Mad for Movember

Two experts in the field of mo growing, Jorge Milburn and Alistair Cummings agreed to let Elizabeth Clark in on some of their proudest Movember mo-ments.   EC: Who are […]


Two experts in the field of mo growing, Jorge Milburn and Alistair Cummings agreed to let Elizabeth Clark in on some of their proudest Movember mo-ments.

 

EC: Who are some of the people you get confused for?

 

JM: Porn star, paedophile, Maverick from Top Gun, Freddy Mercury, hipster, 70s cop from LA, Miami Vice.

 

EC: Have you found it to be a good icebreaker?

 

JM:  Yea, people say ‘nice ‘stache’. I could always recognise fellow Movember growers, around town and tend to measure against them.

 

EC: Is it very competitive?

 

JM: Yes, it’s an assertion of manliness although some people do look stupid and childish.

 

EC: How do you manage to maintain such a beautiful moustache?

 

JM: I trim the bottom of it otherwise you get food in it. At the end of Movember, it would be nice to wax and twirl the end – my inspiration is Salvador Dali.

 

EC: Do you do it every year?

 

JM: No, this is the first year I’ve done it properly. I am tempted to do it next year but it influences the way people look at you. You can’t dress in the same way.

 

EC: Why do people do it?

 

JM: People do it for different reasons. Some just want to be different, others are genuinely doing it for charity, some just to be cool. But it all started as a fundraiser for prostate and testicular cancer.

  

For a second opinion, Alistair Cummings.

 

EC: So, how exactly do you maintain a moustache of such beauty?

 

AC: I condition it three times a week, no shampoo. On day 17, I got my first bit of food stuck in it – chips, or should I say crisps, that’s when I knew I had made it.

 

EC: Has it been tough picking up girls?

 

A: No. Who can’t love a moustache? I have been compared to a paedophile, though.

 

EC: Has anything changed since you’ve been growing?

 

AC: Since I’ve gotten the moustache my grades have increased.

 

EC: Do you feel really manly?

 

AC: Really manly might be a stretch, I feel like I garner… (speechless)

 

EC: Can you lift more?

 

AC: I get distracted by my moustache and it actually hinders the quality of my workout. But, in football, I definitely intimidate the opposition.

 

Biggest Movember fear: I had a dream that half my moustache was shaved off, I freaked out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Written by Elizabeth Clark and Jorge Milburn, understand writers