Quarantine is no excuse to look like a caveman. These 10 items will make you presentable again.

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/07/quarantine-is-no-excuse-to-loo.html

Quarantine is no excuse to look like a caveman

yes. yes, it absolutly is.

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This really feels like the sort of shame-based consumerism that Boing Boing would have been complaining about 20 years ago. The transformation into Cyberyuppie Skymall is complete.

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Came here to say exactly this. Very happy to see the first post concurs.

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A product endorsement post aimed exclusively to men.

How… enlightened.

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I looked like a caveman well before the lockdown, and still look like one after it was lifted. The real challenge was not putting up weight, something I managed to keep only until the first month was over, then…

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That doodad to shave the back of your neck seems like it could be some kind of torture device.

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Caveman shaming? Not cool.

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I guess it’s marginally better than trying to shame women into buying unnecessary personal hygiene merch?

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Getting a little tired of the strip mall immersion experience.

Really.

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I have a hard time getting the vertical stripes of hair left behind after using it straight.

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As someone who normally works at a place with somewhat restrictive rules about facial hair I absolutely jumped at the chance to go feral while on furlough. Didn’t take long for my beard to approach Grizzly Adams level.

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Jerry is that you??

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I’m a man, and I’m quarantining in my cave, so technically I look like a caveman no matter how I’m groomed, right?

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Be careful what you wish for.

But exclusively men? Wouldn’t anyone like to smell like a fresh blue lavender troglodyte troglodette? And that neck groomer should do a great job on legs. Adopt, adapt, improve. :wink:

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The Cut Buddy comes with a Cure CD.

So there’s that.

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The perfect one, really. Ooga booga

Lavender is so 1920.

That band-o-razor-blades looks like something from a fairly crap early-90’s horror movie. It should immediately be retired to a camp fire.
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BCE, I assume you mean.

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These products are silly. I have a cheapo safety razor, a pair of hair scissors, a hand mirror and a cheapo set of hair clippers. That’s all you need, not some crazy mach-5 Kerberos.