Goatees and other "I'm single!" signals. . .

I don’t think a goatee is a single signal. Not shaving constantly, however, is one. The more tight and well kept the facial hair the more likely they have a SO. Single guys are more likely to sporadically go without shaving for a couple of days.

::Quickly realizes that I haven’t shaved in 5 days and this could explain many things.::

Hmmmm… let’s see, I shaved mine off 1 week before I met my ex-wife. I grew it back one month before my ex-wife became my ex-wife.

Is there a pattern here?

I didn’t grow my goatee until several months after I got married. My wife asked me to shave it, then afterwards decided she liked me better with it, so I grew it back.

This thread does not apply to me. I recently discovered that, instead of a goatee, I have a circle beard.
This information, I know, is somehow very important to share.

Sua

That’s Emily Litella.

This makes sense to me. You could assume the goatee = singleness 'cause if they had a SO, they’d be mad at the scratchiness when they kiss.

Doesn’t mean it’s true (obviously)… but could be an origin.

I’ve been clean-shaven, just a ‘stache, a full beard, a goatee, a vincent, and now, a vincent with a thin “chin-line” beard, which my wife says makes me look hot. However, I don’t now and in no case before did I ever find myself beating the chicks away with a dead fish. I’ve come to the conclusion that even with some whiskers, I’m just not a hunka hunka chunk o’ burning man flesh, but by that alone, I’m betting that girls simply assume that I’m single. It does seem though to me, that the majority of goatee’d guys are single, or giving that impression by not wearing a ring. My guess is that advertising usually shows that the single hot guy wearing a goatee is the one driving the cool new car, drinking the best beer, and apologizing to 37 women each night that he just can’t fit them in for dinner. “goatee = cool = babe magnet”. Same as all those damn Dockers I bought. Didn’t get a single butt comment wearing em shooting pool!

Mmmmm… You’ve got me thinking about how nice it is when Droo nibbles the back of my neck (he has a lovely goatee). Feels all nice and tingly (good scratchyness).

Too bad that he’s gay & I’m a girl, so I’ll never get to feel that anywhere else…

Uhh . . . What’s a ‘vincent’?
And jeezus. I admit I was pretty clueless, but it looks like the clean shaven guys are getting all the chicks. Whew. At least I did something right. . .
Tripler
But where are all the chicks?

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A Vincent, aka Van Gogh, is a mustache and a goatee.

A Goatee is just the beard.

A Van Dyke is a mustache that is connected to a goatee.

I definitly, like having facial fair I usually just sport a chin strap or goatee. It’s kinda just whatever I feel like doing when I get around to shaving.
Phaeton
Mmmmm… You’ve got me thinking about how nice it is when Droo nibbles the back of my neck (he has a lovely goatee). Feels all nice and tingly (good scratchyness).

Too bad that he’s gay & I’m a girl, so I’ll never get to feel that anywhere else…

WoW you are the first girl I have ever heard say that.

Every girlfriend I’ve had wants me to shave. I will only do this if I think I’ll be keeping her around longer than the goatee.

:stuck_out_tongue: :wink:

Yeah, Wolverine, that makes more sense than just a goatee. I imagine if I had a SO, she wouldn’t let me leave my trimming for as long as I do (when I get working on a film for class, I generally don’t shave until it’s close to done; too busy).

I’ve had a goatee almost continuously for about eight years. I grow a bad mustache, so I shave my upper lip fairly regularly (once a week, anyway). I trim my goatee once every two or three months. With a pair of scissors. Unless I really let it go. For a while I had a goatee five inches long and braided. Of course I’m single.

I like having a beard, but it’s in large part because I hate shaving. Yeah, yeah, I know; I’m just lazy. True, but not interesting. (Where the hell was that quote from, anyway?) I keep it (the beard, that is) trimmed; more than an inch or so above the jawline and it starts getting really sparse, so I trim it there. This, of course, means that my (admittedly thin) mustache doesn’t really connect with my beard, but I’m willing to put up with that. Don’t really know how Dr. LindyHopper feels about it, but she obviously doesn’t hate it, since I’ve had it for four years or so and I’ve heard no complaints. And yeah, it itches sometimes, but for some reason, the hair there makes it feel really good when you scratch it!