Random Thought Thread

Nathan the Machinist said:
I was washing my hands in a restroom in a restaurant in Atlanta a few months ago. They had "soft soap" liquid soap in their soap dispenser. You could tell that's what it was. It has a particular appearance, smell and an infuriating inability to rinse it off. You have to stand there and rinse and scrub under the water a long time to remove most of it, which sucks when you have lower back problems and bending and reaching for extended periods causes you problems. Especially when it's for something as stupid as soap that's designed to leave a nasty residue on your hands. Because someone somewhere thinks your hand soap should also be a shitty "lotion". Holy damn it's just nasty. It's one of my least favorite things.

Anyways. After standing there at the sink attempting to get this nasty substance off my hands. I should also mention I was quite drunk by this point. I turn to leave and between the time spent attempting to decontaminate my hands from this "soap", my increasing irritation and elevated inebriation and distraction I momentarily forgot which door was the exit and instead of turning at the end of the room to leave I attempted to go straight thought the door that was there that turned out to be an occupied stall. The person in the stall wasn't pleased by my (somewhat aggressive) attempts to enter his stall and he so he exited the stall, gave me a look, said something to me that I can't remember and left the bathroom. Demonstrating the location of the exit in the process. And I followed. As I returned to our table, I noticed him returning to where he apparently worked in the kitchen. It was one of those open kitchens where you could see from your table. He had returned to working on people's food after a visit to the restroom. Doing whatever it was that he was doing in the stall. Without "washing" his hands.

How revolting and nasty.

The soft soap I mean.
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don't feel bad, I'm sure you're not the first drunk person in Atlanta who had a hard time getting something nasty off their hands in a public washroom
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I was washing my hands in a restroom in a restaurant in Atlanta a few months ago. They had "soft soap" liquid soap in their soap dispenser. You could tell that's what it was. It has a particular appearance, smell and an infuriating inability to rinse it off. You have to stand there and rinse and scrub under the water a long time to remove most of it, which sucks when you have lower back problems and bending and reaching for extended periods causes you problems. Especially when it's for something as stupid as soap that's designed to leave a nasty residue on your hands. Because someone somewhere thinks your hand soap should also be a shitty "lotion". Holy damn it's just nasty. It's one of my least favorite things.

Anyways. After standing there at the sink attempting to get this nasty substance off my hands. I should also mention I was quite drunk by this point. I turn to leave and between the time spent attempting to decontaminate my hands from this "soap", my increasing irritation and elevated inebriation and distraction I momentarily forgot which door was the exit and instead of turning at the end of the room to leave I attempted to go straight thought the door that was there that turned out to be an occupied stall. The person in the stall wasn't pleased by my (somewhat aggressive) attempts to enter his stall and he so he exited the stall, gave me a look, said something to me that I can't remember and left the bathroom. Demonstrating the location of the exit in the process. And I followed. As I returned to our table, I noticed him returning to where he apparently worked in the kitchen. It was one of those open kitchens where you could see from your table. He had returned to working on people's food after a visit to the restroom. Doing whatever it was that he was doing in the stall. Without "washing" his hands.

How revolting and nasty.

The soft soap I mean.
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Yet more evidence for Jo's eventual beatification and sainthood.
 
Lorien said:
don't feel bad, I'm sure you're not the first drunk person in Atlanta who had a hard time getting something nasty off their hands in a public washroom
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And don't get me started about the Chick-fil-A they serve in the Cobb galleria at Blade Show in Atlanta. I won't ever touch that again after 2019.


...had to go all the way to the Renaissance Waverly to find an open bathroom stall. It was bad.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
And don't get me started about the Chick-fil-A they serve in the Cobb galleria at Blade Show in Atlanta. I won't ever touch that again after 2019.


...had to go all the way to the Renaissance Waverly to find an open bathroom stall. It was bad.
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it's that secret sauce...
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
And don't get me started about the Chick-fil-A they serve in the Cobb galleria at Blade Show in Atlanta. I won't ever touch that again after 2019.


...had to go all the way to the Renaissance Waverly to find an open bathroom stall. It was bad.
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Ever heard of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Eat nasty shyte and you'll eventually end up with terribly messed up stomach crapping all over some stall's walls and the ceiling! Once back in the day in Las Vegas, I... Oh never mind :poop:
 
I wish I could have tried some of your elmax Nathan (though can't wait to see what you do with Magnacut)

From what i've tried, mostly in the kitchen but also wood work, it was chippy, not particularly stainless for a stainless steel...and after helping to take down a tree in my parents backyard, it broke.
Now I was an idiot and pried with it, but it took not much force and all, and was fairly thick and it snapped about ¼ of a 6" blade.
Edge retention was pretty good.
But chippy, mediocre corrosion resistance and not tough at all.
 
XtianAus said:
I wish I could have tried some of your elmax Nathan (though can't wait to see what you do with Magnacut)

From what i've tried, mostly in the kitchen but also wood work, it was chippy, not particularly stainless for a stainless steel...and after helping to take down a tree in my parents backyard, it broke.
Now I was an idiot and pried with it, but it took not much force and all, and was fairly thick and it snapped about ¼ of a 6" blade.
Edge retention was pretty good.
But chippy, mediocre corrosion resistance and not tough at all.
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Mine was not chippy. The problem with it was sharpening. The edge retention was fine but the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. AEBL was tougher, had similar stainlessness, the edge held up to rough use as well or better and it was easy for anyone to sharpen. The perfect low maintenance steel for a gear head who isn't a knife nut

Magnacut is an actual high performance steel that happens to be stainless. The juice is worth the squeeze.
 
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Nathan the Machinist said:
Mine was not chippy. The problem with it was sharpening. The edge retention was fine but the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. AEBL was tougher, had similar stainlessness, the edge held up to rough use as well or better and it was easy for anyone to sharpen. The perfect low maintenance steel for a gear head who isn't a knife nut

Magnacut is an actual high performance steel that happens to be stainless. The juice is worth the squeeze.
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Really interested hear how toughness, corrosion resistance and edge retention compare between Magnacut and other stainless steels you've used, once you have completed your testing with it.
 
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