Others Opinion On This Hobby

It was for the yellow and green nightmare.... yes, the parcel service!

To work for them was kind of like using them to send a parcel. Slow, difficult, and for the most part rather useless! Their entire parcel tracking system was coded by one chap in C, about 8 years ago and no one really knew how to work it. He left just as I started, I dread to think what state that's in now....

I was brought in with two other BAs to work on getting them ready for a merger/acquisition with Target Express. My two co-workers left a week after me, it was that bad.
 
SirPrize said:
Magicpixie said:
Whatever floats your boat. ;-)
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Whatever strops you razor.
Whatever wets you brush.
Whatever lathers your Badger.

Any further offers?
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Whatever cleavers your beaver?
Whatever depraves your shave?
Whatever slathers your lather?
Graces your face, flecks your neck, streaks your cheeks...
 
Yuk.

Anyway, I for one am not in IT, though for a brief aberrant period I was a data cabler / CAD draughtsman. As regards what others think, my wife is very happy with the smoothness factor and the aroma of sandalwood, and I don't even think she regards me as mad, at least not on account of the shaving.
 
Same for me.

Wife and family think it is kinda strange but recognise we are all a bit strange or our own little way. They are supportive and seem happy that I can produce lists of items to suit every pocket at Christmas and birthdays. Before DE shaving arrived at my house I was a nightmare to buy anything for because I have mostly every tool and thingy I want. This might seem a bit sad but to some but the family is happy and would rather get me something I want and will use. Also because I usually give them many choices it is still a surprise which one they bought.

Some of the guys in work are a little "stand off" about it and ask me when I am going back to vinyl records, I tell them I never gave them up and they think I am kidding. Others have shown an interest but fear standing out. One guy got straight in after he did the simple arithmetic compared it to Fusionland and bought himself a parker 89R. He is delighted and quite happy plodding along with a single razor and getting shaves for much less money with a single cream and one blade type. I did give him a few blades and some sample shaving creams to start with and he went for Prorarso and Gillette Yellow Sharpedge.

Oh yeah and I work with computers but mostly I do not tell anyone I meet. I tell them I am a porn star or that I work in callcenter (if i might meet them again) and be very vague about what it is I actually do. I made that mistake telling people that we recreate and simulate customer problems and too often ended up with someone who wants to ask you questions about computers and what is wrong with his daughter’s laptop all night.

Cant think of any rhymes
 
My GF is not bothered, its my money. I built extra storage in the bathroom to create my shavery and she has enough products to stock a shop.
I am trying to convert my Dad, mainly by buying him stuff. He was already getting into bursh and soap before me but not DEs. He has a beard (short) so only shaves his cheeks, lower lip area, and neck I think. I don't think he is convinced yet, I got him a Merkur travel for Fathers day which he liked for the gadget factor, I borught out my Futur and he was very impressed by its weight so I have bought him one for his 60th allony with some titanium coated scissors for his beard. Oh and a case for the futur as he has to have a case/pouch for everything!

A mate of mine is not convinced, he is happy with his fusion power thingy and tinned goo, he shaves once or twice a week and is not interested in the savings (potenial! ;) )

C
 
My wife is OK with it because she thinks it means I spend less on gadgets.
She just doesn't realise:
a. It can be just as expensive
b. I still buy gadgets, but sneak them in when she is not looking

She has commented favourably on some of the smellies I'm using, and has noticed that my 'stuff' takes up a lot more bathroom space than was previously the case. My answer, if she moans about my shaving spending, is that she forks out up to £90 on a hair do, and that since I have no hair to speak of, I should be allowed to spend my haircut money on shaving gear

I don't work in IT
 
My familys just happy that I no longer look like a tramp, I only used to shave
on a saturday. She gets a peeved at some of my spends, I just don't tell here
About all of them.
And I also don't tell any body what I do for a living for as soon as somone knows
That I fix cars,buses,lorrys,bouts or anything with a compression engine of
Any sort I end up getting ropped in, so I tell them I slaughter pigs. That stops
All conversation in its tracks, or if I'm in a real nasty mood I say I'm a life insurance
Sales man, that also does the trick! Lol
 
I now work on the railway on the maintenance side of things. I used to sell insurance one day the Jehovah Witnesses came to my door to sell me god so I tried to sell him life assurance after half hour he gave up and went away. The plus side is that we don’t get any god worriers at our door anymore I think that I scared them off. Oh and I’m Microsoft Certified and I don’t tell anybody about that because I don’t want to fix everybody’s computer for free.
 
fatboy1971 said:
Any sort I end up getting ropped in, so I tell them I slaughter pigs. That stops
All conversation in its tracks,
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That's good to know Colin I have a couple of porkers that will need to be "dispatched" soon. :D
 
fatboy1971 said:
so I tell them I slaughter pigs. That stops
All conversation in its tracks, or if I'm in a real nasty mood I say I'm a life insurance
Sales man, that also does the trick! Lol
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I like it! I hate when social converstion with someone you have just met turns to the 'so what do you do then?' very quickly. I always get the feeling they are thinking about your money and social status. Unless I am really interested in them I get out of there. If I stay then I am a surgeon with his own practice who does boob jobs.........or an artist, 'you must come around to see my etchings'.
 
philamac said:
I hate when social converstion with someone you have just met turns to the 'so what do you do then?' very quickly. I always get the feeling they are thinking about your money and social status. Unless I am really interested in them I get out of there. If I stay then I am a surgeon with his own practice who does boob jobs.........or an artist, 'you must come around to see my etchings'.
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Sometimes when you meet someone for the first time (say at a party) you just click and can start talking bollocks or about a particular subject like a mutual friend. Unfortunately that doesn't always happen, so there are a few subjects I (and I'm sure most of us) end up using defaults. The weather, the journeys we've just made, lady-boys, and inevitably what we do for a living. I suppose it's natural to want to find out about someone's status in society, and a job is sometimes (but definitely not always!) an indicator.

Of course what we really want to talk to a stranger about is shaving. Perhaps that is a good way to end an unwanted conversation with someone you don't really like?!
 
Pig Cat said:
[Sometimes when you meet someone for the first time (say at a party) you just click and can start talking bollocks or about a particular subject like a mutual friend. Unfortunately that doesn't always happen, so there are a few subjects I (and I'm sure most of us) end up using defaults. The weather, the journeys we've just made, lady-boys, and inevitably what we do for a living. I suppose it's natural to want to find out about someone's status in society, and a job is sometimes (but definitely not always!) an indicator.
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Love this post, Ladyboys popped in to the conversation very recently!!! I was in a bar with my mate on Friday, and this tall, quite strikingly featured woman in the corner was giving us both the eye. I was thinking, well OK then, lets try a shot on goal........until I noticed she had an Adam's apple. I was not going to tell my mate to see if he would go over to try and chat her up, but then I had a sudden attack of decency and gently dropped the hint, remember Alan Partridge, big hands, like a goalkeeper.
 
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