Recommending a new acronymn - GES

Each time I shave, I have to choose: (1) Do I go ATG on my last pass, get a fairly close shave (but nowhere near BBS), but put up with 1-2 dozen nicks and weepers and angry red irritation; or, (2) do I do a second XTG pass for my third pass, end up with a little more stubble, but zero nicks or weepers, and very little irritation?

After two years of trying every combination of razor, blade, soap, preshave, balm, chants, and incantations I could afford, I have finally decided to go with option #2. I can feel the difference in the stubble, but my wife can't. No one can see the difference, except to notice my neck isn't Santa Claus-red. I can now use alcohol based aftershaves. (Hello, Clubman! Sorry honey.) And I can now use almost every razor in my arsenal and achieve similar results day after day.

I call this shave GES - Good Enough Shave. GES is not complaining, or whining. It's simply admitting that, due to genetic variables beyond my control, I can only go so far. And I'm quite happy with that.

I therefore move that we add "GES" to our official wet-shaving vocabulary. Join me, my sensitive-skinned, sparsely-bearded/leg-haired brothers and sisters!

 

I hear ya!

But isn't that what DFS is for? At least that's what I use it for - those shaves with no ATG that looks darn fine but is not BBS. That's good enough for me

 

By my standards, the best shave I can get does not quite measure up to DFS. It's a matter only of a fraction of a millimeter of stubble, and persistent redness on my jawline I get if I even think about shaving. But, for me, it's enough of a difference. I'm just joking, though, about changing our vocabulary. (Unless the popular support forces me to become a hero....) I will probably use DFS- (minus) as a descriptor. People will understand that.

 

I've always used CCS (close comfortable shave) as one step down from DFS, which is of course a step down from BBS.

 

That's better than mine. I withdraw my motion.

 

I say keep ges, it's nor just the type of shave but the state of mind. I re-enter the motion

 

I wouldn't withdraw it on that basis, since "good enough" suggests a downward departure from "close, comfortable." That said, "SAS" (socially acceptable shave), which is already in the lexicon, might be the equivalent of GES.

Here's the hierarchy, as I understand it:

BBS
DFS
CCS
SAS/GES
SPS (sandpaper shave)
DIESS (did I even shave? shave)

 

Socially Acceptable Shave. I've not seen that before. I like it.

 

Quite common. Hurry, single pass, shave again in evening if needed.

Advantage, apart from time? You get to lather up twice in a day

 

@rmcintyre84 i like GES, I'm going to start using it. It actually makes total sense, if it's a Good Enough Shave for me, it's all good.

 

Yay! One convert. Next, the Oxford English Dictionary.

 

I'm with you. As of now I the best I can do is DFS/CCS. Most the of the time somewhere between the two. The one time I decided to go ATG for BBS, my wife invented a new shaving acronym: SWADCS, Shave With a Dull ChainSaw

 

I just shave a 3/4pass shave most of the time then let it grow for another 3 days or so my face is smooth but not my neck...just saying

 

I don't like DFS because of the D, so it is CCS for me. However, I would also like PGS, Pretty Good Shave.

 

You could always substitute "Divinely" for the offensive "D" word in question.

 

That is a pretty big advantage.

 

When I use my R41 I could definitely apply the GES acronym.

 

I'm mostly XTG/ATG and the baby comes to me.

I also haven't gone through puberty yet, maybe that's a factor.

 

My peak shave is the GPS: Gillette Proglide Shave.

*ducks*