Thread: Noticing a trend among straight razor shavers....

There is definitely something to it. I had the exact conclusion over a year ago:
http://straightrazorpalace.com/finer...ity-trait.html

Late comer here... I would have to say that some of would like to go back to the "simpler life" maybe 100 years ago or so... I would like to bo back to the 1830's-50's... No phone, No TV, No Video Games...

Originally Posted by NoseWarmer

Late comer here... I would have to say that some of would like to go back to the "simpler life" maybe 100 years ago or so... I would like to bo back to the 1830's-50's... No phone, No TV, No Video Games...

No vaccinations, no hot showers, parents burying 5 of 8 kids, slavery, bigotry, no AC, no central heat, &c. Do I wish some stuff would come back, sure. Stuff like people speaking their mind without all the passive aggressive bs that is rampant today. Allowing boys to be boys and girls to be girls and celebrating those differences. Being more in the moment without all the distractions.

But go back to living in the 1850s? Oh hell no.

[QUOTE=medicevans;838461]Stuff like people speaking their mind without all the passive aggressive bs that is rampant today. Allowing boys to be boys and girls to be girls and celebrating those differences. Being more in the moment without all the distractions. [QUOTE]

AMEN!

I don't think I'd mind going back 70 or 80 years even though I've often wondered how ANYONE lived in Florida back then (no AC and electric fans for rich people.) I'm always amazed at the old photos of Florida back in the day. The guys, even if they're fishing or hunting, always seem to be wearing wool or flannel suits and ties. Most of the year I can bust a more than adequate sweat in shorts and a t-shirt. Why anyone would want to run around in 3 layers of clothes in such weather is a mystery to me.

All that aside, I suppose that if you never had AC you'd never miss it. Still something about having nowhere to escape the oppressive heat that is kind of disturbing.

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

I don't think I'd mind going back 70 or 80 years even though I've often wondered how ANYONE lived in Florida back then (no AC and electric fans for rich people.) I'm always amazed at the old photos of Florida back in the day. The guys, even if they're fishing or hunting, always seem to be wearing wool or flannel suits and ties. Most of the year I can bust a more than adequate sweat in shorts and a t-shirt. Why anyone would want to run around in 3 layers of clothes in such weather is a mystery to me.

All that aside, I suppose that if you never had AC you'd never miss it. Still something about having nowhere to escape the oppressive heat that is kind of disturbing.

I guess people would migrate north for the summer and south for the winter

I'm 27 have a pipe collection, drink scotch, smoked cigars, shave with a straight razor, refuse to get a cell phone, drive a stick shift, and think I was born 80 years late. The more skills I learn the more I appreciate not being dependent on the newest technology.

It's not a question of keeping a foot in the past as much as it is our making choices for the right reasons and not as the result of our caving in to the explotation of Madison Ave, popular but absurd trends, advertisements....etc. Why buy a turbocharged Mach 25 seventeen blade comfort strip teflon coated micronium handled razor when your great grandfather's sr works perfectly well, and will continue to work well for another century? Of course there is not the perfect answer...and maybe both have there place (though I can't imagine that the Mach 3 is worse than the Mach 25 and the difference is more the product of the ad men).

There will always be a core of folks who question "advances" and instead make choices based on aesthetics, quality, health, the carbon footprint, etc. For example: food. We once bought local because there few choices. Bread was baked and consumed locally. With "advances" in preservatives, the milling processes, packagaing, transportation, refrigeration, bread with a shelf life of ? is now available anytime of the day. It aint fresh, is loaded with unintelligible ingredients, is not particularly tasty (though is made more so with added sugars), is heavy on the carbon footprint (what with all the ingredients necessary, the transportation costs, large bakery plants) and certainly not unique. (Sounds a lot like the american beer experience of the last several decades.) The french have the same technology but they, as do most Europeans, buy their bread daily at one of the local bakeries available in cities and extremely rural towns alike. And many really love the ritual of stopping at the bakery for a paper-not-plastic wrapped package of warm, delightfully smelling, love inspiring loaf of local bread. And damn its not just bread....an experience!!! With a little local cheese from cows grazing the same pastures for centuries processed by families with 10 generation experience.....vs wonder bread and velveeta (ok everything has its place...a philly cheese steak without velveeta is a robert williams razor with foamy).

I mention beer. What do you see in tv beer ads? What do Americans drink? But so many of us now support "slow" beer made in small batches that go for taste over quantity. Technology makes it much easier to get the starches necessary in the brewing process from rice and corn...but it sucks (hello bud, miller, coors etc).

Technology brought us the supermarket and preserved, processed foods. Yesteryear, and again today there are available slow foods co-ops, farmers markets and a move to buy whole foods that are unique and found close to where they were grown, baked etc. You have the choice.

We choose to shave with SRs because you get an unbeatable shave and enjoy the process. And, by selecting a bar of soap you loose the can, the propellant, the chemicals, the plastic, the disposables. Aint we great? Well maybe not, but we are having fun and feeling pretty good. Sorry for the ramble.

Originally Posted by NoseWarmer

. I would like to bo back to the 1830's-50's... No phone, No TV, No Video Games...

Think of all the things you could have back then, Rickets, Polio, Septicaemia...........................

Originally Posted by welshwizard

Think of all the things you could have back then, Rickets, Polio, Septicaemia...........................

Look at all the things you can have today... HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, Flesh Eating Virus & The Brain Eating Amoeba: Naegleria fowleri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

OK.. So I guess I will change my years... 1900's-1920's and I will take what little knowledge that I have back with me

However, the 1860's would still be great so I could meet my Great Great Great Grandfather...