{"id":1071,"date":"2008-12-12T20:10:49","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T04:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2021-03-16T21:18:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T04:18:41","slug":"which-reminds-me-that-i-need-to-shave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"Which Reminds Me that I Need to Shave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered a few things from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groominglounge.com\/\">the Grooming Lounge<\/a> on Sunday.  They arrived to-day, along with a catalogue (Volume <abbr title=\"5\">V<\/abbr>).<\/p> <p>Flipping through the catalogue and looking at its pictures, I remarked to <a href=\"http:\/\/mocketymock.com\/\">the Woman of Interest<\/a> that their wares, in general, were for someone far more <em>metrosexual<\/em> than I.<\/p> <p>However, I stopped to read the description of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groominglounge.com\/twponafi.html\">the Tweezerman Porcelain Nail File<\/a>.<\/p> <blockquote>Hand-crafted file keeps nails properly shaped and <u>can also be used as a <q>shiv<\/q> if you end up <q>in the joint<\/q><\/u>.<\/blockquote> <p>(The description on the Website is less extraordinary.) Of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groominglounge.com\/mikekrell.html\">bamboo fiber underwear<\/a>, they write<\/p> <blockquote>These pieces are also free of annoying tags and <u>our hands-on research shows they cause 98% fewer wedgies than leading brands<\/u><\/blockquote> <p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.groominglounge.com\/whiteboxers.html\">The website boosts this claimed percentage to 98<em>.7<\/em>.<\/a>) It's as if <a href=\"http:\/\/jpeterman.com\/\">J. Peterman<\/a> had set-up his teen-age sons in business.<\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: bolder ;\">Addendum:<\/span> Through this weekend, one can get 10% off all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groominglounge.com\/glhc.html\">Grooming Lounge Hair Care Solutions<\/a> by entering the code <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groomingguys.com\/press-coverage\/why-is-everyone-ignoring-blagojevichs-real-crime\/\"><q>Blagojevich<\/q><\/a> at check-out.<\/p> <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groominglounge.com\/gl-shg.html\">Some Hair Goop<\/a><\/p> <blockquote>Can provide a buttoned-up or whacked-out look.<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I ordered a few things from the Grooming Lounge on Sunday. They arrived to-day, along with a catalogue (Volume V). Flipping through the catalogue and looking at its pictures, I remarked to the Woman of Interest that their wares, in general, were for someone far more metrosexual than I. However, I stopped to read the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[467,466,465],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-grooming-lounge","tag-marketing","tag-marketting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11694,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/11694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}