OT: Anybody else going to shit appearance-wise during 'stay at home'?

Submitted by RGard on May 5th, 2020 at 7:39 PM

Yea, I'm posting a pic of myself here.  To be fair I'm not much better looking without the beard.  This is 3.5 weeks worth of growth. I grew a beard back in 2000 and it was all brown.  20 years later and it looks a bit different.  I haven't trimmed it all.  The Michigan cap is about 20 years old.  

I've been working from home for the past few weeks and have no camera on my PC so I don't have to worry about co-workers seeing this look.

Ok folks, who else?

rob f

May 5th, 2020 at 7:46 PM ^

Other than no haircut (other than self-trimming around the ears and forehead) since before Christmas, I'm every bit as ugly as I've ever been. So much so that I won't post a picture. 

I should be able to craft a manbun soon.  Or go full mullet. 

Blue_by_U

May 5th, 2020 at 8:44 PM ^

not knowing you before...if I ran into you at a grocery store I wouldn't flinch. You look pretty normal for the midwest. At least the facial hair is kept and uniform.

Personally, nothing has changed for me. I use the clippers on my shaved hair every week, have a full-blown home gym and hit the weights with my college athlete son three days a week, and hit the running trail with my college daughter the other three with Saturdays to recoup. It's been business, as usual, other than more time on a computer. BTW I like the avatar better...I'm partial to primates, not a personal shot at the OP :)

RGard

May 5th, 2020 at 8:59 PM ^

Thanks.  I actually grew up in Pittsburgh, what some consider to be beginning of the Midwest (it's not an east coast type city in any case) and I felt completely at home when I got to Michigan.

Yes, primates are cool, different, but so much like us.  My younger brother loved chimps, monkeys, gorillas and of course King Kong when we were kids.  Right about the time I joined here on MGoBlog, he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, so in his honor I chose a chimp as my avatar.  He beat the cancer.  It's all gone.  He did lose half a lung in the process, but he's cancer free. When he got the all clear from the cancer I decided to change my avatar here to I think it was Chancellor Palpatine from Star Wars.  People gave me grief so I changed it back to the chimp.

I ended up with an MGoArchEnemy in the process that little smooth brained, foul tempered Koala, Mean Joe.  So that's a bonus.

Blue_by_U

May 5th, 2020 at 9:21 PM ^

even better story! THAT  is classic.  Great to hear he made it through such an ordeal. And yeah while 'fake' bears are quite popular...chimps all day every day. Slobbering bamboo eating heathens. lol..jk Mean Joe...sort of. 

MeanJoe07

May 6th, 2020 at 12:59 AM ^

Well FUCK YOU (and your mom of whom I already did last night).  Also, really glad your bro is okay. Damn you for making it harder to shit on you now. Tell your one lunged brother I send him my warmest regards. His story is breath taking. Pun intended. Hate you.

Love,

MeanJoe

ckersh74

May 5th, 2020 at 7:47 PM ^

I haven't had a haircut since late February, but other than that, I'm no worse for the wear. 

The first week I was working strictly from home, I didn't shave from Friday night to Thursday afternoon, but I took a razor to that after 1) every time I looked down, the hair would pull at my hoodie, and 2) I was noticing far more salt than pepper. It had to go. 

wolverinebutt

May 5th, 2020 at 7:50 PM ^

Solid beard Dude. 

I'm 62 and my new beard is 3/4 grey and 1/4 black with patches of color. It is not pretty.  No pics.   

My hair has gone crazy and the Wife won't touch it.  It is what it is.     

Wolverine Devotee

May 5th, 2020 at 7:52 PM ^

Hair got too long, bought some clippers and shaved it all off. 

Think I'm gonna keep this look. Plus wearing hats has never been comfier! 

xtramelanin

May 5th, 2020 at 7:57 PM ^

dude, i don't know who you are or how you hacked rgard's account, but we all know this is who he is and what he looks like.Profile picture for user RGard

you monster, what have you done with him? 

Magnus

May 5th, 2020 at 8:49 PM ^

I've actually lost about 8 pounds during this time, which is probably good and maybe kind of bad. I've been doing body weight workouts at home and walking a lot, but that doesn't compare to hitting the gym, where I was setting some weightlifting PRs. So I've probably lost a little bit of muscle along with fat. My hair is getting kind of shaggy, but people have complimented me for it on Zoom meetings. Apparently it's an upgrade compared to when I try to care about how I look. I also only keep healthy food in the house, so the occasional crappy food I ate on the run before (fast food, doughnuts at work, etc.) has all but disappeared. The worst thing I've eaten in the past 7 weeks or so was a single piece of frozen birthday cake from a few months ago.