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The Daily PollYESTERDAY, IT WAS announced that a fire service in England had gotten rid of the cartoon character Fireman Sam as a mascot over fears he could put women off becoming firefighters.
The Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service said it has struggled to recruit women to become firefighters, and added that the character was outdated and didn’t reflect the message it wanted to achieve.
Its chief fire officer Les Britzman said: “There’s been a lot of research that says that images that young people have about what careers they want to do are formed when they are about four or five.
“If you are promoting that image we might be stopping people wanting to apply for the fire service 20 years down the line.”
The decision to drop the TV character as a mascot was backed by the Fire Brigades Union, BBC reported.
Executive council member Ben Selby said: “We’re not bothered about Fireman Sam. We’re bothered by the subconscious message the term fireman has created as an issue in our recruitment.”
So, today we’re asking you: Do you agree with calls for Fireman Sam to be renamed, to be more inclusive?
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Did the cop not do the pinky finger in the bag taste test im sure all us cops know what cocaine tastes like
You watch too many movies….
That’s why I like the Irish police.
They adopt a more tolerant and intelligent approach to dealing with ‘suspected’ crimes.
Only last month I got stopped by a patrol a car for a defective brake light.
On searching the car one of the Gardai happened upon a suspicious package of white powder in the glove compartment.
‘What’s that?’ he asked.
‘Bath Salts’ I replied.
Did he shoot me?
No.
He just ate the face off me and let me go.
That definitely happened….
I assume the policeman’s name was Hannibal Lecter.
Well someone took bath salts anyway.
yes, guards tend to search all cars they stop allright……
Did you slip him the tongue or just a line!?!
You’d like he would have made a clean get away
The Soaps are the Opium of the People.
All the women in Ireland are addicted to Soaps.
Coronation Street is particularly toxic.
So long as he didn’t have to bend over for the soap when in prison.
Looks like they got into an imperial lather about the whole thing…
The NYPD need to clean up their act.
Pennsylvania
Escaped as free as a dove
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