We at Dusty's Digital Digest felt we needed to look into this a bit further, find the true story behind the numbers.
As it turns out, this one woman, Bert (her full name is Bertha, but, she prefers Bert), often joked she could "grow her a bigger 'stash then half her union brothers". This year she decided to take her joke seriously and participate in Movember.
All it took was a short Skype call to confirm Bertha is indeed participating, and doing quite well. Her lip sweater rivals any of the two week growths I follow and blows my wispy lip wig to the curb. During our short conversation Bertha told me of her years being self conscious at the uncommon amount of hair she grew above her upper lip. Her attempts at bleaching, plucking, shaving, have all thankfully come to an end for her as she embraced her unique body and is now showcasing it to the world.
She has gone ever further and joined a moustache-off, a competition between participants to grow the biggest or most creative moustaches.
However, this has not come without its share of criticisms. The moustache-off is made up of competitors from her union, The Brotherhood of Plumbers - Eastern Canada #121, some of whom have raised complaints ranging from her gender to the fact that she is a woman. Most supporters of Bert argue there are only a couple of bad 'stashes who are more than likely worried about losing out to a girl - unconfirmed sources have named them 'Mario' and 'Luigi'.
Bertha was humbled at the idea she could be encouraging countless women across Canada to follow her lead and let their hair grow wild and free. She has no intentions of writing a book about it or landing fifteen minutes on a late night talk show. She is doing this to raise money for prostate cancer.
What a sweetie.
Halifax | 17:57
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