I'm getting my column mug shot taken Fri morning for our SXSW coverage. I've brought back my goatee for the first time in five years and while I'm pretty much happy with it I'm not sure it's an experiment I want captured in perpetuity.

So decide my fate, mofos.

no offense, but i think goatees are up there with white hats.

wear a peahat.

It's not a goatee. It's a Van dyke.

That makes it OK. Keep it.

and shave your balls

70's pornstar mustache, please!

You probably wouldn't look bad with a full beard (if you can pull it off) but I gotta say no to the goat, are you a writer or a sports talk radio host?

Full beard or no beard.

I disagree. If you shave that thing you're gonna look like some malnourished Powder look-a-like.

No offense...

Keep it. Come on man! It's the Flavor Savor!

I think you should try for the full beard, Chad.

Anyone who wears a goatee automatically looks like a youth pastor trying too hard to be cool.
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Chad, I think you're quite handsome WITHOUT the facial hair.

*a girl's opinion*

If you're bald, goatees are your only facial hair option. You can't do the chinstrap/no helmet.

Any kind of mustache makes you look like a pedo.

And you do look rather innocent without it.

Ditch.

The only acceptable goatees are those railway worker / Hell's Angel / Tasmanian lumberjack year-long goatees. And even then you'd really have to have killed a man and broke a woman's nose to pull it off.

this is one person-type that would never had occured to me as existing




...i have now experienced the culture of australia...

Yes! With more than a touch of Moby.

In Tasmania, wood-chopping is considered a popular spectator sport, and they only have two types of people: the weedy birth-defect Thom Yorke lookalike, and the burly forestry worker with a furious red beard that could knock you out with one club of his fist.

I like both looks, so I have no opinion.

is there also a similar paul-bunyon-flapjack-honeydipper dan mythos in the region as well?

Keep it.

I have a weak chin and will keep mine unless something drastic forces me to do otherwise.

a wise old man once told me that another word for goatee is 'dick target.' let that be your guide

LOL

I don't think so, the real story of Tasmania is way too crazy to necessitate a myth, the closest thing they have to a hero is Alexander Pearce, and all he did was steal shoes and eat people.