10-25-2006, 01:50 PM
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Crash and Bang Winger
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this is what happens in liberal places...
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10-25-2006, 01:51 PM
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what a rediculous waste of money.
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10-25-2006, 01:54 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Van City - Main St.
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Originally Posted by jharp
this is what happens in liberal places...
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No ****. If a chick wants to be a fire man she should start acting like a man. Get used to seeing balls, chugging beers, watching football and being conservative (like real men). She should stop shaving her legs too while she's at it. 
(Winsor makes grunting noise)
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10-25-2006, 01:59 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
No ****. If a chick wants to be a fire man she should start acting like a man. Get used to seeing balls, chugging beers, watching football and being conservative (like real men). She should stop shaving her legs too while she's at it.
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I was watching Global Vancouver this morning for some odd reason and saw this report. The way they made it sound was this move was being made more to prevent women from wearing panties or thongs or whatever not so much to curb what the guys were wearing in the firehouse.
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Last edited by kipperfan; 10-25-2006 at 02:03 PM.
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10-25-2006, 02:02 PM
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What a joke. Is it really THAT much of an issue?
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10-25-2006, 02:02 PM
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All I can get
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This is extremely silly.
Dress code (or undress code, if you will) or not, there's no need for taxpayer-funded ginches. Unless they're fire-######ent ginches, which doesn't appear to be the case.
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Last edited by Reggie Dunlop; 10-25-2006 at 02:05 PM.
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10-25-2006, 02:20 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Ahhh the land of political correctness. However Boxers are far more comfortable!!!!
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10-25-2006, 03:13 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Sector 7-G
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There's much more to the story though... the Richmond Fire Department has been rocked by discrimination suits lately that have had suicides and all sorts of calamity attached to it.... This is obviously a reaction to it.
I think standard issue ginch is overkill, but if the shiz in the story below is accurate, I hope they do take measure to take out the harrassment in the department, period. Sounds like a frat boy mentality there.
(it's an independant site, but I recall CBC also had articles on this)
http://dominionpaper.ca/canadian_news/2006/05/05/bc_firefig.htm
Also here is a story about how the harassment is widespread, including of it's male members. Sounds like on the job bullying....
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/n...7-76f5e7ac7c2f
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Last edited by I-Hate-Hulse; 10-25-2006 at 03:26 PM.
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10-25-2006, 04:01 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Hey, I wear stanfields. When did they become politically correct?
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10-25-2006, 04:13 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Richmond, BC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
...start acting like a man. Get used to...being conservative (like real men).
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I find this quote quite offensive.
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10-25-2006, 04:14 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Memento Mori
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Wdf?
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10-25-2006, 04:53 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Cheese
Not in BC Firehalls.
Richmond, British Columbia will spend C$16,000 ($14,200) to buy six pairs of underwear for each firefighter in a bid to make firehalls in the suburb of Vancouver more gender neutral, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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Stupid or not, $16K is really not a lot of money one way or the other.
It is really cheap if it prevents a lawsuit
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10-25-2006, 05:09 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Van City - Main St.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by evman150
I find this quote quite offensive.
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how so? You do realise I want being sarcastic?
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10-25-2006, 05:17 PM
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Director of the HFBI
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Calgary
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Either way, how is this going to help with stopping sexual harassment? Or any harassment for that matter?
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10-25-2006, 05:21 PM
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damn onions
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Quote:
Originally Posted by evman150
I find this quote quite offensive.
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Wow. Pssst....you might want to tone down the sensitivity meter there. This is the internet remember.
Meanwhile, not sure if this required its own thread or not- so a bit of a derail here in hopes to continue the thread. But on the radio the other day (105 I believe..) they were talking about on the drive to work how currently Calgary has 1,100 firefighters today- with a population of just over 1,000,000.
And that in 1980, the city had 1,000 firefighters. So lets see...
26 years.....100 new firefighters hired for a population increase of approximately 400,000 people...
they then moved onto to say that the City won't let the firehalls hire any possible new candidates, despite there being about 300 people ready to become new firefighters.
Something is screwed up here.
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10-25-2006, 05:28 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Van City - Main St.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
they then moved onto to say that the City won't let the firehalls hire any possible new candidates, despite there being about 300 people ready to become new firefighters.
Something is screwed up here.
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Did they say why? That does seem pretty screwed
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10-25-2006, 08:51 PM
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Self-Ban
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
...there's no need for taxpayer-funded ginches. Unless they're fire-######ent ginches, which doesn't appear to be the case.
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is it "ginch" or "gitch"? I always thought it was the latter.
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10-25-2006, 08:53 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by skins
is it "ginch" or "gitch"? I always thought it was the latter.
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I've always heard the former...
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10-25-2006, 08:54 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by skins
is it "ginch" or "gitch"? I always thought it was the latter.
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maybe its "gintch"
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