# Would you eat another guy’s mustache? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706 "2018-11-17T21:32:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EastUmpqua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eastumpqua/32/6025_2.png) [@EastUmpqua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EastUmpqua)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/1 "2018-11-17T21:32:34Z")
A sportscaster lost a bet that Pittsburgh would lose to Virginia Tech last weekend and had to eat Dave Wannstedt’s mustache today on national TV. What would it take for you to eat another guy’s mustache? ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/2 "2018-11-17T22:41:26Z")
That depends, what are you offering? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/3 "2018-11-18T03:53:53Z")
I wouldn’t even eat my own moustache – and I know what it’s been marinated in. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/4 "2018-11-18T04:37:46Z")
It would certainly be an unpleasant experience. Better than eating poop or drinking cum, but unpleasant all the same. Hmmm… If the guy washed his face right before I’d do for a bottle of decent Irish whiskey. If not… a case of decent Irish whiskey. And I get to drink a glass or two right before. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > I wouldn’t even eat my own moustache – and I know what it’s been marinated in. Hell, I wouldn’t eat my own mustache _because_ I know what’s been in it! ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/5 "2018-11-18T05:13:39Z")
Money! Very simple, PAY ME.:D:D ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/6 "2018-11-18T11:20:13Z")
I’m not a guy, can’t grow a mustache. Is this a board for men only? ---
**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:** [November 18, 2018, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/7 "2018-11-18T12:39:13Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > I’m not a guy, can’t grow a mustache. Is this a board for men only? Good grief. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/8 "2018-11-18T12:58:48Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Good grief. > mmm Yeah, it may seem stupid to you, but it is a continual thing on this board to assume that everyone reading your post is a man. If you are a man, you wouldn’t notice it, of course. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/9 "2018-11-18T13:10:33Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > I’m not a guy, can’t grow a mustache. Is this a board for men only? Im looking over the thread title and OP and I can’t fathom how you’ve concluded that this thread is in any way exclusive to those who can grow mustaches. Is it because of the use of “another”? I’m sure that’s just to accentuate that one’s own mustache doesn’t count, in case you are a person that has or can grow one. The question in the OP doesn’t require that one be able to grow a mustache to answer, but have a mouth to eat one. But what if it were? If someone started a thread regarding growing mustaches, why would it be okay for you to threadshit and ask such a stupid question? A thread regarding growing mustaches wouldn’t deem this a message board for men only, just as threads that are regarding things that are generally exclusive to women don’t make it a board for women only. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/10 "2018-11-18T13:12:28Z")
It’s true, and that’s a problem. We should always bear in mind that this board is an inclusive community comprising men and women from all 50 states across the nation. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/11 "2018-11-18T13:24:01Z")
In this case, however, the question isn’t really gender-specific, since nobody is being asked to eat their own moustache. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/12 "2018-11-18T13:57:29Z")
No, it really is a gender-specific thread. Otherwise it would be titled, “Guys: would you eat another man’s mustache?” Imagine if it was aimed at women. “Women: would you eat a mustache?” See how that is different? I know this is a dumb thread and it makes it seem like my hijack is even stupider than it is. But my general irritation is not just my own – although I may be the only woman on this board lame enough to open a thread with that title. The assumption by many men on this board is that men are the default audience and that any women should just adapt to that fact, is extremely noticeable, more than any discussion board I have ever spent any time on, including ones pertaining to male-dominated hobbies. Perhaps there is a free-wheeling cigars and brandy attitude on the Dope which makes some men forget that they are not the only ones in the room. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/13 "2018-11-18T14:18:41Z")
OK, you specified two ways to title it which are gender-specific, neither of which is the phrasing of the actual title. Now how would you title it so it wasn’t gender-specific? While maintaining the distinction that nobody could eat their own moustache, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/14 "2018-11-18T17:18:34Z")
Um, women can grow mustaches too. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/15 "2018-11-18T17:21:11Z")
Is the mustache pre-shaved or do we have to gnaw it off the lip? Hard pass either way, but it might make a difference to someone. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/16 "2018-11-18T18:30:09Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > OK, you specified two ways to title it which are gender-specific, neither of which is the phrasing of the actual title. Now how would you title it so it wasn’t gender-specific? While maintaining the distinction that nobody could eat their own moustache, of course. Tricky. “Would you eat a man’s mustache?” is the best I can do. It does imply that, if you are a man, that it isn’t _your_ mustache, although not as firmly as I would like. Or you could go with awkward: “Men: would you eat another man’s mustache? Women: would you eat any man’s mustache?” ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/17 "2018-11-18T18:43:28Z")
Would you eat someone else’s mustache? ---
**Author:** ![EastUmpqua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eastumpqua/32/6025_2.png) [@EastUmpqua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EastUmpqua)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/18 "2018-11-18T19:20:31Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Would you eat someone else’s mustache? Or Would you eat another person’s mustache. My bad on the choice of words. No exclusion intended. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveroptic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiveroptic/32/8257_2.png) [@Fiveroptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveroptic)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/19 "2018-11-18T19:31:47Z")
Ridiculous hijack aside – nope. I can’t fathom trying to swallow a mouthful of hair, especially short, stabby ones that compose a mustache, without gagging and choking. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706/20 "2018-11-18T19:35:34Z")
How fine are you allowed to dice it? Hair is not at all nice to eat, and facial hair is particularly coarse. If it has to be ‘straight as comes off the face’ - well, no, I think I’d be hurling all over someone’s shoe if I tried it (I guess I should ask… how exactly DID moustache-eater manage to choke the thing down?) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-another-guy-s-mustache/824706.md?page=2)