Keep your hair on, there!

Unpious = אהן פיאות is a hair raising equation. It is faulty.  There are Unpious פיאות bearers and pious אהן פיאותניקס. Beards are a factor to be considered too, you know? And they add complexity. Because there are un-bearded פיאותניק’ס who might be pious too, but not as pious as bearded pious פיאותניק’ס. There are un-bearded plucker’s and un-bearded shavers which when combined with פיאות, give variations in piousness. Without פיאות, shavers need not be less pious, and all this ignores the bearded unpious פיאותניקס.

Today however, a new breed has risen it would seem. The pious פיאותניק’ס who are beardless, but are amateur boxers.   One boxer, Liam said: “If I wanted to do boxing that much I would shave my beard off and do the boxing.

“It’s nothing about my religion. You’ve got to respect the rules of the game.”

But others are not so happy about shaving or plucking so that they can box, and want the rules relaxed.  As  Sheryar (Shaya ?)  puts it, “You can’t destroy someone’s career because of his beard.”

And The club’s boxing manager Phil Marsh said he was worried that if beards were banned from amateur boxing competitions then young [Jewish,] Sikh and Muslim men could get in to unofficial, unregulated boxing circuits.

“There needs to be an outlet for (Muslim) young men that wear beards in terms of how they box competitively.

“We’ve got so many young people that will want to box competitively and it’s finding that nice route and not driving it underground to any of the unlicensed boxing that’s going on at the minute.”

However the rules in this ring namely at unpious.com are thankfully a lot less stringent, and one can be with פיאות, pious and bearded and one can still compete.  Rather like with professional boxers who too can be bearded.

Keep your פיאות, and let your hair down that’s an option too.