The good old days of toilet paper on your face

I recall a time, not too long ago, when you had to take a razor blade out of a little paper wrapper, cut your fingers trying to jam it into your 5 year old shaver caked in soap and hair, then rip your mush to shreds. These blades generally lasted about 2 shaves before they became as blunt as spoon.

Then the good people at Gillette (there were others, I've always been a G man) introduced a blade that came in a little plastic holder thing that you just clipped onto the shaver bit. Space aged technology. This was only bettered when they brought out a razor that had 2, I repeat, 2 blades - one to lift, then one to cut. Shaving bliss. Not long after, to compliment the dual blade genius, they stuck a little strip of glue type substance on the plastic blade holder, for a smoother shave.

It didn't stop there good people, along came the Mach 3 with, you've guessed it, 3 blades. One to lift, one to cut and I guess one to sit around and see if it was needed. Now 3 blades is a lot more than I could have dreamed, but out came the Quatro, which a mind boggling 4 blades.

I was watching the tele on Saturday (subtitles on) and saw an advert for a new razor, called Fusion which has five blades, and just when you thought it couldn't get any better, five blades with a bonus one of the back to get rid of that little curly bastard under your nose that was impossible to get with normal razors.

I don't know where or when it is going to stop. I reckon next they will give you a box of blades and you can select how many you want - you just have to buy different size heads. I hope so or else we are going to have a razor about 3 foot long if it keeps going like this.

I thought perhaps they should just invest some money into producing a single blade razor that stayed sharper for longer.