Quote from MikeT

Don't get too worked up, mate.
Fire-fighters and cops are the butt of everyones jokes, until they need one.
Hopefully none of you guys here will never need the help of either.
After all, we are just people, the uniform confuses people.
Having said that, the New Zealand Fire Service has come out on top of all professions in a survey, by a sweet margin, 7 years in a row, lawyers and FamilyCaught judges are way the hell down the list, as they should be.

I dislike policemen very much, but I still have a lot of faith in firefighters.

Quote from Danarus

I dislike policemen very much, but I still have a lot of faith in firefighters.

Indeed! Firemen work to save people and our homes. Their jobs are quite different from blue gun thugs who 1. rob travelers on highways, 2. take children from families, 3. work to send men to hellhole prisons, and 4. protect the tyrannical government. They two should never be lumped together. Firemen are real heroes.

Blessings

Bob

Quote from MikeT

Don't get too worked up, mate.
Fire-fighters and cops are the butt of everyones jokes, until they need one.
Hopefully none of you guys here will never need the help of either.
After all, we are just people, the uniform confuses people.
Having said that, the New Zealand Fire Service has come out on top of all professions in a survey, by a sweet margin, 7 years in a row, lawyers and FamilyCaught judges are way the hell down the list, as they should be.

Let's not be using the feminist doublespeak there bro. It's "Firemen!"


Blessings

Bob

...Now that you mention it, I don't recall ever seeing a Firefighting woman.

Quote from Danarus

...Now that you mention it, I don't recall ever seeing a Firefighting woman.

There really aren't any. The feminists have forced some fire brigades to accept female employees with lower physical standards, but they tend to congregate in nice safe office jobs. For example, out of the several hundred firemen who died in the World Trade Center after having rushed into the fire, no females were among their numbers. The FDNY Affirmative Action females had all stayed back at their nice safe firehouses and offices.

There are NO firewomen. There are only firemen.

Blessings

Bob

around here all the firemen(havent seen a woman one yet and I see alot) are EMT's

My boyfriend is a retired US Marine (20 years in)...and currently a firefighter. He's told me stories about both his service in the military and fighting fires that would curl your toes. He's had to go in after plane crashes and recover bits and pieces of people from the plane wreckage and off of roads...and he's rescued many. He's a tough guy but sometimes to this day he has flashbacks.

He's a hero, and so are others like him.

an illustration of the insular button down minds of those fatuous women so typical and endemic in the west nowdays - they are the centre of their universe and don't want nasty,disabled veterans to intrude

Now,
Let's be real here for a second, I am not down on Female Fire-fighters that have come up through the ranks and have done good work.
One of my fellow Senior Station Officers here is a female, she has been in the brigade as long as I have, I will and always take orders from her at her incident, if she is Officer In Charge of that incident, she is as good as me and we did our "time " more or less at the same time.
All I want is competent Officers at a given incident, I don't care what sex they are!
After 19 years in the Fire Service, Ann has truly done her time, we have been to some bloody big fires together.
But, some of the women looking to join the Fire Service here these days, don't have the same metal that Ann has, some of the men are similar, can't use basic tools like spanners, we just say goodbye to them.
We put all fire-fighters through a rigorous course in Wellington lasting 9 weeks, to send a person there that will not last would be a waste of money.
Some people seem to think that being a Volunteer FF isn't that difficult, we have a lot of women turn up here, because the Work and Income people send them here for "Community service" to apply for a Domestic Purposes Benefit, most are sent the other way, because they are just too fat and un-fit for the hard work that Fire-fighting requires.

Quote from Percy

The sooner women comprise 50% of front line forces the better. When they come home maimed and without a limb they went with, you'll soon see the pools being closed to the public to let them swim without the embarassment of being 'looked at' by the hoi poloi.

As for the women and the 'naming and shaming' that Admiral Lord Boyce, (friggin' wanker fishead who has done his time presided over the scandal of only men having to carry the military maiming burden) calls for, he knows full well that they can't be named because they are the same women he as sent men to die for as they won't fight for their country. We can't have the kiddies ashamed of their mums, now can we? It might damage their self-esteem.

Equal maiming, I say. And investment in white feathers for female
cowards.

hahhha are you serious?

this will never happen.

You see folks,
This is were Equal Oppurtunities in Employment has got it all WRONG.

EOE, should be saying that if you wimmin want to be equal, get the hell into the armed forces and on THEIR terms, not some wishy-washy feminist version of it, because you all know as well as I do, that, once women go into the services, in any great numbers, everything, the likes of training, leave, working conditions, etc are going to be skewed towards the "woman soldiers" and at the detriment of the male soldiers.

On a combat field, there is no male or female, merely people of one side or another.

OT,
I remember back in PE (physical education) at secondary school, us guys had to do 20 press-ups (on your knuckles) and the girls only had to do 10, with their hands splayed out and they could do them with their knees on the ground.
Weren't us men sold down the creek?
Mind you, they never lost any weight though.

seems the feminit droogetts are an international phenomena