Some of you will probably never have heard of Charles A Roberts. You're not missing anything, apart from a laugh, which is the only reason for posting this. The middle initial is the dead giveaway that he's a yank, and middle initials seem important, if you're the sort of person who thinks you are important.
Charles invented the Method shaving system. You can read about it on american forums if you like, but the book he penned (yes, he wrote a book), starts off with Charles claiming full credit for the resurgence in wet shaving. He also invents lots of new words in order to attach some pseudo-scientific/technical jargon to his method, when he's simply just flogging product. A lot of the yanks call him an entrepreneur or a character who 'polarises'. We'd call him a world class nob. He's also got some YT vids up, where he's demoing his method whilst doing at least 150 passes on his face. With a Feather.
Anyway, I'd forgotten all about Chas until I fell upon this.
Essay #7: The Anatomy of The Simpson's Shaving Brush
Now, I think Simmo's make a pretty nice brush, but if I ever say anything like, "A man who has never shaved with a Simpsons brush is a man who has walked the earth in partial stupefaction", then feel free to send Pj round to slap me with a frozen tuna.
Aside from the fact if the prose were any more purple and pretentious it would be in lavendar font, he admits in one of the last paragraphs that he doesn't even know how Simpsons are handmade, or why he thinks a handmade product is better. He just thinks it is and he knows more than we do. So there.
Charles invented the Method shaving system. You can read about it on american forums if you like, but the book he penned (yes, he wrote a book), starts off with Charles claiming full credit for the resurgence in wet shaving. He also invents lots of new words in order to attach some pseudo-scientific/technical jargon to his method, when he's simply just flogging product. A lot of the yanks call him an entrepreneur or a character who 'polarises'. We'd call him a world class nob. He's also got some YT vids up, where he's demoing his method whilst doing at least 150 passes on his face. With a Feather.
Anyway, I'd forgotten all about Chas until I fell upon this.
Essay #7: The Anatomy of The Simpson's Shaving Brush
Now, I think Simmo's make a pretty nice brush, but if I ever say anything like, "A man who has never shaved with a Simpsons brush is a man who has walked the earth in partial stupefaction", then feel free to send Pj round to slap me with a frozen tuna.
Aside from the fact if the prose were any more purple and pretentious it would be in lavendar font, he admits in one of the last paragraphs that he doesn't even know how Simpsons are handmade, or why he thinks a handmade product is better. He just thinks it is and he knows more than we do. So there.
