Of course. It’s entirely inappropriate to stroke someone else’s beard - particularly if one is mumbling, chuckling or screaming in an evil and/or maniacal fashion.
It depends whether the beard-wearer has consented to such activity or not.
Oh, it’s great fun…really, it is.
I used to keep it pretty short, but I’ve been letting the length of my goatee grow unchecked for several months. I just measured for the first time, and I find that I’ve got a good four inches for my stroking pleasure.
Ummm…waitaminute…
Sorry to be so blunt, but if you use scissors or a razor to trim your beard, you are a fool. And yes, I have been that fool on a number of occasions. Once, right before a date.
Your local drugstore carries electric beard trimmers for about $20. It’s a wise investment, as you can say goodbye to the instagoatee.
Aww…I didn’t know men came in calico! 
It’s the exact same thing with me. My hair is a relatively dark brown but my beard grows in quite red. I know a few other people that this happens to as well. I guess it’s not as uncommon as I thought it was when I first realized it was happening to me. I like to refer to myself as two-tone 
Last time I gave up shaving was because I was using a single blade razor and I cut of the tip of my nose. :eek: Five years later I resumed shaving after my beard grew white. 
I think you’re getting them confused with stoats.
It’s actually quite easy to tell them apart. The first are weasely recognised, while the others are stoatally different.
Its not so much being a fool as being cheap and waiting for my birthday when I’m 90% sure I’m getting said beard trimmer. That’s Sunday.
I agree with that so much that I coined the phrase “scro-tee” when my husband said he was going to grow one.
Scrotums are the organ of the damned?
I went to Reveal MedSpa for this, because they have a state of the art Light Sheer machine - the latest generation of laser technology is a big improvement over earlier models - and the total price tag for beard annihilation came to USD $2500. That was after I bargained it down to a 40% discount. I got financing, 12 months same as cash. There are risks involved. They make no guarantees. I’ll still need electrolysis for the gray hairs, haven’t priced that yet but it ain’t cheap either.
Hmm…while it’s still at the chump change level, $2500 seems a bit steep for just beard removal, Johanna. When I helped do some grunt work for Cecil for his column on hair removal ( http://www.straightdope.com/columns/060602.html ) I found that some folks ended up with about 95+% removal for about $1500 (with sessions at $90 per), and at least one was done within $900 (with 99% removal after 30 months). Both myself and Fierra have had laser on numerous places on our respective bodies, and not found it to be painful other than areas like ankles/knees where the skin is thin.
Even if one doesn’t get high removal rates, my research into facial hair removal for men showed that even just one or two $100 treatments thinned the hair greatly, and made daily shaving a tremendous amount easier with much less razor burn. A man who really hates shaving ought to go and try getting a test patch (typically free) done on their face, then have the same area re-done about 6 weeks later as another test, and then a year later see how that part of the face behaves when shaving. I’ll bet they’ll notice a significant difference just from that.
Give it a few decades.
Well? Did you?
Oh, and happy birthday. 
Just wanted to pop in and say: don’t buy those cheap trimmers. They’re cheap because, well, they’re cheap. The chintzy little plastic guide that’s supposed to keep it a safe distance from your face is liable to snap off at the worst possible moment, rendering the trimmer useless and making you look ridiculous.
If you didn’t get one for your birthday, spend a few extra bucks and get a Wahl. They’re very solid and should give you many happy years of service.
The price difference might be accounted for by the difference in technology. Were you looking at Alexandrite lasers? That was an earlier technology, which has lower effectiveness, higher temperatures, and only works on pale skin. I found a place using that technology that is as cheap as you researched, and used their prices to bargain down the price at Reveal. However, with my swarthy Mediterranean complexion, I probably need to go for the newer technology that can handle my situation.
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This would be more helpful to the OP, didn’t mean to hijack the thread. And for anyone considering laser, you’ll be told to avoid all tanning. Use the highest SPF you can if you mean to get laser, and stay out of the sun. You need the palest possible skin for best results.
Typically I look for the LightSheer diode laser when I compare prices. Part of the issue might depend as well on what market one is in. The KC metro market is fairly competitive, and laser prices are very reasonable.
I’m a good customer so I get a lot of free touch-ups as well.