I really didn't think this was going to be as difficult as it was. Guess you rely more on feedback from the mirror than I anticipated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tOegWIX7Y4
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I really didn't think this was going to be as difficult as it was. Guess you rely more on feedback from the mirror than I anticipated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tOegWIX7Y4
I cant watch. After the first minute of him shaving it looked like he was stabing the tip in his face.
Ha, Reminded me of my very frst shave, I could see but the shave was scary and there was a lot more blood.
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Originally Posted by JoeBass
Vincent van Gogh tried that trick once, but it didn’t go so well… :p
No need to watch some fool try to achieve notoriety.
B.
Well I shave half blind all the time, only have one eye, and can’t see one side of my face, all by feel, and before you say BS, when you twist your head and start stretching you aren’t looking into the mirror so you do slot by feel. Also same goes for shaving your head 2 mirrors don’t do it for me either
Not that you are half blind but I like that last post.Quote:
Originally Posted by tcrideshd
I just scanned quick through the video and laughed that he had his buddy clean the lather off his blade and give it back to him. He was more worried about dinging his blade that cutting his face.:rofl2:
I would like to read the comments from and actual blind person to this and similar posts.
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Originally Posted by 32t
I would argue that there is a difference between doing something because of an impairment and doing something to merely attract attention.
One is a valiant attempt to overcome a handicap, the other is a pathetic attempt to get noticed.
B.
Yes plus a blindfold does not really make you blind, as long as you have functioning eyes the brain is still sending signals to the brain. So it allows you to try things like that, when the brain don’t get any input then you totally have no reference
I Did that back in 2013.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeBass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXOytVXAEW8
Also I lived aboard the boat I had before buying my current boat, for 7 years. I didn't have a mirror. No particular reason, I just didn't. After the first time I shaved, it didn't seem important that I buy one. Of course whenever I caught a ship, I had a mirror to shave in, but at home I didn't and it really was no big deal. I know where my face is. It is on the front side of my head. I know where my razor is. It is in my hand. So I just shave. It's not so hard once you have done it.
Over on B&B there is at least one totally blind member who shaves with a straight razor. I don't remember his name, though.
Anyway you cut it, you probably need less than the fingers on one hand to count the number of actual blind people who shave with a straight razor today.
Bob
We used to have a member who was totally blind and used a straight.
I wonder what happened to him.
Want to impress me? Straight shave on a moving train blind folded.
I remember a time in the distant past where I would have said (with sight) you shave with what? Are you crazy?
Thought I'd seen it all, apparently not..
I don't tink the blindfold would be necessary.Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulFLUS
Shaving with a straight on a moving train would be an impessive enough feat even if a person could see in the mirror.
According to my wife her mother told her that her father used to shave with a straight razor while on a train. Didn't say if it was moving or not though.Quote:
Originally Posted by STF
Bob
I don't think I would recommend that though.
It is not a recommendation only that it has been done likely 70 or more years ago when trains were what most people used to travel on. I'd also not recommend shaving with a straight razor onboard a ship at sea. Spent too much time holding on to the sink rail with one hand and trying to shave with a cart razor with the other on a destroyer escort, DDE/DDH, to even consider that.Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulFLUS
You really need to use common sense for things like this. Then again you'd think there would be no need to have warnings on paper coffee cups that coffee is hot or to use the right ammo in a firearm either.
Bob
Funny you should mention shaving on ships. My dad was in the Navy in WWII, a Deck Seaman on the LST6. On a trip back to Portland from Rouen she struck a mine and was sunk. Anyway he was shaving when they struck and he hit his head on the bulwark and got a broken nose and a split brow. He was lucky, no major injuries.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobH
Until I retired, I shaved every working day on a ship at sea, and for 7 years I shaved at home every day on my boat until I married my current wife and she insisted that I move onto the hard with her. It really isn't a big deal at all, even the first time you shave with a straight razor. You just shave. If you can walk and eat and work, you can certainly shave. If you can go aloft and handle power tools and heavy equipment and not manage to kill anyone, you can shave. If you can stand up and steer a ship, you can shave. A complete landlubber would probably require a few days to acclimatize, if the weather was bad, but then, he should be able to shave. I doubt that a train would be much worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobH
<EDIT> Oh, my bad. I didn't scroll down and see the next paragraph where you said you had been on a navy ship. They do roll around a lot more than a regular ship. But I have also shaved on dinky little tugs and crew boats and supply boats in the oil patch, and they feel the motion of the ocean quite a bit when the weather kicks up.
You thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors
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Bob
I was entertained, but had to fast-forward to the end, it was just too brutal to watch. The worst part was when your tip was not properly aligned/parallel to your face, near your right cheekbone. I though you were going to lop off part of your cheek. Things went a bit smoother after that, minus that one, solitary nick. You're definitely an idiot, but so are we all.
