TO SHAVE OR NOT

[Arpa]

To shave or not to shave?

 

"That is the question" as Old Billy would say.

First a joke. No offense, I heard this from an Italian;

-Why do Italian men grow moustaches?

-They want to look like their mothers.

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Let’s rewrite that.

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-Why do Armenian men shave their faces?

-They want to look like their mothers.

 

Yet, there still are societies where facial hair is a symbol of masculine machismo. I have had classmates from certain counties who could hardly grow a beard would not shave the fuzz under their noses even if one had to took at it under a microscope.

Compare that where in those same societies women hve to hide their cranial hair, a symbol of feminine eroticism? while the men flaunt theirs' as a similar symbol.

Note that all three top clowns of furkey have moustaches.

 

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Everyone%20Else/images-3/Ayatollah-Khomeini.jpg

 

For those who were not here when this went on;

http://hyeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=1597&pid=109813&st=40entry109813

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http://articles.cnn.com/2009-08-17/living/mf.shaving_1_king-camp-gillette-razors-blades?_s=PM:LIVING

 

Shaving history begins with shark teeth

http://baxterfinley.typepad.com/.a/6a00e553616db3883301127973309a28a4-800wi

 

Many men still prefer shaving with straight razors, although safety razors date back to at least 1762.

Most of us pick up a razor at least every couple of days, and although shaving's a little tedious, it's not too much of a hassle.

It hasn't always been quite so easy, though. Let's take a look at the history of shaving.

Pre-Gillette could get a little rough

In the days before razors, you could either sport a hirsute look or get creative. Records drawn on cave walls show prehistoric people shaving with clamshells, flint knives, and even shark teeth.





It's not clear when these crude implements gave way to what we now think of as razors.

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, circular solid gold or copper razors can be found as far back as the 4th millennium BC in some Egyptian tombs.

Still other cultures sharpened volcanic obsidian glass and used those.

Another story posits that the Roman king Lucius Tarquinius Priscus introduced the razor to his people in the 6th century BC, but shaving didn't really catch on with Romans for another hundred years or so.

In the 4th century BC, Alexander the Great encouraged his men to shave so enemies couldn't grab their beards during melees.

Alexander's subjects were often shaved using a novacila, a block of iron with one edge sharpened, which sounds like a great way to shred your face.

Julius Caesar supposedly preferred to have his beard plucked out with tweezers, although other Roman men used razors or rubbed the beards from their faces using pumice stones. (Ouch!) Mental Floss: When did women start shaving their armpits?

Is it safe?

Designs for safety razors date back to at least 1762, but they didn't really catch on until 1828, when they debuted in Sheffield, England.

In 1847 William Henson invented the hoe-shaped razor that most of us have in our medicine cabinets, and in 1895 a traveling salesman named King Camp Gillette combined this shape with the idea of shaving with a disposable double-edged blade.

The resulting safety razor eventually made Gillette a fortune and solved the hassle of having to remove the razor's blade to sharpen it every few shaves.

The idea was great, but there was a problem: the blades weren't easy to make. It took another six years for Gillette to find someone who could actually make the disposable blades.

MIT professor William Nickerson joined up with Gillette to figure out a way to stamp the blades out of sheets of high-carbon steel, and by 1903 they had their first batch of razors ready to take on America's beards.

 

By 1906 Gillette's design was moving 300,000 units a year. Interestingly, Gillette sold the razors at a loss, but he more than made up for it by selling the blades at a huge profit.

Although Gillette's invention came from his notion that he should invent something people bought, threw away, and then repurchased, he wasn't your typical capitalist.

He became a strong proponent of utopian socialism later in his life and planned a community in Arizona in which engineers would rationally orchestrate all activity.

 

Razors;

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrazor.htm

 

PS.Sorry! I could not resist.

And all this talk about “trashvel”

Hey Nairi is that an English/Norwegian word?**

Yes, yes. We have been “trashed” so many times and we still are as we speak.

In another thread we spoke about the native Armenian word for “shave”- “ածիլւելatsilvel” with the negative prefix “ԱA” to mean “de-sprouting/eradication” from the Armenian “ծիլtsil”

ԾԻԼ= ընձիւղ(tendril), բոշբոջ(bud), ծղոտ?

The four years of kindergarten are known as -Ծիլ, բողբոջ, կոկոն, ծաղիկ

** Trash;

Definition of TRASH

1

: something worth little or nothing: as a : junk, rubbish b (1) : empty talk : nonsense (2) : inferior or worthless writing or artistic matter (as a television show); especially : such matter intended purely for sensational entertainment (3) : trash talk

2

: something in a crumbled or broken condition or mass; especially : debris from pruning or processing plant material

3

: a worthless person; also : such persons as a group riffraff

In addition;

 

trash (n.) "anything of little use or value," 1510s, perhaps from a Scandinavian source (cf. O.N. tros "rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs," Norw. dial. trask "lumber, trash, baggage," Swed. trasa "rags, tatters"), of unknown origin. Applied to ill-bred persons or groups from 1604 ("Othello"). Applied to domestic refuse or garbage in 1906 (Amer.Eng.). The verb meaning "to discard as worthless" is 1895, from the noun; in the sense of "destroy, vandalize" it is attested from 1970; extended to "criticize severely" in …

Edited December 2, 2010 by Arpa