Words of Advice:
"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne
“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *
"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown
“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie
"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad
"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown
"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers
"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown
"Eck!" -- George the Cat
* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809
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High school classmate went to the University of the South, a small Episcopalian college in Sewanee, Tennessee, high up on the Cumberland Plateau -- i.e., the middle of nowhere. He was so bored he joined the volunteer fire department and got his kicks driving the ass end of the ladder truck on mountain roads.
Don’t really begrudge a penny of that, as long as the department needs a ladder truck. Job is a cast iron bitch, and very necessary. My respect, ladies and gentlemen of the Fire Department.
I live in a town with a population of about 700. We have our own FD and a State Fire Department station as well. Being that it is so wooded here and that people are genuinely stupid about outdoor burning, I am glad for each one of those firefighters.
I understand they need money to operate, but I am on a very fixed income and have nothing extra to give, now especially.
So, here we are with another proposal to raise property taxes to pay for fire services.
Fire departments should have a bigger priority in State Budgets, not individual "taxes".
Those million-dollar firefighting "tools" are like the Airforce's thousand-dollar bolts.
w3ski
Most firefighters kick holy ass. I watched the Oakland Fire Dept. guys stop a storage shed full of paint that had been set on fire by someone smoking crack from setting all five houses it was adjacent to ablaze, and even kept the cars parked across the chain link fence from it from being heavily damaged. I think one of them that couldn't be moved had some bubbles in the paint. They came down the path between houses at a dead run and had the shed collapsed in on itself in ten minutes, after which they turned their hoses on all of the surrounding structures, some of which were already smoking from the heat. We were a very poor neighborhood, and I was very impressed at the job they did for us.
I fought some forest fires when I was a kid, and it was the hardest work of any kind I ever did in my life, and I was just an extra on the USFS roster and wouldn't make a wart on a real firefighter's ass.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
I did USN firefighter training.
Days of boredom interspersed with that? Well, yeah; I should've applied when younger (SFPD would try recruiting me while working my own City job at T.I.; they would've been disappointed by then).
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