They've only gone and done it. Gillette have produced the five-blade razor, eeriely echoing The Onion's "F*ck everything, we're doing five blades" satire.
In fact, the Gillette Fusion has six blades, five for the main razor and another on the back as a "precision trimmer" for "shaving tricky places (e.g. under the nose)". (Perhaps this is because the main razor is now so damn big with all the blades that it can't get under your nose...).
Being a neanderthal, Judge Jon still scrapes his face with disposable two-blade razors from China that cost 2.7 pence each. Admittedly they do not give as good a shave as the latest from Gillette. But the Fusion and its ilk cost 50x more, yet the shave they give is not 50x better. And what will be next in the razor arms race, I wonder?
