Gillette. The rest a man can get.

[cdave]

That Gillette advert that's on at the moment really winds me up.

A bunch of sporting stars go around beating men up, telling them need to stop using razors they're perfectly happy with, and should buy these more expensive ones.

The big selling point?
The blades are closer together.
Meaning that it's just about damn impossible to clean shaving gunk out from between the blades.

Bah, there's a reason men have stuck with the Mach3 Gillete, it's cheaper, easier to use, and feels just the same, and no amount of celebs flinging their balls at me will change my mind.

Comments

[theengineer.livejournal.com]

The old commercials for the double-bladed razors showed the two blades completely cutting a whisker off between them. When the three blades came along, the just updated the graphic to show that it took three blades to do the job. So was the double blade false advertising? I think we have a class-action lawsuit here.

[emmajking.livejournal.com]

One does have to wonder when the obsession with more blades on a razor will have to stop. It can't go on forever, surely??? The whole thing has been getting ridiculous for ages - I'm sure even Gillette will notice that in the end.....

Maybe you should console yourself by thinking how much that ad probably cost them!

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

http://agrumer.livejournal.com/414194.html

[cdave]

It's not so much the number of blades, as the space between them. They already seem to be getting close to the point where the space between the blades is less that of a human hair.

There used to be a great checkerboard nightmare strip on this on this, but the archives have been taken offline for a director's commentry re-run. The jokes goes something like:
"I've noticed how you human's seem to want more blades on your razor, so I've put 15 on yours.
"However in order to fit them on your razor head I 'va had to rotate them by 90 degrees."
Nya!

[cdave]

I actually think a single bladed cut-throat razor probably shaves closest of all.
But I'm not confident I can avoid shaving my skin off before my morning coffee. I'll stick to safety razors.

Razors

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

They wouldn'ttry it with me. People get nervous when they see me with sharp-edged objects ...

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

I've already commented on that ad. It's the smug expressions on their multimillionaire faces as they bully the guy which really pisses me off.

[cdave]

And you f-locked the post too.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

No longer a problem for you.

[cdave]

Cheers.