Over a year ago I wrote this post in which I cautioned anyone who is around guns at all to have a dedicated carry-on bag that your guns never, ever get anywhere near.
I have discovered an addition to that rule: If you shave with double-edged safety razors, put a cartridge razor in your dopp kit, and never let your safety razor near it.
Apparently if Kabuki Security the TSA finds a double-edged razor blade in your carry-on they will Lose Their Poo, and while you don’t seem to be under threat of arrest; it seems that Kabuki Security the TSA will cause you to miss your flight in the ensuing “investigation”.
Sigh. The amount of distaste I feel at living in these modern times grows every day.
I’m trying to decide if I should buy a pack of disposable razors, use one and just throw it away after each trip is done; or buy a Mach 3 travel handle and some cartridges.
I dislike disposable razors intensely — I’m used to shaving with a heavy safety razor and the light-weight disposables throw everything off; but a bag of the one-shots is probably going to be cheaper than buying a short Mach 3 handle and a pack of the cartridges.
Bloody TSA.
Bloody busybodies and their bloody politician sycophants nerfing civilization in the name of unattainable “safety”.
Grr.
LawDog
This is one of the many reasons I just don’t shave anymore.
I bought an electric just for this. It’s not a great shave, but if used with a mirror it can be passible. Also zero bullcrap from the huge egos and tiny minds in the airport kabuki lines.
Hi LawDog:
My 6ish year old daughter hated my stubble and bought me a double sided safety razor, which I obviously can’t bring on flights a few years ago. In my travel bag, I have a Dorco handle (Korean, they make the blades Dollar Shave Club uses, and accept all Dorco blades, 2-3-4-5-6 blade versions) and two disposable blades. I cut the blade “carrier” down to a 2 blade carrier from the default 4/5 blade refill pack like I’m an obsessive hiker or something. I used a Dremel the first time, but figured out I could just cut the refill carrier cleanly with a decent pair of scissors. I use the Pace 5 (handle plus 9 cartridges is $19, 16 refills are $25,) and in the safety razor, the ST301 ($8 for 80 blades?)
Dorco is inexpensive, and high quality. Even before COVID, when I was overseas for weeks at a time, I would only go through a cartridge every couple of weeks (6-8). I’m pretty cheap, but for the vast majority of my 1,700 nights in hotels one blade and a backup were sufficient.
At least the Dorco handle I have has weight to it, and I’m not supporting the man hating Gillette machine. Far cheaper too.
I have to admit this is the first I’m hearing of Dorco.
Off to research!
They even bitch about safety razors??? Good grief.
Yet another reason why if I can’t ride my motorcycle there, I ain’t a-going.
The lyrics of a song come to mind:
“…and as for you in your uniform
your smelly uniform
and so you think you can be rude to me
because you wear a uniform
a smelly uniform
and so you think you can be rude to me
but even I / as sick as I am
I would never be you
even I / as sick as I am
I would never be you
even I / sick and depraved
a traveler to the grave
I would never be you…”
And that is reason number 458 that I own my own plane and fly myself domestically. More expensive, but literally no security drones to deal with.
What with the time it takes to go to the airport, deal with parking and security and then the ordeal to get a rental car at the other end, it’s generally faster to just fly to within a few miles of where I want to be.
In Asia hotels often offer free disposable razors. Some are quite good so when I patronize those hotels I take the razor with me. I’ve never had the TSA or relatives bitch about them either and if they do, it’s no loss to toss.
I suspect that safety razors may be on the same list of things the TSA finds a waste of time but the stewardess union pitches a fit at Congress every time the bureaucrats try to remove them from The List.
Annoying either way.
Also, Gilette was a strong corporate sponsor of Taxachusetts’ gun control laws, so I, personally, have long avoided giving any of my hard-earned cash for years. FWIW