This is a frivolous topic but I have a lot of time on my hands untill I sell my shop and leave next week. Do many of you snuffers out there have mustaches? I do and I find that whatever flavour I use also scents my mustache for a while afterwards. One could probably store snuff in ones mustache and then just sniff throughout the day.
I have a full beard. I enjoy the greater storage capacity it affords me.
So do I but I just like putting snuff in my mustache and then curling up my lip and sniffing.Especially with my agarwood snuff it smells great.
I change my facial hair up pretty regularly. When I have a mustache it seems to help catch those little bits that inevitably fall out. When I’m clean shaven I have to pay more attention to having a dirty upper lip.
I also have a full beard and quite a big mustache. Problem is my beard and mustache are snow white. Any “left overs” under my nose can be seen clearly and therefor I carry a small mirror with me all the time. I wash my face a couple of times during the day with special attention to my upper lip.
I’m a big Just For Men customer. Been dying my beard and mustache medium brown for many years.
I’ve had a mustache, since Mothers Day 1986. Starting growing it shortly after Basic Training. In the time since it’s been off my face for a total of 3 days. I get leftovers in it constantly, when the original scent of the snuff wears off I just brush my lip a bit and refresh it a bit.
I don’t have a moustache, and I’m too clumsy to ever have one. It would be filthy - ale, food, snot and snuff. It must ache having one. P.S. isn’t moustache spelled moustache, or does American English drop the “o”?
I’m growing a beard at the moment…it’s been 10 days now. Any surplus snuff is harder to see now as it just blends in with the facial hair. It’s better than walking around all afternoon with a little brown patch under my nose as I did a few weeks ago.
Greatest discovery I have made in regards to having a mustache: Handkerchiefs.
I let my beard grow some time ago and it was definately more tidy to snuff with more facial hair, not just snuff stains on face but beard caught lot of snuff spills too, and slight brushing of beard was enough to clean it. Moustache and beard suit snuff well. Should have kept the beard for World Cup, it was exactly like Maradona’s down to grey pattern!
I have a moustachio as well. Actually, I just call it a moustache, just said that to throw in a third variant spelling of the word. And yes, Americans generally drop the ‘o’, unless the spend inordinate amounts of their time reading books or websites that use British spellings, like me. Hell, I have the English (UK) spellchecker addon on Firefox instead of the US one. Back to b3ta than.
@sandy, Yes, in the USA we generally spell it as mustache rather than moustache. In fact, my Mac just underlined the latter as misspelled. I really don’t understand why the USA has adopted alternate spellings for so many words. I know there are some regional differences in how words are used in various English speaking countries, but to me they should all be spelled the same.
As I understand it, when Webster’s Dictionary was first compiled in the US they decided they wanted to change some of the spellings for simplicity and also to be different from British English. Simple as that. Before Webster’s US spellings were the same as British spellings.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster’s_Dictionary
It’s not quite as simple as that. American English has been much more stable over the centuries. Britain’s proximity to France has resulted in some French influenced changes to British English which haven’t been reflected in American English, such as the “-ize” ending to words over “-ise”, as in “Anglicize” vs “Anglicise”. They say that if you want to hear how English was pronounced in England in the 17th century, you should go to the north east of America.
We are classic!
So why do Americans pronounce Lieutenant the French way? British add an invisible “F” in the middle. We also ignore the “T” in French dervived words such as “filet” as do the French. However,both British and Americans put an “R” sound in the word “Colonel”. Baffling.
“We also ignore the “T” in French dervived words such as “filet” as do the French”. So do the British - the Anglicized version where the “t” is pronounced is spelled “fillet”. Baffling, I agree. Another example - “niche”. I’d never heard it pronounced “nitch” until I pronounced it “neesh” to an American and he corrected me. It transpires that the original English pronunciation (which has been preserved in America) is actually “nitch”. It’s only fairly recently that it’s changed to “neesh” in Britain due, again, to the proximity of the French.
aluminium. Love the way brits say that one. Much better then the way americans do.
“America and England are two countries separated by a common language.” - Oscar Wilde