29-11-14, 10:25 AM
Lew remember that you are talking from a shipping perspective whereby fire fighting is an essential aspect but then if you're in the Atlantic then the fire service aren't exactly to hand are they....but alongside then they could be to hand in theory....or tugs...although I do wonder whether in reality would anyone come close enough to an on fire LNGC.......hmmmm debatable perhaps.
& fires are just a small part of what firefighters do....the Rescue side of it is more pertinent.......Cutting people out of vehicles, dealing with hazardous chemicals, Flood rescues and rescuing grotesque fat bodies from houses, rescuing livestock from slurry pits etc etc.
to top that off they also get no extra money for being the driver in charge of a machine even though bin men do.....& then like you say get shafted on the pension which they have paid extra via every pay packet to get.
All services, emergency and millitary get shafted because they are the face of the people...the normal people with normal jobs doing extraordinary things and brave things....the people that others in communities could look up to and be proud of, they scare the rich and the politicians and they are the last people that the politicians would like to gain any power and are exactly the type of people that should be running the country in their place......that is why they are brow beaten and demonised and that is why we are duped into fighting amongst ourselves and that is why we hear nothing of the unjustified benefits of many civil servants quietly weaselling away large amounts of dosh for doing foc all and sat on their arses.....I haven't forgotten how it was actually the Sun newspaper that started to force the government into actually honouring the military more than the bare minimum when they introduced the help for heroes campaign.....before that the there was barely any recognition and they had the public firmly against the military as people for doing the things that the country ordered them to do...absolutely disgraceful.
& fires are just a small part of what firefighters do....the Rescue side of it is more pertinent.......Cutting people out of vehicles, dealing with hazardous chemicals, Flood rescues and rescuing grotesque fat bodies from houses, rescuing livestock from slurry pits etc etc.
to top that off they also get no extra money for being the driver in charge of a machine even though bin men do.....& then like you say get shafted on the pension which they have paid extra via every pay packet to get.
All services, emergency and millitary get shafted because they are the face of the people...the normal people with normal jobs doing extraordinary things and brave things....the people that others in communities could look up to and be proud of, they scare the rich and the politicians and they are the last people that the politicians would like to gain any power and are exactly the type of people that should be running the country in their place......that is why they are brow beaten and demonised and that is why we are duped into fighting amongst ourselves and that is why we hear nothing of the unjustified benefits of many civil servants quietly weaselling away large amounts of dosh for doing foc all and sat on their arses.....I haven't forgotten how it was actually the Sun newspaper that started to force the government into actually honouring the military more than the bare minimum when they introduced the help for heroes campaign.....before that the there was barely any recognition and they had the public firmly against the military as people for doing the things that the country ordered them to do...absolutely disgraceful.
Easiest way to go fast........don't buy a blue bike