Whisker Wars
August 6, 2011 7:06 AM Subscribe
Premiering on IFC last night (and rebroadcast regularly throughout the week) is Whisker Wars, a "docu-comedy" about competitive bearding. The series runs 7 episodes, new each week on Friday night.
Competitve bearding on Metafilter previously previously previously, and previously.
Competitve bearding on Metafilter previously previously previously, and previously.
If this is the fifth competitive bearding FPP, I'm going to assume the doping/Rogaine joke I was going to make has already been done.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:29 AM on August 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:29 AM on August 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
Needs an angle. I might watch Beard Wives, Swamp Bearders, or Ghost Whiskerers.
posted by gimli at 7:29 AM on August 6, 2011 [4 favorites]
posted by gimli at 7:29 AM on August 6, 2011 [4 favorites]
Real Beard-Growers of Appalachia.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:30 AM on August 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:30 AM on August 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
i read that as "premiering on UFC" and thought it was a weird direction for them to go.
posted by nadawi at 7:30 AM on August 6, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by nadawi at 7:30 AM on August 6, 2011 [2 favorites]
Needs an angle. I might watch Beard Wives, Swamp Bearders, or Ghost Whiskerers.
I'm thinking a reality version of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" would probably do it. Especially if they had some pit bulls and sold cupcakes. And Snow White was a pregnant teenager.
posted by briank at 7:35 AM on August 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
I'm thinking a reality version of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" would probably do it. Especially if they had some pit bulls and sold cupcakes. And Snow White was a pregnant teenager.
posted by briank at 7:35 AM on August 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
I am eponysterically excited about this.
posted by louche mustachio at 7:35 AM on August 6, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by louche mustachio at 7:35 AM on August 6, 2011 [3 favorites]
I'm holdings off for "the beards of the wives of orange county"
Although I have to admit that I love any sport that I can do while sound asleep!
posted by tomswift at 7:47 AM on August 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
Although I have to admit that I love any sport that I can do while sound asleep!
posted by tomswift at 7:47 AM on August 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
There's a guy on Flickr who photographs the World Beard and Moustache Championships. (Those are actually the least-interesting of his photographs to me, but whatever.)
posted by hoyland at 8:01 AM on August 6, 2011
posted by hoyland at 8:01 AM on August 6, 2011
Needs an angle. I might watch Beard Wives, Swamp Bearders, or Ghost Whiskerers.
The Deadliest Beard
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 8:02 AM on August 6, 2011
The Deadliest Beard
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 8:02 AM on August 6, 2011
My friend came 4th at the World Beard & Moustache Championships twice!
everyone after 1st-3rd places gets "joint 4th"...
posted by EndsOfInvention at 8:04 AM on August 6, 2011
everyone after 1st-3rd places gets "joint 4th"...
posted by EndsOfInvention at 8:04 AM on August 6, 2011
Okay I thought this would annoy me but I found it really funny and all the dudes seemed like they had pretty good senses of humor about the whole thing.
SO, yeah, I rate it five pointy moustaches or something.
posted by dubitable at 8:09 AM on August 6, 2011
SO, yeah, I rate it five pointy moustaches or something.
posted by dubitable at 8:09 AM on August 6, 2011
I shave two or three times a year whether I need to or not.
posted by cjorgensen at 8:15 AM on August 6, 2011
posted by cjorgensen at 8:15 AM on August 6, 2011
As a woman who is rendered utterly weak in the knees by really good extravagant facial hair, I love this with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.
"Beards of the Wives of Orange County" sounds like nothing to do with facial hair and everything to do with kept men who are accessories to a culture of powerful but closeted SoCal lesbians. I'd like to watch that too.
posted by Sublimity at 8:56 AM on August 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
"Beards of the Wives of Orange County" sounds like nothing to do with facial hair and everything to do with kept men who are accessories to a culture of powerful but closeted SoCal lesbians. I'd like to watch that too.
posted by Sublimity at 8:56 AM on August 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
Is that what that was? I flipped past and thought it was a documentary about new bands.
posted by Legomancer at 9:24 AM on August 6, 2011
posted by Legomancer at 9:24 AM on August 6, 2011
Needs an angle. I might watch Beard Wives, Swamp Bearders, or Ghost Whiskerers.
I'm thinking a reality version of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" would probably do it. Especially if they had some pit bulls and sold cupcakes. And Snow White was a pregnant teenager.
Beards of the Real Wives of Khazad-dûm.
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 9:26 AM on August 6, 2011
I'm thinking a reality version of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" would probably do it. Especially if they had some pit bulls and sold cupcakes. And Snow White was a pregnant teenager.
Beards of the Real Wives of Khazad-dûm.
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 9:26 AM on August 6, 2011
I was drafted during the Whisker Wars and might have suffered the worst, but I found a way to escape. It was a close shave.
posted by twoleftfeet at 9:59 AM on August 6, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by twoleftfeet at 9:59 AM on August 6, 2011 [2 favorites]
I saw one of the guys from the previews for that show walking in the Village yesterday. He looked like a fucking nightmare.
posted by saladin at 11:19 AM on August 6, 2011
posted by saladin at 11:19 AM on August 6, 2011
Oh, bearding.
I guess Cable TV isn't ready for Competitive Breeding yet.
posted by dismitree at 11:41 AM on August 6, 2011
I guess Cable TV isn't ready for Competitive Breeding yet.
posted by dismitree at 11:41 AM on August 6, 2011
beards are sexy...horribly sexy
posted by PinkMoose at 11:53 AM on August 6, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by PinkMoose at 11:53 AM on August 6, 2011 [2 favorites]
Being of an semi-ursine nature, myself, and being immersed in a queer cubculture of fur cultivation, I should be more supportive of advanced beardliness, but I have to question a social movement that so easily mixes long scraggletastic beards and guiches.
On straight men, I think beards exist primarily to agitate women, both for good and evil.
posted by sonascope at 1:08 PM on August 6, 2011
On straight men, I think beards exist primarily to agitate women, both for good and evil.
posted by sonascope at 1:08 PM on August 6, 2011
I fell in love around the 1:40 mark.
posted by theperfectcrime at 2:30 PM on August 6, 2011
posted by theperfectcrime at 2:30 PM on August 6, 2011
A friend of mine's brother does this! I had no idea it was A Thing until she mentioned something about it...
posted by bitter-girl.com at 7:28 PM on August 6, 2011
posted by bitter-girl.com at 7:28 PM on August 6, 2011
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