MOTD

Message Of The Day

Sun, 19 Mar 2006

21:08 [zork(~/nick/shave)] cat power-law-curve.txt

Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades!

http://www.economist.com/images/20060318/CST393.gif

The Economist drops a little science on the diminishing returns of multi-blade cartridges:

It is simply not possible to add a new blade whenever the marketing department wants one. Every additional blade, explains Michele Szynal, a spokeswoman at Gillette, adds weight and size to a razor. Firms must therefore find ways of making both razor and blades lighter, which means thinner blades, more closely spaced, made of special materials, with new coatings.

—The Economist, http://economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5624861

http://www.shavemyface.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10319/mach14-774498.jpg

05:38 [zork(~/nick/shave)] cat dryshaving.txt

Wow, People Actually do Shave like Neanderthals

I was Spads in this conversation:

+Spads:

well you're going to have to set up NAT anyway

~paganini:

Yes

+Spads:

so while you're doing that, DHCP is pretty much aftershave

~paganini:

Hehe

@Lxndr:

what is the point of aftershave, anyway?

+Spads:

two things

~paganini:

NAT doesn't look too hard though

+Spads:

lots of idiot men buy crap like old spice, which is alcohol

supposed to I dunno, disinfect or something

-:

paganini does not use aftershave

+Spads:

I use witch hazel, which is a skin toner, and feels super fantastic

~paganini:

Except sometimes I use a little witch hazel if my razor was dull and I got scraped

@Lxndr:

okay, so the point is to be an idiot man?

~paganini:

Hehe

@Lxndr:

and/or use witch hazel

+Spads:

I mean, you've just done a skin peel. it's sensitive. slapping alcohol on is just going to sting and do pretty much nothing for you

Lxndr: well I use an "after shave toner"

alcohol-free aftershave

I use lucky tiger

but I've heard good things about trumper's skin food

I'm actually leaning toward beginning to use pre-shave oil too

especially for when the razor gets a little old

@Lxndr:

I've never really even used, like, shaving cream. Nonetheless any of that other fancy-schmancy stuff like aftershave or pre-shave oil.

+Spads:

do you use an electric, or just let your beard grow?

@Lxndr:

Currently, I use disposable razors.

+Spads:

wait

-:

paganini uses shaving gel

@Lxndr:

I am also lazy, and shave only once a week or so.

+Spads:

without shaving cream???

~paganini:

Whoah

+Spads:

like, dry?

@Lxndr:

Yes, without shaving cream.

~paganini:

Lx, does your face still have skin?!

+Spads:

holy shit

@Lxndr:

In the shower, usually, so it's damp.

+Spads:

I didn't believe that anyone actually did that

-:

paganini tried that once

+Spads:

like I thought it was a myth that all these fru-fru "wetshaving" fanatics made up

-:

paganini had razor-burn that lookedl ike roadrash

+Spads:

the notion that people somehow are shaving without any lube

@Lxndr:

well, there is the water.

-:

Spads hands Lxndr the Bill Duke Predator Memorial Ghetto-Shaving Award

Well gosh, I guess people really do shave like that. I had no idea!


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