When I was 12 or 13 I read a biography of Sitting Bull, the great Sioux warrior and shaman. The author said (and it was probably B/S) that Sitting Bull plucked the hairs from his face as they grew in.
So thinking that was a good idea I grabbed my mother's tweezers and gave it a shot. I only did it one time and I can guarantee it was painful. :) I've never seen that string thing before. Like Lee I just shave those with the rest of them.