Well at least it gives hipsters a purpose in life.

[DaveB]

Are beards good for your health? - BBC News

[MrMarkyMark]

As one newspaper put it: '"Some beards contain more poo than a toilet."

[NigelJK]

Some people love a headline don't they? They even take them out of context to get maximum coverage. Here's the full quote:

So, what's the evidence that beards pose any sort of health risk? Pogonophobes, people who fear beards, had those fears confirmed by a recent study in New Mexico where they found traces of enteric bacteria, the sort usually found in faeces, in randomly sampled beards.
As one newspaper put it: '"Some beards contain more poo than a toilet."
But is this typical? A recent and rather more scientific study, carried in an American hospital, came to very different conclusions.

and by way of further explaination:

Perhaps. But there was another more plausible explanation staring them in the face. That beards fight infection.
Unlikely? Well, driven by curiosity we recently swabbed the beards of a random assortment of men and sent them off to Dr Adam Roberts, a microbiologist based at University College London, to see what, if anything, he could grow.
Adam managed to grow over 100 different bacteria from our beards, including one that is more commonly found in the small intestine. But, as he quickly explains, that doesn't mean it came from faeces. Such findings are normal and nothing to worry about.

The real point of the story was the discovery, in beards, of new antibiotics:

Adam indentified the silent assassins as part of a species called Staphylococcus epidermidis. When he tested them against a particularly drug-resistant form of Eschercichia coli (E. coli), the sort that cause urinary tract infections, they killed with abandon.

[MrMarkyMark]

Some people love a headline don't they? They even take them out of context to get maximum coverage.

That I do, fine old journalistic tradition, works for the Daily Mail, they sell a lot of papers.

I'm guessing you have a beard

[SimonMac]

<stokes beard>

[Pondlife]

<stokes beard>

Has it gone out?

[SimonMac]

Has it gone out?

ducking typos!

[MrMarkyMark]

Has it gone out?

Trying to get rid of all that the poo

[barrydidit]

I had to get rid of mine because the juices from mutton flaps kept congealing in it.

[MrMarkyMark]

I had to get rid of mine because the juices from mutton flaps kept congealing in it.

Not any good for storing them up, for when you get hungry later on?

Maybe, that's what SimonMac was up to, reheating his leftovers