They sound like a jerk. You should have given him a scary look and said "I only chop off the heads of strange people that talk to me"
People addressing you as 'Father'? ^^When I had longer hair and kept quite a bushy beard I was often mistaken for an orthodox priest. Hilarious.
I'd like to see that
People addressing you as 'Father'? ^^
Well, I had a dozen replies like that I instantly thought of. But as I said, he rushed right on and out of the door. No chance to get a word in, not after being stunned for a second until my brain managed to compute what the hell he was saying. Maybe he actually was afraid I might harm him after insulting me, or he knew if he had to defend his idiotic position in any way it'd be a losing battle. Maybe it made his sad square mid-life crisis day to totally have manned up and insulted someone right in their face and gotten away unscathed by running away. Who knows.
I somehow doubt that.
Yeah, the only people with long hair and a beard around here are usually priests, thus the common confusion. It was funny to observe how people changed their attitude immediately when they learnt I wasn't a priest.
I can't imagine it took much conversation before they realised you weren't a priest
Yeah, as soon as I mentioned that I don't like Iorveth it gave me away.
Well, they do seem to be quite fashionable, again, lately. At least among the younger folks. Everything from a bit of stubble on the chin to full beards is seen a lot more often than a couple of years ago.
In general, I don't think there's any particularly positive or negative stance towards beards as long as they're well-groomed. Just a matter of personal preference - personally I did get a lot of comments on my beard. It might be that in some lines of business, beards are frowned upon and employees might be strongly advised to keep them short, very well-groomed or preferably non-existent (e.g. banking), but that's rare, I think.
I did get insulted over my beard once, but that was just a latently racist fool making an idiot of himself. On my way home from sword training (with my bagged sword on my back), a middle-aged man approached me and asked "Hehe, already practicing how to chop heads of, are we?" - obviously referencing IS activity in the Middle East which was all over media at the time and basically accusing me of being a terrorist because of my beard - before walking straight on and off the train.
Yeah, well, I'm certainly not shedding any tears because I didn't get to have a talk with him.Honestly I think just ignoring him was the best course of action. Admittedly it feels better to tell idiots that they're being idiots, but at the end of the day, he may have just been looking for a fight, so it's best to just not let people like that affect you. It will annoy them more if you don't react.
Guess I'll keep it short or shaved for the first few months while I get an impression of my neighborhood, and then who knows.
My "problem" is I don't have a lot of pigment in my hair and a LOT of it is white, even in my beard. That's probably a good thing in these forums though!
You break my heart. :sad2::sadtriss:
Say you like me anyway, even though I can't grow a proper beard?Oh no, just how can I cheer you up? :affection:
Say you like me anyway, even though I can't grow a proper beard?
Haha, or maybe it is just fun to talk bull shit.
Say you like me anyway, even though I can't grow a proper beard?
:angry2:Well, er ... No.
:hmm:But maybe we could agree on different terms?
Got my seminar place today, which I wanted. Got crap places the last few semsters so I cancelled them, but this would have been my last chance. Very happy.