Shaving terms I don't like

While I get the marketing angle, I do have a pet peeve with the wide variety of descriptions used to grade badger hair.  I'm just waiting on the "hand picked by vegan virgins" grade of badger hair to hit the market...

The sad thing is badger grades are totally subjective and it is not like there is some governing body that decides what, "Silvertip, Fine, etc." is.

I've held, felt, and used a silvertip from two different brush makers and they were so far apart in feel and performance it was a fing joke.

My silvertip from a local artisan is not as nice as my best from Zenith, which is easily the softest badger in my rotation...

While I get the marketing angle, I do have a pet peeve with the wide variety of descriptions used to grade badger hair.  I'm just waiting on the "hand picked by vegan virgins" grade of badger hair to hit the market...

The sad thing is badger grades are totally subjective and it is not like there is some governing body that decides what, "Silvertip, Fine, etc." is.

I've held, felt, and used a silvertip from two different brush makers and they were so far apart in feel and performance it was a fing joke.

My silvertip from a local artisan is not as nice as my best from Zenith, which is easily the softest badger in my rotation...

Yep, and the Stirling fan I bought a month ago is just as good as my two band thater at 1/4 the price. Go figure.

The sad thing is badger grades are totally subjective and it is not like there is some governing body that decides what, "Silvertip, Fine, etc." is.

I've held, felt, and used a silvertip from two different brush makers and they were so far apart in feel and performance it was a fing joke.

My silvertip from a local artisan is not as nice as my best from Zenith, which is easily the softest badger in my rotation...

Yep, and the Stirling fan I bought a month ago is just as good as my two band thater at 1/4 the price.  Go figure.

This is one of the shortcomings of on-line shopping. If you could actually touch and compare brushes in a shop then the market would enforce some discipline on the nomenclature - stuff that is badly mislabeled wouldn't sell. As it is you buy it sight unseen relying on the marketing promo and you're very unlikely to return a brush because its a little (or a lot) stiffer or coarser than you expected. This applies to soap too - I'm sure I'd have half as many soaps as I do if I were able to actually sniff them before I bought them. Not because some smell bad but rather they don't smell strongly enough of whatever they're supposed to smell like. We rely to some extent on the reviews but, as you all know, YMMV - some folks say a soap smells strong or a brush is wonderful and then your own experience is completely different. I guess its like movie or restaurant reviews. You need to find a reviewer who's tastes more or less match yours and you have reasonable confidence in their opinions.

Keep Calm And Carry On signs. This poster was never released because they realised it sent a negative message. A few surviving copies went on the Antique Road show and now it's
everywhere.
'Artisan' I keep invisioning some BURT'S BEES character in a barn with pet cats and a VW van for setting up a table at some reenactor's weekend.
DAMN FINE SHAVE I would insert a smilie of a round yellow guy running for cover. Thankfully, emoticons do not seem enabled on this forum---ROFLOL ( I hate that too.) Not even my posts are that funny.

I hate it when people try to act like 19th century English gentlemen. Like when they use the words "gentlemanly" or "indeed" or any other term you wouldn't use during normal conversation. It comes off as pretentious.

Serious question: I use "indeed" in conversation all the time. What if it's just a natural feature of speech? It's usually pretty obvious when someone is just speaking normally vs. when they're trying to affect some kind of speaking style to appear as something they're not. Do you still find it irritating if it's apparent that that's just how someone talks?

A lot of Steampunks are bidding on EBAY straight razors and learning to wetshave. INDEED, I know of only one Hare Krishna forum post, and that a full on recruiting pitch and not help head with head shaving.

Wet shaving, canned goo, BBS, DFS, ad nauseum.

Seriously, WTF? Or should I just ROFLMFAO and say YMMV?

I'm nauseous with ad nauseum. Using a dead language to impart gravitas (there! another one) is so poseur ( there! yet another.)

I lik croap
There's hard soaps, soft soaps, and creams. Croaps are not quite a soft soap and not quiet a cream.
Cella is a perfect example.
Tabac is hard, while stirling is a soft soap.
So what do you call something that's neither a soap or a cream?
If you'd call cella a soft soap then what the heck is stirling? A haroft soap for me for a soap to be a soap it has to be hard enough to keep its form when pressed. Soft soaps give a little but keep their form, hard soaps are like a rock. Croaps are like soft puddy.

I don't much care for artisan. Which to me would be if they made each soap individual. Like an artisan wood maker. They might make a dozen chairs but each is slightly different. Lot of artisans used similar equipment to manufacturers. Just smaller scale. They'll small business.
But marketing as artisan was a huge success

I hate it when people try to act like 19th century English gentlemen. Like when they use the words "gentlemanly" or "indeed" or any other term you wouldn't use during normal conversation. It comes off as pretentious.

Serious question: I use "indeed" in conversation all the time. What if it's just a natural feature of speech? It's usually pretty obvious when someone is just speaking normally vs. when they're trying to affect some kind of speaking style to appear as something they're not. Do you still find it irritating if it's apparent that that's just how someone talks?

I'm with you on this one.  I use words like "indeed," "quite," and others on a regular basis.  I'm not putting on airs or trying to speak down to anyone,  but language is beautiful and the ability to properly convey a message without sounding like some Kardashian-TMZ-watching troglodyte is something that isn't valued as much as it should be today.  Frankly, I'd rather see someone try to speak above their level than the opposite.  Use of phrases like "haters gonna hate" would be among my pet peeves, and just makes me have less interest in anything that follows.

It reminds me of this:

https://youtu.be/wPdkFkw9w7o