# Neckbeard con moustache: si o no? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 24, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659 "2005-06-24T12:49:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/1 "2005-06-24T12:49:17Z")
I’m growing a neckbeard. Technically, I’m attempting to grow a beard, but I carry the Curse of the Male 455s in that it comes out all patchy and scraggly everywhere but the neck. Well, the neck and one other area: the 'stache, naturally. Unfortunately, it’s coming in a couple of shades darker than my normal patchy strawberry blonde, so it’s rather prominent. I look something like a cross between a sloppy hipster, a bum, and a pubescent thug. Mrs. Maidenname-455, kind soul that she is, refuses to tell me whether I look like a complete idiot or not, so I’m turning to the IMHOes. In general, when one’s choice in a beard is between the Amish look or what one of the kids in _Gummo_ would look like had they tried to grow one, which way should one swing? PS: If the consensus is to kill that caterpillar, I don’t necessarily agree to follow it. I’m contemplating going as a Tom of Finland character for Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/2 "2005-06-24T13:06:58Z")
I’m not really getting a good idea from your description what this looks like (what the hell is _Gummo_?), but it sounds to me like you should shave the beard, at least. A beard without a mustache just looks dumb. Maybe you should post a picture. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/3 "2005-06-24T13:14:10Z")
I think what he is saying is that he grows more hair on his neck then on his face. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/4 "2005-06-24T13:17:24Z")
> [@Scott Plaid](#): > > I think what he is saying is that he grows more hair on his neck then on his face. Never a good look. Shave it. Unless you’re such a pretty boy that it helps when you ugly it up a bit. In that case… Neh, shave it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/5 "2005-06-24T13:41:32Z")
Sorry sir, that sounds quite unattractive. Neck beards never look good, and moustaches only look good when paired with a regular beard or goatee, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/6 "2005-06-24T13:55:28Z")
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/) Gummo. I think of Abe Lincoln when I think ‘neckbeard’. Is this the beard of which you speak? Do you really want to look like this guy? [http://www.dickbird.org/christopher3.jpg](http://www.dickbird.org/christopher3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/7 "2005-06-24T13:57:33Z")
Your SO’s refusal to tell you you look like an idiot means she’s a nice person, not that you don’t look like an idiot. Shave. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/8 "2005-06-24T13:59:38Z")
Aren’t neck beards popular with the white supremacist clique? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/9 "2005-06-24T14:11:09Z")
No offence but I find men who have aa beard without moustache creepy - can’t explain it but, just creepy. (Goatees without bare upper lips are just about ok but nah, neckbeard = creepy.) ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/10 "2005-06-24T14:14:59Z")
> [@black455](#): > > but I carry the Curse of the Male 455s in that it comes out all patchy and scraggly everywhere but the neck. > > Well, the neck and one other area: the 'stache, naturally. I am the only one reading this? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/11 "2005-06-24T14:16:09Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/) Gummo. OK, never heard of that one, so the reference does me no good in getting the picture. > [@](#): > > Do you really want to look like this guy? [http://www.dickbird.org/christopher3.jpg](http://www.dickbird.org/christopher3.jpg) Boy, if that’s the look the OP is going for, he definitely needs to shave! If you can’t grow the whole beard + mustache, don’t even try. Shave. Unless it’s a goatee, but then you still need the mustache. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/12 "2005-06-24T14:23:10Z")
Another female speaking up. Mustache \*sans \* beard: Can be hot. Beard \*sans \* mustache: Looks like you shaved it by accident. Neckbeard \*sans \* Chin beard: Really, really weird. Get rid of it! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/13 "2005-06-24T14:28:33Z")
Many sorrys :smack: I just kinda got put off by the picture **Filmgeek** linked to. All forgiven ? **black455** do you look like [this guy](http://gallery.beardcommunity.com/uploads9/Side2_033102) ? He doesn’t give me the creeps. Take a stroll through this (slightly disturbing) [gallery](http://gallery.beardcommunity.com/) to get an idea of how you light look to others, show photos to your lady and judge her reaction … [hijack] **Anaamika** do you speak Hindi ? If so there’s a gfuy looking foir a translation, not sure which forum tho’. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/14 "2005-06-24T14:29:13Z")
> [@Cat Jones](#): > > [hijack] **Anaamika** do you speak Hindi ? If so there’s a gfuy looking foir a translation, not sure which forum tho’. [/hijack] Thank you, I did find him and put in my bit. I don’t get an invite, though, since I can’t speak Marathi. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/15 "2005-06-24T14:30:14Z")
Better luck next time 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/16 "2005-06-24T14:30:57Z")
> [@Cat Jones](#): > > Many sorrys :smack: I just kinda got put off by the picture **Filmgeek** linked to. All forgiven ? All is forgiven. OPer? Keep the 'stach. Lose the neck. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/17 "2005-06-24T14:55:53Z")
Neckbeard – hideous. Get rid of it. Now, you may actually be able to grow a beard but not know it. But it’ll take time. Mine took several months to look like more than just a poor shaving job. But now it looks fine. So my advice – shave your neck, let the beard on your face grow for a few months, and recognize that you’ll look like a doofus until it’s come all the way in. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/18 "2005-06-24T15:40:39Z")
I’ve only got about six weeks invested in this growth, so it hasn’t quite yet reached Mennonite proportions: [http://neussubjex.net/misc/creep.jpg](http://neussubjex.net/misc/creep.jpg) That’s from a couple of weeks ago, and it’s not a great picture, but it’s the only one I’ve got at the moment. I should probably mention that I’ve got plenty on the chin (and soul patch), just not much on the cheeks. > [@twickster](#): > > Your SO’s refusal to tell you you look like an idiot means she’s a nice person, not that you don’t look like an idiot. I would like to believe that. However, she has no problem telling me I look like an idiot the rest of the time. Maybe it’s that she realizes that to insult a man’s beard is to inflict a wound from which he may never recover. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/19 "2005-06-24T15:47:02Z")
I didn’t know you joined NAMBLA! Who _is_ your SO? Scrappy? ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neckbeard-con-moustache-si-o-no/309659/20 "2005-06-24T16:16:44Z")
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