SOTD by u/merikus

Day 7 - I Have Made A Grave Error

• Lather: Barrister and Mann - Smoking Bishop Soap
• Brush: Declaration Grooming - B14 “Nebula” Badger
• Razor: GEM MMOC - Gen 1
• Blade: GEM - PTFE (2)
• Osma: Osma - Osma
• Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Gatlinburg Splash
• Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Unscented Balm
• Scuttle: Georgetown Pottery - G20

“Can you control a crisis? No—but with adequate preparation you can control the reputational consequences.”

So begins the flap of a handy dandy little book I have sitting on my shelf: Crisis Communications Management by Adrian Wheeler (don’t ask). As the day turned into night, elation turned into dread yesterday as I realized I had made a grave error. By listening to that damned flying dog yesterday I—a judge! A judge of the Lather Games!—may have called into question some of the fundamental tenets of what we are doing here. There must be Order. Conformity. Submission To The Rules. That is why we are here, and I failed in that yesterday.

Fortunately, I have Crisis Communications Management to guide me. When in a crisis, the author tells us we need to answer the key Crisis Questions as soon as possible:

What happened?

Why did it happen?

What are you going to do about it now?

What will you do to ensure it doesn't happen again?

Are you sorry? The answer is always 'yes' even if the crisis wasn't directly your fault. As a minimum, you are sorry for others' misfortune.

Any delay in telling the truth, helping the victims and saying sorry turns a disaster into a 'PR disaster'. A PR disaster happens when an organisation's behaviour and communication cause people to lose respect, trust and liking for it. The damage from a PR disaster usually lasts far longer than the damage from the original crisis.

So let’s take these one by one.

What happened?

To be funny, I decided to help the Air Bud Rule thing live on. I decided to break the rules of the contest that I myself swore to uphold. This was very upsetting to some people. More the Air Bud thing than the oath breaking thing.

Why did it happen?

Look, I wanted to be funny. I wanted to write an amusing post. I’m not going to win this thing. Never will. I don’t have it in me. I don’t like shaving every day, and as mentioned yesterday, in a small attempt to get some pity from you, my readers, I haven’t really been able to use scented products anymore.

And now I’m out of Stirling Unscented because I thought I had another bottle and I don’t.

Look, I’m not trying to bore you with my problems, I’m just trying to explain.

What are you going to do about it now?

Conform. I will conform. There are no loopholes. No loopholes. That’s what /u/USS-SpongeBob tells me. He is the Chief Justice. He knows.

I will no longer flirt with such dangerous ideas like loopholes. I will no longer listen to flying dogs.

What will you do to ensure it doesn't happen again?

I don’t understand the different between this question and the last one. Maybe the last one was about me righting the wrong I had perpetrated? Shit. I can’t fix that. I can’t fix what I did. Can’t. It was even scrublisted or something, I still don’t understand that, but that even fucked it up because it claimed that I didn’t use all unscented products. Well I did. Paganini’s Violin is unscented, damnit. And even if it isn’t, it says all scented products must match, and if you want to call it scented, that means I have only one—

Goddamnit here I go again. See? I’m arguing with the rules. Trying to find the loophole they can help me. There ARE NO LOOPHOLES. NONE.

I was wrong. I apologize to those who I hurt. I will do better. I ask your forgiveness.

Welp, with that out of the way, what do we have here, a spice day? Shit, I didn’t think I had any spicy soaps. But I have Smoking Bishop and that has…clove and cinnamon in it? I think, it’s far away now and I don’t want to google it.

It’s a good scent. It smells good. It’s spicy. And like winey and another, sweeter scent. But it is spicy and paired well with Gatlinburg.

Yesterday was one of my mildest razors, today one of my most aggressive. The more aggressive one left my face feeling a lot better than the mild one.

Ranking My Lather Games Shaves

1. 7/4
2. 7/1
3. 7/7
4. 7/6
5. 7/2

[Day 7 - I Have Made A Grave Error](https://i.imgur.com/euq12i0.jpg)

* **Lather:** Barrister and Mann - Smoking Bishop Soap
* **Brush:** Declaration Grooming - B14 “Nebula” Badger
* **Razor:** GEM MMOC - Gen 1
* **Blade:** GEM - PTFE (2)
* **Osma:** Osma - Osma
* **Post Shave:** Stirling Soap Co. - Gatlinburg Splash
* **Post Shave:** Stirling Soap Co. - Unscented Balm
* **Scuttle:** Georgetown Pottery - G20

“Can you control a crisis? No—but with adequate preparation you can control the reputational consequences.”

So begins the flap of a handy dandy little book I have sitting on my shelf: Crisis Communications Management by Adrian Wheeler (don’t ask). As the day turned into night, elation turned into dread yesterday as I realized I had made a grave error. By listening to that damned flying dog yesterday I—a judge! A judge of the Lather Games!—may have called into question some of the fundamental tenets of what we are doing here. There must be Order. Conformity. Submission To The Rules. That is why we are here, and I failed in that yesterday.

Fortunately, I have Crisis Communications Management to guide me. When in a crisis, the author tells us we need to answer the key Crisis Questions as soon as possible:

> What happened?

> Why did it happen?

> What are you going to do about it now?

> What will you do to ensure it doesn't happen again?

> Are you sorry? The answer is always 'yes' even if the crisis wasn't directly your fault. As a minimum, you are sorry for others' misfortune.

> Any delay in telling the truth, helping the victims and saying sorry turns a disaster into a 'PR disaster'. A PR disaster happens when an organisation's behaviour and communication cause people to lose respect, trust and liking for it. The damage from a PR disaster usually lasts far longer than the damage from the original crisis.

So let’s take these one by one.

> What happened?

To be funny, I decided to help the Air Bud Rule thing live on. I decided to break the rules of the contest that I myself swore to uphold. This was very upsetting to some people. More the Air Bud thing than the oath breaking thing.

> Why did it happen?

Look, I wanted to be funny. I wanted to write an amusing post. I’m not going to win this thing. Never will. I don’t have it in me. I don’t like shaving every day, and as mentioned yesterday, in a small attempt to get some pity from you, my readers, I haven’t really been able to use scented products anymore.

And now I’m out of Stirling Unscented because I thought I had another bottle and I don’t.

Look, I’m not trying to bore you with my problems, I’m just trying to explain.

> What are you going to do about it now?

Conform. I will conform. There are no loopholes. No loopholes. That’s what /u/USS-SpongeBob tells me. He is the Chief Justice. He knows.

I will no longer flirt with such dangerous ideas like loopholes. I will no longer listen to flying dogs.

> What will you do to ensure it doesn't happen again?

I don’t understand the different between this question and the last one. Maybe the last one was about me righting the wrong I had perpetrated? Shit. I can’t fix that. I can’t fix what I did. Can’t. It was even scrublisted or something, I still don’t understand that, but that even fucked it up because it claimed that I didn’t use all unscented products. Well I did. Paganini’s Violin is unscented, damnit. And even if it isn’t, it says all scented products must match, and if you want to call it scented, that means I have only one—

Goddamnit here I go again. See? I’m arguing with the rules. Trying to find the loophole they can help me. There ARE NO LOOPHOLES. NONE.

I was wrong. I apologize to those who I hurt. I will do better. I ask your forgiveness.

Welp, with that out of the way, what do we have here, a spice day? Shit, I didn’t think I had any spicy soaps. But I have Smoking Bishop and that has…clove and cinnamon in it? I think, it’s far away now and I don’t want to google it.

It’s a good scent. It smells good. It’s spicy. And like winey and another, sweeter scent. But it is spicy and paired well with Gatlinburg.

Yesterday was one of my mildest razors, today one of my most aggressive. The more aggressive one left my face feeling a lot better than the mild one.

**Ranking My Lather Games Shaves**

1. 7/4
2. 7/1
3. 7/7
4. 7/6
5. 7/2