hair. I realised that when I had a goatee I was one of those. So off it came.
You have no idea how much that made me laugh.
On the subject of national " hair " there is a particular hair colour much favoured by women from eastern Europe , especially Russia and Poland. It is a deep red colour which I have not seen used by women from other parts of the world. Perhaps it is a by-product of all those beet-roots they eat over there. If you look carefully at some of the competitors and officials at the ongoing Olympics you will see what I mean .
My own 'boards were originally a fairly pathetic attempt at a protest against the prevalence of the goatee when it re-emerged (in South Wales anyway) with a vengeance in the early 1990s. Now they’re just plain stupid but I’ve grown attached to them - or is it the other way round? They require minimal maintenance and distract people from the broad acres of spam above.
How do blokes with the aforementioned oi-mate-you’ve-missed-a-bits shape them? Are there specially narrow razors???
I always wondered that! Some of them are very intricate. Seems like it would be a mighty pain in the arse to maintain.
As I said earlier, the 1937 Constitution defined the name of the State as “Ireland” (“Éire” only if you’re speaking in Irish). In 1949 the State became a republic, but its name didn’t change.
Sorry Red, you were absolutely right, twice. I’ve been reading too many British documents from the 1939-45 period, which always refer to Dev’s paradise in the Irish.
I’m sure that’s not the worst thing they call it 