so gross, and i'll definitely get around to shaving mine.

Isn't this like saying pubic hair is a disgusting fad?

Yes, and so are gauges.

Fashionable seasonally

Beards are not gross. Smearing food in your beard is gross.

They are a lazy fad, young men today just can't take the time for personal grooming, so they let their face-carpets grow wild. Hippies.

I've had my beard for many years. I wash it every morning and every night, I use essential oils on it and I groom and shape the thing at least twice a week. If this is disgusting, lazy or seasonal then... well... GO FUCK YOURSELF ALREADY.

I used to have a beard, lately I use clippers to trim the stubble as low as possible once a week.I think of all the options my current is the laziest. beards are actually a bit of work, unless you never trim, shape, wash or wax them.

I was in a coffee shop a few weeks ago, and a bearded guy was getting ready for a big sneeze. He did something I hope I never see again: pulled his t-shirt over his face/beard and let it go. Not specifically a beard-related grossness, but I'm sure it concentrated the sneezy stuff in his beard. Ew.

Yeah, I don't see the lazy aspect. And I'm lazy. If anything, on the one or two occasions that I've started growing one, it got to be real annoying and I gave up as soon as it started to require any sort of maintenance & upkeep. I'll tell you what I really don't get is this whole trend of people doing the completely clean shaven head and then big, bushy beard thing simultaneously. Seems to be pretty much maximizing the amount of personal grooming required. What a nightmare.

My new drag queen name - Harry Dragqueen

Shaving with an old-school double-edge razor everyday is so fun and satisfying (really) that I'll never grow a beard again...

@2: Actually, it's lack of pubic hair that's a disgusting fad.

Especially on the otherwise hirsute.

I only have a beard right now because I'm on blood thinners for 6 months. I love shaving and can't wait to get this face carpet straight-razored off. that said, the only thing more obnoxious than beards is beard backlash. just shut the fuck up already.

Beards have been going in and out of fashion for as long as there have been razors, and they will keep going in and out of fashion forever. So you could say that they are a fad in the sense that the current vogue will inevitably end, and classic in that they'll inevitably return. But ultimately, it's a matter of personal taste, and people who dislike beards should quit bitching and accept that no man who likes his beard is going to shave just because they don't like it. Unless you are fucking a guy, it's not your place to police his hairstyle.

Beards need to take their place among other trendy fads, like agriculture or language.

I grew my beard in '73. They are what happens when you don't pervert nature. Razors are the fad. Love, dirty hippie

When it comes to my beard, I do whatever the hipsters tell me I shouldn't do, because that's what they secretly want me to do, or not do, or something.

The Beard Festival. Take note, Seattle. You can do better.