Thread: Are You Serious!?

Interesting article about shaving: The Concerns of Shaving - New Orleans Magazine - June 2013 - New Orleans, LA

My comments:

1. $40 for a barber shop shave WITH A MACH 3!? Me and a lot of guys I know would gladly pay $40 to get that razor as far as possible from our faces.

2. 12 Dermatologists surveyed and 100% shave with modern cartridge razors, canned goo, and yes, even electric razors. And these guys are supposed to be experts? Pish says I, nay, I call shennanigans on the lot!

Article #2: http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...d5b_story.html

"Every time we add a blade, the comfort of the shave increases"- A Gillette paid researcher (just a bit of a bias there)

"We have no circumstantial evidence that multi blade razors cause ingrown hairs" The same clueless dolt quoted above (I'd see your zero circumstantial evidence and raise you a ton of real world testimonials that say likewise.)

Roughly translated this article says, "Hey, stop asking questions and just keep paying whatever we tell you to pay for this garbage. We've released the findings most beneficial to the bottom line of Gillette and they are beyond reproach"

Now maybe I'm getting old and crochety but the traditional gear DOES deliver a better shave, a wolverine does NOT make a great house pet and the Emperor is completely naked. Furthermore, I'm not a huge fan of someone pissing down my back and telling me it's raining!

Obviously, they have NO idea!

It's common sense. All of it. You just have to remember you are the 1% in this area. You hoard a mass wealth of razors and the knowledge and skills of a lost art. Although you flaunt it publicly the uninitiated have no clue about the true secret. When the time comes we will take over the world. maybe :<0)

Originally Posted by 10Pups

It's common sense. All of it. You just have to remember you are the 1% in this area. You hoard a mass wealth of razors and the knowledge and skills of a lost art. Although you flaunt it publicly the uninitiated have no clue about the true secret. When the time comes we will take over the world. maybe :<0)

Indeed, one face at a time

I would like to be Secretary of State. Or at least an adviser!

I have found in life that common sense isn't all that common at times

Secretary of Steak? I'll take mine chicken fried Not all that surprising that a world full of people too busy for a proper shave would generally be far too intellectually lazy for a bit of critical thinking. It's not that we're smarter than the 99% we're just less gullable and a simple look around the site will tell you that most of us have less than zero difficulty being individuals (even if the sheeple find us a bit odd for "risking our lives every time we shave"). Pretty good company, says I. We are indeed a group of people brought together by our individuality. I would say that's the irony. The fact that most folks think we're crazy is just a pleasant consequence

A good friend of mine who is quite dark skinned always suffered from ingrown hair and razor bumps. A couple of years back I gave him a brand new EJ double edge, some astra blades, a tub of proraso sensitive skin shave soap and a cheapo brush to get him going. It cleared up immediately. That's proof right there. Consumers are like sheep, large companies, like Gillette, spend millions on advertising and the sheep watch and follow along. I don't think they can add many, or any more blades to those carts, so it will be interesting to see what they come up with in the future to keep the myth alive.

The current trend seems to be "innovations other than adding a blade". Rolly balls, vibrating heads and the like (gosh that sounds dirty). Of course we know that these are just gimmicks to justify jacking up the price and they'll do it as long as they can get away with it. But at some point it just becomes so bloody ridiculous that even the dullest of gullable consumers begins to see through the nonsense. Thing is, thanks to the marketing juggernaut behind this trash most guys these days are convinced that even a DE safety razor represents a tremendous risk to life, let alone a straight razor.

As soon as they put a nose hair trimmer on the other end, I'm all in.