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Monday, May 11, 2009


The Fashionable Razor and Hair…..

The development of metallurgy lead to shaving with a higher degree of comfort, in around 3,000 BC copper tools were developed and used for shaving, before that sea shells and the sharpened bones of our enemy‘s(kidding); 1901 was considered the ’Golden Age’ for male grooming as the American inventor King Camp Gillette invented the disposable razor, that accompanied soldiers with their guns to the battle field, thus ensuring the timeless smooth-shaven warrior, making beards that could lead to death unconceivable on the battle field and wowing the enemy with our smooth faces. The Gillette razor’s popularity after the war introduced relatively risk-free cosmetic shaving to the soldier’s sweethearts and wives as well. That eventually lead to the very popular bikini wax. Around a centaury latter the advent of the electric razor, That was dubbed the dawn of technological hair removal, at least on a temporary basis. Although plucking and tweezing had offered more lasting effect, it would be science that would create the possibility of permanent hair removal. Soon electricity was introduced and the option of laser hair removal plus waxing has given man the option to be hairy or not. Currently, the average man will shave about 20,000 times between the ages of 15 and 75. That equates to five months.
A recent study by scientists from Medical University of Vienna traced the origins of hair to the common ancestor of mammals, birds and lizards that lived 310 million years ago. According to theory most of us have lost large coverage of hair around 3.3 million years ago. There has been some theory’s that body hair allows an individual to feel air currents better then those without, a sign of manhood, a sign of cleanliness (when shaven), provides a degree of warmth and when grown out protections from the sun or can be used to brake up the out line or provide additional camouflage in times of war. Either way it is what it is and now it is even easier to wear it or shave it, isn't technology grand.

Why aren’t most women into Video games?
"These gender differences may help explain why males are more attracted to, and more likely to become 'gamers' rather than females," the researchers wrote in their paper, that was recently published online in the Journal of Psychiatric Research. Research has shown that reward feelings is more present in men then in women. In further analysis this could be explained by the fact that most men don’t generally lose constantly at Video games. The reward, happy, happy, feeling only happens after a win and if you lose continually you just don‘t get that feeling that most men know and love. Though it is true that most video games are just a huge waste of time, though after a man has a hard day at work, has some extra time on his hands, wants to try out the newest best seller or just needs to unwind with the senesless violence of a first person shooter or the excitement of a sports game we got that option. Thus instead of getting a manicure or our hair done, looking at clothing/shoes or talking with the boyz for hours on end, some choose to exploit the digital world. Video games are like most things that have been invented by mankind. Sports for instance; It was once considered very taboo for a women to engage in or enjoy sports like tennis, hockey, shooting, baseball etc.. now it is the social norn that some women excel and enjoy sports. Now whether Video games shall take the same route for women as sports have is a matter of speculation, due to the simple fact that video games aren’t traditionally a spectator sport. According to some research the average female plays around 7.4 hours a week, though when we look around most video game stores or arcades most of the time we notice that women are absent, except for the odd female dragged their by her boy friend. Only time shall tell if women can achieve the same ability as their male counter parts at video games, though at the moment all we have to do is look at the Facebook, mind jolt games, highest scores and we shall see that hardly any women occupy spots on the all time highest scores list. Like most activities if you lack at it, generally speaking, you won’t do it and criticize those that enjoy and engage in it. Thus if you feel you’re a manly man and enjoy getting layed it is probably in your best interest to keep your gaming fetish a secret un till evolution takes effect and women start to relies the benfits of video games.