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There are ways to disagree without loosing civility, Richard. I phantom you should have extensive real-world experience in discord, for your take and views on just about everything thus far seem polar opposite of the consensus. Nothing wrong with that, for who knows, you might just be a latter day ...

If you don't believe that climate change is happening, you've got your head in the sand. Global climate change isn't man-made. It seems to be primarily due to fluctuations in solar radiation. Richard Do tell us how you get the sand out of your ears.... If you believe global warming is man-made then...

Who pays the fees if you use a credit card as a monetary source on Payapal, the sender or the receiver? I can't remember since money I use on Payapl comes directly ourt of my bank account. Receiver. There's never a fee to send no matter the source — bank account, credit card or PayPal balance. I al...

rustyblade wrote:Or are you confusing your Richards?

If you've seen one Richard you've seen them all.

Richard

Welcome to the forum, Eran! Looks like you're forced to get one in "new" condition. I bought a Fat Boy on the 'bay for $12 plus $12 shipping. The guy didn't take PayPal, had a feedback of 6, no negatives, was in South Africa and had one cruddy photo. There was only one other bidder. It too...

AncientOne wrote:If you don't believe that climate change is happening, you've got your head in the sand.

Global climate change isn't man-made. It seems to be primarily due to fluctuations in solar radiation.

Richard

what reason is there not to conserve water or anything else? The supply of water on this planet hasn't changed much in the last two million years. The only thing that changes somewhat is distribution. About two million years ago 70% of the water was in the oceans (and polar ice) and today about 70%...

In looking for house pictures I ran across some others that might be of interest. Since the mid-70s we've owned a collection of houses scattered around the country. This is a house in Maine that we owned for 10 years or so. We spent summers there until we sold it three years ago. http://i240.photobu...

I suspect it would take a major earthquake for my aquifer to run dry. Something like 20 inches of water on average are added to the aquifer each year from rainfall. I've thought about saving water since it seems pointless in this area yet some people encourage it. The amount I'm using won't affect a...

A bulldozer is quite effective at cutting house stubble. :) Yeah, that dish is still there. Just this morning my wife was nagging me a bit to get the thing hauled off since we quit using C-band several years ago. One of the many advantages of living in a rural area with the nearest neighbor two mile...

To answer the original poster's question shaving doesn't change the nature of the hair. The coarseness comes from the angle of the cut. A single pass shave with the grain will reduce the apparent coarseness. An electric shaver or a dull razor blade usually splits the ends of the hair and makes for a...

Ben - I have no proof. However, for example, in ordinary Proraso shaving cream, the hydroxides are very high on the ingredient list, along with stearic acid and coconut oil. This would indicate to me, and to you I'm sure, that the Proraso ingredient list does not describe the finished product, but ...

Richard, I thought you " sold everything we owned and bought everything brand new, including a new house. We last did this 15 years ago. " You say you've lived in this place for at least 35 years. I'm glad to see you're paying attention. :) We had the well dug and electric and phone lines...

Mind you, my father swore my grandfather had some trick using oil and a glass and a double edge blade that he used to keep his blades sharp during World War II. I've seen this done. You put a very light coating of machine oil on the inside of an ordinary drinking glass. Then take the blade and gent...

I've rarely lived in areas where there was any shortage of water. Bennett Spring isn't terribly far from me and it has a flow of 100,000,000 gallons of fresh water per day. http://www.mostateparks.com/bennett.htm There are thousands of other springs in the state releasing massive amounts of water. I...

Marshall Field's Finest Badger ~1985, left, and Century Pure Badger ~1975 http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff201/Lionhearted007/MFFinest-a.jpg http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff201/Lionhearted007/CenturyPB338-a.jpg I have a small collection of vintage American-made badger brushes that I bought ...

I thought I switched from Gillette blue blades to Wilkinson stainless when I was a freshman in college but I discovered it was later when I was in med school. Gillette Goes Stainless New York Times, Friday, Sept. 6, 1963 The biggest of them all was really only waiting until it was ready. Last week B...

I'd never shave in the shower. I've shaved many times with a DE not only without a mirror but in the dark (power out, no window in bathroom) or dim light (tent without a light). My wife and I live in a motorhome a couple of months a year. It has a tiny bathroom so I shave at the dinette table. At fi...

As a kid in the '50s, I remember my uncles and friend's fathers using mostly the brushless creams in the tubes; Palmolive, Barbasol, and the like. I don't remember the canned foams becoming the norm until slightly later. It's curious how narrow my focus was younger. I never knew creams in tubes eve...

I think something that might explain the disparity here is that perhaps, while using traditional tools and methods, we shave-connoisseurs-members-of-shave-forum people, are a different breed altogether than most gentlemen from the past and their techniques we often try to compare with. . . . . We a...