# Gillet Fusion Power Phantom. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 15, 2007, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gillet-fusion-power-phantom/408113 "2007-06-15T12:14:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gillet-fusion-power-phantom/408113/1 "2007-06-15T12:14:41Z")
Heh. It might be a great razor. But really :rolleyes: It reminds me of a subdivision I know. “Blue River Valley Ranch Lakes Estates” :snerk: Looks like the committee couldn’t agree on a name, so they just decided to just combine them all. I’m sort of surprised they didn’t somehow manage to fit mountain view in there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gillet-fusion-power-phantom/408113/2 "2007-06-15T12:27:08Z")
The stupid ads are enough to put me off - even if I were daft enough to want to scrape [how many blades is it now?] across my face. The stupid white coated blokes with their blue and orange plasma machines are bad enough, but that bit where they flip it over and use the single trimming blade with a rapid ‘flick’ across the skin - makes me cringe every time. That’s how you get the red stuff to come out. This is the one I mean: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiAWcHQGd0c](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiAWcHQGd0c) - about 20 seconds in ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gillet-fusion-power-phantom/408113/3 "2007-06-15T12:33:26Z")
If you remove the word “Gillette” it sounds like a super-villain or a scientific phenomenon. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gillet-fusion-power-phantom/408113/4 "2007-06-15T13:08:04Z")
This should probably go in the stupid marketing tactics thread, but the thing about every single person who stars in those shaver commercials is that _they’ve already shaved_. All they’re doing in those ads is wiping the shaving cream off their face. Now, I like Gillette razors. I use an electric myself, but even the best electric doesn’t cut my facial hair to the quick like a straight razor, so I like using mine for the final touchup. By that time though I don’t need some 5-bladed, vibrating, self-propelled cane harvester to slice off the remaining 1/100" of beard the electric left behind. I have a Mach 3. It’s just fine, thank you. But if I ever find that I’m being actively strangled by my own neckbeard, I might change my mind. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gillet-fusion-power-phantom/408113/5 "2007-06-15T14:08:27Z")
Stupid ads. Best razor ever made. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gillet-fusion-power-phantom/408113/6 "2007-06-15T14:50:57Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] The stupid white coated blokes with their blue and orange plasma machines are bad enough [/QUOTE] The machine they’re operating looks like it’s supposed to be a particle collider too - that’s not how you make a plasma, is it? ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gillet-fusion-power-phantom/408113/7 "2007-06-15T17:19:38Z")
Holy Shit! That thing has a microchip?!?! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gillet-fusion-power-phantom/408113/8 "2007-06-15T19:13:15Z")
[QUOTE=Bear\_Nenno] Holy Shit! That thing has a microchip?!?! [/QUOTE] Yes, it implants it your chin to make you trackable by marketers.