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Hi, Friends of the Pig’s Arms
This Movember I’ve decided to donate my face to raising awareness about men’s health. I’m hoping they don’t want to send it back.
My commitment is to return to my roots and allow the re-appearance of a luxurious white cloud (with hints of thunder) under my nose for the entire month of Movember, which I know will generate conversation, controversy and laughter – or extensive indifference.
I am doing this because close to 3,300 men die of prostate cancer in Australia each year and one in eight men will experience depression in their lifetime. Even the thought of a prostate check brings tears to my eyes.
As many people are aware the current first line of detection for prostate cancer, the PSA blood test has an unacceptably high rate of missed positives and false positives – leading to a great deal of misery – not the least of which can be damage to the party tackle caused by an unnecessary biopsy. And the second line of detection ? Well, how much can you tell about what’s going on in the bedroom by peeping in the back door ?
These are causes that I feel strongly about and I’m asking you to support my efforts by making a donation (tax deductible over $2) – to be shared by Beyond Blue and Prostate Cancer Research. I promise that all I get out of the deal is a few days off the Gillette, some smug self-satisfaction and the opportunity to sling-off at all the girly boys who don’t participate at work. I also will receive no congratulatory beers, unless that’s your special wish and you find me relaxing (but remarkably dry) at the Pig’s Arms.
To help, you can either:
– Click this link http://au.movember.com/mospace/682486/ and donate online using your credit card or PayPal account. These dudes do the receipt and you won’t feel a thing.
– Write a cheque payable to Movember Foundation, referencing my registration number 682486 and mailing it to: Movember Foundation, PO Box 292, Prahran, VIC, 3181
Through the Movember Foundation and its men’s health partners, PCFA and beyondblue: the national depression initiative, Movember is funding world class research, educational and support programs which would otherwise not be possible.
For more details on the impact Movember is having please visit: http://au.movemberfoundation.com/research-and-programs.
Thank you in advance for helping me to support men’s health.
Mike Jones
Warrigal at Movember Week 1
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Sorry MJ caught the photo on the Movember site. Well done. Is it itchy?
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Better this week, thanks Peter. No, I had one and a beard for 35 years straight. First Mate encouraged me to shave it off saying “It’ll take ten years off your face” – which at my age is a big win. And she was right it did. So no regrets come Dec 1 ! Thanks for your generous donation, BTW.
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Hi Mike Jones
Can’t see the photo of your mo. Have I missed the bleeding obvious or haven’t you posted one yet?
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I’m letting my freak flag fly ’til the end of November. I may then get a hair cut and a shave, or I may just devolve back into the hippie I once was.
Actually I don’t think I was ever a real hippie but I did look the part for a while there; astrakhan coat, paisley everywhere and hair down to my arse, but I never did grow any facial hair until just a few months ago. Now I don’t know what to do with it, so Movember has provided a good excuse to put off making a decision until early December, and then it’ll be Christmas and New Year and before ya know it, Easter. Looks like I may never shave again at this rate.
Anybody want to pre purchase the hair by offering a donation to Movember? I promise to have it fumigated prior to delivery.
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Yeah. Was it Jules who posted a link to CSNY singing Woodstock? Or maybe he just put up the lyrics.
If you DO shave at the end of November, does that mean it would be safe to put up a photo here just beforehand? Particularly since you’ve never grown facial hair before. On the down side, it doesn’t sound as if it’s going to be pretty.
Apparently human hair makes great compost. If you have a special tree or bush, you could hold a post-Movember ceremonial sprinkling of the side burns.
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Good to see that at least one of you isn’t piking from putting up the Week 1 photo, Warrigal. I think you were far too modest about the mo. 🙂
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Gez and Helvi, you need a horse carriage? Gez and Helvi need a horse carriage Emmjay?
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Referring to a long-standing reference by ? that Gez with beard and no mo reminds someone of the Amish…..
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Yes, beware of the English.
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Just beware… we still have no mo!
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Might grow one of those little pencil jobs and join you Emm.
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Good for you, Algy ! I’ll do a weekly photo and then ask Waz to make a morphing movie – if you would like to join me.
Others ? A bushranger get together at the Pig’s ? Hung, ‘Mou, T2, Gez, Big M, Neville, Jason, Scott ……Reuben already has one…… Gregor ?
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Hmm…my mo looks like two hairy caterpillars trying to crawl up my nose. All reds and tans and gray and never meeting in the middle. Not pretty – but I’m guessing it would raise awareness around here.
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I stupidly signed up as an individual. Big M has agreed to lead the Pig’s Team, so I’m sure he’d be pleased to have you join him, Neville.
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Yes, ALL patrons are invited to grow a moustache for Movember.
I’ll put up the links when I get around to registering (am at work presently!).
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OK fellow drinkers.
We are registered as The Patrons of the Pigs Arms, at Movember Australia. The URL is http://au.movember.com/mospace/795682/ . Pleas efeel free to drop in with quips, jokes, moustaches and money!!
Mark
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Money, from me a broken down male nurse living on the poverty line. Hmm, okay then, better than a pesky mow. 🙂
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I fort we wuz gettin de mo and der money?
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Sorry, it’s against my religion being a Generic Brandist
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So THAT’S it. I thought you’d just had a few busy mornings. 🙂
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Emmers, I’ve been growing a beard for some months now, though not in the name of any cause. I think it was just laziness and the fact that I’ve never had facial hair in my life. So anyway now I’m fully bearded and mo’ed.
Well I say “fully bearded” but the problem is that when they were handing out “full beard” packs I must have been in another line. There are areas on my face well within the “line” of a beard that grow no hair at all, or wispy nothings, or sprung wire eruptions that would blunt a blade made by Hattori Hanzo. Some of it’s red, some snow white and still others a kind of dirty brown and nondescript grey. Gives a deeper, richer meaning to the phrase a”shock” of hair.
So the beard’s gotta go. I’m just working my way up to the final shave.
But the mo isn’t so bad. Combed and curled, it looks like it could grace the face of a WWII RAF fighter ace. Chocks away Monty!
Only trouble there is that Sche thinks mo’s on their own just that little bit ridiculous, though she doesn’t mind the full beard and mo combo, so maybe it’s all or nothing.
I’m rambling. Perhaps I should just shut up, shave, and make an appropriate donation to the causes you mention.
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Good one, Biggles!
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You could keep it going till end November Warrigal and put the end result up on this web page. What’s a few weeks between lifelong partners?
P.S. I can see the half dingo face now. You probably don’t get why I couldn’t before; it’s just one of those perception things though.
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Waz, many of us have the same problem .
My full beard slowly retreated to something like Maynard G Krebbs or Manfred Manne Then it became more like a goatee and a mo as the jawline bits wisped off into the wilderness. I liked the minimalist mo plus goatee but FM reckons (because mine has a bit of colour amongst the white too) that it looks patchier (maybe grubbier) than it is and it adds ten years to my face – which is a) true and b) not something I strive for.
I’m working on that combination now but my work colleagues are insisting that I shave off my 10 day trial and start afresh on Monday or they won’t pay up.
Last comment. My old mate Hodge used to say that guys who had a beard and no mo looked like Scottish bank tellers. Strangely this didn’t seem to hold true for Gez, but seems otherwise accurate in my experience.
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…or an Amish farmer.
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Do you think the Mo people might consider diverting a few bob into the buy Gez and Helvi a horse carriage fund ?
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We do need good disguises. I look forward to Movember, Mike.
One thing regards the Arms. The Arms needs them renovations. The outhouse. I was up at the Council recent to use that ‘little room’ where I bumped into an ex-councillor. The august person was obviously relieved. I was myself going to not coming from and swear they were thinking loudly their own entire recent contra. My constitution is long (non specific in temperature) air and our small (so exact) organism doesn’t need any with all that stuff. Stuff it.
I myself would love the rest of the facilities at the Pig’s refurbished considering how long it took to complete the L/Lounge reno. All very well those men, but the outhouse here at the Arms … pheww. I used it as a changing room until the LL was re-opened … 😉
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Sandshoe, whilst the Ladies Lounge renovations are underway, Merv has given our sisters a special dispensation to use the facilities on the first floor.
Plus, you’re likely to be molested by Granny’s goat around the outhouse.
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The tramp’s always being chased ’round outhouses. Love it.
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And no fooling the goat for long tho’ I’m afraid with my black plastic moustache on.
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The need of them disguises is patent. 🙂
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Well. I am going to wait until almost the end of November. And then offer my donation in return for a bit of fancy-face detailing. Looking forward to it!
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I am willing to share the detailing. It just depends on how it’s looking by the end of November. We could divide it up and ask for something different in each part. We could even have a Raffle. You wouldn’t mind would you Emm? It’s for a good cause.
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In the meantime you could be looking out for a really talented barber.
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…..Cat’s Whiskers for a WEEK!
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It’s really a shame you men don’t grow hair all over your face. I’d be so happy to see an Ant Music thing happening.
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Of course we could all donate a little extra for the lip gloss.
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You’re on the right track here I think Lehan. The Star Trek picture is a total cop out. We demand weekly update photos. Helvi will write a detailed appraisal explaining why each stage is even more handsome than the last, and we’ll all vote at the end of the month.
Or, musing along lines closer to your own, how about half face shaved, half unshaved?
Lip gloss an essential component of any plan of course.
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I think it should just grow natural for the first three weeks of Movember. We should know by then what Popular Culture Character can be trimmed out of it then.
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I guess there’s not really time for “A little ray of sunshine” is there?
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I think it’s also a good opportunity to test whether all those products for hair loss work. You could get some and try them on one side of your face. Nothing like an Experiment.
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Natural remedies.
Application of juice of green coriander leaves on the head is also beneficial. Good Home Remedy for Hair Loss
Mustard oil boiled with henna leaves is also useful in healthy growth of hair. About 250 grams of mustard oil should be boiled with 100 grams of henna leaves. This is another effective home remedy for hair loss.
Another effective method hair loss remedy is the application of coconut milk all over the scalp.
Grind lime seeds and black pepper in equal quantities in a small amount of water and apply this on the scalp daily. This is one of the good home remedies for hair loss.
Washing the hair with a paste of cooked black gram dal and fenugreek lengthens the hair. This is very useful hair loss cure.
A fine paste made from pigeon pea or red gram can also be applied for treatment of baldness and hair loss. This is one of the effective home remedies for baldness.
Regular use of castor oil as hair oil prevents hair loss.
Apply a well prepared paste made from hot olive oil, honey, and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder before bath and leave it for 15 minutes. This is also effective home remedy for hair loss.
The seed of lime and black pepper ground to a fine paste is an effective remedy to prevent and control hair loss.
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Lehan, this looks like a curry recipe mixed up with one of those old Women’s Weekly advice columns 🙂
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Yes, alternatively you could make up a curry using all those ingredients each night of Movember and then scrape the bottom of the pot onto one side of your beard afterwards.
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Particularly ingredients like henna are supposed to take a long time to take effect. So wear it to work, rinse it off before the next curry. Slap on a bit of vinegar and some salad oil later. I think it’ll work wonders.
Nothing seems to have happened on your face yet. Are you sure we’re going to get our donations worth here?
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Try senna 🙂
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I did a trial run for half of last month and shaved it off last Monday. I get a whole month to let it rip. Photo update coming weekly.
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Just as well this Movember thing is not one of those hateful ‘so-and-so’ promises to pull their pants down and show their arse. I am quietly confident we would have vision of the clad backside of Mike Jones (Jonesy “strides off” :).
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sandshoe: 🙂
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Goodonya Mike.
I have two colleagues who’ve had prostatectomies, both had measured their PSA’s pretty religiously, and sought treatment as soon as an abnormal result was detected. For one, the surgery was curative, the other needed extensive chemo/radiotherapy.
Most blokes don’t bother with either the PSA or, for those so inclined, digital examination. Most tumours are amenable to therapy, although, as one old bloke said to me recently. “Haven’t been able to raise the Jolly Roger since the surgery, but, that’s not everything in life.” Anyway I’m rambling. I’d buy you a Pink Drink, but, I suspect all the flavour would get filtered out by the trychophytic mass over your lip!
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