Thread: We're all sissies

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Dude, that's so soft. My grandpop had two straights - his shavin' straight and his a-wipin' straight. Kept them both shave-sharp, too.

James.

I guess he had double practice on stretching his cheek skin!!!

Originally Posted by Scrapyard Ape

What a weenie. My great-grandpap stuck his face into a roaring steel furnace when he wanted a shave! He did not want to wait for the metal to be fashioned into some girly blade.

And as for wiping? He never did. He held it in for his entire life. Only limp wristed pansies need to go... and thus need wiping.

Yeah, a furnace will do the trick alright. Mine had a tub of acid he dipped his head into, then scraped away any loose tissue with his wedge.

Man, I would NOT like to have played the "pull my finger" game with your great grandpap....

James.

This is starting to sound like a Monty Python sketch

"And you try and tell the young folk of today that.... and they won't believe you"

dude, i think you posted a pic of your other collection, butter knives?

Originally Posted by jaegerhund

I guess he had double practice on stretching his cheek skin!!!

LOL! Poor old grandpop - we always said he couldn't tell his head from his a***hole...

James.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

LOL! Poor old grandpop - we always said he couldn't tell his head from his a***hole...

James.

yep --my grandpa always had a sh-t-eating grin on his face --so I guess he only needed one blade.

Justin

Man, reading these posts had me in stitches!! Got to be the funniest thread I've seen for a while!
Thanks to all who participated!

sounds like the old "my dad can beat up your dad"

I guess I'll chime in...My grandfather was a Fire Captain. He never had to shave, work would burn it off for him...

Originally Posted by izlat

I don't think they did that, Rich...

Wiping their butts, I mean

Actually they used their hands.

Seriously though you guys lose sight of the fact, as I'm always reminding you all that in the old days when everyone used a straight most people didn't frett about honing and stropping and oiling their blades and english creams and all those sissy things we do now and they just shaved. If they used lukewarm water and hand soap that was their prep and if the razor wasn't so keen, well thats how it was. Why do you think Mr Gillette had such an easy time pushing people over to the dark side.

My dad is 92 and when I told him I was using a straight he basically laughed his ass off. He told me when he was a kid he watched his dad shave with a straight and he could hear the curses coming from the bathroom and he saw all the cuts on his face every day and he remembers him trying to hone the one razor he had. He swore he would never use a straight and his generation was the one that turned away from them.

Like they say everything old is new again. So we've made this drugery a hobby for ourselves and we look forward to it every day. Just like the guy who parks his Mercedes every saturday to drive his vintage model A Ford and loves it.

It all makes you believe in miracles!