Does anybody find

Re: shaving foam

After my exploding foam in Paris I went through a period of travelling with some shaving cream from the Bodyshop and a shaving brush.

However personal preference now is for gel from an aerosol.

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Re: shaving foam

Definately find Simple Silicone Gel in a tube the best. I always enjoyed chartering in Turkey as I didn't have to bother taking shaving stuff- just relied on Turkish shaves- now why don't we have those where I live? The other option I do is to jusst not bother shaving while on the boat, though this does generate some complaints from persons close to me.

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Re: shaving foam

Brush and Body Shop cream - it's the only way to go. I prefer the consistency of the foam and it generates less waste, both in production and disposal, than an aerosol. But then I'm a sanctimonious git. /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

I'm told that gel gives a smoother finish, but I think it's marginal.

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Turkish shave -- never again the buggers nearly fried me blowing fire into my ears and nose ... SWMBO and girls were in hysterics watching me trying to escape ...

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The key ( from what I've heard) is to moisturise religiously- never tried it myself as I'm trying to cultivate the mature salty seadog look. Perhaps there's the start of a new forum here- Male Grooming Afloat!! As far as the flames go, I quite enjoyed it. I suppose you could try a blowtorch to get rid of the more stubborn facial hair.

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Salty Seadog

Of course, Real Men use a fistful of spume, garnered from the teeth of a force ten storm and scraped off with a rusty jack-knife .......................

However, discussing male grooming techniques is nearly as sad as talking about flag etiquette, so I must stop now. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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it took us 3 hours to clear customs in Barbados, and they insisted we stayed on the boat! I could see the bar and the cold beer in the distance now thats torture!
We got paroled to leave St Croix a US Island, so Airports are a walk in the park, unless you turn up with your outboard having forgotten to empty the petrol! they wont let you take it as hand luggage!

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Yes worthwhile. However.......
True story last year....having cleared security, there was a fire alarm in the departure lounge for a domestic flight. We were ushered down the stairs onto the tarmac next to a plane being refueled with a zillion gallons of aviation fuel. a) I think I prefer to take my chances in the burning building b) I suspect even a thick terrorist could arrange to set off a fire alarm and then wait outside with a zippo!!

Typical lack of joined up thinking!

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Re: About fingerprints taken in the US

apparently it took 9 hours to clear the plane - this is one reason why the US rethought the whole thing!

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the decrease in pressuure should be the same everywhere! the hold is the same pressure as the plane which is about 70% of atmospheric I think (about 8-10 thousand feet equiv) I have had exploding crisp packets and crushed water bottles inside the cabin before. the hold should be no different - i don't know why the rule for pressuriesed stuff in the hold exists.

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Agreed- most planes are pressurised to about 3000m feet altitude. ALso, did you know that Body Fluids will boil at 37degrees C at an altitude of 19200metres?

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Dare I suggest they look so young because we are getting older?
They may be young but they ask very relevant and searching questions. Then they are followed by another to ask similar questions, and so it goes on. When they are satisfied then your baggage goes through an xray machine. It stops in the machine and a least 4 people will be looking at the image - not one bored individual who is arguing about his next coffe break as happened on my last visit to UK.
Invariably you will have to fire up your laptop and run a prog for them.
Last time I came through it took about 1 hour and 15 mins for me to get to the bar airside. Not that long really - just dont try to be smart with them cos you will get the full treatment. About 3 hours or so and if you miss your plane well there is always another.

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You can use them as explosives! Don't know how without the lighter tho...
I suppose that a box of swans isn't going to set off the metal detector, so maybe that's what they're scared of.

I had a lifejacket cannister confiscated at jfk, the silly fool across the desk didn't understand the fact that there were about 300 of them already on the plane for some reason.

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I can confirm aerosols explode.
Eldest grandson became interested in bombs (don't ask)
I seized the opportunity whilst dearheart was shopping.
I purchased one aerosol can, one plastic dustbin. Sit one inside the other with a lit blowlamp pointing at aerosol. Pop lid on dustbin and took all the kids indoors.
Two minutes later a mighty BOOM! bits of dustbin went roof high.
Took a bit of explaining when dearheart arrived home with my daughters.
(A bit of muttering about responsibility and can we trust him on boat!)
Regards Briani

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Hmmm. Dare one suggest that part of the Boom! might have stemmed from the gas cylinder attached to the blowlamp, rather than from the aerosol itself? /forums/images/icons/wink.gif



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Actually, they looked young because they were kids doing their military service at airport security. But I have to plead guilty of getting older too. The thing I remeber most about Israeli security checks was that not once did they ask a question to which the correct answer wasn't obvious. It took all my self control to not answer something like -"Oh no miss, some nice bloke called Abu something took my bags away to get them packed." They might have changed since, but as far as I remember only those who failed their obvious questions test got sent on to someone who actually knew what they were doing.

I do agree that they take the X-raying business a lot more serious than they do in Europe, but the European staff also seems to be a lot more alert nowadays.

The most interesting controls that I've seen after 9/11 was on a SAA flight to Cape Town were they checked passports at both ends of a corridor without any side doors. I would really like to know which kind of terrorists they were getting at there.

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Yep

flying quite a bit recently, and we go through security, past the pespex box of 'look at all the sharp objects we've made people leave behind' and then onto the bar for a quick drink.

Nice pint of beer in a glass. Excellent.

Next stop, duty free. Bottle of whiskey, bottle of wine. All set.

I do believe that a major cause of Saturday night injuries in town is people getting 'glassed' with a broken bottle.

I've got two bottles and a pint glass. Now then, where did I put those nail scissors.....

Nick

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I must say, I've never had the blowtorch in my hand luggage confiscated. Perhaps it's not sharp enough. BTW- I thought we were talking about aerosols going into the hold, NOT in hand luggage. Securitu are obviously not too concerned about them, otherwise all tickets and holiday bookings would say " please ensure all toiletries are in sqeezy tubes"

I also remember great times with a lighter and aerosol flame thrower. Great for ant nests.

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