Simon Heffer
Aug 15, 2013 8:11:43 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2013 8:11:43 GMT -5
I cook, Jason!
Hedone Restaurant
Andy Hayler - Restaurant Guide - Hedone
Writing in 'The Daily Mail', Simon Heffer argues that you should save your beards for the beach! Simon Heffer has some razor sharp advice for Paxo and other men who flirt with face fungus. Now, Simon defers to no one in his admiration for Jeremy Paxman, a fine and fearless journalist and seeker after the truth. He has, however, broken decidedly new ground in returning to work after his holiday wearing a beard, and it has become a cause of national debate. Paxo can’t see what all the fuss is about. He feels the BBC, his employer, is pogonophobic — with a profound fear and loathing of beards — and he has adduced other evidence as proof. Simon concludes thus:
Out of interest, Jason, is a beard a risk that you have ever taken? How long did it last? How about Sydney and other members of 'The Third'?
[Acting on complaint]
Hedone Restaurant
Andy Hayler - Restaurant Guide - Hedone
Writing in 'The Daily Mail', Simon Heffer argues that you should save your beards for the beach! Simon Heffer has some razor sharp advice for Paxo and other men who flirt with face fungus. Now, Simon defers to no one in his admiration for Jeremy Paxman, a fine and fearless journalist and seeker after the truth. He has, however, broken decidedly new ground in returning to work after his holiday wearing a beard, and it has become a cause of national debate. Paxo can’t see what all the fuss is about. He feels the BBC, his employer, is pogonophobic — with a profound fear and loathing of beards — and he has adduced other evidence as proof. Simon concludes thus:
" ... My wife has, after so many years of this holiday custom, become used to the annual burst of facial hair. She says she’d rather I didn’t have a beard, but understands the holiday bliss of not shaving. With a jibe at Paxo, she points out that at least my beard is ‘mostly still the same colour’ as my hair’.
Nevertheless, one sort of beard must be avoided at all costs. It is the one where the facial hair is carefully sculpted, which suggests excessive time spent in front of a mirror, and is favoured by men who have ‘lifestyles’ and spend much of their income on something called ‘grooming products’.
There was a time, of course, when no self-respecting man would be seen without a beard. In books of Victorian history the male characters almost all look the same. Some, like Karl Marx and his collaborator Friedrich Engels, grew such enormous beards that one could believe they sustained several species of wildlife on their own.
But those days have gone: and although the beard is much favoured by youths only just capable of growing one, educated men of a certain age such as Paxo and me join the pogonocracy at our peril.
So on Sunday the beard will come off, and instead of carrying on to get the full Captain Haddock I must muse wistfully, rather, on what might have been.
For, despite Paxo’s superb example, keeping the beard isn’t a risk I feel able to take."
Nevertheless, one sort of beard must be avoided at all costs. It is the one where the facial hair is carefully sculpted, which suggests excessive time spent in front of a mirror, and is favoured by men who have ‘lifestyles’ and spend much of their income on something called ‘grooming products’.
There was a time, of course, when no self-respecting man would be seen without a beard. In books of Victorian history the male characters almost all look the same. Some, like Karl Marx and his collaborator Friedrich Engels, grew such enormous beards that one could believe they sustained several species of wildlife on their own.
But those days have gone: and although the beard is much favoured by youths only just capable of growing one, educated men of a certain age such as Paxo and me join the pogonocracy at our peril.
So on Sunday the beard will come off, and instead of carrying on to get the full Captain Haddock I must muse wistfully, rather, on what might have been.
For, despite Paxo’s superb example, keeping the beard isn’t a risk I feel able to take."
Out of interest, Jason, is a beard a risk that you have ever taken? How long did it last? How about Sydney and other members of 'The Third'?
[Acting on complaint]