{"id":3728,"date":"2015-03-29T19:45:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T14:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2015-03-29T19:45:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T14:15:53","slug":"why-i-will-not-grow-a-beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/why-i-will-not-grow-a-beard\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Will Not Grow a Beard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/men\/11501340\/Science-explains-why-hipsters-grow-beards.html\" title=\"Science explains why hipsters grow beards\">A <i>Telegraph<\/i> report<\/a> tells us about a study that reveals that more and more men are growing beards because they are &#8220;feeling under pressure from other men and are attempting to look aggressive by being more flamboyant with their whiskers.&#8221; There are evolutionary reasons for this; apparently, we are wired this way.<\/p>\n<p>You will note, now, that there were more beards in the New Zealand team than in the Australian one in today&#8217;s World Cup final. Does this mean that one side was pretending to be macho and signalling aggressive intent, while the other side, um, didn&#8217;t need to? <\/p>\n<p>Also, what about <a href=\"http:\/\/he.com.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/31.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Why I Will Not Grow a Beard\" title=\"Sir -- He Who Must Not Be Shaved\">Sir<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>While on beards, a friend of mine insists that beards make men more sexually attractive. If this is so, I shall certainly never grow a beard. I can hardly cope with the adulation I already receive, and more would be overkill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/men\/11501340\/Science-explains-why-hipsters-grow-beards.html\" title=\"Science explains why hipsters grow beards\">A <i>Telegraph<\/i> report<\/a> tells us about a study that reveals that more and more men are growing beards because they are &#8220;feeling under pressure from other men and are attempting to look aggressive by being more flamboyant with their whiskers.&#8221; There are evolutionary reasons for this; apparently, we are wired this way.<\/p>\n<p>You will note, now, that there were more beards in the New Zealand team than in the Australian one in today&#8217;s World Cup final. Does this mean that one side was pretending to be macho and signalling aggressive intent, while the other side, um, didn&#8217;t need to? <\/p>\n<p>Also, what about <a href=\"http:\/\/he.com.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/31.jpg\" title=\"Sir -- He Who Must Not Be Shaved\">Sir<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>While on beards, a friend of mine insists that beards make men more sexually attractive. If the above is true, I suppose this would follow. Anyway, I shall certainly never grow a beard now. I can hardly cope with the adulation I already receive, and more would be overkill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why I Will Not Grow a Beard - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/why-i-will-not-grow-a-beard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why I Will Not Grow a Beard - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Telegraph report tells us about a study that reveals that more and more men are growing beards because they are &#8220;feeling under pressure from other men and are attempting to look aggressive by being more flamboyant with their whiskers.&#8221; There are evolutionary reasons for this; apparently, we are wired this way. 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