# Pitting Amateur Barbarian

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 8, 2015, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554 "2015-07-08T08:05:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/147 "2015-07-16T07:44:20Z")

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> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> **AB** tried to take away my Cuisinart!
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> [Early inventions that were widespread, then obsolete in a generation - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=762147)

**AB** certainly is fond of [boasting about his skills](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17153556&postcount=2) at mundane, low-tech tasks:

> [@How many blades on your razor? (Answers from both men + women, please))](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-blades-on-your-razor-answers-from-both-men-women-please/682631/2):
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> If you can’t get a good shave (smooth, comfortable, lasting) shave from a single-blade safety razor, the problem is likely that you never learned to shave properly. The only faint advantage 2-5 blade razors have is that they accommodate sloppy, amateurish technique a little better, at many, many times the cost. It’s like living on McD’s food because you never learned to boil water.

I’m thinking of starting a laundry thread to see if he gets all snooty about his technique with a washboard.

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