~ ~ Oh, I do enjoy these “challenges” that come up from time to time from various members, usually involved in the infamous Ciao Yahoo “grope”. (I am too, so I’m allowed to be critical!!)
Some people are of the opinion that they serve little useful purpose, and are against the best interests of the site, but I would disagree strongly with that viewpoint.
My own little challenge, a couple of month’s back, to try write a “very helpful” opinion in exactly the 90 words that Ciao then stipulated as a minimum word count, was possibly partly instrumental in the word limit being raised to 120 words shortly thereafter.

~ ~ I have been shaving hair from my face for the best part of 35 years now, ever since my voice got a little less squeaky, and certain parts of my anatomy began to rapidly develop.
In my time, I have used various different implements to achieve this task successfully, starting out with the ordinary old Gillette single razor blades that you used to buy in the barbers along with your other “manly” requirements, and progressing to electric razors, and then back again to the old reliable “wet” shave.
I never really took to the electric method very much, as I have what could be described as a heavy growth, and I quite simply found that I could never find an electric razor, no matter how expensive, that could give me the same close shave that I could achieve by the older, more traditional method.

~ ~ I noticed on Thursday past that I had run out of refills, and having a memory that definitely wouldn’t put an elephant to shame, I asked her ladyship to get me a pack when she was out at the local supermarket.
Back she came, but not with what I wanted. “Out of stock” she said, so she brought me these disposable Bic things as a stopgap.
Now I knew that these things existed, as they are on fairly prominent display wherever toiletries are sold, but I’d never been tempted to try them out, as I thought that a company renowned for manufacturing biros probably wouldn’t be the best around at making men’s razors.

~ ~ BIG MISTAKE.
I don’t know how many of you have seen the film “Face Off” starring John Travolta and Nicholas Cage, where a plastic surgeon miraculously manages to remove their respective faces, and switch them around.
Well, he could have saved himself a fortune in surgical equipment if he’d only known about these Bic disposable razors.
Talk about rough! It wasn’t that they were sharp, more like pure lethal.
I reckon the steel they use when making them must have been bought fourth-hand from a dodgy scrap metal dealer specialising in sub-standard Russian tanks left over from the war in Afghanistan. Or maybe it was the war with Hitler!!!!
These things must have been commissioned by the companies that sell soothing cream for torn and tattered faces. Never in my puff have I had such a God damned awful shave.
Oh sure, they were removing my facial fungus alright, but the problem was that it felt like they were also removing my skin, my flesh, with possibly a bit of bone thrown in for good measure.
You certainly wouldn’t want to be applying any alcohol based after-shave lotion after using these monstrosities, or all the neighbours would be ringing the police to come and investigate who was being murdered.
Talk about being butchered. I used so much toilet paper patching up the cuts, I must be entitled to some free shares in Andrex.
It’s now Saturday, the day after the blood-fest, and I haven’t even been able to look at a razor today, so sensitive is my poor “boat race”.