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I got a press cutting in the post today from my Mum, it would never have occurred to her to email me the link:
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Looks like this old-fangled straight shaving thing is catching on again.
 
"...as the glinting straight blade, or "throat cutter" as it is known to these follicle swordsmen..."

Throat cutter? Everyone who doesn't call em "straight" calls em "cut throat", don't they? Or is there a secret no one's told me?
 
"A colleague, who has a sinister-sounding German cut-throat complete with leather strap to wipe the blade"

What a dick! Obviously done plenty of research.

I have found throughout my lifetime, that if a journalist writes/reports on a subject that I know about, they invariably get some part or parts of it wholly inaccurate.

Ian
 
When I was a wee child at primary school, we did a "sponsored silence". The idea was that primary school kids would be sponsored to sit in a room and say nothing at all for 3 hours.

Quite a large number of us managed the full three hours. Of those who managed it, the six people who raised the largest amount of sponsorship money won some special prize.

The local newspaper reported that only six children managed the full 3 hours without speaking. I've never trusted newspapers since. In addition I've been bitter and twisted about it for the whole of my adult life.
 
hunnymonster said:
IanM said:
if a journalist writes/reports on a subject that I know about, they invariably get some part or parts of it wholly inaccurate.

If a journalist writes, it's almost certainly all bullshit.

Fixed that for you.

Journalist?
'Tis that well known gentleman Mr Wayne Rooney being shaved surely!
 
cheese_dave said:
When I was a wee child at primary school, we did a "sponsored silence". The idea was that primary school kids would be sponsored to sit in a room and say nothing at all for 3 hours.

Quite a large number of us managed the full three hours. Of those who managed it, the six people who raised the largest amount of sponsorship money won some special prize.

The local newspaper reported that only six children managed the full 3 hours without speaking. I've never trusted newspapers since. In addition I've been bitter and twisted about it for the whole of my adult life.
 
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