If the women don't find you handsome...

[The Flying Dutchman]

then they'd better find you handy.


Im almost 52 years old. Today I received the ultimate compliment.

for the past several weeks, I've been working inside a fish processiing plant. I was hired to utilize my composite knowledge to solve some surface problems in the walls and floors where bacterial colonization is a possibility despite ongoing disinfecting procedures. I know that the improvements I'm making are impressing people. The plant is crawling with almost a hundred beautiful women and maybe a dozen somewhat younger boys doing the grunt work.

Today I was working near where a dozen or so women about 25 to 30 were clocking out. They were whispering and giggling loudly. Then one of them moved towards me and asked if I was married. She said the girls have been wondering about for quite a while ;)

Well I did respond somewhat flushed that I was indeed happily married but considering the shock I was in I can't remember their response. I proudly reported this to my wife to let her know that I'm still a marketable commodity.

Damn, life is good.

[Violet]

:cool:

[Batsinma Belfry]

It's always nice to be reminded that you still have IT. :)

[GopherGod72]

can I have your un-needed women?

[LolaBaby]

Woo hoo!

Brains are always a turn-on.

You stud, you. :cool:

[DAVEW0071]

Yes, being competent is a studly quality, I've found.

That, and doing Dad-stuff.

One evening, I was playing around with my son. We were laughing uproariously over stupid stuff and generally having a good time.

Well, Mrs. Dave-Guy practically threw herself at me later on. She told me that it was watching and hearing me interact with the boy that did it.

While I don't claim to understand or appreciate this, I will in no wise spurn the knowledge.

[CalMeacham]

Damn! I'm clearly living in the wrong universe. Women (my wife included) never throw themselves at me. The best I get for successful execution of difficult jobs is an "attaboy".

[DAVEW0071]

Wanna borrow my son?

[CalMeacham]

Wanna borrow my son?



Thanks for the offer, but I don't think that playing with your son would impress Pepper Mill as much as playing with our daughter, and that doesn't seem to do it.

The closest I've come to expressed female approval was the time a lesbiab friend complinented me on my legs, but I could see that wasn't going to go anywhere.

[Sunspace]

Another reason to move to the West Coast!

[CRorex]

Hrrm maybe I should try this 'handy' thing out.

Obviously cooking skills and bartending skills aren't working...

And I don't think Virology will net me any women.... Well there was this female chimp that was giving me the eye a few days ago.... Ok I'm too sober to go into that.

I'm assuming that to be handy I need more than two screwdrivers and an old boot for hitting things that don't work yes?

[Robb]

I know that the improvements I'm making are impressing people.
Given the beginning of this thread, these improvements, they use duct tape, no?

[MONTY2]

Originally posted by CRorex
Hrrm maybe I should try this 'handy' thing out.

Obviously cooking skills and bartending skills aren't working...

And I don't think Virology will net me any women.... Well there was this female chimp that was giving me the eye a few days ago.... Ok I'm too sober to go into that.

I'm assuming that to be handy I need more than two screwdrivers and an old boot for hitting things that don't work yes?

Cooking, bartending and viruses! So, CRorex how you doin? ;)

[tomndebb]

I once received seven simultaneous marriage proposals while talking to the billing department. We were making small-talk waiting for the latest test run to print and I mentioned something about having done the laundry the previous evening.

My wife was not really impressed. Of course, she is the one who, in a discussion on the romantic nature of mates, noted that she had married me because I was "steady."

I guess I make a better spouse than a date.

[DAVEW0071]

Yeah, I'm the professional hired killer extraordinaire, and my customers think I'm the greatest.

Does my wife swoon when I do exterminating around the house?

No.

[The Flying Dutchman]

Dave, Thats probably because she has to nag you to get the job done. My mother says " A shoemaker's wife always walks in shoes in need of repair" :D

Rob , Do you ever see any women on Red Green's show? Actually I find red sheathing tape a whole lot stickier than duct tape and just as strong with a couple of extra wraps. :)

[Already in Use]

What a great show, the Red Green Show.

But if the women don't find me handsome, does that mean I can have 12242 posts like handy does?

[Cartooniverse]

WAIIIIIIIT a second here. I'm having trouble grokking this one. You finish a long day of work, and you REEK OF ROTTING FISH BACTERIA and 25-30 women find you appealing enough to hint about dating you?

Damn, boy. I wanna be like you !

:D

Cartooniverse

[GuanoLad]

Well, seeing as you have no use for it, can I have some of whatever it is you've got?

I sure need it.

[Zebra]

Am I the only one who is wondering how he is fixing the walls and floors?

[Jimson Jim]

Originally posted by Zebra
Am I the only one who is wondering how he is fixing the walls and floors?

"With the handyman's secret weapon.....duct tape."

[Cartooniverse]

His offhanded remark about "composite knowledge" leads me to believe that he's somehow killing off the fishy bad oogey stuff, and replacing the more porous wall and floor material with a composite that is impervious to bacterial infiltration on the cellular level.

There. Don't I sound smart?? Why is it that HE still gets all the gals???? >sob<

( .....and, I dont' smell like fishy bacteria !! ) :D

[Robb]

Do you ever see any women on Red Green's show? Actually I find red sheathing tape a whole lot stickier than duct tape and just as strong with a couple of extra wraps.
Come to think of it, I've never seen a woman on the show. Though, I do hope that you aren't telling me that Red Green's advice isn't very good. I've been looking for a stick and some ice for ages. ;)

[CRorex]

Yeah, I've been wondering how he is fixing the walls to.

I'm assuming you're using ROCAL to nuke the little creatures then maybe some sealent? ya know that stuff in the tube with the pointy bit that you have to use the metal frame gun thingy to get it to come out?

Yay technical talk from me!

[The Flying Dutchman]

Originally posted by Cartooniverse
His offhanded remark about "composite knowledge" leads me to believe that he's somehow killing off the fishy bad oogey stuff, and replacing the more porous wall and floor material with a composite that is impervious to bacterial infiltration on the cellular level.


And you would essentially be on target Cartooniverse. The difficulty in this project is that the facility is constantly near freezing and wet, and subject to chemical washing almost every day. These conditions are neccessary during fish processing. This requires some versatility in selecting resin systems and filler materials that are compatible with the various substrates that I encounter.
Previously, standard painting and masonry practices were employed. But the interior showed a lot of peeling paint , floor cracks and modifications/repairs in various stages of disrepair. Pallet jacks and forklifts punch holes in the walls
Now the standard practices of building repair would be fine if the environmental conditions were normal, but the owner can not shut the plant down, and you can't just use any paint. My solutions are very costly in comparison to standard practices, but they are very effective. And my repairs look good too.

[JonScribe]

Stop it, stop it. You're getting me hot. And I'm a guy.

[Cartooniverse]

Sorry Fellahs, but since I Grokked what he is doing first, I get to be considered grienspace's bitch. :D

Y'all just fold it up and take it home. Me and my boy, we're gonna go mix up some two-part expanding polyurethane foam and see what gets hard. ;)

Okay, now that the heavily veiled homoerotic flirtation stuff is out of the way ( not that it's not fun....), I have to ask the next simple and obvious question:

If you come up with a method of
A) Detoxifying the existing walls by stripping off the outer layers wall by wall, and then applying a new composite layer to said wall, then

B) Doing the next adjoining wall surface, then finally

C) Doing the same to the flooring with an added abrasive overcoating for safety's sake, then how the heck are you going to affect these changes without:

A) Having each wall be sullied AS you prep it by the constant onslaught of more ice water being splashed about, and

B) The amount of fishy bacteria that's airborne becoming an issue as you apply the new impervious layering?

Can you literally make the epoxy have an antibacterial element IN it, so that as it's setting but before it's impervious, it is killing the bacteria being trapped in it? Or, would that make the epoxy resin layers unstable or poorly set?

Futhermore, can you do some sort of a "pre-fab" arrangement, where you have formed a single piece, or large panels at least for each wall that you are going to re-build? Then you can strip, prep and epoxy wall sections at a time instead of having an entire room stripped and exposed to more fishy bacteria, while the entire room awaits the application of the first coatings of new epoxy resins?

And, do you like chinese food, walks in the rain and Gary Cooper movies? :p

Seriously, I'm kind of very curious about how you're going to do the job with these guys. I've had a tiny bit of experience with carbon fiber/epoxy resin composites and I'm now adither to see what you're gonna do.

Fess up, big fellah.

Yer Bitch,
Cartooniverse

[handy]

" If the women don't find you handsome...

then they'd better find you handy."

Here I am!

Actually, thats mostly why my handle is 'handy'. (NOT for the other reason).

[shrew]

Actually, I would say:

"If the women don't find you handy....then they'd better find you handsome."

[OttoDaFe]

In my case, that just indicates that they have good eyesight. And good taste.

[The Flying Dutchman]

Originally posted by Cartooniverse
Sorry Fellahs, but since I Grokked what he is doing first, I get to be considered grienspace's bitch. :D
Oh no, (visions of fatal attraction in a prison setting) :D




Y'all just fold it up and take it home. Me and my boy, we're gonna go mix up some two-part expanding polyurethane foam and see what gets hard. ;)
I'm reminded of a job I did for a US admiral years ago. He had a yacht with an obsolete sonar tube apparatus to be replaced with the simple transducer thru hull. After restoring the hull where the sonar tube exited with the standard fiberglass repair, I went inside and poured some two part polyurethane foam into the tube. However, I had mixed a little to much as the foam rose above the opening. As it started to spill over onto the sole (floor) of the cabin, I quickly scraped around the hole with a wide putty knife so that I could quickly clean the sole before it was too late. the result was that the mushroom head was lifted off the floor by the still expanding foam which now was only expanding vertically within the tube where the exothermic heat was maintained for a longer period. Well when the expansion was complete, I neatly sliced the protuberence off and placed it on the mantlepiece where it stands to this day. To some it represents a skinny mushroom. To others, well I leave it to your prolific imagination Cartooniverse

If you come up with a method of
A) Detoxifying the existing walls by stripping off the outer layers wall by wall, and then applying a new composite layer to said wall, then
Detoxification is accomplished by the cleaning crews. My role is to simply effect restorations that eliminate cracks, crevices and holes where the cleaning crews might miss a colony.



B) Doing the next adjoining wall surface, then finally

C) Doing the same to the flooring with an added abrasive overcoating for safety's sake, then how the heck are you going to affect these changes without:

A) Having each wall be sullied AS you prep it by the constant onslaught of more ice water being splashed about, and

B) The amount of fishy bacteria that's airborne becoming an issue as you apply the new impervious layering?
It has been difficult. I have to isolate an area , often with poly taped from the ceiling and use a blow torch too dry the prepped substrate as well as speed up the cure of the epoxy. No abrasive overcoating is required for the floor repairs as the epoxy formulations I use are pigmented to match the colour coded concrete floors and are abraded to perfectly match the existing floor level.
Not concerned about airborne bacteria. If I inadvertantly encapsulate some bacteria, the epoxy will certainly take care of them


Can you literally make the epoxy have an antibacterial element IN it, so that as it's setting but before it's impervious, it is killing the bacteria being trapped in it? Or, would that make the epoxy resin layers unstable or poorly set?
Epoxy has long been recognized as an anti-bacterial as well as an anti-fungal agent on its own.


Futhermore, can you do some sort of a "pre-fab" arrangement, where you have formed a single piece, or large panels at least for each wall that you are going to re-build? Then you can strip, prep and epoxy wall sections at a time instead of having an entire room stripped and exposed to more fishy bacteria, while the entire room awaits the application of the first coatings of new epoxy resins?
Unfortunately I can only work small areas at a time. I don't see any prefab possibilities



And, do you like chinese food, walks in the rain and Gary Cooper movies? :p
No........No.........and No. :D Well Chinese food's okay.



Seriously, I'm kind of very curious about how you're going to do the job with these guys. I've had a tiny bit of experience with carbon fiber/epoxy resin composites and I'm now adither to see what you're gonna do.
Seriously, I'm not dealing with cutting edge composite technology here. I would much rather talk about the vacuum bagged carbon fiber/spectra/vinylester composite I designed for a kayak I built about 10 years ago. I reduced the weight of a Current Designs Solstice kayak from 50 to 27 lbs. The exterior finish was a shimmering gorgeous black weave under a crystal clear gelcoat.
It just cost an extra 2500 dollars Canadian though .

[Cartooniverse]

Okay, I've taken my industrial queries to e-mail. Tell us, grienspace, have any of these fine femme fatales approached you directly?

We know you're happily married, but still- have any of em taken bolder steps?