Re: Gotta love them
- From: mm <NOPSAMmm2005@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:33:29 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:18:22 +0000 (UTC), Omega <Omega.d21@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Apr 14, 3:57 pm, mm <NOPSAMmm2...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:29:29 +0000 (UTC), "Steve Goldfarb"
<s...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<regarding growing beards for religious reasons>
Given that shaving with an electric razor is permitted,
Is there a difference between razors like Norelco which have two
blades that are both sharp and meet each other like scissors, and
those like Sunbeam which has a screen but for the most part just swipe
the whiskers off like a scythe? I think in some or all opinions
there is a big difference.
I'm not sure where Ronson comes in, where he screen is so thin that it
is invevitably sharp. I'm not sure if in fact a scissors action is
present or not.
is growing a beard
really a "religious reason" or just self-expression?
I'll tell you this. If your son is geting pimples the best way to get
rid of them is for him to grow a beard. I had already tried washing
my face and hands after every meal, and various soaps. I thought a
beard would make it impossible to wash my face well, and would make
the pimples worse, but they disappeared entirely, and never came back
nearly as bad even after I shaved the beard off.
Sounds like you have "bumps" like Black men get.
No, they were "standard" pimples.
It is when you have
extremely curly hair that often grows inward.
I have wavy hair. (I thought I had straight hair until I finally let
it grow long.) (OT, as if the rest of this isn't, I still have a full
head of brown hair at age 62.)
I once had what I assume was an ingrown "hair". It was thick as a
pencil lead and contained maybe ten hairs in parallel. But that is
just that once.
Shaving with an electric razor is bad at least for some guys because
the razor chops up the whiskers in tiny pieces and forces the pieces
into the pores (or wherever pimples come from).
In high school I noticed that maybe a half-hour after I ate chicken,
my face got greasy. Washing right after the meal was probably too
early.
I actually never had very bad pimples but who wants any. In HS I used
Brasaville (or is that the capital of the Congo?), a very abrasive
stuff with actual sand in it, I think, in small plastic cylinder the
size of a large plum. Do they still sell that? It worked a little.
In college I used Phiso-Hex**, which worked pretty well but after a
few weeks caused a red raw rash under my eyes and maybe elsewhere on
my face**. Now you can only buy the stuff with a prescription. I
used Hyper=phase or something after that, figuring simce the names
were similar it was probably the same thing :) It didn't work as well,
but maybe it and all the ones that didn't work for me work for other
people. **(A few years later, I used it again, and by then I wasn't
allergic anymore. Maybe the Hyper-phase helped too.)
Second year in college, I grew the beard for "fun". Within a couple
weeks, no more pimples. Once I stopped shaving, who knows, maybe the
beard did make it harder to wash my face, but I'm pretty sure the
beard made less washing necessary, because the beard provided another
place for whatever dirt was on my face to go to. So I had to wash my
beard and my face, but most of the dirt was probably not on my face,
and I certainly didn't have clogged pores anymore.
In June, my roommate was chief usher at Rockefeller Chapel, and was
paying people to usher for graduation, but I had to shave my beard to
do that.
I guess I kept it off for quite some time after that, and I know I
didn't have it during my army physical when I was 21. I think from
age 19 on, I shaved with a double-edged razor. (Not twin-blade but
double edged). For a while with make-your-own shaving cream and my
father's brush, then for a few years with aerosol shaving cream. Then
I got interested in that self-heating shaving cream, and since soon
after that I just don't use anything but the razor, because it was
hard to see where to shave with all that cream. But I kept the
self=heating cream and 20 years after I bought it, the cream still
came out and it was still hot!!!! I also got at a yard sale some AC
device that goes on top of any can of shaving cream and heats it up
but I've never used it. I think I've had a beard for all but one
month of the last 30 years.
If you know a boy with pimples who uses an electric razor, tell him to
stop.
.
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