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Posted: 11/25/2019 11:00:08 PM EDT

I want GD's version of why.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:00:58 PM EDT

[#1]

If we didn’t, we would look like AJ from the Sopranos.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:01:00 PM EDT

[#2]

To keep sweat from running in your eyes.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:01:06 PM EDT

[#3]

Because we would look stupid without them.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:01:19 PM EDT

[#4]

So women can pluck them off, then draw them back on.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:01:51 PM EDT

[#5]

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To keep sweat from running in your eyes.

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Yep.

Work in the hot sun without a hat or headband on if OP needs first hand experience.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:02:33 PM EDT

[#6]

sweat

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Posted: 11/25/2019 11:04:13 PM EDT

[#7]

So you know what color the carpet is, duh.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:04:40 PM EDT

[#8]

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To keep sweat from running in your eyes.

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I'm going with this. The ancient people who didn't have eyebrows had sweat run into their eyes hunting dangerous game or in fights/battles, and they got killed, so they didn't pass on their genes, while the eyebrowed ones thrived.

It's science!

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:04:57 PM EDT

[#9]

Because unibrows are nasty.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:06:34 PM EDT

[#10]

Where else are the Demodex Folliculorum going to live?

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:06:40 PM EDT

[#11]

First line of eye pro. It keeps dust from getting into our eyes.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:06:42 PM EDT

[#12]

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Because we would look stupid without them.

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But if we never had them to begin with it'd be the norn.

and some fluke fury eyes we'd be making fun of due to their bad genetics.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:07:37 PM EDT

[#13]

I use nair on my nads.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:07:41 PM EDT

[#14]

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To keep sweat from running in your eyes.

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This, plus rain.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:08:43 PM EDT

[#15]

My understanding is that hair is a natural "lubricant" between skin; so cavemen took a LOT of hits to the forehead. Especially during fights; so it assured a punch to the face would glance off. Saving the caveman.

Apparently MY ancestors took A LOT of punches to the face.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:09:42 PM EDT

[#16]

Because we would look insane without them.

https://celebswithnoeyebrows.com/

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:10:53 PM EDT

[#17]

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That’s a quick path to huevos quemados.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:12:13 PM EDT

[#18]

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I use nair on my nads.

That's a quick path to huevos quemados.

Tell me about it. Hurt for three days afterwards. I missed the part on the instructions where it says do not put on genitals.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:13:06 PM EDT

[#19]

I’ve been told it aids with expression on your face. I.e. it makes it easier to facially announce your sincerity to another human being and that assists with developing trust back when we were just coming out of the jungle and that type of stuff was important.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:13:10 PM EDT

[#20]

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I'm going with this. The ancient people who didn't have eyebrows had sweat run into their eyes hunting dangerous game or in fights/battles, and they got killed, so they didn't pass on their genes, while the eyebrowed ones thrived.

It's science!

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Noah had eyebrows.

Just sayin'.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:13:24 PM EDT

[#21]

Shave ‘em off in the summer OP, and go for a run and see if you tell a difference.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:23:12 PM EDT

[#22]

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Because we would look insane without them.

https://celebswithnoeyebrows.com/

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That before and after shot of Whoopie Goldberg! LOLOLOLOLOL

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:23:43 PM EDT

[#23]

I don't. They airbrushed them onto my senior yearbook photo in high school, it was pretty odd seeing myself with eyebrows!

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:25:12 PM EDT

[#24]

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Because we would look stupid without them.

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It's this. After chemo, couldn't stand looking at myself in the mirror once my eyebrows were gone. You ever see that scene where voldemort pops out of the cauldron?

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:25:22 PM EDT

[#25]

To keep sweat out of your eyes.
To help with non verbal communication - scowl, curious, happy, alarm, etc.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:26:05 PM EDT

[#26]

Science.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:26:06 PM EDT

[#27]

There was an evolutionary advantage to better read someone's face and have yours read.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:26:37 PM EDT

[#28]

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Give this man a cigar. Well done, sir!

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:27:03 PM EDT

[#29]

So you don't look like Whoopie Goldberg

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:29:04 PM EDT

[#30]

That's not funny bro.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:29:39 PM EDT

[#31]

so mexican women can pluck them all out and pencil them back in.

Posted: 11/25/2019 11:30:30 PM EDT

[#32]

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Shave ‘em off in the summer OP, and go for a run and see if you tell a difference.

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Posted: 11/25/2019 11:43:56 PM EDT

[#33]

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Because we would look insane without them.

https://celebswithnoeyebrows.com/

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LMAO...

The Whoppi one is hilarious

Posted: 11/26/2019 12:01:24 AM EDT

[#34]

There was, at one time, a small mammal in Africa, a relative of the hedgehog, that had unusual "J" shaped spines. They weren't very fast, but their "J" shaped spines made them a very unpleasant meal for predators, because the barbs would get stuck in their tongues and esophagus. Unfortunately, the "J" shaped barbs were no deterrent at all for early humans who wished to pick them up and handle them. And, in an even more cruel twist of fate, their "J" barbs interlocked perfectly when entangled in the bushy eyebrows of early humans - think of it as the first hook and loop fastener. Anthropologists aren't quite sure exactly how our earliest ancestors found this out, only that it seemed to be a recurring finding in the various dig sites.

Not only did these little mammals serve as very effective sun visors on the African savannah, but they must have also made for a very convenient snack when the sun went down.

The little guys, not being terribly quick, were wiped off the continent, and our early ancestors, absent their little four legged eyebrow visors, turned their backs to the sun and scattered away from the continent. And the rest, is history.

Posted: 11/26/2019 12:08:22 AM EDT

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Posted: 11/26/2019 12:09:35 AM EDT

[#36]

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Pink knows what's up.

Posted: 11/26/2019 12:11:00 AM EDT

[#37]

They exist to prove how old men are.

My wife insists I trim mine regularly so I don't look like father time.

Posted: 11/26/2019 12:12:00 AM EDT

[#38]

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So we’ve heard.

Posted: 11/26/2019 12:17:46 AM EDT

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I want GD's version of why.

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To keep your eyesockets from making hard contact with the pubic bones.

Posted: 11/26/2019 12:20:37 AM EDT

[#40]

Like most hair, to let you know when you're too close to fire or the fire's too big.

Posted: 11/26/2019 12:22:14 AM EDT

[#41]

Can't speak for the rest of you, but I have them so I can wiggle em at my wife when I want a little sumpin' sumpin'.

Posted: 11/26/2019 12:22:47 AM EDT

[#42]

I groom mine.

Posted: 11/26/2019 12:24:47 AM EDT

[#43]

Water shed over eyes and display of emotion.

Posted: 11/26/2019 12:24:56 AM EDT

[#44]

Arnold in T1 didn't have eye brows.

Posted: 11/26/2019 12:29:34 AM EDT

[#45]

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Can't speak for the rest of you, but I have them so I can wiggle em at my wife when I want a little sumpin' sumpin'.

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Without eyebrows humans would never be able to communicate the desire to reproduce and would have gone the way of the dinosaurs.

Posted: 11/26/2019 12:30:21 AM EDT

[#46]

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First line of eye pro. It keeps dust from getting into our eyes.

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I’m going with this because if they are for keeping sweat out of your eyes as some have said, mine must be broke because I still get sweat in my eyes.

Posted: 11/26/2019 1:19:39 AM EDT

[#47]

So we have weird rhino horn looking hairs that appear without so much as a moment's notice.

Posted: 11/26/2019 1:21:57 AM EDT

[#48]

Shave them off in the summer like I did as a dare in high school as a freshman and you’ll know right away. It’s basically a gutter to keep sweat out of your eyes... never mind the beating I almost caught from my old man for being a dumbass.

Posted: 11/26/2019 1:22:59 AM EDT

[#49]

A better question might be: why do we have pubic hair?

Posted: 11/26/2019 1:25:08 AM EDT

[#50]

Let me put it this way....would you rather have pubic hair or eyebrows?

"Get both" is not allowed.

I choose eyebrows.

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