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Posted: 11/25/2019 11:00:08 PM EDT
I want GD's version of why.
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To keep sweat from running in your eyes. View Quote It's science! |
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First line of eye pro. It keeps dust from getting into our eyes.
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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. |
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That's a quick path to huevos quemados. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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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.
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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! View Quote Just sayin'. |
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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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I don't. They airbrushed them onto my senior yearbook photo in high school, it was pretty odd seeing myself with eyebrows!
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To keep sweat out of your eyes.
To help with non verbal communication - scowl, curious, happy, alarm, etc. |
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There was an evolutionary advantage to better read someone's face and have yours read.
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so mexican women can pluck them all out and pencil them back in.
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View Quote The Whoppi one is hilarious |
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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. |
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Pink knows what's up.
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They exist to prove how old men are.
My wife insists I trim mine regularly so I don't look like father time. |
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I want GD's version of why. View Quote |
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Like most hair, to let you know when you're too close to fire or the fire's too big.
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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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So we have weird rhino horn looking hairs that appear without so much as a moment's notice.
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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.
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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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