Comments on: how i learned to stop worrying and love the fusion http://ldopa.net/2006/02/19/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-fusion/ in perpetual beta Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:26:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: ldopa.net » archive » shave everywhere http://ldopa.net/2006/02/19/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-2566 ldopa.net » archive » shave everywhere Tue, 23 May 2006 19:08:08 +0000 http://ldopa.net/2006/02/19/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-fusion/#comment-2566 [...] obsessed [...] [...] obsessed [...]

]]> By: Nick http://ldopa.net/2006/02/19/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-961 Nick Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:18:55 +0000 http://ldopa.net/2006/02/19/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-fusion/#comment-961 Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930 "Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of shaving in this country. The Gillette Mach3 was the razor to own. Then the other guy came out with a three-blade razor. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the Mach3Turbo. That's three blades and an aloe strip. For moisture. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened—the bastards went to four blades. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling three blades and a strip. Moisture or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to five blades." Fuck Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades
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“Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of shaving in this country. The Gillette Mach3 was the razor to own. Then the other guy came out with a three-blade razor. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the Mach3Turbo. That’s three blades and an aloe strip. For moisture. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I’m telling you what happened—the bastards went to four blades. Now we’re standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling three blades and a strip. Moisture or no, suddenly we’re the chumps. Well, fuck it. We’re going to five blades.”

]]> By: Jeff http://ldopa.net/2006/02/19/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-940 Jeff Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:28:47 +0000 http://ldopa.net/2006/02/19/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-fusion/#comment-940 What really kills me about Gillette's increasingly and painfully thin rationale for "me buying a new razor" is: it's all about the connector from the blade to the handle and their control of the patent. Every model changes -- not improves, but changes -- this connector ever so slightly, and while I'm too lazy to look, I have to believe that somewhere in the U.S. Patent Office is a shiny new "Patent #238,451: CONNECTING AN ORANGE BLADE TO AN ORANGE HANDLE" nestled next to "Patent #238,450: CONNECTING AN GREEN BLADE TO A GREEN HANDLE" and the upcoming 2008 Gillette Septo's "Patent #238,452: CONNECTING AN YELLOW BLADE TO AN YELLOW HANDLE". I suspect that's why at the grocery store, there are third-party compatible blades for the 1998-era "Gillette RustCarver" but none for Gillette's recent offerings. Bastards. Their oh-so-tricky economic model ("Razors and Razor Blades") would be much less hard to take if it wasn't, y'know, taught in Economics 101. What really kills me about Gillette’s increasingly and painfully thin rationale for “me buying a new razor” is: it’s all about the connector from the blade to the handle and their control of the patent. Every model changes — not improves, but changes — this connector ever so slightly, and while I’m too lazy to look, I have to believe that somewhere in the U.S. Patent Office is a shiny new “Patent #238,451: CONNECTING AN ORANGE BLADE TO AN ORANGE HANDLE” nestled next to “Patent #238,450: CONNECTING AN GREEN BLADE TO A GREEN HANDLE” and the upcoming 2008 Gillette Septo’s “Patent #238,452: CONNECTING AN YELLOW BLADE TO AN YELLOW HANDLE”. I suspect that’s why at the grocery store, there are third-party compatible blades for the 1998-era “Gillette RustCarver” but none for Gillette’s recent offerings.

Bastards. Their oh-so-tricky economic model (“Razors and Razor Blades”) would be much less hard to take if it wasn’t, y’know, taught in Economics 101.

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