Re: who killed the electric car??


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William Black wrote:

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While I'm at it, what the farck is up with Razor Blades. $19 for a 4
pack? There's _maybe_ fifty cents worth of materials in there.


Buy real razor blades and not the silly system ones the flash razor blade
companies sell you.

I gave up using the system things a year or so ago, bought a proper wet
razor and a shaving brush and a block of soap and have saved a huge wadge
of cash so far.

The soap blocks last about three months and cost about £3 each, my blades
cost next to nothing...


If you use an electric razor, you don't have any of those problems.

However, if you insist, you will find that a blade will last 5 or 6 months
IF you thoroughly dry it. They DON"T get dull, they get rusty.

They're so cheap I don't really care.

I use a copy of the Gillette 1904 razor that is made by Merkur in Germany,
(my original went missing while I wore a full beard for twenty years or so)
that comes in three parts and screws together, so wiping the blade is a non
trivial activity in the morning...

I pay about £6 for 30 blades, which is over six months supply as a blade
lasts me about a week, and £3 for a block of soap that lasts about 3
months.

That's £2 a month for shaving supplies.

I get a more comfortable (and closer) shave than an electric razor gives me,
I find they pull at my skin as well, and the whole process takes very
little time.

What I can't understand is why people persist in paying what are now
astronomical sums for system shaving heads that shave you no closer and are,
let's be honest, only marginally easier to use.

The only problem is that you can't actually buy this stuff where I live
(when I'm in the UK), but the Internet is my friend...

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.






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