# Mmmmmm...firefighters **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 9, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494 "2006-12-09T19:48:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/21 "2006-12-10T23:10:45Z")
One of the few things I liked about my now former crappy retail job was when I’d see the local firefighters in shopping. Mmm…firefighters. I have nothing to add, except that they were all really handsome guys! ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/22 "2006-12-10T23:47:12Z")
[QUOTE=picunurse] The bunker gear (that’s the stuff they wear when they go on a call) are the real hero clothes. They smell awful up close, but I think that might be part of the attraction. They smell like DANGER! [/QUOTE] **nurse** , there’s your sig., right there. 😃 "A firefighter’s bunker clothes smell like _danger!"_ ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/23 "2006-12-11T01:40:06Z")
[QUOTE=Cardinal] This makes me want to be a volunteer fireman, but I doubt that in southern California there’s any such thing. I guess I’ll have to settle for fantasizing about being ripped and smart… [/QUOTE] There are plenty of volunteer departments all over California, in small towns. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/24 "2006-12-11T04:39:00Z")
aww cmon, what about soldiers? ---
**Author:** ![tashabot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tashabot/32/6250_2.png) [@tashabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tashabot)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/25 "2006-12-11T09:25:58Z")
See, it’s Marines (or Army guys in their dress blues - not greens) that do it for me. Mmmm. I get weepy at firefighters, as opposed to turned on. Not scared of them. More like humbled. ~Tasha ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/26 "2006-12-11T12:20:28Z")
[QUOTE=Nawth Chucka] Congratulations, I know that must have taken tons of hard work and study! Nawth Chucka, lowly Certified First Responder [/QUOTE] Thanks. I’m just a wee bit ahead of myself - I’m just barely finished. My written final was Saturday, and the practical final is tonight. I’m planning on going to the firehouse to practice with my gear for a while today. Getting it all on in the 2-minute time limit is hard. I need to get some pictures. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/27 "2006-12-11T12:57:28Z")
[QUOTE=Bear\_Nenno] aww cmon, what about soldiers? [/QUOTE] Oh, them too, but you don’t see a whole lot of soldiers in fatigues coming to respond to a fire alarm. I also have a thing for men in kilts, especially when they have a Scottish accent. Rowrr… ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/28 "2006-12-11T13:04:02Z")
[QUOTE=Bear\_Nenno] aww cmon, what about soldiers? [/QUOTE] No offense, but firefighters never have to dicipline anyone. Soldiers are good, but a little scary, firefighters never. Firefighters are more cuddly than soldiers or policemen. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/29 "2006-12-11T13:52:32Z")
oh man… what IS it about a man in uniform!!! god bless whoever it was decreed their creation! being female and a navy kid and rather partial to that branch of the service, is there ANYTHING on the planet better-looking than a man in dress mess? 😃 i was vacationing in hawai’i at pearl harbor late last year. i nearly ended up having to carry smelling salts around with me. talk about information overload!lord have mercy! and those were only the whites! ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/30 "2006-12-11T14:02:41Z")
We had firefighters on campus at lunchtime - they had a mobile thingie doing demonstrations of what to do when your hexmas decorations catch fire. I was mildly amused that they said “when” and not “if”. They obviously get called to student housing far too often. On the subject of men in kilts, I always knew where was some benefit to living with a Scotsman…_perk_ ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/31 "2006-12-11T14:03:56Z")
Mmmm…Marines! Yep, I’m a fairly equal-opportunity drooler. And it is my opinion that Marine dress uniforms are the best uniforms anywhere. Though any dress uniforms are pretty much rowrrrr-worthy. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/32 "2006-12-11T20:25:54Z")
[QUOTE=whiterabbit] Mmmm…Marines! Yep, I’m a fairly equal-opportunity drooler. And it is my opinion that Marine dress uniforms are the best uniforms anywhere. Though any dress uniforms are pretty much rowrrrr-worthy. [/QUOTE] ooh. good point. marines. yum… yeah, that EOD sure gets around doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/33 "2006-12-11T20:33:33Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] Err, point. **Bibliocat** is a girl… [/QUOTE] Uhh…I knew that? 😃 Must have been the mustache talk that distracted me. Give the old bag a break, willya? (Me - not bibliocat - of whom I have absolutely no evidence of being an old bag) 😛 VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/34 "2006-12-11T20:42:44Z")
[QUOTE=Veuve\_ClicquotNJ] Uhh…I knew that? 😃 Must have been the mustache talk that distracted me. Give the old bag a break, willya? (Me - not bibliocat - of whom I have absolutely no evidence of being an old bag) 😛 VCNJ~ [/QUOTE] Ha! It happens to you females, too! ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/35 "2006-12-11T20:44:27Z")
[QUOTE=Veuve\_ClicquotNJ] (Me - not bibliocat - of whom I have absolutely no evidence of being an old bag) 😛 [/QUOTE] Just old. 😃 I’ll try to take some pictures tonight and then post them - my class nickname is “Hot Mama.” I’m one of the oldest in class, and the only mom - hence the name. 🆒 Almost everyone gets a goofy nickname when you go through FF1. I asked in the MMP thread, and I’ll ask here, too, since it’s about firefighters. I need some Good Doper Vibes headed out my way. My practical final is tonight. I’m nervous and just want to get it over with. The written final (100 questions) was Saturday, and hopefully we’ll get the results of that tonight. Tonight we have five skill stations to get through. One is donning our gear - all of it - in 2 minutes flat. Others are ropes and knots, and ladders. Raising them can be tough. Those suckers can be heavy. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/36 "2006-12-11T20:51:14Z")
**Biblio** , you will be fine, but I will send you good thoughts anyway. Imagine your kids are in that burning building. I bet you’ll suit up toot sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/37 "2006-12-11T20:56:25Z")
Imagine that there are beefy firefighters in peril in a burning building and you’re the only one in a position to save them. That should get you on your giddyup and provide your fellow female Dopers some creative fodder. Imagine the reeeeward for saving all them guys. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/38 "2006-12-11T21:55:12Z")
Heh, try googling Fireman Calendar. 😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/39 "2006-12-11T21:58:31Z")
[QUOTE=picunurse] I’d be very surprised to find out anyone at SDMB read bodice rippers. I’m not sure who reads them, maybe early teens? [/QUOTE] I do! And I believe a number of other Dopers not only read them, but write them. Sometimes they feature firemen… drool ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494/40 "2006-12-11T22:35:21Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] I asked in the MMP thread, and I’ll ask here, too, since it’s about firefighters. I need some Good Doper Vibes headed out my way. My practical final is tonight. I’m nervous and just want to get it over with. The written final (100 questions) was Saturday, and hopefully we’ll get the results of that tonight. [/QUOTE] Good luck! Don’t forget to put your hood on (I used up one of my retests because of that). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmmmmm-firefighters/383494.md?page=3)