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| The Great Beard Growing Experiment |
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| Stage 1: The experiment began with 8 weeks�� intensive beard growing |
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| Stage 2: Wolervine/ James Hepfield |
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| Stage 3 : Handle bars |
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| Stage 4 : Truck Driving Moe and Chops combination |
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| Stage 5 : "I am Sancho" ������������ Porn Moe |
| Spurred on by Paul and James' attempt for credibility through growing facial hair in "Spin City" and in light of my own failing thesis credibility, I decided to conduct an experiment of my own. Retiring my shaving foam and disposable razors on the 1st of September, I embarked on an intensive 8 week beard growing program. Over the 8 weeks I received varying range of reaction, |
| ranging from overwhelming male respect to primarily female disgust. On the night of October 24 stage 2 was put into play. Whilst my thesis supervisor found much humour in this shave, and I received encouragement on the duckpond lawn whilst listening to Elephant Gun, the overwhelming concensus that I looked evil. But while generally evil is given some respect, very little was forthcoming during the day test period. |
| The next stage was dubbed by my female flat mates as the "evil chipmunk" phase. Thanks for your support girls. This was the only variation besides the full beard that was shown to a class that I taught. I think that the general feeling of the class was that it was hard to take me serious as a quasi-academic whilst sporting such growth. At toss the boss I was greeted with the usual male/female response as noted above. |
| Stage 4 was very innocuous separation of the moe from the mutton chops. This stage did not gain all that much public exposure due to it being Friday, and the lack of students visiting university on Friday. Whilst I was informed that I looked older there was no noted increase in respect shown. The final stage of this experiment was the porn moe. It was this variation that caused the most attention within the experiment. |
| Attending a friends 20th birthday party, I was greated with much respect. One person who I only slightly knew at the time had his girlfriend pass on the awe that he felt in the presence of a man sporting a porn moe. Having finally found respect it was now time to test these responses against a clean shaven face. A clean shaven face saw me regain anonymity. The results of this experiment were evident. That is that the porn moe will gain the most respect out of all variations of facial growth, and secondly that girls in general are against any form of facial growth. |
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