Why is this allowed

[bazwillrun]

Read the last line, the most pertinent

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...h-west-wales-18811644

so if he was a muslim with the usual unkempt birds nest hanging off his chin he would be in with a chance would he ?

Absolutely disgraceful

[joggerjayne]

The presenters on the OU must've got static shocks whenever they brushed past each other.

[joggerjayne]

Or Geography Departments. Universities can't have Geography Departments without beards.

[jno]

a friend of mine has just had a few days in Eastbourne hospital and says it was awful; the doctors were snotty and her release notes were so full of mistakes her GP had to spend hours sorting it out. So I have decided not to move to Eastbourne to die after all, I shall stay here and live forever.

[jno]

actually, I might just have got off the topic a little there.

I wonder if the doctors at Eastbourne hospital have beards? That would explain a lot.

[whiskeryron]

Does she have a beard jno ?

[joggerjayne]

jno ... you can't possibly be old enough to want to move to Eastbourne.

[woofgang]

Disney don't allow facial hair or piercings on their front of house staff, AND specify that they must use deodorant.

[vulcan]

Ah, Eastbourne, the town of early nights and late husbands.

[jno]

it was a long-term plan, JJ.

W Ron, she probably will have once the pills they gave her start working. And I believe she'd set her heart on being a chauffeur too. She will have to join some religion that mandates beards for women (the Androgenites perhaps).

[jno]

sorry *chauffeuse*

[whiskeryron]

She could become a Shover ( she could then shove people into Eastbourne)

[Baldric]

Morning all, I've had a full beard since leaving the RMs 20+yrs ago and until this morning I've never come across any discrimination.
I am not a weird, corduroy jacket, hush puppy/leather sandal wearing, Rasputin impersonating serial killer masquerading as a tramp, whilst doing an Open University course.
I do use our local Enterprise branch quite often. and regards their staff who deliver and collect vans to/from my premisis, I can't in all honesty recall seeing one with a beard, stubble maybe (but she's another story) and I've NEVER seen one in a business suit at any time.

[joggerjayne]

Baldric ... Geography lecturer, then?

=0)

[Baldric]

Geography, left that one out 'cos I couldn't spell it, lecturer that is, no I'm not that boring, imho.
;o)

[joggerjayne]

Arctic Explorer?

(seems a possible job for an ex RM)

(RM is Royal Marines, right??)

[Baldric]

Run my own business JJ, tucked away on the clifftops overlooking Dover (and France on a good day) and yes it is Royal Marines.

Did I really put France and GOOD day in the same sentence?
Must be mellowing in my old age.

[ummmm]

So you have a full beard but are you bald, Ric?

[jno]

oh - are the Marines still at war with Fance? I thought they stopped after Waterloo the same as everyone else.

[B00]

oooo no, not bald with a beard please!

I always think it looks like their heads are upside down.

[joggerjayne]

We could start a specialist recruitment agency for jobs for bearded people.

Having established so far ...

Jobs you CAN'T do with a beard ...

Work at Enterprise Car Hire

Jobs you CAN do with a beard ...

Geography lecturer
Russian monk
Arctic explorer
Tramp
Doctor in Eastbourne
Band member in ZZ Top

And ... ?