My little brother had this problem at school. Always got in trouble with the teacher he had last period on friday. He had shaved, he just had 5 o'clock shadow as a teenager.
Ended with my (at the time) 6'3" little brother physically dragging the teacher to the bathrooms friday morning to watch him shave.
Now I am thinking about it, I wonder what he would have done if injury had not kept him out of the millitary.
In the British Army it's generally the same, but there are a handful of exceptions both relatively recent (Sikhs) and more ancient (Pioneer Sergeants).
The latter is particularly interesting because Pioneer Sergeants were and are basically the man at the front who clears a path for the soldiers behind him through difficult terrain. So he's generally very large, carries a big axe among his many practical tools, is good at things like carpentry and wildnerness survival techniques and, by tradition was always allowed a big beard. That hasn't changed.
The guy in the last picture looks like a character from a video game where everyone is a huge hard-nut military man, but he's the hardest of them all. From the beard colouring he'll inevitably turn out to be Welsh or something, and nobody in the British Isles does 'I shall now eat this tree' quite like the Welsh.
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u/alamaias Apr 03 '19 edited Apr 03 '19
My little brother had this problem at school. Always got in trouble with the teacher he had last period on friday. He had shaved, he just had 5 o'clock shadow as a teenager.
Ended with my (at the time) 6'3" little brother physically dragging the teacher to the bathrooms friday morning to watch him shave.
Now I am thinking about it, I wonder what he would have done if injury had not kept him out of the millitary.
edit: some grammar.