The Beard Truth

Beard

I have been living a lie. For a long time I have tried to live with the weight of this lie but it has become too great for me to carry any longer. It is time for me to come clean and confess the truth that I have hidden from you all for so long… I have facial hair.

I will give you a moment for this shocking revelation to sink in.

Although my cartoon has had a clean shaven and innocent image for a very long time the truth is that in real life I have a beard. I didn’t mean to deceive anyone. I grew the beard sometime after I started drawing the cartoon. Lately (and on several occasions) it has been suggested by those who know me in real life that I should finally update my cartoon to reflect the true hairiness of my chin. However, the lies have become so mixed up in my head that I cannot decide what the best course of action is any more. And that my friends, is why I am turning to you for advice.

Should my cartoon keep his youthful and familiar clean shaven appearance that he has warn for so long or should he embrace every aspect of his adulthood (except maturity, sensibility and responsibility) and proudly display his facial fuzz?

The decision is up to you. The future of this blog is in your hands. Results will be announced later in this week. Vote now!

Update: Voting is now closed

Stuart

Stuart is an accident prone Englishman who has been living in the Netherlands since 2001. Even his move to the country was an unintentional accident, the result of replying to a cryptic job advertisement he found one day in a local British magazine. Since then he has learned to love the Dutch (so much so that he married one of them) and now calls the country home. He started the blog Invading Holland in 2006 as a place to share his strange stories of language misunderstandings, cultural confusions and his own accident prone nature.

22 Responses

  1. tenakalaz says:

    Do it stu… the beard is all part of the invader that is stu… even in your clean shaving days the beard used to creep onto that chin of yours…..

  2. Yagathan says:

    Your character would be way too orange with a beard as well. Maybe the beard would be okay if your shirt was green or something :p

  3. Stew says:

    Totally agree with the alter ego Stu idea!

    It worked flawlessly in Knight Rider… ;-)

  4. jen says:

    Bearded Stu in the picture doesn’t seem to be a good example – looks like you had a ‘fail’ moment with some orange juice.. ;)

  5. linda@adventuresinexpatland.com says:

    I was thinking the cartoon beard appears to be a smear of orange paint, but I’ll go with jen’s ‘fail’ moment with some orange juice!

  6. Invader Stu says:

    Thank you everyone for the votes and the comments. I stayed out of the comments section during vote so I would not seem like a corrupt politician trying to sway your votes :p

    Stuart – You’ll be happy with the result then :)

    Lorelei – I’m in witness protection. I can’t :p

    Andrew – Well I don’t want to course you any un-needed stress :p

    Breigh – Look out for the next post ;)

    Alison – I’m just as indecisive. Why do you think I put it to a vote :p

    Jules – That will most likely happen one day.

    Dave2 – Do you send him to a cartoon barbers as well?

    Sarah – A very good point indeed. I’m sure Bart Simpson should be over 30 by now.

    Dragonlady – Plus I can’t say you are not allowed to change you mind because you still have the power to send me to my room.

    Anneke – It’s taken over my chin so it is only a matter of time until it takes over the world.

    SarahAus – As Star Trek has proven, people with beards are evil twins from another dimention so I can see the alter ego devious Stu idea working.

    Keith – First Alex and now me… tut tut :p

    French Bean – Interestingly you have just hit on the idea I’m going to work on for my ’10 years in Holland’ post later this year.

    Julia – My wife would never let me. She loves it :p

    Tenakalaz – It did sort of slowly invade my chin didn’t it. Before I knew it I had been taken over.

    Yagathan – A very good point. I guess I have to ditch the idea of giving him the fake orange tan as well :p

    Stew – I like the idea of an alter ego hero stu with some kind of talking transport :)

    Wezz6400 & Jen & Linda – Hehe. I love this idea. I often have had fail moments with my orange juice.

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