Doing something not Gay - Riverboats!

[Bowyn Aerrow]

:biggrin:

Riverboats are on my mind. Those Old Paddle Steamers that use to ply rivers like the Mississippi.

I'm interested in the designs - the hard designs of these river boats, more specifically the side wheel kind. While there are plenty of stock images out there, What I can't seem to find is the internal design/layout.

Things I wonder about: Did they have a dinning room? If so where was the kitchen? How was that kitchen laid out? They didn't have refrigeration -right? so how did they store foodstuff?

They had cabins, but did they have toilets? If so did each cabin have a bathroom? Or was it more communal, a central toilet/bath facility on board? IF there was a toilet - how did they process the waste? Was it directly over board (ew - who wants to swim in the Mississippi now?)

Either I do not know how to use Google, or there just are not designs out there - Maybe one of your geeky types can find me a few sites that give internal layout of the old River boats (old ones, not the new ones pulled kicking and screaming into the 21st century).

[Nick9]

lol, so, how old boats do you have on your mind?

[princealbertofb]

http://inventors.about.com/library/inven...amship.htm
and
http://steamboats.com/museum/engineroom.html

and
http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4614836_ste...work_.html

[Toby]

I would say you get 5 not-gay points for the interest in river boats. However, I must give you 3 gay points for wondering about the lay-out of the kitchens. And finally, I have no choice but to give you another twenty gay points for coming to gayspeak.com to discuss river boats, making a grand total of negative eighteen not-gay points.

[matty7]

dont they have gay cruises ??? nothing to say they cant be riverboat gay cruises lol, i think the 5 points from Toby should be returned,,, the 3 kitchen layout points stick though,,very gay

[Toby]

You make a good point matty7. However, we cannot rule based on speculation. The score remains as is until further information regarding the source of this sudden interest in riverboats comes to light.

[Nick9]

maybe you could find something interesting here

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cac...nUHuS2ldTw

they mention a kitchen several times

[princealbertofb]

I would say you get 5 not-gay points for the interest in river boats. However, I must give you 3 gay points for wondering about the lay-out of the kitchens. And finally, I have no choice but to give you another twenty gay points for coming to gayspeak.com to discuss river boats, making a grand total of negative eighteen not-gay points.

I missed your calculation reasoning there, Toby... Can you explain?
-5 GPts
+ 3 GPts = - 2 GPts

-2 Gpts
+20 Gpts
= + 18GPts, (plus) not negative points, surely???:confused:
... er ...
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, negative not-gay points...

[princealbertofb]

My boyfriend and partner and I invested in a narrow boat (which lives on a river). We are both gay... why is the interest in river boats NOT gay???? is it because boats are referred to as SHE?

[Toby]

I missed your calculation reasoning there, Toby... Can you explain?
-5 GPts
+ 3 GPts = - 2 GPts

-2 Gpts
+20 Gpts
= + 18GPts, (plus) not negative points, surely???:confused:
... er ...
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, negative not-gay points...

You're not wrong to point out the unnecessary complication of my scoring system. As soon as I included a double negative, I knew I made a mistake. :redface: