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- Fri Jan 15, 2021 10:31 am
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: COVID survivors
- Replies: 29
- Views: 614
Re: COVID survivors
Mike, it's good to have you back! I'm sorry to hear that you were afflicted with the Virus, but I'm glad that you weathered it so well. - Murray Fortunately for me I have longed worked from home, well before the pandemic, and I wasn't too sick to work. In some ways since I couldn't even leave the r...
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 9:29 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: I get it -- just now!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 166
I get it -- just now!
As my profile will attest, I started wet shaving over 10 years ago (the same time I started my account here). I've stayed "in the groove" to varying degrees over the years but always had the sense that I still wasn't doing something quite right. The shaves were never as close as I got with a cartrid...
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 9:20 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: COVID survivors
- Replies: 29
- Views: 614
Re: COVID survivors
Checking back in after a long while. I tested negative back in the summer but my doctor didn't believe it, and neither did I. I started with complete exhaustion and mild body aches to a decent fever and a little more serious body aches. The temperature bounced up and down for a few days. Between ons...
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 11:05 am
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: good sipping whiskey?
- Replies: 164
- Views: 35221
- Thu Oct 08, 2020 1:53 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Wet Shaving and the Internet
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2276
Re: Wet Shaving and the Internet
The rancor one can find in some forums has always boggled my mind -- what in the world about shaving gets folks so up in arms??
- Thu Oct 08, 2020 5:31 am
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: Black jeans and jeans in general
- Replies: 18
- Views: 797
Re: Black jeans and jeans in general
Thanks Clive. I will probably get Levis, Lee or Wranglers.; When I lose some weight, there is a store in Nashville called Imogene and Willie's that sorta makes a custom pair for you around $200 and that is about the price of the Japanese and niche brands in the article. Right now, I have a husky tu...
- Thu Oct 08, 2020 5:30 am
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: good sipping whiskey?
- Replies: 164
- Views: 35221
Re: good sipping whiskey?
Mike, you and I must have been going to the same college! :D Those were the days! Oh, my aching head! I worked all through college and frequently look back in amazement: how in the world did I manage to party all night and then get up for work early the next day? If I attempted that now, someone wo...
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 4:25 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Sustainability
- Replies: 11
- Views: 866
Re: Sustainability
Doc Moss’s original post gets at an important point in the abstract: it is very, very tempting (and easy) to make a stand on this or that ethical point, but very, very hard work to think those stands through to completion. A consistent ethic often requires far more sacrifice and discomfort than som...
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 4:07 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Sustainability
- Replies: 11
- Views: 866
Re: Sustainability
Doc Moss’s original post gets at an important point in the abstract: it is very, very tempting (and easy) to make a stand on this or that ethical point, but very, very hard work to think those stands through to completion. A consistent ethic often requires far more sacrifice and discomfort than some...
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 3:59 am
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: good sipping whiskey?
- Replies: 164
- Views: 35221
Re: good sipping whiskey?
Rum as mentioned above brings back memories concerning my late father-in-law. He was a WWII Navy enlisted sailor. He was gunner's mate on destroyers, 3 of which were sunk in the Pacific. He said he had the distinction of never getting his feet wet as he went from one boat to another. He liked his r...
- Mon Oct 05, 2020 2:20 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: good sipping whiskey?
- Replies: 164
- Views: 35221
Re: good sipping whiskey?
Only too happy to join Gary in resurrecting this thread... I tend to enjoy a nightcap of bourbon whiskey and just recently finished a bottle of 1792 — very worth the $30 or so price tag. I replaced it with some bottom-shelf Evan Williams 1783, which is a bit harsher. I don’t mind. After a recent imp...
- Tue Sep 29, 2020 4:08 pm
- Forum: Shaving Creams & Hard Soaps
- Topic: Scuttles and Soap
- Replies: 7
- Views: 865
Re: Scuttles and Soap
Must be a story there.fallingwickets wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 6:42 am this thread makes me miss my 'moss' scuttle sooooooooooooooo much i might have to drive the 650 miles and get it out of storage!
clive
- Tue Sep 29, 2020 4:07 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 163814
Re: What are you reading?
Duly noted!fallingwickets wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 6:33 amlooking forward to reading it when you get a chance to post.
clive
- Mon Sep 28, 2020 7:54 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 163814
Re: What are you reading?
Seconding here The Expanse series. I think I last finished Cibola Burn. At the moment I'm reading The Sprawl by Jason Diamond, on the history and cultural meaning of suburbia. I have a review of the book in the works...
- Mon Sep 28, 2020 7:51 pm
- Forum: Shaving Creams & Hard Soaps
- Topic: Scuttles and Soap
- Replies: 7
- Views: 865
Re: Scuttles and Soap
Beautiful scuttles. The Waterfall and Cobalt blue patterns / colors are particularly striking to me. An item for the wish list!
- Mon Sep 21, 2020 3:45 pm
- Forum: Selling & Trading
- Topic: Non-Shaving Items for Sale or WTB
- Replies: 73
- Views: 43632
Re: Non-Shaving Items for Sale or WTB
WTB: Pilot Vanishing Point, preferably black with gold accents but not a hard requirement.
- Mon Sep 21, 2020 3:41 pm
- Forum: Cooking & Recipes
- Topic: A Cook's Diary
- Replies: 96
- Views: 13865
Re: A Cook's Diary
Chili for us tomorrow -- a first day of fall tradition. To be accompanied by an oktoberfest or two/three/....
- Mon Sep 21, 2020 3:39 pm
- Forum: Shaving Creams & Hard Soaps
- Topic: Tabac
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4492
Re: Tabac
"Natural" -- I'm inclined to be drawn to it, but I don't know what that means!
- Mon Sep 21, 2020 3:36 pm
- Forum: Colognes & Aftershaves
- Topic: Mr. Fine scents?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 601
Mr. Fine scents?
A few months ago I bought a bottle of Lavender, and my wife soon thereafter gave me a bottle of Platinum. That's almost gone and I'd like something a little richer for the cold weather seasons than Lavender. Any suggestions? And any analogs to mass-market scents? I know Fine (and everyone else) will...
- Mon Sep 21, 2020 3:32 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: Hello again
- Replies: 7
- Views: 809
Re: Hello again
Thanks for the welcome!
I anticipate some time spent on the boards in the near future -- #4 is due late October so there will be many long nights!
I anticipate some time spent on the boards in the near future -- #4 is due late October so there will be many long nights!