This morning I saw big black flakes in the sink off my razor, some more than 5mm thick, and thought, I cannot possibly have shaved that off my body. Then I realized my shaved hairs are getting wedged together in the crannies of the razor & then falling out at random intervals, still stuck together.
You need to wash your razor after you use it. If you don't, you risk getting any cuts or grazes infected by the mass of damp hair, soap and bacteria that builds up. Also if you wash your razor it'll dry properly, and it'll stay sharp for longer.
I do, but those crannies are inaccessible by normal washmeans.
I can recommend a Canadian safety razor if you want to switch.
I did not expect the Halo show to be mostly about infighting in a research lab.
At least now I know why my nine minute abs system failed.
On topic, because Pablo Shrieber definitely needs a razor.
I've used a safety razor for years, complete with badger hair brush, etc. It was definitely something I came across via the internet, and maybe even here, in the olden days. I find I (literally) never cut myself with the safety razor whereas I cut myself all the time with multi-blade razors. Sharpness depends on the blades used, and also on how the razor is set. I have a Merkur where you can adjust the gap.
I bought 100 cartridges of two-bladed off the internet for $14, so I haven't had to go full safety razor. That was a couple years ago, so I'll probably have to order more soon. I stopped by a drug store and took a photo of the 5-bladed or 6-bladed cartridges at $35 for a 5-pack, just because it's amazing they do that.
OP last: it made me think of another Ben Stiller movie, Dodgeball. I never saw it but remember they were going to be on ESPN8, "the Ocho." That joke hit in 2004.
5: I'm very much enjoying the Murderbot TV series, in particular the occasional glimpses you see of the amazingly cheesy soap operas that Murderbot spends its free time watching.
I got a cutthroat razor for Christmas one year (along with brush, soap etc) and I did give it a try, but I spent a week cutting myself a lot. Contra ttaM, though, I have never cut myself with a two-blade Protector razor (it has wires across the front to prevent cutting).
Wasn't there a Saturday Night Live spoof commercial for a razor with like 17 blades? The Mach 17 or something
11: I've been listening to the murderbot books as audiobooks. I stayed away from the recommendation for some time because the title is so offputting, but I have found it generally amusing. Ligher and less murder heavy than I had feared. Skaarsgard is a good choice to play him on TV.
12: Hyperbole and a Half had one. BLADES INSIDE THE BLADES INSIDE THE BLADES. Also the memorable SHOWER HAMMER - BLEED THE GERMS AWAY!
https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-make-showering-awesome-again.html
I've been holding fast at 3 blades. I have a more-than-half-full package of them from Costco on the shelf, so I'm good for at least a year.
11: I'm enjoying the show, but my biggest complaint is how slow it's moving. I feel like they could have hit absolutely every plot point in the first novella in four episodes at most and probably would still have had time for some of the Sanctuary Moon stuff. And yet, here we are, on episode eight of 10. There's no way they'll get all 7 books adapted before a cast member dies or the rights get sold to a different streaming service and they decide to retool it as a cartoon.
8: I think I got the idea from you.
One of the first actors I knew was cast in the show was David Dastmalchian. I thought he was too conventionally attractive for the distinctly sexless protagonist, but he seemed "polished" enough to be a robot, and he was great in the 2021 Suicide Squad movie, so I was cautiously optimistic. Imagine my surprise months later when I found out who was actually playing whom.
I use the 5-blade one. Tim and I both use the same one and that means that we only have to buy one brand of cartridges, and that's what's at Costco. I would love it if there was a 3 blade option that was good and more affordable that we both liked and Costco sold.
Costco selling it is a pretty good indicator of something being good and acceptable to Tim. I've been trying to get him to stop using dryer sheets, because I wind up finding them all over the house and the dog gets into them. I was able to figure out that dryer sheets are bad for your dryer in the same ways that fabric softener is bad for your washing machine. But, lo and behold, acidic rinses soften clothes without those problems, and Costco even sells one that doesn't smell gross.
I've never understood how dryer sheets continue to be purchased. I have no idea what an acid rinse is.
19: citric acid stuff from Procter and Gamble. You can just put vinegar in the fabric softener area. The citric acid stuff is more concentrated, and it has scents.
Downy makes one called Rinse and Refresh. Tide and Gain have versions as well. https://www.costco.com/downy-fabric-rinse%2C-cool-cotton%2C-25.5-fl-oz%2C-3-count-.product.4000370740.html. The cool cotton one smells "clean and fresh".
See this video from dry cleaner influencer.
https://www.instagram.com/jeeves_ny/reel/DKAItu6xWZO/?locale=id&hl=ru
I think I'll just stick with detergent.
I don't usually want my clothes to be "soft". I like to line most things so they are a bit stiff.
Cosctco hasn't stopped selling a three blade razor where I am. I tried a five blade one years ago and thought it was worse.
It'll be a sad day when the Nazis force a renaming of the Mach product line.
It's soft in that it gets crunchy residues out. The vinegar is also helpful if you have odors - like in athletic clothes.
Laundry-based static cling is how I keep my balloons on the ceiling.
I'm pretty sure you can't take a safety razor with blades in your airplane carry-on, so I'll have to keep some other razor around.
I've been a safety-razor guy for a decade or so now, with experience very similar to ttaM - works much better with my skin, and the consumables are cheaper.
On 29: Empirically, TSA only notices a safety razor with blades in your carry-on in about one in ten passes through the X-ray. I haven't decided what to do now that I know this (though my family tends to always have at least one checked bag when we fly, so maybe it's not much of an issue).
I've carried the really small Swiss Army knife through on accident.
OT: Is Wolfram Research a cult? I think we've discussed before.
13/15: I've enjoyed Murderbot immensely; I admit that "my" murderbot when reading was mentally more female appearing (while still neuter, of course) -- likely because my friends who are Ace, etc. tend to have been born female.
I've enjoyed the adaptation; despite rereading it last year, there were still bits that surprised me (or were changes). I do like the over the top nature of Sanctuary Moon, though it reads campier than I'd imagined.
RWM says the perfect casting would have been Gwendoline Christie.
I admit that "my" murderbot when reading was mentally more female appearing (while still neuter, of course)
That was my experience of the books as well, and that feeling is strong enough to dissuade me from watching the show.
RWM says the perfect casting would have been Gwendoline Christie.
I haven't watched her in much, but I thought her performance in Wednesday was one of the weak points of the show (which might have been the writing as well as her) but she would be a good match physically.
I've joked that, in my mind, Murderbot looks a bit like this photo of Janet Reno (can't you just imagine her about to yank Bill Clinton out the maw an of alien):
OK, I'll bite. What Reconstruction president sold perfume?
I just didn't know and didn't want to assume.
36: Rutherford BedBathnBeyond Hayes
I do like the over the top nature of Sanctuary Moon, though it reads campier than I'd imagined.
I find the campiness really annoying. I thought the books missed an opportunity by failing to dig into the content of Sanctuary Moon -- and the ways that series educated Murderbot -- but the TV episodes I've seen so far don't really explore that. They are just jokey little skits that aren't actually funny and don't contribute to the plot.
Likewise, the non-Murderbot characters are under-drawn in the books and too silly in the TV series.
But I thought they got Murderbot right, even if I agree that Murderbot should have been more androgynous. (I mean, Skarsgård is pretty much exactly as I'd envisioned that character, but I think that's actually an indictment of the poverty of my imagination.)
That was much later than Reconstruction.
The mushy pees were too much like a sauce and not enough like peas.
The usual bar is closed. They take the whole week off every year.
Just had my MRI. First, it's super weird that this imaging clinic has appointments at 9:40 pm. And it's totally deserted, it's not like they're overscheduled.
Second, she didn't tell me to hold still?! Or not to talk? Or ask if I had questions? I know enough about MRIs, but she got me in there so quick, it wasn't until it was clacking and whirring that I wondered about swallowing and breathing motions, since it's for my neck.
Oh well!
Remember to leave your gun at the reception.
Did I mention the time I got to see the research MRI with a 7T magnet? I could feel the magnet from the control room
I am sorry to report the definitive version of the multiblade razor inflation joke is actually the nineties Gillette 3000 sketch from the Australian Late show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YleuLyCUx28
re: 29
I have a cheaper safety razor that I take when travelling--I think it's an old Wilkinson Sword branded one, I think, made from some kind of black Bakelite looking stuff*--and I bring that without razor blades. I can usually find blades in any pharmacy/CVS type shop when I arrive (or even at the airport). Wilkinson Sword blades are often available everywhere. If I'm in Europe, there's usually a wider selection.
I've never been stopped with that. On the other hand, my house keys are in a key holder that must show up as a penknife on the scanners, as I've been pulled for that multiple times.
* I bought it 10 years ago, so I'm sure it's just some kind of hard plastic.
I admit that "my" murderbot when reading was mentally more female appearing (while still neuter, of course)
That was my experience of the books as well, and that feeling is strong enough to dissuade me from watching the show.
The books are very careful not to drop hints about appearance - Murderbot says it is taller than most people, and it at one point grows its hair a bit longer to make it appear like a human rather than a SecUnit, for example, but that could apply to either sex. It could be female-appearing with a long ponytail rather than a short bob - or it could be male-appearing and growing out a crewcut, like the cliche'd ex-serviceman.
I think, but I'd have to check, that there are a few instances where it is referred to as "him" by people who think it's a human.
The situation is complicated by the fact that in the second book it gets some major appearance-changing surgery done by an ally (ART) that makes it appear less like a SecUnit, so what it looks like after that isn't necessarily anything close to what it looked like as a SecUnit.
I also remember an SNL sketch about a 5-blade (or some number) razor, with, in my mind, the tag line "Because you'll believe anything".
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Didn't Freud have some concept around the tendency to say mutually contradictory things together? Is there a keyword I'm forgetting by which I can find more?
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I'm remembering a reference from a Philip K Dick novel, with the illustration "Steal your horse? I'm not thief, plus you have a crummy horse."
Found it in Dick at least - he said Freud called it the "two-proposition self-cancelling structure". But of course that keyword only brings me back to that novel.
