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Bristlr: The app that connects bearded men and the people who love them…
12.24.2014
10:19 am
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Pogonophiles rejoice! A new app called Bristlr is now up and running, uniting the bearded and their admirers in what is quite possibly the most niche of all millennial social media networks. I say “whatever floats your boat,” of course, but I can’t help but find Bristlr’s mission statement a little evasive. Look, although this app started off as a joke, the response was so great that they clearly saw a golden business opportunity catering to beard pervs, so why, when asked if they’re a “dating” site would they respond with:

Maybe, it depends if you use it to go on dates. Most dating apps are pretty heavy going. We shifted the focus from hook ups to a more light-hearted, warmer-in-winter kind of thing. Instead of expecting to go home with someone, we hope to have a nice chat and share a mutual admiration of a beard or two. We like beards. Beards are great.

Come clean, Bristlr! Just prior in the FAQ you pitched yourself as:

There are many people with beards who like to have them stroked.

And there are many people who don’t have beards, but would like to stroke them.

Bristlr is the link between the two.

 

 
Look, I don’t care what happens between consenting adults and their beards but I say Bristlr would do better by letting their freak flag fly and just acknowledging that this is primarily a hipster fetish site. If they want to be even more honest, they could admit that the male to female ratio will probably hover around 1,000 to 1, but let’s leave a little bit to fantasy, shall we?
 

 
Via CNET

Posted by Amber Frost
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12.24.2014
10:19 am
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Brooklyn dad shaves his terrible beard for his baby, then preserves it in lucite
12.03.2014
11:35 am
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I would like to point out that the increasingly tired Brooklyn hipster meme is largely a delusional myth cooked up by advertising agencies obsessed with an approximately five-block area. Brooklyn is a massive and diverse borough and younger white people with Etsy-filled apartments, “artisanal” businesses and absurd facial hair are but a tiny, tiny minority. Unfortunately the people who seem to have access to video equipment usually seem to be of that ilk, which explains the existence of “A Case of the Beard,” a… uh… mini-documentary that tells the tale of new daddy Luke and his beard—which his baby rightly hates.

Before you get too annoyed at that scraggly prospector facial hair, know that Luke nobly shaves it off to appease his young daughter, but then gets all sentimental and suspends it in lucite for the ugliest paperweight known to man.  I’m trying to go easy on the guy in that whole gracious, everyone-deserves-a-story, NPR-kind of way, but this short is… inexplicably infuriating. Perhaps it’s because—while I’m not one to deny anyone a little vanity—you’re lyrically mourning a (bad) fucking beard in public?!? Do you know how your wife had to change her body for this baby? The rest of my fury is just probably my irrational hatred of lucite guitars and overly twee short film soundtracks. Damn hairy hipsters, get off my lawn!
 

 
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Posted by Amber Frost
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12.03.2014
11:35 am
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Donald Sutherland’s hairstyles throughout the years
06.28.2011
01:09 pm
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Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Donald Sutherland: His films and hairstyles

Posted by Tara McGinley
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06.28.2011
01:09 pm
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