Has everyone else always been this stubbly?

I've been str8 shaving for less than a week, and I'm already getting WAY better results than I ever did with safety razors. But, that's made me notice something.

Is it just me, or do most guys walk around REALLY stubbly and shabby looking?

My day-job is at a casino where you can be sent home for showing up to work without a clean shave. I have personally sent people home for showing up without shaving.

We even have restrictions on how often you can grow out a new beard, because they always look shabby for a few days/weeks while they are filling in. One department actually makes people sign a form listing the date they first came in claiming they were growing out a new beard and that they understand they can't grow a new beard more than twice a year.

Still, as I've looked the last few days, it seems like everyone I see, looks like they've got a 5-o-clock shadow on the way in the door. The guests are worse of course, except for the really old ones, who probably still use a straight or a good DE.

Get used to it. Almost everyone will look shaggy to you from now on.

Well, at least that tells me that either I'm not crazy, or I'm in good company. :roflmao

Wait until strangers catch you staring at their bad shave. Then you can start to realise that you are starting to become a little pedantic (crazy).

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Originally Posted by ndw76

Wait until strangers catch you staring at their bad shave. Then you can start to realise that you are starting to become a little pedantic (crazy).

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Pedantic is one of my favorite words, because of a little story from my college days.


I was sitting in one of my math courses. Linear algebra if memory serves, and in the course of his lecture, the teacher used the word, "pedantic."

Some of use knew precisely what it meant, some didn't care, but one girl actually raised her hand and asked the prof what it meant, to which he replied:

"You know the way I teach?"

"Yeah..."

"That's pedantic."

Half the class erupted in laughter.

I enjoy shaving with a cutthroat but to be honest I'm still learning. I did and still do get a good close shave from a DE razor. Most guys in decent jobs here in the UK seem to be well presented shave-wise. Intentional "Designer Stubble" seems to be the fashion for some, especially in the media, television and professional sports like football (soccer). Collar length hair was out of fashion for a long time, but seems to be making a comeback with the younger guys.

I read a poll somewhere which stated that women prefer men who have about 3 or 4 days of stubble. It supposedly makes the man appear much more macho.

Maybe Straight Razor Designs could market some Macho Shaving Cream designed to leave that perfect 3 day stubble when used with the Straight Razor Designs Irresistible Razor - in effect to make us guys perfectly irresistible. As if we need it. :rofl2: