# Firemen. Hot, sweaty, grimy firemen. Yummmm. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 2004, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254 "2004-09-13T14:43:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/21 "2004-09-14T12:31:26Z")
> [@fessie](#): > > Yep yep yep yep, nothing like firemen. Yep, yep, yep. My husband is a firefighter. Eat your heart out, **fessie.** šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/22 "2004-09-14T12:37:19Z")
> [@Spectre of Pithecanthropus](#): > > So why is it that if the husband were at home, and the wife was away, and said husband went on and on about some hottie he met and flirted with, everyone would, at best, say ā€œwhile the catā€™s awayā€¦ā€, or somesuch, or at worst call him a sneaking cad? I think thatā€™s a bit of an overreaction. Nobody has any problem with a little harmless flirting by either sex. > [@PussyCow](#): > > Payback forā€¦man who sleeps around is a ā€œstudā€, woman who sleeps around is a ā€œslutā€. Itā€™s women who label women as sluts, not men. Donā€™t drag us into that quagmire. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/23 "2004-09-14T15:07:59Z")
Interestingly enough, it was just about this time three years ago when there were several threads going on about how the brave and glorious ladies of the SDMB were glued to their TV sets so they could see all those rescue workers in New York. Sort of a group-support thing, in which they admitted to a fair amount of guilty pleasure. There was one picture online of a fireman walking out of a building carrying a baby, and I swear I could hear the squealing through my LAN cableā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/24 "2004-09-14T16:15:58Z")
> [@buttonjockey308](#): > > Just so you know, if youā€™re lookinā€™ at us, you can bet weā€™re lookinā€™ back. Please tell me that includes the gay guys, too, at least a little bitā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/25 "2004-09-14T17:44:05Z")
> [@PussyCow](#): > > Payback for the whole single man is a ā€œbachelorā€, but a single woman is an old ā€œmaidā€ thing. > Also man who sleeps around is a ā€œstudā€, woman who sleeps around is a ā€œslutā€. All of thatā€™s not quite true anymore, since many people are now apt to wonder if an older single man is gay. And sometimes a man who sleeps around is considered a philanderer. All that aside, I get the big-strong-heroic angle; I can see why thatā€™s attractive. But the grunge and grime? I donā€™t get that. I will continue to work at my clean, inside job, and take showers every morning. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/26 "2004-09-14T17:50:49Z")
Well-pressed and clean-shaven has its appeal too, especially when glasses are involved. Hot 'n sweatyā€™s just a different kind of treat. Especially when combined with that particular lifeanddeath swagger. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/27 "2004-09-14T17:52:35Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > Actually I can think of several threads where a male poster talked about some situation where he was checking out a good-looking woman and there was no resulting disapproval. But was he married? And lots of people here talk about encountering likely prospects according to their sexual preferences, but itā€™s usually like, ā€œIā€™ve met this person, help me work up the courage to talk to him or herā€ or something like that. Thatā€™s different from just anonymously drooling over a relative stranger. Not that we donā€™t all do it, from time to time, but is it always appropriate to talk about it? If you can show me a thread where someone said heā€™d gone to ā€“ oh, I donā€™t know, letā€™s say Spring break, or Rio de Janeiroā€“and drooled on for some length about the thong bikini babes, then I will accept that in substantiation of your statement. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/28 "2004-09-14T17:57:45Z")
Oh pffffffffffffffft. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/29 "2004-09-14T18:19:07Z")
> [@Spectre of Pithecanthropus](#): > > If you can show me a thread where someone said heā€™d gone to ā€“ oh, I donā€™t know, letā€™s say Spring break, or Rio de Janeiroā€“and drooled on for some length about the thong bikini babes, then I will accept that in substantiation of your statement. You mean the ā€œHow cute is Paris Hilton,ā€ ā€œWhatā€™s the appeal of Angie Dickenson,ā€ ā€œMen: Do you like brown skin?ā€ kind of threads? We get threads like that all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/30 "2004-09-14T19:38:36Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > Please tell me that includes the gay guys, too, at least a little bitā€¦ My first BF was a fireman. An ex-paratrooper, fireman. :o So yeah, some of them are looking. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/31 "2004-09-15T06:12:17Z")
_sniff_ No-one ever start threads like this about male nursesā€¦ ā˜¹ Honestly, grimey turns some people on? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/32 "2004-09-15T06:59:44Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > _sniff_ > > No-one ever start threads like this about male nursesā€¦ ā˜¹ Donā€™t despair **Silentgoldfish**. The female doctors whom I know certainly check out the male nurses in their respective hospitals. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/33 "2004-09-15T08:55:05Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > Donā€™t despair **Silentgoldfish**. The female doctors whom I know certainly check out the male nurses in their respective hospitals. So do the female nurses! Its just that the instance where the male nurse takes off his sweaty shirt and wipes his dripping face with it are so rare. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/34 "2004-09-15T12:57:06Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > You mean the ā€œHow cute is Paris Hilton,ā€ ā€œWhatā€™s the appeal of Angie Dickenson,ā€ ā€œMen: Do you like brown skin?ā€ kind of threads? We get threads like that all the time. The ā€œdo you like brown skinā€ was started by a brown-skinned female, IIRC, so you canā€™t use that one. Itā€™s entrapment! šŸ™‚ I didnā€™t read the other two, but it reminds me of the Sharapova vs Kournikova thread, where several women joined in to say that it was annoying to them the attention that those tennis players receive from men. My reply to that thread would have been better had I just linked to this thread, but of course this thread didnā€™t exist at the time. The only good point I made is that drooling over Kournikova was no different than drooling over Brad Pitt. Neither have won majors/oscars, neither is the best in their field. But both receive extra attention because of their looks. And there is nothing wrong with that. Just like there is nothing wrong with drooling over firemen. Shame on the guy in this thread for taking the ladies to task. You should have said nothing, and simply linked to this thread the next time you noticed women complaining about this behavior in a guy thread. My apologies for the interruption, please resume drooling. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/35 "2004-09-15T13:21:24Z")
I think the lot of you should stop pooing all over **fessie** ā€™s thread. Take it to the Pit or something. /wanted to be a firefighter. ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/36 "2004-09-15T13:24:11Z")
But, youā€™re in a band! Thatā€™s got to get you some drooling womens. ---
**Author:** ![PussyCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@PussyCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PussyCow)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/37 "2004-09-15T13:36:09Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > _sniff_ > > No-one ever start threads like this about male nursesā€¦ ā˜¹ > > Honestly, grimey turns some people on? I realy like it when the male nurses wear those really high mini skirts and the top of the shirt is buttoned really low. Ooh baby - yowza! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/38 "2004-09-15T13:36:43Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > IMPOSSIBLE! All firemen are tall, hansome and flirty, (in that innocent, ā€œaww, shucks, Maā€™mā€ sorta way) I married one. > Of course, Iā€™m not counting the girl ones. Theyā€™re the ones with the all bā€™idness scowls, putting everything away, while the boys work on community relations. šŸ˜ƒšŸ˜‰ Never visit my hometown. The fire department is made upof mostly 40+ year old men, all with beer guts, several balding. Yes, there are some 20-35 year old firemen, but they make up maybe at best 25%. (The above information is 100% accurate. My dad is the chief of the department, and I have several uncles, cousins, and a brother in the department as well. I think I might get disowned if I donā€™t join a fire company out here in the next yearā€¦) ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/39 "2004-09-15T14:04:50Z")
[hijack]Funny thing is, I think my Hubby is plenty attractive in that brainiac way - and even has some fireman potential (heā€™s got the right build). But his teenage social life was abysmal so heā€™s never felt good-looking. However, back when _Who Wants to be a Millionaire_ first hit it big, The Alumni Club bar had a big trivia game. Which Hubby almost won, I think he came in second, heā€™s very good at trivia games & quite sexy in his confidence while playing them. Afterwards there was this chick hanging around him, absolutely drooling. A trivia groupie! Like that Seinfeld with Georgeā€™s hand modeling.[/hijack] Oh, and Iā€™ve decided NOT to report the idiot neighbors in the next building who keep barbecuing on their 2nd floor patio - that way, next time I can get pix šŸ˜› . I think I need to go get our car seats checked, just to, ya know, make sure theyā€™re installed right & everythingā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![MelCthefirst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254/40 "2004-09-15T21:59:49Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > _sniff_ > > No-one ever start threads like this about male nursesā€¦ ā˜¹ > > Honestly, grimey turns some people on? I think male nurses are sexy too. The idea that a big burly man, can be gentle and caring, giving sponge baths when needed, oooooo - stop! Thatā€™s also why I think men who like animals are sexy, have you ever seen a big burly man talk to and pet a cat or dog - man, that makes me weak at the knees. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firemen-hot-sweaty-grimy-firemen-yummmm/264254.md?page=3)