[Closed] Where else am I supposed to shave? (old man confused by fashion content)

In the bathroom.

Have you received a casting call for the next Magic Mike film? If not then I doubt anyone's looking at your pastey moobs and thinking "they'd look better if he only shaved them".

I shaved my chest once, it looked odd and itched lots. I've not done it since.

I do however shave my legs and trim downstairs. But then I don't shave my face.

So yeah, do what you want.

Where will it end???

It (fashion) never ends. It loops forever.  Creating jobs, babies, deely boppers, holed-denim, orange-face, animal-cruelty, pollution, Tilley hats, corduroy, reverence and ridicule along the way.  It's here to stay, so learn to take the rough with the smooth.  Or not.

While we are at it, what sort of cruel joke was being played when nature decided that we didn't need hair on our heads when we got older, but additional hair on back, shoulders, nose, ears and extra around bollox would do just fine?

While we are at it, what sort of cruel joke was being played when nature decided that we didn’t need hair on our heads when we got older, but additional hair on back, shoulders, nose, ears and extra around bollox would do just fine?

Gravity innit, 50 years of gravity means stuff just gets dragged down.

Marketing looking to sell more stuff no one needs.

Bit like when Male Grooming products were advertised a few years ago.  In my day blokes didn't moisturise, only girls.  Blokes don't need hand bags either.  But businesses are always on the look out for new customers, so they will continue to brainwash idiots.

There is the one about footballers needing special shampoo for heading the ball.

I shave my pits, but not for fashion reasons (who the hell cares about having fashionable armpits?).  I started doing it when out in Florida one year, it was blisteringly hot and I was sweating like Jimmy Savile at a school disco.  I kept on with it as it seems more hygienic, no more 4pm Total Deodorant Failure episodes on a summer's day.

That advert prompted a lot of 5.5 year old boy's questions.

Cougar - but what about the itching? Do you shave the pits daily?

I tried once a few years back out of curiousity, seemed to be more sticky/sweaty due to the lack of hair inbetween the skin pressing together and my god the itching after a couple of days was horiffic! Every arm and body movement hurt in new ways.

Was a similar experience when I tried the chest (out of curiousity/wife nagging) but minus the increased sweatiness.

I'm generally hairy.

As per Cougar, I trim my pits down. Means roll-on antiperspirant actually has some chance of reaching skin and being effective.

Keep my danglies neatly trimmed too - otherwise I can't see the wood for the shrubbery.
Looks nicer, feels nicer, and protects against Klingons too.

Trimmed though mind. Not baby smooth. That just looks odd.

Had this discussion with some ladies in the pub - fashion innit, everyone has to look like those utter bellends off Made in Chelsea or Love Island. Same with the weird eyebrows women have.... Sorry state of affairs where those people are societies role models. But then... like the OP, I am old (and proudly hairy)

Keep my danglies neatly trimmed too – otherwise I can’t see the wood for the shrubbery.
Looks nicer, feels nicer, and protects against Klingons too.

Try not shitting on your balls.

I'm with Cougar (not literally, but, well ye know), Though I use the unguarded clippers for the pits, and the 4mm guard for chest and the man regions. Feels a lot cleaner, and no one wants to see a man region that looks like a burnt out railway embankment.

fashion innit, everyone has to look like those utter bellends off Made in Chelsea or Love Island. Same with the weird eyebrows women have…. Sorry state of affairs where those people are societies role models.

Yeah much better back in our day. No one looked like a bellend back then...

While we are at it, what sort of cruel joke was being played when nature decided that we didn’t need hair on our heads when we got older, but additional hair on back, shoulders, nose, ears and extra around bollox would do just fine?

There's two theories.

1) Keeping hair coloured and just keeping it in general requires energy from the body, whilst your young a nice head of hair helps attract a mate so has some purpose, once your past ~35 your dead in evolutionary terms and your body is on it's long slow decline to the grave.

2) Gray hair is seen as a sign of being old and wise so the younger members of your tribe are less likely to leave you for the sabre tooth tigers.

The first is considered more likely, the latter is what people with gray hair tell themselves.

Sauce: Radio 4 a couple of weeks ago.

Try not shitting on your balls.

This is the kind of advice I come to STW for.

Yeah much better back in our day. No one looked like a bellend back then…

Funny pic, but misses my point by quite a few miles 😛

So redheads are eaten by sabre tooth tigers, even though old. No wonder we are so rare! Is confused...

Epilation not shaving. Legs only. To cycle shorts Epilation of the underarms does not sound fun. Elsewhere? Well I guess you have to pay good money for that in licensed establishments. Or so I am told.

I was aware we are encouraged to keep downstairs tidy

Really?

In my day

I love fashion threads on STW.

Moar of “back in my day/when I wer nipper/ya neuw wer ya stood/it wer much simpler” and add “lyke” to all those..

Ya..

Cougar – but what about the itching? Do you shave the pits daily?

Do I buggery, no!  Life's too short for that.  I redo them when I look in the mirror and think "hm, they need doing again," it's in the order of months.  Armpit hair doesn't seem to grow particularly quickly for me.

Like NoBeer, I use unguarded clippers.  It's a bit of a fiddly area for me to have dared taking a blade to so far.

I shave my head because I’m bald. Shaving foam is nonesense too. I just shave my head whilst showering and then tidy up neckline and the hair that’s so high up my cheeks it’s almost in my eyes.

who’s doing the ‘encouraging us’ to tidy up downstairs, armpits etc? I just want to know so that I can laugh at them.

Keep my danglies neatly trimmed too – otherwise I can’t see the wood for the shrubbery.
Looks nicer, feels nicer, and protects against Klingons too.

I have been alive for 40 years and I can honestly l say I have never had a klingon on my balls, well certainly not since coming out of nappies.  What the hell are you doing for that to even be possible?

What the hell are you doing for that to even be possible?

I think it's fairly clear.  Just imagine, for a moment, they're not his own klingons.

When did shaving your tackle become a thing?

jonnyboi

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When did shaving your tackle become a thing?

Posted 1 minute ago

Around 5000 BC

I guess it depends whether your OH considers flossing her teeth a chore or a pleasure.

That and if mine gets too long it rubs my bell end whilst cycling in winter which is f***ing painfull.

Thank you Thisisnotaspoon, I just read this thread whilst I'm on a rather boring conference call and hit your reply. I am now sitting hear, with tears rolling down my cheeks, trying very hard not to burst into a fit of childish giggles, and my colleagues staring at me wondering what fit I'm having.

Shaving your nads is itchy as hell from my brief daliance with the subject. A bit of trim yes, but any more, no way. The GB track team were encouraged to give it up weren't they - too many saddle sores.

When did shaving your tackle become a thing?

Its the 11th commandment, "Thou shall shave thy knackers and feel the breeze ".

Regards the OP real men have hairy chests, so brothers kneel with me a give thanks to his holiness....

Mr Magnum PI

Around 5000 BC

That when they made the first porn films?

I have been alive for 40 years and I can honestly l say I have never had a klingon on my balls,

Clearly you need to go to more Cosplay conventions. 😂

What the hell are you doing for that to even be possible?

*sigh* I wasn't suggesting that the trimming stopped at the balls. If you are mowing the lawn and trimming the rockery then you might as well do the edging around the back porch while you are there.

What niche bespoke razor for ball and arse crack shaving?

Gillette do a trimmer razor combo, that could work

How the **** can you possibly see what you are doing when trimming the back porch? You would need to live in a house of mirrors would you not?

Put a mirror on the floor propped against a wall and look between your legs?

Put a mirror on the floor propped against a wall and look between your legs?

That’ll provide some amusement for the folks at A&E

Put a mirror on the floor propped against a wall and look between your legs?

I'm sure you'll find that that is what the front facing camera on an iPad is for

apparently...

Mrs Sims would go Batsh!t if I used her ipad for that!

there is no need to press record, really

It's pretty easy to do it by feel.

If not, then find someone that you trust to identify your elbow and label it. The other bit will be your arse.

With regards to that particular advert: I for one think it’s refreshing to see the rufty-tufty world of football finally embrace such bold homo-eroticism, Flying in the face of any archaic ‘don’t drop the soap in the showers’ references of yesteryear

I haven’t heard any yet, but I feel pretty certain that opposition fans, when visiting Anfield, may well have have conjured up one or two witty dirtties regarding the chest shaving adventures of the squad