What is PIF?

SOTD is the Shave Of The Day section of the forum, where you will see a weekly thread, started by whoever is first to post their shave report on a Saturday morning. Often with excellent photography. It's a nice way of sharing your pleasure in a shave with people who share the interest.

Ainslie

As someone I know would say, "cool beans!"

Gingerpose said:

SOTD is the Shave Of The Day section of the forum, where you will see a weekly thread, started by whoever is first to post their shave report on a Saturday morning. Often with excellent photography. It's a nice way of sharing your pleasure in a shave with people who share the interest.

Ainslie

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Does a razor that is sent out on a "pif" return to the owner at some point?

SIRUSKEY said:

Does a razor that is sent out on a "pif" return to the owner at some point?

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That would be a loan, not a pif. Also not uncommon on this fine forum.

dylan-shave said:

Pay it forward?

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It's a pun (sort of, in the haha only serious way) on pay it back. In a PIF you do not reciprocate a random act of kindness, you actually perform the random act of kindness (in advance so to say), under the (mutual) understanding that if everyone does this, the world will be a better place (or something to that effect).

I think it originated in the 'hacker' community as defined in a.o. the Jargon File, aka the New Hackers' Dictionary.

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Gingerpose said:

SIRUSKEY said:

Does a razor that is sent out on a "pif" return to the owner at some point?

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That would be a loan, not a pif. Also not uncommon on this fine forum.

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Well, that would depend a little on your definition of loan, but it could well be that something gets PIFed on repeatedly (wonder why ;-) ) and inadvertently ends up at the original owner. Sort of like the wedding ring in the fish...

Any of you newbies who may be uk based want to put yourself down in the blades pif? Running out of people to pif it to...