On Electric Razors
Mar. 3rd, 2021 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danieldwilliamI have been forced yet again to grow a beard. I have bought a new electric razor which I hope will solve my problem.
A few months ago I nicked myself shaving. Quite badly and it took a while for the cut to heal. I tried shaving too soon and cut the ridge of healing skin and cut myself, again, quite badly again.
So I let my beard grow in the hope that doing so would give the nick a chance to properly heal.
I appear to have nicked it again in the same place. That is a third time now.
Not sure if I now have a small permanent scar on my chin. If so, I shall look like Harrison Ford, but only if Harrison Ford had lost a fight for control of his body with a latter day Marlon Brando. This is a thing that could happen. I've seen Apocalypse Now. Most of it at least. Probably.
Hey ho.
I don't like having a beard. I find the process of growing them a little uncomfortable. I don't much like the feel of them when they are grown in. Having a beard makes me feel very conscious of my face. I am generally too conscious of my face at the best of time. Several of the most important women in my life actively dislike me wearing a beard.
I also dislike having stubble. Perhaps more so than I dislike having a beard. A beard at least looks like a positive choice. Even a full bear-faced beard is a positive choice. Stubble just looks like you couldn't be arsed, or worse, think you are George Michael. You are unlikely to be George Michael, so thinking you are is probably problematic. If not for you then for other people. Will nobody think of the children.
So I have bought an electric razor in the hope that it is less prone to cutting me whilst the site of the nick properly, properly heals and I can go back to shaving with steel.
It should arrive today.
I have never used nor owned an electric razor before. I've tended to view them as morally inferior to real razors. Were I to reflect on 21st Century masculinity I would probably say that masculinity was intrinsically bound up in the concept of shaving but who's got time for that when there are wind turbines to build, robot brains to count and constitutions to re-write. Not me, that's for sure, not me. But I do like a good shave.
So we'll see how the grand experiment goes when the new machine arrive.
A few months ago I nicked myself shaving. Quite badly and it took a while for the cut to heal. I tried shaving too soon and cut the ridge of healing skin and cut myself, again, quite badly again.
So I let my beard grow in the hope that doing so would give the nick a chance to properly heal.
I appear to have nicked it again in the same place. That is a third time now.
Not sure if I now have a small permanent scar on my chin. If so, I shall look like Harrison Ford, but only if Harrison Ford had lost a fight for control of his body with a latter day Marlon Brando. This is a thing that could happen. I've seen Apocalypse Now. Most of it at least. Probably.
Hey ho.
I don't like having a beard. I find the process of growing them a little uncomfortable. I don't much like the feel of them when they are grown in. Having a beard makes me feel very conscious of my face. I am generally too conscious of my face at the best of time. Several of the most important women in my life actively dislike me wearing a beard.
I also dislike having stubble. Perhaps more so than I dislike having a beard. A beard at least looks like a positive choice. Even a full bear-faced beard is a positive choice. Stubble just looks like you couldn't be arsed, or worse, think you are George Michael. You are unlikely to be George Michael, so thinking you are is probably problematic. If not for you then for other people. Will nobody think of the children.
So I have bought an electric razor in the hope that it is less prone to cutting me whilst the site of the nick properly, properly heals and I can go back to shaving with steel.
It should arrive today.
I have never used nor owned an electric razor before. I've tended to view them as morally inferior to real razors. Were I to reflect on 21st Century masculinity I would probably say that masculinity was intrinsically bound up in the concept of shaving but who's got time for that when there are wind turbines to build, robot brains to count and constitutions to re-write. Not me, that's for sure, not me. But I do like a good shave.
So we'll see how the grand experiment goes when the new machine arrive.
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Date: 2021-03-03 09:23 pm (UTC)I've been sporting a very Anthony Ainley goatee effort on and off because I keep nicking my chin.