What are you, nuts?

I've been using this profile picture about the place for a month or so with no real explanation for why I have an appallingly fake beard and an incredibly ugly hat. As it turns out, I wasn't trying to get arrested for looking like a child molester, it was for a Movember photo shoot.

Movember is one of those charity things, where you do something effortless and stupid and people give you money to make themselves feel better about their life. This particular one is for men's balls, so as a man who has a reproductive system and the offending gland, I must profess some self-interest in supporting this one over starving Africans. To offset this selfish behaviour I did donate to other charities during the year, so I feel pretty good about this.

So Movember is where you grow a mustachio in November (M-ovember. Get it? I thought it was clever to). In support of this charity my day job has released a charity bottling every year, and this years one (in partnership with Glenfarclas) features a photo of all the men in the company looking incredibly stupid.

I actually thought it came out quite well. As the company gets behind this charity every year I thought I would attempt to participate (after avoiding it two years running), by growing some facial hair. I'm going to bend the rules though by not just growing a mustachio, but a full beard, as young people with mustachios simply look like pedophiles. I'm sorry, its just a fact. It's on the Internet, so it must be true. I've never truly attempted the whole facial hair thing (beyond laziness which always stops at the point that it gets itchy), so I'm interested to see how this turns out.

If this post has convinced you to donate to saving my balls, and you like whisky, you can buy a bottle here starting November 1st. If you want to save my balls, and don't like whisky, you can donate directly over here.

In other news, I've started hosting a new blog by my friend and co-worker Michael. He writes funny stuff, so I urge you to go read him, as I'm not funny at all.

Disclaimer: In case it wasn't clear, I don't have prostate cancer (yet), so think of this as saving my future balls. Not my present ones. Those are just fine.

Comments

[Amy]

Hehe Like the new layout :)

Hope the mustachio comes out well and that you don't look anything like a great big pedophile :P

That photo is rather funny and is something to keep as a memorabilia! :D Shall see how all your 'taches come along. Will need some time getting used to...