Thread: How do you...?

Lucky you. When I lived in the dorms, my room was like a train station. People didn't have any problem walking in, playing my guitar, borrowing my stuff. I always got all my stuff back, but they couldn't exactly kill themselves with it either.

the only thing thats ever dissapeared from my dorm room was a fleece blanket. It was the night of a big party. A girl was drunk and walked into my room, liked my blanket and took it. I asked around and eventually got it back. That girl is now my girlfriend

Originally Posted by edk442

the only thing thats ever dissapeared from my dorm room was a fleece blanket. It was the night of a big party. A girl was drunk and walked into my room, liked my blanket and took it. I asked around and eventually got it back. That girl is now my girlfriend

And still steals the blanckets

Lucky for me my wife and daughter will not get close to my razors. Somehow I ended up with a bathroom to myself (smaller one of course). So I have all my stuff out with no worries.

I also have the restoration projects out if anyone wants to see one. Sharp but not razor sharp.

Originally Posted by DwarvenChef

And still steals the blanckets

Isn't that the truth

You know, Bert raises a good point. We should be more than 'careful' leaving our straights in the open for anyone to touch. We should be litigiously aware! If someone were to come across your blades in the dorm and have an accident, and knowing the US penchant for litigation, I'd say you're finding yourself on the wrong end of a lawsuit. And it's just a matter of time.

Apart from anything, I really wouldn't want anyone to hurt themselves. Until I got into straight shaving and this forum I never understood what razor sharp meant. Now I have total respect for the edge. If I drop a blade, I let it fall all the way. No way am I going to try and catch it. Others will not have learned that lesson.

I think you have no option but to keep them under lock and key. Better to spend a few minutes extra using alcolhol and tissue to get them really dry and locked away than to cause someone an injury (and face a potentially financially crippling lawsuit).

And adding a notice? All that does is tell the lawyers you KNEW the item was a potentially dangerous one and yet still chose to leave it unsecured.

Originally Posted by majurey

You know, Bert raises a good point. We should be more than 'careful' leaving our straights in the open for anyone to touch. We should be litigiously aware! If someone were to come across your blades in the dorm and have an accident, and knowing the US penchant for litigation, I'd say you're finding yourself on the wrong end of a lawsuit. And it's just a matter of time.

Apart from anything, I really wouldn't want anyone to hurt themselves. Until I got into straight shaving and this forum I never understood what razor sharp meant. Now I have total respect for the edge. If I drop a blade, I let it fall all the way. No way am I going to try and catch it. Others will not have learned that lesson.

I think you have no option but to keep them under lock and key. Better to spend a few minutes extra using alcolhol and tissue to get them really dry and locked away than to cause someone an injury (and face a potentially financially crippling lawsuit).

And adding a notice? All that does is tell the lawyers you KNEW the item was a potentially dangerous one and yet still chose to leave it unsecured.

Yeah, I had already thought about what would happen if this would actually go to court. I mean not only if someone got injured but if my razor was compromised and I had to enforce the payment. I found out a few weeks ago that we have a family attorney, not sure what kind of attorney he is, but I thought he might be able to assist me legally on what I should do. Unfortunately I lost his contact. He's only called our house once and apparently he usually calls my parents' office number or their cell... I suppose I could ask my parents about his contact... But they don't know I'm straight shaving...

But anyway, I was thinking that I would not only have to add a "Do not touch" sign, but a lot of literature about why they can't touch it (cutting themselves and/or breaking the razor). But it wouldn't be a simple explanation like, "this is probably among the sharpest tools you'll ever encounter," but a really in-depth explanation. Then I realized how long that would be, and people most likely wouldn't read it... And I still wouldn't know how I would stand in the court of law. If someone here was a lawyer and could provide some advice, that would be great!

I think I'll get some wood from Home Depot or somewhere, make a box, line it with foam, put a lock on it, have some silica packets in there, wash the razor with 100% isopropyl (or marvacide) and finish it with tuf-glide.

You know I read the last two posts and thought they are right but then I said to myself hey what ever happened to common sence. Obviously the courts and lawyers need to protect us from our stupid selves. I mean if someone comes into your house turns on the stove and sticks their hand in the flame can they sue us because we neglected to put a lock on the stove. What is wrong here is by protecting the terminally stupid you are allowing them to breed and pass on the stupid gene and they probably married an equally stupid person so now their proginy are extra stupid. Thank you legal system for encouraging stupidity....

I too was thinking that, but people don't really understand what razor sharp means. They understand heat and wouldn't go about touching your stove while it's on. But most knives aren't as sharp as these razors. I think most people wouldn't know how sharp these need to be. They think it's just as dull as other knives they see. And I think, for some reason, people tend to equate sharp with strong. I don't think they, even in a facility of higher education, realize that when something's sharp, there's less molecules to support it and it becomes more fragile.

Providing literature, even if they don't read it, would provide them with the knowledge they need to know dangerous, yet fragile, these blades are. It would normalize it to become like your stove top analogy. In fact, this is the same spearhead argument used to convice cigarette manufacturers that they need to put a warning on their ads and labels. This is also the same spearhead argument used in suing fast food restaurants.

Though common sense may jurisdict that sharp = dangerous, smoking = not very healthy, frequent meals at fast food restaurants = not very healthy, active stove top = too hot to touch, you need a warning to normalize it all. Normalizing is why we have all these product warning: http://www.dumb.com/productwarnings.htm and http://www.edlin.org/humour/usefulwarnings.html

Heh, reminds me:

Originally Posted by Swedish Chainsaw Warning Label

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO STOP CHAIN WITH YOUR HANDS OR GENITALS.

I do agree with the darwinism theory and that if you're stupid, you should die so the intelligence of the race progresses. So I think if you're stupid enough to use your genitals to stop a chainsaw, those future kids of yours shouldn't be present to carry on your thinking. Although genes have little to do with stupidity or intelligence...

The issue with razors is that most people have touched a really sharp knife or seen someone do it, then do a thumbpad test on the knife, and nothing happens. Razors are just so much different than razors people are used to seeing, that they just register it as a knife. What's really funny/sad is that most people don't even know that if it passes the HHT, it's crazy super deadly sharp.

I think you're on the right track though. No one is going to bother listening to you about how dangerous it is. In every dorm, there's always the group of guys that think they're the most badass people alive, and surely they can handle something you shave with...

Originally Posted by RichZ

You know I read the last two posts and thought they are right but then I said to myself hey what ever happened to common sence. Obviously the courts and lawyers need to protect us from our stupid selves. I mean if someone comes into your house turns on the stove and sticks their hand in the flame can they sue us because we neglected to put a lock on the stove. What is wrong here is by protecting the terminally stupid you are allowing them to breed and pass on the stupid gene and they probably married an equally stupid person so now their proginy are extra stupid. Thank you legal system for encouraging stupidity....

My thoughts exactly!!