Venus have just advertised their new product
A VIBRATING RAZOR
It will end in tears, i tell thi!
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Missy Jem wrote: Venus have just advertised their new product
A VIBRATING RAZOR
It will end in tears, i tell thi!
I just bought that last week. It's fucking useless. It's supposed to stimulate your leg hair so that it's out further before you cut it.
USELESS
and it's not strong enough to use on the little man in the boat either.
These have been around for blokes for ages haven't they? Gillette make them - they get advertised on the telly.
They're the electric ones though aren't they? Got to be a little safer than the Venus one with the blades shaking around.
What would you know anyway?
(The Good Doctor) Martin Fradley wrote: Why do lasses need razors, then?
You German? 
Whoops, there I go perpetuating another stereotype. 
Blokes have had these for years.
They're shite. Just a gimic. Last thing you want going across your throat is something sharp and shaking! 
Although, amusingly, going to Athens for the Order two months ago I could've sworn something was vibrating in me hand luggage ... and, sure enough, Oldmonkey suggested it could be razor, as it had happened to him before! And it was. I've just removed the battery now. Don't like those vibrations.
If I shave too close I get sore skin. I use them that they put behind bars - Protector.
If they stop making them, I'll get electrolosis 
Missy Jem wrote: Venus have just advertised their new product
A VIBRATING RAZOR
It will end in tears, i tell thi!
I use the normal Venus razor and have enough trouble cutting myself. I can't imagine what I'd do with a vibrating razor.
I don't have an electric razor, for one very good reason: I'm Amish
Though some may question that, seeing as I'm using an infernal tool of the Devil's handiwork to communicate with you unseen sprites and demons 
Missy Jem wrote: Venus have just advertised their new product
A VIBRATING RAZOR
It will end in tears, i tell thi!
Err... that's on the market for at least 5 years.. where have you been?
They are at 5 blades + vibrations + 1 blade on the opposite for trimming now....
And I think the 2 blades was doing the job, didn't see much difference 
Diamond White wrote: If I shave too close I get sore skin. I use them that they put behind bars - Protector.
If they stop making them, I'll get electrolosis
you should get it anyway, about time you spoke proper eengerlish....
i wonder how long the marketing meetings were for this deciding what to call it....
Jem's ahead of the game again.
Found this in the Newspaper today:
Does anyone really need a razor with six blades ?
So it has come to this. Five blades! Six, if you include the precision one for your sideburns fixed on to the back. The Fusion razor, according to its manufacturers, Gillette, represents "the pinnacle of shaving technology". What it actually represents is the frontier of rampant materialism, the wild-eyed lunacy of multinationals with no sense of reason and a widespread consumer mentality that asks simply: "Why have four when you can have, like, five?"
The razor blade wars have been teetering on the edge of sanity for years. First Gillette released the Mach 3; then their rivals Wilkinson responded with the Quattro. It was like the arms race during the cold war: neither side wanted to blink first.
In a bid to make sense of the madness, the Onion website published a spoof memo from Gillette's CEO which contained the war cry: "If two blades is good and three is better, obviously five blades would make us the best fucking razor that ever existed. Comprende ?" But what seemed like fantasy then is now a real product, sitting proudly on the shelves of your local Boots at £7.49.
The grooming industry doubts the need for such a device: "It's not the number of blades that count, but the technique used when shaving," says a spokesperson for Trumper, the traditional Mayfair barber. They're right; I've used one, and my chin's no smoother now than it was after a shave with its three-bladed predecessor. In fact, for the past 10 years, I've blindly upgraded every time Gillette have introduced a new product and never noticed a practical improvement. But that's not the point, is it? We want five-blade razors like we want limited-edition Peanut Butter KitKats: because they're there — and our friends might not have got one yet.
Of course, if razor-blade technology continues to advance at this alarming rate, they will soon be developing their own brains and marching the streets in gangs, shaving off the eyebrows of innocent humans for their own amusement. Until then, all we need fear is that a five-blade razor is impossible to resist. And that the refill blades cost eight quid for a pack of four. Sam Delaney
C-Ro wrote: and it's not strong enough to use on the little man in the boat either.
Quick and smart fingers are always the best option, CM. 
Diamond White wrote: Jem's ahead of the game again.
Found this in the Newspaper today:
Does anyone really need a razor with six blades ?
So it has come to this. Five blades! Six, if you include the precision one for your sideburns fixed on to the back. The Fusion razor, according to its manufacturers, Gillette, represents "the pinnacle of shaving technology". What it actually represents is the frontier of rampant materialism, the wild-eyed lunacy of multinationals with no sense of reason and a widespread consumer mentality that asks simply: "Why have four when you can have, like, five?"
The razor blade wars have been teetering on the edge of sanity for years. First Gillette released the Mach 3; then their rivals Wilkinson responded with the Quattro. It was like the arms race during the cold war: neither side wanted to blink first.
In a bid to make sense of the madness, the Onion website published a spoof memo from Gillette's CEO which contained the war cry: "If two blades is good and three is better, obviously five blades would make us the best fucking razor that ever existed. Comprende ?" But what seemed like fantasy then is now a real product, sitting proudly on the shelves of your local Boots at £7.49.
The grooming industry doubts the need for such a device: "It's not the number of blades that count, but the technique used when shaving," says a spokesperson for Trumper, the traditional Mayfair barber. They're right; I've used one, and my chin's no smoother now than it was after a shave with its three-bladed predecessor. In fact, for the past 10 years, I've blindly upgraded every time Gillette have introduced a new product and never noticed a practical improvement. But that's not the point, is it? We want five-blade razors like we want limited-edition Peanut Butter KitKats: because they're there — and our friends might not have got one yet.
Of course, if razor-blade technology continues to advance at this alarming rate, they will soon be developing their own brains and marching the streets in gangs, shaving off the eyebrows of innocent humans for their own amusement. Until then, all we need fear is that a five-blade razor is impossible to resist. And that the refill blades cost eight quid for a pack of four. Sam Delaney
Actually I was wathching "Money Watch" on CNN aa couple months ago, and they were talking about how the new 6 blade monster might actually do Gillette in. I guess they spent ALOT of money for advertising and retooling for it and they are not getting the returns as expected. This would of course effect their stock, to the point were the company may have to sell itself to others.
JHC
