Minor victory thread

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fade

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You know, normally I'm skeptical about hipster-style hype, or it's-better-because-it's-older hype, but I have to concur. I have a double edged safety razor, and I will never go back to any of the gillette or schick 47 blade gizmos. Those things are expensive if nothing else. The safety razor took some getting used to, and it does dull much more quickly. But the blades are 20 for a dollar, and once you get used to it, it's much faster than the new style blades. As much as I hate spreading conspiracy theories, the rumor is that the disposable razor was invented and heavily pushed because the razor manufacturers were making nothing off of blades alone.
 
Gared

Gared

Another re-org at work, this time with some actual benefits to me. For the first time in the 20 months I've been working here, I actually have a team that I work with; and my new bosses don't like the idea of all of my time going to waste (I have a lot of downtime), so they actually want to assign me projects to work on.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

fade said:
You know, normally I'm skeptical about hipster-style hype, or it's-better-because-it's-older hype, but I have to concur. I have a double edged safety razor, and I will never go back to any of the gillette or schick 47 blade gizmos. Those things are expensive if nothing else. The safety razor took some getting used to, and it does dull much more quickly. But the blades are 20 for a dollar, and once you get used to it, it's much faster than the new style blades. As much as I hate spreading conspiracy theories, the rumor is that the disposable razor was invented and heavily pushed because the razor manufacturers were making nothing off of blades alone.
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Plus the blades on the double-edge safties can be resharpened. Try that with your Trac-II.
Personally, I buy a bag of disposables for about $8 and it'll last me a year. The more expensive razors are easier to use, but I'm not willing to pay $15-20 for a pack of refills when I can get said bag of disposables for less than half the price.

--Patrick
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

I can't go back to cheap disposables. My beard hair is so thick and full that it literally destroys a disposable after a single use.
 
Adam

Adam

Wife's birthday is on Friday. Took her into the jeweler today and bought her a .61 carat diamond replacement for her engagement ring. Thing's fooking massive!
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

stienman said:
I've used a regular razor a handful of times when I've forgotten my electric over the last two decades.

But I'm lazy. No lathers, lotions, or soaps. Just pop out of the shower, dry off, and shave.

Can't do that with a blade.

Costs me about 10 cents a day including new blades every other year and a new electric razor when the old one no longer has blades available.
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I use a bladed razor, and I don't use lather, lotions or soaps. Just water, all I've ever used.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Adam said:
Wife's birthday is on Friday. Took her into the jeweler today and bought her a .61 carat diamond replacement for her engagement ring. Thing's fooking massive!
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Well, it's a good thing you had the buyback credit from the engagement ring to help offset the cost, right?

--Patrick
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

fade said:
As much as I hate spreading conspiracy theories, the rumor is that the disposable razor was invented and heavily pushed because the razor manufacturers were making nothing off of blades alone.
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Not so much a conspiracy theory, the rise in manufacturing in the USA after WWII lead to new uses of razor blades and a a result new manufacturers of them. Back in '92 I was buying 6,000 blades at a time for $450 CDN for work.

But that's not what I came here for today;

Guess who has two thumbs and accidentally downloaded 750M of porn onto their tablet using their phone as an internet source instead of local wifi and then got caught looking at said porn in public?
 
Gared

Gared

HCGLNS said:
Not so much a conspiracy theory, the rise in manufacturing in the USA after WWII lead to new uses of razor blades and a a result new manufacturers of them. Back in '92 I was buying 6,000 blades at a time for $450 CDN for work.

But that's not what I came here for today;

Guess who has two thumbs and accidentally downloaded 750M of porn onto their tablet using their phone as an internet source instead of local wifi and then got caught looking at said porn in public?
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Wait, really? That's a pretty nice price for 6,000 razor blades.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

HCGLNS said:
Not so much a conspiracy theory, the rise in manufacturing in the USA after WWII lead to new uses of razor blades and a a result new manufacturers of them. Back in '92 I was buying 6,000 blades at a time for $450 CDN for work.

But that's not what I came here for today;

Guess who has two thumbs and accidentally downloaded 750M of porn onto their tablet using their phone as an internet source instead of local wifi and then got caught looking at said porn in public?
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Woah... I hope you don't have a low datacap, otherwise that would suck.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

HCGLNS said:
Guess who has two thumbs and accidentally downloaded 750M of porn onto their tablet using their phone as an internet source instead of local wifi and then got caught looking at said porn in public?
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Mobile devices are not for porn. You never know who will be sniffing your traffic, and it's hard to wrestle with one when you have only one thumb free.

--Patrick
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Hey, maybe it led to something interesting. Who am I to judge? If anyone understands how wide and varied people's fetishes can be, it's me.

--Patrick
 
Gared

Gared

Tonight's indulgences will include: Playing WoW while listening to Garfield and Friends on Netflix, after a nice, unhealthy meal of Taco Time.
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Hotel wifi has gone to crap. We even have the provider of guest Internet services wanting to strangle the ISP for lack of support.

So I go ahead and get myself a prepaid mobile hotspot. Takes my concerns out of the equation as my connection is up to 6x faster than what the hotel is providing. :p
 
fade

fade

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stienman said:
I changed the brake pads and rotors on my car in under 90 minutes today, including getting out all the tools and cleaning everything up. The rain proved to supply some encouragement.

If I ever danced, I would be brake dancing now.
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That's impressive for a school bus.
 
Gusto

Gusto

Today I was offered (and subsequently accepted) an open-ended employment contract at one of the big insurance companies in my city. :)
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Sweet! I need to pull out my headphones more often when I'm on the go. I keep them with me, but they mostly stay in my pocket.
 
Gusto

Gusto

Gusto said:
Today I was offered (and subsequently accepted) an open-ended employment contract at one of the big insurance companies in my city. :)
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So today the agency called me back and told me that I'd be rolling this into ANOTHER contract at the SAME insurance company in January.

Meaning that tomorrow I start in the mailroom and then next month I get to start as a CSR for increased pay until at least July.

:D
 
WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

I was looking over my degree completion plan on the school's website tonight. I only need 44 more credit hours. I am just about 2/3 of the way to my bachelor's degree! And if I keep my GPA where it is, I should graduate magna cum laude. :D
 
North_Ranger

North_Ranger

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Total of twenty minutes jogging on Wii Fit today. Considering in what rotten shape I am after over a year of chemo, that's worthy of a minor victory in my books... Just gotta keep doing that...
 
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