This. Is. Awesome.
"Let me put it this way. The BodyGroom? Will make your *BEEP* look bigger."
explicit text
Is that text's older brother?
It's what a logical vocabulary allows what was only implicit in text's actions to be expressed.
I challenge anyone to argue that 3 is grammatical.
You don't have no appreciation for the Higher Grammaticism.
That IS a mighty effective ad. I'm not usually one to shave my [carrot], my [kiwi fruit], or my [peach], but that ad makes me want to buy that shaver just to try it out.
The only way the ad could be better is if there were a female version of the ad.
They had me at "extra optical inch on my %$#@."
Also, watch the guy after the ad. An amusing array of "hey there, buckaroo" antics.
You need a special shaver thing for the *y bits? Surely not.
8 - Well, would a guy really want to use the same shaver on his balls one day and his beard the next?
Sorry, SB, but 5 is fine. You'll have to come up with an Even Higher Grammaticism.
On the ad: I remain unconvinced.
Where's all the speculative post-compulsory-electrolysis economic collapse fiction, is what I want to know.
11 to 4? "what was only explicit in text's actions" is an NP, but what role does it play in the sentence?
Sorry, SB, but 5 is fine.
Yeah, that actual to being the innocently typo.
Before clicking the link and for a surprising amount of time thereafter I thought that Max Roach was supplying the explicit text, as in the text for a sermon, and that the idea that electronics companies were concerned with our sexual well-being was going to emerge implicitly out of an elaboration of the meaning inherent in the Max Roach.
Ben, I would think that you, of all people, would be an advocate of specialization.
Damn, but that is convincing. I kind of want one for myself now.
To clarify: when I said "they had me" I meant it was a funny ad. I would never buy one, as I trim with scissors after an electric razor incident that left me bleeding a bit.
TMI? Perhaps, but I think the dangers are not to be laughed off by some good cock-cum-carrot jokes.
22 was me, not Silvana. Sorry, Silvana!
There are all kinds of them for girls, Silvana. I was at Target buying a new hairdryer and they were on the same aisle -- there must have been 20 to choose from. I was like "when did this whole pubic shaving industry gain such momentum?" They also have special razors for that purpose in the beauty aisle now, too. When did this become a middle-America Target phenomenon? It couldn't have been long.
after an electric razor incident that left me bleeding a bit
My best friend ended up in the ER from an intimate shaving accident.
25: Yeah, but as I know from my experience (quite good!) with the schick Quattro, I have determined that everything they make for women is crap (including clothes) and they save the good shit for the mens. Fuckers.
Nope. I don't even know silvana. Promise.
28: Nothing can really handle the varying skinfolds male scrotum either. Hence the bleeding.
Max Roach. He and I were in the same room once. That was awesome.
On preview: scrotum is the magic word of forgetting.
My main concern with this kind of grooming is that it seems ridiculous to only shave some of your body hair, so you're basically compelled to shave all of it.* I'm one hairy dude, so total shaving is just not in the cards--therefore, no fancy personal-grooming razors for me.
*This may not be an accurate impression, but that ad did nothing to discourage it.
Max Roach. He and I were in the same room once. That was awesome.
*jealousy*
I didn't know it was so freaking awesome at the time. When he turned up on the Cosby Show, I knew.
I know, I know, Roach is wasted on the roang.
Nothing can really handle the varying skinfolds male scrotum either
You amateurs. You don't use an electric razor down there, for cryin' out loud. Of course you ended up bleeding. You use a regular razor and pull yourself so as to unwrinkle the wrinkly bits.
it seems ridiculous to only shave some of your body hair
Do you shave your face?
You use a regular razor and pull yourself so as to unwrinkle the wrinkly bits
Really? Hmph.
Shaving cream/gel?
Our previous discussion of personal grooming, including many Apostropher tips.
Thanks, Becks. My previous girlfriend (a bit granola), convinced me that "it was totally fine" not to shave. Anything. Ever. But newly single, I may reconsider.
Was Stanley silvana all along?
I met silvana at the Chicago meet-up, and she didn't look like a Stanley.
My best friend ended up in the ER from an intimate shaving accident.
Dan Savage had a horrifying letter from a woman who related that, "While trimming my pubes [this morning] I accidentally trimmed off a chunk of clit." Savage understandably thought it bizarre that her reaction was to write a letter to him rather than seek immediate medical attention. Be careful down there, ladies.
wasn't there something here about "foldy bits" at some point?
That Samsung thing was...wow.
Stanley is originally from Chicagoland (Blue Island, actually). The mystery thickens...
You amateurs. You don't use an electric razor down there, for cryin' out loud. Of course you ended up bleeding. You use a regular razor and pull yourself so as to unwrinkle the wrinkly bits.
Exactly. Any guy who takes an electric to the scrotum is in for a bad, bad time.
wasn't there something here about "foldy bits" at some point?
BEHOOGLE, the poogle of Google.
Any guy who takes an electric to the scrotum is in for a bad, bad time.
This is true for more than just razors, I'd think.
One man's Friday night is another man's Serbian birth control.
Serbian birth control is officially the best euphemism ever.
patients were now lining up at his fertility clinic in Novi Banovci for the shock treatment, as it had none of the problems attached to using condoms, the male pill or having a vasectomy.
However, none of those methods have the problems associated with getting shocked in the nuts either.
Serbian birth control is officially the best euphemism ever.
It's good, but I'm sticking with the classics.
It's unclear to me whether the electrified nutz need to be shorn prior to the procedure. Apo? You're the resident nutzpert...
It's good, but I'm sticking with the classics.
Well at least I'll be remembered for something.
Funny, I was just thinking the other day that maybe the rationale for the weirdly shaped "girl razor" handles (you know, the ones that are short and elliptical, rather than your standard handle-shaped handle) is that the angles one sometimes has to use to shave against hair growth patterns makes it actually kinda difficult to hold the handle at the needed angle.
With the shorter handle, it's easier to hold the razor straight ahead of you, or to turn your hand, so you don't nick your legs.
Of course, the one time I really gouged my legs I was using some damn short razor with little wires over the blades that were supposed to prevent nicking.
Yeah, I've never had a problem with the leg-shaving thing, but holding the handle at different angles when you're shaving in between 'em, makes things a lot easier. Although gracias a dios, I've never nicked myself. (And I'm 100% certain that the "I cut my clit while shaving" thing is total fabrication.)
She's saying she submitted a bogus question to Dan Savage. Which he's said he has no problem with, so everything's hunky-dory.
The only way B could be "100% certain" it's a "total fabrication" is if she wrote the letter, isn't it? Time to 'fess up?
Yeah, that was me. Because I have hair growing *on my clit.* However, I've found that shaving it makes it look bigger.
Fortunately, I do not acknowledge the existence of Weiner-pwning.
Ooh, you want to talk epistemology?
For Bphd to be 100% certain is to say that she has no doubt whatsoever. If she is a Bayesian (which she shouldn't be), this means that she will not accept any evidence whatsoever against the claim. So there is no difficulty at all in her being 100%; whether she can rationally be so is another question.
I dunno, B. If one was trimming with a pair of scissors, I can see how one might snip a little piece by accident.
Especially if it's so big it keeps getting in the way.
62: I thought we'd established that all women were irrational.
63: I honestly can't. If you're trimming your pubes with scissors (or, what I imagined when I read that letter, a straight razor), aren't you gonna be a li'l bit careful to tug the hair so you can make sure and not cut yourself? Unless you're drunk. But she didn't say "omg, I was so high!!!1111 and I cut off my cli7!!!" So I'm thinking, Bayesianishly or not I have no idea, that it's bullshit.
65: You read my blog now and again, right? People do really, really stupid things All. The. Time. Could be bullshit, sure, but lord knows I've read stranger things.
65.1: I wasn't going to make that crack.
I use an electric body hair trimmer for my delicates, but I put on one of those extenders so it's not trimming completely to the skin. Also, the skin should be pulled tight.
I use an electric body hair trimmer for my delicates, but I put on one of those extenders so it's not trimming completely to the skin.
I really don't get how one of these protects you while you're shaving.
Also, the skin should be pulled tight.
I feel compelled to link to this. Unfortunately, no wisecracks to accompany it have sprung to mind.
Apostropher, surely you can offer something?
Do you shave your face?
Yes (although there have been times when I didn't). But having a straight line marking the boundary between shaven face and hairy chest is common and socially acceptable in a way that I imagine similar lines elsewhere would not be.
Apostropher, surely you can offer something?
Hang on. I'll be with you in a second, M/tch.
Look, I'm no genius
But Michael Berube is.
66: Yeah, they do. But that doesn't mean I have to believe in them.
71: WTF are all of the [Redacteds] on that thread? I was around (lurking, I think) for that thread, and I don't understand what needed to be removed. Did some commenter decide they needed to be removed from the public record of unfogged, and did some site admin comply?
Also, the vending machine cookies I just bought are not very good! Someone should fix that!
76: I believe you can thank S/teven d/en B/este for that.
That's my understanding. Email if you'd like a slightly fuller explanation and apo hasn't clued you in sufficiently. But best not to discuss at length in public.
But the cookies! They don't taste good!
You know, from the recipes you've posted, you're probably significantly more capable of making yourself better cookies than most people hanging around here. This is a blog that encourages self-reliance: go home and start baking! (And, you know, make extras and send them to NY.)
You deserve what you get for eating vending-machine cookies.
81: Eh. Cookies are the wife's job (aka she's carved them out as her bailiwick). On rare occasions, I might whip up a batch of Tollhouse. I do however, make the cakes and pies.
82: Sure. My distress was intended as comic effect, since I was trying to sound a little crazy in 76.
Seriously, though, does Stauffer's, Inc. use partially hydrogenated ass for shortening?
Probably. Were they the "soft" kind of packaged cookies? B/c those are the worst. Next time buy a Snicker's bar or something.
Artificially soft cookies are the work of the devil.
They are generally foul. Entemanns sells soft chocolate chip cookies which are okay, though -- are those regional to the NE, or do all of you get them too?
We get them, but soft cookies that stay soft seem fraudulent to me. What's the matter with hard cookies?
They were those Oreos knockoffs with one white cookie and one chocolate cookie. I knew they weren't going to good, I just thought that better than ass was a reasonable assumption to make. How wrong I was.
Entemanns, for a mass producer, is certainly good. But those small soft cookies are suspicious.
Oreo knockoff are anathema.
Cookies that stay soft (Soft-Baked?) are an abomination unto baked goods. I don't even know how many partially hydrogenated asses had to go into them.
Yeah, you'd think your basic sandwich cookie wouldn't be repulsive.
I like the Pepperidge Farm myself, when eating store-bought cookies.
I like the Pepperidge Farm myself, when eating store-bought cookies.
Double chocolate milanos = mass-produced divinity.
Double chocolate milanos = mass-produced divinity.
My daughter and I emphatically agree. Why do they make, and why does anyone buy, the other kinds of Milanos? And to echo other commenters, soft cookies that stay soft are disgusting.
On the other hand, nuking a hard chocolate chip cookie to make it soft and warm = yum.
Mint was always, and probably remains, my favorite Milano. But I recently tried two new (to me) varietals:
Raspberry was excellent.
Amaretto was so-so for a Milano, but that's still good.
This comment thread inspired me to go buy some Double Chocolate Milanos. Examining the different varieties of Milanos on display reminded me of another reason that buying regular (single-chocolate) Milanos is an act of madness: they charge you the same price, but give you 1.25 oz. less! WTF?
Philips (or, more likely, their ad agency) now has posters up of the peach and the kiwi (and some other stuff to indicate what the ad is talking about) as part of the campaign. I only saw them on one block, but I assume they're more prevalent than that.