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The best post about soap you're ever likely to read.
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LOL at the antibar bloc. Around six months ago I realized that I had never thought about soap ever. I knew the whole axe phylum was lame, but I'd been using the same bar soap for my whole life and wondered if I could do better. Results:
I have strep right now and am not cleaning the tiles. Also I know the pattern is dumb and the shower is antique but I just scored a good apartment in SF and it's not getting upgraded.
TOP SHELF
--gum thingy, unused just like everybody else's gum thingy
--toothbrush, toothpaste. Different topic.
--standard Dove: what I've used my whole life, neutral, sturdy
--Agg-Tval Eggwhite Soap: smells like a mcmuffin but cleaner, and I wanted a face soap for girl guests.
--Coco CHANEL body soap: luxury item, smells simultaneously like victory and the opposite of napalm
MIDDLE SHELF
--background minibottle, DR BRONNER'S peppermint: certainly tingly
--foreground minibottle, Bath & Body Works Oak Signature: This soap had super high reviews but was discontinued, and every available 10oz bottle sells for $40 to $100 online. But I found one overmatched private seller in the backwaters of Amazon who, on account of the five typos in his listing, had fourteen bottles left for $6.50 each. I bought all fourteen, soap unseen. Results? Eh, it's just above average. But it's a hot market and I am the last tycoon.
--Sappo Hill Oatmeal: underdog champion of the oatmeal bracket, it's an honest oatmeal smell, reminds me of spilling maypo on the box scores before 5th grade, but, critically, it also works as a soap.
--L'OCCITANE VERBENA: I could use this everyday for eight years and it would still be the same brave brick. Indestructable and lemony.
BOTTOM ROW
--Caswell-Massey Sandalwood Woodgrain Soap: looks like a pinewood derby car & smells like bubblegum, but is also masculine and is also exotic. "The palm tree at the end of the mind / Beyond the last thought / Rises in the bronze decor," in soap form.
--Tanner Goods WILDWOOD It took me a goddamn long time to find a good forest soap. BOOM.
DISCUSSION
In the end I tried fifty soaps and those were the survivors. Please don't insult them by asking if they make good suds or if they leave a film. They make incredible suds. They don't leave any film. I tried fifty ****ing soaps and made a spreadsheet and trust me guys these are all phenomenal soaps.
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If you like coconut, the most evocative coconut out there is The Body Shop Coconut Soap. I would use it all the time but it leaves a clammy cobweb on my balls.
By far the most interesting soap I tried was Caswell-Massey Number Six. This is a soap designed in 1780 and was the favorite soap of President George Washington. It's interesting because it has five pungent smells that not only overwhelm you but are all 100% unidentifiable. It got to the point where I was taking this soap around to dinner parties trying to get help in figuring out the smells, but nobody ever solved it. Washington the inscrutable! I liked it a ton but it got banned from the showcase rack because it overpowers every noun in the room and anything it touches turns orange. RECOMMENDED.
CONCLUSION
I know way more about soap than I did six months ago. I am a straight single guy, but I'm gonna smell how I want, and it turns out that what I want depends on my changing moods. Note that before the soap project I'm not even sure I knew I had moods. And btw, once guests get over the initial shock, they are completely gung-ho. The project was a success. If your favorite bar soap was not shown, feel free to mention it and I'll check my spreadsheet and see if I rated it.
Spoiler:
I have strep right now and am not cleaning the tiles. Also I know the pattern is dumb and the shower is antique but I just scored a good apartment in SF and it's not getting upgraded.
TOP SHELF
--gum thingy, unused just like everybody else's gum thingy
--toothbrush, toothpaste. Different topic.
--standard Dove: what I've used my whole life, neutral, sturdy
--Agg-Tval Eggwhite Soap: smells like a mcmuffin but cleaner, and I wanted a face soap for girl guests.
--Coco CHANEL body soap: luxury item, smells simultaneously like victory and the opposite of napalm
MIDDLE SHELF
--background minibottle, DR BRONNER'S peppermint: certainly tingly
--foreground minibottle, Bath & Body Works Oak Signature: This soap had super high reviews but was discontinued, and every available 10oz bottle sells for $40 to $100 online. But I found one overmatched private seller in the backwaters of Amazon who, on account of the five typos in his listing, had fourteen bottles left for $6.50 each. I bought all fourteen, soap unseen. Results? Eh, it's just above average. But it's a hot market and I am the last tycoon.
--Sappo Hill Oatmeal: underdog champion of the oatmeal bracket, it's an honest oatmeal smell, reminds me of spilling maypo on the box scores before 5th grade, but, critically, it also works as a soap.
--L'OCCITANE VERBENA: I could use this everyday for eight years and it would still be the same brave brick. Indestructable and lemony.
BOTTOM ROW
--Caswell-Massey Sandalwood Woodgrain Soap: looks like a pinewood derby car & smells like bubblegum, but is also masculine and is also exotic. "The palm tree at the end of the mind / Beyond the last thought / Rises in the bronze decor," in soap form.
--Tanner Goods WILDWOOD It took me a goddamn long time to find a good forest soap. BOOM.
DISCUSSION
In the end I tried fifty soaps and those were the survivors. Please don't insult them by asking if they make good suds or if they leave a film. They make incredible suds. They don't leave any film. I tried fifty ****ing soaps and made a spreadsheet and trust me guys these are all phenomenal soaps.
not shown
If you like coconut, the most evocative coconut out there is The Body Shop Coconut Soap. I would use it all the time but it leaves a clammy cobweb on my balls.
By far the most interesting soap I tried was Caswell-Massey Number Six. This is a soap designed in 1780 and was the favorite soap of President George Washington. It's interesting because it has five pungent smells that not only overwhelm you but are all 100% unidentifiable. It got to the point where I was taking this soap around to dinner parties trying to get help in figuring out the smells, but nobody ever solved it. Washington the inscrutable! I liked it a ton but it got banned from the showcase rack because it overpowers every noun in the room and anything it touches turns orange. RECOMMENDED.
CONCLUSION
I know way more about soap than I did six months ago. I am a straight single guy, but I'm gonna smell how I want, and it turns out that what I want depends on my changing moods. Note that before the soap project I'm not even sure I knew I had moods. And btw, once guests get over the initial shock, they are completely gung-ho. The project was a success. If your favorite bar soap was not shown, feel free to mention it and I'll check my spreadsheet and see if I rated it.
03-20-2018
, 08:47 PM
03-21-2018
, 05:43 AM
03-21-2018
, 12:08 PM
03-21-2018
, 02:53 PM
I would not be upset at turning this into an Empire Man appreciation thread.
And not just a great poster, but a great photoshopper and troller of Cruizn as well
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Nothing is perfectly fair, but sport tries to come as close as possible. Can you lift the weight? Can you hit the target? Part of the appeal of sport is that it tries to judge people objectively. In the 400m, people stand on a line, a gun goes off, somebody gets to a farther line faster than everybody else and he wins. If you want, you can wear shoes.
Pistorius doesn't have any shoes because he doesn't have any feet: Pistorius has no feet whatsoever. If he had one foot and could hop a 44 second 400m, he would be eligible because he would then be using a human foot. Having no human feet totally sucks for him, and it sucks that there are things in life that he just can't do. He will never feel what it's like to be barefoot in the grass. He will never give another man a satisfying footjob. He will never have a proper pedicure, he will never be a spokesman for plantar fasciitis, his little piggie is never going to the market and it's definitely never going all the way home--because it never existed. Similarly, Pistorius should not be allowed to compete in the Able Bodied Olympic Games to be judged against all the bi-footed people. Pistorius is an admirable guy and I think probably a hero, but we can all agree that the dude doesn't have any feet--and it sure looks like this helps him because, instead of feet, he has two donkey kong springs stapled to his drumstick stumps, and I know this sounds crazy, but it turns out that having trampolines for feet HELPS HIM A WHOLE LOT. The burden of proof should be on him to show that he doesn't get an advantage from walking around on trampolines, and to disinterested observers, this has thus far not been shown.
A more interesting tangent might be: what if a person with no arms was super fast? Yeah I know, this seems really unlikely bc it sure seems like we get tons of propulsion from our arm movement, but just imagine, what if some armless superfugitive elbowed his way into the scene and started obliterating all the world records? Well if that happened, then I think we'd end up having another international debate about the fairness of that, and honestly it would be a tougher debate than this one, because a collection of historians and nasa scientists would agree that when it comes to running, FEET are more useful than ARMS. And we've already had versions of this debate before, for example, blind runners are allowed to compete in the Olympics. But Pistorius has a different problem, mainly that he is a runner who has neither feet nor shins nor calves, but instead he has wall-e and c3po and two monster truck shocks, and holy **** we are actually talking about whether this is fair to the other runners or not?
Pistorius doesn't have any shoes because he doesn't have any feet: Pistorius has no feet whatsoever. If he had one foot and could hop a 44 second 400m, he would be eligible because he would then be using a human foot. Having no human feet totally sucks for him, and it sucks that there are things in life that he just can't do. He will never feel what it's like to be barefoot in the grass. He will never give another man a satisfying footjob. He will never have a proper pedicure, he will never be a spokesman for plantar fasciitis, his little piggie is never going to the market and it's definitely never going all the way home--because it never existed. Similarly, Pistorius should not be allowed to compete in the Able Bodied Olympic Games to be judged against all the bi-footed people. Pistorius is an admirable guy and I think probably a hero, but we can all agree that the dude doesn't have any feet--and it sure looks like this helps him because, instead of feet, he has two donkey kong springs stapled to his drumstick stumps, and I know this sounds crazy, but it turns out that having trampolines for feet HELPS HIM A WHOLE LOT. The burden of proof should be on him to show that he doesn't get an advantage from walking around on trampolines, and to disinterested observers, this has thus far not been shown.
A more interesting tangent might be: what if a person with no arms was super fast? Yeah I know, this seems really unlikely bc it sure seems like we get tons of propulsion from our arm movement, but just imagine, what if some armless superfugitive elbowed his way into the scene and started obliterating all the world records? Well if that happened, then I think we'd end up having another international debate about the fairness of that, and honestly it would be a tougher debate than this one, because a collection of historians and nasa scientists would agree that when it comes to running, FEET are more useful than ARMS. And we've already had versions of this debate before, for example, blind runners are allowed to compete in the Olympics. But Pistorius has a different problem, mainly that he is a runner who has neither feet nor shins nor calves, but instead he has wall-e and c3po and two monster truck shocks, and holy **** we are actually talking about whether this is fair to the other runners or not?
Last edited by Dudd; 03-21-2018 at 02:58 PM.
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03-22-2018
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