Damn, they got Joe.
Joe, the barber, watched Friday night as some drunken idiot pulled out of the bar down the street, hit another car, and commenced to spraying lead.
The shooter ended up in Hoosier Sports, a business that adjoins Joe’s shop, and the perpetrator wanders around, squad cars and ambulances all over the place. Joe actually goes in and talks to the perp for a minute and.. what?
No! Joe is fine. He was having a good time telling me the story.
No, some cocksocket reported to the health department that Joe was still giving razor shaves.
And they made him stop. They came in and told him it was $1k everytime he disbeyed.
So last Christmas, I got my very last razor shave. Yesterday, I got a shave with a disposable.
Still an overly adequate shave. Still very good. But the days of having a proper shave, at least in Indiana, are over.
I’mna have to find out if I can let him use my razor.
By the way, something I never ever noticed before: Barber Joe was First Air Cav. the shield was on his car, and it’s over the door in the shop. Joe is 72- though he looks 55. So he might have been in during the space between Korea and Nam, or he might have been in the Nam. We didn’t ask, we made note of the insignia and he dropped it so we did too.
God bless Joe. I hope he lives to be 100 and cuts hair every weekday of all that time.
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No straight razor shaves? Is this a health thing? My barber still shaves me, face and neck, with a straight razor. I trust her. Hell, I’ve known her since we started first grade in 1963.
It’s the gays again. To thwart the spread of AIDS, the use of razors have been halted in many places. Might nick someone. Can’t just do it in barber shops in gay neighborhoods, that would be discrimination, so everyone has to stop.
I can recall getting warm lather straight-razor neck shaves after my haircuts back in the mid 90’s when I was stationed in Biloxi. Loved it.
I’m told that you can still get a straight-razor shave down here in Kentucky, but the barber doing the work must be “licensed.” The place where I get my hair cut supposedly has a couple of guys who are licensed.
The rise and fall of western civilization can be traced in the stupidity of its laws.
…of course they can’t do anything as complex as wiping the razor down with alcohol every time it’s used, or something; oh no. No, someone might get HIV, so everyone has to stop using straight razors. It’s the only way to be sure.
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God forbid.
Still, nothing like meddling with a professional.
Well my friend Og, I have to say I agree with that law. In fact, It’s not in the least surprising to me Indiana has it.
You see, legislators in your fine state have decided the general population there is just too stupid to be allowed such sharp objects. As proof of this, they had to go no farther than the front doors of their own offices, where their names are engraved on brass plaques.
You see, any population STUPID enough to vote in people like them are clearly too brain dead to deal with such things as straight razors.
Much like New Jersey citizens are now, I expect the next step will be to judge ya’ll too dumb to safely pump your own fuel.
Present company excepted, of course.
They still do the razor shave down here in southern Indiana. When did this start? Seems like the government could find something more productive to do than police barber shops. Nice to know our tax dollars are being put to good use.
First, they took the caboose off of the back of the train. And now, no more hot shaving cream as the barber prepares the straight edge finish to the haircut along the back of the neck? I thought a licensed hair stylist cannot use a razor, while an Indiana blue card (license) saying “barber” meant you could still do this. I wonder why the barber union didn’t protest this.
I’ve been in the work force for just over 35 years now, worked in aluminium joinery, been a soap maker for 20yrs, now a storeman for the last 4 yrs, working for an American multi national company, 6 months ago I was informed that the decision has been made at corporate level that I am no longer capable of using a box cutter without the terrible risk of cutting off a finger or slashing an artery and dying, we now have to use what is called a “Parrot Knife” for cutting plastic wrap from palleted goods and opening cartons, a more useless piece of kit it would be hard to imagine. May God spit on the ‘Elf n Safety Nazi’s!!
At least two barber shops here in Indy still use razors. Is this a state law, or just a local health dept. thing?