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Womb-havers in the military: We saw in the Gulf war, that having US female troops captured can bring a nation to its knees because we do not tolerate women being subject to rape and torture (unless of course they are captives of Hamas, then whatevs). There is also the obvious problem that women simply cannot go into combat with a 60lb pack and also cannot pick up a wounded comrade to save them.

Brown people in military: one of the big problems here is that having a felony conviction is pretty disqualifying for an organization based on following rules to the letter. Lower standards here…well.

John Lewis: kids all love rainbows. Appropriating the rainbow as a pride symbol and then posting it up in a store is disturbing.

The RAF announced that it had hit government targets to increase the flow of female recruits to 20% of the total, and 10% for ethnic minorities. The Force then said it would aim to lift those ratios to 40% and 20% respectively by 2030.

One question – why? If there aren’t that many women and minorities interested, why worry about it? Why does it matter?  

Four women fondle straw, tongue moss.

I recommend a little necking with the nightshade.

Military: in college we would throw a friend over our shoulders and run around with them to goof off. The last time I did this was picking up my 170lb nephew at age 50. Sure, tell me men and women are identical physically.

Military: there is a conceit that on a navy ship women are ok, but in actual combat every single person must do arduous tasks–load shells, carry and deploy fire hoses, carry the wounded. It is only peacetime that allows foolishness like this to prevail. I am also reminded of a US ship that collided with another ship because the 2 key female officers on duty were not on speaking terms. Heh.

or when white men are overrepresented in lower paid and dangerous outdoor jobs?

I know it’s a rhetorical question, but I’ll state the answer explicitly: because it was never about equality, it was always about high-paying, easy office jobs for women and minorities.

Something that complicates the firefighting and police issue is that with building codes and overall improvements in civil engineering, firefighters don’t do very much actual firefighting any more and spend a lot of time earning very large union paychecks to do “education and outreach”. Which is why they’ve been moved in on by the diversity grifters.

…presenting more and more as female, and she [sic] now presents as female full time.

I am guessing the copywriter is either blind or was born, raised, and lives in a monastery and has never seen a female.

Arson should be charged as attempted murder.

pst: we WERE endlessly helpful, weren’t we? But poor David is likely still feeling a bit weakly…that or he’s been a bit busy signing up malpractice counsel. Bit of both, prolly.

Toddy? Excellent notion. But do go light on those glow-in-the-dark ingredients, Phossy jaw is not an easy sell these days.

OTOH, I’m told you can substitute luciferin and it works a treat. Not exactly sure about the side effects, though.

Re: idle firemen etc.

Fair warning: this will be boring AF for most since it’s really just explaining stuff — disregard if organizational details aren’t of interest.

I used to run w/ local Fire/EMS so maybe not applicable in some specifics elsewhere but I’ll go for general relevance. Fire crews have a Lot of downtime when they’re not actually dealing with fires, and the crew of a tanker might be dispatched to a fire leaving the ladder truck crew in station because their equipment isn’t necessary or the fire is small enough not to need all hands. So, they have other duties like checking hydrants, elevators, Opticoms, alarm systems etc. to be done on a regular schedule. When out and about doing Stuff they have to take all their firecall gear and their assigned emergency vehicle with them so if a fire call comes up they’re sent to it direct from the work location, don’t have to straggle back to the station first. (Crews are always in contact with Dispatch and if they happen to be closer to a scene in some other crew’s First-Do area Dispatch will send them, absent any confounding circumstances.)

Fire crews tend to do cooked meals in the crew hall, but on grocery runs the same rule applies: take the truck, all your gear and radios and be ready to sprint off on a few seconds’ notice.

Just as EMS is customarily dispatched to fire scenes, fire crews back up EMS on their calls. See an ambulance running hot followed by a fire truck? Probably a chest pain or difficulty-breathing call. Those often call for a lot more hands than those normally staffed on an ambulance: lifting, oxygen, CPR, etc. Especially if the patient is known or reported to present unusual demands due to, say, obesity, disability, psych issues, site structure problems and so on.

Fire/EMS is also jointly dispatched to vehicle wrecks; fire crews handle extrications, EMS does patient care. Should note that quite a lot of firemen are themselves EMTs and medics, so there’s a lot of crossover on scene.

And both handle what are called community service items (falls w/o injury, wellness checks, standbys at events, and so on.) The setup hopes that way the community gets other matters handled when crews aren’t actually working a fire.

Sorry, got a tad carried away.

Good Lady, my thanks.

Getaway.

“The total eradication of Western civilization.”

Fire crews: I happened to be waiting at the paint store with a fire captain and struck up a conversation. He agreed that the TV show 9-1-1 was over the top. He thought the emergency episodes in Chicago Fire were pretty good except that in a fire inside a building it may be almost pitch black with smoke, which obviously the TV show is not.