Thread: And this is why you should use a straight...

I was reading fmylife.com today and found this humorous little snippet:

"Today, I was shaving off my beard for the first time in a very long time. I decided to have a little fun with it, and shaved my beard first into a goatee, then a handle-bar, then, finally, into a Hitler mustache. My electric razor dies. I don't have a normal one or an extra battery. FML."

Bet he wishes he had a straight!

That is funny indeed.
It makes me wonder how dependent we are on electrical devices, right? Well, our "shaving devices" don't need batteries

Indeed! Good thing we don't need bateris to shave with our artifacts! Otherwise I suppose a lot of us would have very stupid facial accesories like Hitler moustaches... come on! Anyone who shaved off a moustache knows he did a Hitler impersonation in front of the mirror! Except if you're german, of course.

I Stumbled onto that site a few weeks ago. Some hilarious things but most just seem made up to me.

But to stay on topic, it is nice knowing that the only thing I really have to buy is soap/cream. Now as for the things I choose to buy, that's a whole different story.

it's a well known phenomenon. i always remove my beard in stages when it's long enough to have fun doing so.

from the author's blog the day he did this comic: (emphasis mine)
"I got a haircut today. I hadn't shaven in a while because my hair was getting so long that, if I shaved, my head would be shaped all wrong. Once I got my haircut, the contrast in lengths rendered what had been stubble into full-on BEARD.

Of course, beards are for Minnesota winters, which is something I don't need to put up with down here in Tejas. When I shaved it, I shaved it into a ton of other different weird facial hair patters as I went. Absolutely every man alive does this. And absolutely every man alive contemplates just sticking with one of them. Me, I think the handlebar looks pretty kickin, but I'm already one of the only white people I know around here, so I feel it's my duty not to play up the white trash stereotype any more than absolutely necessary, and I already have tattoos and a car with lots of trash in it, so the moustache was just dead weight."

It's a Chaplin. Adolf Hitler ruined Charlie Chaplin's mustache!

Originally Posted by JCitron

But to stay on topic, it is nice knowing that the only thing I really have to buy is soap/cream. Now as for the things I choose to buy, that's a whole different story.

Agreed! It's nice knowing that I have all the equipment to shave for the rest of my life.

Originally Posted by jockeys

it's a well known phenomenon. i always remove my beard in stages when it's long enough to have fun doing so.

Of course, beards are for Minnesota/ Canadian winters, which is something I don't need to put up with down here in Tejas. When I shaved it, I shaved it into a ton of other different weird facial hair patters as I went. Absolutely every man alive does this. And absolutely every man alive contemplates just sticking with one of them. Me, I think the handlebar looks pretty kickin, but I'm already one of the only white people I know around here, so I feel it's my duty not to play up the white trash stereotype any more than absolutely necessary, and I already have tattoos and a car with lots of trash in it, so the moustache was just dead weight."

+1 with jockeys! I've spent probably way too much time in the bathroom doing just that, and have had many different styles as a consequence. That's the beauty and freedom of the full beard shaving experience. I even had the negative goatee going for a while (think Wolverine from X-Men).

As for the guy in the original story, well that jackass deserves whatever he gets for not having some kind of backup, whether it's a straight or a Bic disposable. Funny story though.

Originally Posted by xman

It's a Chaplin. Adolf Hitler ruined Charlie Chaplin's mustache!

haha Right on!

Jockeys.... great fing words... yea if I rock facial hair I look like a convict, years ago when I competed in sports esp surfing, I used to rock a shaved head and goatee cause it made me look mean, now I'm just too excited to get all those pesky whiskers off my face each n every day. hehe

I only used an electric for about 3 months in my early twenties, it always gave me ingrown hairs and bumps... no thanks!

Plus after 3 month the blades went dull and all I was doing was rubbing it all over my face with no effect and I dumped that ****ty Norelco.

I love that I finally took the plunge into SRS moving from even the DE, but still learning an old art is amazing to me.

I'm a fan of guys like Dick Proneke, etc... doing things old skool, and testing yourself against nature, hence maybe why I surfed in every hurricane I could so far, Andrew included ( double over head right before the storm made landfall next day in Melbourne Fl)

cheers
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