Some of you might remember me saying I was growing a gnomish beard for winter. It's a personal challenge I set myself for this season but as spring is approaching, I actually can't wait to cut it off. Even though that facial hair gives me a passive 20 points on the cool-meter, it's really a pain washing and combing it, not to mention trying to keep my 'stache clean when I eat in public. I'm already known to be a slow eater but now with these whiskers in the way every time I want to put sometime in my mouth, eating lunch or dinner is now comparable to doing daily quests on WoW. It's a pain.

I always twirl my moustache and push it on the sides before I eat. It helps to keep the food on the utensil and out of the 'stache. This doesn't last very long though; it eventually untwirls, I hit a whisker and then have to rely on a handful of napkins to finish what I began eating.

I do often find tricks to help myself stay clean while I eat though, like tonight for example. Pottage, homemade bread and cheese were on the menu. It didn't took very long before I got tired of using my napkin every time I went for a scoop, and I really didn't feel like spending 40mins on a meal I usually digest in less than 2hrs. So what did I do? I got up, went to the cabinet, took my trusty batman glass mug and used it medieval style, Immerging it into my bowl.

I was actually looking very ingenuous when I went for the mug, just until people saw me using it like an oversized spoon; I then looked retarded more than anything. Not only did I fail in keeping my moustache clean but I don't even think an infant could have done a better job at making a mess. I spent more time cleaning after myself than eating the whole thing. No joke. The mug constantly dripped on my beard, my shirt, on the table and I even found drips on the floor... But I learned something. Eating pottage from a glass or mug is actually very nice and effective. If I had poured my soup into the mug, instead of scooping it like a retard directly from my bowl, my experience wouldn't have been so messy. 'Stache or not, from now on I'll be using a mug to eat my pottage.

If some of you know any tricks to keeping your moustache food free while eating, I'd really like to know them!

my mother shaves

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I find the beard easier to manage than shaving daily, but once it's set in by a week, then it's easier shaving daily than trying to remove it.

Either give the moustache a trim, or else get used to 'moving' it to the sides as you start a meal, don't overfill the fork/spoon, and time it in between drips (for soup or whatever) like usual and learn from a snake about how wide it opens it's mouth....

Or...

Shave the moustache off and eat like a normal person.

Plus a moustache-less beard looks as 'tarded as some 4'6" amateur Japanese boxer taking on Mike Tyson in a round of Pride....some people would call it a 'match', I'd call it an 'assault with revenge from whoever set the match up'

I only have a goatee, so I'm not in the same boat as Whisky. But this is the method that I use to keep stuff out of my chin hair.

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