Misunderstood products

Any other "misunderstood" products anyone can think of besides PAA?

Barbisol, which is arguably "traditional" and "vintage," since it's been around since 1919. Ditto for Barbisol "canned goo," a product that has been around for well over half a century.

I started shaving with a Trac II from Dad and his can of Barbasol. I think about trying a can now with my (hopefully) better understanding of prep and technique.

Unisex public restrooms; your thoughts?

1 person bathrooms.  Everyone's happy.

+1 Agreed. Just wanna lock so as to not be surprised while finishing up the paperwork!  

Can you imagine if every public restroom was a 1-person bathroom? Imagine the state of a concert or sporting event... Everyone would be happy while they were IN the 1-person bathroom, but NOBODY would be happy standing in line for the entire event WAITING for that 1-person bathroom...

I just wish everyone could go pee without worrying if someone is going to beat them up for being in the "wrong bathroom". I'm pretty sure we all know which bathroom we need to use, without a hall monitor to tell us...

1 person bathrooms.  Everyone's happy.

+1 Agreed. Just wanna lock so as to not be surprised while finishing up the paperwork!  

Can you imagine if every public restroom was a 1-person bathroom? Imagine the state of a concert or sporting event...  Everyone would be happy while they were IN the 1-person bathroom, but NOBODY would be happy standing in line for the entire event WAITING for that 1-person bathroom...

I just wish everyone could go pee without worrying if someone is going to beat them up for being in the "wrong bathroom". I'm pretty sure we all know which bathroom we need to use, without a hall monitor to tell us...

As far as I'm concerned, your take is spot on, Chris (BadDad).  Your analogy of the one person toilet at a concert/sporting event will certainly be agreed to by anyone who has needed to use a loo at 35,000 feet.  Once, while flying to Edinburgh, (a seven hour flight from Newark), I had to use the single person toilet badly.  It was occupied so I had to stand in the aisle.  That person took 15 minutes and I darn near burst.  I have noticed people take longer in those airplane toilets (though, thankfully, not usually 15 minutes) because I think that, besides doing their business, there is a modicum of privacy so folks will do non essential things like combing hair, brushing teeth, applying makeup, etc.  

When I use a public restroom, I want to take care of business, wash my hands, and leave.  I don't care to look at a person and think that person does or does not belong.  The last "product" that should be misunderstood is a toilet.

As far as I'm concerned, your take is spot on, Chris (BadDad).  Your analogy of the one person toilet at a concert/sporting event will certainly be agreed to by anyone who has needed to use a loo at 35,000 feet.  Once, while flying to Edinburgh, (a seven hour flight from Newark), I had to use the single person toilet badly.  It was occupied so I had to stand in the aisle.  That person took 15 minutes and I darn near burst.  I have noticed people take longer in those airplane toilets (though, thankfully, not usually 15 minutes) because I think that, besides doing their business, there is a modicum of privacy so folks will do non essential things like combing hair, brushing teeth, applying makeup, etc.  

When I use a public restroom, I want to take care of business, wash my hands, and leave.  I don't care to look at a person and think that person does or does not belong.  The last "product" that should be misunderstood is a toilet.

Oh, Freddy ...there is all manner of events occurring in those restrooms that have NOTHING to do with evacuating human waste...Your 3 fine examples don't even scratch the surface...

As far as I'm concerned, your take is spot on, Chris (BadDad).  Your analogy of the one person toilet at a concert/sporting event will certainly be agreed to by anyone who has needed to use a loo at 35,000 feet.  Once, while flying to Edinburgh, (a seven hour flight from Newark), I had to use the single person toilet badly.  It was occupied so I had to stand in the aisle.  That person took 15 minutes and I darn near burst.  I have noticed people take longer in those airplane toilets (though, thankfully, not usually 15 minutes) because I think that, besides doing their business, there is a modicum of privacy so folks will do non essential things like combing hair, brushing teeth, applying makeup, etc.  

When I use a public restroom, I want to take care of business, wash my hands, and leave.  I don't care to look at a person and think that person does or does not belong.  The last "product" that should be misunderstood is a toilet.

Oh, Freddy ...there is all manner of events occurring in those restrooms that have NOTHING to do with evacuating human waste...Your 3 fine examples don't even scratch the surface...

Thanks for sharing, Chris. I really didn't think about that nor did I want to.

On the topic of resting rooms, the unwritten rule is don't talk to the person next to you, unless you are at the sink. At least, it is my "rule"! No eye contact either. Just want to get in, take care of business, wash, and leave. I have encountered the non-male in a public restroom: a nervous young mom with an young boy who simply refused to go into the girl's bathroom!

Someday, may you all meet a hobo in a gas station bathroom shaving with an old straight stropped on his belt and using that pink dispenser soap.

As a man that raised a little girl, I can't even begin to tell you how nerve wracking it can be to bring a young lady into a men's room to do her business. Horrifying to me and to her. I tell you...I would have LOVED to have a unisex bathroom to use. It would have been much less stressful than trying to keep her line of sight aimed in appropriate directions amidst a room full of inappropriate directions...

Something that I think can be misunderstood, from my experience, is the gear to get started. So many videos and posts, and Amazon reviews to weed through. I found out that I was going about things wrong, like lathering in a bowl. Heck, even my first attempts at loading hard soap onto the brush. I later learned that many videos were reviews and not how to use the product. Sounds funny now, but that first month was full of ah ha moments. I envy guys that had a mentor.

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Something that I think can be misunderstood, from my experience, is the gear to get started. So many videos and posts, and Amazon reviews to weed through. I found out that I was going about things wrong, like lathering in a bowl. Heck, even my first attempts at loading hard soap onto the brush. I later learned that many videos were reviews and not how to use the product. Sounds funny now, but that first month was full of ah ha moments. I envy guys that had a mentor.

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You are bang on on that one MaineYooper - I did a fair amount of stumbling myself in the beginning even going back to using the Mach 3 for a year after my first attempt with some forgotten Merkur face scarifier that had been "recommended" on a vendor site as a good novice razor which it wasn't!! After a year of using brush and lather and mach 3 I was shamed into trying DE again by my 19 year old son. I did a lot more research and decided to go with the EJ DE89 and that was the one. Yeah, if only I'd learned at my dad's side but that never happened.