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Love that brush handle.

Thursday

Razor | Burrell Top Flight ‘No. 1’ | Soap | Madame Scodioli ‘Step Right Up’ | After Shave | Madame Scodioli ‘Step Right Up’

Nice close shave this morning, however, feeling my neck this evening at 6 o’clock I realise I really could have done with a second pass. I really only do a second pass now and again. The Scodioli soap is really nice to use, as is the after shave. This morning was hot and humid, it’s just started raining now, but I suspect we won’t get any real rain, it’ll just become even more humid. The weather is set to remain warm, with temperatures of 35, 34, 33, 38, 38, 34 for the next few days, with the night time temperature not dropping below the low 20s. I offer this simply to make you folk putting up with freezing temperatures jealous.

Everyone keeps complaining about the temperature in my office. I refuse to use the airconditioner. They stand there fanning their faces with their hands like 50 year old stern-looking Sicilian ladies saying “wow, it’s warm in here”. "I’m fine" I reply, "I think you’re teaching yourself to not put up with warm weather”. I do then tell them the other option is that there is something very, very wrong with me. They of course dismiss that concept immediately and readily engage in conversation about energy consumption, social norms, capitalist society Vs socialist society, calorie consumption in daily life through the ages, why supersets involving upper body exercises paired with lower body exercises is best, cycling calories and why fish oil capsules and 5 dollar T shirts really mess with my mind.

I really do think ‘we’ are conditioning ourselves to expect the weather to be 21 degrees constantly. The wife keeps on telling me to ‘put some clothes on'; as I like to fully embrace summer and get around in just board shorts. It seems wearing no shirt has become almost inappropriate. I think that all started when middle aged ‘chubby’ men started wearing T Shirts in the local swimming pool to ‘hide their shame’ instead of addressing the problem. We, then, as a society, started to get embarrassed about uncovered bodies. My father, who is German and 85, is not concerned about his body; often sitting on his front porch wearing a singlet (and shorts I hasten to add) even though he does look rather a lot like Grandpa Simpson.

I think it would be very interesting to do a comparative study on male and female body shapes over the ages. I note that leading men in movies from the 40s and 50s seem to have remarkably different body shapes that those of today, as do the women. It’s not all about body fat, either. I think a lot has to do with daily activities. Guys back then seemed to be quite skinny up top but seemed to have big legs and, um, bottoms. Maybe it was from carrying blocks of ice up 5 story apartments or bags of coal or something?

Of course I see that I’ve gone off on a massive tangent again, as I sometimes do. Today at lunch we started on allergies and before 5 minutes had passed I was entertaining the company with tales of the fellow (whose name I cannot recall) who wrote about the history of sexual activity and ‘norms’ through the ages - before that Kinsey guy. I was quite fascinated at the whole ‘visit to the brothel’ thing that seems to have been quite the done thing in the 1700s or 1800s or whenever it was even for those who were more 'pure'…and of course now I’m off on a tangent from a tangent so I should just shut up…

T&H preshave oil mixed with gentle men's refinery preshave oil. Jagger buckthorn shave cream with a little of almond T&H mixed in. Georgetown pottery scuttle and a cheap wilkinson DE which has given me some of the best shaves o my life. Followed up by T&H limes AS. Feels fresh.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

Love that brush handle.

Thank you Hirlau.

Jamie

Originally Posted by ledemon

You always show such great looking razors

Gracias mi amigo!
Béla

Kent T4
Martin de Candre soap in wooden bowl
Filarmonica Doble Temple 13, black scales
Roger & Gallet L'Homme ASB
Nivea Creme
CREED Aventus EdP

...not had a shave this good in a long time!!

Originally Posted by dfrazor

It is very nice. I use shorter, faster, flicking motions with it and it just deletes the stubble. I have pretty coarse beard growth on my chin and jawline and it handles it no problem. You do have to wipe the blade clean more often than say a standard 5/8 but it is not a big problem

No worries, thanks for the reply.
I've not used a blade that size, i was simply curious, as i purchased a Revisor in that size and looking forward to trying it out now

Cheers,
Paul

When I got to carmaloschneider talking big bottoms and blocks of ice I moved on to the next razor
I also used the first smiley I have used in years.....

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Razor | Burrell Top Flight ‘No. 1’ | Soap | Madame Scodioli ‘Step Right Up’ | After Shave | Madame Scodioli ‘Step Right Up’

SNIP, SNIP, SNIP

Hey Carl,

When i stop to read everything you post, it stops me from scrolling down to ogle the razors in the more recent posts
Only j/k mate, you always put up an interesting read

~Paul

Well, we survived the storm that was not. The total snow accumulation in Washington, D.C. from this massive event that caused the federal government to shut down for the day: 0.0". But at least our public employees were safe from commuting in that rain!

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