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Quintidi 5 Germinal an 233 de la Révolution, jour de Poule
Such a happy scent!
Such a happy Russian Bear! What's behind the name?
I don't know 🤷
March 25, 2025
Brush: Brad Sears Scotsman XL 28mm Super Badger
Razor: Geneva Cutlery Co. 6/8" Hollow Ground Round Point
Lather: Barrister and Mann - Marilyn - Soap
Aftershave: Barrister and Mann - Marilyn - Aftershave
Fragrance: Barrister and Mann - Marilyn - Eau de Toilette
3 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
BaM's Marilyn is a scent that I only understood after trying the EdT. I didn't understand how the soap scent related to Will's description of it, nor to his motivations for naming the scent Marilyn. I bought a soap sample first, thought the scent was a "miss", but purchased the EdT because I was intrigued, somehow. The EdT allowed me to understand what Will was going for and to find traces of the notes that I was missing in the soap. Now, this is one of my favorite BaM scents.
Day 13 of the TSF Domination era. TSF has been painted as the cruel villian by people shaving with less popular brands, but frankly, they just want to circumvent the democratic process for their own gains. Spearhead bribing with a t-shirt PIF, BaM stealing my LotR bit, cbubs doing... uh... cbubs things. They're all crooks! You know who hasn't interfered with the democratic process? Aaron (or whatever the owner's name is) of TSF!
#A VOTE FOR TSF IS A VOTE FOR DEMOCRACY
#A VOTE FOR TSF IS A VOTE FOR DEMOCRACY
Interesting comment considering the country where Pandas are found primarily :)
Mar. 25, 2025
I was once like many of you. Dismissive of /u/PrideTwo and /u/tsrblke and their crusade for TSF. Reveled at the idea of seeing them crushed under the heel of Medium-ish Soap.
And then I realized, since when do I stand up for the medium guy against the small guy? Since when do I revel in seeing a new-ish artisan thrown to the heap like so much rubbish to be disposed of?
No more, I say. It is time for us to rally together. To revel in the little guy. To embrace what can be—the hopers, the dreamers—against the establishment.
Join me. Delete your posts. Shave again. Use TSF. For together we usher in a new era for wet shaving together!
MARCH MADNESS 2025 DAY 25
It's the Final Four duking it out today. I truly believe nobody is safe.
March 25, 2025
Excelsior isn't necessarily better than Omnibus, but my personal preference leans towards it. Lyssa is pretty cool. It's sort of a sharp, dirty, metallic rose.
Will has that ability to challenge us with his fragrances. I like that he takes that level of risk.
March 25, 2025
Brush: Brad Sears Scotsman XL 28mm Super Badger
Razor: Geneva Cutlery Co. 6/8" Hollow Ground Round Point
Lather: Barrister and Mann - Marilyn - Soap
Aftershave: Barrister and Mann - Marilyn - Aftershave
Fragrance: Barrister and Mann - Marilyn - Eau de Toilette
3 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
BaM's Marilyn is a scent that I only understood after trying the EdT. I didn't understand how the soap scent related to Will's description of it, nor to his motivations for naming the scent Marilyn. I bought a soap sample first, thought the scent was a "miss", but purchased the EdT because I was intrigued, somehow. The EdT allowed me to understand what Will was going for and to find traces of the notes that I was missing in the soap. Now, this is one of my favorite BaM scents.
Mar 25, 2025 - MM25: Talent Soap Factory
A soap that smells like vinyl records? Check!
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
I am riding for BaM again today. Hopefully we make it through another round!
Cool and Trade Winds played nicely off each other. A nice refreshing shave before a pretty hot spring day.
I am riding for BaM again today
As am I!
It's a good team to be on :)
Let's go for one more round of who gets cut before TSF with a solid Spearhead lead:
Scrape time: Tue 25 Mar 2025, 07:00:10 GMT
| Artisan Brand | ∑ |
|---|---|
| Spearhead Shaving Co. | 1 |
| Barrister and Mann | 0 |
| Catie's Bubbles | 0 |
| Talent Soap Factory | 0 |
| Total: | 1 |
I honed the frame back yesterday, and it cuts well, but something about it doesn't feel good. It feels a bit empty? I'll give it a few more tries before making decisions.
Black Watch++;
I'm surprised you had to make the post again... I thought I fixed it yesterday. Did a test post and everything!
No worries!
Do we have logs of the failure? Something we can use to debug the issue?
I've narrowed it down to me compulsively updating things... I'll click to update the schedule stack, and there won't be an update for the scheduling stuff, but it'll update redis. Without fail, updating redis gives problems afterwards.
I changed the stack now (as of yesterday) to use a fixed versio of redis, so when I compulsively look for an update, redis won't change.
To fix it, I just delete the local folders/databases/etc. (leaving the folder with the scheduled events) and start from scratch. I did that yesterday and a test post worked. This time I'll add in a step of logging out and recreating the jobs from scratch. There are only two jobs so it's easy.
As far as logs go, there isn't anything unusual from 00:05Z. The logs are empty going back further than that... probably some sort of log setting I should fix to make it go further back.
