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Shaving Safety

Or, how not to cut your face off…
I love watching the YouTube channel “This Old Tony”. I could (and have) spent hours watching him making an espresso pot on the lathe, filing a hole from round to square, or talking about carbide inserts. Recently, on his 500k subscriber special video he talked about his favorite brand of blade for “safety razors”. I was taken aback, aren’t safety razors some outdated thing that went out with beehive hairdos? Well apparently beehives are back (and safety razors never went away).

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That Time Faith and I Went Skydiving

Faith and I went skydiving back in 2015 before we got married. We had a blast, though when we landed Faith’s instructor said it was the scariest jump of his life. Unbeknownst to us the drogue chute that is used to reduce the terminal velocity when tandem jumping became wrapped around the instructor’s neck briefly. He managed to get it off, but he said it could have ended very badly. You can see this happen at the 50 second mark in the video. Apparently drogue chutes are used when tandem jumping because two people strapped together fall a lot faster than does a single person. This excessive speed could make deploying the main chute more dangerous. Getting tangled up in them isn’t unheard of as you can see in this video of a woman who was injured when the drogue chute wrapped around her ankle and couldn’t be removed by the instructor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ksk2Y9BlUg.
We had a great time though, and wouldn’t have even known about this near miss unless he had mentioned it to us.