Thread: Total wet-behind-the-ears newbie, 2nd shave with a straight

Hello all! Nice to be here with all of you. I just started shaving with a Feather AC/SS (pro blade), my second shave with it was this morning. I just want to say that I love the entire wet shaving experience and this is something that will be part of my life from here on out. I am getting ready to bid adieu to my Norelco electric crapper and smash it with a hammer. I have to admit the first time I lifted my arm and held that straight a few inches from my face I was shaking worse than Michael J. Fox on a methamphetamine binge. It was a rough go of it the first shave, but even at the mercy of my near completely inexperienced hands I could tell the potential of this shaver. I never thought a strictly downward pass with ANY razor would yield a BSS but this thing got that feat accomplished handily. Granted, tender parts of my face and neck did succumb to a few raging angry weepers, but I did not let that deter me from sticking with this and learning to perfect it. My second shave was fantastic, no bleeders and a solid, smooth shave. No sooner had that thought entered my brain when the rattlesnake bit me...a moment's lapse in attention (and a whole lot of stupidity) and I realized I had just closed the razor ON MY THUMB. In an instant it went from a scene of wonderful zen shaving to a veritable poultry slaughterhouse. There was so much blood I swear a Mako shark was trying to swim UP my sink drain to get at me.

At any rate, I just wanted to introduce myself and profess my fresh, new love for this passion I have for wet shaving. Since I was 15 I have struggled with shaving sensitive skin and being frustrated with electrics, multi-blade rubbish and I am enthralled to have found the right way to use DE's and now my first straight. Cheers to all my wet shaving brethren. Oh...and by the way, if you haven't noticed, I love to flash jokes and wit. Feel free to respond in kind with any stories of shaving humor or mishaps you may have had in the beginning. They are quite humorous to me. Thanks!

Welcome to SRP! I'm still new enough that my Good shaves seem to fall apart near the end as well, but not quite on the level of de-thumbing myself... now I need to find some wood to knock on.

You got a pic of your thumb, right? RIGHT?? There's a Cut of the Day topic somewhere round here that's begging for a new post!

Seriously though, sounds like you're really enjoying it. I have a feather I've used a couple of times & it is a nice thing to have, very smooth with the pro-guard blades. The satisfaction/fun factor will step up a notch or two when you go for a real straight! Just make sure it's been professionally honed, those people who declare them 'shave-ready' at the factory are liars!

Don't mean to push any buttons but i think your Michael j. Fox reference was a little harsh he didn't ask to get Parkinson's disease after all
i just don't feel it should be used for a good joke. people get diagnosed with crippling diseases every day they are not a laughing matter i have stargardts syndrome which causes macular degeneration which is a form of macular dystrophy.i find your joke to be an insult will you please change the reference to something else

Originally Posted by Bluerain

Don't mean to push any buttons but i think your Michael j. Fox reference was a little harsh he didn't ask to get Parkinson's disease after all
i just don't feel it should be used for a good joke. people get diagnosed with crippling diseases every day they are not a laughing matter

Couldn't agree more.

I have to agree with Bluerain. It would be entirely different posted where that sort of thing is normal, but I don't really think this is the place.

Originally Posted by Bluerain

Don't mean to push any buttons but i think your Michael j. Fox reference was a little harsh he didn't ask to get Parkinson's disease after all
i just don't feel it should be used for a good joke. people get diagnosed with crippling diseases every day they are not a laughing matter i have stargardts syndrome which causes macular degeneration which is a form of macular dystrophy.i find your joke to be an insult will you please change the reference to something else

Oh brother...and I am only 5' 8"....every time someone makes a random joke about someone not having to duck to walk under a table I'm supposed to jump into the protest line? People like you are the reason why this country is crumbling into a politically correct, emasculated heap of garbage. Everyone is offended by something in today's society which is why we have to reword every single freakin thing so that it lands soft and fluffy on all who can hear it. Pretty soon your line of thinking will have all of our thoughts and spoken phrases pre-programmed onto disks that we load into the side of our heads so that we don't inadverdantly set off someone who just so happens to be listening specifically for something about which to be pissed. My mother has Alzheimer's. Do you realize what my life would be like if I dropped a load of bricks in my shorts every time I heard an Alzheimer's joke or reference in a comedy movie? I'd have to check myself into an asylum!

It was a joke. One which you would probably have heard on any sitcom on any channel on T.V. Wow, T.V., that must be a horrific, stressful endeavor for you, ay? I bet every time you turn it on you end up hearing something that ticks you off within the first 30 seconds and you end up biting through your tongue and hurling your shoes at the screen...must get pretty expensive replacing those on a daily basis. Do you realize how many jokes are made on television today about erectile dysfunction? That has got to be one of the most crippling and embarrassing conditions in existence yet it is still laughed at on a regular basis. I don't see a parade of those poor guys stammering past my door every time though. The fact that some of you based your entire response on that, and thumbed your noses at me tells me this is not a site with which I would like to regularly associate myself. Sorry to have ruffled so many feathers in my very first post. Have a great day.

Gentlemen,

Please refrain from making personal references, whether you mean offense or not. If a joke is at another's expense, then it stops being funny. Civility is the premium at Straight Razor Place. Let us keep it that way. The topic is about the experience of wet shaving with the straight razor. Please keep your focus. Thank you.

Just to echo Obie's post, albeit in a much less articulate way; this is a gentlmans(and ladies) forum. If you get your jollies at the expense of others, you are most certainly not a gentleman.

I cannot agree more with you gentlemen. And this also gives me one more reason to continue not watching the TV like I usually do. If this is what they usually broadcast and consider to be "normal" and "humorous", well, I am not watching it. I have more interesting things in my life to do instead of wasting my time and being treated like that.
I believe I (we) deserve more and deserve to have the dignity of everyone respected, with no exception, no excuse.
Disgusting jokes like that cannot be considered acceptable in a civilized society (and this makes me wonder whether we do live in a civilized society or not....)
I believe in respect: I give respect but I also want it. Respect others if you want to be respected in return. Nothing can justify this regrettable sense of humor.