One advantage of shaved legs.

[dkahn400]

Call me Bob wrote:

> Anyway, I won't buy that Gillette Mach 3 Turbo Ninja GTI stuff on
> general principle, on account of the bloody ludicrous advertising.

For several years my grandmother refused on principle to buy anything
she had seen advertised anywhere. She had to give in in the end of
course.

--
Dave...

 

[dkahn400]

Arthur Clune wrote:

> True, but the cheap disposables give me *horrendous* razor burn, so I
> just pay the money.

Have you tried using them with oil rather than foam or gel?

--
Dave...

 

[Alan Braggins]

In article <[email protected]>, Ian wrote:
>
>I must note that I do not shave my legs. Being a "short fat hairy
>Scots git" has its advatages during the frequently cold/wet weather.
>
>But to digress and go completely off topic, the state of razor blades
>at the carrent moment is diabolical. I cannot get modern razors to
>last longer that 3/4 shaves
[...]
>But the price of shaving is scandelous - ~5ukp for 4 blades on average
>is a rip off.

A beard trimmer costs a bit more, but lasts for years, and doesn't need
any gel/foam/whatever either.
(And even that is optional:
Friend A's Jewish grandmother - "Is he Orthodox?"
Friend B - "I've been accused of being many things before, but orthodox
is not one of them.")

 

[Call me Bob]

On 20 Apr 2005 02:18:31 -0700, "dkahn400" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>> Anyway, I won't buy that Gillette Mach 3 Turbo Ninja GTI stuff on
>> general principle, on account of the bloody ludicrous advertising.
>
>For several years my grandmother refused on principle to buy anything
>she had seen advertised anywhere. She had to give in in the end of
>course.

More power to her elbow I say, that would be a stiff challenge indeed
nowadays. Might make an interesting experiment for a month.

Of course, the depressing thing is, that for every time I'm self aware
enough to dismiss some clumsy advertisers attempt to pick my pocket,
I've probably been duped ten other times. Bah.


--

"Bob"



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To reply directly remove the beverage.

 

[iakobski]

>> For several years my grandmother refused on principle to buy
anything
she had seen advertised anywhere. She had to give in in the end of
course.

My great-grandmother had a large share protfolio. According to family
history, if any company she had shares in started advertising, she
would immediately assume the company was doing badly, otherwise they
wouldn't need to advertise, and instruct her broker to sell all the
shares. She died extremely rich, but unfortunately left it all to the
other side of the family.

 

[Arthur Clune]

dkahn400 <[email protected]> wrote:

: Have you tried using them with oil rather than foam or gel?

Yes. I never got on with it (I found it less convient than gel) but
no better or worse for razor burn.

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[Arthur Clune]

Simon Brooke <[email protected]> wrote:

: I've never shaved in my life, and I've always congratulated myself on
: the twenty minutes a week that saves me, but if it's also saving me
: five quid a week then... then... why, in four years, that's a new bike!

Trouble is, if I grew a beard, I'd have to buy a recumbent and get a
aero-belly

--
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lightweight scripting language -- Walter Dnes

 

[David Martin]

On 20/4/05 11:56 am, in article [email protected], "Arthur
Clune" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Simon Brooke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> : I've never shaved in my life, and I've always congratulated myself on
> : the twenty minutes a week that saves me, but if it's also saving me
> : five quid a week then... then... why, in four years, that's a new bike!
>
> Trouble is, if I grew a beard, I'd have to buy a recumbent and get a
> aero-belly

Can I use that excuse please? I have the beard and the aerobelly already.

...d

 

[Just zis Guy, you know?]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:04:52 +0100, Ian <[email protected]> wrote:

>But to digress and go completely off topic, the state of razor blades
>at the carrent moment is diabolical. I cannot get modern razors to
>last longer that 3/4 shaves (I suppose having chin hair like wire wool
>doesn't help). But "when I was younger" razors blades would last for
>ages.

You get 3 or 4 shaves out of a blade? Mine start taking chunks out my
chin after two! Or do you mean you only get 3/4 of the way through
before the blade is blunt?

When I was younger blades lasted longer, too. I had a beard...

Guy
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[Helen Deborah Vecht]

"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email protected]>typed


> When I was younger blades lasted longer, too. I had a beard...


Funny, blades lasted longer when I was younger because I *didn't* have a
beard ;-)

--
Helen D. Vecht: [email protected]
Edgware.

 

[Velvet]

Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
>
> The price of Mach 3 blades and their ilk is almost criminal!
>
> Women also get trapped by these companies cos Oral B is part of
> Gillette. Guess which toothbrush is recommended by most dentists?
>

And some of us get trapped twice over, once for toothbrush, once for
razor... I abhor waxing or other methods of hair removal. Tried,
disliked very much, promptly returned to the quick razor it off whilst
in the bath method.

--


Velvet

 

[Simon Mason]

"Arthur Clune" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Andy Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> :> When the blue strip starts to look worn.
>
> : What, after 1 side on a monday morning?
>
> Since I only shave two or three times a week, I get reasonable life
> out of the razors That's a combination of fair hair, slow growing
> beard and a place of employment with a slack attitiude towards facial
> hair. If I needed to look smart everyday it'd be different.

I shave my face every day and a Mach 3 lasts me weeks and weeks. Disposable
ones cut easily and are knackered after few days. I don't mind paying the
extra money as the Mach 3s won't cut my face and they last a long time. I've
tried electric but they do not cut deep enough like a good blade.
--
Simon Mason

http://www.simonmason.karoo.net

 

[Jon Senior]

Arthur Clune wrote:
> Since I only shave two or three times a week, I get reasonable life
> out of the razors That's a combination of fair hair, slow growing
> beard and a place of employment with a slack attitiude towards facial
> hair. If I needed to look smart everyday it'd be different.

With dark hair, fast(ish) growing beard I should be in trouble, but
thankfully I too have a place of employment with a slack attitude
towards facial hair! My blades tend to last around three weeks, but it
seems to vary enormously. Probably as my tolerance to razor burn varies!

Jon

 

[Danny Colyer]

Arthur Clune wrote:
> Since I only shave two or three times a week, I get reasonable life
> out of the razors That's a combination of fair hair, slow growing
> beard and a place of employment with a slack attitiude towards facial
> hair. If I needed to look smart everyday it'd be different.

As shaving stimulates hair growth, you might end up having to shave more
often if you shaved more often (IYSWIM).

Before growing a beard last Autumn, I avoided shaving more than three
times a week. Fortunately designer stubble suits me, but I started to
look scruffy on the 3rd day without shaving. OTOH, I once had a GF who
insisted that I shave every day (more pleasant to kiss, you see). After
a couple of weeks of that, I reached the point where I needed to shave
twice a day. That way madness lies.

Sadly the beard has now gone (DD and DW kept complaining about kissing
it). After not shaving for a few months, I was just about able to get
away with shaving once a week (Sunday evening) for about a month (though
I'd have had to shave early if I'd had to visit a customer on Thursday
or Friday). Now I'm shaving twice a week, but by the end of the month I
think I'll be up to 3 times a week again :-(

(The beard will be back towards the end of the year, I'll have another
go at getting DD & DW used to kissing it).

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
<URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/>
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

 

[Tom Anderson]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Call me Bob wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:04:52 +0100, Ian <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >But the price of shaving is scandelous - ~5ukp for 4 blades on average
> >is a rip off
>
> Amen to that, it's not retailing, it's mugging by other means. They
> might just as well cosh you in Boots and take your wallet.
>
> Anyway, I won't buy that Gillette Mach 3 Turbo Ninja GTI

WANT.

Damn it, i've fallen for a marketing gimmick for a product which doesn't
even exist!

The previous highlight of my razor idiocy was buying some sort of wizzo
blades (Wilkinson Sword Quattros?), then finding they didn't fit my razor.
Most of WS's blades are compatible (FX and FX Diamond, at any rate), but
these are gratuitously not. The name should have been a bit of a giveaway,
i guess - they're not FX Quattros, after all. Anyway, i now have a pack of
blades i can't use; i tried modding them to fit my razor, but the plastic
they're made of isn't very cooperative. Once i do figure it out, i'm going
to stick two together and be the first man in the world to shave with an
eight-bladed razor! w00t!

> Give me a good old Palmolive shave stick from Wilko's any day, 50p and
> lasts for yonks.

I'll have to try that.

tom

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