The polsilver s.i. Hidden agenda!

[Alejandro1969]

Look at this for irony! I opened a pack of Polsilver S.I. from P.P.I. and on the back of the wrapper is an advertisement for a double blade, yes a double blade called the Polsilver Swing!
It sounds like a dance, let's all do the Polsilver Swing! How could a DE blade betray us like this! This is the Judas of DE!

 

[Judge Dredd]

Alejandro, may I ask from where you obtained these blades? I have the brown Polsilvers but haven't seen these before, and would love to try them if they're still available as I liked the SIs a lot.

 

[Alejandro1969]

Best Shave in Turkey are selling them for $2.30AUS per 5 pack! They don't seem to be selling them in bulk though. I just shaved with this in my R41 (2011) and godammit it's a topper!
To me it's a notch above 7 O'Clock SP and Perma-Sharp that I tested recently! Great blades and I'll have to get a stash for the den they are so good.

P.S. I lived in Melbourne in '97. Great city. There must be lots of DE goodies to be got there now?

 

[Nova316]

Milo in the vender section is selling them in bulk

 

[Maxime D.]

Betraying their own product, they are shameless... How can we trust a company like this ?

 

[celestino]

Priceless!

 

[OkieStubble]

And I was going to buy some POLSI's too!

 

[Judge Dredd]

P.S. I lived in Melbourne in '97. Great city. There must be lots of DE goodies to be got there now?

No way! There's a sparse handful of vendors in the entire country (mostly trading online) so 99% of my stash is bought CONUS or from the EU, sight unseen. Given the extortionate margins being charged here for bog-standard products (e.g. Thayer's is $A25 locally v $US8 o/s), it's clear where I'm sending my hard-earned. And the range here is, quite simply, pitiful. That's probably in large part because those multi-bladed monstrosities have been very successful in their marketing to a largely bogan population (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan), and most Australian men wouldn't be caught dead doing anything more than rolling out of bed, sticking their head under the tap, turning last week's daks inside out and upside down (multiple wears are not impolite) and calling themselves "ready for work".

 

[Alejandro1969]

Ha! Ha! That's the Aussie way alright! Daks, now I haven't heard that word in a while! Fair Dinkum Mate!

 

[Chester]

... That's probably in large part because those multi-bladed monstrosities have been very successful in their marketing to a largely bogan population (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan), and most Australian men wouldn't be caught dead doing anything more than rolling out of bed, sticking their head under the tap, turning last week's daks inside out and upside down (multiple wears are not impolite) and calling themselves "ready for work".

This confuses me. Do you mean to say that most Australian men are slovenly, or the opposite?
-- Chet

 

[Judge Dredd]

This confuses me. Do you mean to say that most Australian men are slovenly, or the opposite?
-- Chet

Definitely most Australian men are slovenly. I mean, I haven't met all Australian men (so I'm generalising) but of those I have met, making an effort seems to be beneath them and only something that "girls" do. The marketing for the cartridge razors is very aggressive, macho and overtly sexist, and that unfortunately appeals to the vast majority of the population.

I don't quite understand it (and my marketing colleagues probably don't understand me as a result) but I fail to see how a wussy little plastic piece of crap is somehow superior in the masculinity stakes than a straight. I'm way off topic now...

 

[Chester]

Definitely most Australian men are slovenly. I mean, I haven't met all Australian men (so I'm generalising) but of those I have met, making an effort seems to be beneath them and only something that "girls" do. The marketing for the cartridge razors is very aggressive, macho and overtly sexist, and that unfortunately appeals to the vast majority of the population.

Fascinating... and surprising. Perhaps Australian women like it that way, or maybe it'd be different. I have noticed that out here in the landlocked center of the CONUS, grooming's not such a big deal as it is out on the left or right coasts (we're a lot more dusty and casual), so maybe there are geographic differences afoot as well. Anyhow, thanks for setting me straight.
-- Chet

 

[Sledgehammer39]

Swing or no Swing they look promising.