Why are razor blades subject to enshittification? I don't want fives blade on a piece of plastic the size of an A4 sheet of paper, with another blade on the back for those "hard to reach" places (ie to use as a razor). Two was (one) more than enough, and was fine. - ThreadSky

spinninghugo.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Why are razor blades subject to enshittification?

I don't want fives blade on a piece of plastic the size of an A4 sheet of paper, with another blade on the back for those "hard to reach" places (ie to use as a razor).

Two was (one) more than enough, and was fine.

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scozzer.bsky.social•1 day ago

Try an old school safety razor?

seanmatthews1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Three. At least for me, wet razors peaked with the Gillette Mach3 (a quarter of a century ago).

carlgardner.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was fine with Sensor, but they’ve definitely been worse since then. I keep a short beard these days so I mostly don’t have to bother.

alanbeattie.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036/

theangelofhistory.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why not 7

rupertfranklin.bsky.social•1 day ago

This from the onion over 20 years ago still feels very fitting! https://theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036/

papafrew.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because it is how Gillette et al have vastly increased the cost of shaving l

adult-human-male.bsky.social•1 day ago

But each successive blade shaves a tiny bit closer, until your whiskers are so amazingly short you know you've bought yourself an extra 15 mins pre-shadow chinage.

seethingmead.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m still using the same two-blade Gillette Contour as I used at university in the 1980s

Never really seen point in changing

timoconnorbl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Merkur Futur. Been going nearly twenty years now. Double-edged was one of those things we got right first go.

seethingmead.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly so

To be fair, I’m far from a daily shaver so my 35+ years for mine - I have two and alternate - is really only 12-15 but still

seethingmead.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not the blades obviously but the razor shaft

timoconnorbl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wilkinson Sword do a great little pack of classic double-edged blades cheap as chips that do the job perfectly. Saves you a fortune.

giffordhead.co.uk•1 day ago

I like the Japanese Feather Brand blades if you ever see them. They seem to be sharper and last longer than the Wilkinson Sword ones.

rkemb.bsky.social•1 day ago

How do you persuade everyone to chuck out their old ones and pay more for yours without innovation?

rkemb.bsky.social•1 day ago

I remember when it was a competition between having the blades on little springs versus protective wires in front of the blades.

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