# I just realized I don't think I know anyone with (just a) mustache. Do you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 15, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206 "2017-03-15T01:00:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/21 "2017-03-15T14:14:03Z")
In my travels I see them with some frequency. Waxed handle-bars are a thing with skinny hipster guys in urban areas. It seems that a lot of guys from India in tech jobs have mustaches. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/22 "2017-03-15T14:44:02Z")
I swap back and forth between just a mustache and a full beard, based on the season. The mustache by itself didn’t start happening until after I had a sprog, though; there’s something very Dadly about having a ridiculous mustache. Also, I make a scarily accurate Bob Belcher for Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/23 "2017-03-15T15:13:50Z")
The CEO of our company does. He’s otherwise a really handsome man but the 'stache just does not suit. We have many South Asian men here and I don’t think I’ve seen a single one with a mustache. Didn’t Tom Selleck grow his back after going clean shaven for a while? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/24 "2017-03-15T15:24:04Z")
The young manager at the local Chick-fil-A has a handlebar cookie duster, like he’s working at the Shakey’s Pizza (think Snidely Whiplash). ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/25 "2017-03-15T15:44:30Z")
I know a couple of people at work who still sport the mustache-only look. You know engineers are famed for their fashion sense. And of course there is John Stossel. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/26 "2017-03-15T15:52:17Z")
I think I should have exluded handlebars in my OP. I think those fit a different category of dude. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/27 "2017-03-15T15:55:22Z")
My wife’s uncle, my friend’s dad, a dude I work with and a dude at my church. So: 4. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/28 "2017-03-15T16:04:59Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > it’s the only facial hair the US military allows (except for some people who have religious exceptions-- I know a rabbi who is a reserve chaplain and has a full beard). Most special forces operators that I know have full beards, so it’s not only religious exceptions. ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/29 "2017-03-15T16:16:54Z")
I can think of a few. An older attorney I now has one as well as the architect whose office is down the hall. He’s older as well. I saw a young guy at the bike shop with one. I had one for a few weeks about 8 years ago. I kept it mainly to irritate my wife, and shaved it off after a while. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/30 "2017-03-15T17:11:04Z")
Our city’s fire chief has one. I’d say he’s about 50 years old. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/31 "2017-03-15T17:45:40Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > I work with a lot of guys from India. Every single one of them has a mustache and no other facial hair. That’s what I was going to say… the Indian guys I work with almost all sport pretty solid mustaches. Also, they’re not entirely uncommon among Hispanic men that I see out and about. Outside of those two groups, I can’t think of anyone under 50-60 who only has a mustache. There are some folks above that 50-60 year old limit who do- my FIL is one. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/32 "2017-03-15T18:16:58Z")
My 18-year-old son has one. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/33 "2017-03-15T18:20:51Z")
Forgot to mention I also live in the Midwest. Yes, I know I’m not cool, but that doesn’t usually bother me. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/34 "2017-03-15T18:30:56Z")
I was active duty in the Navy, and now I work as a civilian for the Navy. Let’s just say there’s no lack of mustaches among my acquaintances. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/35 "2017-03-15T21:32:22Z")
I had one about a year and a half ago. The whole family dressed as characters from the movie **Frozen** for Halloween. I was [Wandering Oaken](http://foreverfrozensolid.tumblr.com/post/125697288846/wandering-oaken). Yoo-hoo! I usually have a goatee, so in preparation, I spent part of September and October growing out a full beard, then shaved my chin for Halloween. That kind of facial hair is too crazy to keep, so after Halloween I shaved the sides and left myself with a horseshoe-style mustache while I waited for the middle to fill back in. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/36 "2017-03-15T22:25:42Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > Me. More or less continually since 1983. This is exactly me but you can remove “more or less” and I guess for the grammar nazis we can change “continually” to “continuously”. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/37 "2017-03-15T23:44:41Z")
One of my brothers. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/38 "2017-03-15T23:49:45Z")
Me, had it since 1980. I shaved it off for the hell of it about 10 years ago, and it freaked out my kids whom had never seen me without it. So I grew it back. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/39 "2017-03-16T00:55:26Z")
Not me, never, and I don’t see a lot of them where I live (Brooklyn, New York), although some of the hipster contingent seem to like exotic handlebar moustaches. But it seems to be almost the default among middle-aged to elderly men where my wife is from (Newfoundland, Canada, or maybe it’s just her town). Every guy seems to have one. Her father, all his friends, everyone I see on the street (admittedly not much of a street – you can walk from one end of it to the other in ten minutes). ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206/40 "2017-03-16T01:10:12Z")
The only one I can think of is a colleague of mine; he also likes to wear lady’s footwear…Yeah, he’s a bit unconventional. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-i-dont-think-i-know-anyone-with-just-a-mustache-do-you/782206.md?page=3)