Quote Originally Posted by ShlupQuack
If you grow a beard you'll never be able to shave it without people freaking out and saying you look weird.
Too right. When I grew a goatee, at first people said it looked cool. 'Result', I thought. However, as time reared it's ugly head...

a.) My barber said I looked like a terrorist
b.) My sister sarcastically concluded "just because it looks cool on rock stars, It doesn't look cool on you"
c.) I was referred by one specimen as 'the viking' who possessed 'the great beard of power'.

Despite these compliments, coupled with the fact that the actual hair on the goatee was a mixture of ginger and brown (what a mutant I am), I eventually decided to shamefully shave it off...and am now ruddy well glad I did so.
By the way - don't grow a beard.