Rubbish Inventions of the Modern World: Gillette Fusion

Allegedly, the "best a man can get" has just been made better.









The new "Gillette Fusion" offers "the best shave yet" because of it's "five-blade Shaving Surface technology" and, if you believe the marketing slogans, will completely revolutionise the way we shave.

Rubbish.

Why the hell does a razor need five blades, as well as a sixth on the top for those "hard to reach" areas? Further still, why does a razor need five blades, a sixth on the top for those "hard to reach" areas and a battery to make the thing shake like a shitting dog?

Like most blokes, I fail to see what six blades do that three blades can't, except making you twice as likely to cut yourself.

I'd love to see the Gillette MD when that idea was pitched to him. Perhaps he thought he'd be better off slitting his wrists with the extra three blades?