Get better friends. If they think its their right to criticize and judge you, imagine what they are saying behind your back?
It really speaks to their own insecurities.
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Get better friends. If they think its their right to criticize and judge you, imagine what they are saying behind your back?
It really speaks to their own insecurities.
That's nonsense. Straight razor blades are no more "dirty" than a cartridge razor after one use -- if anything less so, since the blade is completely clean after use, allowed to air-dry for 24 hours (germs can't live in a dry environment for that long) then stropped 80 times before re-use. Your friend's razor is full of clogged hair and dead skin when he re-uses it.
I doubt that such hardy microbes ever find their way into our bathrooms, I just wanted to geek out for a minute.Endospores can germinate many years after formation, even millions of years later.
I get that sometimes from people at work. It's disgusting to use some one's old razor, but there's nothing wrong with cleaning a classroom, going to the bathroom, sipping from a very well used fountain then stroking you're hand through you're beard!? I find it fun though to pick on them some times though, and the people who like to lecture me on the harms of smoking whilst their wiping the big mac sauce from their face!
Sounds like you need some new friends.
Frank
Just to clarify, the OP said he buys USED straight razors, i.e. someone else did use them before he did.
In the recent MRSA epidemic among college football players the disease was found to have been passed on by players sharing razors (cartridge razors, obvs) to shave their body hair.
I have yet to hear of someone contracting the disease from a razor he never shared with anyone, though. They call them "transmissible diseases" because they are transmitted from one party to another. They don't just magically materialize out of nowhere.
I am at the point in my life where I do not suffer or tolerate fools. I no longer tolerate one-way relationships, or those who think they are the smartest one on the room all the time. By no means am I claiming the title of smartest guy in the room, I am too humble and realistic for that, but I wouldn't put up with the "holier than thou" lecturing on anything.
I recently had a real life friend I worked with for 20 years un-friend me on Facebook because I had the audacity and unmitigated gall to actually make challenging responses to only two of the dozens politically motivated posts he makes every day. Yes, this guy makes at least twenty political postings a day, but if you dare to have a different opinion, I guess you do not have the right to post it. IMHO, you don't treat friends that way. That's the kind of one-way, smartest guy in the room, I will lecture you but don't you dare refute me, attitude I am talking about.
+1 on finding new friends.
Whenever I tell people that I collect razors, soaps/creams, brushes, aftershaves and colognes, they usually respond by saying "Oh? That's interesting," but inside they're probably thinking "He collects Whaaaat?" OMG, he looks so normal ... well, I guess you can't judge a book by its cover."
So after I tell them about my strange obsession, I always add "Yeah, I know. Its a weird hobby. I'm probably the only person you'll ever meet in your lifetime that does this. But believe me, there are thousands of people around the world that are into it even more hardcore than I am. Dedicated websites, Facebook groups, collector's conventions, yeah ... Wet-shaving really is a thing now. And its a lot of fun."
If they really were that interested, they would respond with "Oh? Tell me more about razors and shaving soaps. I've been thinking about getting some myself, but don't know where to start."
I recently had a real life friend I worked with for 20 years un-friend me on Facebook because I had the audacity and unmitigated gall to actually make challenging responses to only two of the dozens politically motivated posts he makes every day. Yes, this guy makes at least twenty political postings a day, but if you dare to have a different opinion, I guess you do not have the right to post it. IMHO, you don't treat friends that way. That's the kind of one-way, smartest guy in the room, I will lecture you but don't you dare refute me, attitude I am talking about.
+1 on finding new friends.
Just let them think whatever they want. They don't know the joy of traditional shaving! At the end you ARE the winner and they're the losers who get bad shaves and spend a lot of cash on carts.
You know I have been trying to convert a lot of people in the past and they always looked at me like I was some crazy lunatic. Now I really don't care about them. I get great shaves, full BBS with no negative effects and they don't.
Just enjoy your hobby thats priceless and thats something they'll never understand.
My wife and I were out with some friends. My wife was showing off her new tattoo (Her first). Our friends reaction to it was not the greatest.
So to deflect attention from her, my wife decided to announce that I buy and use, used straight razors. Her tattoo was immediately forgotten as I got a lecture from the germ-a-phobe of the group. And I learned of all the things spread from a dirty blade (despite my insistence that I sterilize the blades.)
Oh well at least my wife felt better.