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Joe Guy · Post by **Joe Guy** » Tue Jan 15, 2019 6:07 am

Too long. They should have shaved about 48 seconds off of the commercial.

BoSoxGal · Post by **BoSoxGal** » Tue Jan 15, 2019 2:53 pm

Tick tock, dinosaurs!

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Tue Jan 15, 2019 4:50 pm

I think that commercial is a clever attempt to sell more razors in the women's market, even though on the surface, it looks like it's aimed at men...

Long Run · Post by **Long Run** » Tue Jan 15, 2019 5:22 pm

I think they stubbled their toe. Look for an uptick in Dollar Shave Club sales.

BoSoxGal · Post by **BoSoxGal** » Tue Jan 15, 2019 5:37 pm

They’re selling the Gillette brand now, not just razor cartridges - which can be had much cheaper. And I’m sure in designing this ad campaign, they’ve carefully considered the massive spike in sales realized by Nike after they launched the Kaepernick ad campaign. Lots and lots of women buy Gillette - for themselves and their spouses.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.boston ... M/amp.html

If any of us gave a shit about the planet, we’d ditch plastic shaving devices entirely and all learn to cope with a good old fashioned straight razor.

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Tue Jan 15, 2019 6:00 pm

BoSoxGal wrote:... If any of us gave a shit about the planet, we’d ditch plastic shaving devices entirely and all learn to cope with a good old fashioned straight razor.

Ah, the good old "cutthroat" razor. I have one and I refuse to use it. I've seen Sweeney Todd, you know.

Plastic or death? What a great way to cull the male masses.

BoSoxGal · Post by **BoSoxGal** » Tue Jan 15, 2019 6:10 pm

Considering the endocrine disrupting properties of many plastic polymers, that’s a Catch-22 you got there. Or a no-win? I always confuse those . . .

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegr ... agers/amp/

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Tue Jan 15, 2019 6:16 pm

Bisphenol A... male birth control.

dales · Post by **dales** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 2:12 am

Men (and women) should just stop shaving altogether.

Save the planet!

Bicycle Bill · Post by **Bicycle Bill** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 2:40 am

BoSoxGal wrote:If any of us gave a shit about the planet, we’d ditch plastic shaving devices entirely and all learn to cope with a good old fashioned straight razor.

You first. I'll keep on lathering my face with Barbasol and scraping it off with my old double-edge safety razor... just like the one my old man used to use.

-"BB"-

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 5:09 am

And since I don't give a shit about the planet, I'll stick with my Fusion5...

ex-khobar Andy · Post by **ex-khobar Andy** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 2:23 pm

BoSoxGal wrote:Considering the endocrine disrupting properties of many plastic polymers, that’s a Catch-22 you got there. Or a no-win? I always confuse those . . .

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegr ... agers/amp/

The woman who started the ED ball rolling (isn’t it curious, BTW, that ‘endocrine disruption’ and ‘erectile dysfunction’ share initials?) was Theo Colborn, who wrote Our Stolen Future and is a personal hero of mine. She deserves to be in the same list as Rachel Carson (Silent Spring) for her influence on the thinking about the ecological toxicity of some chemicals. For some reason I can no longer recollect, Dr. Colborn and I shared a podium at a League of Women Voters (!) meeting in NY around 2005. She died three or four years ago. I treasured a copy of Our Stolen Future which she had signed for me: unfortunately I lent it to someone years ago and never got it back when I left that company. Dr Colborn is very relevant to the topic of this thread - toxic masculinity. When I met her she was close to 80; thin and wiry, probably 100 lbs soaking wet; a bundle of energy - but if your superhero has to be Batman-shaped, she wasn’t it.

Burning Petard · Post by **Burning Petard** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 3:45 pm

No, if we gave a shit about the planet, we would all stop using any and all mean of removing any body hair. When ever only one standard is applied universally to all questions, it quickly gets absurd.

Who here carries the fashionable folding metal tube for public consumption of all drinkables? I gave one to my wife and she used it once.

snailgate.

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 6:41 pm

FUSION 5
Gillette Now Including Free Manly Side Bag With Every Purchase

Bicycle Bill · Post by **Bicycle Bill** » Thu Jan 17, 2019 4:49 am

When you start using that many blades it ain't a razor; it's a food processor.
("It slices, it dices, it minces, it shreds, it cuts julienne fries!! And it's yours for only $9.99 plus shipping and handling. But wait!! There's more....!")

-"BB"-

datsunaholic · Post by **datsunaholic** » Thu Jan 17, 2019 8:00 am

Admittedly I didn't look it up, but what in the **** would a bladed razor handle need a BATTERY?

Burning Petard · Post by **Burning Petard** » Thu Jan 17, 2019 5:21 pm

It is also a vibrator. Multi-tasking?

snailgate

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Thu Jan 17, 2019 5:34 pm

RayThom wrote:FUSION 5
Gillette Now Including Free Manly Side Bag With Every Purchase

I think I'll pass on that...(unless of course the Manly Side Bag also comes with the Macho Matching Pumps...)

You may think five blades is excessive, (I had been using three blade razor for years until I got this one as a stocking stuffer a couple of Christmases ago) but once you try it if you go back to a one blade razor (which I had occasion to do on an overnight trip when I forgot my razor and had to pick one up at a convenience store) man, you can sure tell the difference...

The five blade razor really provides a very comfortable and effective shave...(Of course if you're the sort of person who thinks there's something morally superior about enduring pain, by all means stick with your 1950s model...

)

rubato · Post by **rubato** » Thu Jan 17, 2019 8:40 pm

The only 4-blade razor I tried was worse than a 3-blade razor.

yrs,
rubato

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