Thread: Shave in silence, or with music/radio?

Originally Posted by Birnando

Oh, let's see:

The parrot whistling and singing, the wife nagging, the dog barking, the telly on some dumb sit-com, the kids running and screaming...
Other than that, I tend to prefer silence

You have a parrot...that is so cool...I find birds fascinating...my wife is for some reason terrified of them. We used to have this great big Horned Owl that would sit at the top of one of the trees in our backyard....beautiful creature.

I still chuckle when I see the old video of the parrot who would whistle, "Always look on the Bright Side of Life" (from Monty Python), in accompaniment with his owner...don't parrots live an incredibly long time?

Cheers!

Originally Posted by Phrank

You have a parrot...that is so cool...I find birds fascinating...my wife is for some reason terrified of them. We used to have this great big Horned Owl that would sit at the top of one of the trees in our backyard....beautiful creature.

I still chuckle when I see the old video of the parrot who would whistle, "Always look on the Bright Side of Life" (from Monty Python), in accompaniment with his owner...don't parrots live an incredibly long time?

Cheers!

He is a funny character that African Grey
His name is Viggo, and he talks and sings all kinds of stuff.
The first time my wife's boss came over for a dinner at our place, Viggo immediately greated him with "Hello fatso" sounding just like me.
That kinda broke the ice and we had a lovely evening

He is 21 years old now, and still going strong, so I guess we are stuck with each other.
Heck, he has outlived 5 dogs and two fiancees already...

Sorry for the off-topic to the op.

Originally Posted by Phrank

You have a parrot...that is so cool...I find birds fascinating...my wife is for some reason terrified of them. We used to have this great big Horned Owl that would sit at the top of one of the trees in our backyard....beautiful creature.

I still chuckle when I see the old video of the parrot who would whistle, "Always look on the Bright Side of Life" (from Monty Python), in accompaniment with his owner...don't parrots live an incredibly long time?

Cheers!

Most of them do. My uncle had a Galah that died at about 60 years old. We can only guess at that age though as he found him fully grown and injured. Nursed him back to health and he just stayed around. In the wild, these birds don't usually get past 20 years. In captivity they can go for as long as 80.


Mick

Pre kids and wife I shaved in silence, post kids and wife I put on some tunes to drown out the background noise, and I make sure to lock the door then double check twice to make sure it's securely shut.

No chance of shaving in silence around here, the radio is always on, there are usually at least two grand children here singing,yelling, screaming and laughing, their grand mother is either telling them off or laughing or singing along with them, the dog is barking, and our neighbor flies a top-dressing plane.

While background tunes (of any flavor) do help settle the focus issues of the ADD mind, I tried music a few times and always end up shutting it off so that i can get the auditory feedback of the shave. I like hearing the sound of the brush change as it loads up, and of course hearing the whiskers lopped.

But then i'm alone with two dogs and rarely shave every day. I don't know if i could have ever used the SR back when there were three little women in the house. I'd had to shaved out behind the shed or something (and i do have a mirror/stand for that!)

Also I tried honing with music, no good. Need to hear the stone and blade "talk" at my level of development.

Usually I'm up early so I have a quiet shave. When I do shave in the evening, still in silence.

Usually use my shaving time to clear my mind and focus on the day ahead.
Silence helps me with both.

I always have the radio on.

weekdays I listen to CBC Radio 2

Saturdays I listen to classical music on CBC

Sundays are usually a late start, so I often have a football game on the radio...

Summer time I listen to baseball.