There are many advantages of having a beard - it's warmer in winter, you save a lot of time in shaving in the morning, your jawline is better defined, etc. One of the unexpected downsides? You have to put an awful lot of ketchup on your face before it even shows up in photographs.

One of the reasons Dan gave for loaning me his pile of t-shirts was that he could no longer wear several of them because would scare the piss out of his young daughters, and that someone should get some use out of them. I'm pretty sure this is the exact shirt he had in mind.