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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/09/24 05:02 PM
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In my early teens I found a bunch of straight razors, stones, and a strop at a garage sale and used them for the better part of 15 years. I learned how to use them by lathering up a balloon with shaving cream and shaving it. Once you can do it without popping the balloon you will be able to shave yourself without getting cut. Today I use a safety razor that uses disposable blades for my face but I'll occasionally break out the straight razors to shave a woman's legs.
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/09/24 06:26 PM
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Seventy-nine years old. Shave every two or three days. Love these things. They hold a great edge for about ten shaves.
If you can't laugh at yourself, give me a call. I'll gladly laugh at you. "I keep trying to see Nancy Pelosi's and Chuck Schumer's point of view, but I can't seem to get my head that far up my [censored]." Senator John Kennedy, Louisiana
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/09/24 06:51 PM
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I just use a trimmer to knock down the beard every few days, I will shave about once a week for meeting or something important. The wife does my hair with a #3 or #4 attachment, and then shaves the back of my neck with a Havalon knife, she is pretty good with it. She was told by my barber that practicing on a balloon might help, but it did not have the same resistance as skin. With no practice, she has never cut me.
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/09/24 08:29 PM
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/09/24 09:56 PM
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I had a barber who used a straight razor and I loved to treat myself to a shave a few times a year. It was a very nice treat
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/09/24 10:03 PM
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My dad shaved with a hollow ground straight razor and soapy water. He was too frugal to buy the Gillette disposable blades. Straight razor is what I learned with. I shave most every morning. I like the shave of a straight razor better. I prefer to shave with a disposable double blade Bic because I don’t nick my adam’s apple.
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/09/24 10:48 PM
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I remember the blood I shed using Gillette blue blades and can only imagine the damage I would inflict with a straight razor.
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/09/24 11:02 PM
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DE Safety Razor when I do shave my neck. Usually just use clippers to trim my neck, neckline, and edge up my cheeks. Haven't had a clean shaven face in over 10 years
"There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre." Louis L'Amour
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/09/24 11:28 PM
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Was talking to my neighbor’s kid this morning. I think he’s 17. He said he shaved this morning, and I asked where there were whiskers. He said he had some on his upper lip, but only two on his chin. He pointed out where they had been. I really like that kid, but he’s so ‘new’ that I think he still has cosmoline on him. Going into the Air Force in September. Pretty sure he’s still a virgin. There’s a lot of life in front of him.
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/09/24 11:54 PM
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Was talking to my neighbor’s kid this morning. I think he’s 17. He said he shaved this morning, and I asked where there were whiskers. He said he had some on his upper lip, but only two on his chin. He pointed out where they had been. I really like that kid, but he’s so ‘new’ that I think he still has cosmoline on him. Going into the Air Force in September. Pretty sure he’s still a virgin. There’s a lot of life in front of him. Pup that don't know sick-em from come here. I hope he has some good mentors along the way.
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/10/24 01:46 AM
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I don't like putting sharp objects near my throat early in the morning!
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/10/24 02:03 AM
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Was talking to my neighbor’s kid this morning. I think he’s 17. He said he shaved this morning, and I asked where there were whiskers. He said he had some on his upper lip, but only two on his chin. He pointed out where they had been. I really like that kid, but he’s so ‘new’ that I think he still has cosmoline on him. Going into the Air Force in September. Pretty sure he’s still a virgin. There’s a lot of life in front of him. Pushed boots through boot camp in San Diego. I always got a few kids with fuzz and no whiskers. Had to clean them up on the grinder before inspection. Their eyes would get big as saucers when we singed that fuzz with a Bic lighter.
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/10/24 03:28 AM
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I use a safety razor when I shave but I haven’t done that since oct or so but it’s coming I tried straight razor once and cut myself like 3 times in half inc space I have to try on a balloon
i am cancelling my subscription, i am tired of your issues!
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/10/24 04:55 AM
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I don't like putting sharp objects near my throat early in the morning! Me either. I'm up at 4-4:30 for work, and here lately I probly shouldn't be messing with a straight razor at that time.
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/10/24 06:38 AM
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The woman who cuts my hair is a hot mess kind of woman, that if a guy is in a relationship with her, should probably keep about 20 grand cash in the safe just for the inevitable please bond me out phone call. She stood there with a straight razor a couple of months ago and asked me if I wanted a shave. My “You’re in danger” senses were going off like fireworks
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/10/24 01:48 PM
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I still have my grandfather’s shaving kit. Might bust it out one day and try it out.
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/10/24 03:10 PM
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Was talking to my neighbor’s kid this morning. I think he’s 17. He said he shaved this morning, and I asked where there were whiskers. He said he had some on his upper lip, but only two on his chin. He pointed out where they had been. I really like that kid, but he’s so ‘new’ that I think he still has cosmoline on him. Going into the Air Force in September. Pretty sure he’s still a virgin. There’s a lot of life in front of him. Do the world a favor and take that kid out and get him laid before he ships out.
Trolling? Heck no, I meant every word of it.
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/10/24 07:40 PM
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Funny you should mention that. He came over this morning to help me with that old table I’m refinishing. For payment, I promised him all the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches he could eat. The boy loves PB&J. Anyway, I asked him if he’d ever had a real talk with his Dad about sex. He had not. Geez Louise! So I gave him the basics on what women like and don’t like (as if I really know). I probably should have brought you in as a paid consultant, paid in beer. I got plenty beer. What I don’t have is a hooker on speed dial.
Not my monkeys, not my circus...
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/10/24 07:46 PM
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...but then had a burst of sanity. That happened to me once, but I got over it.
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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03/10/24 08:33 PM
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I used to work with a guy that had been in Vietnam 67-68, We talked about lots of stuff working Nites. We got to talking about shaving with straight razors once.
He said that they had a barber that was Vietnamese civilian when he was stationed there. He did a heck of a job shaving them with a straight razor.
Said they would make all the civilian help leave in the afternoon and get ready for the night when there was almost always a nighttime attack from the VC.
He said one night they killed a few VC and one of them was that barber. Said he didn't know how many times that guy had shaved him with a straight razor.
He said that was the last time he got a barber shave while he was there.
I ain't got a dime but what I got is mine, I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free..."
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Re: Grandpa used a straight razor
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04/02/24 12:41 AM
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Best Silver Steel, by Sta Sharp. Made in Germany - Solingen. That brand was made for and sold by of all stores, Sears Roebuck & Co. Has anyone tried a straight razor shave yet??
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