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Head Shaving, Grooming & Care => Head Shaving => Topic started by: Chavster on September 20, 2011, 09:37:47 AM
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We cant buy it in the UK, so I bought it from someone on eBay. I felt like giving it a try. It cost me $10.68 including shipping from Louisiana or somewhere :o, which I thought was pretty good :) It should be here in around two weeks apparently.
If I try to get any more shaving supplies into my bathroom though, the house is going to buckle under the strain.
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Nawth Ca'alina, rather than Louisiana. I knew it was somewhere in that corner of the country :D
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Nawth Ca'alina, rather than Louisiana. I knew it was somewhere in that corner of the country :D
Only a 9 to 10 hour drive--we go to western NC for the mountains when the heat in August gets too oppressive. August w/ temps in the 60's and 70's--luxury rather than the 90's with 100% humidity and lows in the upper 80's. And I know the business about London town-- 70 degrees for third day in a row--no relief in sight!
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Its nowhere near 70 degrees here. I dont know what its like in London, but its probably only 1 or 2 degrees warmer than here.
And if I drove 9 or 10 hours from my house, I'd probably be in Iceland...or Germany... or Norway. And they dont have decent steak either :(
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi484.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Frr205%2Ftropsnew%2Ffiletmignon.jpg&hash=035a050a1b8c4995432d0e7172a7ece8e319b281)
My idea of pornography.
That, plus a jacket (baked) potato, with sour(ed) cream, and a nice (big) glass of something red. Totally orgasmic.
Mine needs to be well done though. Blood = eww.
Sorry, not only do I have head shaving OCD, I have filet mignon OCD too.
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Mine needs to be well done though. Blood = eww.
Sorry, not only do I have head shaving OCD, I have filet mignon OCD too.
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Barbarian! A steak, of whatever cut, is best if walked through a hot kitchen by a slow butler! & steak tartare from a nice cut is great too. Overcooking is bad for the digestion. Keeps you awake at night. Causes bad dreams--think Scrooge!
There are places that would make you confirm such bizarre tastes before they would accept such an order, but you know that. ;)
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I know, but for me, it has to be well done. If there's any chance of it starting to moo while its on my plate, I cant eat it. I can MAYBE go to medium well if the chef absolutely refuses to cremate it, but generally, it has to be well done.
I would very happily abstain from sex for the next 50 years if I could have a filet mignon dinner tonight, although the way things are going, the former looks like a certainty and the latter looks like an impossibility anyway :o
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if the chef absolutely refuses to cremate it,
I bet that happens to you a lot, especially in the better restaurants.
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Just spent my August in the Outer Banks. I do love the heat.
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I know, but for me, it has to be well done. If there's any chance of it starting to moo while its on my plate, I cant eat it. I can MAYBE go to medium well if the chef absolutely refuses to cremate it, but generally, it has to be well done.
I have to agree with this. :)
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Nope, not in America anyway. Nobody has ever refused to cremate it for me, no matter how cheap or expensive the place has been.
I was in Dubai once and the chef actually threw a fit, and came to the table to tell me how crazy I was. This was at the JW Marriott in Dubai, at JW's Steakhouse. He went almost nuts and refused to do it. So I left and went to the Hyatt :D
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I eat mine the way the Cattlemen's Association eats theirs...Well Done.
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See, I'm not the only one :P
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I was in Dubai once and the chef actually threw a fit, and came to the table to tell me how crazy I was. This was at the JW Marriott in Dubai, at JW's Steakhouse. He went almost nuts and refused to do it. So I left and went to the Hyatt :D
I've seen that happen in the better steak houses of New Orleans, Crescent City, Ruth's Chris, pre-storm of course, Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse. One restaurant, nationally rated, LeRuth's (chef died) threw the dinners in a garbage bag and asked the people to leave when they said they wanted the food "cooked" more. Loved that one.
I won't eat anything, vegetables, meat, fish that's overcooked, dry, tasteless--just sickening to me--hurl. I've had bad dreams about eating something dry and overcooked--like I'm eating sand. There's got to be all sorts I guess. :(
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When filet mignon is cooked well done properly, its not dry or tasteless :) If its basted well and not butterflied, then it doesnt get dry or tasteless :) And anyway, we're talking about cooking an animal. There's no law that says how it should be done, only individual preference ;)
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I won't eat anything, vegetables, meat, fish that's overcooked, dry, tasteless--just sickening to me--hurl. I've had bad dreams about eating something dry and overcooked--like I'm eating sand. There's got to be all sorts I guess. :(
I won't eat anything that's undercooked.
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I agree with that ^ guy.
Eww.
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I wasnt saying that ^ guy is eww. I was saying I agree with him, and that undercooked is eww.
:o
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Ah yes, Noblesse Oblige and all that.
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I wasnt saying that ^ guy is eww. I was saying I agree with him, and that undercooked is eww.
:o
:x! :x!
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*runs away in fear of the X Man*
:D
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I won't eat anything, vegetables, meat, fish that's overcooked, dry, tasteless--just sickening to me--hurl. I've had bad dreams about eating something dry and overcooked--like I'm eating sand. There's got to be all sorts I guess. :(
I won't eat anything that's undercooked.
Wild, I actually like a lot of things raw--herring, sushi, tartar, ceviche, and of course oysters--lots and lots of oysters on the half shell--two or three dozen are a great starter. But overcooked--that's well done--yuck, prefer not to eat it. Chicken is the hardest thing to find properly cooked--no red juice, but still juicy. Found great birds in Germany and Austria, and of course in France. The little French restaurants that take the time to cook the birds to order while you enjoy some great appetizers, including their great raw oysters. But duck--that has to be rare too, tender and succulent. How would you get pressed duck if you cooked the life out of it--no great juices from the press for the sauce?
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How would you get pressed duck if you cooked the life out of it--no great juices from the press for the sauce?
Dunno. I don't eat ducks.
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I cant eat juicy chicken either. It has to be the breast, and it has to be as dry as it can be.
Beef and chicken are the only meats I eat, and I dont eat seafood, so what I do eat needs to be as dry as possible.
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I cant eat juicy chicken either. It has to be the breast, and it has to be as dry as it can be.
If chicken is cooked slowly, it can be thoroughly cooked without being dry.
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yes thats true. Its when I see juices running out of it that I need to use that pukey smiley of yours :D
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yes thats true. Its when I see juices running out of it that I need to use that pukey smiley of yours :D
!*u%e
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;D ;D Thats the one :D
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Strokes and folks guys.
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Well Tom, I'm with you completely. When we all meet up to scare the local population with our shiny heads, we'll let all the other guys eat the meat with blood dripping out of it, and you and I can sit together in the 'well done' corner :D
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WTF is a pressed duck? :o
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Well Tom, I'm with you completely. When we all meet up to scare the local population with our shiny heads, we'll let all the other guys eat the meat with blood dripping out of it, and you and I can sit together in the 'well done' corner :D
Amen brother.
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WTF is a pressed duck? :o
This is a piece on the presentation at Tour D'Argent,--famous for the dish. Unfortunately for me I haven't gotten to eat there :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(. yet.
http://fxcuisine.com/default.asp?Display=13
Other presentations I've enjoyed very much are a L'Orange--with an orange based sauce, it's very good as confit (preserved duck-salted and seasoned then slowly cooked in duck fat) in cassoulet--a really great dish from Southern France--but I prefer confit of goose personally in my cassoulet.
Good food properly prepared, great wine, amicable friends--long dinner==civilization.
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Eww.
I think I'd rather eat a Domino's death disk :o
Or even haggis! :o :o
I've had duck a l'orange but it didnt do much for me one way or another, but that thing with the squeezed guts looks totally repellent
Cassoulet is ok. I dont mind beans.
*insert X Man smiley*
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Cassoulet is ok. I dont mind beans.
:/O :/O :/O Thought you didn't like sausage--saucisse de Toulouse, and braised lamb shoulder are part of the dish, you eat that? Cassoulet is absolutely one of the best of the classics. Not a light or dietary meal though. ;)
I guess there's no appetite at your place for the "variety" meats like tripe, sweetbreads and liver?? ;D Great sources of protein, and at least for your purposes tripe and sweetbreads are "cooked through" as opposed to traditionally served to the pink side.
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I cant eat run-of-the-mill sausages in the UK, but as part of a dish like cassoulet (especially if its prepared in France) then its not a problem. The French tend to be a little fussier about the mystery meat they use in their sausages :D
Liver is popular in the UK, usually lamb or chicken liver, but not in my house :)
Tripe was very popular when I was growing up, mainly because money was very tight back then in the UK (even more so than now) but Im not sure many people still eat it. Tongue is popular in sandwiches, kidneys in pies (steak and kidney pie, or steak and kidney pudding). I know butchers also sell heart and brain, but I dont know from which animal, or how/why people would use them.
Barf.
I've never eaten any type of offal, with the exception of tongue. I did eat that once, and it wasnt too bad.
p.s. Liver here is usually eaten with bacon and onions, and mashed potatoes.
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Tripe was very popular when I was growing up, mainly because money was very tight back then in the UK (even more so than now) but Im not sure many people still eat it. Tongue is popular in sandwiches, kidneys in pies (steak and kidney pie, or steak and kidney pudding). I know butchers also sell heart and brain, but I dont know from which animal, or how/why people would use them.
Okay, understand--there are bad sausages in a lot of places, it's not just ground meat, it's an culinary art in and of itself. Tongue is great, but hard to find. I've found steak and kidney pie good--in the country not in London town, but heavy. Heart is difficult to find and harder to find well prepared, a rare treat. But when PMS migrated from women to cows as Mad Cow Disease they stopped selling brains here, major loss. Brains and eggs were a great breakfast dish. Then there's horsemeat--I've never had the opportunity to try it.
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Okay, understand--there are bad sausages in a lot of places, it's not just ground meat, it's an culinary art in and of itself. Tongue is great, but hard to find. I've found steak and kidney pie good--in the country not in London town, but heavy. Heart is difficult to find and harder to find well prepared, a rare treat. But when PMS migrated from women to cows as Mad Cow Disease they stopped selling brains here, major loss. Brains and eggs were a great breakfast dish. Then there's horsemeat--I've never had the opportunity to try it.
I seem to be using this emoticon a lot lately, but:
!*u%e !*u%e !*u%e !*u%e
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*X Man smiley*
I get queasy drinking milk, so all that tongue stuff just makes me want to upchuck.
Eww.
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When my uncle came to visit us once, back in the 80s, he managed to find some beef kidneys in the supermarket. I didn't even know that US supermarkets sold them. My mother cooked some for him and the whole house smelled like urine. After two or three days of that, she put her foot down and told him she'd cook him anything else he wanted for breakfast.
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Eww.
The big problem with kidneys (apart from the fact they're revolting) is that they 'pop' when they're being cooked, and that popping releases that pi5sy smell into the atmosphere
*X man smiley*
My father liked to eat kippers for breakfast a lot. They also make the place stink but thankfully not as badly as kidneys. He also liked things like Kedgeree. Eww.
Im quite happy with an apple for breakfast, or if I'm really being lavish, a bowl of cereal.
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Tongue is an odd thing to eat. Seems like it's tasting me as I'm tasting it! :D
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Eww. Well Im fussy about meat, but Im definitely fussy about the tongue I allow in my mouth :*))
Eww.
And how anyone can eat Tripe is totally beyond me. Its like eating an office carpet.
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When my uncle came to visit us once, back in the 80s, he managed to find some beef kidneys in the supermarket. I didn't even know that US supermarkets sold them. My mother cooked some for him and the whole house smelled like urine. After two or three days of that, she put her foot down and told him she'd cook him anything else he wanted for breakfast.
Beef kidneys are really strong in flavor but not like that. Those sound like they had gone off--and the market probably didn't sell enough of them to get truly fresh ones. Calf and lamb kidneys, again if you can get them very fresh, are much more mildly flavored and are good with a mustard based sauce. If the kidneys smell like urine in the pan they shouldn't be eaten--they have gone off. All food depends on quality and freshness first. And because it's not a tremendously popular item in contemporary America good quality in such variety items is hard to find. Because of the more European nature and tradition here it has been possible to get good quality--but it's harder all the time as the homogenized American tastes even intrude on this "island" of real food. Funny, franchises had a hard time starting here--people stuck to the traditional foods. Kentucky Fried Chicken's first outlet went bankrupt! They never got too popular but when a local cooked up spicy fried chicken--Popeye's it took off like gangbusters and is now available in many other parts of the country as a franchise. Popeye's is for us another name for fried chicken! Boudin, tasso, addouille, pickled pork or meat, okra, mirliton, chicory coffee etc. all local foods generally unavailable elsewhere but essential for local cooking. Just part of why it's such a unique place.
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Is all of Louisiana like that or just NO? I've been to Shreveport and I dont remember it being quite so, err, 'cultured'
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Tongue is an odd thing to eat. Seems like it's tasting me as I'm tasting it! :D
One of my favorite exchanges between Archie and Edith in All in The Family,
Edith, "Archie, you want a sandwich?"
Archie, "What kind?"
Edith, "Tongue, Archie."
Archie, "Edith, how many times I gotta tell you I ain't eatin' nothin' that comes out of no cow's mouth!"
Edith, "What kind of sandwich do you want then Archie?"
Archie, "How 'bout an egg salad sandwich!" ;D ;D ;D
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Is all of Louisiana like that or just NO? I've been to Shreveport and I dont remember it being quite so, err, 'cultured'
Sorry about that trip :o! Only been there once or twice, it's more like East Texas. And it's a southern town, NO is not the south in that sense.
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yes it did feel very Texan. Florida also never feels particularly 'southern' to me either. That feels more like California, even outside of the bigger towns.
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That feels more like California, even outside of the bigger towns.
You got that right--some parts of the Panhandle and around Ocala, the horse country, are more southern, but for the most part it's NY and CA.
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Miami doesnt feel like a southern city in any way at all. Jacksonville did (kinda) but I cant say I noticed much 'south' anywhere else.
I think the only two states I've been to that feel like they have their own identity are Alaska and Texas. The others all seem to melt into another state, culturally. At least, of the ones I've been to (and there are only 8 I havent been to, yet) :D
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Miami doesnt feel like a southern city in any way at all.
The others all seem to melt into another state, culturally. At least, of the ones I've been to (and there are only 8 I havent been to, yet) :D
Miami and that area have a tremendous Cuban presence, just as Texas, Houston & Austin south are heavily influenced by Mexican culture.
To my mind the mid-west plains states, Iowa, etc. have except for very limited areas lost any distinctive character they may have had. The Amana Colonies in Iowa have by in large relapsed into quasi Disney tourist areas, and while more interesting to the tourist than the surrounding areas aren't as distinctive as I suspect they must have been at one time. To my view a lot of television has been a great influence in blending the whole thing together into franchises, large name big box stores and malls with the same stores throughout. Little is left in any area that can't be found someplace else. In an odd fashion perhaps it's like the loss of the local pubs in the English countryside.
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Im not sure there's been a pub decline. Most people are worried about the decline of the post office in rural areas. Lots of them are being shut down. But you can still get a drink or three in most villages :D
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I like Shave Secret a lot but it breaks me out! (Thread back on track)
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Well I'll give it a try. It sounds good.
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Wild, I actually like a lot of things raw--herring, sushi, tartar, ceviche, and of course oysters--lots and lots of oysters on the half shell--two or three dozen are a great starter...
This guy knows how to eat well! My two favorite things to eat are bloody, cold-in-the-center, thick porterhouse and fresh oysters on the half-shell. I just made/ate a breakfast consisting of my homemade biscuits, bacon (some chewy, some crisp), and sunny-side-up pullet eggs (from a lady who has chickens as pets) and washed it down with coffee from my french press. Despite all that, an extra-rare steak and raw oysters sounds delicious to me right now.
*X Man smiley*
I get queasy drinking milk, so all that tongue stuff just makes me want to upchuck.
Heheh...it's weird what disgusts one person makes another salivate. I grew up drinking milk from the dairy on which my brother worked. It was just about a mile up the road. To this day, I still shake the store-bought milk jug vigorously before pouring. This was a habit born from having to do so with the fresh whole dairy milk that had cream collecting on the top.
We raised hogs, chickens, and cattle (dairy and beef). As a child, I hated having to get up at 0430 to feed the calves their milk. But I loved drinking the warm milk squirted straight from their mothers' teat into my glass!
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But I loved drinking the warm milk squirted straight from their mothers' teat into my glass!
Please evacuate the area immediately. I have officially entered upchuck mode.
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But I loved drinking the warm milk squirted straight from their mothers' teat into my glass!
Please evacuate the area immediately. I have officially entered upchuck mode.
Ha! I know, you probably heard banjos when you read that post. I'm really not a country bumpkin. I'm just country.
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No banjos, I just had visions of warm milk sloshing around in my mouth and then finding its way into my stomach. Eww. EWW.
I dont like milk even if its been heated in a saucepan. For me, it has to be ICE cold otherwise I cant drink it, so squirting it directly from the cow into my glass and then down my throat is definitely cause for some serious upchucking :(
*runs to bathroom to lose today's lunch but doesnt get there in time*