This guy does not know how to shave!!! ouch

[rafikz]

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6804993030479405805&q=shaving

[joel]

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6804993030479405805&q=shaving

I dunno... two things I took from that video.

#1 - I gained a lot more respect for Shick Quattros. Honestly - that kid was all over the place - and seemed to get a mighty good shave given it was pretty much one pass - and there was quite a bit of hair to cut and clog up that cartridge razor. For that kinda guy that can get an irritation/nick free shave just running a razor around their face - that shick is the bee's knees, and again - it impressed the hell out of me.

#2 - I realized how funny people look when they are shaving with a cartridge. Sissies :lol:

[rafikz]

Yeah, but he had quite a multidirectional shave, going directly against the grain in some areas :eek:

[PalmettoB]

Wow... He went with, against, around. Grain? What grain? But the funniest part was the lather. I had forgotten how bad canned goo can be.

[italianotigre]

Wow... He went with, against, around. Grain? What grain? But the funniest part was the lather. I had forgotten how bad canned goo can be.

The canned goo didnt even look "inviting". :frown: And I was once a canned goo user.

[zachster]

I guess I'm a bit behind on the cartridge thing -- the most advanced I ever used was an M3 -- but that thing just looked unwieldy. I agree with Joel that cartidge shaving makes guys look like sissies!

[jduffy]

I like how the auto exposure changes constantly.

Great stuff!:biggrin:

[doctorsimon]

Ouch he looks clumsy. At times I found myself grimacing fearing impending doom (sharp razor next to Jugular Vein, Carotid Artery, and Trachea) yet those cartridge razors are *so* safe.

It was like a horror movie -- adrenaline pumping but you know no harm will really come....

[doctorsimon]

Damn, I'm still a hot lather high roller at 250 posts. When do I get upgraded?

[doctorsimon]

Did he mark his right hand with an 'X' so he knew which hand to clench the razor with???

[smn]

That video is like watching a train full of passengers skipping off the tracks and tumbling down a mountainside. Perhaps he just got back from the dentist and his face was numb from novacaine. Still, either way it was extremely painful to watch.

[jduffy]

I'll give him about a week and he'll be here asking how to use a brush..... :eek:

And the goo from the can is vile beyond words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[moses]

My observations.

1) Wow, I did not know you could take that long to apply canned goo. What, spray in one hand, then take the fingers of the other to carefully pick up a little at a time a dab it into place? I don't get it. I always just sprayed into one hand, then rubbed all over my race, rubbing in well. Took about 1/4 the time.

2) If I started out straight against the grain like that, on the jawline, no less, with any razor, it would tear me up something awful. Either this kid has skin of iron, or hair of putty.

-Mo

[Phog Allen]

Hi Mo. Yep, hair of putty as you said. I work in student dormitories and have seen it all in shaving junk. Yes, junk. These kids are all M3/Axe/Edge stuff. I was chaning a light fixture in one of the guys dorms bathrooms one day and this kid walks in with a CRUDDY looking Mock3. I mean this thing was grungy. No telling how long he'd used the same cartridge. These are communal style baths with rows of stalls, showers, and sinks. So I'm working at one end of the room and this kid had obviously showered a bit earlier and was combing his hair and getting ready to shave. Here's the "ouch factor". Without doing a single moment of prep, he sloshes some water over the cartridge and goes to work. I mean the guy looked like a weedeater. No lather, no rinsing, no additional water. Just a hell for leather thrashing of his face. When he was done there was no redness or bleeding anywhere. I was stunned but quickly realised that he simply had a baby face beard. I mean I could see a bit of shadow when he started but the beard hairs must have been baby fine. He went all over the place. N-S, S-N, E-W at breakneck speed. Stop to start was about sixty seconds. Whew. I was one of those guys who got told to shave or don't come back to school when I was about 15. I guarantee you that if I tried that 'technique' I would have been at the blood bank straight away. My beard has only gotten tougher over the years and I'm thankful I found the proper methods four or five years ago. The prior 23 years from 17-40 was pure murder after I went to those damnable cartridges. The irony of it was that Dad taught me with a Superspeed DE but it burned in a house fire when I was about 16 or 17 and of course, we all knew that a TracII was the best a man could get. Would to God that I'd have known about brushes and good lathers then. A quarter century of shaving terror could have been avoided!

Regards, Todd

[PalmettoB]

Did he mark his right hand with an 'X' so he knew which hand to clench the razor with???

:biggrin1: I wondered that too.

[jduffy]

Great post Todd! :biggrin:

[_JP_]

He did nick himself at one point, and I saw some redness on his neck although that could have been a trick of the light. What I found painful was the obvious pressure that he was putting on the razor at some times. He was really bearing down on it as if he was shaving wood! :scared:

I did live in a dorm for about 2 1/2 years and that was what got me firmly away from wet shaving. I wasn't going to stick my face in those sinks in the communal bathrooms that were on each floor! Electric razor was the cleanest way to go.

[Kyle Stoner]

The X on his hand means 'straightedge' - he doesn't do drugs. At least that is what is usually means in 'counterculture'.

I was grimacing the whole time too, it felt just like a rollercoaster where I thought I was gonna hit a big metal bar even though I knew I wouldn't!

[zachster]

The X on his hand means 'straightedge' - he doesn't do drugs. At least that is what is usually means in 'counterculture'.

OK, I completely misinterpreted that! Clearly I am old, as I just figured he'd been out clubbing the night before, and this was the stamp so he could get back in. Oh, brave new world, that has such people in it...

[doctorsimon]

OK, I completely misinterpreted that! Clearly I am old, as I just figured he'd been out clubbing the night before, and this was the stamp so he could get back in. Oh, brave new world, that has such people in it...

I thought it was for entry to a bar/club, but it was just an X. Even us Limeys are using designed stamps these days with elaborate logos and fluorescent inks. We're way behind you Yanks when it comes to being hi-tech on the booze ID checks so I'm surprised if a college bar would mark folk with such an easily forged X.

So there are young guys now marking their hands with an X to say 'I don't do drugs'. Wow. Are there other signs?

Why would someone mark themselves as 'drug free'? Whether I do or don't do drugs is my own private business and I'll choose who I'll tell that 'I am clean' not choose to advertise that I am a 'goody two shoes' to all and sundry.

[zachster]

Why would someone mark themselves as 'drug free'? Whether I do or don't do drugs is my own private business and I'll choose who I'll tell that 'I am clean' not choose to advertise that I am a 'goody two shoes' to all and sundry.

Part of today's culture of self affirmation, I guess. :confused:

However, I was not all that far off with my first thought that the fellow had been out clubbing! From a wikipedia article on the straightedge "lifestyle":

At punk rock shows, it became common practice to mark an X on the hands of under-aged concert goers to ensure that the bouncers would recognize a minor attempting to drink alcohol. This association with not drinking has led an "X" on the hand to become a symbol for straight-edge philosophies. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_edge)

[doctorsimon]

Part of today's culture of self affirmation, I guess. :confused:

However, I was not all that far off with my first thought that the fellow had been out clubbing! From a wikipedia article on the straightedge "lifestyle":

Interesting thinking about the whole alcohol crisis. I was feeling sorry for you Yanks, with your 21 drinking age. What would happen if you reduced it as in Europe? Would you drink more sensibly? Then I got thinking about the problems we have in England and our pub closing time of 11pm, will binge drinking stop if we can drink until later? The answer to both questions is probably not. The problem is possibly down to culture and education, in our generation alcohol has been restricted so we seek to drink lots of it to reaffirm our right to abuse it. (Sweden is another good example, with high taxation of the stuff.)

Oh well, I was drinking in my local every Thursday from the age of 14. How useful fake ID made on a Mac at school with a laminating machine in the art department can be. Parents gave me a fiver for booze every week. Only ever had one or two pints of black (Guiness). We were good boys probably because of the open atitude our (rather conservative) parents had. We drank moderately and never sought to get utterly slaughtered at any opportunity.

Sorry, this chat is probably better in the Barber Shop.

[Kyle Stoner]

The straightedge movement has been around maybe since I was in middle school, a good 10 years ago. It's a different business when you are in school around your peers most your life. most straightedge kids advertise because they are so widely prejudged by others as being druggies or ravers. Many straightedge kids dress in gothic fasions and have dyed hair and wair makeup (the guys) so it just makes sense to mark the X as they are so wildly mispercieved anyways.

[jnich67]

I wish they'd change what they call themselves...or change the way they shave :mad:

Jordan

[doctorsimon]

The straightedge movement has been around maybe since I was in middle school, a good 10 years ago. It's a different business when you are in school around your peers most your life. most straightedge kids advertise because they are so widely prejudged by others as being druggies or ravers. Many straightedge kids dress in gothic fasions and have dyed hair and wair makeup (the guys) so it just makes sense to mark the X as they are so wildly mispercieved anyways.

thanks, that explains things for me.

[javyn]

This is an old video. I actually found the guy on myspace, and offered to give him a DE and told him about the shaving forums.

I don't think he realized his video somehow made it to the public. His response was "YOU SAW THAT VIDEO OF ME SHAVING? WHAT THE #%@#???!!" and that was the last I heard from him.

[SgtFist]

I've used one of those Schick Quattros. It has wires over the blades, so you almost need the kind of pressure he was applying to get it to work at all. And even then you still have the feeling of stubble. It takes a lot to clog it though.

I even recognize the goop... Edge.

I have to wonder why he made a video of himself shaving??

[rafikz]

This is an old video. I actually found the guy on myspace, and offered to give him a DE and told him about the shaving forums.

I don't think he realized his video somehow made it to the public. His response was "YOU SAW THAT VIDEO OF ME SHAVING? WHAT THE #%@#???!!" and that was the last I heard from him.

This is a small world

[Beard Baron]

I was a fan of the 3 bladed cartridges but thought I'd try the quatro. I hated that to no end. It left my face feeling so butchered I almost cried, and it clogged so full of hair it was virtually worthless to shave anything. I would shave and only one side would work, then it was impossible to get the hair out between the blades. Nevertheless, I went back to the 3 blades and was happy for a time. Fortunately, I received a Merkur for Christmas and am fortunate to begin shaving at its finest.

Oh and I was laughing so hard at that video!! I had to learn to shave without instruction and that dude was shaving like I must have done the first few times... Going against the grain...! <headshake>