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i work in mental heath, w/ dually diagnosed adults and kids, work in academia and within private orgs. i am an art and wrting douchbag by design. i’m good at what i do within the mental health/human services world. initially i’m greeted with “oh shit…he works for us type of looks.” i play nice though and can hold up my end of a clinical discussion.

clients seem to dig me. they think, "cool, the guy helping me is a pirate or biker, we talk about tattoos, which leads to questions, develops trust, and opens doors of communication for me which are often locked to others. it’s funny with kids though, i don’t come across like the guy who parents should take their kids to see for problems at home. But…suprise suprise i have a lot in common w/ 5 to 12yr olds.

derek 542- funny you mention the healthcare field, being new to the south and my women being new to her hospital as md/phd. she’s got some questions and comments from her team and the nurses during wards when i picked her up. funny, as if female docs cannot love hairy tattooed biker guys. they must not watch SOA. she tells them what i do, and they go… really, does he have to cover up his tattoos?

it’s a sad world that people have to conform to looking a certain way. now don’t get me wrong, having a bone or a metal rod hanging out of your face or penis, well that shit is ABNORMAL. but tatts and a big ol’ beard, well that is the guy i want taking out my gall bladder and/or handling my investment portfolio!

what’s next? a muscle laden bearded black dentist tearing out teeth?

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[quote]cyruseven75 wrote:
i work in mental heath, w/ dually diagnosed adults and kids, work in academia and within private orgs. i am an art and wrting douchbag by design. i’m good at what i do within the mental health/human services world. initially i’m greeted with “oh shit…he works for us type of looks.” i play nice though and can hold up my end of a clinical discussion. clients seem to dig me. they think, "cool, the guy helping me is a pirate or biker, we talk about tattoos, which leads to questions, develops trust, and opens doors of communication for me which are often locked to others. it’s funny with kids though, i don’t come across like the guy who parents should take their kids to see for problems at home. But…suprise suprise i have a lot in common w/ 5 to 12yr olds.

derek 542- funny you mention the healthcare field, being new to the south and my women being new to her hospital as md/phd. she’s got some questions and comments from her team and the nurses during wards when i picked her up. funny, as if female docs cannot love hairy tattooed biker guys. they must not watch SOA. she tells them what i do, and they go… really, does he have to cover up his tattoos?

it’s a sad world that people have to conform to looking a certain way. now don’t get me wrong, having a bone or a metal rod hanging out of your face or penis, well that shit is ABNORMAL. but tatts and a big ol’ beard, well that is the guy i want taking out my gall bladder and/or handling my investment portfolio!

what’s next? a muscle laden bearded black dentist tearing out teeth? [/quote]

When I was working ER we all ran rough, but working nights, weekends and trauma nobody really cares. But now presentation is part of my job, so I have to cover all my ink, and keep a goatee trim and “professionally styled”.

I do however wear blue jeans, steal toed Red Wings, and button up shirts, I do physicals and first aid care on construction workers. This helps break the ice and I am not viewed as the company “Dr”.

BUT an 80 year old white guy or lady will not want a bearded, tattooed, Harley rider doing there medical care or investment portfolio. Maybe in 10-20 years things of course will be different.

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i jest. i understand. things will likely never be different, on some levels i’m ok w/ that. people like to feel safe and have built constructs and paradigms around making their visual world make sense to them, e.g. making them feel “safe” what ever the fuck that means. sadly, a lot of our visually based normative cues predispose us to be stereotypical. many hardly even notice it happening as it occurs.

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[quote]cyruseven75 wrote:
i jest. i understand. things will likely never be different, on some levels i’m ok w/ that. people like to feel safe and have built constructs and paradigms around making their visual world make sense to them, e.g. making them feel “safe” what ever the fuck that means. sadly, a lot of our visually based normative cues predispose us to be stereotypical. many hardly even notice it happening as it occurs.
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I hope they change to succeed we need to get away from preconceived notions of presentation and get to were the rubber meets the road mentality.

IF IT FUCKING WORKS USE IT. I have always been about success and end product, I could give two shits how we get to the final bell. Of course not talking about lying, cheating or stealing, I just mean being productive and who cares about what you look like getting there.

As Americans we waste more time with fashion and presentation instead of production, pretty boy white guys will get farther on looks than someone of color, sex, and body art. Sad but true. I am not even talking about equal qualifications, pretty white boy could be total fuck up but he looks the part.

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[quote]cyruseven75 wrote:
… what’s next? a muscle laden bearded black dentist tearing out teeth? [/quote]

lol

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]cyruseven75 wrote:
… what’s next? a muscle laden bearded black dentist tearing out teeth? [/quote]

lol
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see, i wrote that and it reads funny, especially contextually if you’ve been on these boards a while and read how he writes, his viewpoints, and training perspective.

white guy critiquing hip hop, backpack vs mainstream. white guy, bearded, tattooed, w/ muscles. we base our pre-set notions on preset notions, visual cues to fill in missing peices. it’s a fact i’m white. it’s a fact i have a big beard. it’s a fact i have a nice penis.

my rambling point in this otherwise fun thread…the preceeding poster was touching on it, funny how in my previous sentence i said penis, now in this sentence i said touching on it. anyway. be it beard, black, white, tattoos, muscles…whatever we all get hung up on the minutia that is not essential.

it should be holy shit – HE/SHE does his TASK WELL. but how we look still is a dominate factor/concern around how we work at our trade and w/ others. proficenies and skill sets should be the deciding variable but often it’s “well he looks the part, so he must be an accountant.”

two of my close friends are tattooed everywhere including the neck, one is an accountant who now works homeland security, she’s hot w/ muscles and fake titties, holds the record for strict curl in her weight class and the two classes above her. i swear on my dead dog’s soul.

the second (her old man), is a phd in engineering, a university professor, and a weapons design contractor. his pr bench max is 395lb at 175lbs. they are both vegetarians. wifey and i became good friends w/ them meeting at the gym. looks are usually decieving.

sometimes the blue haired ear stretched d-bag is just a d-bag w/ no skill set or starling personality, but often times i’ve been blown away by learning interesting shit i would have never taken away upon initial inspect. i try to assume nothing, but we all do it inherently.

i’m using X as example because of the black white thing. funny how if i’m describing a senerio i still to this day often go “this black guy, or this little old jewish lady, or two spanish dudes.” Why not a guy, and older women, and two guys. I’m not the police I don’t have to speak as if i’m doing their dispatch work.

not attempting to create a race thread. although we never talk about that shit in these forums. i like to think my “dudeness” transends all race, i’m just a guy who does the shit that i do, and stays away from things i don’t do. i don’t bullshit about things i don’t know. hence i’m able to go and fit in w/out problems in almost all places. if i can’t it’s likely their hangups not my own. truth sees truth i like to believe.

i’m home today w/ too much time on my hands, napped, gotta eat, then mow the fucking lawn before the gym. i’ll post a cool beard and titty pic to make up for it.

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beards, boobs, violence…like apple pie. salient image stereotyping at it’s finest.

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[quote]cyruseven75 wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]cyruseven75 wrote:
… what’s next? a muscle laden bearded black dentist tearing out teeth? [/quote]

lol
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see, i wrote that and it reads funny, especially contextually if you’ve been on these boards a while and read how he writes, his viewpoints, and training perspective.

white guy critiquing hip hop, backpack vs mainstream. white guy, bearded, tattooed, w/ muscles. we base our pre-set notions on preset notions, visual cues to fill in missing peices. it’s a fact i’m white. it’s a fact i have a big beard. it’s a fact i have a nice penis.

my rambling point in this otherwise fun thread…the preceeding poster was touching on it, funny how in my previous sentence i said penis, now in this sentence i said touching on it. anyway. be it beard, black, white, tattoos, muscles…whatever we all get hung up on the minutia that is not essential.

it should be holy shit – HE/SHE does his TASK WELL. but how we look still is a dominate factor/concern around how we work at our trade and w/ others. proficenies and skill sets should be the deciding variable but often it’s “well he looks the part, so he must be an accountant.”

two of my close friends are tattooed everywhere including the neck, one is an accountant who now works homeland security, she’s hot w/ muscles and fake titties, holds the record for strict curl in her weight class and the two classes above her. i swear on my dead dog’s soul.

the second (her old man), is a phd in engineering, a university professor, and a weapons design contractor. his pr bench max is 395lb at 175lbs. they are both vegetarians. wifey and i became good friends w/ them meeting at the gym. looks are usually decieving.

sometimes the blue haired ear stretched d-bag is just a d-bag w/ no skill set or starling personality, but often times i’ve been blown away by learning interesting shit i would have never taken away upon initial inspect. i try to assume nothing, but we all do it inherently.

i’m using X as example because of the black white thing. funny how if i’m describing a senerio i still to this day often go “this black guy, or this little old jewish lady, or two spanish dudes.” Why not a guy, and older women, and two guys. I’m not the police I don’t have to speak as if i’m doing their dispatch work.

not attempting to create a race thread. although we never talk about that shit in these forums. i like to think my “dudeness” transends all race, i’m just a guy who does the shit that i do, and stays away from things i don’t do. i don’t bullshit about things i don’t know. hence i’m able to go and fit in w/out problems in almost all places. if i can’t it’s likely their hangups not my own. truth sees truth i like to believe.

i’m home today w/ too much time on my hands, napped, gotta eat, then mow the fucking lawn before the gym. i’ll post a cool beard and titty pic to make up for it.[/quote]

lol

Cyruseven75 is the new DBCooper!

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]cyruseven75 wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]cyruseven75 wrote:
… what’s next? a muscle laden bearded black dentist tearing out teeth? [/quote]

lol
[/quote]

see, i wrote that and it reads funny, especially contextually if you’ve been on these boards a while and read how he writes, his viewpoints, and training perspective.

white guy critiquing hip hop, backpack vs mainstream. white guy, bearded, tattooed, w/ muscles. we base our pre-set notions on preset notions, visual cues to fill in missing peices. it’s a fact i’m white. it’s a fact i have a big beard. it’s a fact i have a nice penis.

my rambling point in this otherwise fun thread…the preceeding poster was touching on it, funny how in my previous sentence i said penis, now in this sentence i said touching on it. anyway. be it beard, black, white, tattoos, muscles…whatever we all get hung up on the minutia that is not essential.

it should be holy shit – HE/SHE does his TASK WELL. but how we look still is a dominate factor/concern around how we work at our trade and w/ others. proficenies and skill sets should be the deciding variable but often it’s “well he looks the part, so he must be an accountant.”

two of my close friends are tattooed everywhere including the neck, one is an accountant who now works homeland security, she’s hot w/ muscles and fake titties, holds the record for strict curl in her weight class and the two classes above her. i swear on my dead dog’s soul.

the second (her old man), is a phd in engineering, a university professor, and a weapons design contractor. his pr bench max is 395lb at 175lbs. they are both vegetarians. wifey and i became good friends w/ them meeting at the gym. looks are usually decieving.

sometimes the blue haired ear stretched d-bag is just a d-bag w/ no skill set or starling personality, but often times i’ve been blown away by learning interesting shit i would have never taken away upon initial inspect. i try to assume nothing, but we all do it inherently.

i’m using X as example because of the black white thing. funny how if i’m describing a senerio i still to this day often go “this black guy, or this little old jewish lady, or two spanish dudes.” Why not a guy, and older women, and two guys. I’m not the police I don’t have to speak as if i’m doing their dispatch work.

not attempting to create a race thread. although we never talk about that shit in these forums. i like to think my “dudeness” transends all race, i’m just a guy who does the shit that i do, and stays away from things i don’t do. i don’t bullshit about things i don’t know. hence i’m able to go and fit in w/out problems in almost all places. if i can’t it’s likely their hangups not my own. truth sees truth i like to believe.

i’m home today w/ too much time on my hands, napped, gotta eat, then mow the fucking lawn before the gym. i’ll post a cool beard and titty pic to make up for it.[/quote]

lol

Cyruseven75 is the new DBCooper!
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I bet he would kick DBCooper’s ass.

At the very least he is funnier for sure.

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well…the stash thread got a bump, so i’m bumping the mother fucking beard thread!

My lovely woman has told me point blank, “I do not find you attractive.” She is apparently not attracted to me anymore because of this Epic thing I am growing on my face. I think she is lying though because we are still are having the sex and she…wait…she squeezes her eyes tightly shut the whole time. Damn it.

it’s still sex.

I’ll post a new pic of the growth soon, I like it. It is beginning to naturally hang down and grow downward!the fact i need to go wash and groom my face and mouth after ever meal is a small price to pay

oh, here is a song…

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here is a motorhead song and a bas rutten vid all in one. fancy colorful knee high boots while kicking the shit out of someone with open handed strikes. they don’t do that over there in mustashe land. and while rutten doesn’t have a beard, I just like the motorhead song and thought after the above tune, we nneded some balance. sidebar, the only tough guy i know with a stashe is don frye. his stashe is so cool it’s an entire beard on his upper lip. well, chuck liddel was pretty tough too, he and that gregon dude have the same stashe.

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[quote]cyruseven75 wrote:
well…the stash thread got a bump, so i’m bumping the mother fucking beard thread!

My lovely woman has told me point blank, “I do not find you attractive.” She is apparently not attracted to me anymore because of this Epic thing I am growing on my face. I think she is lying though because we are still are having the sex and she…wait…she squeezes her eyes tightly shut the whole time. Damn it.

it’s still sex.

I’ll post a new pic of the growth soon, I like it. It is beginning to naturally hang down and grow downward!the fact i need to go wash and groom my face and mouth after ever meal is a small price to pay

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lol!

Well, my wife has been closing her eyes in ecstasy for YEARS when we have sex. Maybe she thinks I’m ugly. Whatever. I will say that she likes my “small” stache and goatee, but hated it when I grew a full beard last year.

“You look like a mountain man” she said.
“Hells yeah!” I said. “Thanks!”
“Yuck” she replied.

However, I’m certain that when her eyes are closed during sex, she’s visualizing Captain Jack Sparrow.

It’s not the beard, it’s the wearer.

lol

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End of OCt. beard status.

I am beginning to look less and less like the professional colleagues around me. I am not concerned.

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[quote]cyruseven75 wrote:
End of OCt. beard status.

I am beginning to look less and less like the professional colleagues around me. I am not concerned.

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LOL!

Trading in “respectable” for “bad-ass” is ALWAYS the better choice.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
Well, I have noticed more attention from the opposite sex with it so I may keep it for a while.

I am not a fan of all of the grooming it takes though. I actually have to shave (with clippers) everyday now for the first time in my life.[/quote]

Is it the beard drawing that extra attention or that INDIGO-GLO?

For me, March - October goatee. October - March full beard. Wife much prefers just goatee and clean shaven cheeks.

Pic of said beard. Keep it trimmed on #2. And for the guys still trying I couldn’t get close until I turned 30 and each year it has gotten fuller. It almost seemed like there was hair locked up in there that didn’t start growing until I turned it lose.

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Halloween 2009 - My best Brad Pitt inglorious basatards costume. I let the goatee grow to 3-4" below my chin but lost a bet with the wife and kids on New Year’s (LSU-Penn State). The got to put little pony tails in it, take incriminating pictures and watch me trim it down.

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My personal choice would be let the goatee grow to Viking length and braid the ends of thick, long main growing from my handlebars if profession wasn’t an issue.

Like this…

p.s. - no clue what this game is but best I could find on Google images.

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image quality is terribad, but beard + pipe is real power.

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I was sportin this shit after my back surgery a couple of months ago…I have since trimmed it down. I totally looked like a terrorist. If I pulled the mustache, I could pull it down to the middle of my chin. It was a hassle always getting in my food and shit.

Funny thing I grew my beard out a couple of years ago to the protest to my wife who said she hated beards, now she won’t let me shave it. She can’t picture me with out one and doesn’t want to. She even ‘claimed’ to like it when it was like this, but I am pretty sure she just wanted to keep me ugly so other women wouldn’t even look at me.