Shaving terms I don't like

I don't know if this has been mentioned already (and I'm not reading through 14 pages to find out), but the term "faceturbating" kinda makes my skin crawl.Ugh....

I'm with you n this one.  First time I read it I knew exactly what the poster meant (so I suppose it worked) but yuuuuck!

Along those same lines, I'm not a fan of "ribbed handle"....makes me think of "for her pleasure"

"Wet shaving," because it's an oxymoron.

How so? Using an electric razor without water would be dry shaving. It's just an overly broad term that can encompass the use of carts as well.

Because it's exclusively used among the elitist snobs in our ranks to exclude anything other than so-called "traditional" tools. That sanctimonious exclusivity eliminates cartridges, disposables, "canned goo" and wet-capable electrics.

"Wet shaving," because it's an oxymoron.

How so? Using an electric razor without water would be dry shaving. It's just an overly broad term that can encompass the use of carts as well.

Because it's exclusively used among the elitist snobs in our ranks to exclude anything other than so-called "traditional" tools. That sanctimonious exclusivity eliminates cartridges, disposables, "canned goo" and wet-capable electrics.

I'm not sure you can say "exclusively used", I mean wet shaving is just a shortened form of traditional wet shaving or TWS and is generally used to succinctly convey the message that it is shaving with a traditional brush, soap and either a DE/SE or a straight razor rather than electric or cartridge razor shaving with canned foam. I think its how the terms are used that determines whether one is being elitist or not. Sometimes its just the quickest way to convey the information. Realistically nobody will deny that you can get a decent shave from cartridge and foam and it can be very convenient its just that most people here have chosen to inconvenience themselves to a greater or lesser degree in order to achieve what they consider to be a better shave. Its human nature to try to convert others to what we believe to be a better way to do something, IMHO

How so? Using an electric razor without water would be dry shaving. It's just an overly broad term that can encompass the use of carts as well.

Because it's exclusively used among the elitist snobs in our ranks to exclude anything other than so-called "traditional" tools. That sanctimonious exclusivity eliminates cartridges, disposables, "canned goo" and wet-capable electrics.

I'm not sure you can say "exclusively used", I mean wet shaving is just a shortened form of traditional wet shaving or TWS and is generally used to succinctly convey the message that it is shaving with a traditional brush, soap and either a DE/SE or a straight razor rather than electric or cartridge razor shaving with canned foam.  I think its how the terms are used that determines whether one is being elitist or not.  Sometimes its just the quickest way to convey the information.  Realistically nobody will deny that you can get a decent shave from cartridge and foam and it can be very convenient its just that most people here have chosen to inconvenience themselves to a greater or lesser degree in order to achieve what they consider to be a better shave.  Its human nature to try to convert others to what we believe to be a better way to do something, IMHO

Actually, we have members who will sometimes post a SOTD using a cartridge razor and I once posted a photo with a cartridge razor and the canned gel I used because I was in a hurry that morning.  No one put us down for those posts.  I am returning home later today from a month in Scotland and Italy.  For convenience and expediency it has been a cartridge/canned gel shave every day and I cannot wait to get back into my regular brush/blade/soap routine.  While technically "wet shaving"' those cartridge/gel shaves are simply not the same for me.  I believe Marko got it right when he suggested that for folks like us, who come to DFS, wet shaving means traditional wet shaving and no snobbery is intended.

I've recently been seeing folks referring to a contemporarily made razor that uses a GEM blade as a "(insert razor name) GEM". They are not made by GEM. Those days are gone. But they might be "(insert razor name) GEM bladed" or some such razors. As a vintage razor user trying to help noobs I can see that it might confuse to leave out a word.

Most other things I see written simply don't bother me. I'm fairly tolerant of what folks write and I try to understand the intent.

"Bloom the puck" is the only one I can think of. The offending word being "bloom." Just sounds needlessly fancy. Why not "soak"? As in, do you soak the puck? Some say that the fragrance blooms into the air while the puck is soaking. I still think the better verb is soak, and those of us who find that soaking a puck infuses our bathrooms with sandalwood, or lavender, or the ferny astringency of a good fougere (or, for those of us who use artisans' soaps with their symphony of scents, a peppermint-copper-tomato juice-leather-and oakmoss accord), we'll imagine the nose candy.

As I just saw it in the post above, I don't like "fougere".  It sounds vaguely dirty.

As I just saw it in the post above, I don't like "fougere".  It sounds vaguely dirty.

Oh those French...Personally I prefer fougere to fern - Fern to me evokes images of a woman with a beehive hairdo and cats eye glasses. Apologies to anyone with a special Fern in their life

boredom...

boredom...

I didn't know "boredom" was a shaving term.